New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-17

discreet zeal. which at the present moment win be
esteemed virtue in England, he will be trans
ferred to some other equally lucrative and lees
troublesome embassy. Even were Mr. Champion
without intere,t, the Government could hardly
guarded national zeal but that influence TO which
Mr. Champion owed his appointment and rapid
rise still survives to watch over and protect him
Tboueh not connected with the aristocraey, and
but Of what would be considered in England mere
" rsspectable birth, Mr.. Crauptcn has 10 his
father fried. who is the friend Of most of the
highest and certainly most influential Of England's
a1istocracy. There are few Of the distinguished
noble families of England whose head has not filled
the Office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and there
has been no lord lieutenant in Ireland for the last
forty years OF whom Sir Philip Champion, the
father of the British minister, has not been the
pbysicisn and after time the favorte His repu-
taticn as a surgeon as is doubtless known to many
in this country is not second to that OF any In the
British empire, save, perhaps, Sir b. Brotie. To
a copsummste skill in warding off those I'M
pleasant ills that follow youthful dissipation. and
in maintaining the pulse of enjoyment in blasS
vein. Sir P Champion unites sparkling Irish VII,
delicate isttery, and an unequaled brillianey as
story teller, qualities he was remarkable TOR care
fully preserving and serving up only to patrons with
the prefix of the privileged orders to their name.
To such an extent was this sort of prudence
carried. that it is favorite story in the
Irish capital that after running out to his
middle at the pier of Decentralization to wish
one departing viceroy farewell, he ran out
to bis neck to greet his incoming successor.
As an example Of bis wit may be mentioned his
daguerreOtype of starched Scotch lady, the wife
Of the Earl of Haddington, the lord lieutenant I'M
der Peel's administration of 1885, whom he de-
scribed as possessing "all the stiffness Of the
. mixer without its occasional warmth" Though
he must now have passed by some years that pc.
Rod usually allotted to men to live, Sir z. Cramp-
ton has all the buoyancy and freshness of youth,
and is another Palmerston in gayety ct air and
yioor of bearing But two years since he pro-
ceeded TO visit Lord Normandy, one Of his old
vice-reeal patients, at his villa near Florence,
where he lies broken in mind and body by para
Iysis. And such confidence in his science and
skill have all who have ever experienced his msdi
cal advice, that he is obliged to pay yearly visit to
London. which is eagerly looked forward to by
many of the most distinguished men; among others
by Lord Broughsm, who entertains for him the
warmest friendship.
We believe it was to Lord Welesley's or Lord
Normanby's influence bestowed in tribute to his
father, that Mr. Champion owed his first diplo.
matte appointment. To Lord Clarendon, the
present Foreign secretary, who was on intimate
terms with his father, both when filling in his
his youth an Office in the Dublin customs as Mr..
yilliers, and subsequently when lord lieutenant,
be owes his promotion to his present post He
certainly has not exhibited any extraordinary
abilities during his embassy at Washington, nor
acquired the character of Talley rand or Meter
Mich, or even Malmesbury but much of this may
have been owing to want Of opportunity, to the
slight offered to him in being suppanted in his
official position by Lord Elgn during the Reciproc-
ity negotiations, and to the studied craft with
which that nobleman, for his own objects, through
his myrmidons, deprecated him in every quarter.
We can only say we wish him, in any new land in
which he may seek distinction, better opportu
nity and brighter fame than he has gained in this.
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