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

ANOTHER PLOT.

Early next month commences the grand annual
Mohammedan festival of the Mohurrim, during
which, even in ordinary times, the followers of the
False Prophet often exhibit outbursts of uncon-
trollable fanaticism. This year, as you may sup-
pose, this season of Mussulman excitement is looked
forward to with unwonted anxiety all over India.
Already at Patna, one of the largest cities on the
Ganges, where the Mahounmedans abound, dis-
covery has been made of a plot to massacre all the
Europeans in that quarter, at one of their great
festival days in- August. Documents were seized
which amply proved that money for this end had
been plentifully supplied by one of the wealthiest
Mohammedan bankers in India; and in these it was
urged that the rising should be simultaneous on
the same day all over the land. This timeous dis-
covery may truly be regarded as pre-eminently pro-
vidential; since, by putting all our authorities
doubly on the alert, the vigour of their precautions
may, under God, prove the means of averting the
threatened catastrophe. Pray, pray. that, amid
these outpoured judgments of a righteous and-
offended God, the British people, whether at home
or India, may learn the lessons which they are
designed to inculcate.

THE PATIZIOPIC FUND AND INDIAN
SUFFERERS.

Captain Thomas Stuart, R.N., writes to the
editor of the Times as follows :

"Seeing that the kindly feeling of the country
is promptly turning its humane attention to the
widows and orphans of those who are being mur
dered in Upper India, may I ask what are the
Commissioners of tne Patriotic Fund able to do in
such a critical moment ?

"Over 1,200,0001. have been banked for the use
of the sufferers by the last war with Russia, pro-
ducing au annual revenue .of about 60,0001. out of
siindryinvestmentA, all wisely arranged.
" I oalciilated, from the report of the Royal
Patriotic Fund Commissionerg, dated May 1856,
that their pensioners.up to that period involved an
annual expense of about 27,0001.—certainly then
under 30,0001.—and of course decreasing every
month, week, and day. - .
" Some large suns, unauthorised by the spirit of
the Queen's le'ter, were granted by the Comrqis-
sioners to military and naval schools—a piece of
liberality I would not object to ; only 1 failed, as
hon. , secretary to a local Patriotic Flux(' Committee
in obtaining relief for the orphan daughter of a
naval ' officer -whose brother and chief supporter,
a young officer of great promise, was drowned
while-laying out au anchor to save Her Majesty's
ship Polyphemus, wrecked at night in the month
of December on the coast of Jutland.
-The ebjeCtion Made to-her claim was, that "the
young lady had another brother, a lieutenant in the
navy !" . .
"Ili:lever-forgave this plc* of 'red tape,' coming
from such a platter. 'I am, however, ready to
aft.rd my mite and asdstance to the sufferers from
the tArible Indian mutinies, but I want to see
I,Tw far . the plus 30,000/. a-year of the Patriotic
L e r for:
fillie"
ilnl first go to meet the calamity, feeling that
l'onaraissioners should be stirred up at once in
• g their duty in the matter."

Tito. Dlcv
of
Loot...rso OVER LlNCOLN.—Whatever may
be the origin
the
garde
lost.'Sorne fifty years ice
. this proverb
of it, which is too good , I ,end you an application
1r house adjoining
of the deanery at Hereford,
with a' window overlocki : was occupied by a Mrs
gazed upon
the deanery, awl
nbite,
Lincoln as a ladies' hostrog
son-in-law of the then dean, resided '1)(*)1. A rev. ducts,
oactt)lrmirew
1,0 n any
felt a strong objection to
bright eyes. He required, instead of requesting, •by
citheestlang, that the
window shouia be blocked np. As
peremptory, the old lady grew angry, and
closed the correspondence by saying the. there NNaßalle
welf-known proverb, the devil overlooks Lincoln, but
in this case it was reversed, for Lincoln overlooks Ahe
devil.--Notes and Queries.