The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additiomd.) [TWOPENCE.

SIR W. P. WILLLIMB AND TEN SARI OP
SMAITZ&Draty 02V THE MUTINY IN INDIA.

A public meeting was held lest night at the
Town Hell, Woolwich, for the mon of collecting contri-
bution for the relief of the mares from the mutinies in
India. Sir W. F. Williams, of Ram, MY., Sir W. Cod-
newton, M.P., and many other influential gentlemen were
present.
Sir W. F. WILLIAMS, in moving a resolution of sym-
=, expreesed his opinion that the Sepoye had been most
lamely pampered, and that • great fault had been
committed during the government of Lord W. Setback in
elating the discipline of the eepoys, whin that of the British
soldier load been rigidly exacted. Re concluded by saying
—We must look upon this mutiny rather as the result of a
deep laid coo/piracy on the part of the Mahomedana than an
any neglect on the part of the goverment. I true first to
God, end next to the wisdom of the government that rules
Deem that It will not stand between those %illations mur-
derers and justice. (Loud cheers.) With regard to the
prospects of Christianity when the mutiny has been sup-
peesed, this country must take a different attitude, and lay
to then, " Now we will respect you, but you most obey elm
and these who join us'
A mailing for the like object was held on the sane day at
Wimboene, under the pendency of the Earl of Suarrre-
Dear, VO/00, in • speech of much length, observed, with
rime to the Weenies in India ,—" I most 00111010 that I
have been astonlahed that soma persons shoeld have been
found to maintain that there ought to be r reeve upon the
publication of those enormous crimes • that the British pm*
should not be told in plain, forcible, and true language what
has been done by these me:resets, end what hat been en-
dured by their countrymen and oirontrewomen is the RNA
Indies. These atrocities ought to be known ma aserking •
period nibehistarese err 11•11114 Measteselef ear
easy men should be found fn any nation capsbi• of such
supernova crimes, and marking a period that under the
providence of God there could, at the same
-have been found people professing the Chris-
tian religion capshle of enduring with heroism pains
end insults more grievous than ever were indicted is the
early periods of Rombh persecutions. Doubtless there
is a certain reserve that must be practised in the
mete of public writings, because the cruelties if remedel
an vile, disgusting, and offensive to every sense of
modestyl: and shame, so outrageous, so exceeding human ima-
gination, that many would noel from the narrative, end mew
would meet it as untrue. Yet I myself saw the other day a
letter from the highest lady now in India, describing thrg
day by day late were coming into Calcutta, their ears sad
their noses cut off, and their eyes ten out ; that
children of the tenderest years have been reserved to
be put to death under circumstances of the most exquisite
torture in cold blood—not in moments of excitement, as you
may read, as when the town of Magdeburg was sacked by
the imperielista—but reserved to be tortured, with circum-
stances of the utmost refinement and imagination, before the
eyes of their parents, who were made to witness the
cruelties inflicted, who were made in cold blood to swallow
portions of the flesh cut from the limbs of their children, and
themselves afterwards burned upon a slow tire to gratify
the malignity and the hellish temperament of those creatures
who bear the human fporm.uled"
Resolutions were , with our
countrymen in the East, end asy
edoseeipt mpathisingloe list was opened.-