New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-14

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than that mentioned abovo--that N Soule held
and had expressed opinions hostile to the French
Government.
Neither Mr.. Soule's person nor baggage were
searched at Calais neither sit believed tina: the
results of the conference at Ostend we're known
TO the French Government. So that the affair
assumes all the appearances Of a premeditated
defiance to the Government Of the United States,
having no immediate exciting cause for apology.
When Mr. Soule returned to London. he wrote
TO Mr.. Mason in Paris for counsel. Mr. Piatt,
Secretary Of Legation here, proceeded at once to
London to gather all the particulars of the event
from Nj S. himself, and from the police agents
at Calai., and upon his return to Paris on FRIDAY
last, a dispatch was prepared and sent in to the
Foreign Office on Saturday by our Minister hefe'
demanding immediate explanations on tue con-
duet Of the French Government, with an intima-
ton that the even. was regarded OF so grave ana
extraordinary character, that unless causes OF
more important nature than those gwen oy tae
Foreign Minister, on the occasion OF their last
interview. bad actuated the French Government,
the affair would bring q serious shock to the har-
mopy which existed between tie Two nations.
Az late 10 IL O'Clock to-day no reply to tos note
had arrived at the American Legation, aud it is
not expected by any one that the French Govern
ment will either give satisfactory explanations
or recede from its position. All diplomatic in
tercourse has ceased, by order Of Mr.. Mason, be-
tween the American Legation and the French
Government, until the affair is settled: and from
the fact that il can only be settled by aconcesson
on one eide or the other, which neither Is
disposed to make, the speedy departure OF the
American Legation from Paris seems imminent.
Mr.. Soule will remain in London, and not at
tempt to enter Spanish territory till the ai'lr Is
settled. Without doubt he would be refused
there a. well ss here, for it can scarcely be
question that France, England and Spain are act
ing 10 concert in this matter.
What are tue real causes which have induced
the French Government to thus openly
throw q defiance into the teeth OF the Gov
eminent of the United States While the
Congress was in session at Ostend an milan
matory letter of Ledra Rollin to the people
of France, and signed George Sanders, which
has no doubt reached the United States, appeared,
and was suddenly circulated all through France In
the French language. Mr.. SOule was watched ~
London. and was seen to be in communication
with Sanders, Kossuth, Ledru Rollin and oilers
of the revolutionary juntO. These facts With
out doubt bad their influence. Again, the Ameil-
can BODapartes, who lately transferred their Gill
zenship to France, father and son, have exerted
an influence at court, in convincing the Emperor
that the Slavery question in the United States
must soon ter inmate in the dissolution oil the
Union; that the North aud the South would never
act in concert the question of Cutan acquisition
We are regarded at the French Court as nation
Of flibusters, and as a nation which is fast losing
its coberency by means of its diversified interests
and political opinions, aud it is believed that but
small portion of Its people could be brought to
sustain war against France based upon the Gu
ban question France has, therefore, been brought
to the deter miDstion TO resst the acquisition Of
Cuba with open war against tue United States if
necessary She is believed to be prepared for a
declaration of these sentiments al this moment,
and that she intends the indiguity offered to Mr..
SOule as the preface only to more positive and de-
cisve measures. England will, of course, remain
neutral but she ia urging France into the meas
ure. The fact that Gen, Quitman, Appointment and
well known citizen Of the United States, in con-
junction with other well known persons, are open
ly permitted to pursue their operations against the
Island of Cuba In the eyes of Government like
that of France, where no excuses for such acts
are admitted from any of Der subjects, is regarded
as an indirect approval of his acts by the Govern
ment throws the responsibility on the Govern
ment, and thus stigmatizes it as a fllibuster Ad-
miDistration. After all, is not the act of the
French Government only an insult directed
against the Pierce Administration, and not against
the people of the United States-rather personal
than national insult, intended to show the Ad-
mnistration that the selection it has made of
foreign representative is not approved
There proceedings on the part of the French
Government prove the position which was pat
forward in one OF my late etters-that the me-
nsciDg attitude lately exhibited by the Govern
ments of Europe toward the United States was so
strongly felt by our representatives abroad that it
formed the real basis Of the Congress of Ostend.
In the conduct of the Administration at home in
regard IL Cubs, the Sandwich Islands, Dominica
and the Russian Possessions, in its appointment of
persons to European courts, and in the
conduct of those persons after their arrival here,
the Government of France sees cause for the con-
duet and the attitude which it has assumed. The
act was she letter of the American Con-
sui at London, introduced clsndestinely iato
France, aud appealing TO tie French people to RISE
overthrow the present Government of France, ex.