LORD TORRINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION AND RECALL. (From the "Friend of India."]

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 545, 5 July 1851, Page 4

LORD TORRINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION AND RECALL. (From the "Friend of India."]

It has been slated in some of the papers in India that Lord Toirin^taii'B resolution to resign (lie govcrmncnt of Ceylon wc.s adopted after he line! been made acquainted with this de ciminnlion of lici M<»jesty'a Ministers to plucc tho adminintiation of tin: island in other hands. We hare obtained u copy of Lord Giey's despatch announcing that dctcrminutiou —it in published below,*— from whith it will appear that tli i« impretsiori waa altogether crroneoun. Lord Torringion'b resignation was coinmumcutcd to the Council in Ceylon e/i'ly in August, and the despatch from the Colonial. Office was duteil on the 15th of that month, and could not have reached Colombo before Sept. 25 :— 11 Downing-strcet, Aug. 15, 1850. 11 My Lord ,— lt is my painful duty to inform your Lordship ihai Her Majesty ha» been pleased, on my advice, to direct that you should be iclieved from the government of Ceylon, to which Sir George Anderson lias been appointed ; and I am to ai^nily to you Her Miijcity's permission, il you should wish to leave the colony previously to the arrival of your buccesßor, to hand over the temporary adminiftrution of the government to the Acting Colonial Secretary, in viitue of the commission as lieutenant-governor which lias been given to tha officer holding that kituation. " In making this communication to your Lordship, it is only due to you that I should state that Her Majesty's Government fully appreciate the zeal for Ihe public service which you have hhown in llie important office which you have held, and recognize the earnest desire to promote the iuipiovcmcut of the colony intrusted to your charge, und tho welfare of its inhubitantH, which has been constantly displayed in your ofliciul correspondence and in your public conduct ; nor can I omtt to record my general approval of the measures of your government, and more especially ol tiiobe which have been directed to the improvement of the commercial and financial condition of the inland,— an object which you have bicn highly successful in promoting. " When your Lordthip assumed the government o Ceylon tho expenditure was largely in excess ot the income; the balance in tho Colonial Treasury, which had been accumulated in previous years, was rapidly becoming absorbed, and at the lame time the trade and industry of the colony wore in a state of eitieme deprenoion, from which their recovery was rendircd more difficult by the pressure of raxes ot a very objectionable character. JJy your Lordihip'g exertions a large reduction of expenditure hui been alruady effected und KUggeations for further and very important savings have been mode by you, and are now under my consideration ; the expenditure of the colony has been adjusted to the income, although a material diminution hab been made in the burden of tnxution by the repeal of those taxes which pressed moituevciely upon tlu) industry of the colony, while only a poitiou oi the revenue thus abandoned has been made up by the iinpontion of new, but less onerous taxes. These measures have contributed injiio flight degree o hi ing about that maiked improvement in the commercial and industrial condition of the colony which bus taken place in the last two years. «' I huvc a'so to express my sense of the success with which your Lordship has laboured to maintain the public peace since the suppression of the insurrection in the year 1848, and my conviction, which remains unshuken by all thut has since tjecn alleged against you, that your measure! upon that unfortunate occasion were dictated solely by your opinion, founded on the best information within your reach, and supported by tho judgement of thoie whom it was your duty to consult, that tho stepß which you then took weic indispensable for the prompt suppression of the dutuibanceo und for the sccmity of the lives «nd pro-

jhitvol H«'i Alcijisly's |,c eeiMe iiiitl )<u,il Mi' ji'< ts ni Ilit! "iis'ii' ts v\huc tliobu (tislu; b met » hd broken Oil 1 . " IJiit, wliile I have much «atisfaelion in erprpsainfT to thiH extent my npprov-il of your admiuibtiution, 1 am compelled to add that, in the com so of the )>n>« feedings of a felccl con mittee cf tJi • \\> use of Coixinions, which has during two ecsu'ois boon engeged in an ii quiiy inlo tin: nflaiis of Ccyltn, it luih nppi'nrcd from evidence nnd docunictits aiilimiticd to ili<: cointuittcc tli>it your Lordbliip lin^ f.uk'd in maintaining ninong U>e diHuivnt persons tmploycil in the public btvicc in tho colony thai harmonious co-o|>praiion with cuch otlier, und tliut respect towards yourself, winch me indispensable to the proper niJminisiratiun <)f itH afTairs. " By a resolution of the House of Commons, tlio minutes of iho coinniitlc's pioreodings huvc been lefencd to Her Mujcty's Government ; and, in ho far r.s they affect othei pntticß, they will icccive dclibera c consideration ; but I am already sufficiently tuquumted .vi'h thc-ir tenor to bo satisfied that, as iPHpecti your Lordihip, they loud ineviu-bly to the above tonelui»ion. ; c< Without rnti'riiiK further into Ihn painful circumslunces to which your Lordnhip will perceive that I li.ive nlluded, it is bufficitnt foi me to state that those ciiPiimstnnccß hnvo appeared to Hit Miijcsly'n Government to rendet it mccßt-ary lor the public inteieot that the administintion of the. government of Ceylon hhonld he plnicd in other hnndb ; and it has aeiorditi|!;ly been my duty to Bubmit to lit r Majesty the nd vice to tlmt efßct, which I have already informed you that Her Mujußtyhas been pleased to adopt. '• I hiiTe, &c., 11 To the Viscount Torringlon. •• GREY."