The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 18t7.

The Diplomatists—though tardily—we are
glad to see, are really at last beginning to parti-
cipate in some measure with the Warriors in the
national rewards for distinguished services during
the late war, meted out with careful discrimina-
tion by the hand of our most Gracious SOVE-
REIGN.

Baron COWLEY has the promise of an Earldom
—in consideration of his eminently judicious dis-
charge of the singularly responsible duties devolv-
ing upon Her Britannic MAJESTY'S representative
at the Court of the Tuileries : duties considerally
enhanced in importance by the intimate alliance
latterly knitting more and more closely together
the interests of France and England : an alliance
strengthened by the personal friendship of the
SOVEREIGNS and cemented by the blood of their
heroic soldiers, shed like water while fighting side
by side upon the same historic battle-fields.

Mr. WYSE—now the Right Honourable Sir
THOMAS WYSE—has been not merely "promised,"
but has been very recently "gazetted to," the
rank of K.C.B.—in acknowledgment of the ex-
traordinary zeal, ability, and determination with
which, during many years: of most complicated
difficulty and of most anxious solicitude, he has,
in the capacity of Her Britannic MAJESTY'S Am-
bassador at Athens, watched over the jeopardised
interests of the Greek Constitutional Government.

Bauble; though 'mere titles, and stars, and
ribbons, unquestionably are in themselves, they
are nevertheless at the same time, intrinsically im-
portant by reason of their significance. They are
the tokens for example, the signal and conspicuous
tokens, of approval on the part of the home Go-
vernment. A circumstance in the last-mentioned
listance, in the instance, that is to say, of Sir
THOMAS WYSE, of no inconsiderable value, seeing
that his Excellency is thus publicly commended
by his Sovereign for"the hold and energetic course
long pursued by him, perseveringly and unremit-
tingly, in direct antagonism to the Muscovite in-
triguers constituting the customary entourage of
King OTHO and Queen AMELIA ! A recompence,
therefore, this nomination to the rank of K.C. 8.,
calcuLted obviously to strengthen the hands of
an eminent and deserving diplomatist, at a period
when it is peculiarly desirable that his hands
should be strengthened, and his past services
receive, as they happily have received, the direct
approval of his own Government.

Now that peace has been restored, however
unsatisfactorily, to Europe, it is, at least, incum-
bent upon the Western Allies that they should
adjust with a more delicate nicety and pre-
cision than heretofore, that exquisite Balance
of Power which has been long recognised as the
most substantial guarantee for the perpetuation
of international tranquillity. For this the close
of the Russian War by the Paris Conferences has
afforded them at length a fitting and alluring op-
portunity. Nothing but a Great War—such
as the one recently raging in the Crimea—could
constitute an absolute impediment to any such
undertaking. Minor differences so far from being
an obstacle to the desired readjustment of the
Balance of Power, actually afford European Dip-
lomacy "an excuse" for interference ! Differences,
we mean, like that once dividing Denmaik and
Germany in reference to Schleswig-Holstein—like
that placing Prussia and Switzerland in opposition
to each other in regard to the principality of Neu-
chatel—finally, be it said (in illustration of our
present argument) like that which only the other
day suddenly sprang into existence between
Austria and Sardinia, leading to the immediate
withdrawal from Vienna and Turin of their re-
spective Legations. Differences like these, we
maintain, so far from impeding the labours of
Diplomacy With a view to the more perfect
readjustment of the Balance of Power in
Europe, afford an excuse and suggest an oppor-
tunity. Precisely at such a transition time as
the present in the political relations of the va-
rious States of Christendom, we regard the judi-
cious distribution of rewards to the more dis-
tinguished and the more meritorous Diplomatists
as eminently well-timed and judicious. It is not
only recompence for the past, but encouragement 1
and official also for the future. It is the formal

endorsing, as it were, by the Supreme Govern-