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LONDON, THURSDAY, .TUNE 14.

Tim great organ of the "status quo," of standing
ideas and abases in all th'ngs, whether in finance or
war, gives the true seisms why the dominant parties
in the free should scout Mr. COBDEN'S scheme of ar-

bitratioa, or aty.sehtme for superseding the present
system of routine and cap.imia diplomacy. This
system is explained by our contemporary, u the
entrusting the interests of the country abroad to be
managed and represented by ""personages at
the bead of Europe in society. To these
personages, thus proudly placed, we give splendid
palaces and princely establishments, in order to keep
asst pesos. We give ten thousand a 3 ear to Lord
NORMANDT in order to put him on more than a per
with the President of the Frenchßepublic, and we thus
make his berth so oomfoeteble, in order to render it
his interest not to quarrel with the ruler at whose
siert he resides, sod whom it is his business thus to
cont,hine and to remain friends with!
Ten thousand a year is certainly not an exor-
hi,snt price to ply for keeping at peace with
France. But we most sly that Lord NORMANBT MUSE
b the most exorbitant and unpatriotic of individuals,
if he counit be pacific and courteous at less than such
an annual sum. 'There ought to la, and no doubt thin
are terra in Englsnl, quite ready to devote themselves
to the teak et maiutaning peaceable relations between
the countries, who would never allow the idea
of slay or establishment to intrude upon their duty
and their patriotism. But the great pereonages
whom the Times would entrust with the monopoly of
diplomacy and statesmanship, are, according to this
high authority, not so disinterested. Install
them in a palace, and they will keep the peace,
put them in a second floor, and they will
embroil thenuelves and the touttry. from
mortification and annoyance. Tide specimen of Erge-
lish diplomacy, peinte par elle naCAe, is certainly very
instructive, and we do Welt that Mr. Hume will
m •ke use of it when the diplomatic Ection of the
miscellaneous estimates comes b.fore parliament.
Absurd as this may seem, the question neverthe-
less is there. It is whether politic, international as
well es d mete ic, are to remain a mystery and a
liidd n science, with ex'reme plausibility, but with
secret aims, and motives, and morale, incapable of
hearing the light, and tnerefere the better intrusted
to an hereditary caste of official Levites, who n'terly
exclude the profane vulgar, and who faint at the idea
of their deeds and their pretentious being referred to
'the honest daylight of at bitration.
Such propo-als in foreign politics are in fact pre-
eisely the same as an extentem of the suffrage is
home attar,. It is widening the circle of theso who
know, who seek, who ireeiest themselves in, and
who consequently mos' influence, /admit action. The
tort'. effort is to confine parliament to aristocratic
&amulet a, the cabinet to lords, and diplomacy t a " the
heads c f European society." And this monopoly is
defended on the preter.cs that ouch personages
alone can k• cp order at home, and p
ace
abroad, that iv, if we pay them like princes. For
paint d'argent, point de Suisse and the Tunes assures
us, that diehmati,ts with less than princely establish-
metre mast quarrel.
The was the kind of nonsense, this was the
dilemma, the twc-prong' d fork, with which toryism
ought to keep out the tide of the Reform Bill. Tho
public heeded it not ; and the inquiries, the rescsrzh,
and judgnent of the many, have broken into most of
the mysteries and hidden places of domestic govern.
ment. In foreign le licy, the people have, however, nut
yet interfered. The doors of the Treasury have indeed
been broken open by the intimate; but the Foreign-
office,
on the other side of Dos ning-street, has suc-
cessfully re-isti d. It camel, however, long retain
any such immunity. The public will penetrate, they
will insist on knowing more than blu • books die-
close; and if official means of information be denied,
they will seek other and curer =veil ilia in the great
hook of European affairs, which is no longer
el eed, and which small personages are at as full
libeey to study and learn as great ones.
We mutt say that in this debate Lord PALMERSTON
and Lord Jour RUSiELL spike, both of them, as fair
and liberal, and well-meaning statesmen. But they
are still augurs; still impressed with the sanctity of
of their offices; still under the yek • of the traditional
humbug of there offices, arid anxious not to betray the
interests er admit the empty inutility of their pro-
Lesion. It is not from them, therefore, that we are
to exp' eta goat,' al step or anysonitory measure a.tainst
international differences. It is through the public and
by the public that this alone can be wrought, and by
the pub Ws tsking a greater and more constant inte-
rest iu foreign questions.
The great argument of the political augurs for
mairtaining their science occult and the monopoly of
power in their cute is, that the public never inter-
fere in foreign questions, save when excited hy passion,
and that then it interferes to disturb and to
endar,ger. This is Rue enough. When the
public remain passive and ignorant on any
subject for years, and then burst suddenly
from impulse and excitement into these questions,
they conic to them of course with passion and with
have. But if a large portion, or majority of the
public were better and more regularly informed; if
they insisted on knowing and sharing in and in-
fluencing the march of our foreign relations, instead of
lravirg it to the thimble-rig of diplomacy, then the
judgment of the public would be equable and im-
p?mictie d, instead of being wilful and rash.
The only way to economy, and to peace,
and to order in public life, as in private management,
is for all interested to b vigilant, well-informed, re-
relarly observant, and interested, exerting not a
fitful and passionate, but a regular and a cub's in-
fluence. With a people thus awake, thus attentive, how
could a diplomatist ha% e the power to throw a country
into quarrel or embroilment, because his salary was
curtailed? Let it not be sopposedthat thismonstrous
absurdity of war's arising out cf the personal pique
of two individuals is confint d to the last century.
We could instance cases within very brief recollevion,
when Europe was in imminent danger of war
solely from the personal jealousies of two of those
"hinds of European society," which the Times recom-
mends as especial re acr-mskers. We should venture to
reezommeed a quite dill rent class of diplomatists. The
American school of public men is much chewer,
lunch less susceptible, and quite as pacific. For this
pod reason, that they must be so, 'hat they ate well
watched, that all their dispatches are published, and
that politician's, foreign or domestic, on the other side
ot the Atlantic, are allowed to form no augur close,
with ideate interests, or science eifferent from that of
the greet public.
Lord bone Russets, indeed, seems to have ad-
mita, however covertly, that such was the tendency
of thines, and that to "this complexion we must c sine
a' la-t" Hence f e said, that it was not yet time,
that Eeropean courts and countries had still their
who.ls too deeply imbedded in the old track., and
that England could not very well get out of
them of itself, unless ethers would at the
same time roll, like the United States, in the
plain high road. All this offers but a strong incentive
to the fries& of economy and popular progress to
press on, and to throw open wide the portals of the
sonstitut'on. The great.r the number that take part
in politic', a quiet and regular part, the Iris possihility
will 'here be of abuse, of expenditure, of war without
cans-, and of diplomacy on other ir,t• rests than those
of the public. When all countries and the men of
all countries can carry on a full and open
discussion of their rights and interest., and when
there is re longer anything in those rights or interests
that will not bear the daylight, or that nee' shrink
from honest arbitration, then the inutility of arma-
ment: will become manifest of itself, and then the atio-
elollll system will be exploded of dividing the sub-
stance of the state into three parts, ore of which goes
to rulers, another of which goes to soldiers, the poor
third, and not even the third, remaining to the active