The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1783, 19 September 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.

A "feeling of disgust and indignation is expressed at the want of decency displayed in the leading article which appeared in yesterday's Thames Advertiser. Not content with imputing the basest of motives to members of the sub-committee appointed by the general committee of the Thames Hospital to investigate certain charges of alleged neglect and mismanagement, the Advertiser has dragged in the names of persons who should have been treated with more consideration. The members of the sub-committee naturally protested .against the Advertiser's misrepresentations, but they gave over the task of setting that paper right, finding it to be hopeless. Having exhausted their liberal and extensive •vocabulary of abuse on the sub-committee, the writer has cast about for a new sensation, and with.a display of bad taste, surprising even in the Advertiser, has fixed upon' one who, from his misfortunes* should have been let alone, and

also a woman. Solongasourcontemporary confined himself to criticising the acts of. the committee and sub-committee—how-ever unfairly he did it—the public did not care much, but there arc many whose indignation is now fairly roused, and who scorn the contemptible part which the writer in yesterday's paper has played. If the Advertiser had followed the course which it proposed at the outset with regard to this business all Would hare been well, but to its intemperate criticism of the proceedings, its uncharitable imputation, of motives and decided display of partisanship may be attributed the present state of affairs in connection with the Hospital and the Committee of Management. They are to blame for whatever party feeling may now attach to, or impede the progress of investigation; and if they had the smallest penetration they would •cc that the very means they are pursuing to damage the Sub-Committee in the eyes of the public are producing an opposite effect, by ranging the public on their (the Sub-Committee's) side and. against all those who would apparently burk an enquiry instead of courting it in the interests of a deserving public institution. We should have allowed the Advertiser to continue its suicidal course if it had done so with- | out introducing a woman's name in such a disrespectful manner. Against this we protest, and would advise tbe writer to apologise if he has the slightest sense of decency in his composition, or a spark of manhood, which people are inclined to doubt after the effusion of yesterday.