Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-31
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


late in the shape of a newspaper article more
replete with useful information and naive
confessions than the criticism OF the Lono0h
Tlmes, which the reader will find below, upon
the alleged appointment Of Lord Napier 20 &c
her m.jsssy's minister at this Capital. Where
In il pats us-the United Statss-on the back
for an exceedingly clever people, full of prom
Use and already een'snost too big for Cur
brooches, (having grown so fast Of lats.) 1t is
the London Times all over; the invariabls
policy of that Journal towards this country be-
ing to pet US where it does rot seem prudent
to snub US. So, the American world will
merely thrust its tongue in its cheek on read
ing what it says after that fashion. Wherein
IL explains that the received diplomacy of the
Old World is essentially out Of place here, IL
unwittingiy pays rs very high compliment
indeed; intimating as 1t does thst objects Of
state are not to be attained here by a resort
to falsehood, bribery and Establishments, that
mind, ohaIa,,er and solid attachments will
alone win for their pos.essor when accredited
to this Government, the irf1elce with which,
the editor contends, The interests Of Britain
should Be protected and advanced at this point
But the most important portion of the ar
ticls in question is the frank admission that
all the trouble that has taken place between
England ard tho United States has, after all
TO the contrary heretsfore 90 yehemently in
sisted on By The same journal, been simply
the result CT the unfortunate selection OF
representative by the English Government
To Mr.. CHAMPION e conduct, and to that clone,
does the Times now attribute the mystifca-
ton and embarrassment Of the Contra, Amer.
lean questions between the two Powers, con-
corning which he as imprudently as improp
erly withheld most important dispatches; and
his singular course on the-enlistment question,
leading almost to war between the two Pow
ere, must certainly have been in the editor
minds eye when pennlng the article we quote
AS follows:
HE APPOINTMENT OF LORD NAPIER AZ
bR1rIsH MINISTER TO THE UNITED STATES
Lord Napier has been appointed British Min
lister az Washington. The direct diplomatic
communications which had been interrupted
In so untoward a manner, are thus to be re-
o6dAAg oHu again VIC are 10 nave 2 res
ident British Minister to the United Slater.
The results Of our former experiments has not
been very encouraging The great subjects
on difference which have arisen between this
country and the North American Coufeders-
ton, from the Boundary Question to the more re-
cent eat2nglements concerning Central Amer
lea, have been settled either at home or by
special mission. Our regular Regotiators would
seem rather to have embroiled us-rsther to
have given 10 q L.
smoothed the passage from irritated feelings
10 the kindlier emotions of friendship and
good will. Why should this be- Why when
We are so closely united By every bond of in
terest that the prosperity Of the cotton dis.
tricts of the States means the prosperity of
the manufacturing districts Of EDgland-that
plentiful crop in the Western States of the
Union means plenty at cheap rate through
out the British islands that the commercial
transactions of the Northern States are so in.
tricately found up with those Of our own
merchants that they may almost be considered
"a Identical, although carried out by different
hands! Why, we say, when these things are
considered, should IL be a difficult task TO
keep the peace between the States Of the
North American Union and the British Crown?
The LondOner who lands at New York cannot
convince himself that he is among foreign.
ers, nor could We readily believe that the
traveller from New York would walk the
streets OF London with no other feelings than
those which would affect him in the Linden
street OF Berlin or the Backwards of Paris
1t can only be by the grOssest blunders OF our
respective Governments If we are ever dragged
into an unwilling conflict with each other
The British Minister at W ashiDgton should
have the easiest task Of any member of the
diplomatic body, save the United States Min
ister In London. How is it. then, that more
IMAM once directly opposite result has fol-
lowed from that which might have been anti
clPated under the circumstances.
Ihs aHStceT, roc fear, as, that tie choice of
tAe 6r1tiSh rspTeSentatir. M the State, aas
goo Cfte't been unfortunate. The mission TO
Washington should be regarded as a most i'm
portani one, q post which requires the pres
ence Of very considerable man, or il should
De altogether suppressed We have hitherto
deaIi with It, practically, as one of the second
order, or as even lower in the scale Of diplo-
matte diSDities But surely permanent friend
ship and alliance between Great Britain and
the United States Of North America are, to
say the least, "a important as similar relations
between this country and any Continental
Power. TIE existence Of that great Confei.
Grafton Of Republican States which is spread.
ing so RAPIDLY across the North American con.
hnent, adds enormously to the authority with
Vnlcn England can intervene in favor of lib.
er'y IN Europe Although the States should
never " an Snll -ui-war or 1re a gun in anger,
mere they are, an enormous coubterpoise 20
TIE dsspoilsn which sUllenIy lords il over the
eastern and southern portions of the Old
word. No Englishman who RESPECTS human
ity aud gl2rles In the achievement, of his roc.
can ever be indifferent to the progress, and d..
velepmsnt OF liberty in the North Amsr;csn
Union. The peculiar constitution of ~.
countries, however, would seem to point - ,bs
necessity OF peculiar principle Of seI,c,ion
when We dispatch to them a minister VIII !,
TO DC the representative Of EngIand w.
would rather see him selected from among ,bs
men who have risen 10 Parliamentary en-;
nence-who have won a nigh place in the ..ti-
nation of their fellow countrymen, and who
have habitually breathed the free air of the
British islands. We would know him y.rsed
N the doctrines CT economic science, and We'll
acquainted with the laws e commerce.
Of what great avail to the Epglis Minister
atWsshiDgton can be the habits acquired and
the faculties cultivated by familiar utter.
course with despotic Courts What can an
English Envoy have learnt at Vienna or St.
PeiersbuIgh, that he would not be compelled
70 unlearn before be could serve his country
WIN effect at Washington, There is little
need mere Of the insinceIe smile and the rev.
clenual whisper DipIomacv in the Stafes I.