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

I'ILE VOL UNT.E'.BIz )1/0 YEMEN T.

Part of the let Middlesex Light Horse Volunteer
Corps made its first public appearance on Thursday',
starting, under the command of Lieut. Matlock,
from
,the Duke of Wellington's Riding SellooLi
Knightsbridge, ai. half-past 3 o'clock, and passing
at a walk along Piccadilly, St. James's- st rect, Pl.! I- :
mall, and Regent-street, to the Regent's Park;
whence they returned at a sharp trot along Baker
street, Oxford•street, and Hyde Park, back to the
Duke's School, for the liberal use for the purposes
of the volunteer movement this corps has -to thank
his grace.
The various corps of volunteer artillery and rifles
in and about Woolwich have received invitations
from Lord Ranelagh to take part in the sham fight
' proposed to take place in the vicinity of B rig Piton
on Easter Monday next, for which purpose speedal
meetings of the 'respective officers commanding
' battalions and companies are about to be held, so,
that the availability. of his lordship's invitation
may be canvassed at large. Permission has been
solicited of the Secretary of State for War for the
members of the Royal Arsenal Corps to work up
the time required for the purpose before and after
the usual hours of labour.

On Monday last the contest for the individual
possession of the rifle won by the Tipton Company
from the No. 1 Wolverhampton Company, on the
24th of December last, took place on the practice
ground at the yr- .11'F Nest-hill, Tipton. The con-
test throught. ‘ very exciting one, from the
well-known t.. several of the cony titers.
There were a. two prizes of money, and 24
entered the lists. The distances were 150, sOO, 300,
and 400 yards—five shots at each rang-ii. The
highest scores were H. E. Ward, 30 ; Edward
Shore, 30 ; Edward Smith, 29 ; Sergeant White-
house, 28 ; Major Barrows, 26 ; Sergeant Round,
26 ; J. Smith, 26 ; and W. Roberts, 25. The two
first-named members, being equal, were adjudged
two shots to decide, when Mr. Shore proved the
victor, Mr. Ward gaining the second and Mr. E.
Smith the third prize.
The 6th Berks, or Forest Rifles, are now rapidly
increasing in number, several additions having
lately been made by young men residing in the
town of Wokingham: In drill the men progress
most satisfactorily, under the able tuition of Ser-
geant Wood and other non-commissioned officers.
Three evenings in each week are devoted to drill-
ing, and there is every probability of the men being
ready to begin target practice as soon as the butts
arc ready. Mr, Walter, M.P., has supported this
corps, and it is his intention to erect butts for target
practice on his estate. A room for the sergeant,
and a store room and armoury, will also!) be erected
for the benefit of the corps. The men are antici-
pating with interest the commencement of this
portion of their military duties.
The enrolment of the 11th company of the Berk-
Aire Volunteer Rifle Corps took-place on the 12th
instant at the Town-hall, Wallingford. The corps
numbers 71 members, including officers and band.
We are requested to state that it is Captain Flood.
Page, Adjutant of the City of Edinburgh Volun-
teers, on leave, who is about to become Acting-
Adjutant of the London Scottish. The post of
Adjutant is not vacant.

THE CONVICT REVOLT AT CBATHAM.

CRATRAM, Friday.—The rigorous measures
adopted by Sir J. Jebb to suppressthe 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 bad the effect of restoring
comnarative order and subordination within the
prison walls, nothing approaching the least disturb-
ance having occurred among the prisoners durinc,
the last three days to lead the authorities at thee
prison to fear a repetition of the outbreak. Ever
since the military were called in ooMonday 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 mory 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 eircumstance
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 convictswould 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
engaged 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-
Iment, 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 76 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
ted
dock-
yards and on St. Mary's Island, and co.n.d,uc
themselves with great decorum. shrlin at all
how-
ever, be stated that these men wet*e ow
enacted on
concerned in the riotous proceedingsfreely circulated
Monday. Rumours have
been
nm
the effects of the
that one of the keepers died
injuries he received at the hands of the convicts,
but such is not the case. It is quite true that one
of the keepers, named Fraser, died a day or two
since, but his death arosefromthaeniaitle mutiny, and
he hadd
no connection whatever with
he was not even in the prison on the occasion &the
outbreak on
early Monday hour this morning a convict named.
.
At an
Budge, 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.
Rudge is one of the men who were prominently
concerned in the recent riot.
Sir Joshua Jebb and Captain Gambier are both
expected at the prison to make an investigation
into the cause of this last outbreak, and to decide
on what course ought to be taken with the pri-
soners now awaiting punishment.

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