The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

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due administration of the Fund has resulted in an
explanation by the Lord Mayor, that " the business
is conducted by a General Committee, whose
meetings are held weekly, a Finance Committee,
whose meetings are held weekly, and a Relief Com-
mittee, who meet twice a week Recent letters
from Calcutta state that the Governor-General in

council, " on full consideration," does not consider it
" expedient" that "the Government should contri-
bute to the fund raised." At the meeting at Here-
ford, on Tuesday, Mr. R. CLIVE, M.P., speaking of
the condition of India, said the East India Company
had for many years regarded that empire as a gem
which should be kept entirely to themselves ; it had
never been really open and free to the enterprise of
the British subject. In many parts of the south it
was as healthy and salubrious as our own country,
and if those provinces had been colonised by Eng-
lish, Scotch, and Irish, we should not have been in
such an emergency as this :

The Bengal army had been taught to believe itself supe-
rior to anything that could be brought against it, and a
mutinous spirit had been rapidly developed, which might
at an earlier stage have been checked. It could not be
said that the attention pf the East India Company had not
been called to the difficulty, and why they suffered so
many troops to be withdrawn during the Crimean and
Persian wars was a question which must receive the
closest investigation. If the Company had been to blame,
some course must be adopted by which the governing body
of India might bo differently constituted from w hat it was
at present.

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At a very large and influential nieetiu• g of the
Commissioners of Supply, histices of the Peace, &c.,
et Ayr, to express sympatbar.with. the; sufferers in
India, and to promote a subscription for their relief,
on Tuesday, the Earl of 4GLINTON, in introducing
the business, said
We are not met now to discuss the merits or demerits
of this Government or that Government—we are not met
to decide upon what has paused this great calamity in our
great Indian Pmpire, or ho* it is to be remedied—*e are
not met to throw blame' or discredit on any man either in
a public or a private capacity, but to show that we, en-
gaged in other avocations, and not bred up to the pro-
fession of arms, and not implicated in the affairs of India,
feel deeply for our suffering countrymen in the position
they are now unfoitunately placed for those gallant
men who have perished—for the gallant Wheeler, who
defended a place which appeared'eieti to our troops to be
indefensible—for Lawrence, wifibse chkrieter liniod bleier
perhaps than !an y other 'public trian Id Iridilifor Banks—
fdr Skene—for the gallant &ferniest of Ca*npord, and of
those place& 'of which we haie heard' inch miserable, la-
mentable, though glorious accounts—for that gallant young
hero who with his dying breath urged his fellow-sufferers
to continue steadfast in the Christian faith, and died with
the Redeemer on his lips—for all those we can only express
admiration and regret. For our many fair and tender
countrywomen, and innocent children, who have been out-
raged, burned, massacred with a ferocity: and barbarity
which till now we hardly believed 'human nature to be
capable of, we can now but give our tribuie of sorrow ; but
for the survivors—for those poor widows who have been
deprived of their husbands—for the husbands who have
been deprived of their wives—for the children who have
been left orphans—for some who perhaps have gone mad
under the inflictions they have had to bees—for those who
have been left penniless, and for the civilians who have
been deprived of every means of earning their livelihood—
for those it is our duty not only to setpreas our sympathy,
but to give our assistance in a more tangible form.

His Grace the Duke of RUTLAND attended the
county meeting held at Leicester on Thursday in aid
of the Indian Fund. In moving the Last resolution
his grace said:—
Gentlemen, this mutiny must be pat down. I tidital
that it may be dohe very shortly, bat whether it is
crushed in a month, or in a year, or in ten years, this
country must reassert her dominions. It is not on!,
necessary for our own dignity, but it is a great mora
duty, a right that we must perform, and I am quite
certain that every Englishman will do his utmost to
effect this great national object. 1 am sure that every
man now present will do 111 in his power to furnish
recruits both for the militia and for the regular army,
and I am happy to say that the, militia of this country,
tinder my excellent' friend near me (Colonel King), has
nearly received its dull complement of men. His Royal
Highness the Conimander-in•Chief stated yesterday at
Sheffield that already he considered the turning point in
the mutiny to have been gained, and I trust that by the
next mail we shall hear that the revolt is entirely crushed.
That victory will be ours those who have seen the gallantry
of the small handful of troops We have had in India up to
this time cannot, I think, for a moment doubt, bat when
victory is achieved let nte express a hope that we shall
not in the flush of victory allow our passions to -carry
us away and to seek for vengeance, even upon Indian
sepoys. Justine, and setere justice must be done ; but let
us discriminate between the guilty and the innocent. Let
Lot the page of history that shall record the heroism of
our countrymen and wrinien in the East4—that shall record
the gallantry of a Haveloek and Of a Nicholson against
innumerable hosts, have also io add that, when vietory was
ours, we condescended to use she weapons that Wad been

wielded by such dastardly IMO.
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