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

MILITIA.

The Nottinghamshire Regiment Of Militia, better:.
knoarn as the Royal Sherwood Foresters, is to as-
semble at N ewark this month fur 'embod invent.
An order has been received at the head-quarters
of the Darset County Militia that the staff are to
recruit for a.number of .the regtilar infantry regi-
ment., in consequence of which recreithig parties
are now actively .at . work in various parts of the
county.
The Royal Elthorn Light --Inflntry, under. the.
command of Lieut.-Colonel-L. Murray Prior, is 10
be embodied at Uxbridge on the let of October.
next. This regiment is complete in officers- an
men, and 964 of the latter will be each entitled on
joining to one guinea bounty and" 10s. balance of
gratuity.
The Royal Flintahire Regiment of Militia-are to
assemble at Mold on Friday, the 25th fur the
purpose of undergoing 28 days training.
Lord Mostyn, the Lord Lieutenant Morionkth-
shire, has issued orders that the Merimethsliire.
Regiment of Militia shall assemble for. training at
Ba'a on Tuesday next, the 224 inst._ The regiment
will be commanded by.Lieui.-CulOnel Morgan.

MUTINY IN INDIA.-RgLIEF FUND.

A special general meeting of the subscribers to the
above fund in the city of London wee held at the
Mansion-house yesterday afternoon, for the purpose ,
of considering the propriety of altering the second
resolution passed at the general meeting ou. the
25th August last. The members of the committee SOUTHAMPTON.
and a few of the more prominent supporters of the A meeting of the inhabitants, convened by the
fund were present, as were also the Lady Mayoress Mayor (fir. J. White), was held at the Guildhall
and several of the membersof theladies' committee. yesterday afternoon, to express public sympathy
The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, -said that with the sufferers in India, and to take measures
the object of the meeting was to extend the powers for assisting the fund now raising for the relief of
of the committee as to the applica' ion of the funds, those in distress. There was a very influential at-
By the resolution passed on the 25th August the tendance, comprising Mr. T. M. Weguelin, M. P.
committee were required to dispatch the amounts
for the borough ; Generals Dyce and Capon, of the
collected to the Governor-General of India, to be by Hon. East India Company's service ; Captain
him placed at the disposal of the other local Govern- Ramsay ; Admiralty Superintendent of Packets
ments. It appeared, however, from letters which at this port • Captain Tinling, Royal Navy ;
the committee had since received that a great nuin- Revs. T. Aedieins, C. Beckford, H. Stewart, W.
her of cases existed in this country requ'ring retie, H. Woleeley, A. M‘Laren, S. S. Pugh, G.
but which the committee were, by the terms of the Lucas, W. Roberta, &c. • Mr. G. Atherley, J.P. ;
resolution, precluded from affording to the parties. Mr. R. Pearce, J.P. ; Mr. J. R. Cro3key, and
The object of the present meeting was to obviate several of the leading merchants and tradesmen of
this difficulty, and to empower the committee to the town.
apply the funds to meet the exigencies as they arose. Letters were read from the captain of the Mel-
Mr. DENT observed that it was qu;te an over-
sight, in the excitement of t•
he moment, not to litvc ampue frigsv e, stationed in the Southampton Water,
announcing the intention of the officers and crew of
conferred on the committee a discretionary power that vessel to 'subscribe a day's pay to the fund—an
as to the disposal of the funds. By the original example which they hoped would be followed by
resolution the application of the money collected other large bodies of men ; from the directors of
was restricted to India alone. Subsequestly to the the IsTainp,hire Bank, who had voted a contribution
passing of that resolution a letterhead been re° ired of 251. ; and from four or five gentlemen, enclosing
by the committee from Sir J. M. lvill, stating that checks for five guineas each ; also from Mr. W. W.
the East India Company had sent orders to the B. Beach, one of the members fur North Hants,
Government and authorities in India to relieve
regretting his inability to be present.
every case of pressing want and emergency, but he The MAYOR briefly opened the proceedings, re=
at the same time pointed out to the committee and marking that.he had considered it to be his duty to
to the people of El gland that it was to public sub- convoke that meeteig, to give his fellow-townsmen
scriptions in this country that they must look for an opportunity of evincing their warmest sympa-
any permanent provision for those who had so th;es with their heroic and. suffering friends iu
cruelly suffered. The resolution he was about to India. .
•
propose would give the committee the power of The Re;. T. ADKINS moved the first resolution :
dealing with the funds for the relief of parties in
"That this meeting of the inhabitants of Southernenedpeitsst
aneighbourhoodbbarre n
aa
and having
indignation
the with
heartrending feeling of
's-
England, or of transinmittiug them for relief of per-
sons in India as the necessity and emergency of
tathocnceodaunts of the frightful atrocities perpetrated by the
revolted &pop of India upon unarmed men. defenceless
the several cases might require. HA, therefore,
begged to move that the following resolution be
substituted for the second resolution Pa•sed at the women, and helpless children, whom it was their duty to
meeting held on the 25th of August last : protect, warmly sympathize with their fellow-countrymen
"That, in consideration of the extreme urgency of the in the East in their present grievous suffering and dis-
ease, and the necessity for promptly snorting the wants tress, and are pleased to seethe energetic measures taken
of the sufferers now literally depending on others, in by the Government for the suppression of the rebellion
Calcutta and elsewhere, for clithing and food, in addi- and the re-establishment of British supremacy through-
tion to their cruel loss of husbands and parents, this out our Indian empire."
meeting most anxiously entreats the benevolent contri- G neral CAPON seconded the resolution which
butions of its fellow-citzans and of the public at large, was supported by Mr. Weguelin, M.P. He said,
and recommend that the subscription lista be kept open deprecating, in. our present limitedsstate of know-
at Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co.'s, the Oriental Bank
ledge, the idea of attributing this disastrous mutiny
Corporation, and the Agra Bank, and that the fund col-
to any one particular cause, he could not but think
lected be, in the discretion of the committee, transmitted
that two great and' powerful opposing principles,
the progress of civilization and Christianity on
to the Governor-General of India, or to th, Governm it
of the different Preiidencies, or to be applied by the com-
mittee to the relief of sufierers from the maley who the one hand, and the 'debasing and degrading
have arrived or may arrive from India, or may be' at system of heathenism on the other, had long
present in this country or elsewhere." ' been at work, and that therefore in the very
The resolution having been seconded by Admiral nature of things some such conflict must at some
Sir S. LusHreroeoN, was agreed to unanimeuslye time or other necessarily happen He warmly gym
earlyLl pPalcaiktae,t Wthiesstmlollidthiabsatesabmeeern,
sold at
6wlidllf
bkeeinoguat
Mr. DENT then observed than equal oversight pathized with oursuffering countrymen in India and
do etehda
to fthaet 6l l.
Government, showing i ng
haveie. alteration.A r
concludeda
hid occurred at the first meeting by overlooking felt assured that the people of Southampton, at The large amount of Mexican dollars brought by the
d. 12,.
cB, 71b9ne3ee1.no goldd.t,
per an
oz.d l 0, 0
roroh/
e. silver.
b a r
silver
the necessity of affording relief to cases of disti ess which port many of the sufferers would be landed,
by the t t also
It is stateP
occurring from casualties in their gallant army nOw would on that occasion manifest the generous-
employed in putting down the frightful mutiny he aited liberality which had so long distinguished I"
in that country. He thought them. an
which had broken out
arrangement with the New Zealand and Australian Mail
some special resolution should 1 e passed to enable The resolution
-was carried unanimously. Steam Company for entering into a contract for a mail
the committee to afford relief in such cases. It was Mr. T. FALVEY moved the .second resolution : service bet wee various points of New Zealand and Aus-
a state of things very similar to that which hap- "That this meeting desires most respectfully to tender trails, and that the first steamers will be sent out to
pened during the Crimean war, and for which the to the relatives of those whose gallant sons have been take up their respective stations as soon as they can be
Patriotic Fund so nobly provided. He was afraid,
murdered with most atrocious treachery, and whose pure equipped.
according to the strict sense of the original resolu- and beloved daughters and their innocent infants ha
ye THE MOORS ,AND FORESTS. —The most unfortunate
tion, that the fund raised by the committee would peri.hed amid unspeakakable cruelties, the assurance of grouse season in the present generation of sortsmen is
not be applicable to cases of distress arising from. the deepest sympathy with sorrows that can be relieved now virtually over. Grouse shooting has almostceased
casualties in the army. only by the God of all consolation, to whose tender except on the low grounds, and therel it is the reverse
The LORD MAYOR said the distr. ss alluded to mercies they desire solemnly and affectionately to com- of successful. The forests are run upon by all
eagerly
r-stalkin never
it them." those who have access t, them, g
would clearly be the result of the mutiny, and in lc
rewarded the exertions of the sportsman. Lord
his opinion would therefore come within the toms The speak. r observed that the present was not the better,
consisting, besides his lordship, of the
Lovat 's party,
of the resolution which g eve the committee power time to discuss the probable causes of the mutiny,
Master of Lovat, the Hon. Henry Fraser. the Earl of
to grant relief wherever it was required, or the mode by which we had governed India. Seafield, the Hon. Col. Charteris, and Mr. Lindsay, in
Mr. Dent wished some definite opinion to be ex- Their duty now was a simple one,—first, to support two weeks brought down 29 stags and 4 hinds. At
pres-ed on the subject. the Government 'by every means possible in their Stray, Mr. Gordon killed kill, a stag, Sir H. Cote
Col. HENDERSON was of opinion that any casual- exertions to put down this rebellion ; and, next, to terell two, and Mr. Trelawney two. At Ceannacroe
ties such as his hon. friend had, mentioned would assist the sufferers •by their contributions an a forest Sir Henry Minix and his party have killed nine
necessarily arise out of the mutiny now taking place sympathies. On these points the mind of the stags—all very fat—eight of them weighing 17st. to
in India, and would be included among those cases British public was thoroughly made up, and the
WA. 41. sac ,
b n the ninth weighing 14st. ; and we testa
of to that on the 28. h Lady Meux brought d d ara
of whioli the committee were bellied to take cogni- people of Southampton needed no word of his own a eer at A
distance of 80 yards. Mr. Prior, at Strathvaid, • killed
sance. incite them to do their duty. eight very large and.
fat stage, w • •
The LORD MAYOR said it might be gratifying to The Rev. A. M'LAREN, in seconding
th the resolu- weighing on an average
ado p-
over 7st. Mr. Prior shot n stag on Monday last at
the meeting to heir that the appeal made to the tion, said he was not there to advocate
ebut- - Glendale. Mr. Henry Brooke has killed six, all in ex-,
country had been promptly r,sP°"(led to, and that tion of any blind system of savage vengeance,_ . cedent condition.—lnverness Advertiser.
out to the mss- •
subscriptions were being rased sienulaneously retributive justice must be metedthe [anveraisemerre.)—lt is eveP a
innocent sons and .. pleasing duty of a journalist
throughout the kingdom. Up t a the present time creants who had inflicted on reninefitrtotdhuacte to his readers some new
unheard-of atrocities discovery calculatesdoitoe
the amount received by the committee was 35,8361. daughters of England those vast portion of our fellow-creator
theu memories of the strongest claims eaturestwhhtilciths hfeaeling
16s. Bd. They owed a debt of gt atitucle to the dif- which were being burnt into Neither
grey hairs nor that we callthes attention
sympathies.f
invalids t o tllite is
s following
fereut towns which had so promptly responded to Elitist' people at home.
infancy
had been spared from Du Barry's interleosntinogreport of cures without medicine
their call, and he theught a cordial vote of thanks the earliest blossoms .of
..
mutineers , and,
while it should of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous,
was due to their friends in the provinces. by these inhuman_ Consumption,
that British hearts inherited none of their Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, AAst,th,l7i,caa,
Food :—Cure
Col. Heemensore then moved, and Mr. Deputy be shown and Debility, by Du Barry's R
at the same time the whole world 'evialent3ad April, 1854.-1. have
OBBARD seconded, the following resolution, which brutal spirit, 52,422.—Bridgehouse,
.Frirui Y
that the shield of England would No.
i e fr' om diseased lungs, spit.
was unanimously adopted : ought to see. ' suffered these 33 years Co Y
uess, singing in the
protect her children wherever they might tins of
•• always ,
~ blood, liver derangement,
deafb
• th andcough, an
" That this meeting desire to acknowledge with grate be , ,
laced, and tflat me arm of Britain was strong constipation, debility, shortness of c..,?.
I an,
trade the liberal manner in which the appeal on behalf ofo much medicine that can safe
enOugh -to punish those who did them such cruel during that period
out upwards cuw:rds of a thousand pounds at the
their fellow-countrymen and countrywomen in India has
WWI,. Tnig was a subject that would not bear say I have laidd
outorsu.p Indeed I was in utter despair and
been responded to, and express a hope that their friends chemists and t
t lkii7o, about. Deeds, not words, must " over when I was fortunate enough to
throughout the kingdom will continue these benevolent clan a. , mark their never expected t get
1 th •
feelings ant their sympathies, all it,ißnta Aabica, which, Heaveu
exertions which have hitherto been so successful.becomeacquainte.dine yo la
t state of health I long since despair.
• , been At this stage of the proceedings telegraphicbe praised, reStoie
The Rev. Mr. WILSON, of Islington,. having
lof attaining. My lungs, liver,stomach, head, d an ears are
appointed a member of the conneitt
~ de expressed mess just received from London, descriptive of c( •
all right, nay hearing perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to
it was in the frightful massacres acquaintances..--JAMEs ROBERTS, Wood Merchant,—
his desire to contribute wha'ever service .
of .
the Mayor,
at C '
awnpore, Was handed all my
e the objects in to
his power to render in furtherance e d
next s
- a eti ed un- Falvey, creating aprofound its narra- ici emistry, Dr. Andrew trre ; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey;
the committee ; and said it was in.i sensation by Dr. Campbell; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram:
day to take up the subject inpulpitsin. t• f all see
I. h ent and of the the Rev, Mr. of
Islington, both of the Estab is m e ev. HAY (of the American Board Stuart; Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respecta'As
public meeting ar •who, ..
Nonconformists. On Monday a melons of the Presbyterian denomination, persons, whose health has been restored by it, after allnother
would be held and committees
appointed, and he with his wife and two children, escaped from Alla- means of cure had failed. Suitably packed with fu in.
doubted not that a similar course wound be pursued ha few days atrnctions. In canisters
abad, and arrived at Southampton _. _ , 11b, 2s earn 21b, 4s. 6d. ; bib,
ADMIBAL SIR H. KEPPEL, K.C. B.arishes.
in' all the metropolitan p . since in the Ripon steamer, from Alexandria) was ils ; 121 b, 225, The 121 b canisters' sent carriage free,
u Barry, & Co.,
The Hon. Sir Henry R
, —end, K.C.8., the rear The LORD MAYOR said .
• it was gratifyine to know
... b then introduced to the ineeti ,He told the meet-
The on receipt of Post-Office Order.--Barr
YCAIITION against the
77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT.
admiral in command °I our naval forces in China, that the bishops of the various dioceses saw the inn that he really felt he could say little on that oc-. fearful dangers of spurious!. The vice-Chancel.
hi own feelings lie Wood granted an. Injunction on the
whose elevation to the dignity of a K. C.B. we necessity of immediate action,. no one knowing how easion, and had he consulted.
.s _ _ _ for Sir William Page Woo
chronicled yesterday in our columns, would be
is. great- soon their funds required. would have preferred to remain silent. What could 10th March 1854, against . Alfredg Hooper Nevill, for imitating
nephew of the celebrated Admiral Koppel, who died A vote of thanks was passed to the Lord Mayor, he say that would stir Christian and English hearts ► "Du Barry's Revalepta Ala 1
lice Food.

It was the Wellington, and not the Wellesley,
which was towed down off Sheerness Dockyard on
Monday to be immediately conamissioned by Capt.
Moore.
The Sepoy gunboat was Owed. down from her
harbour mooring yesterday at Sheerness, and taken
into the basin to be fitted ready fur immediate
active service. _ _

A numerous body, composed of the select com-
mittee of Woolwich arsenal and a [lumber of mcien-

tific officer's of her Majesty's service, were yester
day assembled in the long range adjoining the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to witness the progress
of some experiments intended to test a newly pro-
posed method of fortificat:on. A temporary fortress
had been erected for that purpose, composed of
huge quadrangular blocks of cast iron, about Oft. by
2ft. each. Laid one above the other, so as to form a
wall about Bft. high, they were backed up br.slabs
of granite, weighing about 18 tons each. The at-
tack was carried on at a distance of GOO yards from
the fortress, the gun—a 68-pounder—being charged
with 16!b. of powder, a wad, and a solid ball, four
of which were of wrought iron and the remainder
of cast iron. The s:ege, under the direction of
Major Vandeleur and Captain Campbell, in com-
mand of some experionded gunners of the Royal
Artillery, was conducted to a most successful issue
after a duration of about three hours. At length
the heavy blocks were found to crack and crumble,
one of which was liftedfrom its position and thrown
in splinters to the ground. 24 rounds were fired,
one-half only taking effect; the other half were em-
bedded in the mound at the back, but no sooner
had the elevation of the
gun and its range been cor-
rectly obtained. than shot after shot told with de-
structive effect. After the 24th round the fortress•
was pronounced utterly untenable. _ The wrought
iron shot was concluded to be infinitely superior for
that especial purpose to iron, the liter cracking
into atoms with the concussion and solid resistance
cif the iron slabs, while the former appeared to cling
to the surface with more destructive effect, and fell
to the ground merely battered. • •
On Tuesday a detachment of the 2d Dragoons,
consisting of 2 officers, 3 sergeants, and 29 privates,
left Dublin for Belfast, where they will remain till
further orders. By the same train 3 officers, 3 ser-
geants, and 17 privates of -the same regiment pro
ceded to Dundalk, and by the 5 o'clock train 2
officers and 25 rank and file of the 3d Dragoons,
which had arrived in the course of the day from
Newbridge, left for the same destination. In the
morning 4 officers and 139 rank and file of the 16th
Reiiment, mat chid from their quarters at the
Richmond Bar. a,ck-e, and proceeded a'so to Dun-
dalk by the 8.30 a.m. train.
On Tuesday 'sunning 50 privates, volunteers
from the -2d Dragoons to the 7th Hussars, left
Dublin by the Calypso, screw steamer, for Bristol,
for the purpose of proceeding to India.
Major Nasmyth, whose brigade was broken up at
the Curt agh on the Ist inst., has been appointed
Brigade-Majer of the 2,1 Infantry Brigade in
Dublin, under the command of Major-General
Cunyngham.
The Jura, not having yet completed her coaling,
having to take 1,000 tons on board, is still lying at
Queenstown. During the coulee of the present
week seven out of the eleven of the large steam
transports which have been chartered by the Go-
vernment are expected to arrive in Queenstown, to
embark tr, ops for the East Indies.
The Coa-b guard screw steamer Argus arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, with Commodore Eden on
board.
The Admiralty yacht, with Sir 0. Wood, First
Lord of the Admiralty on beard, was hourly ex-
pected in the Mersey yesterday, but had not ar-
rived when our usual parcel left.
The Ganges, Capt. J. Fulford, now at Sheerness,
remains over 150 shoat of her complement of able

seamen.
'‘Oeriditiermhba:r of able seamen for ser-
viceban- duty been issued at Sheer-
ness t ntiponoAiradilc rtiairAataeslesth:t.
the captains commandinE; ships employed in the
Coastguard service.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Lieut. Cuthbert Le Mesurier, to the Wellington;
Lieuts. T. L. Ward and Morgan Singer, to the Ex-
cellent ; George B. Newton, assistant-surgeon to
the Royal Albert ; C. Atchison, assistant-surgeon
to the Victory, for Haslar Hospital ; F. Parker and
0. E. James, clerks, to the Wellington.