CORRESPONDENCE.

West Coast Times, 10 January 1866, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

[The Editor does not IIOM himself icsponsible for any opinions expressed by liis correspondents.] THE HOSPITAL. TO TUH EMTOn OK TIIR " WKST COAST TIMr.V 1 ' Snt, — I was very much surprised to sco in your columns of Monday last, a letter signed f'Justitin," reflecting in no measured terms upon Major Bracken, for the letter ho hnd sent you for publication on ,a previous day, about tho management of Wie Hospital. The tasle of Juslitia's letter I think very execrable indeed. Mr. Bracken's letter was a statement of facts, for tho reality of which he vouched ; and so long as that >slalemont was endorsed by his signature, what right* had your correspondent to b,usy himself with the question, whelhor the communication to which he. appended his signature was put info tho exact shape in which it appeared by tho Minor's own hand or by that of another ? If Mr. Bracken employed an amanuensis to throw tho facts he was desirous of bringing before tho public into form, what had- Justitia to do with that ? Surely no practice is more common. Tho aniiuus of your correspondent, however — and I think something worse— appears in his quotation of some expressions used by tho Major in an " unpublished letter." Was tho " unpublished letter" addressed to " Justilia." If' so, was it with permission to mako public use of it? If it was a pi'ivnto letter written to some one else, and Juslitia chanced to a sight of it, how did he obtain tho right to malcG public use of it to the Mnjor's disadvantage, as was intended ? It seems to mo a very poltroon sort of affair for a man who has not tho courage to avow his name, lo betray what must have been a private confidence to do damage- to tho reputation of tho Major, who had, at least, tho manliness to mako direct chai'gcs, not wrapt-up inuondos, against Dr. Kyloy, and to mako them under his own proper signature. It is, sir, a notablo fact thai. " Juslilia" does not mako any attempt to reply to these charges. Ho confines /himself to the, very easy task of first abusing tho ■ Major, and then exalting tho doctor as a gentleman altogether abovo public criticism. I must say ] was infinitely amused at tho bunkum contained in tho letter of your correspondent. Drltyley is "not responsiblo cither lo tho Major or to tho editor of a newspaper for his ollicial conduct!" Indeed! Who should ho be, that as a public man ho should hold himsolf abovo tho legitimate strictures of tho press ? Is this stylo of high-handed irresponsible officialism to bo ( acclimatis/d here, and is Dr Kyloy tho 1 man ordained to introduce it ? Jf I woro in your place, sir, I would lot tlib whole tribe of small officials know that in a plaeo whoro thoro is no government and no responsibility to a local executive, as you yourself havo well" pointed out, tho newspaper is not lo bo pooh-poohed* in this off-handed stylo. • • I think most of your .^readers will 'bo of tho qpinion that men who N have tho, moral courage lo drag forth abuses lo tho light of day, and incur openly all tho odium of attacking thoso decked in tho garb of a little briof authority, aro a very useful class of public citizens. - Thoy will probably think" too that it would have been more manly in Dr. ltyley to havo come- forward openly in his -own defence, , and answered tho charges mado against him, instead of gotting an anonymous friend to abuse the other sido. |What they will not bo ablo to understand is, probably, why Dr. Ifuthorford Kyloy should bo removed so infinitely high abovo public crilicisn^ as a public sorvanl. ' Without -any affectation ofLaiinism, Sir, 1 subscribe myself in a language all Englishmen will understand,

JViiTWli.

Jan. 9th 1800.