New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-08


four days less two hours just six hours sleep. and
having ridden $50 miles. The 10 miles from
Landsmans Drift he had done in thirty-fve hours
without halt longer than half an hour. and few
miles of il III carriage. after his leg had swollen
too big to allow of his riding. and some fourteen
miles afterward on foot. Arriving. 90 was such
spectacle of filth and rags that they would not at
first allow into the Maritzburg Hotel and
when l crawled round to tue officers mess one
of the oldest friends l have in the
world didn't know me from Adam" But Wolseley
was off. Forbes followed next morning to Durbar.
sailed the day after for Port Dtnford, had to wait
off the shore for two days till the surf went down,
and after all this delay found that no commu-
nication had been opened up between Chelmsford
and Wolseley. So that once more sir Garnet had TO
the value of Forbes's services. have not been
in London since Forbes arrived, and have not seen
heard from Lin, except Indirectly. He is said to
be suffering good deal from the wound in his leg.
When Sir Henry Havelock asked in the
House Of Commons whether the Government
meant to recognize Forbes's services In any
way, Sir Stafford Northcote answered with
sneer. He did not why the Government
should be grateful TO a correspondent for bringing
dispatches to his own paper. Sir Stafford spoke, no
doubt, on imperfect knowledge and is ashamed of
his sneer by this time. Ii does not much matter
whether the Government give Forbes a medal OF
not He will do very well without it. He has
made himself fame by his immense courage and
splendid abilities. He is known all over England
no English journalist before hirn-not even DR..
Russel-was ever known. Lord Chelmsford gets
g. G. b., as somebody says, not elegantly as a
plaster for his sore head. The Government super
seeded him, and his retirement is sweetened by this
compliment. IL orders are to be used for such pur-
poses, the value of them will hardly be much en-
HANGED.
As for Carey. there has been great revulsion of
feeling in his favor, and his acquita is certainly
popular. The English public has gone through
succession of queer moods about this officer. When
TIE news first came that he had deserted The Prince,
the outcry against him general-almost univer-
sal Ibc absurd demonstrations in honor of the
Prince byand-by gave rise to the notion that Carey
was To be sacrificed to his memory or as a scape-
goat for offender of higher rank than himself
and that brought about a reaction Lattorly the
feeling has gone almost equally far in the other
direction. Ii was not enough to make ont that
Carey was free from blame. His partisans began TO
find him n hero. Their ranks were swollen by those
who had become ashamed of their adulation of the
Prince. 80 that when Carey arrived at Plymouth
last week an address of welcome signed, they say,
by 1000 people, waiting to greet him. AT
Portsmouth no less person tnan Prince Edward or
SaxcWeimar receives him, and announces to him
that the proceedings of the courtmarIal have been
quashed, hat he is free man, that leave OF absence
has been granted him, which will be extended if he
wishes and that he is to go back to his duty as IL
nothing had happened. For aught | know, he
will be promoted. The Duke of Cambridge, Com
mandeT-in-Chief Of the Army, causes it to be
nOunced that he is now of opinion that Careys con-
duet was in no way discreditable to him. All this
seems to childish the Prince LOUIS business.
The truth remains what it before. No new
facts have come out unless we are toaccept Careys
assertion that he had nothing to do with the escort.
and was only there to verify a previous survey of
his own-a point on which he and Colonel Harrison
directly contradict each other. Carey and the
others ran away in panic at the first fire. The
Prince would have got away too had somebody
stopped second TO help him up. The Duke OF Cam
bridge aud the British Army in general may think
the affair creditabie or not dIscrcdtabe. believe
Continental opinion is all the other way The sole
real excuse for Carey is that his horse was uncon-
trOlable which may have been true for the first
minute or two. True not, the adventure Is not
one which Englshmen Will. in the end, pride
themselves. 1t may not have been necessary TO
punish Carey. But to make hero of Linn implies
that the material OF herosm is very scarce; which
is not thing TO be believed of England. G.w.s