The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

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route across the Isthmus, be under their entire
control. They have done thi,, as far as we
are aware, without an observation from the Go-
vernment of this country. Another route, how-
ever, offers itself to public enterprise through the
Mosquito territory, and thence across Nicaragua or
Costa Rica to the Pacific. A counterfoil is here
opened in case of any abuse of their privileges by the
United States Company, through the opportunity it
affords of a route for British trade to the Pacific.
'The whole question then is this, are the United States
to monopolise both routes, or to have such a control
over the second route as to deprive the valuable com-
merce of this country of one independent communi-
cation across the isthmus from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ? That instructions to oppose this have
been given to Mr. Bancroft, as has been recently
reported, is not credited ; but, if it be true, there is
no hesitation expressed as to what the answer of the
Government ought to be. The United States may
rely upon it, this country will back the Government
in any position it may take to protect its just and
necessary interests on this subject. It is perhaps not
generally known that, entering the river San Juan, at
Grey Town, steamers of small draft could run up to
the River Sarapiqui, in Costa Rica, and navigate it
likewise for some way up. From thence to the town
of San Jose, the capital of this little republic, there is
already a mule tract, the usual road of central Atne-
rice ; but, from San Jose to Punta Arenas, a good
road (the only one made throughout central America
since the independence) has been run to the Pacific.
The Costa Ricans are now engaged in forming a road
from San Jose to the Sarapiqui. When this is com-
pleted agood route will have been constructed from
sea to sea, and be the only one in existence on the
American continent. While the Nicaraguans pos-
sessed the port of San Juan (now Grey Town), they
manifested great jealousy of the Costa Rica people, and
precluded their communicating this way with Europe.
The assertion by the British Government in 1847 of
their protectorate rights in Mosquito has again opened
out this country to improvement. Another question
exists, the most important which can now be pre-
sented to the consideration of this country—the proba-
bility that here will be found the most available po-
sition for the opening of a ship canal. If this is to be
effected, it must not be under the anarchial influences
of Nicaragua, or the monopolising spirit of the United
States ; and this can alone be prevented by Great
Britain continuing to maintain her connexion with
Mosquito, the origin of which is anterior to the ex-
istence of any of those settlements in North America
which now, in their independence, evince such a
narrow jealousy of the parent state.
"There can be no mistake as to this being the view
and fixed determination of Government, if we may
judge by the letter of Mr. Barclay, our Consul at
New York, to the agents of the New York and New
Orleans Steam Navigation Company. Mr. Barclay
states, in referenece to an agreement made by these
parties with the Nicaragua Government, for the ex-
clusive right of navigating St. John's River,' that
he is instructed officially to inform them' of the
boundary line of the Mosquito kingdom, and to
intimate to the company that the Port of St. John's,
now called Grey Town, at which they have agreed
with the Nicaragua Government to build a store, also
belongs to Mosquito; that her Majesty's Govern-
ment is bound to protect the King of Mosquito in
the exercise of the territorial rights which he pos-
sesses over Grey Town, and over the lower part of St.
John's River, and that the Government of Nicaragua
has entered into an agreement in regard to a place in
which it has no competence. To this we would only
add that Nicaragua was not in the occupation of the
port of San Juan when it made the agreement re-
ferred to, and from the time of its indpendence of
Spain in 1823 it first took up a position at the mouth
of the San Juan (in usurpation of the rights of Mos-
quito) only about eight years prior to its compulsory
retirement before a mixed force of Mosquito militia
and British soldiery, and that from the outset the
King of Mosquito protested against the aggression,
and would have repelled it by force but for his reli-
ance on the intervention of this country, to which he
had made appeal."

A SONG FOR THE RAGGED SCHOOLS.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal.)
To work, to work! ye good clad wise,
Let " ragged " scholars grace your schools,
Ere Christian children can arise,
They must be trained by Christian rules.
We ask no fragrance from the bud
Where canker-vermin feeds and reigns,
We seek no health pulse in the blood,
Where poison runneth in the veins.
And can we hope that harvest fruits
In living bosoms can be grown,
That palms and vines will fix their roots,
Where only briers have been sown?
Man trains his hound with watchful care,
Before he trusts him in the chase;
Man keeps his steed on fitting fare
Before he tries him in the race;
And yet he thinks the human soul,
A meagre, fierce and untaught thing,
Shall heed the written Law's control,
And soar on Reason's steady wing.
Oh, they who aid not by their gold,
Or voice, or deed, the helpless ones,
They who with reckless brain withhold
Truth's sunshine from our lowly sons;
Shall they be blameless—when the guilt
Of rude and savage hands is known;
When crime is wrought and blood is spilt—
Shall the poor sinner stand alone?
Dare we condemn the hearts we leave
To grope their way in abject gloom,
Yet conscious that we help to weave
The shroud-fold of Corruption's loom?
Shall we send forth the poor and stark,
All rudderless on stormy seas,
And yet expect their spirit-bark
To ride out every tempest breeze?
Shall we, with dim short• sighted eyes,
Look on their forms of kindred clay,
And dare to trample and despise
Our sharers in a "judgment day?"
Oh, narrow, blind;and witless preachers!
Do we expect the " ragged" band
To be among God's perfect creatures,
While we refuse the helping hand?
To work, to work! with hope and joy,
Let us be doing what we can;
Better build school-rooms for " the boy,"
Than cells and gibbets for "'the man."
To work, to world ye rich and wise,
Let " ragged " children claim your care,
Till those who yield Crime's jackal cries,
Have learned the tones of peace and prayer.
Exaxa. Coos.

COURT CIRCULAR.
BALMORAL, SEPT. 1.
Her Majesty sad the Prince walked out this morning.
The Royal dinner party this evening will include Mr.
and Mrs. Farquharson, of Invercauld, and Sir Charles
Lyell.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Wednesday), the sth inst., at Balmoral. Summonses
to the Ministers and Officers of State to attond the
Council were issued yesterday from the Privy Council-
office, Whitehall.

GRAND SUB-UNION FESTIVAL
The grand opening festival of the North-West,
Sub-Union of Mechanics' Institutes is definitely
fixed to take place in Harrogate on the 27th of the
present month. To give the public an idea of the
unusual and splendid attractions which will mark the
celebration of this event, we have only to say that Mr.
G. L. Banks, the general secretary of the Sub-Union
is in correspondence with many of the most eminent
authors and public men of the age, some of whom
have pledged themselves to attend, while the result of
his application to others is not yet made known. Of
those who it is already known will honour Harrogate
with their company, comes, first of all, the celebrated
George Cruikshank, the eminent artist and carica-
turist, whose exquisite dashes of humour and beautiful
conceptions contributed to Punch, the Man in the
Moon, and shown in his illustrations of the works of
Dickens and others, and still more recently in
hi▪ s series of tableaux, " The Bottle," have
. won for
i a world-famed reputation, and
placed him n the highest ranks of ge-
ni▪
us. The above gentleman will preside,
and will be ably supported by Lord Goderich, who
in the handsomest manner possible has recently iden-
tified himself with the Mechanics' Institution at
Kirby Malzeard ; the Hon. and Very Rev. H. D.
Erskine, Dean of Ripon, son of the late Lord Ers-
kine, whose name is a tower of strength, and whose
good works ought to be had in everlasting remem-
brance ; George Dawson, Esq., MA., the eminent
lecturer, of Birmingham; Charles Swain, Esq., of
Manchester, author of " The Mind," " Dramatic
Chapters," " English Melodies," &c. ; Edward Baines,
Esq., President of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics'
Institutes; Charles Mackay, Esq., LL.D., of London;
William Scholefield, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham,
&c. The arrangements for the occasion will consist
of a public dejeuner, at two o'clock, at the Queen
Hotel, and of a public meeting in the evening,
tickets for which must be obtained some days prior
to the festival. The following are the stewards :
the Worshipful the Mayor of Ripon ; John James
Harrison, Esq. ; William Williamson, Esq. ; Wm.
Bennett, Esq., M.D. ; George Kennion, Esq., M.D. ;
Robert Pollock, Esq.; William Melville Lomas,
Esq. ; H. Myers, Esq.; and John Richardson, Esq.
A superior band will be in attendance during the
proceedings.—Harrogate Advertiser.

COST OF CROLERA.—At the last fortnightly meet-
ing of the Liverpool Board of Sewers, the proceedings
related chiefly to the sanitary measures adopted by the
board at the present juncture. Mr. ilarbord said the
board were spending about 10,000/. a year in order to
relieve the sufferers from cholera.

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.
Mrs. Manning has somewhat recovered the excite-
ment she displayed on the fact being made known to
her of her husband's arrival in Horsemongcr-lane
gaol after being examined at the police-court on
Saturday. The coolness and general levity of her
conduct, however, excites considerable observation, if
not surprise. She often expresses much concern
about Manning, and when speaking of him remarks,
" Ah, poor boy, he ought not to have been taken."
Scarcely a word escapes her lips in reference to the
part she is supposed to have taken in the dreadful
crime. All her thoughts apparently are devoted to
dress. Having obtained permission of Mr. Seeker,
the police magistrate, for some satin dresses and
bonnets, found in her luggage when apprehended, to
be restored to her, she has been employed most of
the time since her last appearance at the police-
court, in preparing her attire for the next examina-
tion. She has been very busy in adding a double
fall to her bonnet so as to screen her, as she
says, from the vulgar gaze of the mob. She makes
hut little complaint of the restrictions imposed upon
her; indeed, she has often expressed herself satisfied
with what the prison authorities had done for her,
saying, " I have plenty of room, plenty of air, and
plenty of food, and am not without society." She
expressed a desire to see Mr. Moxey, the superin-
tendent of the Edinburgh police, but being told that
that gentleman had left the metropolis to attend his
official duties in Scotland, she seemed rather disap-
pointed, and observed that " she wished particularly
to have thanked him for his gentlemanly conduct,
adding, " but I intend to go again to Scotland as
soon as I have got over this difficulty, and I will call
and see him." During the whole time she has been
in the prison, it has been generally observed that she
relies much on the belief that she will succeed in
satisfactorily clearing away all suspicion of her being
concerned in the murder of O'Connor. The appear-
ance and conduct of Manning have undergone a great
change in prison. Yesterday he seemed depressed in
mind. On Sunday night he expressed a wish to have
an interview with his wife, but Mr. Keene, the
governor, informed him, as on the previous occasion
when he made a similar request, that it could not be
granted.
Mrs. Manning attended Divine service in the chapel
at Horsemonger-lane Gaol on Sunday, both in the
morning and afternoon. Her husband was not pre-
sent at either service. Both the- prisoners have bad
several interviews with their professional advisers,
preparatory to being brought up for re-examination
on Thursday next. Manning still asserts his own inno-
cence, and upbraids his wife as the sole perpetrator of
the deed. The police are actively engaged in making
inquiries after the air-gun or pistol from which the
bullet found in deceased's head was fired ; and it is
believed that a clue has been found which will fix
the recent possession of an air-gun on Manning.
An air-gun, wrapped in a baize cover, was left by
a man answering his description at a shop in Cheap-
side on Wednesday, the Bth, and taken away again
on Thursday morning. The shopkeeper states, that
the person who left it appeared to be in a state of great
agitation, and said he would call for it again, which
he did.
Since the examination of Manning, the house No.
3, Minver-place has undergone another minute
search, by order of Mr. Evans, the Superintendent of
the M division of police. The whole of the back
kitchen was dug up some distance below the
depth where the body of O'Connor was found, but
nothing material was discovered. Inquiries are now
being made of most of the marine store dealers in the
metropolis respecting the crowbar which Manning
bought of Messrs. Evans, the ironmongers in King
William-street, and which is missing. It is evident
that a weapon of that description must have been
employed in raising the Yorkshire flagstones and
picking up the hard soil under them.
It will be recollected that a dress was found by In-
spector Haynes in one of Mrs. Manning's boxes, the
front and left shoulder of which bore marks of blood.
This confirms the admission made by Manning when
apprehended at Jersey, that Mrs. Manning invited
O'Connor downstairs to wash his hands, and when
reaching the bottom of the staircase put one arm
round O'Connor's neck, and with the other shot him
through the head. The stains on the dress have been
examined by Mr. Odling, the surgeon, of the Borough,
and that gentleman is of opinion from the experiments
he has made that they are marks of human blood.
Yesterday a letter bearing a foreign postmark and
addressed to Maria de Roux, was examined by Mr.
Secker, the police magistrate, but it contained only
some doggrel verses on the late murder, and threw
no light on the facts of the case.