The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-04 00:00:00

COLBURN'S UNITLD SERVICR.

Mr. Horace St. John contiuues his carefully compiled
and well written History of the British Conquests in
India." The present instalment is principally occupied
by the narrative of the glories of the hero of Massey,
the great Lord Clive. So far as he has gone hitherto
Mr. 11. St. John has completely made out his case, and.
has demonstrated that the East India Company in,. all
the earlier portion of their career cautiously abstained,
from territorial acquisitiou, and that it was.not until
compelled for their own safety to obtain a frontier, in,
order to prevent a repetition of such unprovoked atro-.
cities on the part of the native princes as the sack of
Calcutta and the perpetration of the Black Hole tragedy,
that they attempted to acquire territorial doinini,n. The
author ot au article, entitled " The High Road to India,"
strongly recommends the iminwitiate opening of negotia-
tions with . the Sublime Porte for the cesniion
of Egypt to the British us abs,lutely necelisary
to secure to tut the continued possession of our
Indian empire. . "Our Deflices and Defenders" is a
valuable paper, well worth the attentive consiuurtition of
those whose duty it is to mike adequate provision tor the
repulse of any threatened invasion of our niland; in con-
nection with this subjec-, the paper en Mr. Fergussoit's
proposed new and improved system of fortification Should
also be carefully sun-lied. Mr. Hannay contributes an
amu.ii,g droller). under the title of 'Fred Ertel's, Adven-
t.ii Mexi as" is a deeply L,tereiting
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war. `lbo hatred b, twein the
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yaiikees a d the Mi x cans appeals to be undying. We
have a well written memoir of the late Admiral ,ir Ed-
ward Cocir.ngtou, and everal other papers of iuterest.

ME GEN 7Vg:ieb„sMatAieNi.g'S, h iiiiiitoGthAeZeioNiarEo;frsv
betBwYelevnlnCus Uardi'nbar Wiseman and La y Morgan on the
subject of St. Peter's chair, and convicts the Cardinal id
plagiarism. The Cardinal has borrowed every word he has
wfvanced on the subject from a Latin treatise written by
Fabei in the middle of the last century, and has not con-
descended to notice eves the existence of the man from
whom be has copied; and of ignorance, since, according
to his own description of the chair, it could not have
been a curule chair, nor a chair of any period anterior to
the age of Constantine; or, it not of ignorance,
of something worse. Sylvanus ooncludes by de-
claring that after pirusing the publications of the
Cardinal. the Lady, and \lr. Rich, on this subject,
there is left for the Cardinal and for the autheriiies
of the Wmish Church, it they wish to re-establish the
chair and its consequences, no alternative but to ac-
cept the challenge contained in Lady Morgan's sh,rt
sentence, itssensible as it is curt---" Produce the chair."
Mr. Peter Cunningham continues his story of "Nill
Gw3n,e which rs illustrated by an engraving of the
scene between Welly and the King in the park, as re-
corded by Evelyn. We have also a valuable article on
the
" Curiosities of the Old Church Canons," a bio-
graphy of Hartley Coleridge, and severalrevierve, besides
the usual Notes of the Month.