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Evening Star, Issue 3287, 2 September 1873, Page 2

The Daily Times, as usual, mistaking feeling for duty, has overstepped the bounds of courtesy, in publishing a scurrilous personal attack on the editor of this journal by a paid public servant. As between ourselves and the Times, it is necessary therefore so far to notice it as to set the personal matter right with the public. The attack on this journal needs no comment. It is stated by Mr Hume, who appears to bold office in the Hospital, that although the editor of this paper received treatment at the Hospital for a dislocation of the elbow, so far as reducing it is concerned, he did not send a donation, nor acknowledge the obligation in the newspaper. This is quite true. The editor having had his private affairs thus dragged before the public, acknowledges the kindness and skill evinced by Dr Yates, the resident surgeon, Dr Brown, the dispenser, and the night porter, whose name he does not know; but he has yet to learn that any man, rich or poor, who receives attention at the Hospital, is bound to publish it to the world, or bound to give a donation to an institution supported by a Provincial vote. We have long had it forced upon our attention that the Hospital management needed reform, and the fact that a servant receiving public pay, and especially a subordinate, should be allowed to bully any man in the style in which this Mr Hume has assumed the right to do, is convincing proof that ,the current impression is correct. We shall henceforth feel it a duty to the public to give more attention to the working of the institution than we have done, lest others should be subjected to similar insult. We may say further that when the support of the Hospital is thrown upon the public, and the institution is mauaged by a committee, we shall be as ready to support it to the ex tent of our moans, as we are to subscribe to other benevolent institutions. Until that is done, we do not sufficiently approve of the management to feel any obligation to contribute to it privately.