The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEP TEMB ER 2), 1857.

FUND for the RELIEF of the SUFFERERS
by the MUTINY in INDIA.
SUBSCRIPTIONS continue to be received daily by the Right
Bon. the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house ; by the Bank of Eng-
land and all its branches; by the London Joint Stock Banks and
their branches ; by all the private Bankers in the Metropolis ; and
by the Provincial Bank of Ireland and National Bank, and at their
branches.
The Committee meet daily at the Mansion-house, at 3 o'clock
precisely. H. B. HENDERSON, Lieut.-Col., Hon. Sec.
DAVID FORREST, Secretary
Mansion-home, Sept. 12, 1857:
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TO GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs to
call the attention of the psblic to his New Stock of Autumnal
Goods, consisting of West of England mixed and plain beaver cloths,
Scotch and Heather Twist Doeskins, Cashmere and Toilanette
Waistcoatings, of the first makers, at prices most moderate for Best
Goods.—GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street.

DELHI—SCENES of the HEAD QUARTERS
of the REVOLT in INDIA.—GREAT GLOBE, Leicester-
square. On SATURDAY next, in addition to the Dioramas of Rus-
sia and India, will be opened a new and splendid diorama of DELHI,
its Mosques and its Palaces, at 1.30 and 7.30 p m.—Admission to the
whole building, Is.

THE POOR and the SEA.—Tens of thousands
of the London poor never saw the sea. Perhaps, next to a
view of the heavenly bodies, the first sight of the sea impresses upon
the mind of the thoughtless mere seriously than any other part of
creation the wislom and power of the Almighty. This feeling,
united with a desire to give the really poor, especially the aged,
a DAY at the SEX-SIDE (Brighton), on the last Tue;day
of September, urges the Rector of Christ Church, Black -
friars-road (hiving a population of 16,000, 12,009 at least
poor), to ask assistance towards it. Every sovereign kindly
given w 11 take down and back eight adults ; half-a-sovereign, four ;
five shillings, two ; half-a-crown, one. Donations may be forwarded
to the Rev. Joseph Brown, Christ Church Rectory, Blackfriars-road,
or paid to his account at the London and Westminster Bank, Strat-
ford-place, -it. tfarylebone ; or to the Rev. R. W. Hartshorn, Curate
of the parish, 27, Nelson-square. Donors, shonli they feel inclined
to go, will be lurnish'd with tickets for the day. Every 50/. re-
ceived will give a holiday at the sea to 500 of the poor. Mr. B. is
desirous of taking down all the poor above 61) years of age from the
Union Workhouse. This would be 121. in addition.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—THIIRSDAY.
Only the following bets were laid :
CESAREWITOLI STAKES,
12 to 1 agst M. DAler (taken to 1000
DERBY.
1000 to 50 agst Toxopbilite.

WARWICK MILITARY MEETING.—TEIURSDAY.
The Windham Handicap of 10 soya each, h ft, with 100
added ; winners extra ; second to save his stake. Two
miles. 23 subs.
Mr. J. Saxon's Miss Harkaway, by Sir Talton
Sykes, 4 yrs, sst 31b (Pritchard) 1
Mr. Steven's Barbarity, 3 yrs, sst 31b (A. Edwards) 2
Mr. J. Merry's trzella, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (Plumb) 3
The following also ran:—Ruth, Pole Star, Little Tom.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Usella, 4to 1 each agst Missilat k-
away, Barbarity, and Pole Star, 5 to 1 agat Ruth, and
to 1 agst Little Tom. Won, after a good race, by a
head ; two lengths between the second and third ; same
distance between theithird and fourth; Pole Star and
Little Tom beaten off.
Handicap of 20 soya each, h ft, and 5 only if declared ;
gentlemen riders. One mile and a half. 10 subs, 4
of whom declared.
Mr. H. Edwards's Border Chief, 5 yrs, lOst 91b(Dart) 1
Captain Baker's Rialto, 5 yrs, list (Owner) 2
Betting-5 to 2on Border Chief. Won in a canter
by three lengths.
Handicap Plate of 501, for all ages. Three furlongs.
Mr. H. Ed wards's Affgban, syrs, Sat 101biL.Snowdon) 1
Mr. Webb's Eardrop, 4 yrs, 84 (Prior) 2
Mr. T. Cliff's Amorous Boy, 3 yrs, sst 111b(Pritchard) 3
The following also ran :—Mary Copp, Madame
Clicquot, Lit le Tom, Little Gerard, and Pensioner.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Mary Copp, 3to 1 agst Eardrop,
4 to 1 agst Little Gerard, and 5 to 1 agst Amorous Boy.
Won easily by a length and a half ; a length between
the second and third ; Little Gerard was fourth, about
a length from the thir ; Mary Copp was fifth, Madame
Clicquot sixth, Little Tom seventh, and Pensioner last.
Handicap of 10 sous each, h ft, with 40 added ; gentle-
men riders. Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. ILEd wards's Border Chief, syrs, lostl3lb (Owner) 1
Capt. William's Courtenay, 5 yrs, 12st 41b (Owner) 2
Capt. Connell's Little Tom, aged, 12st (Willoughby) 3
The following also ran :—Hercules, Agra, Mary
Lovell, and Jessie.
Betting-2 to 1 agst Jessie, 3to 1 agst Courtenay, 4
to 1 each agst Hercules and Agra, and 10 to 1 agst
Bordcr Chief. Won by a head ; two lengths between
the second and third ; Jessie was fourth, Agra fifth,
Hercules sixth, and Mary Lovell last.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CESAREWITCH STAPLES.
14 to 1 agst M. Dobler (taken)
20 to 1 agat December (25 to 1 taken freely)
25 to 1 agat Warlock (taken) •
1000 to 35 agst Black Tommy (taken)
30 to 1 agst Rosati (taken)
40 to 1 agst Cedric
DERIIIY.
1000 to 50 agat Ditto (taken)

SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON ON THE
INDIAN MUTINY.

A meeting was held in Glasgow, on Wednesday,
in aid of the Indian Relief Fund, at which Sir
Archibald Alison spoke as follows :
" Hardly three years have elapsed since we were as-
sembled in this hall to set on foot a subscription which was
to tea.ify to the world the sense we entertained of the
services of our Crimean heroes. The hour in which we
then met cannot be looked back to without feelings of

emotion even at this time, for on the morning of that
very day news had arrived of the splendid charge at
Balaklava, and at the moment we were assembled was

fought in the Crimea the immortal battle of Inkermann.
Well and nobly did the citizens of Glasgow then respond •
to the call made on their patriotism and their liberality ;
for 45,0001. was raised in this city and its neighbour-

hood for relief of the sufferers, and Glasgow took its
place next to London in the scale of British generosity.

But urgent as was the necessity which then existed for
relief to the sufferers, pressing as was the call upon the
charity and beneficence of our countrymen, it was as
nothing to that which now exists. Then war was waged
far from our own shores ; its chief horrors were known

only to our enemies, and the ruins of Sebastopol attest
t) this day what those horrors w, re. We had then to
relieve only the widows and orphans of the warriors who
had fallen in the conflict, but now the case is very dif-
ferent. War in its most terrible and appalling form has

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now approached our own dominions, the richest pro-
vinces of our empire have been devastated by the horrors

at once of civil strife and a, ry.le revolt, aid they have
reached not only the armed warrior but the pacific

cit zen. I mill not hirrow up you'r feelings by repeat-
ing in this place the heartrending accounts which have
thrilled the whole civilized world of the sufferings of

our countrymen and countrywomen in India. I wish
rather to impress upon this meeting, and through it, if
possible, upon the country, that this revolt was as un-
justifiable in its origin as it has been atrocious in its pro.
grees. It is in vain to speak of the greased cartridges ;
the revolt was organised by the Mahomedans years
before the greased cartridges were heard of. The greased
cartridge was a mere device to delude the Sepoys. We
must not confound the military mutiny of the Brahmins
and Mahomeians with the glorious efforts—with some
of which all must sympathise—of patriotic virtue, in
other countries and in former days, for national indepen•

donee. Toe revolt hat in no- sense been a national
movement ; it was undertaken for no national purpose ;
even yet it is not joined in, or sympathised with, by the
great body of the people. It is the work of a licentious
soldiery, spoiled by indulgence, panting for rapine, and
teeming with 1114, and of those alone. It- has all the
features of such an outbreak of the worst passions of
humanity. Its first step was to liberate 11,000 ruffians, in
different places, hum prison ; its next, to dishonour and
massacre all the women who hal surrendered on the
faith of capitulation ; its last, to toes infants in the air
and catch them on the points of bayonets. I read of no
such exploits as these in the annals of Tell, of Alfred, of
Wallace, or Bruce. I read in them of many victories gain-
ed in the field, of many struggles sustained in the breach,
but of no massacring of women or children in the dun•
geon. Ido not stand here to justify all the acts of our
Indian Administration. Some of them may be open

to objection, and will hv, fitly dealt with by
history. But that our Governmeut, upon the whole,
has been a blessing to Ilindostan—subject as it has been
in all ages to foreign rule, and never capable either of
self-government or self-defence—•and that its overthrow
would be the greatest misfortune which could befal its
inhabitants is decisively proved by the facts that the
industrial produces of the country have been increased
70 per cent. since it fell under Briti-h protection ; that
our exports to i; now exceed 10,000,0001. a-year, quad-
ruple whit they were in 1800, and that our rule over it
has hitherto been maintained by less, on an average,
than 40,000 European troops of every denomination,
distant 14,000 miles from Great Britain, who were, till
this outbreak occurred, willingly obeyed by 180,000,000
Asiatics. Such facts are utterly inconsistent with any
other suppositio❑ but that it has ruled in the interests
and affections of the great body of the people. To
what, "then, are we to ascribe this savage outbreak,
which has thrilled every heart throughout the civilised
world with horror ? Simply to this, that it is the usual
effect of undue indulgence to armed men to beget licen-
tiousness. I cannot think that Providence will yield up
the beautiful realm of Hindostan to the dominion of
Nana Sahib. I see a guarantee for our ultimate success
in the glorious stand made by our countrymen against

over elielming odds in so many quarters of the country
I see a guarantee for it in the enduring fortitude of our
countrywomen which has equalled all recorded of Spar-
tan or Roman heroism. What shall we say to the heroic
(laughter of an heroic sire who shot 5 ruffians dead with
her own hand, with her revolver, befo-e she fell a victim
to the fury of numbers I What of the hero who, with
his owe hand, fired tee magazine
.at Delhi / What of
flee nob. Havelock and his band of heroes, who in loss
than three weeks have marched 150 miles under a burn-
ing sun, fought six pitched battlee, with numbers in every
instance five to one, taken 64 guns, avenged the massacre
of Cawnpore, and I trust ere this relieved the brave de-
fenders of Lucknow I (Applause) Britain may well
be proud of that invincible brigade Of our own regi-
ment, the 78th, I shall let the Bombay Times speak :--
"The heroic Havelock, with the brave Highlanders,
under God, has saved India." Tne 78th and the 64th
have, however, only added another to the many laurels
which already adorn their brows, but the Madras Fuel-
leers, a British Regiment, albeit new to fame, and the
Sikh battalions, so lately our foes, have shown that they
are worthy to share in the glories of that band of heroes.
Willoughby, Lawrence, Wheeler, Havelock, Nichol-
son—your names will never be forgotten in English
history, and at the recital of your exploits the hearts of
our children and our children's children will throb long
after the flames of the Indian revolt have been ex-
tinguished in blood, and our star of peace has again
risen upon the earth. (Loud applause.) Among the
many heartatirring occurrences which have already
signalised this memorable war there is one which
is not only interesting at the present time, but
I trust we may regard as ominous of the future. When
the 64th, with the Madras Fusileers and a battalion
of Sikhs, were painfuPy toiling, under an Indian
sun, between Allahabad and Cawnpore, a
din was heard—a cloud of dust was seen to
arise behind them—and the rearguard faced about and
drew up across the road to resist the attack, as they
supposed, of a fresh enemy. What were their trans-
ports when, on a nearer approach, the plumes of the
Highlanders were Seen emerging through this cloud, and
the wall-known notes were heard on the bagpipe, "The
Campbells are corning I" (Loud applause.) Yes, gen-
tlemen, the Campbells are corning ; and I trust that
when their noble leader, Sir Colin Campbell, draws the
sword which has been presented to him by the citizens
of Glasgow, and rejoins the Highland Division, from which
he was separated in tears on the shores of the Crimea,
he will strike a blow which shall resound through Europe
and Asia, and teach the world that, wide as is the extent
of the British empire, and vast the sphere of British
beneficence, as terrible is the stroke of British justice,
when indulgence has been met by treason and kindness
by cruelty." (Loud and protracted applause.)

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