The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-25 00:00:00

No. 17,307.] LONDON, THURSDAY, EVENING

THE ACQUITTAL of the SEVEN BISHOPS
in WESTMINSTER-HALL.'
By G. J. R. HERBERT, R.A.
This celebrated Historical Painting is NOW ON VIEW, for a few
days, at the Repository of Arts, 23, Cockspur-street, Charing-cross,
from Ten to Five o'clock each day.
Admission on presentation of Address Cards.

AN APPEAL to the ]
WIDOW of WILLIAM !
110MMI!

PUBLIC in behalf of the
THOM, Poet of lirreruri.
ITTEI.

Provost Thorns Mr. John Watson
Rev. George Milan Mr. James H. Ower
Rev. J. R. M'Glavin Mr. William Boyack
Dr. Arrot Mr. William Bett
Mr. James Westland Mr. James Chalmers, Jun.
Mr. Patrick Watson Mr. Arthur Begg, jun.
Mr. Thomas Saunders.
TREASURER—Mr. Patrick Watson.
SICRITARY—Mr. William Boyaek.
The Committee appointed to raise a fund for the relief of the
Widow and Family of the late William Thom, the gifted but unfor-
tunate Poet of Inverury, beg leave briefly but earnestly to appeal to
the Public, more especially to the Public of Scotland, ha behalf of the
trust which has been confided to them.
The name and genius of Thom are well known and universally ac-
knowledged ; many of the feeling and pathetic effusions of his muse
have been brought before the public, not only in a combined form,
but In various periodicals. His talents attracted the attention of the
ablest judges ; and the Messrs. Chambers, in their Journal, have de-
voted a chapter to his autobiography, and to that favourable meed of
praise to which they considered his merits entitled.
The life of William Thom has, indeed, combined the vicissitudes of
a humble child of the Muses, having formed a scene of trials and dis-
appointments, accompanied by an overflowing share of poverty and
distress.
Many of his earliest and best years were passed at the Elawkhill
of Dundee—the remembrance of which seemed deeply Impressed on
his mind ; for thither, to use his own emphatic language, he wished
to return, like a bird that flutters round her forsaken nest, to spend
his latter days in comparative peace and quiet.
His wishes were fulfilled, for not many months ago he did return
from his wanderings, debilitated and impoverished, and breathed his
last on Monday, the 29th of February. He has left a widow and three
infant children, the youngest but five months old, totally unprovided
for ; and it has therefore been resolved to raise a fund, in order, if
possible, to afford them permanent assistance. A Committee has
been appointed, who have cheerfully undertaken this duty, and al-
ready they are happy to announce that their call has been responded
to in a prompt and liberal manner. Lord Kinnaird, Lord Jeffrey,
Messrs. Douglas Jerrold and Robert Chambers, and many others,
have spontaneously sent their contributions ; and it Is earnestly
hoped that the charitable and the admirers of native genius and un-
obtrusive merit will support and encourage the laudable object which
the Committee have in view.

Dundee, March 10, 1848.
Contributions will be received by any of the Members of Commit-
tee ; and at the shops of Messrs. Chalmers, Shaw, and Middleton,
Booksellers, and Mr. Mills, Perfumer, Dundee.

DEATH OF WILLIAM THOM, THE INVERURY POET.
(To the Editor of the " Dundee Courier.")
Dundee, February 29, 1848.

Sir,—The painful task has been deputed to me of announcing to
the public the death of William Thom, the Inverury poet. For
some time past he had been in delicate and declining health ; and
his diseased state of body was doubtless aggravated by the uncer-
tainty of his circumstances, and the consequent anguish of his
honourable and sensitive mind. Yesterday, in our city, at half-
past eleven ♦.nt., he departed this life. He has left behind him
something more than a name—some true and beautiful strains.
which, as " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," the world will not
willingly suffer, like the inscription on the coffin, to he buried in
the tomb. He has left behind him, alas! something of yet ten-
derer and more mournful interest—a widow and three children,
th 7 eldest of whom is only four years, and the youngest but a few
months old. These are " utterly destitute," and but for the kind-
ness of one or two private friends, might have been east out ere
this to the charity of the streets. I make no appeal in behalf of
the poet himself; " after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." He has
found what the most troubled and tempest-tossed wanderer will at
last find, and which to him was peculiarly grateful—rest. Nor will
I indulge or express any vindictive feelings as to the treatment
which he received while yet alive. A true poet, he met with truly
poetic usage. He was caressed, but not fed ; as if one could sup
on incense, or as if one public dinner could keep a man alive for
years ! But I would bespeak general sympathy in behalf of his
destitute family. I would implore every lover of literature—
every one who has derived pleasure from the departed poet's
lyrics, or from the simple story of his life—to prove their pleasure
and their gratitude true by some more substantial evidence than ex-
clamations or tears. I would call especially upon those who saw
him at our late Watt Festival, and heard almost his latest breath
given forth in those brief, broken, but thrilling accents—accents how
far superior to the measured cadences of rhetoric—to testify by
generous deeds their sense of melancholy satisfaction that theirs was
the privilege of meeting with and hearing him for the last time.
No time ought to be lost. Indeed, no time has been lost Intima-
tions to the above effect either have been, or are immediately to be,
dispatched to Douglas Jerrold, Charles Dickens, Lord Jeffrey, and
others, But as Dundee has had the honour of containing his death-
bed, let us follow the start we have accidentally gained by instant,
active, strenuous efforts in behalf of his widow and his fatherless
bairns. _ _

--
Messrs. Chalmers, Middleton, and Shaw, Booksellers, and Mr
Mills, Perfumer, have kindly undertaken to receive donations.

The smallest sums will be welcomed
I am, Sir, yours truly,
GEORGE GILFILLAN.
The last versos of the late William Thom, written shortly before
his death :

SONG OF TILE DWELLERS IN DEAN VILE.
Tune—" Miller o' Dee."
While we laugh mid sing, in this happy ring,
With a bright and a brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the sun hath set
On the homes of misery.
For oh ! it may be that this chill night wind
Sweeps round some fireless hearth,
Freezing the heart of the homeless one,
With never a friend on earth.
Then aye, as we sing, may we closercling,
In our bright and brotherly glee ;
Yet never forget that the sun may set
Oa the homes of misery.

Man was not made for this world alone,
The world was lent to man ;
'Tis a debt we owe to Heaven, you know
Then pay it as well as you can.
Now winter rides mad in his carriage of snow,
With his pelting rain and his hail ;
May it never be said that hunger and woe
Held abiding in bonny Dean Vale.
Then aye, as we sing, may we mosc, Rio i
In our bright and brotherly glee,
And never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.

W. THOM.

TRAINING INSTITUTION FOR NURSES
FOR HOSPITALS, FAMILIES, AND THE POOR.

All who are professionally conversant with the condition of oar
gospitals complain of the inadequate supply of well-trained nurses as
an evil seriously interfering with the efficient discharge of their du-
ties. They cannot trust to their orders being executed by the
nurses, and they find that the patients suffer from faults of those on
whom, in their state of helplessness, they are almost entirely depen-
dent; and it is obvious that any defects in the tempers and eharae-
ters of those who are constantly with the sick must exercise a hurt-
ful influence upon the state of their minds, and must tend to neutral.
lee the effect of the religious instruction and consolation which they
receive while in the hospital.
It is also natter of general notoriety that great difficulty is found
in obtaining well qualified nurses to attend on patients in private
families, especially in those of the middle and lower classes; and
parochial clergymen feel the want of competent persons on whom
they could rely, in visting the sick of their respective parishes, and
administering to their bodily wants.
The most effectual, perhaps the only effectual, remedy fbr these
evils, is to train up a body of nurses who shall be taught to look
upon their work as a religious one, to undertake it with habits of
self-control, and with a mind understanding it fully, and prepared for
its trying and painful duties.
The want here spoken of has been Mt in other countries as well as
in our own, and attempts have been made to meet it. Orders of
persons devoting themselves to visiting the sick exist in Roman
Catholic countries : an " Institution of Deaconesses" has been found
useful in Prussia ; a recent attempt to improve the respectability of
professional nurses has worked beneficially in England. The Insti-
tution which it is proposed to found under the name of "Training
Institution for Nurses" will be based on the doctrine and discipline
of the Church of England ; and it will seek to accomplish its object,
not by selecting the self-devoted few who am permitted by freedom
from other duties to give themselves entirely to this, but by endea-
vouring to act, both directly and indirectly, upon the whole body of
rpersons wh
charaeter of o are pursuing this as their reg
to its ular calling in life. To
aise the the class by offering members a training
which shall qualify them for their professional work, and be at the
same time essentially a religious training; to hold out, to those who
are justified in seeking for it, the prospect of a higher professional
position than they could otherwise obtain ; and to afford also to
those who are ready (without hope of any earthly reward) to give
themselves to this work as one of Christian love, a legitimate field of
labour: these are the means which, as they have been successful
in forming the high character of the clergy and physicians of Eng-
land, may, it is hoped, be new instrumental, under God's blessing,
in raising that of a body which is at present so much in want of
improvement.
It is proposed that the Training Institution should be under the
immediate superintendence of a clergyman of the United Church of
England and Ireland, as Master.
That the inmates of the Institution should consist of three
classes :

1. Those under training as probationers.
2. Those who, after pulsing through the period of probation sa-
tisfactorily, are admitted as nurses, on condition of their engaging
to continue in connexion with the Institution for a period of five
years from their admission. During this period they will be clothed
and maintained, and receive a fixed annual stipend, and in return
will be entirely wider the control of the governing body of the In-
stitution.

At the end of these five years they will be entitled to receive from
the Institution a certificate of their qualification as nurses, and
thenceforward to pursue their calling, either in connexion with the
Institution, or independent of any direct control from it. It is be-
lieved that this will be a very important step towards gradually
raising the character of the whole class. A nurse having this certi-
cats will necessarily occupy a higher position than others, will be
likely to set an example whieh can scarcely fail to have a good effect
upon them, and will encourage those who are looking forward to this
as their work in life, to follow in the same course, and submit them-
selves to the training of this Institution.

T. In addition to these there will be a class of sisters, which is in-
tended to comprise persons, of whatever station in life, who are
willing to devote themselves to the work of attending the sick and
poor, or of educating others for it under an organised system like
that which ill be here provided for them.
The management of the Institution will be confided to a council
of twenty-four members, (exclusive cf the muter, who will be
ex officio a member,) belonging to the United Church of England
and Ireland, who shall be chosen by the Governors out of their
own body.

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A donation of fifty guineas in one payment, or in several payments
within four years, or an annual subscription of five guineas, will con-
stitute a Governor.

A donation
ofofutrwyeneatyrcguorinaiieasainnn ounce psauybmseerniptiloorn tont
tswev.ergalum. pay-
ments
will constitute a Donor.
The Lord Bishop of London has sanctioned the plan now sub-
mitted to the public, and has kindly consented to become President
of the Institution.
It has also received the approbation of the Lord Archbishop of
York, and the Bishops of Lielitleld, Salisbury, Gloucester and Bristol,
Ripon, and Norwich.
The Rev. C. Wordsworth, D.D., George Frere, Esq., and Dr.
Latham, have kindly consented to act as Trustees to the Insti-
tution.
henry Sykes Thornton, Esq., has consented to act as Treasurer.
The following gentlemen have formed themselves into a Provi-
sional Committee, to arrange the details of the Institution, anti to
solicit assistance for Its establishment and maintenance :
Rev. J. M. S. Anderson, Lincoln's-inn.
Rev. M. Biggs, 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
W. Bowman, Esq., 14, Golden-square.
J. E. Bowman, Esq., 7, Chapel-terrace, Bayswater.
Dr. Mervyn A. N. Crawford, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-
square.
J. W. Cunningham, Esq.,
Rev. J. F. Daniell, Donnington Glebe, Chichester.
- Robert Few, Esq., Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Dr. George Fincham, Spring. gardens.
George Ewe, Esq., Bedford.square.
Rev. J. 0. W. Hawelss, Norwood, Surrey.
C. Ileberden, Esq , 10, Old-sqaare, Lincoln's-inn.
Dr. Latham, 36, Grosvenor-place.
Rev. Dr. Jelf, King's College, London.
Rev. S. It. Maitland, Newington-terrace, Kennington.
Rev. F. D. Maurice, Queen-square, BIOOIIISMITY.
R. Partridge, Esq., New-street, Spring-gardens.
Riltoce,hve. v
.rElt.s. H. Plumptre, King's College, London.
Rev. A. Pott, Cuddesden, near Oxford.
Rev.
tSehreernt
E 43,441. Great aNt
eowr Ormond-street.
Bridge-street,
id- st r ect .
.Nlevlovo- sdtwr eaertit,
IDt e Todd,
T .1.1.
Spring-gardens.,llristol.
ll.r S. Thornton, Esq., Birchin-lane.
Blackfriars.
Rev. W. G. Todd, Bristol.
Rev. Dr. Wordsworth,illing to contribute w'
Cloisters Westminster Abbey.
Persons their assistance to this object,
either by personal exertions, or by subscribing to its funds, are re-
quested to communicate with any
of Lhe Members of the
Provisional
Committee, or with any of the Ho E
Plumptro, King's College, London,norary Secretaries, the Rev. E. 11.
pel-terrsee, Bayswater. and J. E. Bowman, Esq., 7, Cha-

Subscription; nay also be paid to Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand,
or to Messrs. NyiWarcs, Dessau, and Co. Blrckin-lane, to the AO.
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unwell, and the symptoms were so alarming, as to
require the constant presence of three medical gentle-
men. The Noble Earl, after being cupped and bk-d,
experienced great relief, and we are now informed is
gradually recovering, and considered out Qf danger.

THE YOUNG IRELAND PARTY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Your insertion of the accompanying letter
in the columns of your journal will much oblige
your obedient servant,
THE SON OF AN UNITED IRISHMAN.

TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND-
London, May 23,
1848.
Fellow-Countrymen,—I will offer no apology for
addressing you in the present instance, as I think it
the duty of every true. hearted Irishman to endeavour
to stay your progress ere you rush to that Rubicon
of ruin to which certain parties seem determined to
hurry you on.
I will not offer one word of comment on the recent
disagreement of the juries empannellei to try the
traversers Messrs. O'Brien and Meagher, further than
to express my belief that by this circumstance you
are erroneously induced to conclude that Irish juries
can no longer be found to convict parties arraigned
for political offences however glarirg,
or for the
expression of opinions however illegal or dangerous
their tendency.
For some months past you are constantly appealed
to in very chivalrous language to prepare yourselves
to meet England's disciplined battalions in battle
array, and a plan of warfare is laid down for your
guidance in the columns of the United Irishman news-
paper, the fallacy of which I will endeavour to con-
vince you of, though that delicacy of feeling which
belongs to every honourable man shall prevent me
from using a single expression calculated to wound
the feelings of Mr. Mitchel whilst suffering imprison-
ment for the expression of opinions, which are not, I
believe and hope, in accordance with those of the
majority of the Irish people. I do not attempt to
make a heart-stirring appeal to your passions, but I
intend addressing myself to your common sense and
native shrewdness, and I commence doing so by ask-
ing you a simple question.
If a matter of mercantile speculation were on the
tapis, previous to your embarking capital therein
would you not inquire as to the solvency of those
whose names appeared most prominent in the under-
taking ?

Act with similar caution in the present instance,
and ask yourselves what claim have these political
innovators on your confidence ? Let us first in-
vestigate the pretensions of Mr. O'Brien to the revo-
lutionary leadership for which he is so ardent an
aspirant. I will not charge Mr. O'Brien with the
acts of some of his sires of old—l do not hold him
accountable for the sanguinary deeds of Morgan
O'Brien, better known to the great mass of my coun-
trymen by the name of Morrogh an Thothaun
(Morgan the Firebrand), but I will test his own
public claims by his public acts ; his private character
I believe to be totally irreproachable.
In the year 1828 Mr. O'Brien represented the
borough of Ennis in the Imperial Parliament, and
was a member of the Catholic Association. You are
all too well acquainted with the eventful incidents of
that period to render it necessary for me to remind
you that to offer successful opposition to Vesey Fitz-
gerald was of vital importance to the Catholic body,
and William Smith O'Brien was the individual
selected by them to fight the battle for their emanci-
pation against the Government of the day in the per-
son of their official.
He accepted the post of honour, but at the eleventh
hour, when it was deemed too late to procure another
candidate, he changed his mind, the faithful sentinel
of Irish liberty deserted his post. Clare was inevit-
ably lost, had not your late illustrious Chief flung
himself into the breach—freedom triumphed—ascen-
dancy was abolished—equality established—the creed
for which your forefathers made such heroic sacrifices
ceased to be under the ban of the law, and for Mr.
O'Brien's magnanimous share in achieving your con-
quest, he now claims your warmest gratitude, your
most boundless confidence.
Mr. Meagher is a gentleman to whose splendid
talents I pay the highest homage, of whose sterling
honesty I entertain not the least doubt; but his en-
thusiasm has led him astray, and his ardent tempera-
ment has attached him to a party unworthy of asso-
ciation with such a man.
I reserve any comment on Mr. Mitchel for the
reasons already stated.
Mr. Doheny is, no doubt, a man who has made
splendid sacrifices in the popular cause, and on refe-
rence to the very Rev. Dean 111‘Donnell, and the elec-
tors of the reformed (?) borough of Cashel, you will
be informed that when the property attached to their
corporation was transferred from the PenefathN family
fn annrPlut}riOt? /WWI, M.. Lfloneny.,
management of these revenues, has given the best evi-
dence of his aptitude for assisting in the financial
department of the Irish Provisional Government
hereafter to be formed,
first expelled from Dublin Castle, and the British
army shall have been scattered in flight before the
Confederate forces. when my Lord Clarendon is
Allow me to ask you how many of the Catholic
hierarchy and clergy have placed themselves in the
ranks of the Confederation ? Is the Roman Catholic
Primate a subscriber to their warlike doctrines ?
Does the name of Doctor Murray appear registered
on their roll ? Does John of Tuam give in his ad-
the example of his
hesion, or is his Grace of Cashel prepared to follow
predecessor of olden times, Cormac
M`Cuillenan--doff his archiepiscopal
mitre—cast
aside the crozier—grasp the sword—shout the wild
war-cry of his country, and lead a body of Irish
Gallowglasses to the charge ? The feeling of the
suffragan bishops may be best inferred by reading
the letters of the Right Reverend Doctor Kennedy
to the Reverend James Bermingham, one of the half-
dozen church militant members of the Irish Confede-
ration, and his subsequent suspension of that gentle-
man and also the Rev. John Kenyon.
The intentions of the clergy may be best estimated
by the sentiments expressed by the Rev. Dr.
M'Enery, in a very able address some time since
published, and which may be looked on as a mirror
of the opinions of the great body of the clergy of his
grade, for, with the exception of Mr. Bermingham,
who has since his suspension resigned their brother-
hood, I believe there is not a parish priest in Ireland
favourable to the Insurrectionary movement, and
without any personal disrespect to that gentleman, I
beg to remind you that his political liberality is quite
new-born, as a few years since—for reasons well
known to others as well as to himself—he was a
staunch supporter of Toryism, and earned the good
will of many by his virulent abuse of that man who
was the great defender of his order and was, with
all his faults, the greatest Irishman of modern
times, the ever-to-be-lamented Daniel O'Connell.
With very few exceptions have you
a man of pro-
perty in favour of this war party ? In '9B you had
many like Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Arthur O'Con-
nor, &c., and persons too who, like the first-named, had
served in the army, and had practical experience of
the mode of managing troops in a field of action.
Have you now a single man capable of leading you
on, or directing your military movements ? Where
is your cavalry ? what substitute have you for artil-
lery ? I may be told you would be quite safe from
these two arms of the service by retiring to the moun-
tains, where neither could act against you, and that in
the guerilla warfare which would ensue you would
have the advantage over the British infantry. To be
sure you would, were they silly enough to follow you,
but they would leave you in undisputed possession of
your mountain fastnesses, until hunger would force
you to abandon your hill sides, but when the
cravings of appetite would oblige you, at all risks, to
m o'er in i
sections, and
her famish-
ing brood." Suppose that all these anticipations are
re-enter the plains, a well-appointed army would be
°
ready
many
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wouldmowy
u screadow
false, and that victory should bless ? your arms with
success, what would be the result
When some years since, by a change in the law,
augmented,
flung
u and
from
some of the agitators at present urging you on to re-
volt became the administrators of property heretofore
vested in the old corporations, did they act ho-
nestly towards you ? The name of the party
was certainly changed,
but the
top, and prtohnait
the
lash whose smart was most acute was wielded by the
profligacy
of the jobbing continued—nay,
found that there was no tyrant so grinding, no aris-
tocrat so overbearing, as the demagogue who, amidst
theth e
mireturmoilhoof; tan
niboiling n
e
m at was
arm of one of your own class. If, then, you could
cast off British control, and such persons as I have
before described were placed in power, think you
not that the higher the public spoliator ascends, the
seanion, p
" wider becomes his horoscope, the more boundless
his rapacity ? He, who filched from the acres
attached to an ancient borough by royal charter,
will be most happy to have the sphere of his useful-
ness extended to plunder the national treasury placed
at his disposal by a paroxysm of modern insanity,
thinking it the height of impertinence for any Lazarus
amongst you to expect the crumbs from the table of
this plebeian Dives of your own creation, and like
Frankenstein, you would discover, when
too late,
that you had given existence to a monster which you
could not control.
But to anticipate success is sheer insanity. You
may point to France, and show how a revolution was
effected by the populace. You are aware that there
is a National Guard in France, the populace are for
the most part disciplined and trained to military ex-
erolses, and there is a warm sympathetic feeling be-