New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-10
NOTES FROM LONDON.
ON MILITARY MEDALS. TITLES AND OTHER
MATTERS.

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P' LONDON November %.
II is not easy to say what more could DE done ior
HE troops who have come back from Egypt. Ihey
have been received and reviewed, dined and deco
rated addressed and adored some of them ennobled,
acme promoted. and the whole body of officers anu
men welcomed with the most genuine enthusiasm "
every sort and condition of men and women Hoi,
the Queen 10 the costermonger The critic anu
cvnie. who are forever lying in wait for tne
weakness of their fellow men, are areauy
suggesting that the thing has been overcome
souebodv was at the pains 10 pom
ot that the list of officers recommended TO notice
nv Sir Garnet Woseley after Tel-el-kebr exceeded
an numbers the list sent home after ateroo 10y tne
mike of Wellington. Sir Garnet. 1t must oe au-
mitted is given to gushing. He does not snow 10 SO
much advantage on paper as on the tenleu neiu
Nor do his admirers always keep their euloges Will
in reasonable bounds. In some OF their detalls 'no
attentions showered the troops and generals aio
clearly open TO comment | suppose such atten-
tious always are. But it remains true on the "hoo
that the reception has been worthy Vi 'no N''P'
and the troops of the reception.
The Oueen's part in the business has been done 10
Che general delight of good subjects; with single
syception. She has allowed the Mother at tunes
20 sneak in place of the Sovereign
Tbis il an arniable weakness but it is weakness
Won have not forgotten the extraordinary mess9ge
oftor TeI-el-Kebir about the Duke OF Connaugn'
Iodino his brigade calamity to the attack AS the
hri,,ade did not attack and ths Duke dld not Ieau
q 70 the attack CALAMITY or otherwise, t4
hrose was not much dwelt on by the loyal bII'aH
=. ors in softened form in the general order
',h,isb.d this week by the Field Marshal Com
fa,1ai,a.in Chief the Duke Of Cambridge. The
MI has received the Queens commands TO convey
=. Cir cornet Woseley and the troops in general
r. Nfoi.st,'s admiration of their conduct during
a. ,ecent campaign, "ln which she has great sat
isfaetion in feeling that her son, Maor-General ms
ROYAL Highness the Duke ofCOnnaught and Strath-
earn, took acrlve part
Now the Duke of CoDnaught did very well and IN
sold,er-like wav what he had to do IN Egypt. HIS
services deserve recognition, but nobody would
dream of saying that they are to be compared WIN
The services rendered by such men as Willis, Drury-
Tovre Sir Beauchamp Seymour and half a dozen
others. He is, however, the only officer named by
the Oneen except Sir Garnet Wolseley. lie is
named because he is the Queens son. Royalty has,
no donbt. kind of prescriptive right to magnify
lis deeds II has not infrequently been thought
worthy of remark that King Kings son In these
latter DAYS should be able OF willing to perform any
rseful act whatever in war. 1t was not, may add,
without some heart-burnIngs that the other troops
beord Of the private reception accorded by the
Opeen IN the Brigade OF Guards. The Guards have
always been pet corps, but the privilege of fling
mast the Queens balcony at Buckingham Palace on
Saturday was bestowed on them because the Duke
of Connaught commanded them.
In the ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday,
the distribution of medals officers and men, the
Duke of Connaught was again distinguished this
fine in exactly the right way As the Queen pinned
The medal she kissed her boy who had won It. In
all about 800 medals were distributed including
over ffty officers of the rank Of Northumberland
or above. and forty of the India contingent. More
medals than men killed in all the English army
The Duke of Teck is one of the decorated. The SER
vices of the Duke of Teck appear to consist III hay-
ing received his baptism of tire at Ell MAGYAR, where
the first of the enemy's shells passed dangerously
near his head He had. think, some sort OF con-
nection with the Post Office corps and his services
in forwarding letters TO Tommy Atkins has been
rewarded by a cOlonelcy In the army. Ungrateful
Britons, not enjoying as they should the marked
fayor shown by the Queen to her German kinsfolk
and relatives, are querylng whether the Duke OF
Teck has been duly naturalized. If he has not Is
he eligible for colonelcyf The post Is an honor
sry siuecure, worth, l believe, something like
81 COO year.
Perhaps this hero will Weld IN popular esteem TO
the drunmer-boy of the Marine Light Infantry who
entered the trenches and climbed the works OF Tel
el-Kebir with his regiment never Tor an instant
ceaslng to beat the charge. He. / am glad to say.
receives medal. Not few privates receive the
medal among them ColOr-Sergeant White, OF the
Marine Artillery White is described rather grlmly
as having pushed forward at Kassasin on the rail-
way embankment IN front OF his battalion, ana with
his single rifle making il so unpleasant for one OF
the enemys batteries that they had to change their
ground and get out of Whites range. need hardly
saw that the language l am quoting is not official
Another of the men picked out for distinction is
Gunner Judge of whom it is recorded that being
stationed as sentry In a critical spot on bridge he
was wounded rather seriously by shell. He
neither asked for two men to carry him TO the
nor went himself but stuck to his post
Sir Garnet Wolseley has disappeared from the
scene. He is henceforth Lord Wolseley. or General
Lord Wolseey. The notification which gives him
an official right 10 all new style and title appeared
in The ORdon Gazette of Tuesday evening. Itmay be
that the afxng of the Great Seal to his patent of
peerage completed the requisite ceremonies. but
OF such grave matters who shall speak positively
Here at any rate is the public proclamation of the
new peerage:
The Queen has been pleased TO direct letters
patent 10 be passed under the Great Seal OF the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
granting the dignity of a Baron OF the said United
Kingdom unto General Sir Garnet Joseph Wolseley,
G.C.B.. G.C.M.G., Adjutant-Generao OF Her MaJestys
Forces, and late General COmmdndin g-in-Chlef the
ExpeditiOnary Force III Egypt. and the heirs male
Of his body lawfully begOtten, by the name style,
and title of Baron Wolseley of Caro- and of Wolse-
ley. III the county of Stafford.
1t 70 be noted with reference to the question of
date, that all through the distribution of medals
and IN the official Court narration of the proceed
ings Of Tuesday the hero of Egypt is still Sir Car
But in the list OF guests at Her Maestys din
ner-party in the evening he has become General
Lord wolseley, and in Wednesdays account of
Court doings read that General Lord Wolseley
bad the honor of kissing hands on his being raised
TO the peerage."