The Sun. — 1850-12-03 (London, England)

LONDON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1850.  Our Most Gracious SOVEREIGN, with a benevolence becoming her august pthirion, and according,well with the known generosity of her character, h 33 recently contributed a sum of fifty pounds towards p. subscription now getting up for the assistance of the unfortunate Mrs. HOLLEST, of Frimley. It cannot be forgotten under what afflicting circumstances thf lady in question was suddenly deprived of her husband, by the band of a burglarious assassin. The courage and presence of miad evinced by her in a position of peculiar peril were as beyond praise as the greatness of her after misfortune was removed from the reach of alleviation. Considering, moreover, the excellence of the unhappy gentleman, her husband, a clergyman of unblemished reputation, of unoffending habits, of tranquil and religious life, and bearing in mind also the appalling abruptness with which he was struck down in the midst of his home, in the vigour of health, and in the moment when death was least anticipated, the event in which the subscription referred to originated could scarcely be of a nature more calculated to excite our sympathies. Condolence is unluckily the only reparation capable of being offered by society to the family which its remissness has thus lamentably plunged into affliction. That condolence will be merely :idle: and ineffective :unless it prove a really practical tribute of regret, offered in the hour of bitterest necesaity to the innocent victim of the outrage. After the noble example given by the SOVEREIGN, we cannot doubt that the project to which we are here directing attention will et wits the support that ni :;.Y,lit be juqly expected. A list of sub!criptions, headed with a donation of such munificence coming from the noblest personage in the land, cannot surely f;il in extending to limits compatible with tho necessities of the occasion. For the sorrow under which Mrs. HOLLEST is now bowed down might have befallen any one amongst us as reasonably as herself. The  sanctity (X (40.er housieholdi might as readily have  been violated, the privacy of another home at easily p3vpii.plwrupon; and now that she has provcd the vic" dnr rt,,f_ibSe most lit'inotra acts of violence it be‘ owes thy ttruiltlib evidence the. 6 incerity of their un doisk)ticl e/miseration. Oar household grids appeal' ,• , •  { ' 1:7')  S  to us in her behalf with all the eloquence of those blessed ' i home azlociations surrounding the least and highest i I amongst ul, from the QUEEN in her palace to the ; I peasant in her cottage. Not :to the most callous amongst us should those earnest entreaties be ai-1 dressed in vain, coming to us as they do in those ; . piercing tones of anguish which are wrung from the survivors of the murdered. Every consideration, in short, combines to force upon the public sympathy the affliction of the unhappy lady, now left alone in the world to watch over the interests of her children. From among the clerical body especially she may reasonably look for that earnest and practical condolence which we have already specified —her case coming home of course with peculiar meaning to the bosom of their domestic circles. From them she may look for the assistance which would come from that quarter with particular grace, taking into account the sympathies of position and tha gentle feelings inspired by uniting at once the practice and the preaching of Christianity. Among the ecclei• a,tios of the Established Ctiurch are numbered many conspieunni for their virtues and their belieficelice, men exemplary in their lives and -admirable in alt their relations to society, :"romp whose generosity the persons interested in conducting this teinioniat to Mrs. HOLLEST may confid,iii ly expect assi,tanc,-. Stir will their anticipati„„s, we are satisfied, be dinappointed in this particular. Tne wealthier class of the clergy especially will participate, we feel assured, with becoming alacrity, in a cause so eminently calculated to elicit their approval. With them, moreover, will be united, we believe and are sanguine, a very large section, indeed, of the lay community—our hopes in this regard being confirmed by the reflection that the griefs of Mrs. HOLLEST appeal, in the very first instance, to the kindliness and humanity of her sex, that sex which has been called the gentler sex from the greater delicacy of its sensibilities, that sex the most bewitching charm of which—its tender-heartedness—has just been vindicated, as we have observed, by the loftiest lady in the land, our beloved and gracious