Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-04

\ REMARKABLE YOUNG MAN.-Tcn years
ago the marquis OF Salisbury, then Lord Robert
Cecil was a very poor young man. The young
cr son of an immensely wealthy father, he had
offended his father by marrying brilliant and
gifted young lady whose position although
very good, d d not qualify her to rank with the
great house Of Salisbury. She was the daughter
of the late Judge Anderson. Lord Robert Cecil
was member of the house OF commons He
accepted the exclusion from his fathers favor
right mantully and took to literature for a liv-
ing. He was young man of brilliant talents
high culture, and malyelously bitter tongue
| believe that among other requirements he
learned, for while, the meaning Of poverty,
and perhaps the knowledge soured if it strength
ened him. He wrote for the London Quarterly
Review and other publications, and lived a hard,
lonely life. He was the most extreme Of tories,
and in the house his sardonic ways and the cruel
sarcasm of his unSparlng tongue made him
many enemies. Yet the Young man had great
qualities. He was no sham. A tory. he
dsuusted and despised his leader, Dis
raeh The Quarterly Review is the
great organ Of toryism but it suddenly became
distinguished for the bitterness and vehc-
mence of its attacks on Mr.. Dsracli. Every
body knew the attacks came from the acrid
pen Of Lord Robert Cecil. Mr. Disraeh openly
complained in the house of the invc5tives
against him from one Of his own followers.
Lord Robert was grossly offensive in the house
alike TO his own leader and to Gladstone; but
when the tory party endeavored to insult and
cry down John Stuart Mill, Lord Robert loudly
expressed his contempt and disgust for such tac-
tics, and declared that his party would stand
disgraced in the eyes of the world if they thus
conducted themselves toward so powerful and
so illustriouS an opponent. Lord Robert was,
and is, very effective speaker, talkmgin short
sharp, biting sentences, alive with sarcasm and
effective illustration. He talks, in fact, Satur-
day Review articles and he used to write for
the SATURDAY RpNiptV ull
brother died without issue, and Lord Rob
ert Cecil became Vlscount Cranboune.
Then his father died, and the poor
young man became all at once rich and
marquis of Salisbury. He took office with Dis
raell; became secretary for India and developed
at once not merely great admin. tratve ability,
but high and noble principles of administration,
which drew forth the cordial praise of such OPP
ponents as Gladstone aud Bright But being a
sincere opponent Of an extensive franchise he
would not 20 in with Disraeli in turning reform
er for Office sake. lie resigned his place, and
has since been Il free lance. His elevation TO
the quiet dizziness Of the house OF lords, where
he can seldom indulge his talants as a debatcr
and his caustic tongue, has been, in one sense.
great misfortune to him. Bat keep your ewes
on him; he is by far the ablest, kcencst, bitter
est, trueSt, of all the rising advocates Of tory
ism. lie is a sort of aTiStOCratIc Coriolauus
who would not aatter Joye for his power TO
thunder. He is still yonng man, tall, gaunt.
awkward, shabbily dressed, with aquiline nose
and great dark beard and mustachc. looking
more like a Jewish vendor of old clothes than a
great tory nobleman.-.TtSfil UCnjfby