The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

MEETING OP MB MBE 07 MAIRELEBONE.

A public meeting of the isilatitaata of this pariah
was held yesterday, at the Court-him% Plorylebonwlane in
support of the fund for the surer ef careen by the Indian
mutiny.
On the motion of Kr. B. BOND CAIIIIRLL, the Rev. Mr.
Evan, the rector of the whit, was voted to the chair.
After referring to tie aside contributions of the Emperor
of the French and the Ikalean, mad mentioning that the
children of an orphmt wheel In ilhe perish had voluntanly
gone without a meal ea a newt ecesnice that they might
present a guinea to the fund, the CHAIRMAN made an
eloquent appeal to the liberality of his parblilonera, and con-
cludedby informing them that a very kind letter had been
received from Cardinal Wiseman, dated from Eastbourne,
and addressed to Canon O'Neil, intimating that but for the
circumstance that he was at the sea-side for the benefit of
hid health, be would certainly have been pnsent and talus
put in the proceedings.
Mr. Germ": wr.it, the secretary, reed letters from the
Duke of Portland (including a second subecription of 1001.),
Lord Misuser., Mr. It. Palmer, Lord Portman, Lord Leigh,
and other Influential inhabitants it the parish, regretting
their inability to attend, end most of them adding that they
bad already subscribed to the general fund.
Sir B. BALL, M P., who was loudly cheered, rose to
move That we, the inhabitant. of the pariah of St.
Marylebons, in public meatinif assembled, desire to
ezpront profound sympathy with our fellow-country-
men in India In the lever. trials and privations to which
they and those dependent upon them have been re-
duced by the mutiny of the native troops in that country."
It was gratifying to find that the disaffection in our Eastern
Empire was confined to one claw of the community alone.
With regard to the general inhabitant. of India, they ware
satisfied with British role and British justice, and were con-
tent with the manner in which public affairs were conducted.
The disaffection was confined, he might say, almost wholly
and solely to the army. TM., at least, was a source of some
satisfaction, when they came to conaider the government of
that great empire. (Hew.) There tree another circum-
stance which ought to be remembered, and that was that
while these awful and horrible tragedies. were perpetrated
under the orders of one of the great Rajahs of India, others of
those Rajahs remained well disposed towarda Eneish rule,
and had come forward to aid the government in a way
that did honour to theraaelvee, and which hereafter
would demand more explicit acknowledgement. (Rear.)
Let it not then be said that all the native officer. were hem
We to the government, since many of them had not only re.
my
faithful. but had afforded the most valuable moist.
mace under circumstance@ of great difficulty and danger.
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(Chew) It was gratifying to" know that ,an news
bad jar seder from India was of a more cheering chancre
than any that had hitherto reached this country since the
commencement of the outbreak. One fact communicated by
the telegraph was peculiarly welcome, se promiPing a speedy
termination to the oonteektriz., that so hopeless did the mei-
neer* in Delhi feel their case would be when Gm. Nicholpon's
siege train joined the British force, that a lire body of them,
leaving the protection of thew walla, which by this dem
were probably battered dont, went out to intercept him,
that they were unsuccessful. and were defeated with great
loon, and that General Nicholaon was enabled to proceed
with hie siege guns to co-operate with the besieging army.
(Hear, hew.) In speaking of the operations of the British
troop. it was impossible to avoid expreumg feelings of admi-
ration at the gallant conduct of General Havelock, who with
so small a fore. had won Po many victories. ((fear, hear.)
They were informed by the news of that day that that gal-
rat officer had on the 16th August fought his ninth battle
with rebels, end gained his ninth sod most important ro-
tary over them. When they heard of the mamas of Have-
lock and Nicholson, and read of their gallant deeds, they
right be moured that British Wee were well supported in
and that the same result which had always attended
Ibsen would follow in this instance. (Hear, bre.) He
would not reran farther on their attention. (Hear.) He
uiderstood that the subscription lists which would be opened
by the meeting would be sent round the parish; and
his
name as one of the representatives of the borough wee not
fund at the head of it, it tout col) because he bad 'beady
sent 1001. to the general fund. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. BKOIIIITON, the police magistrate, Peeended the re-
solution. He observed that it was a mistake to suppose that
the East India Company was bound to make good- all the
leers ordained in consequence of the mutiny, or that all the
people who west out to India, and who suffered loss, had
riot Maras who could aid them. There were many traders
sad ethers in no way connected with the East India Com-
pany, and who had no resources left, who had lost all they
had during theme diaturbanoes. But were it not so, it we.
obvious that, under existing circumstances, the East India
Company could not put their hands in their pockets and
relieve all at once, whereas lime in such • can was

ev=thiug.
The Rev. Canon Crll rut rill in support of the motion.
The present wee an unparalle ed period in the history of this
country. This was he believed the Bret time when a whole
army rose up without notice, destroyed their military leaders
who had often led them to victory, end then wreaked their
vengeance on dedencekes womeusad children, whom they de
strovel in the most barbarous manner. A lady recently waited
on him, stating that her mother, her brother, her sister, end
the children of the latter, were all horribly murdered in the
atrocious and inhuman massacre at Cewnpore. At such •
time, and in carrying oat the object they were met to pro-
mote, unity was essential. Any attempt to sow dimension
he held to be In the high** degree unpatriotic. (Hear,
hear.) He was led to make this remark in consequeoce of
certain comments which had recently appeared in a loading
journal on a pastoral lamed by Cardinal Wiseman. In that
pastoral the Cardinal invited contributions for carrying out
three objects First, to provide outfits for twelve Roman
catholic privets, who were to be sent out to India, and to
supply them with the means of carrying out public worship.
Secondly, to alleviate the misery and aistresees of varlets oom-
inanities of nun. in the East, whose convents had been
burned down, and whoee property had been destroyed,
and to aeries some means to enable them to carry out the
obligations of their sacred and solemn positions; and the
third object woe the promotion of the general interest of the
tend now being raised for the relief of sufferers by the Indian
mutiny generally. Such was the charitable and pious objects
which had dictated this pastoral, but, notwithstanding, some
al the public papers—
The Rev. Mr. VERNMA roe. to order. He for one had
not come there to listen to a defence of the ai-called Arch-
bishop of Westminster Kling the attacks made upon him
by the public journals.
Canon Olizr I. was making no defence of Cardinal WWI-
WY, but was endeavouring to explain the position of the
cetholics of the empire in reference to this fund, and with
view to unite all sects es well se all cisme. When be
attended a meeting of that pariah in furtherance of
the patriotic fund at the doss of the Russian war
he wee 'mowed that the proceeds should be applied to ell
creeds slate, end that there should be no distinction between
catholic and protestant , but that pledge had not been d-
i lured to. Whet he desired was, that In the distribution of
I dm toad sow being raised the catholic soldier who fought the
WNW et his errantry foot to foot and shoulder to shoulder
wilhprotestant soldier should be treated with justice,
• sad ea the same footing se the latter.
CHAIRWAN was te sore he expressed the universal
s ban althe meeting when he said that the &etre end bi-
b twins wee that the had should be adralaistered icosediag

, to the anamities at the aeon] soi not amording
&screeds of the applicants. (neer. .) Jo
The resolution was put and amnia unanimously.
`boot ZHIIINOTON it.P. believed them public ex-
Psissisiss td sympathy and Madams wool not le received
with indifference by our brave sailers end senors and our
adiebg hilow-countrymen end countrywomen in the Bast,
sad be doubted not that that meeting would be the manna of
bandit many in the pariah who had not yet decided as to
the mode in which they should offer their aid to pour
it into the fond they were now assisting to esta-
blish, while it would enable others who, like himself, had i
cantrteatiri ,it
to that' fund at an earlier s
te take late mown the additional claims which the add=
harms that bad alnoi been brought to their knowledge
ooreakined, and to add to the local fend some trifle beyond
what they had already given to the general fund. If any-
thin, the claims to the present use were stronger than
those which were pramtad to them when they were called '
upon to contribute to the ?skink Fund. That fund winks
establishing • provide kw the wives and children of those
who, when they entered the mimics of her Majesty, knew
they had to face perils and perhaps to die onfalf of their
many. They might ham expend misfortune, but the
sufferers in this sees woe lines up to the time of he ex*.
don in • state of security and confidence, which even he
this country was namely equalled. The if, ea
the one hand, sudden and unexpected misfortune constituted
a claim to public eympathy the heroine, in doing and In
suffering which bad be displayed not only by the military
but by civilians also, bath in end out of the company's see-
vice, gave to that claim additional weight. (Hear, hear.)
For himself, he never felt prouder of the name of English-
man than when he read, on the one hand, how our country-
men in India had fought and conquered against overwhelm-
ing; odds, and on the other, with what a maztyr-like spirit
they leolipsi iiiimosivis to the moat bightftl calamities.
Re would sot attempt to discus the mime of the outbreak,
but he might be 'Bowed to remark that it was for a long
time the fashion to laud the government of the East India
Company, and to bold it up as a model for colonial and
other governmental edminiatratico. Now, however, that
misfortune had come that government was impugned, and
e rwith being the cameo( all the troubles that had arisen.
Far insele he must lay that while he should be the lan to
my that the government of India by the East India Com-
pany was free from human imperfections, on the other hand,
the faithful adherence to our Interests which so many of the
native princes, under such trying circumetanees, had evinced,
and the friendly feeling shown towards us by the great balk
of the native population, proved clearly to his mind that
British rule in India had not been so disastrous, so discredit-
able, and so odious as some persona had represented it to
be. (Hear.) They had heard attack* of a sweeping cha-
racter upon Aris&siblarneral, and upon the Indian princes
and the Indianpopulations in particular ; but it appeared to
him impossible priming to have acted more nobly or more
generously than the Prince of Espied, Ghoolab Singh, and
many others who had been named ; and with
regard to the native population, how any one who had
road of the hairbreadth escapes of many of our
(chow-rountrymen and countrywomen, which nevi could
have been effected without the active nd femme end to
some MPS the heroic and self-sacrificing assistance of the Ta-
lagers, could include them In the general condemnations, he
could not understand. (Hear, boar.) It was notorious that
the imputation of bad motives at times led to their realisa-
tion ; and it was just possible that if it went out that the
Itritioh publk believed the native population of India to be
guilty of hod faith, it might alienate many who would odor-
Wia9 remain faithful. (Hear, hear.) He would may owe
word es to the tone of indiscriminate vengeance, or rather the
sw=g vengeance, which according to some ought to be
w out upon the native population. God forbid that we
ebouk judge too severely of our brave soldiers, who, cued-
dened by the horrors perpetrated almost under their eyes,
might, in the heat of the ranted and the excite-
ment of victory, commit excesses ; but then was
something very shockeif in people sitting down
and epeaking calmly of seeking a whole city containing thou.
sends or tens of thousands of human beings—(hear, bear)
—of whom • large ymportion must be supposed to be Imam
iog almost ea mach from the twenty anarchy that prevailed
as three of our own people who have been subjected to its
iron yoke. (Hear, hear.) Though, he trusted, not insen-
sible to ordinary feelings of humanity, he wee not one of those
who would abolish capital punishments for great crimes, do
away with corporal punishment altogether for lees heinous
ofetuoeses,, or who would pay wore regard to the comforts of
cAnlnW in our gaols, or even to pauper* in our workhouse.,
than to those of the honest independent labourers out of doom.
Between the strict application of the scriptural command
that " the magistrate shall not spare the rod," end •
squeamish and misplaced humanity, there was a middle
(CUM, and it was due to our honour and to our character
se • Christian country, that if we punished it should be in
the spirit of *uatioe—stern and unbending justice if we
pleased, but g and Imprint junks, and not la •
' spirit d wed vengeance. (Hoer, hear.) He
moved, in conclusion, "That for the peeper of givingzir
es-
. tical effect to the sympathy of this meeting • pub olion be forthwith raised in this parish, and that the following
gentlemen form • committee to receive and obtain subecrip-
, lions in aid of the fund now being raised for the relief of
the sufferers.
• The Rev. Professor Meats seconded this resolution, which
was supported by the Rev. Earilley Wilmot.
Sir J. EA..THOPT., who slimmed his gratification that
the explanation would now go forth to India, that the catholic,
and protestant soldiers and sailors who might become claim-
ants upon the fund would nand upon • footing of perfect
equality, moved that Sir 8. Scott and Co., the bankers, be
the treaeurers, and Mr. Greenwell, the vestry clerk, the
honorary reezetary, which having been seconded by Mr.
I. HALL Pore and carried, a vote of thanks was paned to
the chairman and the meeting separated.

CHAIM M.—A meeting of the Jewish inhabitants
of this town was held en Sunday evening, Mr. J. M. Marks
high constable of the borough, in the chair, when the sum
of 201. was unanimously resolved to be presented to the
Indian Relief Fund, as the subscription from the Chatham
Hebrew congregation fund, independently of the individual
eutweriptione of the Jewish members.