ABSTRACT
A more noble and touching spectacle can hardly be offered, than that of a whole nation exerting itself to raise large sums of money to “stop the grief” of a Soldier’s wounds, to mitigate the sorrows and sufferings of the wives and children of the absent brave, and provide for the widow and the fatherless. We hardly dare state how many funds are now forming in different parts of the United Kingdom in addition to the “Patriotic,” the “Central Association,” the “Rag and Lint,” the “Wounded Soldier’s Aid,” and others which are mentioned in the papers. The more the better, for there is no computing at this moment to what extent assistance may not be required. We are engaged in a fierce war, the termination of which is, we apprehend, very remote.
