Mr. Montagu's resignation recalls the parallel case of his pre-
decessor in the direction of Indian affairs—Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control in the Derby Ministry of 1858. Lord Canning, the Governor-General, had issued a proclamation threatening to confiscate the estates of all (lade landowners who had not surrendered and could not prove that they had had no part in the murder of _English people during the Mutiny. Lord Ellenborough, like Outram and John Lawrence, disapproved of the proclamation and addressed a sharply worded despatch to Calming. Not .eontent with this, he gave the despatch to the Press, and his colleagues that read it in the P2M49 of May 8th, 1858. The Whig Opposition at once gave notice of a vote of censure, and Lord Ellenborough, bowing before the storm, resigned his office.
