9th Aug.
M. Herr Georges STEPHANE
ADOLPHE OprerR DE Biowi1z, the correspondent of the Times at Paris, is a very remarkable man, According to the current authorities, Men of the Time and Who's Who, he was born of Jewish stock at the El de Blowitz, Pilsen, Bohemia, on the 28th of December, 1825, 1831, and 1832, He was for some yeas a Professor of German in various French colleges, and his name of de Blowitz which implies noble rank was not self-assumed, but was authorised by a decree of the Gth of May, 1860. He took early to journalism among other occupations." In 1870 he became a naturalised French citi served in the National Guard Marseilles, and was of the greatest assistance to General Espivent de la Villeboisnet in his operations to suppress the Commune at Marseilles; by 4 private wire from a house belonging to his wife he had remained in communication with M. sailles, when other communications had been cut off by the insurgents. M. Thiers naturally regarded him with the greatest favour, and he was decorated with the Legion of Honour in June 1871. In the same year he first became a correspondent of the
appointed their chief Paris ropre-Times, and three yours later he was sentative, and indeed their chief representative in Europe, signalising his appointment in 1874 by inaugrating con:
ant telegraphic commu-cation between Paris and Printing-house Square, and obtaining the concession from 9 p.n. to 3 a.m. every day of especial wire for this purpose. de Blow unique ability, marvellous memory, and personal knowledge of the real as well as the nominal rulers twenty-four to his public duties, of Europe have made hi power in. European polities, and his communications have thus frequently been of European importance, although his devotion to the Roman Catholic Church has now and then led him into serious mistakes. Among those he has interviewed are the Comte de Chambord, Bismarck, Thiers, Gambetta, Alphonso XII, the Sultan, the Comte de Paris, the King of Rowmania, Marquis Tseng, Jules Feny, Pope Leo XII, Cardinal Jacobini, Prince Lobanoff, ete., ete., and a politician or statesman seldom emerges from obscurity into greatness on the Continent without M. de Blowitz being able to give an appreciation-of him from his personal knowledge. So remarkable and in-{luential is the position he has conquered that leading statesmen and sovereigns have often made use of him to announce intended political changes which are modified, adopted, anier by that means to cleave an or abandoned in accordance h opening in that wall. It is not likely the expression of public opinion which that he will be allowed to abdicate, his announcement evokes. In his bio-though his younger brother theGrandgraphy, which is evidently authori-Duke Michael, who is now Czarewitch, tative, in Who's Who itis mentioned is said to possess more of the mate-that it was he who in 1875 revealed rial of which czar should be made the desire of the military party than Nicholas LI. The latter is ea-in Germany to bring on another sentially a man ofa liberal turn of war with France before the French mind. In his manifesto shortly; Army Reorganisation scheme had he became Czar he s We, in this fulfilled its purposes he predicted sad but. solemn hour, when ascend-the march of Russia to Herat: he sent to the Timex the d ing the wcestral thr of the Rus-sot the Treaty of Berlin before Polo was Unfortunately. his Finland, indissulub! political acumen was not utilised by! it, remember the leg:
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