Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-18
THE PEACE CONGRESS.
How the Diplomats Regard Each Other
-EDglish Statesmen from n Con-
tinentaI Standpoint.

London World: have been anxious to find
out what the various plenipoter t'aries think
of one another. Prince Gortschakoff il seems,
likes Lord Beaconsheld; so does Count An
Grassy. The second Austrian, Count Ka-
royi, one of the richest and noblest Of Hun
garian magnates, looks upon Lord Salisbury
as too literary for grand SeigHeuI, and con-
siders that he would come nearer to the ideal
British peer If there was more of the game
keeper and jockey about HIM. Unfortunate
ly, Lord Salisbury's colleague does not find
more favor in tie eyes of bis Hungarian eX-
cellency, for he pronounces the first plenipo-
tertiary of Great Britain to be arti-
fetal, pretentious and rather vulgar.
M. Washington likes Lord Salisbury,
but fails to understand Lord Beaconsfeld
Count Andrassy is less loud than he was, but
not less fear. III of Prince Bismarck Just as
the Germans do not relish the selection by
Turkey of the German renegade, Mehemet
Ali Pasha, so does Lord Beaconsfeld rather
resent the choice OF an English manufacturer
to represent France. Essentially common
aud decidedly middle class" as our premier
says, he is but a poor selection for the sort of
plenipotentiary that Vivian Gray had
dreamed OF meeting-a Due de la Roche
toucault or a prince of the empire, distribu-
ting diamond snuff-boxes in the name OF n
Bourbon or of Bonapate.
Although Lord Salisbury, when he goes to
Potsdam to visit their imperial and royal
hlghness, the crown princely pair" as they
are styled In official German, is careful to
hide his puseyism, and to show to those we'll
known free thinkers the scientific side of his
opinions, the impeIill chancellor has found
him out and brands him as clerical" The
first of the despiscd and neglected Turks,
Caratheodori Pasha could, if he chose, con-
tribute some appropriations to my collection /;
and from what l know of him, | am sure
they would be as discerning as any Prince
Bismarck and Count Corti were talking him
over. The Italian passed long years in Eng
land during the Palmerstonian epoch, and,
having known another generation of our
statesmen, is certainly not favorably I'M
pressed. THAT" said the German chancel-
lOr, us the risk you are exposed to in c0nsti-
tutional States. 1t is only under a parlia-
mentary government that that sort OF thing
can come to the surface" | hope, Count
Cortl, that you are not going to be done at
Berlin-after so much fneSSe, too.
it is too bad. In order that our foreign
office should be secret we maintain staff of
expensive clerks, to whom great prospects of
promotion are opened, although there is only
headwork for about one in six of their num-
Der. The official excuse has always been that
the duties of the department were of so con-
fidential a character that even the manual
work must be done by gentlemen whose So
clal position is a guarantee of their integrity.
But the recent prosecution brings to light the
singular fact that one of the really few i'm
portant documents was committed to the dis
erection of copying clerk hired at the rate of
tenpence an hour. Is it not fact that on
the continent it is the practice never to hand
all of an important document to be copied by
any one clerk? The sheets are distributed
among several clerks, who have no commu-
nication with each other. In order, there
fore, to obtain full copy it would be neces-
sary to bribe half dozen clerks or more, a
proceeding very unlikely to be successful.
When the English plenipos started for Ber-
lin only one gentleman was to be found at
the foreign Office who could read and speak
Russian. Comment Is needless. And if the
foreign office is careless doubt if the war
office is less so. A very distinguished officer,
already appointed to high command in the
event of war, is living at house where there
is porter's lodge, which any one can enter
and ask trivial question. And yet it IS a
fact that for weeks past there have constantly
been documents from the war office addressed
to the officer in question lying in the porter
lodge IN question, where they could easily
have been purloined by a Russian agent.
Verify we have happygo-lucky of carrying
on public business