The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-20 00:00:00

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COLB URN'S UNITED SERVICE.
The first article of the June number of the United
Service is entitled " Destinies of Great Britain in the
East," and is an unanswerable vindication of the
policy of which Sir Charles Napier is the champion.
It is demonstrated by the writer of this article that
the substitution of the rule of the British for that of
the petty tyrants who call themselves Native Princes,
has been invariably attended with a great increase of
prosperity to the great bulk of the people of India;
that it is " for the greatest happiness of the greatest
number," that the direct rule of British authority
should be substituted far that of Rajas' and Ameers,
and that increase of territory has been forced upon
us rather than sought. "The first Political Relations
of England with Russia" is a history of the discovery
of the shore of the White Sea by Chancelor, and of
the subsequent embassies to Russia up to the com-
mencement of the reign of Charles 1., and cannot
but be interesting at the present moment,
when our relations with Russia are so cri-
tical, and when the influence of the then barbarians,
but now semi. civilised Muscovites,is so overwhelming
in the affairs of Western Europe. " The Antarctic
Voyage " is the only account which has yet appeared
of the expedition of ber Majesty's hired barque Pa-
goda to the Antardf c Ocean, under the command of
Lieutenant Moore, in 1845. We have also from the
pen of Captain Drew, R.N. an admirably written
biography of Captain Sir John Phillimore, R.N.,from
which we extract the following account of the ordi-
nation of a bishop by the captain of a frigate, which
we commend to the especial attention of the
Puseyites

" On the passage home, the Thetis put into the Island
of St. Michael's, one of the Azores, for supplies, particu-
larly for the sick, and it was here that Sir John Philli-
more had an opportunity of showing the versatility of his
genius, and of proving that,he could surmount any diffi-
culty. even the want of a bishop on the Atlantic ocean.
The English inhabitnits on the island waited upon him
in a body, and stawd that they had no consecrated place
bury their dead, and requested him to have a piece of
ground, which was allotted for that purpose, consecrated.
This he at once promised should be dune—for what can-
not a captain of a men-of-war do? The chaplain cf the
Thetis, the Rev. W. G. Rope, was immediately sent for,
and received his orders to be ready to consecrate the
piece of ground by noon the next day. It was in vain
he
otpte ho bad no authority Co do it; that he was
competent: why not? because, Sir John, it requires
nrosted
a bishop to consecrate. Well, I'll give you an actieg
of Sr. Michael's. Still the
roervdeerre,l3,3•dougenslitlaelmi
atinelßooisPkheodabout fur an excuse; I cannot
do it, sir, there i+ no form of consecration in the Prayer-
book, I have nothing to guide me, in fact I know nothing
about it. Well, the first Lieutenant an order to
write von out a form, and that settles the matt,T. The
first Lieutenant was too strict a disciplinarian to hesi-
tate to obey any order he received from his captain, so
he and the clergyman put their heath together and made

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out a tolerable form of consecration, not quite so perfect
as the Archbishop of Canterbury would have made, but
one which served the purpose. The ceremony went off
with great &Ist, the seamen and marines Imming a line
a procession, and the whole cuneludei (much to the
satisfaction of all pa►ties) with a royal salute from her
Majesty's ship Thetis."