The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1385.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 135, 16 June 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1385.

For tha came that lacks aeaiatanoD, For the wrong that neela resistance, For tho future in the distance, And the good that we can do,

The cable news with reference to the English political crisis has been of a very meagre description. Nothing much further, however, can be known until the Marquis of Salisbury's efforts at Cabinet-making have yielded some tangible result. His selection by the Queen—no doubt on the advice of Mr Gladstone — settles the oftdebated question of the leadership of the Conservative Party. The House of Commons always views with disfavour the location of a Prime , Minister in the Jiouse of Lords; but

the Marquis of Salisbury is hardly the man lo relinquish the advantage which the Queen's choice, to say nothing of his own pre-eminence among the Conservative leaders, gives him. Although but poorly filling in the blank caused by the death of Lord l.eaconsfield, Lord Salisbury is, beyond doubt, the most able man of his party. He is a man of mature years and extensive political and diplomatic experience, but too rank and unyielding a Toiy to lead public opinion or govern England for long in these days of revolutionary thought. Having already filled important ofiices under the Crown, and being now selected to direct the policy of the country at a momentous crisis in its history, we judge that some further facts about the career of Lord Salisbury than are generally known will be acceptable to our readers. We reprint, therefore, the following admirable and concise biographical sketch, which appeared in a recent number of the j<; 1 .iverpool Tost": —

"Tho Right Hon. Robort Arthur Talbot (lascoi^neOocil, K.I i.,hotter known in public political life as tlto Marquis of Salisbury U tlio third peer, and was born at Hatliold on February 3,1530, and is now consequently iifty-tivo years of ago. Ho recoivod an Eton education, aftor which ho studied at Christ Church, Oxford, whore ho graduated, and was elected a Fellow of All Saints' Collego in 1553, In ISO 7ho married Georgians Caroline, daughter of Sir Edward Hall Aldorson, Baron of tho Exchequer. His Parliamentary career commenced in 18j3, whon ho was elected representative for Stamford in tho intorcstof tho Conservative party, which scat ho retained till his succession to tho marquisate on tho death of his father, April 12, ISGS. In the House of Commons ho was known by his family name, Loul Robert Cecil, until tho decoaso of his elder brother in Juno, lSGti, whon ha assumed tho courtesy title of Viscount Cranborno. Tho first timo which Lord Salisbury held ollioo was in Lord Derby's third Cabinet, in lSlili, whon ho became Secretary of State for India in July, but resigned in tho following March owing to a differonco of opinion having arisen with regard to tho Reform Bill. At that time tlio noblo marquis w;i3 bittorly opposed to any oxton.ion of tho suffrage, and ho used prophetic words in Parliament forotclling the early doom of tho aristocratic principlo in English politics. Ho appears from that day to this to havo worked most itidefatig ably to bring about v fulfilment of his own prophecy. In .November, ISfi!), Lord Salisbury was elected Chancellor of tho University of Oxford in suo&sslon to tho late Karl of Derby. In 1871- ho and Lord Cairns, as arbitrators, conducted a long investigation into tho complicated affairs of tl.o London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. On tlio late Ciovern* meiit coining into olllco ill February, 187-1, Mr Disraeli reappointed him as Secretary of State for India. At tlio closo of tl.o war between Turkey and Scrviu dill'oroncos aro.-0 between tho former Power and Rttetia. Lord Salisbury was sent us Special Ambassador to the Sublimo Porto, together with Sir Henry Elliot, who acted ns Joint Plenipotentiaries of U roafc Britain nt tho Conference of Constantinople. Lord Salisbury left England on November '-'(.th, 1870, and en route visited Talis, Berlin. Vienna, and Homo. On December ".led tho Conference was opened after somo preliminary meetings had been hold at tho Russian Embassy. At the same timo the new ccnslitiition of tho Ottoman Empire iva_ formally promulgated by tho author, Midliut V sha. Tho Marquis of Salisbury took an •slivo part in tho Conference, which held sovon meetings. In January, 1877, ho held an interview with tho Sultan, at which he mado two proposals, which, if not accepted, would, ho said, necessitate his leaving Constantinople. These were that thoro should boa mixed Turkish and International Commission of Supervision, and that tlio lir.-t appointment of tho Govornora should be ratitiad by tho Powers. They wore rejected, and Lord Salisbury returned homo. On April 2nd, 1878, he succeeded tlio Earl of Derby as Socretary of State for Foreign Affairs, when ho at onco wrote a memorable despatch, in which ho enunciated tho policy of tho Government with regard to tho Eastern Question. Shortly afterwards his lordship, together with Lord Beacon., licld, represented Croat Britain at tho Congress of Berlin. On July "Oth he received tho Order of tho Carter, and in tho following August tho freedom of the City of London was conferred upon both himself and Lord Boaconslield. Ho went out of ollico at tho last general election with tho rest of his party, but at a mooting of Conservative Poors on May 9th, ISSI, was olected leader in the Houseof Lords. As a Parliamentary speaker, ho was characterised by Lord Bcaconslicld as 'a master of jibes and Holds and sneers.' In the list of 'Groat Landowners,' Lord Salisbury is represented as pces.ssing estates in sovoral counties in England, as follows :- Dross Annual Acres. Vnluo. Ilott 13.359 1.18,372 • Doraot 3.118 2<M2 Lancashire 1,71111 7.1W) Essex 703 2,(13. Middlesex DUO 121'J Bedford 80 i:n Nou'olk SO 12) Wilts 12 12 20,202 £33~AYi