Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-24

Ledger has the following, on the subject of the
Report Of the Committee on Foreign Relation
"The report of the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations, Of which the Hon. Chares Jaren fnger-
soil is chairman, proposes some very radical
changes in the personale of our ministers and
charges d'atiaires abroad but have not yet
examined it sufficiently to form a correct con-
clusion on the subject. The preamble certain
ly contains propositions, set forth after the man.
ner o. mathematical theorums but what are
not SO easily nor so directly demonstrable.
Thus read the following:
The faculty of di plomatic usefulness, by re.
preventative power, is in proportion to the grade
of mission
This doctrine is advanced with as much Sc.
riousness as the proposition in astronomy, that
the square Of the distance Of the planets from
the sun is 10 proportion TO the cubes of the times
ofrevolution; but imagine that the diploma.
tic usefulness depends, like everything else in
diplomacy, on the cleverncss of the agert selec-
ted, and tho strength and influence by which
his government backs his proposition. A min
lister plcnipoentiary from Portugal, for instance
will not find his Diplomatic usefulness in pro-
portion to hs grade in treating with England
OF France, and, on the ether hand, an humble
charge, or even consul or secretary obligation
of England will he equal to declaration of war
OF peace. The Prussiau envoy to England, at
the time of Frederick the Great, was no minis
ter Plenipoten,iary or ambassador, and was not
even allowed a salary sufficient to keep car
riage. He conpliined of it to his sovereign
but the latter wrote him to London, that he need
not have any apprehension as To the coosidcra-
ton in which he will be held at the Court of St
James for, he added, my brother George never
looks at you bat what he sees me at your elbow,
at the head OF an hundred throusand Prus-
sians'
The Report of the Committee proposes to a.
boliSn the missions 10 China, Turkey and Aus
tria. hear no objections TO Turkey or Austria,
but the M ssion to China was necessary. The
English, who in their late treaty with the Cc.
lcstinl Empire, obtained terms for all European
nations and for America to boot, had no other
objection in the world than TO keep America
ard France from commencin. Diplomatic re-
iaton with the Fast, They want to remain
wholly master of that T. npire, and the onl, Eu.
;opcan power for whom the Ce'cstiais shall have
aspect and awe. a to Austr', i, is proper
hat the mission be at once abolished Prince
iietternich, 10 retsliatc for the imagined insult
o { our government in suffering the post of a.
uierican Minister to remain vacant for alb ,ut
six months, has suffered poor miserable devil,
a man by the Ramc Of HHiseman, the former
Austrian Secretary of Legation, to remain in
Washington as acting charge. This is real
insult; for the iRdi'ilaai in question is a very
ordinary hypochcndrica North German-- not
an Austrian by br,h--a former private teach
cr at Goettinren, who for time assisted in e.
diting The Austrian Observer, a s,upid paper,
published in Vienna, ard recommended himself
10y nothing to the good graces of Prince Meter
nlch than an infamous libel published on the
laws and insttutous Of our country. Oar pre-
sent minister in Vienna, Mr., Jcniier, is, as
understand, nutiiin2 but 4 bat, of the Austrian
Prime Minister, who is amused by hearing
him talk of his vast estate in Maryland,'
and seeing him do the agreeable to the ladies'"
lNTArIov RrssA SnEEr lnov A specimen of
this Successful imitation cta foreign article
the manufacture of which has heretofore been
zealously kept secret by the Russian Govern.
meni.--has been icit al cur counting room. 1t
made in rcnnsy ylvania, and purposrly glazed only
on one side We learn thai both sides can he
glazed if required; but as only one side shows
when manufactured il answers every purpose to
glaze but side, and the saving three iourths
OF a cent per pound in cost THIS iron, we learn
can be afforded at about 63 per cent or SIOIi0
per ton than the lowest average price Of the
foreign full glazed article of the same thic kness
10 which i'll appearance it very nearly approach
cs, Being manufactured with great care from
the best of blooms, il will fully compare with
the foreignarticle in maleability and toughnes.
BaH. Americas.
INTERESTING TO OLD PEuPLE,-We find in an
cold paper the following course ofproceedings
recommended To aged people, as a means of en-
abling them 10 preserve their cycsiglt, or To re-
cover it after it has failed Every morning,
when washing yourself, dip your face into the
water, open your eyes, and keep them under the
water, as long you can hold your breath. This
strengthens the eye and cleunses it from the