Sir Redvers Buller arrived in Southampton just in time to attend the Mayoral banquet on Friday; and on Saturday he was presented with the freedom of the City amid scenes of extraordinary entnsiasm, There are those of his admirers who still resent his supersession as Commander-in-Chief in South Africa by Lord Roberts, and who still more resent the criticisms passed on his generalship at Spion Kop in that official dispatch in the publication of which the Government blundered so egregiously; and these overrealous friends did their best to turn his head on Friday and Saturday. But Sir Redvers Buller has far too much self control to be influenced by such manifestations, and the modesty and correctness of his bearing have addd to the high estimation in which he is held as a soldier. There has been no great celebration of his return in London, The time of his arrival to report himself at the War Office was known, and crowds collected at the station and in Pall Mall to cheer him; but he was subsequently able to walk unmobbed and almost unrecogniséd from the War Office to his Cub.
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