The first meeting of the Bright Memorial Conroultee was held
on Tuesday in Devonshire House, Lord Hartington taking the chair. The purpose is, in the first instance, to erect a statue of Mr. Bright within the precincts of St. Stephen's, and to use the surplus in any way which the sub-committee shall decide so as best to perpetuate his memory. Mr. Chamberlain thought that the best appropriation of the surplus would be to found in Birmingham, Rochdale, and Manchester, training-schools for nurses who should .give their services to the poor gratuitously. But that will only be possible if a large surplus remains, for it involves not only endowing three great training-schools, but finding incomes for all the nurses sent out from them. We heartily hope that the fund raised may be adequate to the execution of such a scheme. But it is undoubtedly a large scheme.
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