The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-09 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1857.

ra time wheat lenity of action, is well is commanding ability,
ia required these are matters into which we need not enter.
Our, is the easy but not loss mournful task of giving vent to
the horror and indignation that we feel at than atrocities;
of expressing our determination to aid, to edam, and to coin-
fort the sufferers from those atrocitiss to the ;tenant of our
power—(food applause)—to support, sad, Rimed by teatime-
bite the government in the adoption of whatever nwesures It
may be deemed expedient to pursue. (Great obeerbig.) It is
well that all rank. and classes should per kipate, se they do
participate, In this movement. It was well that ear enianicipel
authondss should convene these meetings, that the deep
should attend them, and that the ispresentarives of the
people should attend them too. Let us pause for on emend
to render a just homage to the memory of those galled men
' who have already fallen In ilia service of thee country, and
whose lima have been equally sacrificed to the public lIIITTICO,
whether they wire struck down by pestilence, like Anion, OT
died 011 the battle-field, like Lawrence. And let us deo pay a
ust tribute of gratefuland affectionate admiration to t
hat
heroic 'seder end to him devoted followers, who are now doing
tattle for their country against such fearful odds , whose
deed. an above Greek and above Roman fame ; who, whether
it be God's will that they should succeed or fall, have mewed
Iheenasives with imperishable glory in that map/Sort
march from Alkhabad to Cawnpere ; whose sepias must
dl' one of the most glorious pages is the Meer, if Usk
country (whether it be a mournful ere or sot) ; ad whose
endurance, and patriotlsm, and self-devotion are wear-
passed in the annals of soy nation or in the reseeded say
age. (Great applause.)
Then Rev. W. "H. Wsrvr vicar of Warder*, secede the
reeolution, and the meeting' war subsequently addressed by
other gelidness.
A subscription Hat was openod In the room, and 2W. wee
subscribed in the course of a few minutes.

SWANSEA.
A meeting in aid of the Malin y Fund wan held at
9Waoeea on Tuesday, the hialon (Mr. Oakahot) in the
chair.

The C. kIRMAN read a loiter from t he Rev. H. B. Squire,
near of Swansea, expreming regret that he, ea well as the
other members of the clergy, were prevented from attending
the meeting In consequence of the bishop of the diocese hold-
ing a visitance at the pariah church.
Mr. Dtxxwelr, bl._apologieed for the absence of his
brother, Mr. Merin Lleweilyn, of reollergue, which arose
from the short eadee of the meeting which tad been given.
He thin end that a resolution had been put into his hands to
repose, bat be should prefer that It bed bees given to some
other gentleman, Women occupying the inertia of their re-
gimenting in pediment, what he might say might be sup-
posed, to a certain extent, to indicate the cowls he should
take when the suited cease beige the legislature. However,
upon thinking of It, he did not know that he bed any came
for alarm on that acorn The resolution be bad to move
was one exprenive of evmpstby with the sufferers and
of abhorrence of the dreadful atrocities which had bees
perpetrated he India. While ad the severest
pneualuuent for the Sepeys, he dept anything like
nomenco, which should be left to a higher power. ' Ven-
r=n mime. tenth the Lord, I will repay.' Punlshment
o• r duty to inflict upon tho mutineers, and a punish-
Mai the sag stern and scare—it :night tithe moot dreadful
—id ft must be done without any atrocitien on the part of
Englishmen towards women and children. Bnoeeei ve daughter
there so doubt would be, and while they would lament they
meet be papered for it, and not be over-harsh upon our
troop.. The amen of the mutiny were not now to he
discussed, but he had no doubt they would be entered
upon in parliament as early se it would be prudent to
do so. He did net think that this should be at present
urged upon the legislature. The dent thing to be done wee
to puppet the government in putting down the mutiny, and
to urge them to do se. When the mutiny was quelled, then
the most marching inquiry into the canoes must take place,
end he for one would not ahriak from taking such Maps ea
might then seem necessary—whether by doing away with
the gest India Company, or in any other way that might
appear expedient. He could not beep thinking that the re-
lent event. would lend to the sweeping away of the East
India Company, and the plating of the government of India
in 'he hands of the government of this country; but what-
ever course should be indicated by the evidence which
would be brought forward, and whatever changes might
a necessary, be should support. He would not
erie Sa; from gi slug his vote in accordance) with hie an-
vet lion in regard to the future government of India.
Them could be no diffivenoe of opinion with repel to
the resolution he had to move. He bed never men the
inhebi tents of this town backward in any goal muse, and hi
wee sure they bad never been addressed in behalf of a imam
posteiming "meter claim* to their sympathy and pecuniary
pupped. Redmond from a state of comparative ciiifort and
prosperity, the sufferen by the mutiny were now aid jerks) to
the extremes of pureriy, misery, end grief, to which they hut
been reduced by no fault of their., but through their placing
rehauce upon an army in tho Foy of this country. lie court
sot Conceive a .runner cane for sympathy and smistmee,
and he therefore cordially proposed the resolution which had
been entrusted to him.

Mr. I'. B. L. GRITNTEI T., in seconding the revolution, said
be bad felt very strongly throughout that whole of this
dreadful businees—the more so, as he Lad a sou, with his
family, residing in the preridoncy of Madre.. Thasppoorrttionof
India was at prement tranquil, but symptoms of an outbreak had
manifested themselves, end no one could tell how far the
mutiny might spread. Ile supposed there war hardly any
one who poeticised the n ime and heart of an Englishman,
and though not perm/telly interested, could have heard of
the drcadfal atrocities which had been perpetrated without
haring his inmost heart stirred within Lim. They had
hoard of prune bring p amused with the devil, and tt really
seemed that Satan had posasamon of those wretched people
who had taken part in chi. dreedful mutiny. Independent
of the seceities which had been committed, and the loft of
life which hod taken plum he believed that there was an
amount of dicees at present elating is India which
could hardly be conceived. Person. hitherto living in plenty
and couifort were reduced to a AMU of utter destitution.
The proverb, lb. dal vie rite dal, we., ho believed, never
more applicable than at the present moment. The feeling
with regard to the mntiny wee very etrong in this neighbour-
ed, as n, throughout the country, sad if it had been
mi-soble to 101 l the Ft sent meeting in the evening he had
se doubt there would have been a crowded audience, as the
heart of the people was entirely rowel. He had been told
that there wire climbers of men at his own worka who were
rawly to volunteer, so strong .11. the feeling excited by the
terriqu atrocities of which they bad Fwd. There we., in
short, but one universal feeling among ell classes. As to
the cause ..f the mutiny, he believed it had been growing
for years, end that it did not arise from a system of mis-
rule, but la rnther thought that the British government
had Leen ton Indulgent. We had been ashamed to show
that we were Christi era nod to pref.e oar own religion.
The COWAN11.10101) ha I torn that the people thought
we were itobtfennt to it, ant they had broken out wine
use. We bed not held that ecinidident twat* es Chris-
tiana which we might have dine, in refraining from interfe-
relice with the religioue principle* of the natives. The erreg
hail been ono of MIT indulgence and over-kindness. Now,
howcr. r, be hoped and believed that the country would tome
forwent in a manner worthy of a great nation, sad that when
the rebellion had been put down there would Lea searching
.mutiny into what had taken place. Theresa's would be the
Bourn good governinott of Inilis —no further trifling with
our motional character, or na further action as though we
were selected of Oar national

committee was arpaintad and a coapilPrable aum pub-
...lilted to the mom. The Swan.,ea subtantaion already
woo:Iota 10 I.lnr. than 2001.

BATII.—A new liatafsseriptions raised in
Nth fins been publishrd. amounting, with ilium, previously
mkt-eked, to abtiut 3,0001.

to requeet the prayers of all Christian churches withinlits
pale on so awful a aids; but it is as incongruous for civil
functionaries to earaateed them, on the pain of Divine dis-
pleasure, to offer opz,presTrers, ea it would be for exleeastical
hinctienaries to be to them, under the same high pe-
nalty, the cootie t ought to follow to put down the mu-
tiny. There is the greeter nseewity of making each a pro-
test, as after a phraseology less offensive to those who con-
scientiously deny the right of the civil power to interfere in
matters property rAigions had been adopted, there is in the
peewee proclareatixo a recurrence to the use of terms which
bed been so strongly and generally reprobated, ands roamer-
tion of an authority which no principled Dissenter as aver
acknowledge."