A DEFENCE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2058, 9 August 1875, Page 2

A DEFENCE.

(To the Editor of the Eveniag Star.) :

Sin, —How dare you, Mr Editor, malign and misrepresent the conduct of any patriotic individual as you did in Saturday's issue." How can we expect devotedly disinterested persons like A. Porter to consecrate their time and talents to the service of the public if abuse is to be heaped upon them while they are actively engaged in a self-denying effort to have remedied existing abuses. -For shame, sir ! You are, I believe, the only man in the community who doubts the purity of the motives, or .questions the transcendant abilitresof A; Porter. The sixty pounds sterling a week business had been, you know, done full justice to already in your columns .by the 'writer of " What Everybody Says';" and you must admit it was j ist as easy for Adam to say sixty pounds as sixty pence. I should not be surprised if, upon his return (if he is away, which is a matter of. the least possible consequence to me) A.-. Porter punched not only your, head, but every little boy who sold your penny sheet on Saturday last. To attack the character of any man in his absence is, to say the least, cowardly; but I trust this will let you see that there are those prepared to defend the character of the assailed, even though such person be only a porter.— I am, &c.

W. W.

[We suppose "W. W." intends the above to be, like '• A. Ward's " writings, —" a kind of sarkasticul."—Ed.]