gdom. The commissioners concluded:--"We are commanded
by her majesty to assure you that when you shall be called upon to
resume the discharge of your parliamentary functions, you may place
entire reliance on the cordial co-operation of her majesty in your
endeavours to improve the social condition and to promote the happiness
and contentment of her people." Thus ended this important session--a
session signalized in the addition to the statute-book of severed
important measures, conceived in a safe and judicious spirit of reform,
well suited to the circumstances of the country and to the temper of the
age.

THE STATE OF INDIA.

The event of chief interest connected with the present year was the
recall of Lord Ellenborough, the governor-general, by the unanimous vote
of the court of directors. This subject, as noticed in a previous page,
gave rise to discussion in both houses of parliament. What were the real
motives of the directors of the East India Company in exercising their
right of recalling a governor-general, which from non-use had almost
become obsolete, and in thus acting in direct opposition to the views
and wishes of her majesty's government have never been fully developed;
and the public have therefore been driven to conjecture on the subject.
The most probable opinion, perhaps, may be, that the directors were
offended at his evident mania for military achievements. Throughout the
whole of his administration he showed his desire of conquest; and
even when he left India he did not scruple to say, at a farewell
entertainment given him by the military society of Calcutta, that the
only regret he felt in leaving India was that of being separated from
the army; and that the most interesting period of his life was that
which he had passed in cantonments and camps. Another cause of offence
may have been derived from his proclamations, which were offensive to
good taste, and which justly exposed him to ridicule. His behaviour
towards the directors also was by no means judicious; for, although he
had bound himself to attend exclusively to their orders, he was by no
means an obedient servant. But whatever may have been the directors'
motives, Lord Ellenborough was recalled from his government, and Sir
Henry Hardinge was, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, appointed his
successor; and he arrived in India in the month of July.

In Scinde nothing of importance occurred this year. The worst foe which
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