The Soudan Gazette published on Wednesday contains a long list
of honours. Captain Kenna, Lieutenant de Montmorency, Private Byrne, all of the 21st Lancers, and 'Captain Smyth, of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, get the Victoria Cross. Generals Gatacre, Hunter, aud Rundle are given the K.C.B., while Colonel Wingate and Slatin Pasha are made K.O.M.G. Colonel Macdonald (Brigadier-General in the Egyptian Army) is made an extra Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. We cannot mention any more of the honours and promotions in detail, though they are, we believe, all well deserved, and will give very general satisfaction. The double knighthood for Slatin Pasha and for the man who worked so hard and so successfully to deliver him from captivity— Sir Francis Wingate—will create great interest among the thousands who have read "Fire and Sword in the Sudan." Slatin Pasha's return to Omdurman with a conquering army is one of the most picturesque events of the century, and finds, indeed, its only parallel in Baird's entry into Seringapatam.
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