The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-07-22
PORTRAITS OF THE CONGRESS.
Dieraeli the w onder OF
aAna Berlin.
GortschakoA, Schouvaloff and the
Russian Comedy.
AUSTRIA and The EASTERN QUESTION.
"Europe viii See a Good Many Republics Be-
fore She Has Another Empire"


fore She Has Another Empire"
BERLIN, July 8, 1878.
All the world has Its eyes on Berlin, and the Ger
man capital seems conscious OF Its new renown There
IL nothing Of the metropolis about Berlin, which Is a
homey old fashioned city, and like an old fashioned
person suddenly thrown into and exciting sta
tion, seems uncomfortable. OF the dongs OF the
Congress the cable has told you everything All ono
hears here ID running theme of comments and con-
versation-rumor piDnR rumor The Emperor's ILL.,
has gwen Berlin oppressed aud gloomy aspect
and "vgorous measures" are now in progress all
over Germany-as 200 persons have already been ar
rested and imprisoned for dsrespect to the good old
Emperor, some Of them schoolooys-you can under
stand how gloomy the city might be. Under other
circumstances the presence OF many high people
In Bern-the Chancelors, the English Ambassadors,
The American ex.Presidenl--would keep the tow in
futter. AS everybody feels sad but tries to To
cheerful as becomes the hosts OF great Congress
and SO exalted q company
LORD BBAcoNsYIELp.
Your correspondent was among those who went to
The British Embass elass night to meet the Congress-
A stroll through the apartments OF the Embassy
palace showed the real value Of what Is taking place
In Berlin. In this company every name seems his
tory, so often you have hoard IT, and every face q
memory, 70 often you have seen Il. Within these
walls are the men who rule the world Our host,
LORD Odo Rassell represents the greatness OF Eng
and In his family, Of the oldest and proudest of
The Englisn duksdoms. This gentleman VINO comes
10 with the steady studied gait, as n fearing he may
rip or stumble. Is we'll worthy Of note How soft
and purring, how steaithily he glides along. Mark
his face, certainly have marked IT, because
that attracts and at the time rspels. You look
In vain for something human In It. Not an unkind
face, not hard, II written upon by some stern
fate bat without any life, expression, or you
call Il an expression, It is the traditional smile of
Msphistophees His Lordship talks to General Grant,
10 my lady this and my lord that, and sinks the
soft corner OF sofa and you nothing but that
changing gaze, that mask that you have perhaps
IN dream or have come upon hurriedy IN the ciois-
tsrs Of some old Como wherc centuries
II rested In stone. Mark well face years have
grown upon is and drawn its lines together and time
has had It's way for ssventyiour years upon face
Of Benjamin Disraei. Lord OF BeaconsAold Bsacons-
Geld 10 the hero Of the hour, he Is tho OF tho
iown, and II Jon see any expression whatever In his
visage Is consciousness Of this attraction. People
run after MIN and great people follow him around
and be il pointed at and his picture hawked; for
somehow this honest, single German mind sees under
that mask, under that strange, weird, unchanglng
smile-as nxsd az the smile OF hugo's Gwynplaine-
the might OF England There must be some snchant-
msnt about SO grave fact-and this il o land
where good souls believe wizards and lsgsrdsman--
that so great nation should be worn as o talisman
around the neck Of an Oriental conJuror. Well take
on my hat 10 genius Whenever see it, for genius to
me Gods warrant Of nobility and certainly there
no intellect Of this day subtle that Of my Lord OF
BeaconsheId. Aud having written more or less for
my living these various ana varying years, and seeing
no prospect now that all rich mems wills lost in
your Surrogatss Court, aud seeing no prospect that
shall do anything else at least until my argoses from
Spain come home, feel some pri 10 in the fact that
this Lord OF BeaconsheId is a literary man and
wrote for pay poems romances, able editorials,
gossip like the rest Of And although no Is
man TO puzzle over, and you wonder bow much OF him
is chsrlatap, how much statesman, how much lhere
is Of Cagliostro and how much Rchslleu you must
bow down 10 that power which lifted him, nero
writer OF romauces and of an alien race to be tho
6rst Minister Of England and tho powerful since
Wapole--a Minister who sways the Grown, the
Lords and the Commons; who dismissss a Stanley
from his Cabinet ana makes q Salisbury his bench
man. No wonder Bssconsaeld fascina,ss this honest
German mind, for 10 has read Of sucn things only IN
iary books and in poems Of mythology II can
onuerutauo ''Mhu oibmHtck, AZ Sney called hin.
,rampng mis- way TO empire striking right and left
with his mace ike old Charles the Great, because
there is German character and force tnat and oil
Germany kept umo to hrs march, and came smashing,
!rampng and destroying behind him, But this magi.
with that worry Oriental face in these
German lands was a badge OF degradation; this
smooth, creeping, there 10 only
one way In which the German eau account for Il.
Something OF this you feel as you watch Ny Lord
gliding with those trail limbs and that bent
head through these tnrongsd halls, o whisper TO
one ana whisper TO auothcr-nevsr more than
vhisper-and thinking Of his power you compare him
With his only rival, Bismarck. But shall not DO
tempted into the anaiogies ana contradictions OF
that comparison. Coming from the presence OF Bis
marck TO that OF Beaoonsnsld 10 ike coming from
those fresh and open fields, over which The strong
brsszss are blowing frssh from the Northern Ocean,
into tho laboratory OF an alchsmis where all manner
Of potions and magic fluids are brewing, anu where
che air 10 laden with smoke and spcery
ruE RUSSIAN MINISTER'S AND rnE RUSSIAN coxxpr
Prince Gortschakon is not prssens tonight That
famous prince has bad legs and must DO wheeled
about and lifted into hrs place when he comes TO Con-
gress believe no does not como any more, illness
and chagrn having done their work IL 10 reported
in Congress circles that the Prince rsgaros the con.
Sessions OF Russia blundsr; giving way before
The pressure Of Bsaconsneid, ana that here In Con.
gress Russia will abandon all she has gained In tho
field SO Gortschakon has boon suppIsntsd and
lgnatisn with him. aud the new favor
lie, who is said to be bewItoned by
the Oriental master Of England is Count schouvalon.
This Is the count who comes up TO you win frank
and winning smile and begins telling you ali he knows
10 conadsnially that you disposed TO lend him all
your money, Tor you are carried OF your feet. am
not that this Gortschakon anger s not comedy.
II always seemed that the San Stefano Treaty con-
famed about twice as much as Russia wanted or ex.
pecied TO retain, and that this clamor Of dissatisfied
chancellor ike that Of one OF our honest clothes
mon on Chatham street, VINO, alter asking 500 for
coal he knows 10 DO worth $40, cries out that
no is ruined whom you pay him 500. Russia did not
some 70 surrender thing she really cared to keep,
and do think that all the witchory OF Beaconsnsld