The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1795, 3 October 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1874.

The investigation into the alleged mismanagement of the Thames Hospital has been brought to a close in so far as the Hospital Committee are concerned, for the present. The only circumstance which has ever arisen to require the interference of such a governing body as the Committee has been this business of investigation; and after devoting hours

and hours to personal squabbling which should hare been given to the business under consideration, the Committee hare as one man confessed their incompetency to occupy the position in which they hare been placed. To meet once a month, pass certain account*, and authorise the expenditure for another" limited period, was a work which might have been performed by any paid servant; when there arose a case which demanded investigation at the hands of the representatives of Hospital subscribers, these same representatives abrogated their functions—threw up the sponge, as our contemporary desscribes rt in the language of the ring. We do not blame the Committee for this; we only pity them. The conviction has been forced upon the' few members who really wished to form a righteous judgment that they would be unable to do so, owing to the inextricable maze of confusion and misrepresentation by which they, found themselves surrounded. They have therefore adopted the wisest plan they could under the circumstance!;—not more humiliating (as stated) because they leave the matter in the hands of the Provincial Government instead of nominating the persons to whom tkey would relegate their powers. For the element of personality, partizanship and recrimination which has been imported into the Hospital investigation we blame the Thames Advertiser. That paper has goneinto the fray like a bull at a gate, and, without any show of reason, scattered the basest insinuations broadcast. Th» crowd of scribblers which the r«sources of the office afford have attacked men as infinitely above them as the clsuds are above the earth. The reports of meetings have been grossly partial, and therefore insulting to readers, as the interpolated comments have been to the members of Committee. In some instances where members of Committeehave been attacked at the meetings their replies have been purposely suppressed in order that a coloring might be given to suit the particular views held by a particular person on the paper. We challenge, the writers or reporter to deny this; the fact has become notorious, and it is even now i recoiling on their own heads, by the alienation of some who have hitherto been their best friends.