He had brought the Russian war to a close, which, if not glorious, was at any rate much more so than Englishmen at one time had ventured to hope.

And he had had wonderful luck in that Indian Mutiny.

It is true that many of those even who voted with him would declare that this was in no way attributable to him.

Great men had risen in India and done all that.

Even his minister there, the Governor whom he had sent out, was not allowed in those days any credit for the success which was achieved under his orders.