Downstairs is another room where any amount of business is transacted, and where I had a few minutes' chat with Austin Lee, Esq., one of the secretaries; and opposite are the offices of the Consulate. To one and another there is a constant stream of people from morning till night; all sorts and conditions, and on all sorts of business. One thing you may be sure of: no one who really needs and deserves help or redress fails in obtaining it; Lord Dufferin and his able assistants--whose portraits are here presented--not only conducting affairs of State with dignified ability, but also giving ready sympathy of a practical nature wherever required. [Illustration: LORD DUFFERIN'S ASSISTANTS. _From a Photo. by Gunn & Stewart, Richmond._] _Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives._ [Illustration: AGE 38. _From a Photo. by Southwell Bros., Baker St._] THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. BORN 1825. [Illustration: AGE 47. _From a Photo. by Maull & Fox._] The Right Rev. Anthony W. Thorold, Lord Bishop of Winchester, is the second son of the Rev. E. Thorold, Rector of Hougham. He graduated at Trinity College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1849. From 1874 to 1877 he was Canon Residentiary of York, and was consecrated to the Bishopric of Rochester in 1877. His lordship was transferred to the Bishopric of Winchester in 1891. [Illustration: AGE 58. _From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by Elliott & Fry._] THE CZAR OF RUSSIA. BORN 1845. [Illustration: AGE 20. _From a Photo. by George Hansen, Junr., Kjöbenhavn._] [Illustration: AGE 38. _From a Photo. by Carl Sonne, Kjöbenhavn._] [Illustration: AGE 46. _From a Photograph._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by J. Danielsen, Kjöbenhavn._] Alexander III. succeeded to the throne as Emperor of All the Russias in 1881. His coronation took place at Moscow in May, 1883. In 1866 he married Mary Feodorovna, daughter of Christian IX., King of Denmark, and sister of the Princess of Wales and the King of Greece. THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. BORN 1846. [Illustration: AGE 3. _From a Drawing by A.P. Paul._] [Illustration: AGE 12. _From a Photograph._] [Illustration: AGE 19. _From a Photo. by Wolthytype, Regent Street._] [Illustration: AGE 27. _From a Photo. by A. Bassano, Piccadilly._] [Illustration: PRESENT DAY. _From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._] Henry Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Prince of Waterloo, was late Major and Lieutenant-Colonel Grenadier Guards, Colonel 2nd Brigade Southern Division Royal Artillery Militia, and Honorary Colonel of the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. He succeeded to his uncle, son of the Great Duke of Wellington, as 3rd Duke in 1884. He was M.P. for Andover from 1874 to 1880, and married Evelyn Katerine Gwenfra, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Thomas Peers Williams, in 1882. MR. JUSTICE KENNEDY. BORN 1847. [Illustration: AGE 17. _From a Photograph._]