New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-13

that il covered his baggage ss little As himself,
and be was obliged to carry back with him sAs
pickles. shirts, incendisry pamphlets, Saudeu
letters, or whatever else was contained 10 Tie
bag that bore the United States Legation eel.
That ali such things may be enclosed In 'dispssca
"bsss" We know. Tbst the members Of eu
various American legations know the contents Il
sealed packets which they throw into their plea,
potentisry smuggling bags, is not necesslyh.
ference. To suspicious Government 10 may n
a natural one If such Government does iafs
conniv ince from careless good. nature, the eaess
upon it being the same, have our careless good
natured legation right to complain
Mr.. Soule sent word IS soon as possible to Mr.
Mason of the treatment be had received at c.
lais Mr.. NJ. did not know exactly what 70 dch
the case. He has been troubled the same syh
some other cases. He sent his Secretary inue.
ateIy to London, 10 consult with The interrupted
traveller and Mr. Buchanan. ltbeisg the o2inisa
of these gentlemen that our country had been ID
suited in the person OF Mr.. Soule, Mr.. Massa
wrote note to Drouyn de fHuys, the French
Minister Of F.reign Affairs, demanding explsaa-
tons The note is, am told, firm and thorough
" American in its tone-Dot in tone only, but 70
its very phrase maintaining and proudly, re-
publican front. Such is par. OF the rumor cur.
rent 10 town, apparently iracesble to some leak
ace from the Embassy muddled perhaps by the
ch,pnels il comes through, and certainly swdlsr
BY great deal of tributary comment, mostly ofs
watery, swsshy nature; here and there, how.
ever. tipgsd red with blood. For we already
have talk of war aud fierce conjecsure' OF sea-
fpbts ard New York bombardments. Do not
understand me 60 say, as some people say that
talk receives its impulse in this direction from
our M,oister or bis Secretary. live qaite with
out the range Of diplomatic circles, and have no
special means Of bouoraby knowing the peculiar
ities If their Ryrssons.
Mr. Mason made blunder toout his coat, out
Of mere easy good Datare, viii; believe ne has
since seen aud regretted. h an affair like tho
present when he thinks our nitional divoity 10 To-
terested, he will ask for bis passports as quickly
as less courteous man, IL be not settled 70 bic
satisfaction. Although, at the Ostend conference.
he did not share in Mr.. Soules A" fast" doctrine
regarding Cuba, and shares still less in Mrs. So
personal hatred Of Louis Napoleon, and does not
belong to the so-cslled Republican Propaganda
Soule or Of Sanders or Of Sub. Secretary Msln,
he will firmly maintain SOules Embssssdofd
dignity, unless it prove that this passionate
Frencbmsn has utterly squandered the last rem
naDts Of il himself
Soule, as we have had proof in his correspoa
deDce, extracts from which have fr)m time 10
time appeared in the columns OF The TRIBUNE,
cherishes a violent hatred to Louis Napoleon.
He treats him with the hot rancor OF wounded
yanity-of a Frtncbmsn's wounded vanity. Il.
insists that his imperial fellow cOantryman redt
rocates the sentiment to tae full. He wroea
much a year ago to the independence Beige nesr
paper; be says as much 10 any one who will hw
him. His quarrel with L. n. 3. is personal, ri
he burns TO make his adopted country prgA
it. As he himself said, when he shot at rafgt
he slot at Turgots msster aud in his recAi~
rage be would shoot at the French nation viii
the same aim. The waste Of money, OF hvesd
civilization an international war, are nothirsk
bis mad vanity.
1t is the persuasion Of many that soule's enn;.
ty TO the Emperor is reciprocated, add tt
hence comes the order to the custom house off,
Ger ct Calais. This ia not impossible. He
Majesty, being human. may be seriously vsA
with Pierre Soule, but he has generally shom
himself man that would lot suffer mere personal
feeling to get the better OF policy. For hs co.,
ductiD the present instance there are easily con-
ceiysble polite causes. Soule is accused, per.
haps uDjustly, Of reyOIutiODism ia Spain IN tho
affair OF the 2eth August. When he came TO
Pors-nOt the act Of a senstively delicate gen
tleman, considering the position. aud rslsdous
toward each other Of himself and the nerd
Psrs-he was frequently visited by kno En opk
Dents to the Emperors government; when u
went to London, he foregatbered with revolt
tionists herewith such men as Geo. N. So
ders, whose fambOyant letter to the People 4
France" da,ed Oct 4, lad been circalstei d
France and submitted to His Majesty's own ps
russ); and now he was returning TO Paris iOn
such associations. Considering all these thngx
ard whatever other things well-informed spice
bad reported of bis conduct, there might have
been good reason for the not too firmly estsb.
lished Imperial Government to repel from ito
shores passionate, reckless, eloquent, republic
talking, Napoleon hating FreDchuan.
l said there was talk of war. There are
Americans here. as well as at home. who love the
theme. 1t associates itself with Cubs, Coloael-
cies, ccmmissariats, military glory, and ssquent
political advancement. They never talk Of war,
but they come directly to the bombardment Of
New. York. Now, undoubtedly Louis Napoleon