Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-16

BRITISH INDIA.-The following article from the
New York Sun shows what c~onquests England has
already made in Asia, and gives some insight into
her designs. A late number of the London Chronicle
declares that it is the duty of the British Government
to complete the conquest of Asia, as the only feasible
mode of maintaining its supremacy there, without
mourning the expense of maintaining perpetually a
large army in that quarter of the world
"For the present at least, England rests upon the
borders of China, while she penetrates through the
Puniaub to the East Persian frontiers, to command
the great passes through which mines of wealth are
constantly flowing into the courts of Persia and Tur-
KEY. With the Puniaub, she secures the magnificent
city Of Cashmere, its great shawl markets and its
princely revenues. With this city in her hands, she
commands the great caravan road between China and
the Southern nations of Western Asia. Her next
point of acquisition is Khiva. which she attempted to
capture a few years ago. The disastrous results of
that campaign have been recorded in Lady Sales mar
rative of her sufferings and privations.
"England's policy, her interests, and the very ex-
istence of her Anglo-Indian Empire, would all be en-
~dangered, should she fail to obtain Khiva, which is
the KEY to Bokhara, the mart of the central continent
tai trade, through which Russia, if allowed to retain
her present influence there, would checkmate her
completely. While Russia is expanding strength in
fruitless attempts to subdue the Christians of Georgia,
instead of dashing through from the Caspian Sea to the
Gulf of Persia, via Teheran and %lspahan; England
is directing her energies to the conquest Of the Ma
homedan tribes, occupying the territories through
which Russia hoped to pass into the Indian Ocean,
Just as France is pushing her African c~onquests with
a view to their ultimate extension, via the Isthmus of
Suez, to Asia Minor. France and England are cor
daily united in these gigantic movements against
Russia. They know that the great northern autocrat
desires a wider field for the commercial enterprise of
his people, and hence their vigorous efforts to defeat
his plans. His best policy is, undoubtedly, to aban-
don the war in the Caucasus, and direct his valiant
forces against the Mahomedans. Should he invade
Turkey, he would probably run the risk of a war in
Europe, but the Indian Ocean is within his reach,
without any such risk. A campaign of three months
would accomplish the great work. Another years de-
lay on the part of Russia may throw the Persian and
Turkish Empires into the lap Of the British East In
da Company.
"Russia, which gives evidence of wise councils in
her railroad movements, cannot overlook the great
fact that railroads may traverse the ancient caravan
routes from tie far east to Jerusalem, Tyre, Sidon,
Babylon, &c. &c. We grant that commerce is indis-
pensable to her future success, but her overpowering
land forces are SO well prepared for the subIugation OF
the enervated Turkomans, that we wonder at her for
bearance in allowing England to approach between
the Caspian and Ural Seas, by which the most valua-
bic trade of India and China can be prevented from
taking its ancient avenues, to points which it seems
to be the destiny of Russia to control"