On Wednesday, a Vote of Thanks was passed in both
Houses to Lord Wolseley and her Majesty's troops in the Soudan for the ability, courage, and determination exhibited in that most difficult campaign; and fall credit was done to the little army which had had to encounter enemies so fierce and formidable, and which had accounted for them so welL Lord Salisbury made the motion in the House of Lords, being seconded by Lord Carrington in the unavoidable absence of Lord Granville. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach moved it in the House of Commons, and was seconded by Lord Hartington, who stated that Count von Moltke had expressed the highest admiration of the heroism, the handiness, and the endurance of our troops. The Vote of Thanks was by no means a matter of mere form. The more we hear of the details of the Soudan campaigns, the more vividly we realise how much in this case " heroism, handiness, and endurance" really meant, and how little these words suggest to non-military readers all that they did mean,—the noble fortitude, the unstinted sacrifices, the long-continued strain of patriotic devotion. Never has the British Army exhibited finer qualities, though the campaign ended with so little of apparent fruit.
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