The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-17 00:00:00

YORK.

In. purstunce of a numerous and influentially-
signed _requisition to the Lora Mayor, a public
aneeting wa-i. held yesterday at the Guildhall,' York,
for the putties() of entering into a -subscription for
the relief of the sufferers in Indic.

The [4 rd Mayor presided, arid there wa,q a 1.1.-rge
attendance of the gentry and miniBters of all de-
nomination!.

• The LORD MAYOR in introducing the business,
referred to the horrible atrocities which had been
perpef:atei in India upon' many of the officers of
the British army, their wives, a,ud children, stating
that, although nothing could he done for those who
were dead and gone, yet he was 'quite sure they
would assist with willing hearts those who had sur-
vived, His lordship added that he•hal received a
check , from Mr. Thomson, the chairman of the
North-Eastern Railway Company for 501., and one.
for 251. from Colonel Smyth, 'M.P. for York. It
was nude• stood that Mr. Weithead, Colonel
Smyth's colleigue, had also subscribed 251.

The Rev. Calon HARCOITRT then reviewed the
circumstances of the Indian reviAt, observing that
there never was a time when there was so deep a
feeling of 'nixed indignatiOn and c -mpassion in the
universal heart of this country as had been pro-
duce 1 by rt.c -nt events in that empire, and the
question was how it was possible to offer relief at a
time of so mu h private suffering. Thera were at pre
sent in India widows and orphansdn great numbers,
and persons who had been suddenly hurled from a
position of peaceful securit y andease into utter desti
tution and helplessness. He urged that the utmost
sympathy ought to be extended towards them, and
that, in sending forth their soldiers armed as the
minuitrs of justice and of a righteous attempt
to re-establish peace and security, they were not
seeking the aggrandizement of the British empire ;
they were not Joking to the security of our fellow
countrymen alone, but to the civilisation of a largo
portion of the habitable globe. (Applause.) Ho
moved a resolution to the effect that the cruel suf-
ferinks and ruinous losses which had befallen a
large portion of the British residents in India en-
titled them to the warmest sympathy of all classes
of the community, and this meeting, while it looked
to apply iu a liberal spirit the national resources to
meet a national calamity—to relieve the distresses
of our .fellnw-countrymen and their families—re-
cognised the earnest duty of individual exertion to
provide funds for the relief of the sufftrers, many
of whom were entirely destitute and dependent on
private chat ity for the mere necessaries of life.
Mr. Alderman MEEK seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.
It was then agreed that a subscription should be
immerliately commenced.

Other resolutions were . adopted, appointing a
committee and officers fir carrying out the objects
of the meeting, and requesting the several minis-
ters in the various churches
.and chapels to promote
collections as early as convenient for the fund.
The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to
the Lord Mayor, who responded, and states that
nearly 3031. had already been subscribed.

SOUTRAMPTON. -
A meeting of the inhabitlnts, convened by the

Mayor (Mr. J. White), was held at the Guildhall
yesterday afternoon, to express public sympathy
with the sufferers in India, and to take measures
for assisting the fund now raising for the-relief of
those in distrexs. There was a very influential at-
tendance, comprising Mr. T. M. Weguelin, M.P.
for the borough ; Generals Dyce•and Capon, of the
lion. East India Company's service ; Captain

Ramsay ; Admiralty Su-perint3ndent of Packets

at thi; port ; Captain Tinling, Royal Navy ;
Revs. T. Adkins, C. Beckford, H. Stewart, W.
H. Wolseley, A. M'Laren, S. S. Pugb, G.
Lucas, W. Roberts, &c. ; Mr. G. Aiherley, J.P. ;
Mr. R. Pearce, J.P. ; Mr. J. R. Croskey, and
several of the leading merchants and tradesmen of

the town.
Letters were read fir% the captain of the Mel:
ampus friga4 e, stationed in the Southampton Water,
annotuicincr6 the intention of the officers and crew of
that vessel to subscribe a day's pay to the fund—an
example which they hoped would be followed by
other large bodies of men ; from the directors of
the Hampshire Bank, who had voted a contribution
of 251. ; and from four or five gentlemen, enclosing
checks for five guineas each ; a!so from Mr. W. W.
B. Beach, one of the members for' North Hants,
regretting his inability to be present.
The MAYOR briefly opened the proceedings, re-
marking that he had considered it to be his Oty to
convoke th.it meeting, to give his fellow-townsmen
an opportunity of evincing their warmest sympa-
thies with their heroic and suffering friends in
India.

The Rev. T. ADKINs moved the first resolution :
" That this meeting of the inhabitants of Southamp
ton and its neighbourhood having read with feeling of
the deepest abhorrence and indignation the heartrending
accounts of the frightful atrocities perpetrated by the
revolted Sepoys of India upon unarmed men. defenceless
women, and helpless children, whom it was their duty to
protect. warmly sympathize with their fellow-countrymen
in the East in their present grievous suffering and dis-
tress, and are pleased to see the energetic measures taken
by the Government for the suppression of the rebellion
and the reestablishment of British supremacy through.
out our radian empire."
G neral 'CAPON seconded the resolution, which
was supported by Mr. Weguelin, M.P. He said,
deprecating, in our present limited state of know-
le ige, the idea of attributing this disastrous mutiny
to any one particular cause, he could not but think
that two great and powerful opposing principles,
the progress of civilization and Christianity on
the one hand, and the debasing and degrading
system of heathenism on the other, had long
been at work, and that therefore in the very
nature of-things some such conflict must a, some
time or other necessarily happen. He warmly sym-
pathized with our suffering countrymen in India and
felt assured that the people of Southampton, at
which port many of the sufferers would be landed,
would on that • occasion manifest the generous-
hearted liberality which had f3O .long distinguished
them.

The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. T. FALVEY moved the second resolution :-

"That thig meeting desires most respectfully to tender
to the relatives of those whose gallant sons have been
murder, d with most atrocious treachery, and whose pure

and beloved daughters and their innocent infants have
perished amid unspeakakable cruelties, the assurance of
the deepest sympathy with sorrows that can be relieved
only by the God of all consolation, t 3 whose tender
mercies they desire solemnly and affectionately to com-
mit them."

The speak, r observed that the present was not th 3
time to discuss the probable causes of the mutiny,
or the mode by which we had governed India.
Their ddty now was a simple one,—first. to support
the Government by every means possible in their
exertions to put down this rebellion ; and, next, to
assist the sufferers by their contributions and
sympathies. On these points the mind of the
Briti:h public was thoroughly made up, and the
people of Southampton needed no word of his to
incite them to do their duty.
The Rev. A. NPLAREN, in seconding the resolu-
tion, said he was not there to advocate the adhotpat-
tion of any blind system of savage vengeance,
retributive justice must be meted out to the
mis-
creants who had inflicted on the innocentef atrocities
sons and
daughters of England those unhelrd
which weie being burnt into thet rar
grey hairs nor em-ories of the
Ilitish people at home. Neither
the earliest blossoms of infanc
while it should
infancy had been spared
by these inhuman mumutineersearetrsnherited none of their
brutal spirit, at s
i and, '
be shown tlett
thßritish hesame
time the whole world
ought to see that the shield of England would
always protect her children wherever, they might
be placed, and that the arm of Britain was strong
enough to punish those who did them such cruel
wrong. Tats was a subject that would not bear
talking ab Jut. Deeds, not words, must mark their
feelings and their sympathies.
At this wage of the proceedings a telegraphic
message ju,t received from London, descriptive of
the frightful massacres at Cawnpore, was handed
in to the Mayor, and read to the meeting by Mr.
Falvey, creating a profound sensation by its narra-
tion of unparalleled atrocities.
The Rev. . Mr. HAY (of the. American Board of
Missions of the Presbyterian denomination, who,
with his wife and two children, escaped from Alla-
habad, and arrived at Southampton a few days
since in the Ripon steamer, from Alexandria) was
"then introduced to the meeting. He told the
that
meet-
ing that he really felt he could say little on
oc-
casion, and had he consulted his own feelings he
would have preferred to remain silent. What could
and
he say that would stir Christian English hearts