The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

TIM INDIAN MUTINY. - _REVOLTING VIOLENT WHIRLWIND NEAR DURHAM.
ADDRESSES.

Attention is called to the following fr,ini the
Clonmel Chronicle, received this morning. If the
productions referred to therein be not the work of
a madman, they are that of a miscreant :
" In our last issue we (Clonmel Chronicle) took occa
sionto allude to the atrocious and sanguinary sentiments
expressed publicly and unblushingly in the democratic
journals of Dublin and Dundalk. Since then intelli-
gence of a most serious character has reached our
office, through the medium of a correspondent at Carrick-
on-Snir, on whose veracity we implicitly rely. The
information we have received too clearly proves that
however grieved- the large majority of our fellow-coun-
trymen feel at the fiendish barbarities which have been,
and, we fear, are still being perpetrated within the
presidency of Bengal—atrocities committed against
their own flesh and blood, of too horrible a, nature for
further recital ; and however disgusted they may have
been at finding those cruelties endorsed by a demo-
cratic press, there is still a section of the Irish people
whose breasts, poisoned by the teaching of these
journals, and further influenced by their own deep-
seated hatred to England, are found to beat responsive
to the sanguinary sentiment inculcated by the Nation
and the Donovan, and so foreign to British feeling. The
truth now farces itself irresistibly upon the public mind
that there are amongst us, enjoying the blessings of our
glorious constitution, men whoso !warts are filled with
delight at the terrible events which' have so fatally over-
shadowed the East, and thrown a gloom over this empire
—men who can witness the mute, unspeakable affliction
with which the parent learns of the fearful mutilatic'*
of his child—who can hear detailed that brutal atro.
city which has slowly and agonisingly deprived whole
familes of existence—who can read of the infant mur-
ders perpetrated before the gaze of the tortured mother
—men who can witness and endure all this without feel-
ing their senses appalled and sickened at the terrible re-
trospect—aye, more, who sigh for the commencement of
those barbarities in Ireland, and for a recurrence of
those dark scenes which were enacted in '9B, and have
fur ever stained the pages of the history of our country.
" Within the town of Carrick-en-Sair, distant about 12
miles from Clonmel, we learn that one of those advocates
of &spy barbarity, shielded by the darkness of the night,
has, in several inflammatory addresses, chalked upon the
gateways and doors in one of the leading thorough-
fares, given vent to his own treasonable malignity, and
has endeavoured to incite the people of that district to
overt acts of the most terrible character. Our corre-
spondent, who at an early hour on the morning of Wed-
nesday last observed and read those addresses, informs us
that the writing was bold and legible ; and in various
places rude drawings of piked, cannon, flags, human
heads and hearts transfixed with swords and pikes, might
bee een—as if to give additional force to the bloodthirsty
paragraphs, every sentence of which seemed traced in
blood. We feel it unnecessary to add anything further
than merely to publish a few of those addresses as they
have reached UP.
" On one gate, underneath two pikes, was the fol-
lowing :
" Hurrah for Ireland—three cheers for the sepoys 11
—Down with England's Queen and the Saxon nation.'
" On another with a similar device traced at the side-
" People of Ireland—the sepoys have set you an

ex e I'
" A third place presented the words—
•" O'lloheny—Let as now strike for freedom !
Hurrah !—Down with the flag of England, and bad luck
to the English l'
" In a fourth place was represented a heart pierce
with a sword, and the words—
" This is an Englishman's heart 1'

" Again—
" Refuse the Saxon shilling, and you will crush
British power in Ireland l'
" Blood f Blood !—A dog's death to the man who
takes the Saxon shilling !'
"' Down with England, and hurrah for the Pike !
Remember '9B and '5B l'
" O'Doheny—Another '9B !—Boys, grind your pikes
well! Curses on the Saxon !'
" ' John Mitchell—Hurrah for the Eepoy, and God
speed the mutiny.'
" Arise ! aad vengeance on England.'
" Patriots of Ireland, here is the pike, and don't let
the opportunity pa:is !'"

A whirlwind, of violence fortunately unknown
in this ,country, occurried in the early part of the
morning (between one and two o'clock) of Thurs-
day, the 3d inst., at a short distance north of this
city. Its effects appear to have been first noticed
in a field of Mr. Gilbert Wood's, near Plawsworth,
where some sheaves of wheat were found, in the
course of the ensuing day, to be partly dispersed
about the field, and partly hurled into an adjoining
turnip field to distances exceeding 100 yards from
the spots in which they-were standing on the pre-
ceding evening. From Plawsworth its tortuous
course was marked by broken Loughs, uprooted
corn, and other unequivocal symptoms of a tornado,
to Barras-hill, a farm house of Lord Durham's, situ-
ate to the east of Sufi ton, where it appears to have
attained an amount of force and violence that can
scarcely be credited without personal inspection. •
The faun house and buildings were in a great mea- _
sure unroofed, the window glas instantaneously ,
forced into the rooms—the upper part of several
corn ricks, just stacked, dispersed in all direekions
—some hedge-row timber, of fine growth, at -411
as some single trees, scattered and brokenlopli.
—and a track of about 80 yards in Width on
west side of this hedge literally covered with broken
boughs and splinters. There appears, however, to
have been a lull in the centre of the whirlwind when

passing the hedge-row, as two or three fine trees
appeared but slightly injured, whilst for 20 or 30
yards on either side of them every tree was shat-
tered to pieces. From Barras-hill it might be
traced to Mr. T. Holmes's farmstead, to the east of
Witton Gilbert, where it unroofed a stable; and ,
tore up
,some apple trees in the garden, passing,
however, without injury, a bed of cabbages adjoin -
ing the roots of some lofty trees, bereft of their top
branches by the fury of the blast. On reaching
the Browney River, near Witton, its violence seems
to have been exhausted, and the utmost limit of its
ravages confined to a distance of four miles. The
passage over the Barras-hilliarm appears to have'
been almost momentary. Its approach awakened
one of the inmates, who compared it to the sound
of a thrashing machine in full motion. This was
succeeded by the crash of broken glass and falling:
tiles, and followed by a profound silence, broken
only by a heavy fall of rain for a few minutes.
Thunder and vivid lightning were heard and ob-
served shortly before the occurrence of the pheno-'
menon, which was doubless of electric origin, and
—hid it occurred in the day time—would undoub-
tedly have beecithe object of much more observa-
tion and wonder than have resulted from its occur-
rence in the deal hour of night.—Durham Adver-
tiser.