Lady Stanley of Alderley, Mrs. Fawcett, Mr. T. W. Russell,
and Mr. H. 0. Arnold Forster, bring before the public, in Tues- day's Times, a very pitiable case of suffering and penury resulting from one of the cruel acts of Irish violence. A land agent of the name of Perry was shot in the legs,—and died in a few days as the result of the shot,—on one of the Sunday mornings of last January, by a party of four men with arms in their hands, and their faces disguised. His wife was left with four children, and no right to compensation out of public money, as Mr. Perry was not a peace-officer, or a witness, or a Magistrate. Nor can she be relieved out of the funds received for the help of those persons whose rents have recently failed in Ireland. There are no funds in existence applicable to this poor young woman's case, and the writers of the Times' letter therefore make an appeal to the public to raise a sufficient fund to support her in the penury this shocking crime has brought upon her. It is hard to imagine a more urgent case. That the poor woman's life has been made, by a great crime, a lonely and unhappy one, is a disaster for which there is no help at all; but there is no need that, besides this great mis- fortune, the poor woman should suffer all the aggravated misery of having to straggle for her children and herself with positive starvation. That is a misery which those who possess any superfluity of their own can remedy, and surely ought to remedy. Both Mr. Arnold Forster, of 9 Evelyn Gardens, S.W., and Mrs. Fawcett, 2 Gower Street, W.C., have consented to receive subscriptions.
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