The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-28 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

The Dublin meeting for the relief of our distressed
fellow-countrymen in India wits held en Friday; the Loau
If ATOR in the chair. The attendance was large, and
mousse those present were the following :—Tbe Lord
Mayor, Lord Gough, Lind Clonrurry, Mamr-General Sir
Dairen M'Gramer, Major• General Mannar, Sir Edward
iUonnel, James Hans Hamilton, M.P., Edward Orogen,
Hoe. O'lieren Hancleock, High Sheriff of the City ;
"*.loo Str T. O'Brien, M.P., Patrick O'Brien,
M.P., Si, J. H. June, Colonel Browne, Major Hooke,
of the Julien Army ; Henry Grattan, Captain Lindley,
Dr. Geer, Q.C., Mr. O'Shaughnemy, Q.C., Captain Wa-
ilers, Abe
The Loan Macon opened the proprieties/a in a very ap-
and then announced numerous contribu-
Met tallow Lord Chancellor, ; the Anti-
bishop ci Dahlia, 601. ; Dr. Heiken, W. 3e.,. the French
Coned, 61. ; Major-Oseerel Hall, 201 ; Mr. R. J. Orpon,
64. • the Der of St. Patakida, 101. ;* Me. George Morant,
of barrichaeserese, 21. 2e. ed. ; Mr. Joseph Atkinson, of
' Newtownpark Avenue, Ife. • the Duke of Linker, 501. ;
Colonel Henry White, 601. • Lord Omagh, 1001.
Lad CLONCVLAT tarsi been called upon be move the
fist essolutlon, lei Mar/ and assamm,
have much pleasure in coming forward to proper the reedit-
tion which ham just beet plated in my hank, - brans* we are
well aware, as individuals, what comfort individual sympathy
Is to individual woe; and on the same principle what
comfort may not be brought to • nation in woe by the
sympathy of a fellow people—the sympathy of another
nation. We know (Tom the highest authority what Mer-
ino charity brings with it; it brings with certainty •
blaring to those who give and necemarily to those who
receive. (Hear, hear.) I would at once now sit down
Oar reading H reetilutem if I did not feel, ea an Irishman,
constrained to any a few words on another subject. A few
miscreants in this eountry—(loud cries of " heir
are happy to say I believe but three or four in number—
lien dared to libel their fellow-countrymen—(Lear, hoar)—to
the extent of saying that a large body of Irishmen rejoice at
the suffering cf our fellow-countrymen, and eay—. Snores.
to the Sepoy. ' (Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, let us for
a moment Look at what these were.hes we eimerine
empathy kr ; let as take the pimple facto as narrated
of what occurred at Cawnpore—(bear, hoar)—where that
acenned hell-hound Nees Sahib, first having committed
bestial atrocities upon defenceless women and children,
then bathed and their poor forms, hurled them down
is the pit, and then, honer upon horror, Bong down their
yet llelag babes upon them. And the are the crimes
that a few wretches—l trust In Providence that thez are but
• kw —bet there ere two or three In the coon-
' try who have eeeprered and publicly written their
sympathy with the authors of such bonen. (Loud cries
of "Hen, bear.") The people of this country have nay Fro-
piety alierset &Mesa... againstand have weer allowed
their to be acted on to the extent that elsewhere
has wheels tolled Lynch law. (Hear, hen.) But
if ever that wire stearble, It would be in each • ere as this
,(base her) ;—end, really such Sends should have been
dragged hem their fetid dens, tarred and feathered, and
stoned by the women and children of Dublin in the streets.
(Loud cheers.) The resolution is en follows —" Remind,—
That it ia with mingled feelings of sorrow and Indignation
we have heard of the unparalleled atrocities which have been
recently perpetrated by the mutineer. in India upon our fel-
low•subjecta, more especially upon the women and children,
and that we hereby exprir t or deepest sympathy with those
who are still expend to danger and privation abroad, and
also eightise who are enouenter over their bereavement at
home." Lord Ciescurry, who was greatly affected weilet
making Uwe observation., concluded by laying—Allow me
now to hand in my mita of 261. to you. (Applause.)
Captain Wiettans comptroller of the virrepl house-
hold, next addressed the meeting, announcing • contribution
of 1001. from the lewd-Lieutenant,
Genera Lord Goiter, on coming forward, was greeted
with warm applause. Hie lordship said—My Lod Mayor
and gentlemen, I rise oppressed with strong teeing., having
lost near and dear relatives of my own—having lost the
dearest friends I ever bad and my warmer supporter.
daring the whole of my career in India—Lawrence, and, in
short, every name that has been mentioned here. I have
known them for many yews, and they have paid a noble
debt to their country. (Applause.) They have fallen, and
their country well ever esteem their memory and hold it
dear. (Hear, hear.) I entirely concur with the strong—
hot not too airong—obeervetions of the noble lord who pro- '
peer the kr relates, is dapeolleg, as as helpmate
end holding up those wretches who can advocate the
cause of the mutineers in India. (Hear, bear.) Gentlemen,
I have tiered in India—l know the conduct of the torn-
pany—l knew the conduct of the officers towards the Sepoys,
and I avow to you, as an officer, a gentleman, and en Irith-
man, who would not gloss over the ill-conduet of any
one, that there never was a more unfounded state-
ment than that disagree eerie. have had anything to com-
plain of. (Arminian) The feeling of the Court of Director.
—the feeling universally of the government of India, has
beet that of • parent towards three talkers. If it were pos-
sible for men to bo too kind to tier under then, I would say
that they bare been No, by rook tog too many concessions to
everything connected with their teem. I would give one in-
stance of the horror. of these wretches. By the last mail I
received • letter from Sir Patrick Grant, commanding in
India, and, in informing me of the death of that noble fellow,
Major Holrnea, he stated that there never was • man who
devoted himself more to hie aliment than Major Holmes,
and that the night previous to lue murder by his own troop.,
ha reported to the Comenander-iwChief that the government
might depend on his regiment, the Irregular Cavalry,
that they were true to their salt, mid would fight
kr the company. What was their conduct? The neat
morning they murdered their friend and commander, who
looked upon them as his children, contributed to their com-
forts out of he own pocket, awl never lost sight of their inte-
rests. They murdered and hacked his wife—they murdered
the doctor who continually attended upon them, and to add to
their Infamy, they murdered his wife and child also. Such is
the conduct of these men, and somas in his errs could any
they were justified. Oh, my friends, believe me when I say
to you that the Indian soldier is not justified even in com-
plaining, much Is. in the horrid strwitim which they have
committed—they will mark them for ever as • dements and
degraded nos. (Hear, hear.) My humble contribution is
perhaps more than toy station and position in sorely would
authorweme h giving; but I have arnotent those who an
now suffering In India many dear friends. (Applause.) I beg
to move the resolution which has been handed to me, and I
am sum that the assembly I we before me will, se Iriahinen,
liberally respond to this appeal. (Loud applause.)
Mr, °make, M.P., reeended the revolution.
A Wes sum was subeoribod. but the hooray secretaries ob-
jected to the list being published for the present.
Lard Gough having been moved to the second chair a vote
of thanks was parr to the Lord Mayor, after which the
pnreelinp terminated.

MEETING' OF OWNERS OP PROPERTY ININDIA.
On Saturday a meeting of owners of property—
indigo pleatere, silk factor., and others—in Bengal, Cal-
cutta, and other parts of India, wee held at an, Jermyn-
leen, Bt. James, Dr. Boone In the chair, to consider the
want ot vigour on the part of the Indian government In pro-
vidieg for the safety of property in India in the present
emergency, and to deal with the qnestion of compensation
for lone( property sustained by British subjects in °owe-
queue of the preset ineurrection.
Mr. Tneionts.b, in opening the proceedings, said they
were swan ef the loss and destruction to property in British
India that wee now accruing in consequence of the rebellion,
and it beano a matterof the greatest importance to con-
aide what steps should be devised fur ita prevention, and
what oonipeneaties, both on the ground of polo end justice,
should be claimed ly those whose property thus suffered.
Be would not enter into a ooneiderotion of the arguments
that might be urged in support of the right to compensation,
but it was only right on the part of the persons interested
that the government should be immediately communicated
with on the matter. Another matter arising out of the
sewn last arrived wee the apparently incompetent position in
which the authorities in India were placed, and the want of
energy and judgment they displayed in dealing with the ex-
isting crisis. This state of things had been commuakeed
through the medium of private letters, for the actual Mate of
things did not find ite way into the English public journals,
and it was desirable that, as revealed in these private corn-
aninicationa, it should be laid without the loas of time boron,
Lord Palmerston. It would, in fact, amount to an itepsuch-
meat of the condor% of the authorii ire, and it would be for
the meeting to determine what ammo they would pursue upon
the eubjevt.
The CHAIRMAN explained that it was not contemplated
he make any specific claim either on the government or the
End India Company for any fumes that bad been or that
might vet be onetained. hut simply to insert the broad Prin-
ciple of the right oa the part of owners of property in India
to compensation for lessee caused by the rebellion.
Mr. Fut:TAMS urged the immediatecombination otos-nem
of Indian property in England. in order to plea, themselves
in a position to receive prospective mnopev rhos. Ile be-
lieved that them were a dozen owner. int a Coded /I iogiludi
ohs represented capital in the province of Bengal alone to
the enema of one reiliion sterling, and there were other,
who held to an equal extent, to whom this question was of
the mesh vital tentneet. Up to the receipt of the last mail
be wee net ea amulet, tont now be began to be so ; and

although he teas a determined advocate for claim and com-
pensation, be believed the result of the outbreak would be
that India would remain attached to the British govern-
ment, but, having had communieeted to hire the contents
of a large number of private letters from Indian merchants
in the City by the Mt mad, he bad become equally alarmed
with ves, and disgusted with the proceedings of the
Indian authorities. These lettere referred in no very lauda-
tory manner to the acts of the Governor. General, and to
the tiumintendeot of Police at Calcutta, and to his infatuated
sad blind confidence in his notice police, and as laughing
and treating with contempt the information given him with
respect to the selling of arms, and eating that he eon his
Meantime to me if the information was correct, and that
they returned and repealed that there were no arms. The acts
of the Commissioners of Revenue were spoken of also in
terms of cm:damned. n. Be (Mr. Freeman) was this owner
of property to the extant of 26,0001. in one of the disturbed
dietricts, and on a late ocamion his European amidants were
abut out of the factory, and the place despoiled of all its
money. Although, as it were, disowned by the company,
the fact wall that the indigo planters and silk factors were
the reel pioneers and civilieers of India, and their fortunes
were now entirely at &take. It was desirable, in the present
state of affairs, to go to the fountain head of government,
and moues the public mind upon the question. Zemindars
had been arrested as having taken part in the mutiny, and
their managem only had been punished.
Mr. BIRK INYUL'NG—The fact la, Calcutta should have
been pat under martial law at least two months ago. (Rear.)
Mr. FILIRMAN had convened with owners of a 00a•
Minable amount of property in Liverpool, Manchester, and
Birmingham, and they appeared to be of opinion that the
' government was reeponsible for the injury and loss. The
matter was adverted to at the court of proprietor. of the
East India Ileum the other day, but the chairman disposed
of it by saying it was a subject that required the greatest
consideration. It was a subject that must be publicly
agitated, whether it amounted to half a million or five
tnillioss. There wee a company that got some 28 millions
sterling (he believed it was nearer 32 millions) out of that
corm ,try and they saw what? Why a deficiency of several
htuedred thousands. But it wee not so much a question whe-
ther the Company or the Government were to answer for
compensation—there was the country itself—the leutirodars
and the rebellious princes were numerable to them by the
confiscation of their property for the purpose of compensating
Britishsubject. for the forof theirs. Them semindare had
done nothing to prevent the destruction of British
but had in some cm savoys ea participated with the in 417711
such cases their estates ought to be ouneeested and sold by
public sale. Ile believed that in this matter justice would be
done them by the Prime Minister, for hebelieved nostateeman
had ever tented that had done more for the interest of British
subjects abroad than had Ike present popular Prime Minister
in all cases where British interests were encroached u_poo.
The CHAIRMAN observed that private letters from India by
the last need counirred in the meclmion that the feeling of
the British community in India wee such that there was
doubt whether, by the next mail, we should not hest that the
reins had been taken out of the hands of the present govern-
ment, end a vigilance committee appointed. It was desirable
that Lord Palenersmot should have all the information con-
tained LE private letters, which he probably would not re.
ceive flees Government officials., or from few of the London
PtT'he
red some extracts from private letter re-
ceived by the last mail. One was dated "4th August, les-
son. I have reason to thank God that we are at perfect
peace in this part of the world ; but at the station Jessore •
plot was discovered, fortunately in time, by which the liven
of every European at that station would have been sacrificed.
The conspirators were promptly seized and tried by our
=t summary promise, and the ringleader hanged in the
on the following morning, his carcase being allowed
to swing in the wind for twenty-tour hours, the remainder
of his followers being transported for fourteen yeses.
This is as it should be, and were there a little more
and determination shown by government officials,en alto
are invested with unlimited powers of life and death,
we should have had lees to mourn for now. As It
is, cowardly pusillanimity is shown by every member of
the government, and the feeling of indignation whist the
service generally runs so high that, ware there a community
strove enough in Calcutta, I feel 01111111th that the
aunt would be deposed, and a committee of public safer y ap-
pointed to look after the welfare of the EuropeanMMM-
tante." Another, dated 'Unmated, said, " Although them
mutinies have taken place scum months, our imbecile rulers,
and worse than imbecile commander", have done nothing. In
fact they are getting worse daily ; and if we have not been
massacred and driven out of the country, it le not from any-
thing our rulers have done, but from the sepoys not having a
leader to lend them."_

Mr. MARSH %U.—Every mutineer ehould be served ea
Lord Edward Paget served them in 1847.
Mr. THEOI,LI), with reference to the question as to
where the compensation was to come Iron,. conceived that
the conficcation of the property of all concerned in the re-
bellion would furnish an mople fund. He believed that the
value of Nen. Sahib's property alone would amount to four
millions sterling, and a poll-tax of ten percent., for ten
years, might be levied on all the reminder. and Mussul•
mans.

After ocesidaralide discussion it was reeolved dilating sear
ebould canimintikate Lor&P.lnterston reprenentations
of the deep aline tlinestmet
of the Indian government in providing for the seatyltilla
flab property in India. Resolutions were also pared ewes-
sive of the opinion of the meeting that compensation for
losses summed by British subject. through the rebellion was
demanded alike by policy and justice, and that mane be
immediately taken to obtain public support in furtherance of
the object.
A vote of thank. to the chairman terminated the pro-
civididgv•