7 DECEMBER 1867, Page 2

Mr. Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, has

been offered the American Embassy in Vienna,—an appointment con- firmed by the Senate, but declined by Mr. Greeley himself, who Mr. Johnson nominated him to the post, in order to show that he did not recall Mr. Motley from any political prejudices. The :notice ; and Mr. Motley was as eminently fitted for the post as Mr. Greeley would have been unfit. It is a curious tactic which -vindicates the cancelling of a good appointment by the apologetic nomination of an unfit successor of the same political creed.