Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-15
NEW YoRK CORREsPoNDENCE.

Minister to SPAIN By the Emperor 81
France--What IS to be dones Sebastopot-
Bloody soork to come Our Ne,o York elec-
tion,- Curious results- What is TO- olloio--
Money market Hard times dc, dc.
NEW York, sNoO. l3, 1854.
We have stirring news by the Atlantic, which
arrived last night, for little matter has trans
PRED in France which calls for the energetic
action of our government--peace or war.
The refusal Of Louis Napoleon to allow Mr..
Soule to pass through France on his return TO
Madrid the contemptuous Indifference mani
tested by the refusal Of Louis Napoleon to take
any notice of Mr.. Mason's demand for expla-
nation from one Of those little episodes in the
history of nations, which, without ample repa-
ration, result in national disgrace or in casus
belzi. The papers are full of speculations upon
the subject, but I suspect that the gist Of this
outrage may be put into nut shell-that is q
cocoanut-shell In very few words, indeed,
I apprehend it may be compressed into the
shell of filbert
The Empress Eugene is woman OF the
Spanish nobility--her interests and her pre-
JUDGES lie in that direction. Ever since the
crippling of the Marquis of Target and the
humiliation of all concerned on the other side
in those memorable duels, which, as far as the
Soules are concerned, would at any hour Of
the day be approved by the American people,if
put to the test ever since those transactions,
the Empress Eugene has been watching the
movements of Pierre Soule. On the other
hand, Louis Napoleon, who is intriguing for
military foothold in the Island Of st. Domingo,
is unquestionably jealous Of, and hostile to,
the acquisition of Cuba by the United States.
While the island is in the possession Of Spain,
it may be relied upon as bulwork against us,
and as military depot and peradventure as
future colony of France, in the final arrange
ment of the affairs of the old world and the
new between France and England, according to
the programme enunciated some time ago in
the British Parliament. The "nephew of his
uncle" like the uncle himself is ambitious Of
colonies for France. See his intrigues in
Sonoma, Hayti, and the Pacific ocean.
The late meeting between Messrs Buchanan,
Mason, and Soule, at Ostend, is said to have
been held in direct reference to cooperative
diplomatic action among them for the acquisi.
ton of Cuba. At this point if you will put
the ambition of Louis Napoleon and the natu-
raj and national preiudices Of Eugene to-
gether it strikes me you will have the secret OF
the outrage committed against the United
States by the French Emperor, in the refusal
to allow Mr.. Soule to return to Spain across
the soil of France The act amounts to mo-
thing less than shutting down the pan against
us upon the Cuba question. 1t cannot be an
act of retaliation against the dismissal of
Mons. Poussin by Secretary Clayton, for Pous-
sin was republican, and the sympathies of
Louis Napoleon were never with the French
Republic.
No, sir; the outrage against Mr.. Soule, and
the government of which is the representative
for Madrid, is manifestly designed to block the
game against us upon the Cuba question; and
from the sympathetic harangues of the London
Times, it is evident that the British cabinet is
q party tothe trick. Itrests with our administra-
ton to guess the will of the American people
upon this point, and to carry it out. Whether
mistakes have or have not been committed on
our part in these Cuban negotiations, the sim
pie question now is, whether our country can
or cannot be insulted by the allies, with impu-
nifty. There is an opening now for the cabinet
to bring back the country to its support; and
we can hardly believe that the President is too
cautious or the Secretary of State too old to
demand an immediate apology for the offence
in question, and the largest liberty to Mr.. Soule
to traverse the territory of France.
The intelligence from Sebastopol is signif-
cant of bloody work such as the world has
never seen, before that important military sta
ton is reduced. A dozen tremendous fortifca-
tons, mounting each from fifty to two hundred
guns, and fanked by heavy auxiliary batteries,
and strengthened by the Russian feet (still
sacrifices of men and bomb-shells before they
cry peccari. The desperate obstinacy of the
Russians, too, forshadows scarcely anything
less than determination on the one side or the
other. The allies are still confident, however
and are counting upon the speedy, active CO.
operation of Austria as one of the first fruits of
the fall of Sebastopol Next they look for the
surrender of Nicholas to their demands, and
hence, very likely, the beginning of the settle
ment Of the Cuba question in the fling Of def
ance against these United States, in the affair
with the minister to Spain. 81. 49,.
The Seward coalition, as you will perceive,
have for all practical purposes except the Gov
ernor, swept the State; and the Governor is
still in doubt. You will also perceive that it
is openly charged that, in order to secure the
reelection of Seward to the Senate, his parti-
sans swopped off quite number of votes on
the Governor for Softshell votes for assembly
men. If this be so, a Seward assembly has
been secured by the aid Of the Softshells; and
Seymour, if reelected, owes his election to
Seward Wings. We defy the world to produce
ANYTHING like the curiosities of this New York