The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

INDIAN MUTINY BMW' PUND.

BALVSLEY. —On Friday a public meeting of
the iniabitants of Barnsley wu held at the Court-house, for
the mimeo of aiding in the movement for providing for the
sufferers by the Indian atrocities. The chair wail taken by I.
8. Stanhope, Esq., of Cannon-hall. A letter apologising
for =avoidable absence was read from T. Taylor, %.1,011,-
clowrg • cheque for 204 m The Re. R.E.Roberts, B.
end I. Entwistle, addressed the meeting. Raub, 1001. was
subec-lbed.

PtNTEYRACT.—In accordance with a requisition
signekby many of the moot respectable inhabitants in Ponte-
fract, &public meeting was held in the Town-hall, cc Wed-
neesisy afternoon. John Wright, Eq., the mayor, presided.
Resolutions sympathising with the sufferers by the atrocities
committed in India were unaalmously adopted. A commit-
tee moss appointed to collect subscriptions. More than 1001,
was subscribed at the meeting.
KNARLABOROUGH.—On a requisition to the con-
atab:es a public rands( was held at the Court-house,Knares-
borough, on Thmiday laet, to consider the state of the
sufbrers Indet, and to rates subscriptiona far their relief.
The Rev. T. Collins wee celled to the chair. Resolutions
expressive of sympathy with the sufferers, for the formation
of a committee, and for =luau a canvass of the town, were
moved and seconded by B. T.Woodd, Esq., M.P., the Rev.
J. Fawcett, vfear, 11. CI. Cluistian, Esq., W.. Collins, Esq.,
T. Collins, jun., Eq., M.P., and Mr. Gill. The subscrip-
tions at the nmegnst, and the collections et churches, make a
Meal of 821. 4e. M. up to Thursday. The officers of the
Fifth Weet York Militia each give a day's pay to the fund.
riptions are received at the tanks.
ALTON', HANTS.—A meeting wan held at the
Town-hall on Thursday, Edward Knight, Eeq., of Chawton-
house, in the chair. The Chairman remarked that the cir-
cumstances which had brought the meeting together were
unparalleled in the history of the world, and came home to
almost every family in the land in the shapeof esteem per-
sonal affliction. H. could speak feelingly, for he ha/ a son
to India, who fortunately had escaped with his life, but had
het everything he possessed—Robert Cole, Esq., moved the
first resolution—" That the sufferings of our countrymen in
India demand the sympathy and support of all Englishmen."
—The Rev. C. Damien, vicar of Farnham, seconded the
resolution, which wee carried.—The it.,. C. Jackson, of
Bentley. and the Ray. F. G. Middleton subsequently ad-
deemed tho meeting, and a working committee was formed.
The meeting was numerously attended, a large proportion of
the audience brine ladies.
TATISTOCK.—A highly rarpectable and influential
meeting was held in the Town-hall, on Thursday evening,
to take elope for ralita public nbeeription in aid of the
Indian Relief Fund. The Portneve, Dr. Harness. plaided.
The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Terrell, Honey,
Stamm, Carpenter, Bridgman, and Spencer, and a resolution
of sympathy with the sufferers in India was carried. The
Rev. E. Spencer proposed that any subscriptions which
might be collected in Tavistock should be divided between
our owe countrymen and those gallant and brave
men, our anis, the Sikhs and Goorkhas, who have so
nobly fought for as during the mutiny. The sufferings of
many of our countrymen would be only temporary, whereas
those brave men had lost their all, and would be in the great-
est digs of misery. The resolution was seconded by Mr.
Carpenter and after some discureion, wen carried. A blast
saberription was made in the room, and a committee formed
to collect subscriptions in the borough and radsbhonrhood.
Norriscaux.—The aubscnptions collected in this
town and neighbourhood In the behalf of the sufferers through
the Indian mutiny amount to neatly 1,400 f.

CANNFORL—We hear that among the unfortunate
victims who perished in the massacres at Vawnpore were four
Roman catholic chimer's. They were put to death with
great berbaritiee. Their chapel also was dismantled and
partially de
olio
ItftmAN (' VrItOLIC CHAPLONB FOR INDIA.—
&aides the three Roman catholic, priests who went out to
India by the previous ntalio , foot more leR Southampton on
Sunder so chaplains to the troop. Their names are, the
Rev. J. Morgan, the Rev. Patrick Feirhurst, of Birchley,
near Wigan, Lancashire; the Rev. John F. Browne, late of
St. Chad s, Cheatham-rod, Manchester; and the Rev. T.
Crowther, a remain priest of the Auguntinian order.
New :ZEALAND BISHOPRIC.—The Rev. Edmund
Hothouse, 8.D., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, has
been nominated to the new bishopric of Nelson, New Zea-
land, end will be consecrated by the Archbishop of Center-
bury so soon u the necessary legal formalities can be corn-
The bishop designate gradaated at Merton College,
in 1838, sad was in 1843 presented by his college to
the visage of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford-, which he has
retained up to the present time.
THE LATE GALE AND THE PLYMOUTH GREAT
WESTERN Docus.—ln reference to the damages sustained
by the Great Wild /VS Docks at Plymouth, the following
letter from the secretary of the company has been circu-
lated .—"l3ir,—From the exaggerated reports in circulation
of the injury surtained by the works of this company during
the heavy gale on Wednesday night the 7th inert., lemin •
dated to rend you a statement of the damage actually in-
curnd. Tho floating pontoon was partially blown from its
moorings, and a portion of the landing bridge broken away
from It. The entrance gates of the floating Bork were lifted
by the sea and thrown down. The heel poets are damaged,
bet it is not atwoselthat the gates have MOSIRRIONI any mate-
rial Injury. he graving dock was In no respect injured,
end continues open for the reception drawls as heretofore.
Stops are being taken to repair the damage to the landing
bridge of the pontoon at once, in order to resume the traffic
immediately, and to restore the entrance gates to their posi-
tion as won as possible. The Riney ptcr hoe eurtained
some injury, but the traffic has not been interrupted. The
shed and the enter platform, which have suffered most from
the gale, are comparatively of little impothince.-1 remain,
sir, your obedient servant, B. Fiume, Secretary.—No. 1,
Buckingham-place, Millbay, Plymouth, 9th October, 1867."
RECOVERY FROM /ROWNING.—On Saturday last a
man,carrying some ice on boardthenew mail steamer Anatra-
Baba, in the Southampton Dock,fell overboard. After being
ten minutes in the water, full seven minutes of which he was
under water, he was tithed out, when apparently life wu
utterly extinct. Captain Vincent, the eupeointeodent of the
Royal Mail Company, who was pelmet and me the accident,
resolved that every effort should be made to restore the man
to life. Accordingly, he helped to carry him to a place of
ahalter,to strip him,to wrap him inblanketaand, in conjunction
with Dr. Wiblth, who wee immediately aunt for, be supwth-
tended the rubbing of the body and other remedisu These
mareares fortunately, after a long time, mucceedsd. It le an
unusualcircumstance for a parson, afar being under water
for so Img a period as meth minutes, to be restored to life,
and numbers of persona falling into the water mlt for
wait et a similar di splay of resolution and promptitude.