A TRIBUTE TO HEROISM.

Evening Star, Issue 3394, 7 January 1874, Page 3

A TRIBUTE TO HEROISM.

The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ (Lsndon) of Ocfoher 12 devotes, a leader to the story of poor Marr, whose heroic conduct ■. arid death created so great a serisation in Victoria; ;It says : at' the conclusion :—*« The generous Viotari ms have made a haridsome subscription' for the’ Widows' and children ‘ of the pilot, the cook, and the steward; gathering be-much ' as'L4.ooo. James Marr 1 Was a ; single man ; so they are going to put up a ; memorial tablet of him in the Sailors’ Home | at Melbourne) and if ever’the name of a i true-hearted Englishman was cut' upon : marble it will be his. It is such'deeds as I these—at once simple but ’sublime—which take the terror from the grave, and show i 'how how rinconuuerable aud immortal the ;sp rit of man really is. Contempt of death ;i-> not very difficult ‘in theory,- 'or when the j nerves have time to brace themselves, ’or 'when the excitement of battle and of heroic 'effort prevent-the realisation of mortal perij-,' jßut to be dashed from aloft into the •dreadful billows, andT-rolline, there, with'nb | chance of escape, except at the price of the |chance of others—to see the right thing to |do, and to say *Do it,’ while cold Death |drags at you and furious waves almost choke ‘you, trying to,, say the fearless —this ’was, about as bard a trial of manhood as |«ver . wqs met and gloriously , borne. , We jwill mbt say ‘ Peace‘to”'him,' 1 * for what but .* ■peace could ever befall" a soul so dutiful land’staunch ? He added now lustre to" the land that bred him and the language which jhe spqke ; and we make bold to observe that jas.good a spelling-book as young Australians .cair have will be that stone at Melbourne ■which is to tell how James Marr weiit overboard -reefing thelßip’a mainsail, how he •saved his vessel and his comrades at the price bf;bii owriprecum3 life.”