The Indian Mutiny Relief Fund. (See p. .)

This noble manifestation of kind feeling towards the sufferers in India, which originated in a public meeting held in London on the 25th of August 1857, assumed munificent proportions during the next following year, when the colonists and Englishmen residing abroad had had time to respond to the appeal made to them. In a report prepared by the Committee, on the 1st of November 1858, it was announced that the sum placed in their charge amounted, up to that time, to £434,729. They had remitted £127,287 to India, there to be distributed by auxiliary local committees; they had assisted sufferers after their return to, or during their residence in, the home country, to the extent of £35,757; and their management expenses had amounted to £6224. There remained, invested at interest, the sum of £265,461, applicable to further cases of need. It is interesting to notice the kind of persons to whom relief was afforded, on account of the varied privations to which the mutiny had subjected them. The sum of £35,757 expended in England, was mostly in donations to the following numbers and classes of persons:

32 Military officers.

86 Widows and children of officers.

25 Wives of officers.

25 Orphans of officers.

51 Other relatives of officers.

13 Disabled soldiers.

298 Widows of soldiers.

423 Children of soldiers.

82 Other relatives of soldiers.

10 Clergymen and missionaries.

6 Widows of Clergymen.

1 Wife of missionary.

23 Widows and orphans of civilians.

75 Planters, railway officials, &c.