The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-21 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock.

WARWICK RACES.—(This Day.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

£5O HANDICAP PLATE.

Madame Clicquot
Broadlands
Magnus Troil

Nine ran.
SCURRY HANDICAP.

Agra .......
Magnolia..

Lymington ........... ;..

Six ran.
GRAND OPEN STEEPLE CHASE.
Knigt of the Shire
Forest Queen

Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
Bto 1 agst Mce3tissitna (taken)
9 to 1 agst El Hakiru (taken)
12 to I bar two (offered)

THE INDIAN MUTINIES.-RELIEF F&ND,

The following correspondence has been handed
to us for publication :
" Weetvvood Park, Droittvich, Oct. 18, 1857.
"Sir,—There will be a county meeting held at Wor-
center on Saturday next, one principal object of which
will be to raise subscriptions in aid of the Indian Relief
Fund.
"I therefore venture to trouble you with a letter of
inquiry as to the proceedings of the Mansion house
Committee.
"A preliminary meeting was held at Worcester, yes.
terday, and I was there told by several gentlemen, as I
have heard from many quarters elsewhere, that there
exiets in the public mind, in combination with a desire
to subscribe, a feeling that no adequate security has yet
been offered with respect either to the responsibility
under which the fund is to be administered, or the prin-
ciples, regulations, or conditions under which it is to be
applied.
" 1 shall therefore feel obliged to you if you can send
me any summary of your plan or other information
which may tend to mitigate a feeling of distrust which
is much lamented.
"I hope this application will not be considered incon•
sisteet with the sincere respect which is generally felt,
and in which I cordially concur, for the charitable exec-
tious of the Lord Mayor en this subject.—l have the
honour to remain, sir, your obedient servant,
"JOHN S. PAKINGTON.
"The Hon. Secretary, Indian Relief Fund."
"Mansion-Efeume Oct. 1S), 1857.
"Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 19. h inet., lam
instructed to enclose to you a copy of the address to the
British public, issued by the oJtutnittee, and containing
the fund
will be administered. The business is conducted by a
general committee, whoee meetings are held weekly ; a
finance committee, whose meetings are held w ;
and a relief committee, who meet twice a-week.ee Ikly en-
close to you list of
a the
'lames of the gentlemen who
compose the relief end finance committees, which you
mere find
to
and
bankers
e ocacupeireed aildpo°r2tat enrm'both military and
positions in India.
" The meetings of these cotnnaittees are uniformly well
attended, the relief ceiutnittee being assisted by two
every caee fir the relief of which
honorary secretaries, whose laborious duty it is to inves.
"The committee have placed themselves in communi-
cation with the relief committee at Calcutta, enclosing
applicationtigeteaiid report
is
made
dueptoon t
hefund.
te them the accompanying address and resolutions, re-
questing their suggestions and the transtniesion by every
mail of a fu'l record of their proceedings, inclsding an
account of their receipts and expenditure, and the par-
ticulars of every case to which they afford relief.
"I will only a Id, that a coucurreat audit of the ac-
counts of the committee is cenducted under the super-
vision of Mr. And( non, of the Treasury ; Mr. Andoe,
of the Audit-office ; and Mr. Prescitt, of the firm of
Grote, Prescott, n'id Co.—l have the honour to be, sir,
on behalf of the committee, your very faithful servant,
" Tilos. Q. FINNIfi, Mayor.
"P.S.—The committee have already cent out 30,000/.
to Calc/Rta, 3,0001 to Bombay, and 7,0001. to Sir John
Laavr,qice, at Lahore, and aro ro,neviug cases of distress
at hoine.
"The Right Hon. Sir John S. Etkington,
BArt„" &c. &c.

Wo recently announced, among other romittancei
made by the Central Committee to India, the grant of
1,0001. to Sir John Lawrence, in aid of the funds of
the Lawrence Asylum. The following letter will
be read with interest, as shoving the urgent neces-
sity that existed for this judicious benefaction :--
"Keswick, Cumberland, Oct. 16, 18.57.
"Hy dear Sir,—l erg to tender my hearty thanks to
the committee of the Indian Relief Fend for the gift of
1,0001., through my brother-in-law, Sir John Lawrence,
to the Lawrence Asylum.
"It may be not unacceptable to the committee to read
the following short extract on this subject from a letter
received by the last mail from one of the late Sir Henry
Lawrence's sisters, who is now takingrefuge with several
other European ladies in the Lawrence Asylum at lius-
ale lee. She writes
The children at the asylum
are in a most pitiable state, they are obliged to be put on
the smallest possible r4tions, and there will be no warm
clothing for them this winter. Mr. Parker (the superin-
tendent) is at his wits'
end for resources ; illy husband
gave 500 r, the other da-
y to supply their immediate
wants.' The committee
will see that their liberal gift has
been we
Ath
your obedient servant,
"JAMES BEBNARD.
"Lieut.-Col. Henderson Hoy. Sec.
to Indian Relief F;nd."