The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-27 00:00:00

Company have exercised the power with which they are in
vested, of
.recalling a Governor-General. Ministers, it ap
pears, have not sanctioned the recal of Lord Ellenborough
As the right of the Court of Directors to take the step they
have done is unquestioned, it remains to be seen in what
way the collision between them and the Government is to
terminate.
CHRONICLE.—WhiIe the House of Commons has been
occupying its time with -wretched Ferrand squabbles, events
of real moment have, it appears, been in progress. Sir Robert
Peel and Lord Ripon yesterday evening announced to the
two Houses a fact—startling at. once from its importance and
its novelty. Lord Ellenborough has been re-called. This
tardy compliance with the dictates of national self-preserva-
tion, is not the result of slow wisdom or penitence on the part
of her Majesty's Ministers. For the first time in the present
century, the 'Directors of the East India Company have
thought it their duty to exercise the extreme power vested in
them by their charter, of recalling a Governor-General in
defiance of the Ministry. A body like the Court of Directors
must, naturally, be most unwilling to come into collision with
the Ministers of the Crown. It has never done so before. On
the present occasion, it has evidently not done so until ad-
vice, remonstrance, and endurance have been all exhausted.
Nor can the Directors be supposed to have acted under the
influence of party politics. The great majority of the Court
are not only Conservatives, but very decided in their support
of the present Ministry. It will not readily be imagined that
a body, so little like to Seek occasion for such an act of hos-
tility to any Ministry, composed of individuals so disposed to
support the present Ministers, has taken so decided a step
without the greatest reluctance, and a deep sense of urgent
At present the public are
and overpowering necessity. un-
informed of the precise ground on which the Court have re-
called Lord Ellenborongh ; and as some information will pro-
bably be given in a few days, it would be improper to anti-
cipate, by loose conjecture, the conclusions of which we shall
soon have surer grounds for weighing the soundness. Of the
great measures of Lord Ellenborough's policy. more
than one would undoubtedly appear to the public to
justify his removal from the' government, of which they
have impaired the character and weakened the security.
But we believe that the Court of Directors have been even
more influenced by their sense of the danger likely to result
from a long series of acts, each minute, and in itself not vet),
important, but which, collectively, have tended to the result
of wounding the feelings, lowering the character, and im-
pairing the efficiency of the whole Civil service of India.
There is not a rule of Indian Government which the present
Governor-General has not set at nought; not a class of public
servants to whom he has not rendered himself odious ; and
he has made himself thus unpopular to the whole Civil ser-
vice, by no great change in the internal policy of India—by
no useful reforms—but simply by wanton disregard to the
feelings of individuals, and for the consideration due to station
and public services. In addition, it is rumoured that he had given
recent cause of offence by resenting, in an unbecoming manner,
the remonstrances of the Court of Directors, and replying to
them in language as improper as that which he was in the
habit of using to everybody else. We mention these points,
not as being prepared to give our readers any sufficient in-
sight into the real state of the matter, but in order to guard
against mis-statements, which will be circulated by those
who think themselves bound to defend Lord Ellenborough.
The partisans of the Ministry have already taken the cue of
violently assailing the Directors, and of attributing their dis-
approval of Lord Ellenborough to certain reforms, by which
it is hinted that he was interfering with what is called their
jobbing. We do not believe that Lord Ellenborough has
made or proposed any reform of real moment in the internal
government of India; and we suspect that if he has animad-
verted on anything as a job, it has been simply by way of
retort, and for the purpose of deterring his superiors from
checking his own unwise policy.

COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 5
Ditto, at sight l2 3
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5i
Antwerp 25 95
Eiamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona l3 15
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l22i
Petorsburgh, 3Us 364
Berlin
Vienna, effee. 11.3 31 956
rieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao

GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 60
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice ........
Naples 39
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon 534
Oporto s3i
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
Newliork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars..£.3 .17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4
Silver in Bars 0 4

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of
the Bank of England, from the 27th day of January, 1844,
to the 20th day of -April, 1844, both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation £21,427,000 Securities ...X22,150,000
Deposits 13,615,000 Bullion

£35,042,000
11, Downing-street, April 2.

X 38,165,000

it 1844.

LYME.—On the morning of Good Friday, a large
mass of the church cliffs at this town slipped slowly and
noiselessly into the sea beneath, from the immediate
*inity of the church-yard, thereby rendering the re-
maining portion of the cliffs totally unapproachable
without a long and circuitous walk. This pleasant and
favourite promenade has, from time immemorial, been
making frequent similar contributions, and, at no far
distant period, it is feared, will exist only in memory.—
Sherborne Journal.
THE OUTRAGE AT ADARE ABBEY.---The Limerick
Reporter adds the following particulars to those already
published, of the conspiracy to destroy the property of
Lord Dunraven :—" It apl ears that one of the accom-
plices, named Loony, informed of the whole business,
and that upon his information, which has been amply
corroborated, the conspirators were arrested ; and one
of the female prisoners has since made horrifying reve-
lations to the same effect. It appears that Loony,
Regan, and the two women, had concocted a plot to burn
Lord Dunraven's stables, to blow up the church with
tgou gunpowder, d
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sshoot u ther rabrid g e
, coachmanfor while Lad !pisnr a way
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uThe list of victims, amounting to ten in number, was
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actually made out, and found on the person of Regan."