The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-27
MOTLEY.
His Nfissiou IN the Mother Country--NVhnt Ite
Efiect Will Be-Nati0naI Neutrality.

His Mission the Mother N0untfy-NUht
Writes George W. Smalley to the New York
Tribune from London, on the 14th inst,:-The
effect of Mr.. Motleys appointment which we
have this morning, had been anticipated, or
may say discounted, by the announcement some
days ago that IL had been resolved on. The
papers have said their say on 1t in advance Mr.
Motley is so widely known in London person
ally, as well by his public reputation, that his
probable nomination excited the keenest in
terest. / think the highest compliment paid
him, or that could be paid him, ie the
desire / have heard expressed more
than once that he would come in any
other capacity than that of Minister Mr.. Mot
ley has many English friends, to whom his re-
turn will be q qualification, but who don't at all
like the positive Americanism he will introduce
into his diplomacy, They know he is not to be
caioed by the sort of batteries to which his pre-
decessor fell victim, and they begin to suspect
and perhaps to dread-that he will come
without any purpose or any instructions to
renew negotiations on the Alabama question.
The same despatch that announces his appoint
ment announces the rejection of the johnson
treaty, by 81 to l, in the Senate. Even an
English public ought to detect some con-
nection between those two facts. On the
present state of opinion here, in respect to
America, / have good deal more to say, but
not this morning \ few days may add some
thing to the public evidence of what in private
has rather increased than diminished since the
first spurt of irritation following the adverse re-
port by the Senate Committee on the Alabama
treaty. Opinion has not cooled down, so far
| can see. What wrote some weeks since, in
discussing the probable effect of Sir Henry
Bulwer's motion, is probably still true. Cir
cumstances may bring on or may postpone that
motion. In either event, the coming of Mr..
Motley will be eagerly looked for. There is
no one thing Englishman much want as
an authoritative statement of what America
wants-what will content you. We have
had all kinds of rumors about Mr.. Summers
speech. If Mr.. Sumner has not yet delivered it,
he would immensely oblige people on this side
by doing so at the earliest moment. In the lack
of other material one or two journals have
shown certain enterprise in hunting up Mr..
Motley's address to the Historical Society of
New York, from which they have drawn deduc-
tons that might be surprising to its author
Another kind of compliment which will not
much crafty Mr.. Motley, is the copious adver-
tsing in the London papers of pirated edition
of his histories, offered at third of the price
which purchasers have to pay his own pub
fishers.
One result Of the English anxiety to think
themselves right on the Alabama question is an
effort to make us out wrong in the matter of
belligerency. The vote of the House of Repre-
sentatives in respect to Cuba has furnished a
text for people who enjoy the tu qtoque style of
argument. See, cry the Pal Mall Gazette and
the Times, they complain of England for recog-
nizing the Confederacy; yet the House of Rep
is as bad as the other. A recognition is recog-
niuon-they can no longer have the face to
make grievance of ours. These writers
belong to the celebrated school of logic
which established the identity of Maccdon
and Monmouth. 1t is not to an Ameri-
can audience that the impudent fallacy
needs to be pointed out. But with Englishmen
incapacty to place themselves in the position
of their antagonists is national Characteristic.
For their benefit, Mr.. Conway has written a
brief answer to The Pal Mall, remarking that
what was complained of in the English recogni-
tion was its haste and discourtesy. Lord Rus
oil ajf for no nt
American Minister, who was hourly expected.
But the American Government has not only
waited for the Spanish Minister, but has not,
though he has been weeks in Washington, yet
recognized Cuba. There are points enough be-
side this, which completely discriminate the two
cases, but you may expect the English papers to
90 on for some months in their headlong wav:
repeating this parrot-cry about Cuba.