tion, we cannot see what great inconvenience would arise to us from the proximity of such a power. Again, it is said, that the annexation would be only postponed, and would require to be carried into effect ere long, unless the necessity were averted by the energy of the Americans. Now to this it is a sufficient answer that we have been at peace with the Burmese for twenty-six years; although we were culpably negligent in abandoning the rights which were conferred on us by the treaty of Yandaboo. And there is no reason to believe that, with a good arrangement, and with the experience we now have in dealing with native powers, a permanent peace might not be secured. Once more, it is said, that the transference of the Burmese under our sway would be such a blessing to them, and would produce such blessed effects, by introducing civilization and the gospel amongst them. Now this may be all true; but yet we are not to do evil that good may come; and we believe that the annexation of Burmah would be an act of injustice on our part as well as an act of great impolicy. We yield to none in our anxiety for the extension of civilization, and the spread of the gospel; but not even for such an end, would we employ means inconsistent with that noble precept which embodies at once the concentrated essence of civilization and of the morality of the gospel, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." one Averse as the present Governor-General was to this war, most untimely and unpropitious, from every point of view, and which he evidently knew to be such, there can be no doubt that now there is no option left to the Indian Government, but to prosecute the war to a speedy conclusion with the utmost vigour, as soon as the season arrives. When this shall have been accomplished, and the court of Ava sufficiently humiliated, we trust that the British Government will pause, before, in obedience to the cry of the Calcutta Press, the annexation of the Burman dominions is decided upon. All our reasonable objects may be otherwise attained, and though the prospect of another series of rapid and brilliant conquests, ending in the formation of a colossal Anglo-Indo-Chinese empire, may be flattering to the pride and restless ambition of many, the true interests of European England call for caution, ere she embark upon so gigantic a career of further extension of empire and of debt. She is but too vulnerable already almost in every quarter of the globe; and her present possessions, disproportionate to her army, tax her means to an extent beyond which her Parliaments are evidently violently averse to proceed-to an extent that disinclines her Parliaments from efficiently providing for the security of her own shores from invasion. Both with reference to the advocated annexation of Burmah and its conquest, we close in the words of one of those admirable articles for which the Times is famous, applying them, however, in a wider sense than did the writer, to the whole Indo-Chinese Peninsula." Although we do not apprehend any effectual ⚫ resistance to the force of the British arms, it is only reasonable to acknowledge that more may be awaiting us than we contemplate at present." CONTENTS OF No. XXXVI.-VOL. XVIII. ART. I.-PALESTINE AND LEBANON. 1. Lands of the Bible. By Dr. Wilson 2. The Holy City. By the Rev. Mr. Williams 3. Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land. By Dr. Robin son 4. Eothen 233 ib. ib. ib. 5. The Crescent and the Cross. By Eliot Warburton ib. ART. II.-CALCUTTA IN THE OLDEN TIME-ITS LOCALITIES. ART. III.-PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE IN THE NORTH WESTERN PROVINCES. Selections from Public Correspondence, North Western ART. IV. POCOCKE'S INDIA IN GREECE. India in Greece; or truth in Mythology, containing the sources of the Hellenic race; the Colonization of Egypt and Palestine; the Wars of the Grand Lama ; and the Budhistic Propaganda in Greece. By E. Pococke, Esq. London and Glasgow. 1852 321 . 340 ART. V.-KAFFIRS AND INDIAN HILL TRIBES. Memoir on the Kaffirs, Hottentots, and Bosjemans of South Africa. By Colonel John Sutherland. Cape Town. 1847 377 |