The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

LIST OF PASSENGERS.

Colonel Boldero, Colonel Houston, Major Harpour, 13.
Rojas,: Mr. Loper, B. Blanchard, J. A. Hopeley, Mr. Cas-
sagnan, Mr. and Mrs. Newstade, two children, and servant,
Mr. and Mrs. Loubat, F. Loubat, A. Loubat, H. L. Bartier
and servant, J. Finterer, N. Berry, E. L. Carey, C. F.
Hagedom, S. Gould, W. Milligan, G. Martin, W. Mures,
J. Littlejohns, E. Norris, C. Heydecker, Mr. and Mrs.
Pickersgill, S. Pickersgill, James Stedman, J. Sayer, A.
Batri, Mr. and Mrs. Maccrey, Mr. Cockerton, Mr. and Miss
Anderson, F. Probet, Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, two children,
and two nurses, Miss Kendall, Miss Millenden, A. Louvre,
C. W. Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, W. S. Wetmore,
H. Thomas, R. F. Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Pluchis, Mrs. S.
Price and servant, Mr. Delius, Dr. Jones, J. B. English, S.
P. English, G. W. Hoghton, Mr. Lumley, Mr. Holtenhoff,
Mr. Bishop, Mr. Aston, G. S. Cameron, R. G. Ramsden,
Mr. Bartour, S. Fortis, J. B. Sands, J. Currie, N. Cassilli,
W. L. Riddell, J. C. Cauger, Mr. Watson, and Dr. Verner.
—Total, 81.

THE SHIP WILLIAM BROWN.—The feeling through-
out the country on the conduct of the mate and seamen
on board the boat from which some seventeen Irish pas-
sengers were thrown into the sea, is uniform, and
without exception, in accordance with the vie--.„
taken by ourselves of that atrocious transac%ion.
A very sensible writer in the Boston Mercantile. Jour-
nal thus forcibly discourses on the sub;.,ect :—The
rights of passengers on this and some other points
might be well defined, and well known. For instance,
have the officers and crew whom we 'Art-ploy to carry us
across the ocean a right not only to desert us when they
if it h
41,13e1.-"'., to be convenient, in
get us into danger, but
Pier, or their bread last
ordet to make their boat sail ea,
longer, have they a right to kr.ock us in the head like
sheep ? Are we to be theirvb_ctims, not only to their
_care-
lessness or ignorance, but 9„ Aso to their knives ? The Ame-
rican Consul at Havre se es nothing wrong in murdering a
few poor Irishmen an?... women, but even his eyes might
be opened if the no-At arrival brought in a few of the
President's crew , who had only thrown overboard the
two-thirds of
'ale President's passengers who happened
to be nears" them, and least able to resist them. Had
v,
the Consv.i at Havre put some of the William Brown's
crew Ir. irons for trial, these remarks would have been
uncolted for ; but as that amiable functionary could see
lOri harm in their doings, public attention ought to be
turned to the subject, and public opinion would enforce
an investigation of the William Brown tragedy, and at
least give us landsmen some means of judging what to
expect in case we should ever be thrown upon the mercy
of a ship-wrecked crew. Perhaps, in the meantime, an
old sailor like yourself can tell us what you consider
the rights of the parties, and also what are the respective
rights of cabin and steerage passengers in case of ship-
wreck. What think you of the following little incident re-
lated to me by a passenger from Liverpool, a year or two
since ? The fine ship . . . . was bounding swiftly
across the Banks, when a thick fog came up, and the
thermometer indicated our approach to ice. My friend
was keeping the night watch in company with the Oo .
ful master of the ship, and noticed that all the grrAings,
but one, over the two hundred steerage passengers, were
carefully secured, and that bars were close at hand to
fasten down the remaining one. It, enquired the
cause of this arrangement. Sir, Erays the captain, in
case we get into trouble MOD; the ice, my mate has
orders, first of all, to fasten.d:wn that grating, and then
the steerage passengers w;4l t be kept below until the cabin
passengers and crew a .....e
off the gratings and, in the boats, then we shall take
will hold. , save as many of them as the boats

A CHILD TGOST IN THE WOODS.—A daughter of Mr.
David W. -Boobar, of Linneus, in Aroostook county, on
the ny;ening of the 4th inst., was sent by her mother to
a nr.aghbour'r house, half a mile distant, to borrow a
little flour for breakfast. The girl is only nine years
of age, and in going through the woods, lost her way.
The next morning about forty of the neighbours col-
lected and went in pursuit, but returned without any
tidings of the child. The next day the company was
increased to sixty persons. and searched the woods all
day with no better success. On the following day be-
tween two and three hundred of the settlers
assembled early in the morning, their hearts
swelling with sympathy, and all eager to restore the
little wanderer to the arms of its despairing parents.
The company set out for a thorough and a last search.
The child had been in the woods three days and three
nights, and many hearts were sunk in despondency at
the utter hopelessness of finding it alive. But to learn
its fate or restore it was the indomitable purpose of
each. Half the day had been expended in entering the
forest. It was time to think of returning, but who could
think of doing so while an innocent child might be wan-
dering but a few rods in advance ? On the company
pushed, still deeper into the dense wilds. The sun had
reached the meridian, and was dipping down toward the
west.
It seemed vain to look farther, and slowly and
heavily those stout-hearted men brushed a tear from
their cheeks,
greatest possible
gave up all as lost, and as their hearts
seerni,a
-----. to die within them, commenced their return.
The line
was stretched to include a survey of the
ground ; not
Those at the ext was
a bush or tree, where it
was possible fora
child to be concealed, within the
limits of the line,
passed without diligent search.
remeties bf the line tasked themselves
to the utmost in
They had travellee(i'afino ining'
point of vision, the the woods beyond the lines.
mransome time, when, at the farthest
bush bend. He ran withons one flank thought he saw a
willing heart. He hesitated.
Was it his imagination ? eorhzed a moment. The
bush bent again, and the head
tlhittle wanderer was
seen. He rushed forward and foutnde-
wigs
sehleitthleadgirpllsuecakteedd
upon a log, and breaking the t •
from the bush which so providentially led to her discovery.
She did not appear to be frightened ; she said she hadlain in the woods three nights, and had not seen or heard
'
any wild beasts, and that she thought she should get to
Mr. Howard's for the flour before night ! At first she
did not appear hungry or weak, but after eating a piece
of bread her cries for more were very piteous. She was
found about three miles from where she entered the
woods. Her clothing was very thin, and the large shawl
she had on when she left home she had carefully folded
1 and placed in the pillowcase, not even putting it
over her during the night, as she innocently said, ,to
keep from dirtying it, or her mother would whip her."
Our informant states that she is now doing well, and as
happy as other children.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE. Early in the
morning yesterday, a carpenter named Daniel Savage,
purchased some arsenic, exhibited it to his wife, telling
her that he was going to take it, and asked for a tumbler
to mix it in. His wife did not oppose his purpose, but
ran up stairs to inform her neighbour, a Mrs. Lovett,
that her " husband was going to take poison." They
both came down before he had prepared the fatal
draught, and looked on while he mixed and drank it !
He died after suffering great and irremediable agony
for six hours. He was fifty years of age. His wife
said she " dared not Oppose him, ' meaning that she was
so much afraid of his violence. Six years ago the de-
ceased took a similar dose, but by prompt remedies suc-
ceeded in saving his life. The Jury returned a ;verdict
of " Suicide, by taking poison in the presence of his wife."
An interesting question will arise upon this extraor-
dinary affair, whether the wife, in thus permitting the
deceased to destroy himself, has committed any offence
at common law ? Dr. Geyer, at whose shop the arsenic
was purchased, says, that "it was a very pure and active