The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-10 00:00:00

posed, that there will be no lack of persons ready to
invest their capital in so promising an undertaking,
and that the subscription list would be filled up
within a few weeks even to double the amount sug-
gested by Mr. WASON.

The connexion between England and the Sove-
reigns of the Mosquito territory has subsisted now for
nearly two centuries. So far back as the reign of
CHARLES 11. the Mosquito KING, with the concur-
rence of his chiefs, placed his country under the
protection of England, and the Protectorate was then
accepted. The Mosquitos always remained faithful
to the pact, and whenever there was war between
Great Britain and Spain they always acted as allies of
the British against the Spaniards; but whenever
peace was restored permitted the Spaniards to enter
their ports and trade with them. It is true that the
British Protectorate was withdrawn in 1786, in
conformity with the conditions of the treaty at that
time entered into with Spain ; but that did not make
the King of the MOSQUITOS one whit the less an inde-
pendent Sovereign, or deprive us of the right of
enter'ng into treaties with him as such. iSpain
never conquered the Mosquito territory, and the
inhabitants have continued to this day perfectly inde-
pendent. It is absurd, therefore, to contend that
Nicaragua has any right to any portion of the Mos-
quito territory. Nicaragua can only derive her right
from Spain, and we have shown that Spain never had
any right to the Mosquito territory. If Nicaragua
has no right, neither can the United States Ship Canal
Company have any right, inasmuch as they could
purchase from Nicaragua only that which Nicaragua
had to sell ; and as Nicaragua never possessed any
right to Gray Town, on the mouth of the river San
Juan, so neither can the United States possess
any such right. That territory belongs to the
King of MOSQUITO, and to him alone, and England
having since the expulsion of Spain from the South
American continent, renewed her intimate alliance
with the Mosquito KING, and again taken him under
her protection, is bound to defend him against all
attempts on the part of Nicaragua or of any other
power to dispossess him of his territory, and if need
be to carry the war into Nicaragua itself, so as to
secure to the King of Moscturro such a military
frontier as will for the future enable him to defend
himself against Nicaraguan aggressions; and this we
trust England will not hesitate to do should any
attempt be made to deprive our ally, the KING of the
Mosquito territory, of any portion of his dominions.

Among the many satisfactory circumstances con-
sequent on the Royal visit to Ireland, it appears that
promotions are to take place in the army and navy,
or perhaps we should say in the navy and army, since
at a public dinner some little time back Sir HENRY
(now Viscount) HARDINGE, himself a soldier, purposely
transposed the ordinary terms in order to give priority
to the navy, which he generously declared to be the
branch of the public service most essential to the

welfare of this island empire. Nevertheless, un

questionable as such an authority may be, compari-
sons are proverbially " odious," and we prefer
abiding by the alphabetical order—that convenient
mode of speech which expressing no opinion is inno-
cent of offence. Many promotions in both branches of
the public service will celebrate the occasion of
Queen VICTORIA'S visit to Ireland, a circumstance
peculiarly satisfactory both from the fact that such
promotions bear some resemblance to angels' visits,
being generally scanty in number and invariably
" far between " in occurrence, and also this
circumstance is most gratifying when we
call to mind the beneficial influence of
such changes. While a few fortunate individuals
are honourably rewarded for their past services, at the
same time they and all their comrades with them
are incited and encouraged to fresh exertions for the
future. The hope of honourable reward is a nobler
stimulant, more invigorating in its action, and more
prolific in its consequences, than the prospect of
mercenary gain. We steadfastly hold by the theory
that the labourer (whatever his class, craft, or cha-
racter) is worthy of his hire. If a fair day's
wages were always the meed of a fair day's work,
and vice versa, a fair day's work always the price for
a fair day's wages, the world would be somewhat
different from what it is. At least, we should not,
as at present, be daily shocked by the enormous
grievances of inequality—grievances so palpable that
their injustice is generally recognised—griev-
ances so general that their injustice is passively sanc-
tioned. Where, for example, is the fair day's wages
for the fair day's work, when the labourer,
after a week's hard and unremitting toil, receives for
his family's whole sustenance a wretched pittance of six
or seven shillings ? And where, on the other hand, is
the fair day's work for the fair day's wages, when the
owner of the broad acres, thus rendered productive,
committing their care to a sometimes " unjust
steward," wastes his time and wealth in the pursuit
of pleasure, power, or personal distinction ? Where,
again, is the fair day's wages of the humble curate,
whose learning very possibly, and whose arduous
labours very certainly, are unequalled by any occu-
pant of the Bench of Bishops, and who is, never-
theless,

" Passing rich with forty pounds a year?"
And where, on the other hand, is the fair day's work
of the church dignitary, whose income can only be
enumerated by its tens of thousands, and whose
labours are perhaps confined to the occasional inditing
of a pastoral letter ? Again, to return to the original
subjects of our remarks, where are the due wages of
some grey-headed lieutenant, whose youth and vigour
have been expended in the public service, and
where is the work of some juvenile captain who ranks
above him, and who perhaps slept in his cradle while
his junior officer was keeping his " watch ?" What
unjust inequality is obvious in all these instances !
yet, is one them overcoloured ? On the contrary,
a multitude of similar examples are to be found in
every man's daily experience. We are no advocates
for that impracticable and, if practicable, useless
equality which would level all distinctions and con-
found all interests. We must have landlords and
labourers, captains and seamen, planners and workers
—such distinctions are not only inevitable, but more,
they are beneficial to the community. There is one
equality, however, which we do advocate—and that is
the equal and adequate recompense of labour. We
cannot tolerate a system which suffers men of genius
or ability to die in indigence or grow old in disappoint-
ment, while our public services and our pension lists
are crowded to repletion by individuals whose in-
genuity would be greatly puzzled to discover in what
particular they have " done the state some service."
Our legislators seem to agree with the proverb that
" Virtue is its own reward," for they take little pains
to provide her with any other. Were they wise they
would ere this have discovered that no money is so
advantageously employed as that which goes to re-
' ward and encourage merit, and no honours so honour-
ably bestowed as when given to those to whom honour
is due. The fact of the approaching nasal and mili-
tary promotions is, let us hope, the beginning of a
better and more active system. Let us hope, also, it

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will be the means of redressing the real or supposed
injustice of former omissions and COMMiSSIOIIB.

The friends of the neble Viscount Hardinge need
not be alarmed for the consequences of the accident
which befel his Lordship on Tuesday last, at Garren
Tower, while on a visit to his relations, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Londonderry. Viscount.Hardinge was
thrown from his horse, a highly-spirited animal. We
have authority to state that the Gallant Gentleman sus-
tained no serious injury, but is suffering from some slight
contusions and inward shaking occasioned by the fall.—
Weekly Chronicle.
BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY EVENING.—.An inquest
was held here this evening on the body of a woman
named Ann Goldsby, who died in London Prentice-
, street, of Asiatic cholera. The deceased and her hus-
band arrived here on Tuesday from Bilston, and was
seized with dreadful pains in the course of the day, and
she languished until Friday, when she died in great
agony. Verdict—" Asiatic cholera." It was decidedly
an imported case. As yet, no native case of cholera has
appeared here.
There is no intention to increase the amount of the
reward offered by the Crown for the apprehension of the
persons engaged in the murder of the late Patrick
O'Connor. It is only after conviction that the sum
offered is distributed amongst the parties engaged in the
apprehension. It would be quite unprecedented—and
indeed without purpose—to increase afterwards the
amount offered beforehand for the purpose of bringing
offenders to justice.—Sunday Paper.
ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.--The vacancy in the
office of Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, occasioned
by the death of Dr. H. Burton, has been filled up by the
appointment of Dr. J. Risdon Bennet, ono of the
assistant
physicians.
Life, like the diamond in the mine, is sometimes '
valueless to its owner, until it becomes estimated by
another.--Eliza Cook's Journal.