ABSTRACT
A suggestion of a practical character, and which may therefore prove of some service in other parts of the Kingdom, has just emanated from Major Roe, staff officer of pensioners for the Brighton district, with reference to the wives and families of the men taken fl·om their occupations by being called out as members of the Army Reserve. Of the 200 men subject to this call in the Brighton district, only one, who was absent in America, failed'to report himself as ready to rejoin the colours; and it is now found that thete are 64 women and 65 children who, as dependent upon them for their support, are likely to find themselves in distressed circumstances. Up to yesterday afternoon no application on their behalf had been made to the parochial authorities, and it appears that most of the women are instead seeking employment as nurses, charwomen, needlewomen, laundresses, &c. Major Roe has therefore taken down their addresses, and expresses his readiness to send women to :fill any such situations, with the characters they received before their marriages, "feeling'sure that the public will willingly assist these women in the distress caused by their husbands having so willingly come forward in the time of need."
