The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

THE 1,7E1V MISSION TO CENTRAL

AMEBIC A.

SIR W. GORE OUSELEY.
In our last we intimated that her Majesty's
Government were about to send a special Minister
to Washington, with a view to an understanding
with Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet as to a basis of
policy to be pursued by the United Slates and
Great Britain towards Honduras, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, &c., so as finally to dispose of those
irritating and profitless diplomatic entanglements
known as the Central American Question. We had
reason, we added, to believe that the individual
selected was one who would be found peculiarly
suited to the office, both from his professional ante-
cedents, his knowledge of the Spanish-American
character, and his personal acceptability to the
President of the United States. It will be seen
that on Friday last, at Windsor, audience was
given by the Queen to SirW. Gore Ouseley, K. C. 8.,
who received his credentials as special Minister to
Central America. This nomination is most credi-
table to her Majesty's Government, and is some-
what of an innovation on the rule that has
hither obtained in Fisch selections. Not only is
Sir William not of the political following of those
now in power, but he had been recalled
from his mis-ion in the River Plate by Lord Pal-
merston, when Foreign Secretary, having been
sent thither by Lord Aberdeen, as also to the Court
of Brazil ; but such was the sense entertained of his
services alike to the commercial and political inte-
rests of England in South America, where events
in regard to Rosas, the opening of the Parana and
its affluents to the trade of the world, &c., entirely
justified the course he had recommended years be-
fore, that one of the earliest acts of the Derby Ad-
ministration was to beitow upon him the Order of
the Bath. It will be recollected, moreover, that
Lord Malmesbury was particularly proud of the
mission to Paraguay in 1851 by the late Sir C.
Hothaan (being, in fact, only a resumption of the
work Sir William Ouseley had employed that la-
mented officer upon in 1845), and that Lord Cla-
rendon, on succeeding to the foreign seals, was at
first disposed to make light of what his predecessor
attached so much importance to in such respect.
' Both Lords Palmerston and Clarendon, therefore,
have shown themselves superior to personal consi-
deration in choosing Sir W. Ouseley for the present
undertaking, his fitness for which has alone weighed
with them. Sprung of a family remarkable for its
eminence in the diplomatic service, it is now some
30 years since he entered the profession as attache
to Sir R. A.dair's mission, at Washington,where he
married a daughter of Mr. Van Ness, then late
governor of the State of Vermont, and previously
United States Envoy Fxtraordinary at the Court
of Madrid. Until his return from South America,
as already stated, Sir William was constantly em-
ployed, always with success, as we trust will be
the case on this occasion ; for there could
hardly be a greater boon the cause of civilisa-
tion than removal of the only existing impedi-
ment to complete cordiality between two na-
tions having so many motives for ca-opera-
tion and so few for dissent as Great Britain
and the United States. We believe the strong( at
desire in this sknse animates the rulers of each
than country,
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ence. Accompanied, we believe, by Lady Ouseley,
he will sail by the Arabia on Saturday next from
Liverpool, and will, we understand, be entertained
the previous day here by Mr. William Br9vrny
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