NELSON INSTITUTE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 57, 7 March 1878, Page 2

NELSON INSTITUTE.

To tub Editor op the 'Eyhkino- Mail.' Sin,— The Editor's reply to Dr. Irriue's letter commences, " Until this jear the Committee have invariably advertised their balance-sheet, and we have done them the favor of publishing the report free of charge.' In my igaorance, I had supposed the iavor to be on the other side. A Committee appointed to administer a public institution, built upon public lands, in aid of which public funds are voted, hold their annual meeting; the proceedings might, by a stretch of imagination, be considered somewhat interesting , Btill, it j s possible that a supply of the best literature of ttw day may

not bt a matter of much moment. At any rate, in their folly, the Committee decided not to divert the f unda given them in charge from the support of the Institute to the support of the Evening Mail, and on this account no report is to be published. These, as far as I can gather, are the real facts. — Yours, &c, C. [This first attempt on the part of the Institute Committee to advertise free of cost that for which they have hitherto invariably paid the legitimate charge has been the means of raising quite a varied crop of correspondents. We have had the inquisitive, the satirical, and the argumentative, and now the feebly sarcastic takes his turn at the pen. "In their folly," he says, " the Committee decided not to divert the funds given to them in charge from the support of the Institute to the support of the Evening Mail." Sarkasm— the only way in which we can express our full appreciation of its force is by adopting the orthography of Artemus Ward and spelling the word with a ' k '—sarkasm such as this, as may be easily imagined, causes us much discomfort in the present, while the withdrawal of their support by the Institute Committee renders our future gloomy indeed. Still we shall endeavor— successfully we trust— to bear up against the double disaster, and, although our correspondent, who appears to write-au-thoritatively, assures us that it was the deliberate intention of the Committee to strike a direct blow at the Evening Mail, we are charitable enough to hope that our temporary estrangement will prove as little harmful to them as it is likely to do to ourselves.— Ed. N.E.M.]