The Sun. — 1857-09-11 (London, England)

THE SUN, LIONEON3 FRIDAY E.VRtNING SEPTEMBER 11, 1857  dependent for clothing on the ship from their fellow-passengers, and arrive in England without a shilling, with about 1501. per annum in prospect (when due) to subsist on for three years of furlough. " A widow escaped from the massacre at a far station, and after much suffering reached Agra, where she was not known to a soul, without a rupee, and but half attired, without a single change of clothes. She received immediate relief from the kindness of those at the place, but she has to find her way to England. "The wife, with her children, of a poor missionary, who clung to his post when he bad his house burnt and everything destroyed—books, furniture, school, all gone. She arrives in Calcutta, is kindly treated and clothed, but she, also, has to find her way to England. " A young lady was married to a deputy collector, uncovenanted service ; she fell sick, and was ordered to return to England. He was to remit home monthly sums for her support. He was murdered by the mutineers in Oude. The remittances, of course, have stopped, and she is without a farthing. "The children of an officer in India are in Europe for education. The remittances for the past half-year have unhappily ceased. There are no tidings of the parents since the mutiny. The girls are charitably kept on at a lady's academy, but a lad is actually turned adrift by his benevolent' tutor, and within the last week has attempted in London to enlist as a private soldier. " But why go on enumerating cases of this description f Pages and pages of them might be recorded, many of them far more touching and even appalling, and all probably more pressingly in want of relief. Hosts and hosts of military and private families and refugees of all descriptions are at this moment scattered over India in utter want, and will the wealthy and others in comfort in our own happy land be excused for not subscribing to a relief fund like the present because it is the opinion of a few who do not inquire into the circumstances that the East India Company is bound to make good all the losses accruing from the revolt of the Bengal army. " In former cases of national subscription to meet a public calamity might not the whole burden have been thrown on the Government with a plea of as much justice and feeling as in the present awful crisis, which has overwhelmed our felt ovsubjects and countrymen in the East ? Are we to Isand by unmoved and withhold all exertion to relieve, because many of the sufferers may perhaps eventually claim some compensation from the Government. As well might the spectators and bystanders at a railway collision look on and refuse all effort to release or upraise the struggling victims before them, because in time it might be proved that the railway directors and company will have to dole out in a court of justice some pecuniary compensation to the injured."  trepid spirit in which they have been enabled to meet the mutineers•"  It was unanimously agreed to. Mr. J. F. HODGES proposed, and Mr. BISHOP seconded, the following resolution : " That subscription lists be opened at the several banking-houses in Dorchester, and that the amounts, as collected, be paid into the bank of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., in London, and placed at the disposal of the London committee apointed for the promotion of this benevolent object.