The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-24

Great Britain and Ireland has new Prime
Minister, and one about as unlike his Liberal
predecessor as possibly can be- The Marquis
Of Salisbury has been the fercest critic OF
the foreign policy of the late Ciovernmen t,
and of all the leading men of the nation has
made the strongest attacks on the aggressive
action of Russia in Central Asia, and OF
the manner in which that power has violated
her plighted word. again and again, in pur-
suing it, Salisbury is a brilliant and coura-
geouS man, and judging from kilograms re-
ceived i popular The people remember
that the late Earl of Beaconslield and he
were the two British ministers who, at the
conference of Berlin, in 1873, humbled Rus
STA after her triumphal campaign against the
Turks He represents the combative, spir-
tied, aggressive and glory-worshiping ele-
ment OF the British population, and his adj
vent To power may result in the adoption of
Il foreign policy recalling the prOudcst reco,-
lecti0ns of national prOwesS. The Marquis
takes office with a majority of the House of
Commons against him, and under the disad-
vantage of being a member of the House of
Lords, which. as a body, i. like himself,
Conservative in politics. His great ability
a. an orator and debater would better serve
his party in the popular House than in that
of the aristocracy.
The House of Commons will shortly ne
dissolved, and the new administration will
have the opportunity of doing else than pass
the budget, as modified by the vote which
defeated the Liberals and indicate sufficient
of their domestic and foreign policy In con-
stitute platform. as we say upon which
they can appeal 10 the country i'm the ensu-
ing general election. They may, and they
may not, succeed in carrying the country.
A. they will scarcely have time enough 10 be
come unpopular it may easibly he that a
great wave of reaction may give them the
responsibilities o1 office for years This
would certainly mean that Russia must
either lower her proud crest or take the
chances of war.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil.
Marquis of Salisbury. and as such, the in
heritor of his fathers title, was born at Hat
field in the year 1880. He received his pre-
paratOTy education at Eton, from whence he
entered Christ Church, Oxford, where he was
graduated His superior scholarship was
recognized i'm his election "a Fellow of All
Souls the same university.
In 1858 he was elected To the House
of Commons as a Conservative by the
borough of Stamford, which he continued to
represent until the death of his iather gave
him his present rank and seat in the House
of Lords.
I'm 1866 he was given the appointment of
Secretary of State for India, i'm the admins
tration of the Earl of Derby. He resigned
in the next year. not agreeing with the poll
CIV of the administration, which proposed the
enlargement of the electoral franchise a re-
form carried out in the bill of 1867. This
NAV possibly be remembered against him at
the coming election, when 100000 voters
enfranchiSed under the provisions of bill
introduced bv the late Gladstone Govern
fl,.fr hall he. tsrat
time In 1869 the Marquis was elected
Chancellor of the University of oxford. in
succession of the Earl of Derby. He took
office the second time i'm 1874. "a Indian Sec
rotary, i'm which he earned distinction by his
industry and ability.
His greatest political success. however, was
when, as colleague of the Earl of BeacOns-
field. he attended the Congress of Berlin. i'm
1873. Russia there submitted To revision of
the treaty of San Stefano. which she had
wrested from defeated Turkey. Thereby an
other war was prevented, and the Earl Of
BeaconSfield and the Marquis OF Salisbury
returned to London To be greeted with the
popular cry of Peace with honor" In the
same year Salisbury was made a Knight of
the Garter and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
When, in the spring of 1850, the constituent
cies sent an enormous majority of Liberals to
the House of Commons, the Conservatives
retired into the cold shades of opposition.
A. one of them the noble Marquis has made
matters lively for the party i'm power. lie i
accused of intemperance i'm the use of lam
guaee and headlong impctuosity, weaken
ing his capacity for the highest statesman
ship We shall see whether the restraints of
official dignity and responsibility will be ade-
quate TO prevent his commission of these
alleged faults.
The Marquis is known in history under
three names. He was Lord Robert Cecil UNI
til his elder brother died, when he assumed
the title of NiscOunt Cranborne. In 1868. at
before stated, he bloomed out into his pre-ens
social dignity. His caustic and eloquent pen
has been often employed in the pages of the
Quarterly Review, especially during the time
when he was Niscount Cranborne.