History of the Parsis : including their manners, customs, religion and present position : with coloured and other illustrations : in two volumes

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his country and mankind,—a noble example of blameless private life and public worth as a citizen of Bombay, and of spotless commercial integrity as a most eminent British subject and merchant in India.

We have said before that Sir Jamshedji’s benefactions were not confined to his own race and country. There are several instances on record in which he rendered timely assistance when distress or calamities occurred in other parts of the world. ‘““When the bones of thousands of heroic men, Europeans and sepoys, were whitening in the snows of Kabul, when famine decimated the Highlands of Scotland, when a mysterious dispensation of Providence deprived the poor Irishmen of their daily food, when the widows and the orphans of the brave men who died for the right at Alma and Inkermann stretched forth their hands for aid, none evinced a more generous sympathy, none showed more alacrity in giving bread to the hungry and binding up the wounds of the broken-hearted than the benevolent Parsi knight.”

We give prominent insertion here to a letter of Baron M. F. Hausmann, the Prefect of the Seine, addressed to the Lord Mayor of London, on the receipt of a donation from Sir Jamshedji of £500, for the benefit of the sufferers from the inundations in France in 1856.