The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-06 00:00:00

&DIMON. TUESDAY. DEC 6.

Loin Cowin; as British Ambassador in Paris, is
entitled ex 414.4 to a seat is the Cent rum iatended
to be held them; and there are those who seem
to be so insensible to the politics this sommery
ought to occupy, if present at all at such as omamir
bly, as seriously to dream that no other imprimis-
tion of its moral greatness is requisite than
that which his =imposerse lordship may
supply. Wen bled COWLET • man of pre-
eminent sagacity, coursge, or dexterity—were
he encompassed with the prestige of notable
emcee" in post undertakings when left to act
alone—or were his habits of thought or action so
thoroughly in unison with those of the nation be
serves Y to eYke people recognise in him, without
discurion, the essential qualities of amain" repre-
sentative, it would still be as unwise ea it would be
unusual to commission hiss to act •lane. All the
*thee great Power" will mercies their customary
privilege to seed delegates in duplicate. On all
former occasions we have done SO too. Lord CAMS-
atatiti was not at Paris many days is 1814 until be
wrote urgently to Lord Livearoot., suggesting that
the Liberator of the Peninaula, then at the zenith of
lie fame, should be sent as Ambassador to Frame,
on the epeeist ground that, to fill adequately the
great part England had to play in • European
Cooper she ought to resort to the highest ability
at her disposal. Yet, assuredly, never was there
a man more habitually sell-reliant than that
Tory statesman, and
of modern times did the arbitration of England
seem to stand in so little need of personal qualities
to enforce its claims to deference as at that
triumphant moment. Bat whatever may have
been his faults, Lord CAITLE&IAOH WY animated
with a truly statesmanlike oonseimanese of what
was due to the honour and dignity of England; ha
we. wholly free from jealousy or meanness; and
when at • subsequent period it became necessary
aga!u to consider who should be sent as British
Minister to the Congress of Verona, he again pressed
the (Ace upon the Duke of WELLINGTON, and for
the same reasons that bad actuated him in 1814. Bet
we need not multiply instances; nee mood we ask, if
Lord CAKTLIREAGII was fain to seek the aid of the
first man of his time, whether Lard COWLIT ought
to be left wit bout some better help than such as
his own commonplace intellect can furnish him.
His past adventures, however praiseworthy
for their diligesoe, have certainly not bees
illustrated by success. Of all the mistakes made in
the unhappy affair of the Conspiracy 818, Done was
more deliberate, signal, or inconceivable than the
feeble letter which he wrote for the purpose of
retrieving the blunders of Deeming-street. No one
who remembers the state of n►tional feeling at the
time, and the terms of that untoward epistle, can
entertain the idea seriously that Lard Cort.ze com-
prehend' what =acme of spirit we are of as a
nation. Equally anaustreed is dignity and abor-
tive is its resells was his mission last spring to
Vienna, not ao the envoy of Queen VICTORIA, but of
NAPOLEON 111. After a week spent in the inter-
change of vague and equivocal generalities in the
Austrian capital, the Earl returned to Paris only to
be superciliously told that, not supposing it likely
he would be &scornful is his mansion, hie
French employer had sent to St. Petersburg
to hare the matter there arranged. Is this the
Dort of man to whom, unsupported, we are
to confide the vindication among jealous equals of
our just it. ttuenoe and authority as the Bristol the free
nations of the world Better tar not be repre-
sented at al!, than be under-represented so
egregiously.

Ir is to be feared that the lour Liverpool
asr-
chants who could write directly to NAPOLION
" to knnw what were lie intentions er reguds
" Reglited," have net the wit to perceive, ear the
sensibility to feel, the biting irony of the reply
they here draw. from M. llocticnan. The Seem
tary of the Euratom toast receive to. many eves-
erdieary comactiniestiorc to permit him to ',joy
Ohm the luxury of surprise; yet he earnest forbear
remarking on the strengenets of this appeal to He
Master—'• Groat feet sod great *window, MA oily
exptaie this step.* Tbii is the sentence whisk the