Young, one of the Correspondents of the New York Herald, to be United Slates Minister at Peking, may now be regarded, we imagine, ay an accomplished fact. It is not too much to sny that the news has been received with considerable surprise in China, not untinctured with disappointment, There is however no ranson to be astonished that the President's choice has fallen upon a man whose career has been wholly unconnected with diplomatic matters. In Amerion, we believe, there we such thing as a regularly-constituted Consular and Diplomatic service, the ranks of which are filled by the successful competitors at civil-service examinations, Appointments are loo frequently made apon purely personal grounds, and are the reward Of private services quite as often-as the recognition of a man's capneity for public employment, Mr. John C. Myers was a Nebraska lawyer; Dr. Angell, the studious Principal of Michigan ersity; Mr. Lowell Mason has achieved a world-wide popularity for witty doggrel, and Mr. Russell Young la the correspondent of a daily newspaper. It would probably cause some astonish. ment if Mr. Spurgeon were sent out to China as Inspector of Consulates, as was the case with Dr. Newman some years ago, or if Edmund Yates or George Augustus Sala were nominated the successor of Sir Thomas Wade, All this, however, is a matter of ins ternal policy with which we have nothing to do, and which is of import. ance priveipally to the United States themselves. Mr. Russell Young is presumably an able man, and has alrendy been to Chin, As the historian of General Grant's voyage round the world, his acquaintance with men and manners is no doubt wide, if not very deep. What his fame may be among his own countrymen, we are nob in ® position to affirm with any certi. jtnde; although to judge by sketch
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