Among the conjectures respecting the reason of Lord Ellenborongh's abrupt
recall by the East India Directors, in defiance of the Govern- ment, the Morning Chronicie says, that he had made himself universally odious and unpopular with public servants in India, by troublesome dis- turbance of rules ; and that he had resented in unbecoming language the remonstrances of the Directors. The Morning Post calls to mind a rumour, current a little while ago, that Sir James Graham was to go out as Governor-General, with the title of "Lord Netherby." The Sun observes- " "We presume that Sir James Graham will be his successor in the Governor- Generalship ; a post which has long been the object of the renegade Baronet's ambition, and which Lady Graham's disinclivation to quit the shores of Eng- land is, we believe, the only obstacle to his at once possessing. • • • • 'Where the policy of Lord Ellenborough might have led the rule of England, and bow far such policy might have been wise and judicious, are questions that may have puzzled the Court of Directors and Sir Robert Peel ; but no one can deny that, bating a little absurdity, and allowing for pomposity and inflation, the Ellenborough rule has been a successful and for England a ttiumphant one. There have been no gross mismanagements like that of Cabal—no defeat to be deplored—no incompetent comnisnders to be censured; and if the seeds of future disasters be sown, which we very much doubt, there are no symptoms or sigma of them at present."
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