The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-06 00:00:00

TO THE PRESIDENT OP THE INDIAN MIDTINT RELIEF

Calcutta, Nov. 23, 1867.

8114—Aa Secretaries of the Calcutta Relief Fund we have
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th October,
renilling in the name of the central committee a farther
qt el 10,0001. to be distributed by the Calcutta committee,
-' we hays to ►pprise you that in conformity to the autho-
rity conveyed in your letter of the 20th September we have
drawn on the central committee through the agency of the
Agra Rank for the 10,0001. therein placed at the disposal of
our committee, end that the Right Honourable the Governor-
General, ea you will observe by the annexed correspondence,
has trenshered to the Calcutta committee the gam of 75,000
rupees, being the balance of your first remittance.
rot the ocedinued and umniliesat liberality of the sup-
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iefnelitaltise whom we represent, and in conformity with
your desire ...e proceed to narrate the operations which remain
to be reported subsequently to the date of our last printed
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Itt that statement the remittance of 4,0001. was acknow-
ledged from the mayor of Liverpool. We have since re-
oeired a credit for an additional sum of 5,0001. from the
mayor, on sco3unt of the Liverpool ocatimittee.
The Manchester committee remitted credit' for 5,0001. to
five mercantile firms here, by whom the trust of distribudng
the amount has been devolved at our ccentnittes,—s prin-
cipal member of one of those firms being a somber of our
working sub-committee.
In their printed report our committee adverted to the
opening of communications with distant parts of the country.

The annexed memorandum will show the amounts remitted
to various stations, and we subjoin a copy of our letter to
O. Edmonatone, Esq., at Malabar], and a large number of
other persons of various classes in numerous districta, re-
questing their co-operation in meeting the wants of the
sufferers by the insurrection.
We 11110 in also our correspondence with H. E. Perkins,
Esq., the secretary of the Puejtub special fund.
With the view of meeting the peculiar necessities of the
garrison of Locknow we have shipped to Allahabad large
quantities of clothes, and some cues of clothes for the sick,
wounded, and the young. Some of the clothes thus de-
spatched were received by the l►dls' clothing committee
through the Viscountess Canning, to whom they were sent
by the donors, whole names we annex.
We have expended a sum of about 7001. in the various ad-
ditional clothes which have been provided for our liberated
countrymen and their &militia, and forwarded to Allahabad.
We enclose detailed tabular statements of a portion of the
oases relieved. These tables include only theaters of officers
and their families, and the cams in which peerages to Eng-
land have been procured. Further tables, exhibiting the
CUM of the indigo planters, uncommitted servants of various
grades, traders, assistants, engineers, missionaries, and
others, will be sent by the next mail.
We may observe, in the meantime, that these statements
will show that our committee have rendered aid to all claims
of sufferers, irrespective of creed or colour, including Ws.
sionariee and their converts, both protestant and RAM=
catholic, and thereby anticipated the wishes of yourself and
the central committee on this subject.

Our committee have from the first intimated their inten-
tka to abstain from the publication of the names of the per-
sona relieved, and to this rule they feel themselves bound in
good lath to adhere. It is with great ntidactica that they
find that they have the ooncurrence of ths central committee
in their convictions of duty in this matter.

We bare that this Inforiuntimv win ler sulkiest Is minify
the central committee, and to enable them to distinguish the
oases which may be presented to their notice in England.
In compliance with your desire, we annex oopies of our
correspondence with the government of India. The ex-
tract from the government Gault, of the 21st inst., which
we now enclose, exhibits the resolutions of the Governor-
General in Council on the subject of compensation. You will
observe that while the arrangements therein detailed will
afford important relief in many cases, and particularly will
save the military fund from undue pressure, yet there will
remain a large scope for the operations of the Relief Filed
both in Great Britain and India. No further illustration of
the necessity for the continuation of this fund need be men-
tioned than the rule (No. 6) that no compensation fur lose of
property shall be given to the family or estate of a deceased
officer, and the role (No. 16) that no grant shall exceed
2,000 rupees (2001.) to any uncovenanted servant or Euro-

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pew not in the government serrioe.
The principles adopted by the Calcutta committee for the
distribution of the fonds entrusted to them are substantially
those of the central committee, which also has been adopted
in Manchester. It has been the common practice of the Cal-
cutta committee to maks a grant of 1,000 rupees (1000 in
the cases of officers and others of similar stations in life who
have suffered the loss of all their personal and household
property, thus providing fur all immediate wants, and reserv-
ing the grant of additional assistance for consideration in
reference to special circumstances.
We are unable to state, u you desire, the probable require-
menu of our committee. A sketchof the state dour amount is
annexed. We have mason to believe that the liberality of the
British public, and that drawn from the sympathy of other
nations, will not be found to exceed the just demands cm the
funds at our disposal. The nature of the cases desoreed in
the confidential tables herewith transmitted will exhibit the
urgency of the claims on the generosity of those who have
been exempted from the calamities of this eventful year, and
we are persuaded will &Hurd the ceatral committee ample
proof that they did not appeal too early or too earnestly to
the British people.
One branch of operations of a peculiarly interesting cha-
racter, which originally formed part of the design of the
Relief Fund, has been taken up by the Patriotic Fund of
Calcutta, by whom provision will be made for the relief of
widows and families of the gallant soldiers who fall in the
performance of their duty. To the oommittes of that fond,
as you will observe by the annexed eerrespaideace, there has
been trenamitted the sum of 26,000 repels, and oar committee
are desirous to afford the most liberal additional aid La their
power to this important object.
The operations of the fund in Calcutta oontinne as pre-
viously reported, and homes will be provided so long se fugi-
tives continue to arrive.

We are forwarding to Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson, the
honorary sevetary albs central committee, the particulars
of some caws which fall within the sphere of operations in
England, sod which we beg kers to submit for favourable
maiderstien.—We have, &c.,
(Signed) T. LICKII,
noacecry Secretaries.
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