The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-22

Inns LED 10 his recall; but he never returned to
France, having married the daughter OF the vice.
president OF the Union, Mr.. Clinton.
Paris Cor, London Standard of Freedom
There has been some cOquettDg between por.
ton OF the ultra republican party and the friends
at least those who are called The personal friends
OF Louis Napoleon, and much has been said OF an
interview with Armand Marrast, aud u proposal
made to HIM OF being sent ambassador to the
United States. That junction may eventually
take place between Cavagnac's party and por-
ton Of the party at the Elysee Bourbon, if the
present ministry cannot sustain Itself, is not I'M
likely but nothing has yet been decided upon.
From the London Chronicle. Oct s
The observation OF Chancellor OxenstIern TO his
son. tSudn! pdrra s0pieatta fegtttI Dinadns," Is
every day verified In prsctce IN all the relations of
llfe-and IN none more than IN wau are called
The diplomatic relations. We are scarcely in
England recovered from the shock that sensible
men received from the BGlwer blunder, and the
lsturtz escaPade, than new errors and new follles
crowd upon us-toles and errors not in this in
stance committed by the ambassadors of emperors
and kl2gs, but by the envoy of a splc. and-span-
new republic scarcely more than twenty months
old. Formerly, and more especially IN The earlier
and medlaval history Of European countries,
ambassadors and envCys were chosen for their
gravity, their earniDg, and their wisd0ni-ther
siad and sober chdracter-Ihelr immovable tenn
per and wellbred and approved discretion. But Of
late years II would appear that many OF the MEN,
bers OF the diplomatic corps IN all countries, are
rot distinguished by learning, by gravity, by wis
and the most ordinary good sense. In the middle
ages II was the uniform practice TO intrust difficult
negotiations to discreet and erudlte chuIchmen or
to astute and practised lawyers Nlmenes, ID ssat
Peron, may be numbered among the former; and
Grollus, Adler, Slavlus, the President Jeannin,
and Whitelock and II. John may be cited among
the latter. But In more modern times, the nation
which found In the church Talleyrand, Louis
Hauterive, Moreet, and De Pradt, too often,
within the last eighteen years. required TO men of
some family or pecunlarv interest, and the cOnse-
quenoe is that France is. since 1880, without a
single great minister or great negotIator. st. Au-
laire, De Barante, Hyde de Melville, and De Ray
newell are men who had acquired their Iepute du-
rlng the empire and the restoration, aud who lent
that Iepute, such as ii was-with the exception of
De Neuvlle-to prop up the quasi monarchy of
The barbados. But The eighteen years Of
that monarchy has not, we repeat, produced
q single great negotidtor--a single man dis
tlDeulshed for those qualities and atralnments
which eminent dIpiomatlsts ought ever to possess.
Nor are we very rich ourselves IN such rare cha
racttTs. With the exception of Lords ieylesbury,
Poasonby, end Sir Stratiord Canning, we have
scarcely man III leading position In our aplo-
matte service that is not IN every sense below me-
diecriy; though we willingly admit there some
very rising and clever men-as witness Lsrd Ma
per, IN lie subordinate ranks. lEdltierently sue
ctssiul, however, as was the monarchy OF the bar
ficades In selecting men OF talent tor the corps d.
pfG,ndftquc, the failure or the young republic Of
ISIS has been sill more disastrously conspicuous
Since February, 1913, II cannot be- denied, men of
imported into diplomatic life. Tailors and diapers,
ushers at schools, and professors at coeges-doc-
tors without patients, and advocates without briefs
-notarles ard military men, have all been thrust
Pele-nee INTO profession In which Learning, tact,
adToiiness, and knowledge Of the world pre-emi
nenty ne cessary. ltappears however, that NJ. Pous
sin 1--WE are now wrtngi in reference To our last news
IRON Amerlca), whatever his other qualifications
may be, and though he have head Of a certain
sort, yet is nevertheless person eminenty untitled
Tor diplomatic employment. HIS manners, 1t ap-
pears, have all the abruptness and 6yusguerie OF
modern Frenchman dc Ia n,aurdise conipagnie
nor has his snartfT iH ni0GO been much increased
by fifteen years service in the United States
corps Of Typographical Engineers-by an engi-
neeiing employment on the Chesapeake and Ohio
canals-by speculdtlons IN French Iaiiroads-and
by failing IN his canddature for the Coles de- Nord
TO The Constituent Assembly. Though NJ. Poussin
may be be very active and energetic man in his
engineering and railroad way-though he may be
very capable OF being either quick provisional
Committeeman, an active director TO a new line,
or even actual or consulting engineer to a congo
res Of corresponding railroads; yet II does not fol-
low that man of this excellent business capacity
Tor such subordinate employ ments Is just the per-
son to negotiate On matters OF state and govern
mtnt.
For negotiation, man must have patience, must
have temper, good sense, moderation in action and
in expression, and, above all, must have good
manners, If not an engaging and winning address.
William Tell Poussin may be as rough and as ready
as Commodore Tfunnion-as apt at embankmcnt
aud digging aud devlng calculations AS Macken-
ze, 80 favored by LOUIS philppe--or AZ skilled in
contract task.work rs Mr.. Dargan, the great Irish
contractor and enfrtprencu. But these apt and able
men within the scope Of their limited knowledge,
though very capable OF removing obstacles by the
shovel and spade, and Of making moehllls Of
mountains 10y human labor and machinery, under
stand not the language of negotiation, or the mode
Of handling and presenting disputed points strong
~, and without pcrtinaclty or o.ensiyeness. For
these things, as for everything eseunless the in
prentice ship some considerable usage Of life and
manners, as well as of negotiation, undoubted-
ly necessary. Now, the French minister appears
TO be wholly without this usage-to be without
even ordinary breeding. One false step In diplo-
mrcy as IN cverJ thing else. If not Tetraoed, leads
on 10 another and yet another; and the result was
that the Frenchman having clustered, a Gauls are
often wont TO do when they blunser and are IN the
wrong, ecatd his insoleDt note, which was "a ken
off the American diplomatic file, and restored 90
him by the cooler Clayton, American Secretary OF
State.
To wise man, this would have afforded a les
son. But the rising generator IN all countries Is,
W regret TO rather st Knocked than v'-e and
he result was, that, fiom one blunder, NJ. Poussln
fell into another. The first dscourtcsy might pos.
sibly have been caused by nadv,rtence. But to
the American, the second appeared cooly and pur-
Iosey premeditatcd. When a foreigner, aud that
foreigner Gaul, and probably Gascou, charges
the American government with being insensibe TO
the dignity, and ignorant OF the interests, OF lie own
marine service, the charge is not merely insulting,
but silly and audacious IN the extreme. so deem
ing II, the American government made no reply |;
but, by the Presidents direction, the note of NJ.
Poussin, and the whole correspondence, were
transmitted 10 the excellent and dignled Mr..
Rush, the American minister at Paris, one OF the
most accomplished gentlemen 1t has ever been our
fortune TO meet IN any country.
Mr.. Rush laid the documents before M. de
Tocqueville, who pronounced, not that hrs envoy
was wroDg, but that there were faults on both
ia
sawing-would not satisfy the American govern
ment, nor would the American President enter into
such compromise. The result is that M Pous-
sin has received his passports pretty much In the
summary manner IN which Narvacz sent his congo
to SIR Henry Bulwer. The Peel print truly says,
"ihat a maladroit and offensive ambassador cam
not now do all the mischief that was once in his
power" Agreed. But II governments cannot, or
will not, send ENJOYS unlike the Bulwers and Pous-
sins, we think nations ought to be spared the
salary and the expense Of such altogether mlschc-
yous not to say monumental, excrescences.
Far are we from saying one word against seri-
all .t.1 nah "a npFC