The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

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MEETING
_OF THE EUROPEAN INHA-

BITAN'rB 07 CALcuTTa.
Proceedings et a meeting of the European inha-
bitants of Cabal* laid the 3rd of August, at the Rooms
of the Clamber of Commerce, to consider the pro-
priety ofeetnerfag the British partisan-lit upon the subject
of the moat date of the oountry, and to adopt ouch other
iesrisarsa as aslOt era desirable and noccleary ; Sir A. D.
H. Lit/PENT, Bart, tithe chair.
The C11•111NAN tory Mated why the present minting
had bum Wild, whoa
Mr. A. T.?. Paramecia addressed the meeting at length
apes the peremat state of the country, the volition of Etw
Wizen in India, sad the objects which the petition had in
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Mr. W. H. AIIIIOTT than reed the rough draft of the pro-
posed petition, which woe fully discussed, and some altera-
tions anankneedy agreed to.
It wee thanipreel by D Vent bleCitie'L.i V, senomicd
by Annanw T. T. PiTaluion, and unaninionaly resolved: j
That dole sbeeedzer neva and fully approve the petition,
and And that copies of the same, with sheets of parchment
fee W eigaetnes at Bozeman and other members of the
Moieties coneunalt ,be led, at the Chamber of Cumnierce,
trades Asesehdolie ball, variona libraries, auction
marts, hate* and ether places of public room.'
Proposed by Mr. A. T. T. PeTritsoN, and seconded by
Mr. Joe. N. Bt LLtle That the following gentlemen he
=tied to carry oat the views of this
D. Macidalty, D. C. Mackey, 1.. Clarke, U. Dom.,
A. D. Macintosh. W. H. Abbott, James Church, jun., Sir
A.D.W. Loam; Dart, A. T. T. Peterson, Seth Apcar, with
Cni to add to their umber, sod that three of each mem-
sbeeld rem • gnoram."—Aged to unanitoinudy.
Proposed by Mr. A. T. T. PnTelation, wooded by Mr
firm Arena: Ina. the petition be entrusted to Mr.
1 Mary Mead, and Meath* committee be authorised to make
mragsmmea with that ginttleinan for his *traces and to
seselve subscriptlens kir defraying his capenana, and other-
win allying out the object of the petition.' —Avoid to
Idualgeousl
Pooped be Mr. W. OKA or. wooded by Kr. D. C.
NACILIT " That the thanks of the meeting be given to the
ciemiewria," which was agreed to unanimously.
j • enbeeription list was eireolated at the meeting, and
'wrangled to.
of the petilinn of the Btitieh inhabitants of Calcutta
le the and Cameo= of Great Britain and Ireland in
parttime* serum Med —" The humble petition of the seder-
Maßritish Inhabitaatsof Calcutta most humbly *betroth,
your petitinswe view with daily i 'moiety and
alarm the condition and prospects of Britidtts,
not despair of its re-conquest by the Arose ether se
jeety ; but it is mdeiahlet last with the ezneptien Mikes sr
fora plisse of atiength, the sheds of the nalth-west provisoes,
as well em the newly acquired kingdom of Dude, is lost for
the peesset, in addition to which, Tirbore, Behar, and
Chats Negrito are In danger. Throughout India the native
belief In the prestige of Stitish pow. r heighten destroyed,
and where the Asiatic has no druid of physical force, he has
no raped fee mond influence. Over thousands of square
mile*, where three 'moths since Englielanten travelled In
Iseariellt unarmed, at this moment European woman lea
me sad their children court speedy death as a bless.
ing. Oa every highway lie the diatiououred and mutilated
romaine of oar triounterronsan aid their children, and the
bodies of British eddiare and assumed men foully murdered.
The government of the East ladle Company, to whose ewe
the isteream of Great Belisle' to the East have been confided
porno from their constitutios absolute power. They have
psepetnal stejority in the legislative council, which I. men.
pond atorely of (Aria persona. They hare the sole
to all offices, with the exception only of
;Mai
oltlee Downier-General. the Commander-W-
-elded and the judges of the Supreme Coma. Thee. are no
rinse or eorporate Debut that can be effectually opposed to
Own. nor ie there any repreeentation of public opinion. In
the country desolated by the rebels there are handrail, of
dvil servents, Mem, tinegitorotem, aninsdlertore, village
sheerkedars and policemen in tens thousands, and mote
than two thousand constuiseioned military °elects, E
and native, and yet, if we may believe the government, there
wee not in all this vast establohment to found one person
tnnaint the autheritim of the existence of a ron.pintey
iTover countries many times larger then the area oldie
h Isles, sad in which spa artist f one hundred thousand
soldier. have joined. The rebellion boat, out and found the
I goverment totally unprepared. N.. efficient oitontimariat,
so organised rneans of proeuring intelligence, and,
with • few brilliant exception., no men of euffi-
cient capacity for the emergency. At the commence-
I sent of the outbreak. Delhi, the largest animal of ordnance
' fa the north-west of India, the . nivortant military depot of
Cawspors, mid the fringe and arsenal of Allahaled, the key
of the Inner pmvisor, were without • smelts Europe., oil-
diet to okfeerl them. The two toner fell into the Londe of
the insurgents. Oa the 2Ath of May last, when a number of
I regiments were in
.open revolt,w hen many treosurire had loon
plundered and VATIOus iniportunt si orlon. feller into the bowie
' of the rebels, the Secretary to the Home Department otticielly
infomod the inhabitants of Calcutta, in answer to loyal ad-
&usu. tendenut sof and pervonal service, that "I he mischief
crowd l.y • pawing and meoundlees panic had already been
ernistid, and that there was every rumen to hope that in the
course of • fee &lye tranquillity and eonfldenee would be
r,..,tored thrioolhout the pu.ideney: From that hour to
I else premed the policy of government ha not undergone the
alightest thong.. In the teeth of events the most rdartling,
in deflower of warnings the wet empliatie, they ateschly per-
sisted in ignoring the fact admee'e for which they had etude
preparatioe. On the l3th of June they passed a law
which destroyed the liberty of the prom, and placid every
journal in India at the •Iwoluto feet of the ea.-wire
authority. Yonr petitioners refrain from here commenting
on thee act of the government uncalled fir by the o
repugnant to British feeling, and subvenive of the
pneciples of the Ilrltieh e institution. Thi, wee done
at a time when the roverontent were receiving
universal support from the Enolish portion of the mem.
Your petitioners felt thenuolve• bitterly aggrieved by the
ettempted inipneitinn of what is known me the Bleck Aet, but
their feelings in that respect never hindered them for a
manna in melting Premed to 'moist the government with
heart and hand. Their offers were coldly declined, thouch
ultimately accepted when danger was too apparent. At the
present moment, not only dire Calcutta ore its chief noiurity
to European volonteers, lon government hare invited the
annulment of rigid corps for serviee in the interior. The
whole trade of the presidency has suffered more or lees;
many bestselle• of it are ruined en, talv. The sale of imports
is almost nominal ; the ration P.nol•nil are not to
be dep.-eel of, even at first ...AM, The export of silk,
When, end roger, owl .Aber mitielem of expor., will coffer

orrmaile-rable diinhintirm for tome rearms tai mine, in rows-
'mews of the dear-action of many factorie. end the loot of
much capital. In the trate of the revolt it is more than
probable that famine, with all it. Indian horror., will
follow. To remedy ell there evil., and to fix on a
firmer boas the Btitinb power in the East, voter
petitioner. can slime appred to the British nation. tour
petitioner. can look for no redeem to the power. to shout
the government of great country it delegated, they having
clown them...vs. notepad to the took. The government of
the Emit India Compote y have neither men, money, nor
credit. What credit they had was dean-qv-a by their conduct
in the Isle financial operatimo. The army his diasolyed
knelt, the tree...tries have either been plundered by the rebels
or exhausted by the pnblie service, and • loan, even at 6 per
rent., would warmly find imbecribers. When tranquillity Is
once reatonal, her filearety's minietnra will find that many
..11j1112/ merlins hove been aided to the Indian ilobt, and
that the •nnmil deficit. of tho Indio loolget will he mate-
rially incrovied ; but under good coo, rninent your petitioners
have the hillevit rroutelenet that the Lir.unille.e reitources of
thin vat eountry are eutlii lent to meet oil errantry dasemds
of the este. The everem under which the rountu has hem
hitherto govantd, utterly antmcinidie to it he. ever keen to
th•froaregensent of British settlement and enterprise is
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bans, has entirely failed to preterve the poncr of the
Qom to vria the affections ,4 the natives or to rerun, tho
eauldence of the British he India. Your petitioners there-
date humbly pray tkat your hoe house will adopt each men-
ages as say be seneeeary for evenovieg the floyeeetf•ebf of
Ode eenntry from the Fart India Company, end sabot:entire
la Hy Sate the direct government of her Majesty the queen,
tritb ea open Legislative Council, suitable to the negtore-
=eats of the country, and eorapatible with the Britith
Queen's enures preeided over try trained too yore,
of with the Enema lausuare a. the official cowl language.
Agell year pellicles, @ball ever pray, ken"
Calcutta, Amami 3.

THE INDIAN SI'EFEREIM—SOUTHAMPTON, Sr.rr.
20.—The following ...tiee wee homed has yeotterday :
“Solliirets in Indic-I.ly Prerrott. basin' been requeeted
by tha Ledy Mayor*. to reoeim a deposit of clothing from
the London lAA.' C. romittor. for the pmpoas of di.tribution
maws warts distr....4 refugee* &not Imfia ea may arrive at
ail /at. be. willingly consented to Jo m; and she will be
laNf la elm et be. home, ea Monday neer, at noon, any
he.. who will honour her Mai their advice and amistaoete
Ilennhig a local corntu:Sto in aid of the &bore benevolent
tittrShe will. in the in:trini, gratefully receive nay sr-
iOf clothing that tuay be tomoded In bee fns the mid
sufferers. addremeri in rive care of Lady Premott, Gremynor-
equate, Southampeon.—September lg." The rterwiry of
thle notice in apparent, when it in considered that the Indian
mail packet Colombo. with eeeee ~f the Atli:lves from India,
is evicted here on Thuteday neat.