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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3797, 28 February 1881, Page 2

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)] Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though wrapt up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Sir, —Your contemporary possesses a contributor who writes under the norn de plume of " Paul Pry." Under this flimsy disguise Mr Wilkinson vents his spite upon all and sundry who may presume to differ from his august self, either in his capacity as owner of a disreputable journal or as Mayor of the Thames. As all honest men must, as a matter of course, pursue a diametrically opposite path to the one Mr Wilkinson adopts, they naturally fall under his ban, and are subject to the scurrilous attacks which emanate from that mendacious scribbler, that indefatigable mud thrower^* who is only prevented from being danger^ ous by his illiterateness and intellectual incapability. But what can be expected from an individual who takes advantage of the editorial "we" to condemn unheard an unfortunate man about to be tried for a crime tor which, if he is unable to clear himself, he will pay the penalty of death, and then prostitutes the power which his position as Mayor gives him so far as to sit in judgment upon the unfortunate being whom he has already condemned? The motives which "Paul Pry" (Wilkinson) suggests as occupying the minds of Messrs Jiilgour and Ehrenfried are only worthy of the . corrupted, ■ imagination which gave them birth.—l am, &c, Honesty.