Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-11-24


We have ascertained that the mails brought by
the Atlantic, arriving here the day before yesterday
with those of the America (sang four days before,
we'll those of the St Louis, sailing seven days
before brought dispatches for the various foreign
embassies in Washington, well as to the Govern
nent up to the very latest dates from nearly all the
European capitals. We fee certain that they
sey most interesting and exciting news. We have
say the authority of private letter from Paris,
from distinguished American, addressed to the
senior editor OF the STAR that during his very recent
stay in Paris his way 10 London, Mr.. SOHle care
fully abstained even from conversing with intimate
friends upon any topic about which his views II re-
ported to the Government, might. perchance, give
offence He conducted himself while there with most
scrupuous care so as not 10 afford his enemies an
opportunity to find fault with his presence and bear
ing So, it is very certain that he has given
casion for the wanton insult offered to him by the
French Government, and through him. it seems to
u.s. TO the Government of the United States. Our I'M
preston is that, far the American government are
not in possession of the correspondence with refer
to this affair that has undoubtedly TRANSFERRED be-
tween MIR. Mason and the French Forign Affairs
Minister, which fact must preclude full instructions
on the subject froaa going out by the next steamer
Our impression also is that in the probable entire
absence of specific allegations against tho conduct of
Mr. Soule IN France, the reason for his treatment
by the French government the United States author
ties hardly fail to regard it deliberate insult
requiring the recall OF Mr.. Mason and the sending
off of the French minister here: Or in other words,
suspension of diplomatic relations with France True
France has, under perhaps the most generally &C
cepied Interpretation of the law of nations, the right
to be thus uncourteous to any American minister not
specially accredited 10 herself Yet, in ayailing her
self of that right, without valid reason for doing
she wantonly insults the Government sending him
abroad, and must take what seems to us to be the
natural consequences of her course-not war, but a
suspension of her dp lomatc relations with II
strikes US as clearly the duty of our Government oil
the United States, at all hazards to sustain their re-
preventative against whom personal prejudice only
can be alleged. Surely, if the ordinary courtesies
cannot be secured to them by the force of this Gov
ernments position member of the family of ma
tions no one of them may be reasonably expected tc
be successful in the prosecution of any diplomatic
business of importance to national interests. Louis
Napoleon, in this case, is apparently calculating up
on the immunity which the present anti radical tone
of French popular sentiment gives him, to indulge
in tricks of the beggar horseback He has
however gone too far, for his own future, feel as
surel.
We learn that the letters received by the different
European embassies here full of gossip this
fair Washington Union.