The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-03 00:00:00

THE REVIEW.

The illustrations of the present number are, a portrait
of " Refraction," the winner of the Oaks, engraved by
Rucker, from a portrait by A. Cooper, and a
beautiful little picture (engraved by Scott, from a paint-
ing by J. Bateman), entitled, " The Fruits of the First."
'['he subj,et being the looking over the game-bugs efter a
day's partridge shooting. From the letter-press illustrating
the picture we extract the following sensible advice to
sportsmen:—
"There isn't a pleasanter month in the whole year than Sep-
tember, and there isn' a pleasanter sport in the whole month—
perhaps it would be but justice to add vtar again—than par-
tridge shooting. But then a man must have the proper spirit
to appreciate it, and the proper tact in practising it. What a
pity that such a nice, social, round-the-farm sort of amusement
should ever become the outrageously magnified toil and trouble
some people are so fond of making it. What really reasonable
reason can be given for a man knocking himself up at half-past
four A.M., to knock down partridges on his own home in
England, because such a virtue is necessary for the snipe-
shooting in the swamps of the Indies? Or ehy, forsooth,
should the man who does not disdain the aid of Jasper or Juno
to find his game, refuse that of Gimcrack or Jim Styles to
carry it ?"

THE STUDENT;

YOUNG MEN'..

A lj VO CA7 E.

This, the organ of the assistant drup r}, who are
engaged in the short• time agitation, still continues its
career of usefulness. We congratulate the young me•n
on the ability displayed by their advocate. The present
is an excellent number.

REVOLT OF THE CONVICTS AT

ADEN.

The following particulars of this occurrence, with
which we have been furnished by our correspondent at
Aden, n:ay be relied upon as p: rfectly correct :—`• On
June 21st, whilst the convicts were at work about two
miles outside the main or northern pass, they surprised
and disarmed their military guard, c, ,nsisting of a Haviltlar
and twelve Sepoys of the 47th Regiment M. N. I
It appears that at twelve o'clock noon the prisoners
had, as was usual, left off work till one o'clock, at which
time, it seems, the guard and the convicts were coins
p!etely mixed together in a very unmilitary manner
at a preconcerted sienal three or four prisoners seized
each Sepoy and wrenched the musket from his
hand, with which they ran seawards, and took posses-
sion of an Arab boat, which they tried to launch,
evidently supposing that once afloat they could
easily manage to gain the Arabian side of the bay,
distant about a mile' and a half. As many of the con-
victs had been fishermen in the Cencan, this plan was
perfectly feasible, and only failed from the tide being
too low to float the boat. Being bold, resolute, despe-
rate villains, they instantly dashed in.() the sea,
fettere i as they were, with the intention of
swimming to the opposite side of • the bay.
By this time the Sepoys had recovered from their
confusion, and having also recovered their arms,
opened a fire on them, by which two were shot dead, end
five badly wounded. Many of the prisoners not being
sble to swim, and finding the water deeper than they had
evidently calculated on, came back and surrendered. A
great many persevered. and thirteen eff cted their
escape—twelve were drowned, and one was subse-
quently found dead on the Arabian side ; thus making
the total loss of life on this melancholy occasion fifteen.
Of those who, escaped, four were recaptured, and one
was brought back by the Arabs. Seven are still at
large, and have found shelter in Fouthli country, the
chief of which has written to the political agent to say
that he will send them in prisoners. This be will not do.
As the prisoners are Hindoos, they will doubtless prefer
the Mahomedan religion to irons and hard work on the
roads for life. After they have embraced the tenets of the
Koran, no true Mussulman can, according to the creed,
give up the proselyte. One of the prisoners, whose arm
was much shattered by a ball, has undergone amputation
by the civil surgeon. It has appeared on evidence that
not one of the guard, thirteen in number, in charge of
•
sixty-four desperate convicts, all of whom are condemned
to hard labour on the roads, either for murder or gang
robbery with violence, had loaded muskets. That they
(the guard) allowed themselves to be surprised and
completely. disarmed without having been able to inflict
the slightest injury on a single convict, will appear some-
what singular to our n in-military readers. There is
not a shadow of doubt but that the guard mixed in a
very familiar manner with the prisoners, contrary to all
military p‘ inciplcs. It has, been fully ascertained that
the'rising' was previtaisly planned and arranged,
and that the unusual remissness of the guards en-
couraged them in their well-organised plan to re-
volt. The prisoners were also aware that they had
no danger to apprehend from unloaded muskets.
They s,iy that they had no intention to endeavour to
escape previous to their being worked outside in a man-
ner which they were physically incapable of per-
forming in a climate so unusual to their formai places
of imprisonment ; that the work was greater than
their debilitated frames could endure ; and that
they rushed on certain deeth rather than bear their
present lite of endless toil and unsupportable misery.
A military court of inquiry has been assembled to
inquire into the eirenmstances of the escape of the pri-
soners, and strange to say, it xotittit.a the gwsrd
of ad blame. Gorernieent should not rest satisfied
with this very singular decision, which the cir-
cumstanees of the case do not at all support. The
opinion of the court is ereinently colenl4te€l to act in
a very injurious manner and to interfere in a very
' dangerous way with military discipUne. The non-com-
' inissioned officer in command of the guard ought to
' have been brought before a general court- martial. There
I still remain two points not dispceed Af itt 4 satisfactory
' manner—shy were the guard with unloaded aunts ?
F' and why did they permit themselves to bo surprised
I and disarmed ?"—Bombay Times, July 13.
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