Miss Eyre very properly stands up for her brother in
a letter to the Star, reprinted by the Times, and therein described as written to a journal "which has from the first prejudged the whole matter." This is somewhat cool in the only journal which has so far pre- judged the case as to suppress deliberately and avowedly evidence against its own view. We are sorry to see that Miss Eyre has since received the grossest anonymous insults by both letter and telegraph. The chances are that such insults come from persons wlio seize the opportunity for insulting a lady in anxious and painful circumstances, from a vulgar innate love of cruelty,— 'certainly not from any sympathy with the oppressed race,—for that would imply some similar tenderness for the feelings of a lady who hears a brother bitterly (and, as she believes, unjustly) condemned on every aide.
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