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buch candía and outspQkou peoplu as find it compatible with a docent regard for " life, liberty and the jiuisuit of happiness " to resido in Wt. Petersburg do not hesitate, it aeems, to applaud the dismissal of Mr. Catacazy ly the United States government. 'I'hey ur iimuycd, aa Uussians, at an incidoní. wliich has been uscd, as everybody who knew anything about the politics of Europe knew it would be used.by tho English and the Germán press to show thut the cordial syrapathies so long supposod to yjciit between tho United States and Russia nevcr have had any real exUtenco. But as men they aver tliat the thing wliich niost amazos thom in the oareer of CaLacazy is not his ejoction by President ürant, but his appointnient by l'rinoo üortschakoff. They aro at a loss to undorstand, as a St. l'eterburg correspondent puts it, " how a man of such ohaiaoterae öataoazy ever caino to be sent to Washington at all." At this jxiint the Itussian critics of Prince Gortsohu,kotf may very easily do lesa than justico to the Piime Minister of Alexander II. Thoso of us who aro best informad as to tho undesirableness in point of charactor of Catacazy will be the slowest to lind fiiult on that score with Cativcazy'a muster for sending hira to Washington. AVhen the l'resident's request, through Fish, that Catacazy should bo recalled reached St. Petersburg it wus indeed an impertinence as weU as a blunder on the part of tho Kussian government t.owards us not to comply with that request at onoo. But until tho request came to prove that Catacazy liad made a fiasco of his mission, the Kussian cellor really cannot bo quarrcllod i-hh for assuming that such a porson as Cata cazy would bo rather liked than othurwiso at Washington. The copy-books teil us that a man is to be judged by thecoinpuiy he keops; and it is surely not unfuir tt jni&ge a nation by the ropresentative it olocts to eend abroad. The old-fashiom-d throiy of diplomacy made a diplomat's manners and oustoms a inaiter of much gruator moment than bjLi abilities. Hu was sent abroad to serve his country oh iefly through his social relations with the ruling classes of the nation to which ho was accreditud. And as the tone of the best society necessarily is vory much the same all over tho worljil, the dipmatisls of anj giyen, country cainu to bo sülected from the bost boeiety of that country, and of couisü to bo considered in other countries as represen-., ting the bost breeding, the highest courtesy, the finest social standard uf chiractor among their own pcople. The mosi successful diploiatist was theperson wh could best iagratiate himself with influ ential personatfis in the ulace to which he was conimissioned. A good hand at whist, a trained taste in gastrónomo, a palate delicate! wise. io wines, a gift at lively repartce, or that niysterious sort of social seoond sight which goes by the name of tact - these were the indispensable qualities of a diplomutist of the old school. Kow, the old school ia still the dominant school of diplomaey in the greater p.art of Hurope, and paxticularly in Russia. Of the new school in diplomaey England is as yet the only eonspictrainiiig her envoys in the sa.me ootrine This new school has alisen out of the changod oonditiyn of modern political sociely. It exocts of tlioso who would shino in it not only nor yet chiefly the qualities requirud of thu old-fashioued diplomatist, but also, and above all, most of the gifts essen tial to suocess as a , man. The diplomats of the new school must bo ablo to study the social and politioal lifo tvwong the people, to follow up their commercial and politicul development, to tiíine and antioipato great movoments in finance. They must combine the philological skill of a successful travelcr with the inaight and the faculty of rapid generalization essential to a successful journalist. The position and the need of the United States clearly enough point out to us the new school of uiplomatists as our own,. "hilo the only work to be dono by diploiuatists was to bc done in the old-faehioned way, w wurc not by any momis büdly representad, :opuhlioans thougli we were. Dr. Franklin won his vital hold upon the polie of the Court of Franco, wliou that policy meant Ulo or dcatli to us, quito as much by his skill as a eo(rtitr as' by his gonius as a man of science. The irou rcpubliu of (Jromwcll hiuisolf had not disdained the game arts. The most successi'ul envoy over sent abroad by tho groat Protector, Sir Bulstrode Whitlocki-, Oüptured Christina of Sweden, and won a footing in Holland ngainst tho machiuations uï tlio cxilod rftyalists, by gracus and gifts which had iothing in common vith the spirit of Praise-God Barebones or stout u'Jdftster Endicott." Now that the new school has arison we have shown uo sort of disposition to adopt it. Our actual envoys abroad - tho ropresentatives of Radicalism and of President Grant - are men of wham no forcign observer can possibly bo expected ta imagino that they wero selected for their stateamanlike focultios and sent abroad to inform thomselves and us of tho condition of the foreign world. It is a fair infcrenco, thcreforu, that we aio still persevering in the old school ; that we send our onvoys abroad to uiakc thouiselvGs nsefal to us by making thomseves agreeablo to foreign courts, and that thoy naturally, theroforc, havo boen selectcd from tho bost society of our Capital - frum the poople iu whoso company our rolen who select tbciu habitually dolight. Of course in selecting envoys to bo sont to us any foreign governnient may roasonably presumo Üiat the soi'i of people ve sond to othors are preoiaaly the sort af pooj;U' wre desiro should bo sent to us. If nu American miuistor appeai'8 in a foreign city chewing tobáceo freely in general soeii ty, devotad to acrobatic exercises with his chair at the dinner-table, fond of plaid trowsers and bottlo-grecn drogs-coats witli brass buttons, alert in picking up financial schenms and turnin{j a.n honcst penny theroftt. drinking, gnmbling, no i'orcigner not familiar with thu I'nitod States wno beholds tho phonomeuon can bo blamcd for advising his own governuient to como as near as may be to the idea tlms held out to them whcn looking out for a ministor to America. Thora aro gome, indeed, of President Gra,nt's tnvoj-s whom it would be practically Ijopeless for any avorage Europoan country to scek to match from araong the classos to which in thoso countries prejudioo aud traditioii confino tho choioc uf such public servants. The Presidunt's hrother-in-law, Mr. Cramer, who now represents ns iu Donmark, is ono of those persons. This model American envoy ap.pcars tp combino with his rare social iuapiütudes a complüto ignorancc of tho English langiiage. It would not bu easy fpr England or Franco or Germany to paralUl this par&gon. But Catacazy lor a rtussian public Bervant feil not far short of tho reoogniiod American standard as set up by President Grant. He know nothing of tho oountry ta which ho was sent. Ho cared nothing for the rules of social propriety and ducorum ,IIü had no ovorstrained moral scruplcs on tlio scorii of adapting his moans to his iíikís. ge was not, to bo suro, adoquately stupid ; nor was he so proi'oundly inoapable of the arts of eating decently aud drinkiug in " inoderation as Pnncc Gortschakoff had bundaut reaaon to presume that hu vould umi his hosta tu bc. lint take liim or all in all ho may vi:ry well havo ap;u-i:á to Che Russian Chuncollor to be ust about the kind ot' person suited to nakü lJuasla popular with tho "Whito Iouso iness." And if tho wholo truth. nust bu told it is pretty noarly certain' lint but foi the accident of his being ii ■!■■ ut the same timo with tho English lligli Ckinjinisáúm he wculd havo gono tliruugh his niission vrith llying colora md have justitii'd his ïuant.fr'e judgmcnt. It in a mortifying ïcflyotiou, but perliaps it may bo a wholosome onu," that Cataoazy Wüuid nevor havo been fuund by tho örant govarriruent to liu thy wsetched littlo Hcamp hu v. an had ho not been betrayed by t'atc into aLtempting to do his country an important diplomatic service. man at present in franco, ipr whom I would vote were tho pivsidaacy vacantThat man is Gainbutta. lio is,,i,great a,ud truo citizen. Uu Kas proved hiuiself a practioian as. veil as a tlieorist. Hia ideas are gaocferata. and at the sauie time they are inflexible."