THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1877.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2603, 11 May 1877, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1877.

Tbe-editor of the Advertiser has gone m for "an English construction." Not a construction, he it observed, of rbads or bridges, or works of any kind either useful or ornamental, but a construction ofja sentence..^ It may be doublted by some whether theconstruing powers of a writer who . speak,B of the -?.' lowest minimum" (vide' yesterday's* Advertiser's leader), and uses other ridiculous phrases are very great, bat when we are told that there-can hbft ,no .doubt but that the public; will, agr-ee that "the .insulting charges made.: .against the Mayor and Councillors of this Borough are simply a charge of " neglect-of duty," which, says the construorT" is the proper explanation of -the ■ whole matter," we ■ talte;leave to •Woub€ the construing powers of the able Doctor and his ally. The extraordinary leader" of this morning opened by speaking,^: the good nature of the 'Mayor, and reverted to what he is said to have once said, that he didn't mind what was said iabtiuthim as long as v. hat was s|aidwas said untruly; It -wouldj perhaps, have been better for the construer if |he had remembered^ a very simple sentence,-, which, construed into English,: means this: :"I do well to be angry."; There are occasions whep it seems to jus, and "'no doubfr "the "public; will agree with us,"_ that . there,.. _are seaspnsj wheir men who have a proper regard to the respect due not only to themselves, but •to ■ the Office "they hold, do well to be very.angry,! and the imputations lately cast on the Council by the Advertiser* iwbulidj dd. mdr*e than warrant the Mayor's . being angry, and Cr Rensha w speaking' "yicrtddly.'' 5' Theyf were. in-, suiting to;;them.as a body, aridas individuals, for though no names were men:tiohed—on this point the"Advertiser: was ,very qarefulrr-y it the characters, df some, as men of chonbr, were aspersed jwhen ijkf /feßteglecfcudfi d?^ 1 arose from a wish to. serye .sjich r fw?tts"« as the Councillors had among"st" the t &tockj brokings fraternity, i We, are .sorry to find that the credit for common sense hitherto accorded to the Borough, Council has been stopped by the editoy of the Advertisar, but the Borough Councillors are ; accustomed: to. overdrafts, and perhaps will find their credit good at other places though they: may n|6fc;haTe as. large>an amount. at their command as he who occasionally uses " an editorial long pole " with whj.ch to stir pebplp'up. We confess we readithe ieader of this morning with regret, but we jread it " more in sorrow than in. anger.'* (The construing editor who quotes JHamlet and. likens himself to a horse will knoW what this alludes to). For.tb.pugK it—the leader, hot the editor, or the horse —was feign to rest content with simply chargißg the Council -with a " neglect of duty,", yet he (she or it) admits that itself i«: open: •to the same charge when speakingof the duty of using the editorial long ;pole". He admits that "this duty has been solong/neglected that they (the Councillors^: now becin to consider themselves like " •■ • .'..■■...■• Ceesar's. wife—above suspicion,; Perhaps the Councillors remember the line of Byron, who asserted that it was "better to err with Pope than shine witli Pye," and prefer to neglect, their duty in ; the.jcompany..', of the Thames Advertiser than to do what that paper confesses it dbes'iibt do itself; ; Speaking seriously'^ the whole of the articles which li9;e;ap?° peared r calling onthe Borough Councillors to enforce the fines levied on thfe Stockbrokers.have beqn tptally;uncalled for by any actions of the Councillors, when jthey, met as Councillors. The inuendo'that they were biassed, was unsupported by a single statement of fact, and the Mayor's challenge will, we should' think, nece?saryy remain unanswered, as the allegationl are probably incapable- of proof.