ABSTRACT
We are glad to see that a movement has been organised for affording the means of maintaining and protecting the wives and children of the soldiers who have sailed for the seat of war. The Government regulations make no provision for them; and it is far from creditable to the national humanity that those whom we deprive of their natural protectors to fight our battles should be thrown on the world without the means of livelihood, and condemned to penury and all the temptations that it presents. Lord St. Leonards is at the head of the movement, and comes forward with an offer to maintain five families at his own expense. We have no doubt his example will be readily followed by many others. The Commission of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland took up the matter at their meeting the other day, and in a becoming spirit; and we hope to see such benevolent and practical courses adopted, as will at once vindicate the character of the country, release our gallant countrymen from the distressing thought of having left their families in want and misery—and these families from such suffering as it lies within the power of public and private liberality to prevent.
