" Toe PERIL or MR. Satyr. ea. —One evening at the
commencement of the present week, a coach was on its way fi ow Huddersfield to Leeds, and among the inside passengers were Michael Timms Sadler, Esq., and a clergyman. One of the wheels the coach, in the darkness, went over a very large stone; and the vehicle, in righting itself, gave a terrible lurch on one side. At this moment, a passenger thought that some one was precipitated front the roof of the coach ; and she stated her apprehension to the would-be 51.P. and his reverend tompa- Rion. They, however, were too deeply engaged in conversation to lend the slightest attention to the representation. Onward the party travelled a couple of miles, when the coach drew up at an inn where the horses usually rested. What was the astonisment of the hostler, when coming with his lantern, to find that there was 110 coachman upon the box ! The fact was, that he had been thrown from his seat by the jerk we have just describes': some sailors, who were outside passengers, immediately rendered hint all the assistance in their power ; and when the messengers from the inn arrived, they found hint slowly recover- ing from the effects of his fall. The horses had proceeded at their usual pace, and had stopped at their accustomed halting-place."—Leeds Times.
Here is a coach nearly upset, the coachman thrown off his box, a party of sailors climbing down from the coach to his assistance, and the horses all the while proceeding at their usual pace with- out any one to guide them; and two inside passengers, a divine and a philanthopist, are so deeply engaged in an argument that they take no heed of the matter, though their attention is invited to the probability of some accident having happened : and this is facetiously termed "The Peril of Mr. Sadler." To us it seems to have been the Peril of the Coachman. What it is to be an ex- M.P. and philanthropist ! How would the paragraph have read had it been headed " Heroic Conduct of Mr. Sadler," and have pr receded thus, after the words "reverend companion "?— " Though deeply engaged in conversation, and just arrived at a most critical point in the argument, Mr. SADLER, who is an expert gymnast, with equal promptitude and courage, got out of the coach-window on to the box, and grasping the reins, arrested the progress of the horses, which were galloping at the top of their speed ; and, giving the reins to his reverend fellow-traveller, ran back to the spot where the coachman was lying, and having pro- cured medical assistance, left him in the care of the surgeon, and drove into the town in gallant style, amidst the cheers of the pas- sengers and the assembler] crowd."
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