promptitude each time in proportions to the demand. We said truly at the beginning of the year, in anticipation of disasters of which we felt to have a presentiment that there would be many claims upon our benevolence, and that those claims would not be urged in vain, but that the fountains of sympathy, and relief for distressed and suffering humanity would flow freely, notwithstanding that the land then mourned for a good and great man who was no more. What has been the result? The first appeal was on behalf of the surviving sufferers by the Hartley Colliery accident to the fund of which the borough of Hastings contributed the munificent sum of 440l. The next appeal was on behalf of the widows and children of the unfortunate seamen lost in the "Tryall", the subscriptions to which, being now closed, are found to realise a sum of about £112. Then a subscription was set on foot for the Albert Memorial, and for which purpose a large sum has been already promised, notwithstanding that some want of unanimity exists on the matter.
And now again, before the hand of Charity has had time to recruit itself for further efforts, it is enlisted on behalf of the widows and families of the nine poor fishermen who fell victims to the ruthless storm at Plymouth. Something like £200 is already the response made to the appeal on their behalf, and we doubt not that this amount will be doubled in the course of a short time [It was exactly doubled in about 8 or 9 days after]. Of the sum already in hand; upwards of £59 has been handed to the Mayor, chiefly by strangers, some of whom may have purchased the Gazette, with its Visitors List; Lord Harry Vane has contributed £15; Mr. West has collected £50 in St. Leonards, and Mr. Campbell a similar amount in Hastings; about £25 has been handed over as the joint collection at the churches of All Saints and Holy Trinity; nearly £20 is supposed to have been realized by the exhibition of the "Battle of Hastings" painting at the Music Hall; and £10 or thereabouts is likely to have accrued from the concert given by the Mountfield Sacred Choral Society.
With respect to the enormous sum collected for the sufferers of the Hartley calamity - for, we learn that the total has now reached £70,000 - we had hoped that a portion of it would have been devoted to the relief of similar sufferers in Wales, or that the surplus would have formed a mendus for a general fund to be available in all future time for any similar purpose throughout the Kingdom.
From the announcement of the Lord Mayor of London that he was received and forwarded upwards of £20,000 for the Hartley widows and orphans, whilst he has only received a few hundred pounds for the relief of the sufferers of the accident at the Gethin Colliery[a], one cannot but be struck with the existence of almost a fashion even in (illegible text).
The Lord Mayor as compelled to announce that he will not receive any more subscriptions, so that we hope that the tide will turn a little towards
the widows and children of Merthyr. We hoped that more sympathy had been -
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