21 MAY 1864, Page 23

Non-Intervention in the Danish War. (Alex. Ireland and Co.)— A

report of a meeting held in the Town Hall, Manchester, in February last, with a letter from Mr. Goldwin Smith appended to it, which alone induces us to notice this publication. Mr. Smith contends that secret diplomacy is to blame for our foreign wars ; but at least in the case of this war popular feeling is more eager to interpose than our diplomatists are. Nor do we see that diplomatists are proved to be useless, even if we admit that many of the objects at which they have aimed are of very doubtful utility. The choice of objects is the province of states- men not of diplomatists.