11 MAY 1844, Page 1

The ugly-looking imbroglio between the Government and the East India

Directors has been settled in the quietest and most effectual manner. This victory over difficulty may stand by the side of Comostuns's egg for simplicity and tact on the part of the cool-headed politician at the head of affairs. There was the Court of Directors in unanimous contumacy—a most respectable and decorous rebellion ; there was the most respected Duke of WEL- LINGTON, with all the plain-speaking indiscretion of a man who has survived petty restraints, openly scolding the Directors, without warrant to show for it—the warrant must not be shown ; there was Lord ELLENBOROUGH rising in the stormy horizon in his retrograde movement, from his horrid hair shaking interofficial pestilence and war ; and the invidious Whigs and mischievous Radicals already began to call for "papers." A general blow-up seemed inevitable. Sir ROBERT PEEL tackles the difficulty. He is silent wh.al his colleague gives tongue. Ile sees and sooths the excited Directors. He yields to their move, now past remedy ; and proposes Sir fleas:. HARDINGE as the new Governor-General. Happy thought! Sir HENRY happens to be "the very man" the Directors desire : he is brother-in-law to the offended ELLENBOROUGH brother-in-arma and most trusted companion to the outspoken Duke; inoffensive to the blatant beast of party. All is quieted. The Duke of WEL-.

Limnos disavows any intention to offend, but thinks that his si- lence was deemed injurious to the impugned functionary, and feels bound to defend his absent friend ; his escapade thus assuming an air of chivalrous generosity forgetful of official etiquette. People would pardon more serious lapses to the honest veteran, and they rather enjoy the opportunity of exercising towards so illustrious a trespasser the patronage of forgiveness.

Some Irish grievances have been on the tapis in each House,— the appointment of a renegade Repealer to be a Stipendiary Ma- gistrate, deplored by Lord NORMARBY ; the Lord-Lieutenancy, Which Mr. Hums sought to abolish ; and an " opinion " which Mr. PanisErxrnart gave twenty-five years ago, denounced by Mr. Bur- Mat, one of the dismissed Repeal Magistrates, we believe. The discussion on the quondam Repealer is noticeable only because Lord NORMANDY renewed an explanation given before—that it was the Mastership of the Rolls, not the office of Chief Baron, a cri- minal Judge, which he offered to Mr. O'CONNELL : the Marquis And the Liberator are at issue on the point. The abolition of the Lord-Lieutenancy was feebly argued on both sides. Sir ROBERT PEEL does not insist on the permanency of the office, but says, Do Dot formally condemn it till you are prepared to abolish it and Constitute some other power instead, because in the interval the lord-Lieutenant's authority will be paralyzed. The office, then, is fiven up in prospect; but it remains for the present. The third point is a ludicrous new grievance. A quarter of a century ago, Mr. PENNEFATHER, RS counsel, advised the Corporation of Kilkenny, his client, to take pains not to bring forward a charter of JAMES the Second, one of many charters which that Monarch tried to force on Irish corporations, but in this case without success : it Would have been prinid facie evidence against the Corporation in a law proceeding, causing trouble to rebut it—which could, however, have been done : that advocate's opinion is now adduced as disqua- lifying Mr. PENNEFATHER for a judicial post. Very Irish.