NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tr HE thanks of Parliament were voted on Mondayto all engaged
in the Ashantee Expedition, including Captain Glover, by both 'Houses. In both, the principal subject of admiration, apart, of course, from the conventional admiration for everybody, was the foresight of Sir Garnet Wolseley, who, according to Lord Granville, planned the scheme from the beginning, and carried it .out as he conceived it, and who, Mr. Gladstone said, went out at a moment "when it would be strictly accurate to say we had scarcely a plan at all." "Our information was scanty, and even deplorably scanty." The Government merely prepared itself to execute any plan the General might send home. Sir Garnet Wolseley, in his speech at the banquet given by the Lord Mayor in his honour on Wednesday, entirely confirmed this, in an admirable, though necessarily egoistic speech. No General " was ever more untrammelled by instructions than he was." "I *elected my own staff." "I made the large demands for military stores." "I asked for the railway." "When I landed at Cape Coast Castle the prestige of England was at the lowest ebb, when I departed I left that prestige firmly established, consequent on the victories won by the troops under my command." It is all true, and in fact we have in Sir G. Wolseley an officer whom Parlia- ment is glad to honour, whom it is a duty in the Departments to honour, and who quite rightly honours himself.
