The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

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that the last Scheriff appointed by the Sultan to
Mecca, Mohamed Ben Aavoon, had finally suc-
ceeded in asserting his rights in that country, and
that his predecessor, Aboo Moottalib, who had en-
deavoured to make a stand against the Sultan's
authority, had surrendered to the Turkish troops,
and was to have been sent to Egypt via Cosseir.
Aboo Moottalib, when reduced to his last extre-
mity, had taken refuge in the town of Tait, which
the Sultan's soldiers surrounded, when the inhabi-
tants of the town offered to'give the Scheriff up
under guarantees of security to themselves, which
was given. It is hoped that this part of Arabia
will now be enabled to enjoy some of the blessings
of peace, as it has been for a considerable time in a
state of great anarchy and civil warfare.
Prices of produce in Egypt are being run up very
high. Freights are also better. Exchange, 101
piastres per pound sterling.
The harvests throughout Syria aro this year very
abundant, and the silk crop has also been very
good.

RESIDENT MINISTERS-RESIDENT MIS-

CHIEF- m AKE HS.

If there had been no Mr. Crampton in this country
there would have been no fuss ; and no Mr. Dallas in
England, no danger of his dismissal. It is high time,
in a word, that the flaunting pomp and political jobbing
of our diplomatic missions were knocked in the head.
It is utterly false that the American Ministers to France
or England have the slightest value in promoting what
is called good feeling. In the first place, good feeling
should spring from our self-respect, and if we have that,
and such international comity be wanting, we need not
care. And as for a resident Minister doing any service
in case of a menace difficulty it is all sham. The peace of
this country with Western Europe is solely maintained
because it is the interest of the parties to keep the peace,
and not because there is a legation in the Faubourg
St. llonor6 or Euston-square or at Washington. When
resident diplomats were instituted there was little inter-
course between nations. Some sailors at the ports, and
some of the nobility and gentry on the grand tour,
formed the entire number of travellers, and constituents
of intersocial life between whatever nations. More Ame-
ricans go to Europe in a week now than went from Eng-
land to France in a year a century and a half since. In
Shakspere's time the intercourse between England and
France was similar to that now existing between Oregon
and Central Africa. Indeed, it does not appear that the
greatest man England ever produced ever crossed the
Channel, tlioegh we judge from his "Lear" that he had
stood on Dover Cliffs. Thus, when intercourse properly
speaking had no existence between the two nations, diplo-
macy was at its height. In the extent and splendour of
his retinue, the ambassador was only second to the mo-
narch—to the incarnated grandeur of the entire national.
mind and force. L ought to strike every ono but poli
ticians in office, who are always the last persons to corn'
prehend economic illumination and the prophetic novelty
of any epoch, that although ambassadors, when people
did not travel, were necessary, American ambassadors are
not necessary now when people like the Americans do
travel. But every American who travels to spend
money (and all do spend it), every ca-h and cotton-
freighted steamer that shoots athwart the main is infi-
nitely a better ambassador for the purpose of keeping
the peace than all the :Tangled perfidies of old diplomats,
who never were anything else but spies of the peace es-
tablishment, while history shows that the slights offered
to them more than once led to the wars which they
were intended to avert ; in the same way that the
Crampton affair would years ago have led to a war
that would have been impossible if the Eng-
lish had no so-considered peace dispensing repre-
preeentative in this country ; and in the same way that
the Ostend Manifesto, concocted by Buchanan, Soul 6,
and Mason, because they had nothing else to do beside
the dirty work of Franklin Pierce, would have led to
war, equally impossible if the trio had been kept at
home. Mr. Benton and Mr. Badger are the only
eminent members of the National Legislature who have
had the traeliuess to characterise our system of resident
Ministers as a useless institution--a mere means for re-
warding partisans, pampering political %vire-pullers, and
robbing the public. Under these circumstances it
would be well, now that England has no representative
in this country, to resell Mr. Dallas, with a view of
breaking up the whole system of resident Ministers, and
depending on the ocean mail service, and, at rare occa-
sions, a special minister for our entire diplomatic inter-
course in future.—Ncw York Tribune.