The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-27 00:00:00

THE DUBLIN CRIMEAN BANQUET.

So far everything progresses satisfactorily, and
neither politics nor polemics have disturbed the
general harmony. Archbishop Cullen has sent in
a donation of 51., and the Rev. Mr. Parseley, the
Roman Catholic garrison chaplain, and in all re-
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spects quite a model clergyman, has contributed an
excellent letter upon a subject which cannot fail
to excite attention at the present time, when the
interests and comforts of the private soldiers are so
justly the objects of public solicitude. The rev.
gentleman, in torwarding his subscription, ex-
presses 3. regret that some less transitory token of
public approbation has not been adopted than a
mere banquet, and he adds :
" There is an object much more dear to the soldier's
heart than even the flattering approval of his country,
and that is the welfare of his children. Let us consider
what sympathy this interesting object has met with from
the country. There are two well endowed institutions—
the Duke of York's school in England, and the Hibernian
School in the Phosnix-park,' both of which are mere nur-
series for Cie army, as they afford refuge only to the sons
of soldiers, who are trained in them for military life, while
the daughters—`the most helpless of the soldier's family'
—now deprived of the shelter which these institutions
would afford—are left to the precarious charity of friends
(if they have any) as destitute as themselves. You will
accord me your sympathy in this matter when I inform

you that during 23 years attendance on the military hos-
pitals in Dublin, I have attended many and many a
gallant fellow whose last moments were embittered by
gloomy furebcdings as to the future fate of his children,
particularly of his daughters. Oh ! Sir, how elevate a
soul, so oppressed, to thoughts of another and brighter
world—bow calm the heart thus racked with the idea
that his children had no prospect but the poor-house,
beggary, or worse? On this subject I was honoured
with many interviews by his Royal Highness the Duke

of Cambridge, when commanding the Leinster district,
at the first of which I informed him of a regulation just
then made by the Thard of Governors of the Hibernian
School, prohibiting for the future the admission of female
ehildyen. His Grace turned to Major-General (then
C,,lonvl) Forster, and a=ked him—if not with an expres-
sion of indignation, at least with surprise--'.How they
e•iuld think of shutting the door of that institutinn against
tie roost helpless of the soldier's family,' and added that
he was going to London, and would try to have reversed
a resolution of which he highly disapproved.' His Royal
Highness then made me—not for the first time--the me-
dium of his charitaMe donation to a widcry with four

daughters, left destitute I.y a soldier wko hid been la
years a serjeai.t. From iny experience of the deep in•
terest which his Grace takes in the comfort and welare

of the soldier I take this opportunity sincerely to con-
gratulate the army on his Royal Highness's appoint-
ment to the command-in-chief of her Majesty's forces,
and I may venture to aQsnre you, sir, of his Royal ay m-
athy if you lend your powerful- aid in behalf of
these wh he so feelingly designated the most help-
less of the soldier's family. In conclusion, I would ask,
cou'd the residue of the patristic' and 'central relief '
funds subscribed since the opening of the war be better
applied than to found two orphan a-ylums—one for the
Catholic, and the othtr for the Protestant daughters of
soldiers who had been lawfully married I"

THE DUBLIN HOSPITALS.
The following is the list of the new Board of
Superintendence of the Hospitals of Durham, ap-
pointed by the Lord-Lieutenant under the act of
last session. The selection has given general satis-
faction :—Lord Talbot do Malahide, Chief Justice
Monahan, Sir Philip Crampton, Mr. G. A. Hamil-
ton, M.P. ; Dr. Johnson, Dr. Stokes, Dr. Corrigan,
Surgeon Cusack, Mr. Jonathan Pim, Mr. George
Roe, Mr. Richard Kelly, and Mr. Thomas Hutton.
The secretary, who is to receive a salary, is not yet
appointed.