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No. 17,371.]
LONDON, TUESDAY
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AN APPEAL to the
WIDOW of WILLIAM
COXMT'

PUBLIC in behalf of the
THOM, Poet of Inverury.
ETTF.S.

Provost Thorns Mr. John Watson
Rev. George Gillian Mr. James H. Ower
Rev. J. It. M‘Gavin Mr. William Boyack
Dr. Arrot Mr. William Lett
Mr. James Westland Mr. James Chalmers, Jun.
Mr. Patrick Watson Mr. Arthur Begg, jun.
Mr. Thomas Saunders.
TREASURER—Mr. Patrick Watson.
SECRETARY—Mr. William Boyack.
The Committee anpointed 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, in behalf of the
trust which has been conided 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 beime the pnblic, 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 mced of
praise to which they considered his merits entitled.
The life of William Thom has, in'esd, 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 Hawkhill
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 via.
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 28th of February. He has lett 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 tha. 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 INVERITRY 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 Wiliam Thom, the Inverury poet. For
some time past he had be- a 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 A.M., he departed this life. He has left behind him
something more than a name—some true and beautitul 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. Ile 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 cast 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." Ile 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 Dahlia-
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 Isis widow and his fatherless
bairns.

Messrs. Chalmers, Middlet,m, and Shaw, Booksellers, and Mr.
Mills, Perfumer, have kindly undertaken to receive donations.
The smallest sums will be welcomed
I am, Slr, yours truly,
GEORGE GILFILLAIT.
The last verses of the late William Thom, written shortly before
his death :

SONG OF THE DWELLERS IN DEAN YALE.
Tune—" Miller o' Dee."
While we laugh a'ad sing, in this happy ring,
With a bright and a brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the suu 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
On the homes of misery.
Man was not made for this world alone,
The world was lent to man ;
'Tie 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 closer cling,
In our bright and brotherly glee,
And never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.

W. THO3f.

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LITERATURE.
PARTNERSHIP "EN COM MANDITE ;" or
PARTNERSHIP WITH LIMITED LIABI-
LITIES. 1 Vol. Bro.
Appropriately dedicated to Lord Brougham, as
" the earnest advocate of law reform," this volume is
an able argument, with illustrations from the compa-
rative trade and commerce of this and other countries,
in favour of partnership en commandite, a system
advantageously engrafted on the mercantile law of
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, as well
as in the United States of America. Here—unless
there be a special exemption by the provisions of an
Act of Parliament, a charter, or letters patent—every
shareholder in a joiat-stock company is liable to the
fullest extent of his property, no matter how small
his investment, for all the liabilities of the con-
cern. On the cantmandite principle, the liability
extends no further than the amount of capital which
each party actually puts down as his share. The
work before us strongly urges the adoption of that
system, as affording very favourable opportunities for
the employment of capital, the circulation of wages,
and the revival of our home and colonial trade. This
is not a law-book, it is rather a review of the condition
and prospects of our trade and commerce, particu-
larly with reference to the competition which the
Zolle-erein union of Germany and, the United States
of America are establishing against our manufactures,
both for home consumption and for the supply of
countries which we had heretofore considered as our
own peculiar and profitable markets. The inference
is, that as the competition, which is rapidly in-
creasing, is likely to injure our foreign
trade, we should s eek a compensation in
our home and colonial markets, and that
partnership
en commandite, with its limited liability, would
supply the requisite capital to effect this with indivi-
dual and national gain. An introductory chapter,
partly autobiographical (though the work is anony-
mous), gives some curious particulars relative to the
rise and progress of the cotton trade in this country.
Succeeding chapters treat of the trade and commerce
of 1847, circulation of wages, competition and decline
of trade, cause and effect of panics, competition of
American and British trade, industrial resources of
Ireland and the colonies, and employment of capital.
'We fear there is only too much truth in this sarcastic
account of that fondness for display which has
hastened, if not caused, many disasters of late
years :
" One of the great errors of the present time, espe-
cially injurious by its peculiar operation in the commer-
cial world, is the constant endeavour to keep up the ap-
pearance of greater wealth than is actually possessed.
It was not the fashion, formerly, for the merchant or the
trader to aim at a rivalry with the extravagance of rank
and fashion. The merchant or the trader did not then
disdain a residence in the house where he carried on his
business and made his money. He indulged in no ex-
travagance nor ostentation; but plodded on, honestly
and perseveringly, until, at length, he had sufficient
means to retire, leaving, it might be, a good name and
a fair capital to the son or grandson who was to con-
tinue the business. A new system has sprung up. The
merchant, the trader, even the retail shopkeeper in nu-
merous instances, disdains anything so low as a resi-
dence on the premise,: where his business is conducted.
The merchant shifts from the City and its precincts to
the most fashionable streets, terraces, or square of the
West-end, where his establishment—liveried servants,
stud, equipages, plate, furniture, pictures, sculpture, and
entertainments—rival, and often eclipse those of the he-
reditary and titled possessors of landed property. Per-
haps he may also have a suburban villa in which to
ruralise, as well as he can, during the summer and
autumn months. In like manner, the trader and the
shopkeeper are disgusted with the place where they con-
descend to transact the business by which they live. On
a more limited scale, they follow the example of the
merchant. They have their villas' in the suburbs—
keep up an interchange of sumptuous dinner and other
parties with their friends—are particularly knowing on
the subject of vintages—affect a taste for the fine arts—
are critical on the comparative merits of Jenny Lind,
Grisi, and Alboni—are in ecstasies over the pirouettes of
Cerito and Fabri—contrive to waste time and money at
the fashionable watering places with their families, and
live, in fact, as if the income-tax were a thing unknown
and unthought of: After a time, the night comes. The
grand show and extravagance naturally pave the way to
the Gazette. The bankrupt is very much pitied. His
estate may pay some eighteenpence in the pound. He
is encouraged—invited—pressed to recommence busi-
ness. He gets whatever credit he requires. He pro-
bably pursues the same course again, and most probably
with the same results. Now, if a proper principle of
rectitude prevailed in the commercial world, such things
as these could not occur, or, if they did, they would heap
shame and bring punishment upon those who did them.
On the Continent there are more prosecutions for frau-
dulent bankruptcies in one year, than in England in
twenty : yet who will say that there is less fraud in
England?"
" Young Ireland " may wince under the follow-
ing remarks, but their truth is undeniable :
" Of that self-dependence, then, which would labour
for the public and for private advantage, there is little
in Ireland. Nearly every article of wearing apparel,
every necessary, every luxury, is got from England.
The very paper and ink a man writes with, the quills or
steel pens he uses, the wax or wafers with which he
closes his letter, the coat he puts upon his back, the hat
which he puts upon his head, his gloves, shoes, handker-
chiefs,—all articles in metal, from the penknife and the
razor to the steam-engine and the thrashing-machine,—
whatever is required for use or show, by necessity or
luxury, the Irishman obtains from England. He will
not believe that he can produce them himself; he cannot
believe that, if produced in Ireland, they can be as good
as those which are imported. He talks of patriotism,—
and gets everything from Encland; he is eloquent over
the poverty of his native land,—but makes no effort to
remove that poverty by energy and industry ! He con-
siders
it an amazingly fine tbing to cherish the excite-
ment
of believing that a Parliament in College-green
would make the country great, glorious, and free,'—
what she never was. He gets up a sensation, every now
and then, in favour of Irish manufactures;' and ha-
rangues, with indignation and eloquence, against the
use of English materials for dress or domestic consump-
tion. And, even while he is stringing fine sentences
together, in an effective and brilliant oration (thinking
all the time how well it will look in the newspapers),
English broad cloth is upon his limbs; a French hat, of'
choice Regent-street make, is on his head; his hands
and feet are adorned with gloves and boots from Paris;
his silk handkerchief is redolent of Spitallields; and his
very innermost garment was wrought in a cotton factory
at Manchester, for he patriotically prefers English
calico to Irish linen! How much better would it be, if
these eloquent and high-minded gentlemen—who talk so
fervently and write with such intensity—would really
apply themselves to remedy the evils they deplore, con-
demn, and get angry with. Let them determine, really
and truly, to give the preference to Irish manufactures,
and the thing is done. In this, as in most others, the
first step properly taken is the conquering of the diffi-
culty. They must not expect that, as by a miracle,
every branch of Irish manufactures can in a moment
equal those which they have hitherto imported. But let
there once be the demand, and the supply will be not
only abundant but good. Skilled labour can readily be
procured from the places where it has done so much;
and it would be an imputation which the Irish do not
deserve, to think that they could not as readily learn

how to do things properly as other people have learned."
The chapter on the circulation of wages is the most
important in the work; it must be studied per se.
The American statistics, brought down to the month
of March, are full of valuable facts. Indeed, the
whole work is literally a storehouse of facts, adroitly
brought to bear upon the subject of the work. We
can easily p,rceive that the pen of a clear and prac-
tised writer has been at work here upon materials
which extensive experience has carefully collected.
The work ought to be studied by statesmen, mer-
chants, and lawyers ; it addresses itself, indeed, to all
classes. An appendix very properly supplies a view
of the law and nature of partnership; a digest of
the Parliamentary evidence on the conanandite system;
the law of limited partnership in France, Ireland, and
New York, and the heads of a law, to have like
operation here, which the Hon. F. Baring communi-
cated to Mr. Bellenden Tier in 1837.

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LadyoAngrgs
Dover,
Countesses of Egremont and Zetland; Viscountesses
Dillon, Dungarvon, and Gage; the Marchioness of
LS lai
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stltirea
tDh ,e)dwealgi
,t. rs:lNct. a, r cszici i.on elsisi
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were the Duchess of Leeds' White Eagle quadrille, the
Marchioness of Aylesbury's mazurka, the Duchess of
Bedford's Oak-leaf quadrille, and Mrs. Milner Gibson's
Red Plume quadrille. The whole affair went off with
great spirit, dancing being kept up till an advanced hour
in the morning.
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THE MURDER OF A WOMAN BY A SOLDIER.
We have been informed that the woman who was shot
by the soldier named Kelly, at Newport barracks, in
Monmouthshire, died at twelve o'clock on Sunday, and
that an inquest was held on the body yesterday, When
the jury returned a verdict of " Winn! murder" against
the accused.

ittee and
hone-
s of the
REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF LoNnoN.---A
rda el peul
et 3c'
t-icohna icrommemn
wards of the city of London was yesterday held at the
rmaereyt ing
secretaries of
the
oct"tihremleinb 'e
London Tavern, John Abel Smith, Lsq., M.P., in the
chair. The opinion of the meeting was that Baron
Rothschild should present himself to the HOlllO, and de-
mand to be received as Member for the city of London,
and take all constitutional means that may be necessary
for asserting his rights and privileges as a Member of
the Legislature.