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Mr.. SOULE'S EXPULSION FROM FRANCE
HIGHLY INTERESTING DETAILS
ACTION OF THE UNITED
STATES MINISTER'S.
Correspondence of the New-York Times.]

lCOrreSpOndence oil the New Ork TlmeS.l
London, Oc.. 26, lS54.-The steamer of
tomorrow will carry the startling intelligence
that His Excellency the Minister of the Uni.
ted States of America at the Court of Madrid,
has been expelled from France, through which
country he was returning to his post
Mr.. Soule, having spent two days in London
set ont last Thursday for Madrid via France
On his arrival at Calais, he was asked to show
his passports, and, having done so, was reques-
ted to step into an inner room of the Bureau
de Police. Here he was told he must leave the
not be allowed in the meanwhile to go any
where out Of Calais, being in fact placed under
surveillance.
"Ihere must be mistake, sir. said our Min
lister; do you know who | amp
There Is not the slightest mistake sir was
/ the reply; You are Dir. Soule, the Ambassador
OF the United States of America at the Court
of Spain and have orders not to let you pass"
Where are your orders, sir?' asked Mr..
Soule.
This is no business Of yours, sir; these or
/ ders are for me, and am acting upon them,"
said the CommiSsary.
! This happened at Calais Something more
was said, but of no public concern. Mr. Soule
left by the next steamer, and reached London
late in the evening day before yesterday. The
news being made known in the American cir
c'es, the greatest excitement prevailed, and, as
may he imagined, measures of all sorts we re
sus rested amid great Indignation.
The legation partook, of course, of the
general excitement. | have not had the hon
or of seeing Mr.. Buchanan since his re-
turn, but from all hear, he maintained through
out this irritating affair a dignifed resolution
to concur in every step to require due apologies
for a. insult against our national honor. The
whole morning of yesterday was spent in con
sutatIOn, the result of which was the decision
to send over Mr.. Sickles, in order that he might
obtain a real knowledge of what that proceed
ing meant. 1t was thought that the act might
have been mere personal affair, capable of
such a construction not to assume the men.
acing aspect of an insult from one power to an
other. The mission of Mr. Sickle was, accor,
dinghy to be me of inquiry
These were the arrangements Yesterday
morning But, sir, Mr. Sckes did not go after
all. He was prevented from doing S BY mess
eager who came over yesterday at noon. Your
correspondent from Paris will probably send
you his report about what he knows but give
y'-A, at al -,---.,a -
Mr. MasOn-the news of the Calais outrage
having reached him-wemt to the Foreign Of
flee and wished to see N Drouyn de l'Huys i'm
medidtely. He 'eas kept rafting fill itro hours
Admitted at last he remarked. first of al, up
on his tardy reception. Some apologies were
made, but in a tone and manner that convinced
SIr. Mason that he had been kept waiting pur-
poSely. He dropped that matter however, and
passed TO the object of his official call and ask
ell the reason why Mr.. Sonle had not been per,
United to pass through France On route to
Spain.
"Well," said NJ Drouyn de rIIuys in very
! impertinent tone, ''there are reasons for that
| Being pressed for these reasons; Mr.. Mason was
told that there were three of them:
First The treatment Of NJ Dillon, French
Consul in California.
Secondly The letter Of Mr.. Sanders to the
French people. And
ThrdIy, Cuba!
The French Foreign Secretary said that the
imperial Government cannot be expected 10
treat III the usual friendly way the citizens of u
State that has behaved in such hostile man
ner towards it.
am tod that Mr.. Mason replied in the way
/ that will have occurred to every one else on
being told those reasons. He said that the at
fair of Mr.. Dillon was, in the worst possible
constructions but the mere blander of court Of
justice, aud that it cannot accordingly, by made
parallel with a case in which the United States
are insulted hy order of the highest authority
OF another State. The letter Of Mr. Sanders
was he act of an individual, who had, more.
over, been recalled from an official position be-
fore he published any thing. Americans have
the right to say what they ike, and the Govern
meut has no control over their pens and press
eS. This is a personal matter which could, per
Citizen San iers, If he should have presented
himself on the frontiers of France, but it GER
tainly did not authorise a step like that against
the Uniter States Minister. AS to Cuba, Mr..
Mason absolutely denied-if | am well inform
ed-the right of any Power to meddle with the
difficulties that may have arisen between Spain
and the United States. He, at all events, could
not see how questions of foreign policy can be
treated with aifrontS offrred TO friendly Power
The two Ministers parterd very much excited
anu Mr.. Mason was fully prepard to ask for his
passports. He sent, however, the special mess
enger to Mr. Buchanan, before deciding upon
that step.
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