The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

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Tucac is an impression abroad, in circles way
well informed on American affairs, that an English
Minister will very shortly be appointed to Washing-
ton. We are disposed to believe that the imprse doe
is well founded, and that the English public will
very heartily approve of sty such resolution of the
Government. A distinguished member of the Hose
of Commons has been named as likely to be sent;
one whose nomination to the mission would give
the people of both countries assurance of the
eassestutie and sincerity of the English
Cabinet in desiring to restore that simplicity
and trathfulnees in the relations of the two States
which best befit their common origin, their cosatant
intercom', sod their immense commercial dieting&
Need we add that the gentleman referred to is Mr.
CaSRLEB Viutztta ? Could be be induced to quit
the Holm of Commons, which he has OD long
adorned, and to occept for a season the mission to
Washington, he would carry thither not merely the
confidence of the Cabinet, but the confidence ol the
country also, and represent the people as well as the
Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

There are many reasons against further delay In
resuming diplomatic relations at Washington. Per
• the best of these is that, uno one thinks of
England remsiniog permanently without a Minister
there, the sooner we send one the better. To prolong
the present interval brier no accession to the dignity
of this country. Enough has been done to show the
United States that we did resent the dismissal of
Mr. CRAMPTON. To do more is a ISSN exhibitioa
of over unsibility on the part of the Government,
which wilt find no reflex in public sentimeat or feel-
ing. And as Lord CLARINDON carries on the most
intimate and friendly intercourse with the Americus
Minister at this Civil, sod has actually .eluded.
sleep Mr. CRAMPTON'S dismissal, an ispertent treaty
With Mr. DALLAS a behalf of the United States
Government, there is some inconsistency in longer
hesitation in filling up the vacancy at Washington,
assured as we are that a assessor to Mr. Coeur=
will be cordially and warmly received at that sapitaL
No idle punctilio or adherence to formal etiquette
aught to be allowed to oppose or procrastinate such ea
appointment. It is not to ha expected that the United
Stator Government will invite the Cabinet at her
XLIISTY to send a new Minister to Washisoln.
When they dismissed Mr. Cuomo they expensed
• Oros, wish to maintain the ordinary diplaentle
relations with this country ; and as Mr. Daudet 01l
only remained in London, but actively conwnsidisind
with the Government of the United States, no wet
of theite is left misapplied. They have a Minister
here, treated as baccenre his Goverment aid bb
own personal qsaliflations. They require no morol
The went is ours. That which they have in
Leedom, we have sot in Washington. Now, al-
though the absence of a Minister that. in no wry
diminishes the security of British subjects or of
British property in the United States (both bolsi as
safe there as they are at hose), still oar Government
is left without that confidential and congestive in-
formation as to the feelings and thoughts of the Govern-
seat of the United States, ea to the tendencies and
esetiments of public men, sad es to the vibrations
sad oscillations of popular opinion in the Union, the
value of which is nowhere so great as is a country
the institutions of which are democratic. The English
Cabinet wants also the means and agency of disabusing
the minds of the statesmen and legislators of Wash-
ington of those misapprehessions which lie so much
at the bottom of all oar differeaces, of correcting
false impressions, of contradicting downright false-
hoods, and of cultivating those social relation with
the principal personages of the Union which ban
so useful an inflames ow public unto. If, this. the
Representatives of the Crown with Foreign Goyim
meats be—es Lord PALMERSTON told the Cocamittee
of the Common on official eateries—the eyes, the
ears, and the tongues of the Goverment, the
absence of an English Minister at Wellington must
be a serious inconvenience to the QUEEN'S Orniall
and to prolong unnecessarily that absence is irk to
injure ourselves.

Whit*, however, it is idle to expect that the
UniPed Stotts Government will take any formal
gaps to melts a new appointment, it is impossible
not to tee *at 'hey have made a very conciliatory
and hat.d.on.c rilv-oce to the Englioh Government,
in Forcbssiog, le re•rquippang at a cost of B,ooot, in

sending over to this country, and in presenting to
the Qs ZEN, the abandoned Arctic vessel, the Resolute.
All this has been done since the dismissal of
Mr. CRAMPTON done, too, not merely by
the Executive Government of the States, but
by the spontaneous action and direction of
Congress. The presentation and restoration of the
Resolute mast, therefore, be taken as a very signifi-
cant and hearty manifestation of the desire of the
highest authorities of the American Union to main-
tain good relations with England. In this sines
it has been accepted by her MAJESTY and the
Government. The QUEEN, alwajs ready to
do graciously and gracafally what belongs to
R3yalty to advance public interests in this country,
has personally received the restored vessel, and has
treated its Commander with that combined respect.
frauknees, and cordiality which his mission invited.
The Government have received Captain Ilearsrent,
his officers, and men as public guests during their
stay here, sod ordered a ship of war to be placed at
their disposal to convey them across the Atlantic.
Aud public msnifeetationsot goodwill and friendship
to the United States on this occasion have only been
restricted by the modesty and dislike of public
display of t be gallant sailors who brought the Resolute
over. Here, then, we have evidence on both sides of
a desire to he good friends, which would be worthily
followed up by filling up the Washington Mission.
Bat Mr. FRANKLIN PIERCE, we shall be told, who
dlsmissed Mr. Cassnon, is still President of the
United States. The relations between States are not
personal bat public affairs, to be regulated on public
considerations; and if it be on public grounds desirable
to resume our ordinary diplomatic relations with the
Haired Stites, it weld be both wicked and puerile to
allow any weight to the fact that Mr. Preece will
remain three months longer in p3wer. Daring
those three months there is need of &British Minister
at Washington. The important treaty signed in
September by Lord CLARENDON and Mr. Deure is
about to b 3 submitted to the Senate for ratifica-
tion, and an opposition to it. ratifioation is
threatened. The presence of a British Minis-
ter at Washington, enjoying opportunities of ex.
placation and intercourse with members of the Se-
nate, might remove may objections and facilitate
the ratification of the Treaty. Alterations in the
United States Customs tariff, of the greatest im-
' portance to several branches of British industry,
have also been proposed to Congress. These are
surely occasions when a British Minister at Washing-
ton may be awful, or when his absence may be
prejudicial. And they alone would amply justify
the immediate appointment and despatch of a nine.
sentative of the British Crown.

But if we entertain any ill will or dislike of Presi-
dent PIERCE because of his dismissal of Mr. CRAW,-
TON, we have been amply satisfied by the universal
condemnation of his general r Jlioy, expensed by his
relegation to a private station. All men, even the
wildest of his own party, appear to rejoice at
the approaching termination of his Presidency.
The wiser course is, however, to bear no likes or
dislikes as a nation to the promos: of the
United States Presidency or Governmest; to be pre-
pared to fulfil all our duties and obligations, no matter
who is President ; and to regulate our inter-
ment', not by the acceptablenees of isdividuals,
but by our own sense of our own interests,
Consulting the■ only, the British Government ought
to overlook the fact that Mr. Pianos is still Presi-
dent, and be prepared to meet the Presideoey of Mr.
BUCHANAN, by allowing their representative to make
himself thoroughly acquainted with men and things
at Washington before that gentleman's inauguration
in March.

Lord Joust Busimm. ones expreared doubts whe-
ther our present plan of treating diplomacy as a pro
feriae, and of excluding from the service of their
country in foreign missions, men who had woo
for themselves reputation in parliament and public
life at home, was a wise one. In these doubte we
are disposed to join. The English public in reality
knows little or nothing of its Foreign Ministers; it
places little or no confidence in men of whom it
knows little; and men in high positions who have
not the public confidence to rely on, are, in the affairs
of this country, deprived of one great element of
usefulness. Be this, however, as it may—and it is too
large a question to be incidentally dismissed—at
Wrobiegtoo, if nowhere else, we require a man
bred, braced, and invigorated in the public school of
political freedom, net dwarfed and stunted in the
private school of esc:et diplomacy. We want a man
who has the sense, the spirit, the irrepressible
habit of being frank, cordial, same, and
truthful; a man who has the courage to form
and to express opinions of his own, to correct
the misapprehensions and mistakes of the Foreign-
office—too apt to regard itself as infallible, and to
I resign rather than to conduct a policy of which be
disapproves. We want a man whose manners,
thoughts, and style of life, and whose peblie position,
invite the confidence of those he has to transact
business with; and who will disdain to take petty
small advantages, or to treat international attain as a
great craft or mystery which none but the initiated ma
comprehend. In short, we want at Washington one
of our best public men, not a diplomatist whose
name no one out of the Circumlocution•oMes ever

heard of. And how each a want etrald be better I
supplied than by Mr. Cileaus VILLIERS it would
be difficult to imagine.

Vbe Court.

WINDSOR, Dso. W.

Llentesent-Citneral Sir Colin Campbell arrived
yesterday safest:we, sad bid the hoses: of dials( with
her 11Witty la the *veal's,.

The Quiem sad PrMM, the Priam of Wales, the
Primes. Boy■l, the Primmer. Mite sad Helena, the ladies
sad gentlemen of the wort, and the domestic howehold.
attended Melee s niee this atorsiag la the private sherd
of the Conk. The Priam of Umbra wee also at the
genies. The Hos. sad wry Bev. the Dam of Wiadem par.
fonsed the service sad admlsistered the Holy Bserassat.
Sir Celia Campbell lift the Cattle foe Leaden.

BIiPIIZSINTAVION OP DUMFRIZUHIII.—By the
demise of the Marsala if Qamossbeery, Lad Dramleads,
his only or., and repenantative of Dumfries kin is the
House of Commons, hes become Marquis sol Qemeseberry
Le., la the peerage of Scotland. His lovdelip wee been is
1818, sad was sleeted M.P. for the musty of Dumfries in
1517 withest opposition, es the retirement of Mr. Hope
Jobestooe. He was lisle returned, supposed, at the
Rommel election of 1862. la the sad of that you be ac-
cept* the Mike la Comptroller of her Mejesty's benseheld
voider the g 88888 meat of the Berl .f AMA's.. Os appeal-
leg to the ethstit yin aonseqemthe of battles accepted
the odic", he was ?lapsed by Sir William Jardine of
Applegarth, Bart., who withdrew, however, before the
day of eleetios, sad hie lorlship wee foe the thud Use
returned. Is all probability his secession to the **rape
will reader the recemiestatles of Thrsmfriseshire vacant,
though we believe the point hoe sever bees formellv tried
whether or net Scottish Peers cars cit is the House of Com-
mons. Is the avant of a vacancy, however, the 'heti*
manse scour for some Ilse. The general impressies, as far
so we is to Judge, Is that the former representative of the
county, Mr. Hope Johostone, of Anneadals, *gist to be
asked ma resew his cthession with the constituency. The
only public part e...'sh has rmoretly been taken by Mr.
Hope Johnstone is political etrairs has bees le patience to
the temporises qs. Eton of education; sad though on this
subject he does not go as far IS we amid wish, the views
which he *ululated, particularly at a county ineetiog held
here in April last, prow that be ia no bigoted adherer to
thirgs so they we re, bat is prepared to legislate in brand-
. ince with the changes which arise is eledititn of the
country —Diutafriss Cosner.