The steamers in which he returned were wrecked some kilometres below the ...

The steamers in which he returned were wrecked some kilometres below the Shabluka Cataract, but the whole party were saved, and landed on an island, where they are in safety. A steamer had gone to fetch them.” The fate of General Gordon is uncertain.

“General Stewart is doing well.

Nearly all the wounded from Metamineh are being brought to Oakdul.” I forward the above message, though it was probably known in London before it was published in Cairo. It is impossible to add any comment to such news, or to describe the disgust and consternation manifested at Cairo and Alexandria.

From The Times, 6 February 1885 to his innermost fibre penetrated with a veneration for all ancient, all established things: for the Church, the Universities, the Aristocracy, the Crown.