The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

A CONTRAST.

The following " contrast," which we copy from the
Times, is so just, so eloquent in its facts, and so beauti-
ful in its simple expression of them, that it does not
need a word of introduction :
" Not many weeks since the Eclair steamer anchored
in Funchal-roads.
The dread yellow flag drooped from her mast-head.
A strange and deadly sickness had swept off two-thirds
of her officers and men. Her captain and both her sur-
geons had perished. The wan, worn survivors sought
relief from the inhabitants of Madeira.
" The Governor of the island deemed it his painful
duty to forbid any intercourse between the plauge-ship
and the shore. He sternly commanded them to weigh
their anchor and depart.
" The scanty crew of the steamer, already insufficient
to carry on the duty of the vessel, were daily becoming
scantier under the attacks of the fever. The equinox
at hand. In this pitiable plight, without medical
they were on the point of being compelled to put to
and cross the Bay of Biscay.
-- There chanced, however, to be at Madeira, Sidney
Bernard, an English surgeon. This man and seven
seamen, volunteers from English merchantmen, came
forward and offered their services in taking the Eclair
home.
" It is needless to waste words in praising their noble
conduct--a more signal act of cool disinterested devo-
tion is not on record.
" The Eclair reached the Motherbank ; the fever
still raged between her decks. Many had died on the
passage from Madeira; the pilot who boarded her in
the Channel died, and the heroic Sidney Bernard, hav-
ing accomplished the humane task he had assigned him-
self, died also.

was
aid,
sea,

" A merchant at York speculated boldly and success-
fully in railroads. He bought in as low as he could, he
sold out as high as he could, and when he made a per-
manent investment he took the best care he could that
the concern in which he had placed his capital should
be well managed.
"He was a clear-headed, energetic man. His gains
were enormous. He is now an M.P., a large landed
proprietor, and as for his possessions in railway shares,
he and the income tax commissioners can alone guess at
their amount. His name is George Hudson.
" Many people have closely watched his operations in
the share-market, and have imitated them. Many
people have sought his advice and followed it, and many
people by so doing havo made much money, and hope to
mak.. more by the same means.
"So in order to evince their gratitude for past and
future favours, the British public have got up a subscrip-
tion to offer a testimonial to the most successful specula-
tor of the day. In the list are to be seen the names of
the noblest, the wisest, the fairest in the land. 20,0001.
have already been collected for the Hudson testimonial,
and money still pours in.
" Alas for Sidney Bernard and the gallant volunteers
of the Eclair ! Alas fur their widows and orphans!
"No testimonial is proposed to record their daring
humanity ; no subscripion is raised to provide for the
families of the dead, and to reward the unselfish courage
of the survivors.
" Our nobility and gentry crowd forward in hundreds
to do homage in purse and person to the railway king,
but not a single individual has appeared desirous of re-
warding, or even noticing, the high deserts and melan-
choly fate of Sidney Bernard and his companions in
danger and death. " M. I. H.
" 105, Piccadilly."

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THE DANGER OF LEAVING COAL•CELLAR FLAPS
IrisetcnaE.—On Sunday afternoon a serious accident occurred
to Edgar Weyvill, Esq., a gentleman residing at Hamp-
stead, who, in passing through Seymour;street, Somers-town,
was thrown to the ground by stepping on the iron flap of a
coal-cellar that was not properly secured, and he fractured
the right leg.
On Friday morning, at half -past nine o'clock, the
Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master Commander S.
B. Cook, having on board their Royal Highnesses Prince Fer-
dinand of Saxe Coburg and Prince Leopold, left Devonport
for Lisbon. Royal salutes were fired from the Port Admiral's
flag-ship, the Queen, 110, in the Sound, and from the citadel,
as the beautiful vessel weiJ out of Hamolze.
A report has been for :Pme days current of an
intention on the part of her Majesty ':
tiovemment, not to
rely so fully as it has hitherto done upon Lhe Chelsea Pen-
:but to call
sioners in case of any occasion for their services,•
out the Militia for a short period of training. It is mh.l that
the expediency of forming a better school of recruits for the
army will be put forward as the ground for this measure.
STATE OF TRADE.—Trade continues in a flourish-
ing condition, nearly every manufactory being in full work.
Although this briskness is pretty general, yet a slight de-
pression has taken place in some branches, particularly in
the button and fancy glass line, where some of the people
are put on short time. The building trade has not been so
good for several years ; journeymen can scarcely be obtained.
—Birmingham Pilot.
BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A LADY BY HER
HUSBAND AND Sox.—At the Petty Sessions at Carrick-
fergus on Wednesday, Mr. Richard Battersby and the Rev.
John C. Battersby were called upon to answer the charge of
Mrs. Battersby, for having committed a series of assaults
upon her during six years past. The complainant was wife
of the former, and mother of the latter of the defendants.
Mr. Davison appeared on behalf of Mrs. Battersby, and'
from his statement of the case, it appeared that his client
had been subjected to numerous indignities, and though she
had brought her husband a fortune of 4,0001., she was al-
lowed little more than the necessaries, and few of the com-
forts of life. The round of her ordinary duties was, for a
long p-riod, more those of a domestic servant than of his
wife; besides which, she had sustained, several times, severe
bodily injury from assaults made upon her by her son, with
the connivance of her husband. Witnesses were called to
substantiate these allegations. Mr. Jackson appeared for
the defendants, and after he had called witnesses, the case
was left for the decision of the bench, which was given as
follows :—Mr. Richard Battersby, and the Rev. John Bat-
tersby, to be fined 5/. each, or, in default, imprisoned for
two months, and to give security, themselves in 5001. each,
and two sureties in 2501., to be of the peace towards Mrs.
Batterby.—Banner of Ulster.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—A gang of four or
five fellows are now going through the country dressed in the
garb of sailors, offering for sale a set of apparently handsome
decanters. They pretend to have come from a foregn port—
generally Hamburgh, and that the decanters were for a
friend or relative ; but running short of money, they are re-
luctantly compelled to part with them. They have duped
several ?almouth folks during the past week; for, upon ex-
amination, the articles were found to be worthless trash,
neither of the set being perfect, and all the refusal of the re-
gular trade. They are not licensed, and they decamped from
Falmouth in a hurry, having ascertained that the police were
on the look out for them, and are by this time, probably
offering their deceptive wares in some other town in the
county.— West Brdon. •
AN UNPRONOUNCEABLE NAME.—A Scotchman,
named Alexander Finney, drowned himself in Coneyocketies
Creek, near Buffalo, on the 12th inst., while in a state of in-
sanity. If he had tried to pronounce the name of the creek
it would have answered his purpose quite as well, by choking
him.—Boston Bee.
SERVING THE PEOPLE.--All who serve the people
are poorly paid. To be very usefully employed is to be de-
graded. •A shoemaker is a snob; a tailor a snip, and the
ninth part of a man; a weaver is some
smthing
mere bell worse than a
tailor; a ploughman is a bumpkin a ith, a ows-
blower ; a carpenter is chips ; a sailor (for whom, nevertheless,
there prevails a kind of affectionate feeling,
ob as if he were
a helpless child,) is Jack Tar; a soldier is a lster, or Johnny
Raw ; and a servant, if lie be very useful, is a flunkey. The
services of all these classes are indispensable. We could
neither be waited upon, defended, lodged, nor clothed, with-
out them; yet they are all poorly paid and harshly treated.
Magistrates pounce upon them for every indiscretion, and
stringent laws hold them to their duty. The harder the
occupation in general, the worse it is paid.—Douglas Jerrolcis
Xagaxine.