BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 123 and Colonel Gordon was appointed in his place, at first as Governor of the the tribes on the Upper Nile, and later on with the higher title of Governor-General of the Soudan. From the beginning of 1814 until 1879 he governed the vast region of the Blacks with satisfaction to the Cairo administration, which was extremely hard to please, and with credit to himself. He gained at the same time a high reputation among the people by his justice and courage. He had that great merit in the eyes of an Eastern people of being always accessible ; and he inspired his soldiers with something of his own in¬ exhaustible ardour and confidence. His rule in the Soudan was glorious to himself, satisfactory even to the Khedive, and gratifying to Englishmen as a practical demonstration of the qualities which they must wish to see most common among their countrymen.

On bis return from the Soudan he accepted the post of private secretary to Lord Ripon, Governor-General of India, but resigned it a few months later. From India he went to China in response toasummons from hisformer colleague Li Hung Chang, and he is credited with having inspired the Chinese with peace¬ ful views at the most critical period of one of their disputes with Russia. He returned to England, and soon afterwards commanded the Engineers in the Mauritius for a year. He then visited South Africa and Palestine. Return¬ ing to England in December, 1883, it became known that he had accepted a command from the King of the Belgians to proceed to the Congo. How that plan was suddenly changed and how the remainder of his life was spent till his death on January 27th, 1885, has been already told.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HERBERT STEWART, K.C.B.

Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart, K.C.B., was born on June 30, 1843, the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Stewart, rector of Sparsholt, Hamp¬ shire, and was a great-grandson of the seventh Earl of Galloway. His mother was daughter of the late Charles John Herbert, of Muckross, county Kerry. He was educated at Winchester College, and entered the Army as ensign in the 37th Regiment (now the Hampshire) in 1863. It is not generally known that Stewart was at one time intended for the Bar, that he kept all his terms and ate all his dinners, but in the end abandoned that life for a military career. He was gazetted Lieutenant in 1865 and Captain in 1868. For two years from this time he acted as Aide-de-Camp to the Major-General Commanding the Bengal Presidency, and the year following as Deputy-Assistant Quarter¬ master-General in Bengal. In 1873 he joined the 3rd Dragoon Guards, on the lists of which regiment his name now stands as Major. In 1878 he passed the Staff College and served as Brigade Major in the Zulu War of 1879, and was present at the affair of Erzungayan. He was specially employed on the lines of communication after the breaking up of the Cavalry Brigade, and for his services here he was mentioned in Colonel Russell’s report with brevet rank as Major, which rank he gained substantively in 1882. He served as principal Staff officer to the Transvaal field force in the operations against Secocoeni, and as Military Secretary and Chief of the Staff to Sir Garnet Wolseley, and in this capacity he gained further mention in despatches and his brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, together with a medal and clasp. In 1881 he went to South Africa on special service, and was Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General in the Boer war, for which he was again mentioned. In the early part of 1882 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Lord-Lieu¬ tenant of Ireland, and later in the year he again saw active service as Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General and Quartermaster-General for the cavalry division