The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-16 00:00:00

TEE CONVICT REVOLT AT CHATHAM.

CHATHAM, Friday.—The rigorous measures
adopted by Sir J. Jebb to suppress the revolt among
the convicts of St Mary's Prison, and the severe
and prompt punishment inflicted on those men who
were proved to have taken a leading part in the
terrible scenes of riot which recently occurred at
that establishment, have had the effect of restoring
comparative order and subordination within the
prison walls, nothing approaching the least disturb-
ance having occurred among the prisoners durinr,
the last three days to lead the authorities at the
prison to fear a repetition of the outbreak. Ever
since the military were called in on Monday after-
noon, to put down the mutiny, a strong body of
troops from the garrison have been kept on duty
within the prison day and night, the soldiers se-
lected for the duty being relieved at the proper
times, similar to the other guards of the garrison.
From the fact of there being only about 150 convict
keepers employed at the establishment to guard
upwards of 1,100 prisoners, and recent events hav-
ing clearly shown that on the occasion of any sud-
den uprising of the convicts this small number of
warders are quite at the mercy of the infuriated
ruffians, there is no doubt that a body of troops will
for the future be regularly quartered at the prison,
or at all events will be stationed there until every
symptom of mutiny has entirely disappeared. It
now seems to be almost a providential circumstance
that the troops of the garrison were all at their
quarters at the time of the outbreak, and not absent
brigading, in which latter case considerable time
must of necessity have been lost before they could
have been marched to the prison, by which period
the convicts would have succeeded in escaping from
the prison, when the probable sacrifice of life And
property would have been appalling, as there is no
doubt that 1,100 convicts loose would have com-
pletely sacked Chatham and Brompton.
Since the revolt on Monday the whole of the
convicts, with the exception of about 150, have
been kept confined to their cells and supplied with
nothing but bread and water. A certain number
are allowed to take exercise at stated intervals in
the prison yard, under the strict guard of the
keepers. Only a small number have been per-
mitted to attend the daily prayers in the prison
chapel, and those are men of generally good cha-
racter, who refrained from taking any part in the
late mutiny. Up to Wednesday evening 48 pri-
soners had been severely flogged, and the punish-
ment inflicted on them is described by those whose
duty compelled them to be witnesses of the sicken-
ing spectacle, as being of the severest character,
the strongest farriers from the Royal Engineer
Train, and drummers from the various corps in
garrison having been purposely selected to admi-
nister the punishment, for which each of the men
engags'd will receive ss. Contrary to the practice
always observed in the army, where after a soldier
has received corporal punishment, he is imme-
diately conveyed to the military hospital for treat-
ment, each convict after receiving his punishment
had his clothes thrown over him, and he was then
marched to his cell, which -he was not allowed to
leave again. No floggings took place at the pri-
son yesterday, but there are still 7-6 of the convicts
in irons and securely chained, with a strong guard
over them, waiting the decision of Sir Joshua Jebb
and Capt. Gambier as to the amount of punishment
to be inflicted on them. For the first time since
the revolt a portion of the convicts, to the number
of about 150, resumed work yesterday in the dock-
yards and on St. Mary's Island, and comh_tc
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themselves with great decorum. It should,
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At an early hour this morning a convict named
nudge, who is under sentence of four years' penal
servitude, attempted to commit suicide by hanging
himself to the ventilator in the ceiling of his cell,
by means of his handkerchief. He was, however,
discovered by one of the keepers before life was
quite extinct, and on being cut down, and the usual
remedies applied, he was restored to consciousness.
Budge is one of the men who were prominently
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Captain Gambier are both
expected at the prison to make
an investigation
into the cause of this last outbreak, and
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on what course ought to be taken with the pri-
soners now awaiting punishment.

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