Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-07-23
Lord lsrHc0nSfielsl.

Your ccrrcsDoudcnt was among those who
went to the British Embassy last night to rl""'
the Congress. 4 stroll through the apartments
of the Embassy palace showed the real value "t
what is taking place in Berlin In this com
papy every name seems history, so often you
havo heard it, and every face memo:y. s.
often you have seen il. Within these walls
arc The men who rule The world. Oar host,
Lord Olo Russell, represents the greatness OF
England in his family, one ol the n!ntSL a"u
proudest OF the Eoglish dukedomS. Tins gen
tIenan who comes 10 with the steady, s;n'iici
gait, as il fearing lie may trip or stumble, Is
we'll worthy Of note. How soft ond rutrnE,
how stcathily he glidcs along. Mark BIS taoc.
you certainly have marked it. because It lSa
face that men arc apt to turn to aud STUDY. II
is face that attracts and at the same tmo re-
pels. You look in vain for something human
in it. Not an unkind face, not hard, not as II
written unon by some stern fate, but without
any life, or expression, or, ii you can call |: an
it is the traditional smile OF Me,
His LordShip talks to Gentr
Grant, to my lady this and my lord that a:
sinks into the soft corncr OF a sofa aud sou
nothing but that uuchanglng gaze. that ma
you have seen perhaps in dream or have cou
upon hurricdIy in the clclstcrs ct some Oh
Gothic cathedra! where for ccuturcs it
rested 10 stone. Mark well that face, tOr
years have grown upon It AID drawn It"
lines together and time has had It's nay
for seventy four years upon tho face OF Boti..
min Disrae, Lord Of BeaconsGeld. Beacous
field is the hero Of the hour, as he Is tn, hero
OF the town, and il you sec any cXpressloo
whatever in his visage it is copscou5nc Ct
this attraction. People run after him and
great people follow him around, and he Is
pointed at and his picture hawkcj; for some.
how, this honest, simple German mind sea
under that mass, under that strange, weird,
unchapging smlc-as fixed as the smile oi
Hugo's GwyDpaine-thc might ol E'oGIanI. -
There must bo some cnchantmcnt abou: ~
grave a iact-and this IS a land where good
souls believe in wizards and lagcrdcmalp-:h"'
80 great nation should be worn as ialismtn
around the neck Of an Oriental c1rJnrtr.-
Well, | take off my hat to genius whenever !
see il, for genius to me Is Gods warrant "i
nobility, and certainly there is NJ lntcI!cc; ct
this day so subtle as that of my Lord OF liea
constield. And having Wrttcn more or less
for my living these various and varying years,
and seeing no prospect now that all rlch men;
wills arc lost in your Surrogate's Court, and
seeing no prospect that | shall do auythlnr
elso, at least until my argcses from Spaln
come home, | feel some pride in the Tact tia!
this Lord Of Bcaconsfed is literary nah ard
wrote for pay poems, r0mancfa. aOlt cdto
rails, gossip, like the rest nl uI. And although
he is u man to puzzle over, and you wonder hp"
mu,h Of him Is charIaLan, how mucl states
man, how much there l5 ol Cag|l0 and hHm
much of RichcIicu; you must bow d0Hu 10 ibai
power which lifted him, mere ~fIirr oi
romances, and of 40 alien race, to ''n the
first minister Of England and the mos. p" w'r:ni
since Walpole-n Minister who sWays Ia Cr"wh
tho Lords and tho Commons; who iIsm'"cs
Stanley from his Cabinet nnd makes n Salisbury
his henchman. No wonder BeaconsGcil trscI-
mates this honest German mind Tor II hnj ln"d 81
such things only in fairy books and IN roens I"
mythology. 1t can understand Mad BIS
marck," rs .hoy called him, trAln"ing his "ny
to empire, striking right and lot with ms ina''".
like old Charles the Groat, bccausa there :"
German character and force in lhat, md ri
Germany kept tmo 10 his march. and cam"
smashing, trampng and destroying behind h'n'.
But this magician with that worry CrirAtI+l ia'o
that once in these German lands W'!s badge o.
degradation this smooth, Creeping, gLll!n&-
,uigcrere !-therO is only ono way IN whcD
Gesmsn can account for it. Something =. a.;
vou feel as you watch My Lord gF 49,, 49,,
Ihose frsil limbs and that bent hr ,h,,,',,I
these thronged halls, whisper ,o ono .nI ),
whisper to snotEer-nevor NOR than = Whisper
and thinking of his power Won cn,nrsr, h;,,
with his only rival, BsmH rev R utpI's "hslI M" ~"
be tempted into the snS orios and E cSntrnIct"n i m
Of that comparison Coming from the presence
of Bismarck TO th, at of Bcsc5nslold is like com
ing from these fresh and open fields, over whc!,
the strong 'teezes are blowing fresh from tn"
Northerr. Ocean, into tho laboratory Of al n
chemrs ~, where all manner Of potiohs and mage
hu1.s arc brewing, and where tho air is laden
With smoke and spicery.-EerlUe L6rTcspondNhf
I the " Y. UeruM.