The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-22 00:00:00

being made a party matter. What could politics have
to do with a hospital ? Yet it was of the administra-
tion of a hospital that the Reformers-of Hythe have
endeavoured to make A dirty political job. Thus writes
our Kentish cotitetiipdtary:=--

" ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S IiO3PITAI4 HYTHE.
" In the latter part df Atk„riatSt tdwn -council of
Hythe, tiiitter adVieo 8f the kil-kr.Bwn Mr: Joseph
Parkes, pelitionnt the Lord (;hancellor relative to the ap-
pointment of fresh trustees for this hospital. _ About the
same tbr27_, Deed-es, And George rinnis,,Esq.,
tike tiiis(Cd§; ft!iitipointed.
Alter VaiiNs whom
the Lord Ali, iarellbi had I:eitiii:ed the town
council Wai'a directed to nominate proper persons to supply
the vacancies, and: they accordingly named five Radicals
and one Conservative, the latter of whom they honoured
by placing his name at the bottom of the list: The Master
required prOf that did parties 90 riiirhed i ere jrt and re-
speelaMe persons; that they Wete fioi geletqed from any
particular party ; and that they *mild consent to act.
Under these eircumstantiet the tOdef *ill be rather as-
tonished at UdlildA6 Willi which the t Liberal gentle-
men' attempted to foist persons of their own nomination
into the trusteeship.

" The Town-clerk, as usual, was required to certify to
the Master upon oath, that these persons were not selected
from any particular party. He did so. We are, there-
fore, bound to believe that the above statement, though
coming from a most respectable quarter, is incorrect ; be-
cause we should otherwise be compelled to suppose that
the Town-clerk had heedlessly taken an oath to a matter
which he had not sufficiently inquired into beforehand. It
is true (at any rate it is extremely probable) he was cog-
nisant of the fact that the individuals above mentioned,
during the time they had been members of the Town-
council, had uniformly voted on what most people would
call the Liberal side ; but this circumstance by no means
proves that he considered them as belonging to any parti-
cular party. We are assured, indeed, that he does not ;
on the contrary, as we understand, he regards them as
persons of different parties.' This ought not to be viewed
as anything Very extraordinary, when we have it upon re-
cord (videHanzlet) that even a Privy Councillor could call
a cloud a camel, a weasel, and a whale, according as he
was bid. We are not, however, able to account so satis-
factorily for another circumstance which has been men-
tioned to us, involving a question of dates. We allude
to the day, on which Mr. Watts signified his consent to
act, in the event of his being appointed, and the day on
which it was stated, in the Town-clerk's affidavit, that all
the six had consented. Here there must be some cleri-
cal error.

" These various circumstances, however, being all stated
to the master, he very judiciously refused to adopt the list
of the council, and has recently reappointed the three old
trustees only, viz., Messrs. _Deedes, Finnis, and Shipdem,
against whom nothing had been alleged, either as to their
respectability or competency to fill the office."
The result has certainly been satisfactory, thanks to
habits of official scrutiny, and the caution of the Master
in Chancery. But what do our readers think would
have been the consequence if the Solons of Hythe had
been permitted to do as tliey liked, or had only been
subjected to the supervision of the Solomon of the
Home-Office ? " The favour of an answer will
oblige."--Morning Post.