Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIINIES.LIVERPOOL, T UES DAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1857,

THE INDIAN MUTINY.

MEETING IN THE SESSIONS HOUSE.

I A public meeting was held yesterday, in the Sessions
Tiouse,': Chapel-street, for the purpose of enabling the
inhabitants of Liverpool and the neighbourhood an
opportunity of expressing their sympathy with the suf.
ferers by the rebellion i❑ Inlia,',and in taking soma mea-
sures to aid in relieving these whom the outbreak has left
destitute. The meeting was very numerously attended.
Among the gentlemen on the platform and around it were
—the Mayor (Francis Shand, 84q.), Wm. Brown, M.P.,
Charles Turner, W. Barclay. T. D. Anderson, J. A.
Tinne, W. Potter, J. Aiken, J. H. Turner, Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, Major Greig, J. Livinzston, G. H. Horefall, J.
Finch, jun., G. Grant, John Woodruff. Rev. S. Minton, J.
J. Stitt, T. M. Mackay, William Rathbone., George Melly,
N. Carne. the Venerable Archdeacon Jones, J. H. Lev.
ingstone, B. Williams, Wilson, and a large number of
clergymen and other gentlemen whose names we did not
ascertain.

:'_,_The chair was taken shortly after twelve o'clock, by
his worship the Mayor.
Hughes, Deputy Town-clerk, acted as secretary to
the meeting.

r A requisition caning the meeting- was read, and the fol-
lowing letters were also submitted to the meeting :

shop'.--court, West IDeri:y, Sept. 2, 1857.

Dear Mr. Marr,—Althougio maiiy days have now elarsad since the
met tin,: at the Mansion-house in London, ori,enating a subscription
far tl:e retie! of thote snddanly tenthire l destitute under the most
cruel and di•pressing circnmst times by this terrib!e rebeli'm in India,
I do not believe that the wealthy and liberal men of Liverpool will
fail to follow the example of the metropolis; but think rather that
only a beginnhig is required, and that if your Werahip would only
announce that aubscr:ptio33 would be received at the :own Hall, or
elsewhere, or kindly take any other more apprapria'e step in the
matter, contribution s won d readily fl ow in. Under this im;ression,
Iw. pry you to receive the encloses cheque as my mite, with
the expression of try regret that the amount is not larger; but those
who have children in that distracted country must expect to ba calle I
upon, as I have already bean, for the youngest of my four, who
(bare'y escaped with life) finds his earthly nosse..sion educed to the
hose that carrie I sun the cloth's which covered him.

Apologt,ing for tie trouble I have ventwed to glv,•,
Lremat, dear M. slayor, your. truly,
S. Towing, Lieutenant-Colonel.

For his Worship the Mayo: of Liverpool.

Wahl!' Breck, Saturday. September 5, 1857.

My dear Sir,—A movement has b en originated in London, under
the auspices of the Lord Mayor ant other influential persons, for the
temporary relie of our suffering fellow countrymen in Piclia. Their
wants, it is stated in some of the public journal,, are great and ur-
gent. A prompt remittance, therefore, for their relief would un-
doubtedly be a boon of infinitely greater value than tardi'y offered
contrihntions of double the a-acad. I gave notice last Sunday, in my
church, of a collection to-morrow, September 6, for the above object ;
and if a subscrip ion could be at or ce commenced in Liverpool, I
should be glai to add the quota from my district to it, otherwise I
propose forwarding it to London, for transmission t, India with the
xcetrurolil an fund.—l am, my dear sir, your obedunt humble scrvant,
HOLLAND LO iII.S.

To the Worshipful tha 'Mayor of Liverpool.
P.S. I have written to the R :v. tte Rector by this post.

N:=l4 Green, West Derby, Liverpool, Sept. 14, 1857.

Dear Mr. Mayor'—As I cann t attend the meetinz in aid of the
subscription for our unfortunate Ang;o4ndisn fallow-countrymen,
you wilt oblige me by putting down Arthur Heywood, Son; said Co.
or .elo 1, and Mrs. J. Pemberton Heywood for 4'20.-1 am, yours
faithfully, J. P. H.YWOOD.
The Mayor, Town-hall, Liverpool.

CA:e4iate S9pt. 14, 1857.

Thar Sir,—l am obliged to go to Oar° d this afternoon. Thus, I
regret to say, I shall be prevented from attending the meeting. Will
yon have the goodness is mention this,,to Mr. Brown and the other
gentlemen ?—'aithfary yours, J. S. HOWSON.

W. Shuttlewo.th, Esq.

The Mayor said, Gentlemen, the requisition which I
have read lets you completely into the secret of our meet-
ing to-day. I am happy to feel that the names attached
to the requisition, and the gentlemen I see around me,
give the strongest assurance that the immediate object of
our meeting ill be instantly carried out. I feel some
little difficulty in enlarging upon a subject like this, be_
cause I am sure that the heart-rending details of the
Indian mutiny are as familiar to you as they are to my-
self. A great difficulty is the difficulty of ascertaining
'what is the amount of the evil which we are prepared to
meet. But when I look to the mutiny which has taken
pace, a mutiny, I believe, without parallel in the history
of the world—when I look to the treacheries which the
%mutineers committed in destroying their officers—when I
regard the monatroas atrocities which have been commit_
ted in every possible way, I cannot but apprehend
that the spoliation and destitution must extend to a very
vast amount, and that every (Mort which can be made by
public and private subscription, will be necessary to
relieve the destitute and the distre;sed. (Hear, hear.)
It is not necessary on an occasion like this, to deal with
the matter at all in a political point of view. We shall
not look at all the circumstances which may have led to
this fearful catastrophe, nor shall we now a ry anything of
the remedies which may be applied. But lam quite sure
of this, that there is no one in the conatry who is not
prepared to stretch, his purse-strings to the utmost
amount to meet the distress and destitution which must
be thrown upon our fellow•subjects, and that there are
none whose hearts will not prompt them to strengthen
the government in sending the means of putting down the
rebellion, and re-establishing our dominion upon a firmer
ground than it ever yet has been. (Hear, hear.) lam
sure that we shall, at the same time, take upon the mis•
creants retributive justice, but I trust that while we do
inflict upon them retributive jastice, we will do it with
Christian judgment. (Hear.) The informr ha which we
have from India by the mail just arrived, is, I think, of
a most favourable character, for although we do net hear
of any great event having taken place, the occurrences
which have taken place, are of very great moment.
General Havelock appears to have beaten the rebels very
effectually, and will be, therefore, making progress ra-
pidly towards Lucknow. I believe that although we have
not taken Delhi, we are only postponing it to a more
fitting opportunity, and that when, our strength shall be
properly increased, then, without separating the tigers
encaged within its walls, we shall-be able, without any
risk, to punish them as they deserve. (lear, hear.)
With these observations, I may proceed to say, that Mr.
William Brown will move the 'fir.it resolution. (Cheers.)
With regard to myself, I 1:•:.q to say, as it is just
as well to give a tone to the affairs at once as far as we
can, that I beg to put my name down for £25 as the
Mayor, and 4'loo in the name of the firm of Messrs.
Shand. (Cheers.)

Mr. William Brown, M.P., then came forward and was
received with loud cheers. He said: Gentlemon, I think
we must all feel extreme regret that it has been necessary
for the chief magistrate to call us togethee upon such a
melancholy occasion. (Hear, hear.) Who can read the
despatches from India without deploring the sufferings of
our officers and their families, their wives, and their
children ? It is true that the East India Company will be
able, upon the spur of the occasion, to extend to the
distressed parties some temporary relief, bet that,
apprehend, will be very inadequate to the demands which
wie! be necessary to place them in a position no -of corn.
fort, but ready to prevent absolute destitution. We must
recollect that many of these parties are workmen on
railroads, many of them are shopkeepers, many of them
clergymen; others are missionaries and civil service
officers of the company who were living comfortably upon
£lOO, .e200,,0r £3OO a•year, and who are now lett without
any means. We know how diffcult it is for men who have
been living in tolerable affi ience to be redueel
to absolute destitution. It remains now for ;13r1.
tain to relieve them from this unhappy situation.
We find arriving at Calcutta officers who have
lost their wives, wives who have lost their husbands,
mothers who have lost their children, and children who
-have lost their parents. By the treachery of those trai-
tors—whom it is impossible to designate by a name too
harsh—not only have they sacrificed the lives of helpless
women and children, but have betrayed the trust of their
officers, offering them protection, and almost at the same
moment murdering them. Gentlernen,l am sire it is only
necessary to refer to the columns of the Times, and the
other daily papers, of the country to have our souls,
almost harrowed up by the distressing scenes which have
occurred in India. (Hear, hear.) It rests upon us, to
the utmost of our power, to relieve the distressed parties,
awl to give them some little comforts after the serious
privations they have met with. We are exceedingly for_
innate in having in the Anglo Saxon race soldiers and
sailors, who, with the odds fearfully against them, have
so far carried everything before them. (Cheers.) Thit
morning's papers have brought U 3 an amount of the defeat
of one of the most villainous fellows in India. Tne forces
are within one day's march of relieving Lueknow.' The
brave men who have defended it are deserving of our
warmest praise and our warmest thanks. Gentlemen,
one might say a great deal upon this subject were you all
not already well posted up on the events which have
taken place. We all look forward with hope and.expec-
tation_to the news daily arriving from India ; and I am

sure we shall with the warmest heart, and the stronzest
feelings, give that support to the government which is
necessary to send out not merely troops enough crush
the rebellion, but an overwhelming number which shall
utterly prevent any limilar outbreak from taking place
hereafter. (Cheers.) I heard with great pleasure yes-
terday that eleven or twelve steamers had been taken up
to carry out troops to India; and, now that we are so
happy and comfortable at home, with an abundant har-
vest, we want no troops to take care of us here; the
hearts of the people will take care of us at home. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I know there are some speakers more elo-
Trent than myself wha will have an opportunity
of addressing you upon this qaestion, and I
shall therefore not take up any more of your time
than by reading the Tes)lution which has been'entrusted
to my care. Mr. Brown then read the resolulion which
he prepared, and which after deploring the sufferings
inflicted apan our fellow subjects in India, called upon
the inhabitants of Liverpool to give a pracical exple3sion
ta their feelings by raising a large fund for the relief of
the numerous sufferers.

MR. I. M. MACKAY was called upon to second the reso-
lution, and came forward amid Iml applause. He said :
In rising to address you, I eanno':, help expressing the
deep regret I feel at the necessity which brings us together
to-day ; at the same time, I also feel that there is strocca-
sion for lengthened speeches, in the hope that the fountains
of our sympathies may thereby gush out more profusely.
When the heart is full, the tongue is not disposed to be
elequent, and I am always reminded, on such benevolent
occasions, of the wisdom of Dean Swift's celebrated ser-
mon, which, although an old and well known anecdote, I
will relate for the benefit of the younger portion of my
audience, who are not supposed to be so well acquainted
with the witty D !an of St. Patrick's as their fathers are.
It was on what is usually termed a charity sermon that he
choose for his text the Scriptural pissage, 4' He that giveth
to the poor, lendeth to the Lord ; and then, with a force
of appeal far beyond the power of any oration,,he simply
added, " There's your security, down with the dust," and
immeiiately made the collection. {Hear, hear, and loud
laughter.) I am, therefore, quite disposed to follow so
good an example, and will not detain you long, tor the re-
cent accounts from India are so drealful that I have no
desire, were I able, to paint their atrocity. They more
than realise the striking apostrophe of the poet, on the
massacre of the Poles, by Suwarrow, when Kosicusko
fell:—

The sun went down, nor censei the carnage there,
Tamilßaoul murder sbo,k the mi.inight air.
Hark r as the smouldering piles wish thunder fall,
A thousand shr.eks for hopa!sss mercr
Earth shook—red meteors ft sh along the sky,
And cinscions nature shuddered at the cry !
Oh I righteous Heaven! ere snail men founi a grave,
Wtiy slept the sword—omnipotent to save ?
Where was thine arm. 0 vengeance! where thy rol
That sm to the foes of Zion and of God.
(Cheers.) It is hard to contrjl our common nature at
such a time ' • and I fear I am appealing more to a sense
of revenge for the wrongs that have been done than
those we are assembled to remedy. So, instead of
hardening your hearts against the treacherous foe, I
would not seek to touch those better feelings which are
ever alive to the call of sorrow and affliction"' There is
one peculiarity about the elai,ns now urged which make
them differ materially from any other appeals to our
benevolence in oar lifetime, I allude to the class of
sufferers by this terrible insurrection. In ordinary
cases it is almost within our power to restore the mere
worldly condition of the unfortunate; but here we have
thousands, in high social positions, bereft of every
personal comfort, driven out on the highways, without
a roof to shelter them, wandering in hunger and wretched•
ness under a tropical sun, and glad to escape with their
very lives. To give you some idea of the best phases of
the social misery at present in the seat of insurrection,
I will read you a letter just received from a friend :
" Our poor friends are in deep anxiety just now about
their children in India, particularly their youngest
married daughter, whose husband is a captain in the
71st Native Infantry. which was ono of' the first regis
ments that mutinied at Lucknow. She, poor dear
creature, with her three helpless
,children, two of whom
being twins. and expecting a fourth, without a particle
of clothing, either for herself or children, to change whh,
in a small room with nine other families." Who cal
estimate the amount of suffering in such a condition
as the fiery furnace of an Indian summer. Only
fancy it our else; to realise the horrors of being
cast adrift, without a moment's notice, with our
wives and children,' at immense distances frein any
friendly asylum our personal effects, the result
of years and years of economy and privation, utterly
destroyed, and with little or no means of restoring them.
For, bear in mind, the majority of the civil and military
servants of the East India Company, apart from those
eneaged'in independent pursuits, have very little scope,
now-a-days, for laying up stores of wealth. I was much
struck with the recital of the history of some of the
sufferers I read in the newspapers yesterday. No doubt,
there are thousands to whom this revolt is utter ruin,
and many more to whom the cherished hope of "a youth
of-labour with an age of ease" is now like a tale that is
toll. lam done. God grant we may never be called
together for such an object again. I repeat that in our
"generation none like it has ever taken place, and I, there•
fore, claim the embodiment of your sympathies this dey
in a subscription truly worthy of the town of Liverpool.
(Loud applause:)
The resolution was carried by aeolamatirin.
The REV. Da. M'Noten came forward to propose the
sec3nd resolution, and was received with euthusias is
acclamation. He slide Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I
quite feel with the last sneaker, that it is- unnecessary to
attempt to give information upon the subject Mere us to the
meeting new assembhd. This meeting. sir, consists of gen-
t'cmen who have read for themselves month after month, as
the mailshavearrivstl, the details of the horrors which has cc-
carrel in India. I tqu.lly ftiliy agree with yourself, Mr.
Mayor, t hat this is tut an ems' on to enter largely upon the
events whittle may be supposed to have lel to this outbreak ;
neither to enter upon eny of the thorny questions of inter-
national law, as the right .of conquest of one nation over
soother. This is a time, I thiakewhen we should take
matters here as we find them, and confine ourselves to the
facts of the &are now before us. It is true, sir, that many
questions may seise ir. ustn'.s minds and agitate them,
with reference to matters on which differences of opinion
may be entertained, es to the treatment of India by th:.,
British G .vernm-mt and the East India Company, as to
the manner in which they have conducted themselves
during their various conquests and the annexations of
more Modern years. (Hear, hear.) But I think, sir, that
we may fairly take the matter as we now find i', and I
shall briefly say why I think se. I find in the highest
authority to which my mind, heart, a'ad conscience
are in the habit of submitting instinctively—l flan
a recognition without inquiry or examination of the
existing right of conquest. When the tribute mosey of
Judea was breught befere our Saviour, be asked whose
image and superscription it bore. He was told, " ter's,"
and he said—" actid,r, therefore. unto Cm,ar the things
which are Creme's," The right of Caesar to Palestine
av-ts of the same character as the right of Britain to
.F.lindostac—he had taken itbv conquest. That right was
recognised by the highest authority, without engeiry or
examination as to the motives of the Roman Conquest, or
the manner in which it had been carried out in the East.
There, I think, is our lesson, and the reason which I give
fur taking matters as we find them, and looking only at the
adtuel facts of the case, presenting as they do, the claims
enaho lied in the resoltoi en. It is needless, I think, Mr.
Mayor, to repeat facts which hive been made public.
D„uhtless, every addilieu to whet has been published
derived from priv Ito correspondence, will come with fresh
interest to the pub'ic mind. Wa have got one ineance of
this in the letter which the preceeding speaker has
been kind enough to read to the meeting. I rosy add, sir,
'hat there are instances under my own knowl- dge —the
circumstances of one of my own sons, who is a
captain in the sth Native Bengal Infantry. His
regiment had mutinied. Thank God, his life has
not been slertlimd. His wife was with him at the static
near Urnhallat., bat she was obliged to fly from-him ; and
when we last heard she was in a room with thirty people,
without a curtain to draw between thetu —without a
separate room to retire to for steeping, washing, eatine--
all the details of social life. These indeed are harrowing
Nets:, 'connected with perseno in such a class of society. I
heard ales ie a letter reed to me this morning, by a friend
who is s eying at my louse, of a very gratify:ne exercise
of benevolenee now goirtg on in Calcutta. Houses of
refoge have been opened tl ere for the sufr re a who are
arriving from the north-west, and" Mrs. Coloire,
wife cf the bandeau, and Lady C.nning, wife of
the Governor General, are working thete, as
Miss Nightingale dii in the Crimea, with their own hands
ministering to the necessities of the ladies and children
daily brought in from the river. (L cheers) The
funds transmitted from the Lard Mayor of London and
arriving hr the m ils to he disposed of at the discretion of
the Governor-Gete:al, will be most invaluable and
seasonable in Calc tta, (Meer, hear.) Bat, Mr. Meyer,
s 'me of the sufferers have left India. Some have already
arrived in England. Some of them are now on the see,
coming te England, completely destitute. They are the
widows and the orphans of affiesrs, many of whom were
the sons of poor rnen—the sons of poor clergymen of the
Church of England, of the Church of Scotland—the sons
of men who find it difflcult to manage under the immediate
pressure of their (muffles at heme, and who will be cern-
Wet ly o eswhelmed by the additional pressure of 'the
eleughtertain-law and grandohildren thrown new upon
their families, I thi..k, sir, it would well become
this great town and this meeting, as the ex-
penest of the Christian charity of this town,
if, together with our contributions to be gathered
to-day, we were to give an expression to the public—on
iefxr mayes callsionw ithi so,eh
,I have no doubt, the parent committee,
in London would g.
ve constant heed
to, that, instead of continuing to act upon their resolution
and transmitting 1)1 every mail to the G.Aternor-Geseral
of India for distribution at his pleasure there all the funds
collected, there should now be a reserved fund kept in
England to meet the immediate necessities of the sufferers
who have arrived, and may be txpecttd to arrive from

week to week at some of our ports. (Rear, hear.)
The resolution 'entrusted to me is, " that a committee be
no w appointed to collect subscriptionsand so to appropriate
them as in their judgment may best carry out the intentions
of the meeting,' not losing slgitt of the .fact, of cease,
that many have arrived and are arriving in Great Britain
who may require immediate relief, as well as those re-
maining in I ndia. (Hear, hear.) I have great pleasure
in proposing that resolution for the ad ,ption of the meet-
ing. I must resist the temptation of enlarging in a
different strain upon the course now before us, remember-
ing and ag eeing subs'antially in what my predecessor
said, that this is not the time nor the place for lengthened
sermons ; bu-, sir, this is alubject for a sermon, and for
a good sermon too—one that would call forth all the
energies of Christian symp thies emanating if they,
be genuine, as all Christian truth and Christian practice
must do, from the lova of Him who left all that
was dear to him and was content to be a fugitive
from his father's house, and to be poor and naked
for our sake. It is in the love of him —in the power
of his work over us, exercised upon the heart—in the
person, feelings, faith, life, and rising 'again of our
Saviour, that I would appeal to ouriChristian friends, and
say you should be thankful to God for enabling you to
make money, if it were only for such a crisis as this—
thankful for the opportuaiiies you have had to mike more
than you have had occasion to expand. I address myself
to men who have large investments in various securities
is els country—large balaocea in their bankers' hands,
and I would beseeth their co-operation in this work by
all the valise they set upon the kind feelings of Christian
blaahsrhood—by all the value they set upon the lova of
Christian husbands —by all the value they set upon the
memosy of those husbands who have been snatched
by the murderers frun under the very eyes of
their suffering wives, and by all the holy and honest
indignation they must feel at' such scenes as are
ree,r.led of that wonderful man of whom I read in
one-of those letters. He was standing in his bungalow,
his wife alone being with him. lie was assailed by a
mutinous regiment. Ho had a rifle and two revolvers, each
of them with four barrels—nine charges in all. He beat off
the mutineers as long as he could. He shot four of them
with his first revolver, and two with the second, and then
she had but two shotleff. Be turaai round and looked
at his wife. Who can estimaos the power of such a look
on either side as that ? Mast she fall into the hands of
the barbarians? They did not fire, because they wanted
to have hsr, and would not risk her death in shooting him.
He taw it—she saw it. He had two charges left. He
fired one into her heart, ani the other into his own head,
and they both fell dead before the mutineers. (Sensation.)
I beg to propose the resolution for your adop.ion.
( A pplause.)
Me, J. J. STITT seconded it. He said : Mr. Mayor and
gentlemen, I have to express deep regret that the gentle-
ni,n who, it was intended should second this resolution, is
not able to be praseat, and consequently I am called upon
unexpectedly to take his p!ace. It has never been my
lot to take part, and I doubt very much whether it has
ever been your lot, sir, to preside over a meeting calle I
under such melancholy one painful circumstances as those
which have assembled us togs; her this morning. Who is
there with the heart of an Englishman ; who. reading
those scenes in the papers, has not occasionally came to
passages upon which he was called to close his eyes, and
from which he was called to divert his mini ; bat this
morning, we are called upon to look manfully at the
consequences of this terrible revolution in India. Wrapt
in the fierce flame of rebellion—surrounded by cowardly,
dastard, cunning foes—hunted ie partridges on the
mountains, who does not feel, with what magnanimity—
with what nobleness—with what fortitude our suffering
fellow-countrymen and country-women have upheld the
cause and name of England in that far distant land?
(Hear, hear,) some time ago, some p-,rtions of the terri
tories of a neighbouring ally were visited by an outbreak,
not of this kind, but a devastation from the hand of God

• An appeal was made to the sympathies of England—and
did England, who fought site by-side with that ally in the
straggle in the Crimes refuse to hear that call ? No ; she
answered- it nobl., and sent forth he. subscriptions to
those who h47i suffered from the inundations
in France ; and shall the cry which susgss up
: from the blood stained plains of India, from the
burning bungalow, and from the more inhospitable
mountain and forest, which now shelter our otherwise
shelterless fellow-sabjeats. Shall that cry fall upon the
ear of Englishmen unanswered.? I say, no; and I h ipe
that this day you have ineugura.ed measures which will
show that the people of Liverpool are alive to those
emotions and Pyawathigi which all the motives of kindred,
commercial caaaection, humanity, and Ciristianity ought
to dictate. (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
The Venerable Archdeacon JONES proposed the next
resolution. Lie said :—I have now, sir, to propose the
following resolution :—" That the requisitionists an ,I
aldermen constitute the sommittee, with power to add to
their number." Very few words it is necessary for me to
speak with reference to this resolution. I Ideal, however,
t 3 take the opportunity of thanking you, sir, for acceding
to the request of the gentlemen who are now to form the
committee ; and I bag leave, as a minister of religion, to
thank those requisitionists. I shoull be sorry indeed if
Liverpool were bshindhand in following the example of the
metropolis. Sae has always been Lamest in every good
work, and certainly there never was such an occasion as
this which more called f)r the axiime co-operation of the
inhabitants of this large commercial town. (II ear, hear.)
Sir, the object for which we are met together may be simply
said to be to express our symp ithy for these sufferers, and
to do all we can to aid their necessities. (Hoer, hear) It
is alma ,t impossible to avoid giving effusion to those feel-
ings that are natural to_ the human heart, when we speak
of such atrocities as these which the public prints record.
The natural feeling of a desire for revenge at first prompts the
human heart, but it is necessary t 3 cheek and modify all
such feelings. Tne recollection of the terrible coasequences
to those rurtlens iaclividaally in the world to come, oven if
they escape the sword in this world, is sufficient to repress
the tumultuous and revengeful feelings of our hearts. To
me—and I venture to speak it before a Christian audience
such as this—to me the eicape of delinquents so barbarous
from punishment (and hundreds and thousands or them
will escape), is a strong argument for a judg-
ment to come. (Hear, hear.) Surely, there is
a God, a righteous God to revenge. He does not
vindicate justice always in this world, but their is a
tribunal above, another tribunal, at which we and they
and all must one day answer. Allusion has been made to
the relations of the speakers now in the East I have a
relation there I have a dear son at this moment before
Delhi. He has been engaged in several engagaments,
and he has lost all the little store that he had at Um:
ballah. He was on leave of absence when the mutiny
broke out. Ile was hundreds of miles away, but he met
with the first tidings when he was on his way back wards.
He hastened down to Umballeh, but he found hie regiment
gone—the oth Lancers. He packed up the few things
that were necessary and harriel after them, and overtook
them two day's march before they arrived at Delhi, and
there he hue been from that time until this, when with
anxious heart I am waiting for the next account. Ile
happily is not married. He has no wife or children to
take care of, thank Gad! hr under such ch.cumstances
it must indeed be misery to have such anxieties at heart.
His only desire is to be faiehfal to his Queen and country,
and ho is now engaged, at this moment it may be, before
that fortress (Applause) Bat though we are not to advert
to topics that may produce a single jarring note, I trust I
May refer to one topic with the hope that it may not pro-
duce the slightest disagreement of sentiment—l mean as
to the origin of this horrible rebel ion —for when it broke
out there were many in this country that were rea,iy to
attribute the origin of the mutiny to a cause which I feel,
as a-minister of religion, ought not to go away unexplained
—I refer to the stigma that his been thrown at one time
by the public prints, and another time by a person eminent
in the legislature, in disparagement of missions. It has
been said that the zeal of missionaries has been the cause
of this outbreak. Nothing was ever more untrue. Then
forsooth the argument that the Government wore the origin
of it by the order to issue cartridges composed of unctuous
subtances that were obaoxious to the !Endow.
That his been found to be an untrue state-
ment. It was only sought for as an excuse, but
it was not the cause. New light is b-eaking out on the
real object and the real cause of it. We now see that the
Messulman ar.d the disciples of the false prophet is at the
'bottom of it. We see now, that the Hulloes have been
made seep goats as it were, and infamous as the conduct
of the sepsys has been, it has been under the still more
wicked influence of the stmhitious and revengeful Mussul-
man. Ido trust, sir, that this meeting wi I not expend its
charities in mere sympathy, and much less in listening to
speeches, but that we shalt proceed to work. I have done
the little that I. could in 'nevi: g this resolution, and I
doubt not, that the committee would perform their duty
with zeal and sucsess. (Applause.)
Mu. W. RATIIBONE seconded the resolution. Ile said:
I had no intention to take any part in this meeting,
but as an obedient subject. I answer the call of the Mayor
and rise to second the resolution. I agree with Dr.
M'Neill that we are to take things as they are ; bat I
believe that the last speaker, from what he has said, has
rather misunderstood the thing. I have never heard
anything again the missionaries, but I. have beard things
that convince me that there is a sin 'yin at our door as
well as at the door of the others. (Hear, hear.) I hope
we shall not now go into it. I do not want to go into
it; but I do want us to act as a Christian country, and to
remember that some of our military men, and some of our
civil service men, have been the cause of a great deal of
that feeling which is abroad in India. (Hear, hear.) I
do not want .to palliate those cruelties, or the outrages on

our women—outrages that cannot be mentioned in a court
—outragm; that were worse than death—ten thousand times
worse than death from the barbarians who perpetrated
them. I do not want to mitigate one feeling of your
resentment, but, I believe that our treatment of women
has been one cause of the fee ing shown to our country-
women, and, I hope, that in the future government of
India we shall by that deeply to heart. I shall not say
more, but beg to second the resolution. (Applause.)
The resolution was unanimously alopted.
The Mayon then read the subscription list, which
already bears the names of many of our leading merchants
for large amounts.
Mr. W. BROWS', 31. P„ moved a vote of thanks to the
Mayor, and, in doing so, bore testimony to the zeal evinced
by h*s Worship in t his.m atter.
The Rev. Dr. AItYR,Lc. Seconded the motion, which was
carried by acclamation.
The meeting then separated.

ALCOHOL;

OR, THE
MINOR CURSE OF ENGLAND.

BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A S4BIES OF ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN
CONNICLTION WITS ST. M tBY'S TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY,
KURD/ILE.

DEDICATED TO THE
REV. MR, TIT PERTON, PRESIDENT,
BY A ' •
LIVID,POOL WORKING MAN.

" Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
bottle to him and mak3st, him dranken."—Ltabak. IL 15.

[Continued from. llth Septenther.]

It is n sturel enough to think that the prostitute will drink to
forget her degradation, and remember her misery no mare, and as a
consequence, puts off amendment, or abandons the hope altogether.
I will state a circumstance which came under my own observation,
wilt others, i.lnetrative a the fact, that these unfortunate victims of
Alcoholic drinks, are not unmindful of their degradation.
Some fifteen years age, I had a fern de servant of good moral
character, who had been in my employment two years, and gave
general satisfaction, who was induced by the temptation of extrava-
gant wages, to accept the offer of a publican, in this town, when she
made the circumstance known to me, I reasoned with her on the
impropiaty and danger of such a course; reminding her that her
moral character was then good, she his erred to my arguments and
declined the offer in the first instance, but on the publican making
a second application, an,i holding oat farther inducements, she was
te npted to accept the offer, and entered his se:vice. I lo_t sight of
her nntil the summer of 1853, when having occasion to call upon a
person in Moon s'reet, in this town, and not having procured the
address of the party accurately, I had to call at Beyond houses,
among the cumber was a brothel, and b my astonishment, Es her
presentedherself s the moment she recognised me, she exclaimed,
"mat 0:d master, my old ma=ter," and instantly the tear began
rolling down her cheeks, and exclaimed in piercing agony ; "Oh
that I had taken your advice, and net gone to that cursed public-
house, I had no: been ruined ; I am ruined, I am ruined, what must
I do, what must Ido ?" 0 tercome mysels, with the circumstance,
I felt utterly unable to give her any advice, at the moment, and
turned away, promising to call again, night gave me no rest the
foantain of sleep was dried . up, Either's degradation, and exclama-
tion was upon my mind, daring.tha whole of the night; my wife
equally aaxions that she should be reclaimed, with this view, I went
next morning at g o'clock, in order to see if I could induce her to
go to the penitentiary, and if she continue 1 to man fest that contri-
tion she seemed to evince the day before, I would have again
taken her into my service, bat alas, I was told she had gone away,
what had become of poor unforta taM Esth.r, the victim of intox-
icating drink, the councils of eternity alone will disclose.

Ono of nese unfortunate daughters of vice, and victims of
intosioating drink, sail to a town missionary, "young as I am,
drink has rainA me? my father died raving mai, through
drunkenness; my poor mother new lies on her death be I, through
drunkenness; and I an a pro,titnte, ant, therefore lost, lost I"
Bat, she added, "if you will get my p3o: mother into th., workhouse,
I will sign t pledge and go into the peniteat'a y, for lam weary
of my sinful coarse." The Missioa try had the mother removed
into the worknease, and o'st tined the daughter admission into
the penitentiary, where; she died you peultant. Who knows but
signing the total
,abstinenee pledge was the first step to her
forgiving Saviour. Anoner of these unfortunate victims of kcohol
said to the same missionary, " drink has ruined m 3 ! my father
and mother ware great drunkards, they had six children, all of
them drunkards, as you_see me ; two of them have been t:ransporte
two others die I through drank3aness, one is in the asylum through
drunkenness, and I am a prostitute," What a shocking thing is
drink, she added.
As a f utter illastrati en that prostitution, as well as other crimes,
is dependent on drunkenness, W, F. Johnson, E•gaire, chairman of
the Durham County Penitentiary, said at a puhlic ineetine, " 1 hive
examined 21 inmates, 8 between 14 and 16, and 13 under 21 years of
ago, and it Is lamentahl3 to have to say that every one of these unfor-
tunate girls-have boon gat hot, of by pahlicaas and be reapers, and
by them in Focal to resort to profligate live I, and further a Iped's
surgeon and inspector of factories made the following kvalling dis-
closures to a parliamentary committee to inquire into the =ie.
crime :

Ann C committed to gaol for feloly, `Aid me tint she went
astray through going to live at a bear-hoe e, where a nuna')er of boys
and girls were induced to reams:, the Mrs. of the house clam-ling one
shilling eery time the k ,y of a bed room was require!.
Martha F c tun to Bradfir I as servant t 3 - beerhoese :
after being there a fortnight, the Mrs. propo7ei that she should go
into the bed-raem with fdan !s, and gore her one shilling and sispen.m
every time she reloired the key.
Mary K- wan ',lineal to accept a aim lar offer from a beer-
house keeper at Leads : prior to tht, her moral character was goad.
The report of this perilame airy corn oittee r2Cp:dni to some extent
the otherwise molarn phooo melon of how oar gorgeoal
Gin-shops are e Cate! and supporta!, the extravagance of publicans,
their dogs, guns, horses, and equipages, at the bast a a nit of shaeby
genteel :style of living kept up by profligacy and plunder.
A widow from Ormskiric told my wife that, contrary to her ex-
pressed wish. her daughter, age! 16, c tine to Liverpool to be servant
at a pubPc-hense, and returned home in three months disease,'
through profligacy.
In Richmond Penitentiary. Dublin, 26 of those unfortunate
victims of drunkenness hid been imprisoned, 2186 averaging
81 times each one of them hal been in prison 121 tines. Such is the
demoralising inufi once of thsintoxic sting draught.
Bat more app tiling still, in a reyert of the Watch Committee d tted
Town-hall, Moch 2, 1936, it was stile! that there were 120') pros ti-
tu'es known to 117 e in opea brothels in this town, walla more than
doable th it number ha l their lodgings in other places, so th st ac-
cording to that fe rful re,3mit if the p ;pniation of Liverpool had been
analysed at that time, it would be fon d that there was one profes-
sional prostitute foe ovary sane virtuous woolen.

Mr. Kelly, a bridewell keeper of this to wo of long staeding and of
great experience; and, I am hinpy, to say, a ehrist4 a platanthroehist
.nformsl M 3, that feeling for these uefortunete creatures, (it is sails.
fa tory to know that there %reser), noway in the police establishme it
1 ke Mr. Kelly, who are not de.titate of sympathy when they witness
the degradation of their Mew beings); ant with the view to the con-
templation of so ne practical 311 ge3' Loa for their amelioration, insti-
tatel an ingairy as to the number of these unfortunate vic:lms of
drankenness in the neigh'soa:hoed of Hotham-street, is which In-
quiry he found in II othan-st:set, .Alblea-street, Norhury-scree",
Poynton-street, and Pellew-street 73 brothels, with 203 prostitutes
Conneeted with them, and Major Greig reported in 1856 193 b othols
in Liverpool, with 2,313 p ostitates connectel" with the a, being an
increase of 123 prostitn:es over the year !855. Sorely it was time
for the authorities to take the matter up; and while they are attempt-
ing to check this fearful amount o: pallation flowing from ant the
effects of drunkenness, I must calmly look on aid see what, in the:r
wisdom, they will do with the cuts?, viz., the gin shop.
If British women would wipe oat this foul stain and appal ling
amount of suffering and crime feam their sax and country, they mast
assist the men of Britain to close up the nurseries of that terrible evil
—panic houses. The Puritan diviae said well, when he designated
them seminaries of iniquity. Whatever government may do, neither
craven hearted exeelieacy nor economy can j istify their Coe tinuance
in their present form, unless, indeed, to expedite England's dissolu-
tion, for the evil cannot go on increasing as it has dons daring the
last fifty years witecrat sech an evil occurring at no distant day.
'As a further iilmtration of the evils of females 'drinking, Toomas
Wright, batter knows as the prison philaithropi d ,pos33 ti a Par-
liamentary committee, that of two sty-seven coo leransl criniinale
with whom I leave conversed on the sisffol 1, thee: W 3 bat one that
said he hal a good met her. They all told sad tales of their mothers ;
and farther, observed Mr. Wright, there is a race oF women in the
world who do not care where the money comes from, or how it is
obtained, so that they can get it fo: drink ; some of then I have
eves totted to encoarage their girls to become prostitutes. I have
seen them as early no ten yea 3of ago, an I they ‘ell told sal tales of
their drunken patents, ant especially of their drunken mothers. One
told tea most painful tale of her mother sending her out begging in
the fl,st instance, au I faille; to supply her wants by bogging,
once oroged her to steal, that the mother might get drink. At twelve
years of ag this girl had been in prison twelve times, and as a c
mftr-
mation of Mr. Wright's statement, Ave boys applied for admission
into. Field-lane Raged Scho3l, London, being as they said, wearied
of sin. These boys d,:clared teat they were induced to steal by their
mothers to enable them to get tirink ; the oldest, 19, had been
impriso,ed forty times; the next, 17, impriloned 29 times; the next,
15, imer's tied seven times ; the next, 11, imprisoned five times ,
the neat, 12, imprl stoned four times. Notwithstanding these facts, the
Earl of Shaftesbury states at a public meeting, that the candact of
these five b ys had bean so et ornplary, that employment hat b 3 n
obtaited for the three oldest, who were g;ving the utmost sitisfact'on
to their employers, and observed this philanthrophie and Christian
noblemen—i. But for the gin shops r igged schools would soon cease
to exist." And, further, Sir A. Alison says—" That of 234 boys I
examined in the House of Refuge, Glasgow, I found 72 had drunken
fathers, 62 drunken mothers, and 69 had drunken fathers and
mothers." So that there were 203 out of 234 children flute ea ly
plunged into want and misery through the drunkenness of tneir
parents.