Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-06-19

Pen Sketches or the Nosss'es-chsrehiii'
Cross. Gibson, ths Earl Of carnsrvon, ssd
Others.
The Herald furnishes the following
in regard to the present members oil
Salisbury's Cabinet:
Sir Michael was Secretary OF State
for the Colonial Department, and sits
for East Worcestershire. This cold,
naughty, decorous, and frigidly-hand-
some parsonage has always been look
ed upon as sort Of 'dark horse"
by the Conservative party-asa posi-
bic leader. He owes this kind OF regard
to his having done little or nothing in
opposition to help or hinder his chance.
For a long time be has effaced himself.
Was Chief Secretary for Ireland, which
experience preceded that in his last
office. where he very thoroughly mis-
managed the Transvaal, and prepared
for the mother country and the Cape
Colony the mess from which they have
only just escaped.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.
Lord Randolph Churchill is the second
son of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH. He
was born in 1S49. A slight, active
man, his upper lip covered with a long
moustache he has a habit Of twisting
thoughtfully, he might be mistaken in
the street for one of the usual fashiona-
BILE idlers among the club men Of the
day but for an air of preoccupation and
thoughtfulness which tell one that
he has a more serious purpose
in life. He founded the "fourth
party" as an annex to the
Conservative party. It's members
not inaptly represent the leading per-
sonages of dramatic company. There
is the jeune premier, role, by COM
mon consent, accorded to Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, who appears in every
new political piece as the prominent
character upon the boards. Sir Drum
mond Wolf, grave, sedate, and spec
tacled, falls naturally into the
part of the "heavy father" Mr..
Gorst, glass in eye, is the clever
and successful lawyer; while Mr..
Balfour fills, not appropriately,
the part of the rich uncle from
America" But Lord Randolph, with
Irish blood in his veins on the maternal
side. with an intimate acquaintance with
recent Irish troubles, gathered during
the Irish viceroyalty of his father, and
in his capacity,as one of the most active
members Of the Duchess Of Marlbo-
rough's committee he has acquired an
accurate knowledge ola number Of facts
which he has an unpleasant knack of
producing at the most inconyenient mo-
ment for his opponents, and with an air
of ingenious candor. This is one secret
of his success in the House.
SIR RICHARD AsSHETON CROSS.
Mr.. Cross represents Southwest Lam
cashire. and was Lord Beaconsfeld S
Home Secretary. At the time of his
elevation to office it was said that the
appointment was one of Lord Bcacons-
fields jokes. A satirist described
him thus
Ideal Chairman Of Quarter Sessions.
Petty, priggish, plygmatic, and pert;
Fancies, of course, that OF all professions
The statesman's that in which he's ex-
pert.
A banker and barrister as well as
chairman of Quarter Sessions, rubicund
Sir Richard did not make bad Home
Secretary. if his speeches on every con-
ceivable subject were rather trying.
lie wears spectacles, and while giving
utterance to his platitudes has a bland
way of beaming on his hearers which
would be exasperating if it were not
funny. lie is forever at Quarter SeS-
sions, either demolishing antagonists,
admonishing delinquents, or sentencing
offenders to condign punishment. One
of Mr.. Bradlaugh's most determined
adversaries.
EDWARD GIBSON.
Mr.. Gibson is the Conservative rep
resentative of Dublin University. His
abilities are more snowy than solid,
and there are better men in the Tory
crowd. Has handsome, young face,
and is prematurely gray. Rich. Not
only active and pushing, but slashing
debater, and ready hand at telling
partisan attack. In the general pow
erty of talents he is bound to score
heavily. lie has distanced Plunket-
a much ADLER man-in their common
profession by sheer diligence. A re-
cent stumping expedition across the Dor,
der showed him in a favorable light as
q platform orator. His skill in sway
ing juries stood him in great stead
there. lie is by no means the most
rancorous Of the opponents Of Irish
home rule.
W. IL. SMITH.
Mr.. Smith represents Westminster,
in succession to the late John Stuart
Mill ; was Lord Beaconlield's First
Lord of the Admiralty; has the
monopoly Of the railway bookselling
and newsvending trades on the principal
lines in Great Britain. 4 commonplace
man of kindly natsre and business
habits, who did not make a failure al
the Admiralty, because business habits
Of any description tell there. Is
said to be an accidental Conser.
vative. Years ago he sought cleo.
ton at the Reform Club and was
turned away. A subsequent applica.
ton at the Carlton met with success S.
His speeches are'scraps Of fireside con.
versation, wherein it is demonstrated,
in a manner that defies contradiction
that two and two make exactly four
Is a substantial pillar of the Established
Church, rules his work-people (whC
esteem HIM with patcrnal despotism
farms few hundred acres of land, anC
keeps a yacht. Altogether, highly.
respectable person. lie is burlesquet
in " Pinafore.n
THE EARL OF CARNARV0N.
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert
fourth Earl of Carnarvon, was born il
1881. lie never sat iu the House o
Commons. Lord Derby took him il
hand after hearing his maiden speech il
the upper house. AT twenty-seven he
was made Uhder-Sccretary for the Colo