Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — TWO FAMOUS DIPLOMATS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO FAMOUS DIPLOMATS.

Earl Granville, English Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

The Right Hon. George Liveson Gowe/, K. G., the eldest son of the first Earl of Granville, was bom May 11, 1815, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church. Oxford, taking his degree in 15.34. In 1835 he became an attache of the Parisian Embassy, was elected to the House of Commons for the borough of Morpeth in 1836, and again elected in 1837. In 1840 he was tendered and accepted the position of Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He was next chosen as member from Litchfield. While in the House of Commons he supported the Liberal party and always advocated the doctrine of free trade. "In 1846 he succeeded to the peerage, and in 1848 was appointed President of the Board of Trade. In 1851 he was made a Cabinet Minister, and in December of that year succeeded Lord Palmerson in the Foreign Office, retiring from the position on the occasion of the fall of the Russell Ministry, early in 1852. Lord Granville, who has held the offices of Master of the Buckhounds, Paymaster General of the Forces, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Treasurer of the Navy, was appointed President of the Council in 1853, and in 1855 undertook the ministerial leadership of the House of Lords, but was, however, unsuccessful. In 1856 he was sent to represent England at the coronation ceremonies of Alexander EL, at St. Petersburg. He was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in December, 1865, and in 1868 accepted the position of Colonial .Secretary under Gladstone, remaining in the position until 1870, when he was made Secretary for Foreign Affairs, occupying the position until the retirement of the Liberal Cabinet, in February, 1874. At the commencement of the following year, when Gladstone retired, the Earl of Granville became the acknowledged leader of the Liberal party. When Mr. Gladstone was returned to power, in 1880, Granville was again made Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

M. De Giers, Russian minister of Foreign Affairs.

Nicholas Carlovich de Giers is a descendant of an old Finnish family, and was born in 1820. At the age of 18 he entered the Foreign Office at St. Petersburg, and rose from step to step in his position under the Government. He thus became acquainted with every detail in the department, and to this thorough training is to be ascribed his great success as a diplomatist and statesman. In 1848 and ’49 he acted as political agent for Russia during the Hungarian insurrection, and was for a greater part of the time upon the scene of conflict. In 1858 he was made Consul General to Egypt, and subsequently was sent to Bucharest, owing to the Turkish complications. In 1872 ha represented Russia at' Teheran, Persia, an I from thence was commissioned as Ambassador to Stockholm. He served as Director of the Asiatic Department, one of the greatest in the Russian service. In 1882 he waU elevated to the position of Minister oi Foreign Affairs.

GRANVILLE.

DE GIERS.