The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

A KINGDOM FOR SALE.

Our readers are probably aware that Denmark has
been for some time hawking about her colony of Chris-
tianberg, on the coast of Guinea, for sale. Finding no
native willing to deal for it, the Danish Minister has
actually offered it, so says report, to a City capitalist for
80,0001. A better way would be to put it up for auction.
In fact, the Times has already, in its leader of Tuesday,
suggested not only the auction, but the auctioneer. It
is but fitting that Robins, who has sold many a kingdom
in detail, should at last have an opportunity of selling
one in the mass. In allusion to this subject, and on the
supposition that other nations may be inclined to follow
the example of Denmark, it says—" One almost envies
Mr. Robins this new province fiar his pen. After taking
his pastime in the bucolic sphere of parks and ”illas, with
what ecstacy will he strike up his Paulo inajova uanamus,
and soar into the more congenial element, principalities,
and empires! Very soon he will fascinate the gloating
eyes of the capitalist with—' Eligible Investment— A
first-rate colony, on the coast of Madagascar, with a
magnificent capital and numerous splendid cities, in the
midst of luxuriant plains, studded with thriving villages.
The natives are peaceful, industrious, and attached to
their rulers. The taxes, when the various colonial es-
tablishments have been paid, leave a handsome surplus,
sufficient for the support of a sovereign, who may call
himself emperor or sultan with perfect propriety and
safety. By-and-by an extensive empire, a snug prin-
cipality, a gem of a dukedom, a sweet little pashalic,
may be procured on reasonable terms by any young
gentleman who has imbibed a taste for good govern-
ment from the speculations of Plato, Fenelon, or Jeremy
Bentham, and who is anxious to exchange an inglorious
patrimony on the sedgy banks of the Bedford Level, or
in the vulgar Three per Cents., for a place among the
rulers of the earth and in the hearts of a grateful people.
An estate in Yorkshire, that can boast of nothing but
those odious common-places, a goad rental, a substantial
and commodious mansion, and a well -stocked manor, will
look rather flat by the side of a property in the Isle of
Madagascar, withsovereign rights and every description
of civil and ecclesiastical supremacy. As for the styles
the infinite bowiugs, and toe
and titles of honour, gorgeous, uncouth,
unintelli-
gible, the Lamaships. and High Priesthoods, the genuine
and
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circumstances of royalty,. we should soon lose ourselves in
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THE VACANT BISHOPRIC.—Sir Robert Peel has
selected the Rev. Dr. Wilberforce, the Dean of Westmir,
ster, as the succcssor of the late Bishop of Bath and %Yells.
The Very Rev. Dr. Wilberforce has been Dean of Westmin-
ster since the death of Dr. Ireland, and will be, we hear, the
youngest bishop on the bench.
M. THUM', AT WOOLWICH,-111. Thiers inspected
Woolwick dockyard on Monday afternoon, and was accom-
panied by the lion. 11. T. L. Corry, Secretary to the Admi-
ralty, with a party of friends of the late Pnme Minister of
France. M. Thiers arrived at three o'clock, p.m., and was re-
ceived by Sir C. Francis A. Collier, Knt., C. 13., and K.C.11.,
and the authorities of the dockyard, and conducted over the
factory, boiler-maker, and foundry departments, and over the
Grampus frigate of 50 guns, the Terrible, war-steamer, of
800-horse power, and the Royal Albert, first-rate man- of-
war, of 120 guns; and also over every part of this great naval
depot worthy of notice. After remaining upwards of an hour
and a half in the dockyard, M. Thiers and party returned to
Loudon.

ACCIDENT TO A GENTLEMAN CADET. Yester-
day forenoon, between eleven and twelve o'clock, while the
gentlemen cadets were leaving their barracks with their light
3-pounder guns for exercise on the Common, pulling the
carriages with drag ropes in the usual manner, one of them,
named Francis Place, slipped on passing over a slight ele-
vation, and falling down, the wheel of the carriage passed
over his head before it could be stopped. He was immedi-
ately conveyed to the Ordnance Hospital, to obtain surgical
attendance and to ascertain the extent of the injury he had
received.