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TIE BERLIN CONGRESS.
Biographical Sketches of the Eminen
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From tie New York suhn.l

to glance at come of The distinguished
individuals 10 whose deliberations the
settlement of the Eastern question, and
of the fate of the Turkish Empire, Is In
trusted.
OF the main figure of the Congress
there is little to saw. His life and career
are we'll known to every body. Son of
a poor and modest literary man, -Benla-
min Disraeli followed in the footsteps OF
his father,sso far rs regards poverty and
literary ability, but certainly not in the
matter of modesty. The obscure He
brew who came forward some fifty odd
wears ago as the author of s'Niyian
/ Grew" Is now the Earl of Beaconsfield,
/ Grand Vizier of Great Britain and a
probable Duke. His start in political
/ life was marked by series of failures,
notably his maiden speech when he
succeeded ct last in obtaining a1seat in
Parliament for the borough of Maid
stone. The House of Commons, re-
fused to listen to him. He simply said
81 am not surprised at the reeeptioRi
/ have experienced. haYe begun several
things, and / have often succeeded at last.
1 / shall sit down now; but the time viii
/ come when you will hear me- s,They
have heard him.. He was then 80 years
of age; he is ~ now. -
The Lieutenant of Lord Beaconsfeld
is TIE Marquis of Salisbury Robert Ar
thur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 2. c.,
Earl Of Salisbury, County Wits; Wis
count Cranborne, County Dorset; and
Baron Cecil of Essendine, County Rut-
land. He began his political career as
| a member for Stamford. He was Sec
etary of State for India from 1866 to
| 1867, and was reappointed to the same
| post in 1874. He succeeded bis father
in 1868. Being junior member of the
| family, he had to work for his living
when he was young, and, as in Disraeli's
case, literature supplied him with the
means of gentlemanly existence. The
articles he wrote for the monthly and
weekly reviews are still remembered.
He is 4S years old, was educated at
Eton, and graduated at Christ Church,
| Oxford, but has as little knowledge of
foreign languages as his chief. 1t must
| be remembered, however, that Disraeli
/ has described the English race as peeu-
| liarly Aryan and noble in their inability
to speak more than one language and
their love of life in open air. Both the
Grand Vizier and his Lieutenant talk
English at the Congress, the usual
language of which is French. But the
1 members of the distinguished assembly
| listen to them with as much delight as
did the congregation of De Quincy's old
clergyman, who knew little Hebrew,
and used to quote texts sin the very
words used by the Holy Ghost"
The third representative of England
is the British Ambassador to the Ger
man Court, the Right Hon. Sir Odo
William Russell, styled by courtesy
| Lord OdO Russell. He can speak almost
any language, having been in the diplo-
matte service all his life, and having
used his best efforts to pick up the
tongues of the various countries he. has
/ lived in He is the youngest son of
Mai Gen. Lord George William Russell,
second son of the Duke of Bedford, and
was raised to the rank of a Dukes son
by royal warrant in 1872. He entered
the service in 1919, and has ever since
occupied prominent positions in the
diplomatic and social centers of Austria,
France, Italy, Turkey and Germany.
| Some years ago he was member of the
British Embassy in this country. In
1870 he filled, for short time, the post
of Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The chief representatives of Russia
are Prince Gortschakoff and Count
Schouvaloff. The former is 80 and the
latter about 55 years of age. Prince
] LII -, Of
eient stock of Russian nobility. Hewas
educated, with the great national poet
of his country, Alexander Pouschkin, at
the Lyceum of CZarskoe- Selo, kind of
Russian Eton. The. two friends were
among the first matriculants of that col
lege. After having graduated he enter
ed the diplomatic service, and began his
career at the Congresses of Laybach and
| Verona as one of the clerks of the
late Count Nesselrode. In 1924
he was Secretary of the Russian
Embassy in London; in 1880 be was
Charge d'Affaires at Florence; in 1910.
he negotiated the marriage of the, Grand
Duchess Olga, sister of the present Car,
with the hereditary Grand Duke of
Wurtemburg. After the revolution of
1S4S he was appointed Russian plenipo
Tertiary ut the Diet of Frankfort. In
1854 he was Ambassador at Vienna, and,
soon after that Minister of Foreign AT
fairs. He is sick, worn out bodily; but
mentally he is as bright and cunning as
any Russian diplomatist. He belongs.
to the old school of Nesselrode and
Pozzo di Borgo, speaks half dozen
languages, is an interchangeable Wotker,
and is very fond of the ballet. His ED
est son is Russian Minister to Switzer-
land. SIS .-tpi.
Count Schcuvaloff comes from just as
noble family as Prince Gortschak0ff. !
His father, Count Andrew Schouyaloff,
was Grand Chamberlain to the Gar
Nicholas. The present Count was |
brought up in military school, became !
an officer of the Horse Guards at Is,
and an aide-de-camp of the Gar at %.
Before he was 80 he had been appoint
ed Governor of the Beltic provinces, I
and q few years later he was named. !
Chief of the Police of the Empire. His.
only early experience in diplomacy was |
at the Paris Congress, which he attend
ed as an attache of Prince Orlof, the
Russian plenipotentiary. He was ap-
pointed Ambassador at London upon
the death of Baron Brunow. He is an
elegant man of society, handsome fell
low of progressive ideas, and a sincere
friend of peace.
The chief representative of Austria is
Count Julius Andrassy, the youngest of !
the plenipotentiaries. He is barely So,
and looks 10 years yodnger than he is.
He was born at Zemlin, Hungary. His
father, though belonging to noble
family, devoted himself to industrial
pursuits, and so did the son. When the
revolutionary movement began in 1847,
the young Count Julius was elected q
deputy to the Diet, and in the next year,
put himself at the head of the Lands
turn of his county. The defeat of the
forced him to seek refuge
in Paris and London, and it was only
after the amnesty of 1857 that he was !.
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