With General Methuen nothing but sympathy is felt. After Maggersfoutein his reputation suffered severely. He was unridly blamed on the score of lis fondness for frontal attacks. But as Earl Roberts pointed out on Monday, in the course of a mest sympathetic eulo.ium, a frontal attack was the only course open to him. In the erroneous belief that Kimberley was in the direst ste sits, he had been ordered to relieve it at almost any cost; and with the forces at his command, which included mere handful of cavalry, a turning movement was impossible. ' Moreover, whatever may be Lord Methuen's shortcomings as a general, and this last disaster no doubt reflects little credit on his generalship, everyone admires the indomitable perseverance with which he has stuck to his work. With the exception of General French, he is about the only pro: minent commander who has been on active service without intermission since the very Leginning of the war, He is beloved by his men, and he has won the esteem even of his evewies by his chivalrous treatment of those who fell. into his hands. ven the French, remembering the monument which he erected to De Villebois Mareuil and the kin"ly consideration which he showed to the French officer's family, have curbed their disposition to gloat Over his defeat. Of course, he wi] fight no more, even if his wound should not prevent him. I believe it is a fact—though the War Office keeps it dark—that none of the prisoners taken and released during this guerilla warfare are permitted to fight again—that they are released on this con. dition, However, this does not more than temporarily decrease our fighting strength, since they are brought home to take the laces of men who could not otherwise well spared from the garrisons here, The King and Queen in the West Country.
On Friday the King and Queen went down to Dartmouth to lay the foundation of the naval college which is to take the place of the old training-ships Britanniaand Hindostan, The college will be a magnificent institution when finished, and the only
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