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October 7, 1854.] THE LEADER. 957
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October 7, 1854.] The Leader. 957
October 7 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 957
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(^ ENTBAL ASSOCIATION Aid of the \ J Wives and families . Widows and Orphans , of Soldiers ordered on active service . TJNDEB THE JOINT PATRONAGE OP HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN , FIELD-MARSHAL H . R . H . THE PRINCE ALBERT , K . G ., AND H . E . H . THE DUCHESS OF KENT . Tditt = T $ a . ixov & . HIS GHACE THE ARCHBISHOP OP CANTERBURY . LIEUT .-GENERAL HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKJB OF CAMBRIDGE , K . G . ecfiatrnxan of ffitneial ffiommUtec . GENERAL THE EARL OF BEAUCHAMP . Fic ^ Gtyairmen . "VISCOUNT INGESTBIE . lst Life-Guards . LORD LILFORD . _ QLvmUts-SIR JOHN KIRKLAND , LORD HENJtY CHOLMONDELEY , M . P ., and MAJOR THE HONOURABLE H . L . POWYS . © nmm £ tt « : e . The Lord Bishop of London . John Lettsom Elliott , Esq . The Duke of Manchester . Sir Robert Gerard , Bart . The Marquis of Blandford , Hon . A . Kinnaird , M . P . M-P . Lieut .-Col . Brownlow Knox , The Earl of Annesley , M . P . M . P . The Earl of Cavan . Hon . Capt . William Siuart The Earl of Effiiigliain . Knox , M . P . The Earl of Shaftesbury . Captain Laifan , M . P . Viscount Hill . Lieut .-Colonel Lawrenson . Viscount Mandeville , M . P . Lieut-Col . Hon . J . Lindsay , LordSondes . M . P Lord Edward Howard , M . P . Right ' Hon . Joseph Napier , Lord Henry Cholmondeley , M . P . _ M . P , , ¦ ' . Colonel Sidney North , M . P . Lord Charles Clinton , M . P . Captain Henry Owen , R .. E . Lord FeTersham . ... John Wilson Patten , Es ^ ., Captain Archdall . M . p . M . P Colonel IBaker . . _ Melville Portal , Esq ., M . P . Colonel Boldero , M-P . ¦ • ¦ Major the Hon . H . ^ L . Po wy s , Lieut j -Colonel Hunter Blair , 60 th Royal Rifles . ia . P . . Andrew Spottiswoode , Esa . Major Cartan , Staff-Officer of Augustus Stafford , Esq ., M . P . Pensioners . Itev . E-J . Stainforth . Irteut-Cpl . Caulfleld , M . P , Lieut .-Col . Taylor , M-P . J . C . Colcmhoun , Esq . Captain W . B . Vernon . Capt . JV Douglas , 60 th Royal Sir William Terrier , M . P . Rifles . Shirley Woolmer , Esq . Colonel Dunne , IIP . General Wyndhain , M . P . - 'aufcitcrs . « E ? RG ?_ WILLIAM BELL , Esq ., Law Fire Office . B . I * . SOWELL , Esq ., Bank of Eugland . Stoasurer . SIR JOHN KIRKLAND , No . 80 , Pail-Mall . - 3 § onorar |) ^ ccrttarnr , MAJOR THE HON . HENRY LITTLETON POWTS . 60 th Royal Rifles . assistant ^ ccrctarn . FREDERICK HAYLEY BELL , Esq . Tho following Report was unanimously passed at a General Committee Meeting on the 3 rd of October , 1854 . Tho Right Honourable the Earl of Effingham in . the chair . FIRST HALF-YEARLY REPORT OF THE CENTRAL ASSOCIATION . This Association originated at tho National ' Club on the 24 th of February , 1854 , and was joined on the 25 th February by a Deputation from the Army and Navy Club . w ? ,,. ~ fori : Qallv instituted at a public meeting held in Wilhs's Rooms on tlio 7 th March , 1854 1 ( tho late deeply lamented General Sir Peregrine Maitland , G . C . B ., in tho chair ) , and has now completed tlio flrsb half-year of its operations . The Vast amount of undeserved misery tliat this Association has boen tho means of alleviating during the past six months , mducos the Committee to make a half-yearly Report of their proceeding ; and this , not only to show that . the noble oliort mado toy tho country on bolialf of tho silent sufferers has not been a fruitless one ; but also to direct public intention to the urgent and absolute necessity for the establishment of some permanent National Provision for tlio Wivos and . Families , Widows and Orphans , of our soldiers . Notwithstanding all that has boon said and written on tho subject , tho fnct still remains in all its sadness , that for the wifo ami family , widow and orphan , of our best-bohaved soldiers , whether non-comraissionod ofllcer or private , no provision whatever is made . Nothing but private charity keeps tlioin from pauporism when thoir husbands and fathoi'H tiro taken away . Tho Kuirriago of these good men is fully permitted by military authority ; it is ovon granted as a reward for Rood conduot , and yet , should they bo ordered to tho seat of war , or die in the aorvleo of their country , thoir families are cast asido in uttor destitution and desolation . To prove that this ia no over-statomont , tho Committee have soluctod a few cases out of hundreds , all of which are those of wives of non-commissioned oillcors and privates , who , having been married with military sanction and npproval , hud boon placed on tho strength of the roglmont . Case 41 ) 0 , Mrs . B . —Wlfo of a sergeant of tho 38 th . Married with leave . Loft destitute with six children after sno lma spout tho small sum her husband loft for her . Illllit / . P ¦>» .. .. I . M . I ... . ^ . * 1 In i * ¦ . t h m ¦ A A ui iur lor
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 7, 1854, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07101854/page/21/
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