The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROH THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Lord Stanley's elevation to the Peerage,
and Lord Ellenborough's advancement to an Earldom
(the latter announced in last night's Gazette), are acts
incapable of any construction that can avert reproach
from the Government. They partake mire of
the bravado of a bully, than of the deliberation
which should precede, and the dignity which
should accompany, the decisions of a Cabinet.
Lord Stanley's administration of the Colonial-
office had been censured in the report of a
Parliamentary Committee nominated by the Govern-
ment, and the majority of which was selected from
the Ministerial side of the House. To indicate the
contempt of independent judgment which the Minis-
try entertains, the member of the Government whose
conduct in his official post had been emphatically re-
buked, was pitchforked into the House of Lords.
In Lord Stanley's case, the adverse report of a
l'arliamentary Committee on the course adopted by
his Lordship as Colonial Secretary, and which
ought to have caused his removal from the office he
had shown himself incompetent to hold, was
the precursor of advancement to the Peerage. The
Colonies may complain of neglect. The West Indies
and Australia may remonstrate. New Zealand may
deplore the neglect of its rising interests, by which its
hopes of security and advancement are frustrated ; these
results may be declared by aParliamentery Committee
to proceed- from mismanagement on the part of the
" Executive Government at home :" What then ? The
Cabinet upholds its Colonial Secretary at the expense of
the interests, if not of the existence, of the Colonies ;
and the complaints of, and censures passed upon, his
administration, are the signals for conferring upon
him honours and rewards I Immediately on Lord
Ellenborough's return from the mal-administration of
the Indian Government, from which he was recalled
by the body best qualified to form a judgment of his
administration, and its tendency to promote or
injure the interests of British India, the Sovereign
is advised to confer the rewards of distin-
guished merit upon the man who had perilled the
safety of the Indian Empire intrusted to his care.
So fondly anxious were Ministers to solace the wounded
vanity of their protege, that a new patent of nobility,
" granting to him the dignities of a Viscount and an
Earl," awaited his arrival. Scarcely had the recalled
Baron Ellenborough reached the shores of England,
from the country where his vanity and love of military
display had lavished treasure to an incalculable amount,
and created perils it was fearful to contemplate, than
he was saluted Viscount Southam and Earl of Ellen-
borough ! Such open contempt of all the acknow-
ledged rules of propriety—a respect for which will
sometimes atone for want of honesty—will recoil
upon the Government. All respect for the acts,
all confidence in the virtue, of a Cabinet which thus
braves public opinion, and converts merited dis-
grace into occasions for conferring honours and re
wards, must cease. Lord Ellenborough's acts are
no longer imputable to his own follies or faults. They
cease to be his. Her Majesty's Ministers have boldly
assumed the responsibility. They have taken the dere-
lict Governor-General under their special care. They
have delighted to honour him whom all men else have
agreed to censure. An Earl's coronet encircles the
brow which might otherwise have been suffused with
the consciousness of shame. Lord Ellenborough's
Earldom supplies an instance of the kind of services
which the Government of Sir R. Peel makes haste to
honour. It holds out to others—who, like him, may
be entrusted with the discharge of duties in respon-
sible and highly elevated posts—that stimulus to a
prudent and zealous regard to the honour of their
Sovereign and the interests of the empire, of which
Lord Ellenborough is so bright an example; and for
which he has been selected as the object of his Sove-
reign's gracious approbation.
STANDARD.—The elevation of Lord Ellen-
borough to an Earldom, recorded in the Gazette of
last evening, is a sufficient answer to the insinuations
which have been so unsparingly indulged in to his
prejudice by his Whig-Radical detractors. It may
be regarded, in fact, as an intimation of the determi-
nation of the Government not to be influenced by
other opinions than their own in their appreciation of
distinguished public services, how loud soever the
clamour that may be raised against the individual.
Of whatever errors of judgment his Lord-
ship has been accused, the merits of his short
but brilliant administration of the affairs of India
have been placed beyond a question, by the irresis-
tible evidence of facts, too stubborn to -be disputed.
The condition in which he has •handed over his Go-
vernment to his successor is one w‘lich will beer
an advantageous comparison with that in which that
country has been left by the most distinguished of
his predecessors. The legacy of disaster and disgrace
bequeathed to him by Lord Auckland was of a na-
ture with which no Governor- General of Indi,
has hitherto been called upon to contend ; and
could only have been equalled by the difficulties in-
herited from the Government of Lord Melbourne, b),
Sir Robert Peel. He found an enormously failing re
venue, and a decreasing commerce. He has restore
the one, and invigorated the other. The prey
P:;re which had tiaached to the British arrm
in India, hail been impaired, by a defeat 04
the most calamitous description ; a disaster which
the most ordinary foresight might have prevented,
and which was incurred in insolent defiance of the
most consumtnate experience and the soundest judg-
ment. The Duke of Wellington predicted the con-
sequences of our occupation of Aff4hanistan, in lan-
guage the most earnest and impressive ; hut his expe-
rience was disregarded, and his admonitions
lsiot only did Lord Melbourne's Government persist
in its insane scheme, but they employed the mos'
inadequate means to carry it out, and their attempt
to make a " little war" terminated accordingly
in a catastrophe which shook our Indian empire
to its foundations. This disgrace has been oblite-
rated and the influence thus wantonly sacrificed re-
store 1. Ten successive victories, rivalling in bril-
liancy the most splendid successes recorded in the
annals of Anglo-Indian warfare, have not only re-
deemed the credit of British arms, but have placed
British dominion in the East on a more secure
basis than it has ever before attained. Lord Ellen-
borough had to encounter either open hostility
tr. concealed perfidy, the natural results of the
apathetic and culpable indolence of his predecessor, in
several of the most important divisions of India; he
has left them in a state of tranquillity, which de
mands nothing beyond the most ordinary vigilance t
erpetuate ; and the highest complment that coup
t e paid to his policy is to be found in its adop
;ion in all substantial points by his suc

cessor. Among the more useful but not very
F.opular measures of his Government were the cor-

section of several of the abuses which had crept
into the civil departments of the service, and the sup-
ression of much of the corruption which had hitherto
disgraced them. His Lordship's zealous and unflinch-
ing performance of this most difficult of his duties
could not fail of creating for him many enemies ' • and
to the intrigues of those whose peculations he had ar-
rested, and whose corruption he had resisted, is mainly
attributed his recal; whilst his popularity with the
army has tended to increase the jealousy and
to which he has been sacrificed. Whilst they have
recognised a power which had long lain in abey-
ance, and which it was hardly expected would have
been exercised, however, her Majesty's Ministers
have not scrupled to proclaim their opinion
of the treatment which Lord Ellenborough
has experienced at the hands of the East
India Company. On the first intimation

of the intentions of the Directors, the Duke

of Wellington expressed himself in terms
of the most unequivocal surprise and disapprobation ;
and the distinguished mark of her Majesty's favour
w hicb, by the advice of her Ministers, she has just
conferred upon his Lordship, affords irresistible
proof that the opinions of the Government on the
subject have rather been confirmed than disturbed.
Of the circumstances which led to Lord Ellenbo-

rough's recal we have, as yet, no official inform&
tion. 3y some, it has been ascribed to non-ob-
rervanc• of that deference, amounting to something
not far removed from servility, in his correspon-
dence with the Directors, which they appear to
have expected; whilst by others it has been attri-
buted to his too stringent attempts to reform the
jobbing of their civil servants in India. Be the
origin of his recall what it may, he has some con-
solation under the heavy
.weight of their dis-
pleasure. Ins conduct has received the warmest testi-
monials of approval from his Sovereign and her ad-
visers; whilst for the vigour and promptitude with
which he on several occasions redeemed the burning

-
i=grace heaped upon our arms in Affghanistan, he has
twice received the thanks of both Houses of Parlia-

milt. The mystery will, no doubt, be cleared up
when Parliament next assembles. Meanwhile, candour
di !lands an abstinence from the sort of abuse so

lavishly poured upon him by the organs of the Whig
Government; seeing that even a recalled Governor-
Gtneral cannot condescend to reclamations in any
o:Fer place than that in which he can meet his
aura face to face, and test the validity of the
chavir they may have to bring against him by an
an appearto the only tribunal to which he is legi-
tlmately responsible for his conduct.

SIAM OF TRAWL—Owing to the apprehensions
...nerally entertained, of disputes between the work-
peop!e and their employers, there has been an active de-
mand both for goods and yarn; and prices of both, but
especially of the latter, are very buoyant this week.--
JZOCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The flannel market
has been again dull, and the sales limited. There is but
little alteration in the wool market ; manufacturers do
not appear eager to purchase, probably expecting, before
long, a fall in price.—Manchester Guardian.

Such has been the effect of the mildness of the pre-
sent season, that in the orchard of Lieutenant John M.
Li!es, near Castleisland, an apple tree. is to be seen, part
in blossom, part knitting into fruit, and part bearing the
full-grown ripe apple.—Trake Chronicle.