CHARLES Gaoswic, b. England, 1833; was lieut. of engineers in 1852; served in the Crimean war, and was wounded at Sebastopol. After peace was con eluded, he was employed in surveying and settling the Turkish 'and Russian frontier in Asia. He was engaged in the expedition against Pekin, and after all the objections raised by the Chinese government had been satisfied, he remained in the Chinese ser vice. At the close of the year 1861 lie made a journey from Pekin to the Chotow and Kalgan passes on the great wall, passing Tiayuen, a city never before visited by Euro peens. In 18fi3 he was appointed commander of the "Ever Victorious Army," and was mainly instrumental in suppressing the formidable Tel-Ping rebellion in that and the succeeding year. Ile found the richest and most fertile districts of China in the hands of the most savage brigands. The sills districts more particularly were the scenes of their cruelty and riot, and the great historical cities of Hangehow and Soochow were threatened with the fate of Nanking, and were fast being reduced to ruins. Gordon
relieved the great cities, dispersed the remnants of the rebel forces, and confined them to a few tracts of devastated country and their stronghold at Nanking. A detailed account of his exploits is given in Andrew Wilson's Ever Victorious Army. He was promoted to the rank of capt. iu 1859, became maj. in 1862,•and iieutcol. Feb. 10, 1864. He was nominated a companion of the Bath, Dec. 9, 1864. He was British vice-consul of the delta of the Danube, Turkey, from 1871 till 1873, when be conducted an expedi tion into Africa under the auspices of the khedive of Egypt, by whom lie was appointed governor of the provinces of the equatorial lakes. Subsequently he was created a pasha, and in Feb., 1877, the khedive appointed him governor of the whole of Soudan.