The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-19

llshmen, though they have a consul. and even a
vice consul Also in the country their position is
not one whit better for such semblance OF protec-
ton for the Indians have found that they may
now laugh with impunity at all contracts they had
come under, for either goods or labor and the
English creditors, instead of venturing to seek
means for enforcing their claims, are glad for their
own personal safety, to allow them to lie over. The
dwelling house of one OF them was forcbly entered
lately, by some Indians, and woman in his ser
vice dangerously wounded by the stab of a knife
Another, wishing to change from one neighborhood
to another, IN attempting to construct premises
there, in the peaceful prosecution of his business
was compelled to desist, under a threat from his
Indian neighbors to be tied hands and feet, and
carried of, if he persisted.
Nay, it would appear that the said Englishmen
are in even a worse predicament than our country
men; for the latter, if aggrieved in any of their
rights, have the certainty of redress being promptly
sought by their own government, whenever they
show good cause of complaint but the former I'M
fortunates, if they should have cause of complaint
from any act of public nature, need not, though
there is a talk about government, make any COM
plant about its acts, for their own counsel is vir
tualy its soul and body and, as for making COM
plant to their foreign secretary in London, regard
ing the acts and Deeds or unhness OF the
agent he employs, their complaint would meet
with the treatment usual in such cases-vZ: be
Judged of according TO the report upon il, demanded
of and furnished by the Consul himself; and then,
if he be excupated-as ten to one is the case-they
must look to abide his revenge for the future hope
less of all redress.
From all we can learn, the Mosquito coast has
now become sort of British pashallk the liberties
and forunes-perhaps the lives-of the inhabitants,
native and foreign, being at the mercy of the Pasha
for the time being. Thus it happened, not long
ago, that the captain of vessel sailing under the
flag of New Granada, was arrested by party of
soldiers, and made to do duty in the ranks for hav.
ing merely demurred about the detention of his
vessel for some government purpose. More recently,
a British merchant, who had been compensated by
the late Pasha, for the sacrifice of his own bust
ness and the suffering of capture and imprison-
ment by the Nicaraguans, by appointment to the
Collectorship of San Juan, was summarily and
rudely dismissed by the present one, for no reason
assigned and none that has been conjectured save
the cutting of an insolent domestic of the said func
tionary while another British merchant was sent,
handcufled like common felon, from Bluefields
to San Juan, and thence transported out of the
country, without even the form Of trial, for an
alleged assault the person of the Vice-Consul at
Bluefelds. When to these strange doings, come
to be added the general confiscation that has been
made OF all the territorial grants made by the late
Mesquite King, including those to the well known
and meriiorious Captain Peter Shepherd, now old
and disabled by blindness, 1t may we'll be con-
cuded that in SO baneful moral atmosphere,
none of our countrymen, will be likely to remain
long voluntarily.
Such is the effect of British intrigue and inter-
ference. In whatever nation that power inter-
feres trouble and danger are sure to be developed.
HUNKERIsM AND BARNpURNERIsM-It appears
that all attempts to produce union between the hun
kers and the barnburners have failed, and that the
two factions will go into convention In the ensuing
fall, and each separately and independently of the
other.
After the adjournment of the Legislature, the
bunker members issued manifesto, in the shape of
an address, to the democrats of the State, suggest
ting to the hunkers hold their convention at the
same time and place as those previously agreed upon
by the barnburners; but this Is knocked in the
head by another document issued by the Hunker
State Committee, which calls separate convention
at Syracuse, on the fifth of September next a week
previous to the meeting of the banburners con-
vention. The attempt therefore to produce union,
has, for the present, failed We cannot, however,
but observe, that the tone of this last bunker ad-
dress is extremely moderate, and that, in fact
it meets the barnbumers more than half way; but
from the comments which the latter have made
concerning it, we inclined to believe that they
will not be satisfied with anything less than COM
plete and unqualified surrender by the hunkers.
We may be able to find room for this last bunker
address in day or two.
MULTIPLICATION AGAIN THREATENED IN SOUTH
CARoLINA.-From the proceedings of State Con-
vention which assembled mt Columbia, in South
Carolina, on the 18th instant, are led to believe
that the spirit of disunion, notification, is as
rampant in that State as it ever was. That con-
ventlon assembled for the purpose Of taking into
consideration what measures ought to be adopted
by the people of that State in case of the passage of
the Winot proviso at the next session Of Con-
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