The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-07 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7. UM

INDIAN MUTINY RELIEF FUND.

The India Diabase Committee at the Mansion-
home have passed the following resolution, to which they ere
d. drool of calling publie attention : "That as the Calcutta
relief oommittre will be furnished by this committee with the
means of providing any clothing that may be required by
Ferrous arriving at that place in a sista of destitution, it will
not be advisable to sand say clothing from this country.
The ctaimittse therefore recommend that oontributions
doubt be rands in mossy, and not in clothes, which it will
soot much to sand out, and which may be useless when they

The following is the copy of a letter from
WLeod Wyllie, R.N., judge of the Small Cease Court at Cal-
cutta, mud • mecobor of the Calcutta Relief Fund
" CA Lcrrry Aro. 16.

" ydy dear Friend—l am desirous of sendtail few (tuna by
this mail on the subject of that relief fund to which your at-
tention yea directed last mail, in the latter addressed by Dr.
Dicke* to Sir 0. Pollock, Sir L. Peel, Yr. Dein, IdeJor
llifOregor, and yourself. I mono' (sa I should like) eater
fully into the cases that come before our nab-committes, bat
I should like to place before you soma of theclaasse classes
in which the assistance of the fond will be rieredriod. Ido
not doubt the wens sympathy of the public, or their libels-
Ifty. In title eztessedlerry emeireney; bat It le very dadmils
that the nature of the was should be well understood at home.
It is commonly supposed that ell people in India bare large
income, and are earls, fortunes. Yon know how different
is the fact, and it would be well if all others knew it too.

One large class is that of young officers who were living
In country stations, where It bad been necessary for them on
their snivel to purchase or to build their dwellings. There
house*, with their hones, their outfit, end their equipment.
usually . mutilated their entire property, mad in many ohms
the whole has been suddenly destroyed, and they have
wird barely with their lives. The caws of this kind me
very numerous indeed. In them all, relief is neeserary,
unless we are willing that such officers should henceforth
straggle on in life Ender the load of debt which must
be incurred if they are without assiatance to replace
nem, elves in then former position. Another clan is that of
offline whose incomes would well suffice if they had not
families at home. But burdened with the heavy expense of
these they here all along been in difficulty, compelled te
✓acrifkie touch to that inevitsble and expensive necessity of
an Indian re ideate—a home education for their children.
mid oow,to have to replan their home, furniture, and soon-
tremens appears to them a simple matter of impossibility.
Very many more ere now compelled to send their families
home. They might hare gone on for years to come in their
nations with occasional Tints to the hills, but now suddenly
sad prematurely, cotemponneously with the loos of all their
property, comes the neoeaty to send their families to Eng-
land. They cannot do without help. And this kind of
difficulty, and the kind of Inns I have mentioned, are not
confined to oaken—they extend to young civilians, to indigo
planters, sad other traders; to thopkeepan, to sneovensatsd
servants,lia a great variety of employments ; le taglasses, sur-
veyors, clerks, and many mote. And then three en the
bereaved. There soh children whitest parents, wins with-
out bosh ends—how many we know sot yet, but they,too, un-
happily are tray—ted in most mar the calamity hem been
attended with a seeker loss of property. You must be aware
that very many eantanasets and other English nations have
been wholly burned, and that marauders, let loose from
gaols, rebellious soldier., end others, have been carrying am
without renre'it, the system of absolute plunder. Compensa-
tion is quite beyond oar power, but if the Britten public mist
as we can relieve effectually and substantially. Aired, the
subcommittee, to whom this task has been devolved, have
found large scope for the benevolence of the subscribes, sad
have had their own sympathies deeply excited by the abets
leg nature of the sufferings with which they have become
acquainted. I entertain no doubt that the work will grow on
our heeds, that we shall hare to end home handfed', sed
to provide some 118•1/1•12Ce In varion forms to theneanda.
We must embrace the whole necessity of the cue in a large
end liberal spirit, sod ea fee se ponibleslo all that is need-
ful to relieve the preemie of this wide-vend calamity.
But, as I have said, VI compensation is quite out
of the question. Some have been suddenly deprived
of large fortinee ; some who were hoping to retire
home have lea 'educed to beggary. The proepecta
of many bundles are entirely changed, and notwithstanding
all that we can do there will remain a great number for'
whom the fund can do comparatively nothing. And then if
we think of the too numerous cane of mental affliction, the
bereavements, the broken henna, the shattered nerves, the
shaken reason, the desolation, the sliding sere at hence,
the rations sicknesses consequent on exposure and pries.
non, what can we sap We can do nothing. Humes
power fella and human sympathy can scarcely alleviate the
trial. I could harrow you with tales of individual Know
such as seldom has been consequent on sesame of national
calamity sines England was a nation ; but we meat do ell
we ran, and I entertain no doubt that your committee 51
home will appeal with earneetnem and with moues to the
hearts of oar favoured countrymen."