Sir G. Wolseley is fairly paid for his success, with
his 'baronetcy, /1,000 a year for three lives, Major-Generalship, and Orders, though not over-paid, especially in military promotion, and we suppose the apparent stinginess of the rewards given to everybody else, and to Colonel Festing above all, is all en 2.gle, but the Times has told us one thing which fairly puzzles us. It says Sir Garnet Wolseley de- clined the G.C.B. from motives of delicacy. Why is it indelicate /or an officer who, quite untrammelled with instructions, has conquered a kingdom, take a G.C.B ? The truth, we hope, is that Sir Garnet Wolseley, finding an many men who had worked hard obliged to accept a mere C.B., refused to take any but the grade just next above, which was considerate of him. The fear of cheapening these Orders is very reasonable, but still when one has helped to pull down "the most inaccessible of Kings except the man in the moon "—why was he more inaccessible than Theodore ?—one would like to have it known. Lord Gifford and Serjeant ArGaw are, after all, the best off.
