The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-23 00:00:00

BEpPORD.

A tern large and enthoaiaetic meeting was held
on Main seining, this 2lat tact., in the Assembly Rooms,
warned, for the rupees of espreering sympathy with our
war fNg hilew-nra to the East. both the members
for the borough were pros set, surrounded by the leading
eaters of the community of all shades of political and
opinion.rderidiziened the proceedings in • suitable Weise
and was folio by the movers, seconders end supporters
of the seven! resolutions.

Mr. BARNARD, M.P., spoke with deep feeling of the hor-
rible mimes by which the progress of the rebellion had been
marked; ssd, while diOclaiming all thought of reckless ven-
geance., appealed to his constituents for an expression of their
with to uphold the government in exacting a righteous
retribution, and in attempting to restore the order and autho-
ritythat had been so suddenly and frightfully violated.
Mr. W lIITNItRA 11, M.P., In the course of his speech, ex-
premed an opinion that so far from the mutiny being in may
way the result of miasionary efforts it might be traced to the
tsry oppmita cause. He claimed on behalf of England the
credit of having governed India wisely, but be felt compelled
to admit that toleration towards a cruel and degrading ruper-
stilton had been carried to the verge of criminality. Our own
bade had been upholding the altar on which Hindooians had
at length offered our eonipatriote as a sacrifice. He expressed
as opinion that never had the English soldier fought for •
more glorious prize, nor ever bad he fought more gloriously
for any muss, and he trusted that no check would be offered
to the sober of our brave army by the lukewarmness of par-
liament

The Mato* snnonnod • private zrattlog of the committee
at kin own Residence for the ensuing day, when steps were
taken to wan as good a public subineiption as can possibly
he Raised.

Wedneeday.l,stpeci!kservices

*wig witing) wore railtaid in 'hi pariah church,
moor and mlite wada, in behalf of the un-
fortunate ataterera whit he,. Gaud the dreadful calamities
in the Indian marimba The wrolisiea from both services
amounted to 601.4..--a rata arm balm collected on a week
day, thus showing that the congregations, which were law
at each tiorrice, aordy_rosycaded to the appear made to the
sympathies of •11.—Serehad Casette.
DUBLIN.—A deputation waited on Friday
the Right lion. the Lord Mayor, to react the regdeklaa
praying Lie lordship to maven. a public meeting to mesa
mementos fur the immediate relief of the eufferers by the
disavow outbreak in India. His lordship appointed Fri-
day, the 24th to t., at 1 o'clock, for the purpose, and errata
his willingness to
_place the Oak-roote of the Reardon-ham
at the animal of the requi•itionista for the objects ol the
meeting.— Dui& Ekes*? Nail.

PERILS OF 4 74217 07 IMES IN INDIA.
The Cheerier de Lyon gives the following account
(tithe dangers incurred by eeriest French lay-nuns in India
daring the late disturbances :
"The religions establishment of Jesusiet-Marie at Fourview
had several of its sisterhood imperilled at Meerut, Delhi,
Bealkote, and Agra, by the Indian insurrection. It is only
by the het mad that intelligence has been received '
them in letters written to their supetior, and whic show
that a portion of them at least have escaped. All these_ holy
women were at the head of schools for young girls, n
and native. Those who were at Diderot succeeded in escaping
the conflict, murders, and conflagration with a part
of mile, some English ladies, and about fifty make,
officers, and civilises, to a valley in the mountains of Thibet,
whets they are, It appears, in tolerable security, for the
party, being well armed, is strong enough to defend naiad
the insurgents the defile leading to their asylum. The
fight Dom Bealkote was marked by most dramatic ineidente.
The evening before the rising, some of the natives, through
gratitude for the attention and kindness which the sister. had
always shown to their children, came secretly to inform thom
they would do well to leave the place as promptly as possible
with their pupils, es the thourrection ens to commence the
next morning at West of day, and the insurgence had re-
solved to kill every European. The sisters at once procured
cars, and loaded them with their property and with their
youngest pupils, whose weakness would have retarded their
precipitate flight. Then, profiting by the shades of night,
they left the town for a fort some leagose distant, where
they hoped to find refuge. Unfortunately, whether
It was that the warning given them was too late,
or that the fugitives had wit hurried on with
sufacient rapidity, or that the natives bad ad-
vanced the moment of the insurrection, the elaten were
overtaken, when about half way, by a troop of the Meer-
gents, who, on ending their convent abandoned, had panned
The poor enters, on seeing this horde of miscreants
approaching, abandoned their airs and bagme in the middle
of the reed to be pillaged, and hurried away to take refuge in
an Deleted home which stood near. But their pursuers
soon surrounded the building, and bursting in, murdered.
in presence of the poor sisters and the children,iler4
English persons, women and men, who had also hurried to
the house for safety. They then rushed at the denies, and
with horrible imprecatione threatened to make them sad
their pupils shore the same fats, if they did not
at ours declare where their property was to be
found The unfortunate "women protested that they
had nothing in the world but what they bad left
in the can on the high road, sad that theywißSngyy
gave up that property. As, however, other pillagers had