it is interesting to recall how - wide and - long-"is Lord Ciower's experience
'both of civil and military 'affairs. in, his youth he was one of the' Secretaries to the Commission.. that. inquired into the Jamaica. rebellion. He was also Secretary to the Cardwell Com- mittee,. which was _preliminary to the great reforms made in the British Army in the " seventies." In early middle life, as Secretary to the Viceroy and as Financial Member of- Council, he made first- hand acquaintance with the administration of the Indian Empire. Later in -Egypt - he had imposed upon him a double- obligation. While he ruled and restored Egypt by day, he had every night to break the potent spells cast for his destruction by his diplo- matic opponents. 'Yet he survived, and: in the shadow of the security which he established the lotus of the Nile broke into flower. His experiences of the invasion of the Sudan by the Dervishes, of the attempts to rescue Gordon, and of the . more recent Nile campaigns have endowed him with a thorough knowledge of how to conduct and how not to conduct -Military expeditions.
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