The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER I.

TO OUR READERS.

The issue on Saturdays of a Double Number of
the Express, eeaaed, as originally announced, with
. the close of the Parliamentary t3essica.

" Nor seldom have we in India," writes a gentle-
man high in office in Bengal, " done much for sub-
'• erriptioos originated in England. We have now
" one open here, which offers an opportunity of some
." return. In the course of a fortnight the people
•" of Calcutta and the neighbourhood have put down
• " over 8,0001. for the immediate relief of the eta-
" ferers arriving is Calcutta from the disturbed dia-
" triete." It is to be hoped that the sympathy of the
English at home does not need the stimulus of a re-
minder that those who are now in want of Resistance
have ere now contributed liberally to home charities.
And vet it cannot be denied that it gives the sufferers
an additional claim. They are best entitled to
*active sympathy who in their days of prosperity had
.open hands for the die reseed. It is simple justice
•to say of our countrymen in the East, that prompt
;and liberal benevolence is one of the most promi-
nent features in their character.

This is beautifully shown at the present moment.
Madras acd Bombay have been u prompt in origi-
nating subscriptions as Calcutt►. The English in
India arc far more busy helping one another than
imploring sid from a distance. Incidental allusions
to the subject we may find in private and confi-
dential letters—like that we hare quoted
above—but they hare not deafened the my
of tho home community with public ap-
pears. And the subscriptions for the fugitives
hem the disturbed districts are the least note-
worthy part of the benevolent exertions of the Anglo-
ledians. The English in Calcutta are, at this
moment, emphatically and literally a community of
brethren. Every private dwelling I. thrown apes
to the rehires as long as there is a spare room or a
spay bed to be found in it. Cowers dearribee
somewhere the cold and heartless givers of charity,
whom the shitted feel to be " their benefactors, net
" their brother men." There is no trace of this re-
pulsive character in the cordial reception at-
tended by the dwellers in " the City of ?slaws'
to their distressed countrymen. Instances have
come to our knowledge in which delicate
females hare risen from their beds of sickness, to
make sure that their afflicted countrywomes were
nude to feel themselves perfectly at home. The
&limey with which care has been takes to hutiel
frees the minds of the fugitives every idea that they
are receiving obligations is beautiful in the estrus.
During the late war we had often occasion to be
proud of the kind hearts of England. but never more
to than we feel while reflecting on the overflow of
kindliness which may now be witnessed daily and
burly in Calcutta.

It is not in English nature to stand idly looking
on at such *comes. Their contemplation irresistibly
stimulates Englishmen to take part in them. Ws
know that the late meeting at the Msnsion.how is

only the tirst twitching of long Bot.t.'s face, as his
►and begins to find its way to ►is pocket, while he
@till affects to look stoical and apathetic.

There is so time to be lost. The need of aid in
India is real and urgent. Case after ease of destitu-
tion is brought to our knowledge. Few of the fugi-
tives have been able to carry with them more than
the clothes they bad on at the moment of their escape,
and many fled with sufficiently scanty covering. At
one time we hear of the destitute family of some
merchant or planter, who, after years of
meritorious industry jest es the prospect of being
is a short time able to retire from business was be-
ginning to dawn epos him—ores himself obliged to
begin the world again with nothing. At another it
is some civil or military servant of the Company,
whose little capital invested in bungalow and other
meessaries has perished in the flames. And them
are yet more helpless, because less befriended,
victims than these—the widows and orphans of
privets soldiers who have lost their brave fathers. It
may not be unnecessary to remind our readers
that many of the fugitives are suffering
not only under the privations of want, but
elm under the pressure of disease. Exposure
to the midday glare, and to the dews of night,
has sown the ineradicable seeds of disease in
many a delicate frame. Some have only escaped
from the rabble of mutineers and plunderers after
suffering mutilations which have permanently swam.
gored their health.

We hear it said in some quarters that it is the
bu►iness of Government to care for these sufferers.
No doubt it is. Thu duty has bees cordially reeor