Lord ELLENBOROUGH has come back, has received the usual courtesy
of an invitation to Windsor Castle, and has furthermore been made an Earl. Certain party journals are wroth at his pro- motion; pointing to it as a proof that Government reward where everybody else condemns. Not everybody, for Parliament thanked him. Lord ELLENBOROUGH, however, has been, literally, a success- ful Governor-General—successful in his proclaimed enterprises, victorious in his wars ; and official successes usually have a tech- nical claim on promotion. Lord AUCKLAND, all debate as to the wisdom of his purpose apart, was unsuccessful—he left his govern- ment at a period of reverses, and lacked this technical claim. There is, too, a tolerably obvious compromise in Lord ELLEN- BoRouctis reception : as the Duke of WELLINGTON stood by him through thick and thin, and Sir ROBERT PEEL coolly let him down, so he has made a silent entrance, and finds his only triumph in a move upward on the benches of the Peerage—a merely titular ex- altation. If the Whigs resent that formal guerdon, the best thing they can do is to follow the example of the fine lady who dressed her black slave in a splendid gown like her rival's—make all sorts of people Earls and Viscounts—when they return to power.
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