THE RUSSIAN SICK AND WOUNDED.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTITOR,"]
Ern,—It was with great satisfaction that I read the letter from the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke in the Spectator of September 15th, for until then I had been ignorant of the existence of a Russian Sick and Wounded Fund. There are many who, like me, are writhing under a sense of our national disgrace, and anxious to 'clear themselves from apparent complicity with those who have sacrificed honour and humanity at the shrine of what they are pleased to call British interests, who may be equally unaware of the fact. I believe that many among the working-classes would gladly contribute their mite, if the opportunity were afforded 'them; and I Now there are many among our Crimean veterans who can tell of kindly assistance received from Russian soldiers, when our brave men were reduced to the greatest privations through official mismanagement. Surely under similar, though far more dreadful circumstances, they will sympathise with them now. May I respectfully suggest the organising of penny sub- 'scriptions, to afford the masses an opportunity of expressing their feelings as Englishmen and Englishwomen P—I am, Sir, &a.,
E. G. A.
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