The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-19 00:00:00

MR. HOOD.

The following circular is about to be issued:—" This
distinguished writer—who has for upwards of twenty
years entertained the public with a constant succession
Of comic and humoristic works, in the whole range of
which not a single line of immoral tendency, or calcu-
lated to pain an individual, can be pointed out; whose
poems and serious writings rank among the noblest mo-
dern contributions to our national literature; and whose
pen was -ever the ready and efficient advocate of the
unfortunate and the oppressed (as recently, for instance,
in the admirable ' Song of the Shirt,' which gave so
remarkable an impulse to the movement on behalf of
the distressed needlewomen)—has left, by his death, a
widow and two children in straitened and precarious cir-
cumstances, with no other means of subsistence than a
small pension, terminable on the failure of the widow's
life, barely sufficient to supply a family of three with
common necessaries, and totally inadequate for the edu-
cation and advancement of the orphan children. Even
this scanty resource has been, of necessity, forestalled to
a considerable extent during the last five months, in or-
der to meet the heavy sick room and funeral expenses.
Under these circumstances a few noblemen and g,ntle-
men, admirers of Thomas Hood's genius and hurnanitv,
have formed a Committee, for the purpose of raining a
sum by subscription, to be held in trust for the benefit
of the family during the widow's life, and at her death
to be divided between the children, whom that event
will leave destitute, Publicity is given to this design.
in order that Thomas Hood's admirers throughout the
eountry may have an opportunity of publicly testifying
their recognition of his genius, and their sense of his
personal worth." We heartily hope the design may
proper. Lords Northampton and Francis Egerton,
and Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, are on the list of Commit-
tee ; and some handsome donations have already been
made.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS PROTECTION SOCIETY.—
At a special meeting of the Committee of the above Society,
held at the office, on Friday, the 16th instant, Mr. L Jones
in the chair, the following sums were awarded :—To T. H.
Caslake, one guinea, for detecting W. Simpson for robbing
Mr. Amoss, Bell, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, of a brass
candlestick. To George Taylor, 154 F, one guinea, fir ap-
prehending a man for robbing Mr. Moffatt, One Tun, One
Tun-court, Strand, of a hogshead cask; and to Esther Anne
Peters, a gratuity of half-a-guinea for apprehending Eliza-
beth Griffin, for robbing her master, Mr. Alexander, South-
wark Arms, Tooley-street, of money from the till. At a
previous meeting the following sums were also awarded To Benjamin Judd, 385 N, one guinea, for apprehending
Henry Bates, for robbing Mr. Healey, Drapers' Arms,
Barnsbury-park, of pewter pots; being an old offender, the
punishment was transportation for *seven years. To Wm.
Baggy; is one guinea, fer detecting Sarah Cox in robbing her
emp'ioyer, Mr. Jones, Grapes, Great Earl-street, Seven-
dia is, of two pounds in silver. And to Robert Cosser and
Ja tiles Price, half-a-guinea each, for detecting and appre-
James Welch, for robbing Mr. Gyett, King and
Prince
eof Wales, Brick-street, PiccadillY, of a stuffed squirrel
end