The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

INDIAN RELIEF COMMITTBZ.

The following " Address to the British Public "
has been Limed

" The committee for relieving the suffering caused by the
Indian mutinies, while acknowledging gratefully the
munificent donations already contributed, yet feel it their
duty to cell attention to the circumstances which necessitate
a further appeal to the public. Throughout the
length and breadth of the Bengal presidency, large
nunthers, amounting probably to some thousand,
of civil servants, covenanted and uncovenanted,
military officers, chaplains, missionaries, indigo planters,
private traders, clerks, civil engineers persona employed in
the department of Public Works, and others, have lost their
moveable property, thd, in the present disturbed state of the
country, will have difficulty in raising funds. Without
some kind of pecuniary aid, therefore, they will be unable to
reinstate themselves In their previous mode of life. The
families of persons who have been killed or despoiled of their
property, or who, from their being employed in disturbed
districts, are unable to make remittances are to a greet ex-
tent without present means of support, whether they are re-
siding in India or in this country ; and many children who
have been sent to England for education would have
to be removed from school if some assistance were not given.
Considering the greatly increased number of European
troops now to be employed in India, numbering probably
nearly 100,000 men, and the casualties which are Likely to
take place among them from war and climate, the pecuniary
aid which will be required for their families is certain to
amount to a very large sum. This observation applies both
to her Majesty's and to the Honourable East India Com-
pany's European troops. Many other classes of mans
might be mentioned who will stand in need of meastance,
including those natives of India, civil and military, or their
widows or orphans, whom destitution may be distinctly
traceable to fidelity and devotion to the cause of the British;
but enough Iris been said to show that, independently
of any maistance which may possibly be required
in the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, miserly,-
tions are still called for on a scale equal to the greatest efforts
of this kind which have been made of late years. In the
majority of cases temporary aid will be sufficient ; but some
claims upon the national bounty will necessarily extend over
a considerable period. No sums will be given absolutely
where a loan would be sufficient. The principles according
to which the relief will be administered, in concert with the
Calcutta and other committees, are contained in the following
resolution,, which wen) passed eta meeting held at the Man-
sion-house on the 26th Sept., 1857.
"Mansion•houm, Sept. 30, 1857."
At a meeting of the committee, held on the 26th of Sep-
tember, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
I. The object of this committee is to relieve as far as may
be practicable and necessary, the distreas caused by the
mutinies in India.

2. In so doing, care should be taken not to supersede the
sasistanoe which ought to be given by the government, by
the established widows' end orphans' funds, or by the rela-
tion, of the nacres.; but to supplement it to the extent to
which it falls short of eked measure of relief.
3. Compensation for lowa, as such, will in no case be
given.
4. Subject to the preceding conditions, the efforts of the
committee will be specially directed
I. To enable the sufferers to live with frugality in their
respective states of life until other means of subsistence are
available. . _

11. To provide for the maintenance and education of chil-
dren in cams in which it has been interrupted or prevented
by casualties seising out of the mutiny, and in which It
newt be provided for from other sources.
111. To assist the sufferers to come to this country or to
pto India, when the circumstances render it proper that
they should do so, and the means of paying for their passage
cannot be obtained from any other source.
IV. To afford reasonable aid, by loan or otherwise, to
officere and others who have lost their equipments, furniture,
or other property, by the necessity or sudden eight from
their stations or the destruction of their dwellings, when,
without such aid, they would be involved in pecuniary em-
barrassments,

6. That relief according to these principles be given, with-
out distinction of religion or nationslity, to every person of
whatever rank who has •just claim upon the sympathy and
assistance of the Delilah people.

CAMP BAWL/MAC-GSM—A Bengal subaltern writes
to the Madre. Atheneum : "1_ left Nagode on the morning
of August 11, and have marched without an event to this
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three Regiments., viz., 60th, 52nd, and 3110, now in this dis-
trict, have behaved up to this moment extremely well ; the
31st have earned a name themselves (which I trust they will
continue to deserve.) When the 42nd mutinied at Bangor
the 31st, without their officers, lought them, took the
guns from them, and ultimately drove them out of
the station, which loyalty, on their pert, cannot,
I think, be too highly spoken of. The 60th at
Nsgode are also deserving of praise, as on more than one
occasion they have evinced their determination of standing
by the government. On one occasion, when the prisoners
broke out of gaol, and, having taken the arms of the Nujeeb
guard, came up to the cantonments with the intention of
setting fire to the bungalow. and of getting the Sepoys to
join them, they reckoned without their Lost, as the Jacks
turned out and shot leveret, taking the others prisoners.
Two companies of the 42nd, who remained firm at Dumah
when other regiusents mutinied, have been doing good
service agsinet the Bundalsa. They have been joined by a
detachment of the 31st. The other day they had an oppor-
tunity of thrashing the Bundalas. which they did well,
taking three guns and an elephant from them.
LETTER PROM A SUFFERER.—We have been
favoured with the following interesting letter from a lady
now in Calcutta to a relative in Madras; it bears date
August 10: " When I tell you I have had to fly front my
home with my child, and em now a houreless destitute
refuges in this large city. 1 travelled through much of suf-
ferings, and difficulties, end dangers, and am at last, thank
Ood, safe here, though much broken both in body and mind ;
my pour child, too, was ill all the way, but is now doing well.
My husband could not accompany me, having to remain at
his station (Gyah); but I heard from him yesterday that he
ha. had to fly for his life with a detachment of the 64th
Europeans, and they are marching towards Calcutta down
the Greed Trunk Road, fighting every Inch of their way,
and God alone knows it 1 shall ever see him again. He
has escaped only with the clothes on hi. back, and when
five miles from Gyak saw elI our houses in one
volume of flamer,. I have only paved a few suits of clothes for
the child and myself, one .null bundle, and we are now
homeless beggars, without a rupee in our hands or clothes to
our back, and Uzi: government is so dilatory in these troubled
times that pay we may not expect to see fur month.. I am
indebted to the charity of strangers for a few rupees to. erre a
few nmealsouies. lam here premilms, ill, broken merited,
having had nearly all my relatives in these parts massacred,
butchered. My poor brother's widow sad his child were at
Cawnpore, and murdered by those fiends. Poor unfortunates!
She hod three children hernias my brother'," child. My hus-
band's brother's regiment, too, have mutinied, and they have
fled here homeless and destitute, with only the clothes on
their backs. Nearly all my relatives are murdered, and
many I can hear nothing of among the number. I feel half
.;.pitied and mad, and should sink tinder it ell but for my
poor child ; I clasp her to my heart, look in her sweet face,
and feel I bare yet something to live for."—Madres
Atheneum.
LIZTSTAL PALACE. 031 SHILLING
THURSDAY, OCTOSItft I.—Admissions on pa meat, 3,269 i
ditto by Huai *kat% 259 ; total, 3,528.

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