The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-11 00:00:00

TIIB SUFFE.RBBS BY TSB MUTINY IN 1
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INDIA.

The fAlowing is a copy of a telegraphic aspatch
from Colonel Phipps to the Lord Mayor, dated
Balmoral, Sept. 9:—
" You may announce subscriptions to the Fund
for the Indian Sufferers of 1,0001. from the Queen,
3001 from the Prince Consort, and 1001 from the
Duch( ss of Kent."
Lord Palmerston has subscribed 1001.

The following statement has been drawn up by
an officer who served many years in India, and re-
cently returned to this country :

" In reply to inquiries as to the necessity for a
national subscription for the relief of sufferers by
the mutiny in India, and with reference to an opi-
enion in some quarters that the Indian Government
is bound to give compensation for all losses incurred
threngh the revolt of the Bengal army, it need only
be stated that, although the Government of India
is hound to do much for the sufferers, and has al-
ready sent instructions to Lord Canning to relieve
at ontie, to the best of his ability, all immediate
c tees of destitution, without reference to class or
p .and although some of the classes plundered
have putlic and acknowledged claims on the East
ImFa Cifeepany, still it can be shown that the dis-
tress of the European and Christian community in
India is such that no amount of funds which even
the present eeeeited feeling and sympathy of Eng-
land to ty be ea ;petted to raise for their relief can be
alequate, after the Government has done its duty
to the utmost., to meet the full difficulty.
"In all public calamities—of famine or inunda-
tion, of general revolt and devastation, or other
wide speed effuetiehe—it has been found impossible
for the most powerful Governments to do more than
to take early measures' for the present alleviation of
the sufferers. Their aid may be liberally granted in
the first instance to supp_ly the immediate relief and
me 1113 of subsistence, and eventually to compensate
for all ea,',es demanding it ; but beyond thia, it is to
be re metnberedthat themain resources and imperial
revenues of any State are pritacipally and almost ex-
clusively to be applied to cos'ly public remedial
measures, to the restoration of order, and to the
grand ;?hject of meeting the ca.Ta mitt' itself. In a
case like the present mutiny of a whole army, and
its consequences, any Governmeeti; must soon find
its existing means unequal to the cost, and that it
has to entail an unavoidable burden on the future
re:ources of the whole empire. The East India
Company should assuredly be liberal and just to
those who have been the victims of 'the outbreak of
its army, but it has to be just also to the country
at large and to the entire interests of the millions
it has permanently to protect.
"It has therefore ever been assigned to national
sympathy to inquire into and alleviate the more
private details of misery. Hence the many general
subscriptions in all countries which have been vo-
luntarily put forward to aid their fellow subjects,
carrying out what a State cannot hope to accomp-
lish.

" Admitting this principle, it remains only to
eitablish that in India there is at this juncture pri-
vate suffering among our countrymen of such ap-
palling magnitude as to call for the fullest sympathy
of our nation at large.
" In this stage of the inquiry be it remembered
also that the readiest contributors to our European
charities have, in many late instances, been the
very co nmunity now struggling under one of the
severest disponsat'ons of Providence that history
has ever had to record.

" They classes forming the sufferers by the mu-
tiny have bean already enumerated at the Mansion
House meeting of the 25th of August. They are
as follow :

"' 1. The individuals and families of the public
services, and the military (officers and men) and
civil establishments of Government, whose houses
have been plundered by the rebel soldiery and the
rabble of the several cities and large stations in the
upper provinces; Many a4e now escaped with their
live to Calcutta and elsewhere, without even
clothing or the means of present subsistence.
" 2. The hundreds of East Indian and other
Christian familiesTrom thet class of assistants, clerks
and employes, in ,the different offices at the many
stations and outposts which have been plundered
by the mutineers, such families being now refugees
without means, or home, or clothing.
" 3. The many European and Christian private
traders and settlersalsoin the abovestations, in fact
absolutely ruined and deprived of their all.
'• '4. The families of the many scattered mis-
sionary and educational establishments throughout
the same provinces.
" 5. The many pensioners and their families,
the artificers and ass staut overseers, and others em-
ployed on railways awl roads, and in indigo fec-
tores, and other trading concerns throughout the
same provinces ; the schools, shopkeepers, news-
paper andprinting establishments, hotels, &e.
" Of the four last classes it is impossible to state

the exact number of sufferers, but their extent is
known to be great. Exclusive of wives and fami-
lies, and of the many sufferers in other places, there
are stated to have been I,sooEuropeans and Chris-
tians lately residing in the principal stations a.scer-
la ued to have been plundered from Benares to
Kurnaul ; with wives and families, included, the
number of sufferers may be estimated at more
than 4,000.
" Aliny of these families were lately living in
comfort, with incomes varying from say 1001. to
WU ler annum. The majority are now refugeesat
diffeteet places. In addition-to these are hundreds
and hundreds who have arrived in Calcutta in the
return steamers, ordered to receive them from the
crosded river stations at the shortest warning, and
who, we learn from the Calcutta papers and pri-
vate letters, are reaching that place in utter desti-
tu ion, so that a private subscription has been sot
on foot, which was headed by Lord Canning, with
the princely private contribution of 10,000 rupees,
Lady Canning giving 2,000 rupees, and wbich, by
last accounts, was increased to about 90,000 rupees
by the Calcutta community ; while communica-
tions from that vicinity have reached England en-
treating that more aid may be immediately sent
out for these sufferers, and for the many still ex-
pected to arrive. Many of the beads of families
wia; h lye been spared are necessarily remaining at
the outpetiets and factories, and thus the wives and
chi'drenare arriving wholly unprotected and with-
out clothing. The munificent subscriptions of Lord
Canning and others prove that the existing misery
is greet, and the prayers to us for assistance
from home and elsewhere sufficiently establish the
extent of the calamity, and of the inadequacy on
the spot of means to meet it.
" But it is necessary to advert to the position of
the first and far more numerous of the foregoing
named classes who are in Government employ. It
is supposed thattheseshouldalllook to the Govern-
ment for relief. It is impossible. As regards the
higher ranks and civil servants, many have friends
anti. resources of their own to resort to, but the
bulk of the middle and junior ranks of the army
are .unknown in Calcutta, the upper country being
hitherto their main place of duty and residence. By
the regulations of the service officers who lose their
camp eqnipage and other military equipments can
in tine course claim compensation from Govern-
ment, but the total of the sums awarded is any
clues of total loss are about 2,000 rupees for cap-
t tins, and 1,600 for subalterns. The regular pay of
thiise ranks at all times is equal only to their pro-
er eueintenanco ; but this also is now disturbed.
In the majority o cases the bungalows and furni-
we and other necessaries have been utterly de-
etr-Yed. The husbands, if still on duty with the
rem air jug army and its new levies, require all they
ekrk rebei ve for their own subsistence to carry on the
thttieu required of them. Their families are thus
eteepletely in want in their unhappy state of refuge
and separation, and perhaps there was never yet a
oast'fit such urgent requ'rement of large national
ex "et fwe our fellow countryment as at this moment
4, •.e Calcutta and elsewhere throughout ludic.
,riiv. .
vw,ci,authi: large proportion of the native army
and families
it may be asserted that 2,000
raul,s are, throughout
of the middle and junior
tz,ateit the Bengal Presidency, at
-moment ite
and
_predicament just described.
Sorg ; are widows
the orphans, to be provided for
in doe course by
ullatAry aud orphan funds ;
sums for eapt,iti
bu t yea: ly
a widows are but
I:life ',el. annum, payable quarterly, aed
901. fur
v(•asrly for
Vi:to vs of suralternz, with a, out 40/
0r,•i,a14. A rli addition from Lord
"e's
and
the Compassionate Funds completes the to, al
even_
income of these unfortunate ladies. now in
the we in time, it may be ass e 3; can these Peer du,.
de red victirus of the mutiny, though their lives
have t•een mercifully spared, find means for pee_
‘der`.‘ mein te n a nee—fur equipment for a voyage to
/lust, d ? It is ageged that the relief subsciiption
is U intendel for such as these ; they must be se-
fee red to the Government. It is mere ignorance of
tne unhappy facts themselves that could have
urged o unfeeling an opinion.
" a. "feet US instance few general facts applicable to
allyew ea. The instances are not imaginary ones•
v_ subaltern and his wife, with one child,
wsed by a miracle, it may b 3 iaid, the massacre
kr the Gth Regiment at
Allah. bad. The young wife
bad snatched up a few
of her own
and her baby's
clothes ; the husband, h t ough sick bad at tende.l
,
to h;ks deity to the last, and escaped penniless with
the Or, hes on his back. They got on board a re-
tun-) ",tean,,,r and reached Calcutta. They must
lyzr• e•d to England. He will receive passage money
Aunt Government, but has to equip his wife and
vial for the voyage. Unless aided, they, must be