UNITED STATES.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 17, Issue 934, 3 February 1871, Page 2

UNITED STATES.

The news published in the Tribune, relative to the peremptory recall of Mr Motley, would seem to indicate that the President is out of temper with his faithful and highly-creditable envoy. It has not at any time been stated that Mr Motley refused to return to the United States, and therefore this sudden and coercive announcement has taken the diplomatic world by surprise. Everyone is curious to know what could have given rise to such an announcement. But that Mr Moran, the Secretary of the Legation, is to be the Charge d'Affaires, it might be inferred that diplomatic relations were to be broken off, and that no end of confusion would follow. Indeed, as it is, there are those who are wilful enough and stupid enough to suppose that the President and his Cabinet are in close and confidential communication with Prussia and the Chancellor of the North German Confederation, with the view to more than one sinister design, all having for their object the humbling of the pride and the narrowing of the commerce of poor old Mother-Country. Sensible men, however, see in this an error of judgment ; for the Autocrat of Eussia would scarcely enter into an intimate alliance *' for offensive and defensive purposes," with a free people, and the German Chancellor is not likely to forget that the IJnited States furnished France with a large supply of arms and ammunition, wljen most she was in need of such commodities. So that, puzzling as may be the reason of Mr Motley's recall, our clever quidnuncs will perhaps have to geek for it in the fact that he is not a « politician " —in the American sense of that term—after ti}Q President'? own tert*