The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-13
Our Minister at Paris and the Administra-
tion-thc TIE Dcum Difficulty.

tion-thc TIE Dcum Difficulty.
We published yesterday report from Wash
ington that Mr.. Mason, our Minister at Paris,
would probably be recalled, unless he could
satisfactorily explain his attendance at the
re Deana, at Notre Dame, in homer of the fall
Of Sebastopol; that Marcy has lerg wished for
pretext for superseding him, and that it is
supposed this will be sufficient. BY singular
coincidence, simultaneously with this report
we received the letter from one Of our intelli
gent correspondents which we publish to-day;
and as the testimony of dispassionate witness
in behalf Of Mr.. Mason as reliable and capa-
BILE diplomat we deem it worthy at this strange
conjuncture Of events, of some special atten-
ton.
1t may be that the administration has been
somewhat disturbed by the attendance Of Mr..
Mason at that 7s Deum; indeed, it must be so,
from the article in the Washington Union, to
which we adverted the other day; but what
can be the motive Of Marcy for the recall of
Mason upon this pretext, or upon any other, it
is not so easy to divine. We can only account
for it from desire to make an opening abroad
for Mr. Horatio Seymour, or some other de-
mocratic leader believed to be standing more
directly in the way of our Premier than Mr..
Mason. We have no doubt that to conside-
ration Of this kind the country is indebted for
the retention Of Mr.. Buchanan at London til!
the spring. There he will be more out of the
way Of Marcy's man9uvres for the democratic
nomination, while the presence of the great
Pennsylvania candidate here would interfere
with such movements very materially.
Possibly the broad hint Of the Cabinet organ
concerning Mr. Mason and the re Deum, was
rather intended as proof of the innocence and
the rigid neutrality Of Mr.. Pierce on this Eu-
ropean war than as an indication Of the recall
Of our Minister at Paris. II does not appear
that Judge Mason has asked to be relieved but
it does appear, as we are gratiiled to state that
his late sickness has not in the least degree
affected his capacities for the full discharge Of
his official duties. Our correspondent testifes
to the ability with which he managed the set
Element of the personal imbroglio between
Louis Napoleon and Mr.. Soule, our late Minis
ter to Spain, and the entangled case of
the French Consul Dillon at San Francisco.
We might also advert to the well-timed efforts
of our Minister to France to sustain the com.
mercial rights of neutrals pending this Russian
war, and to the general prudence which he has
exhibited in avoiding the flibustering red re.
publican programme of the Kitchen Cabinet
Notwithstanding he was entrapped by the
special emissaries Of the administration into
the Cuban manifesto of AK la Chapelle
But it may be that for this very prudence in
avoiding any unnecessary filibustering quarrel
with the French imperial government, that Mr.
Mason has become distasteful to the Kitchen
bureau at Washington. Our readers will re-
member that the original diplomatic chart OF
Mr. Pierce's administration for Paris, as drawn
upby Mr.. Dudley Mann, was policy of the in
tensest red republcanism, and that the ridicu-
lous circulars Of Marcy, prescribing his linsey.
woolsey republican court costume for our Min
listers and Consuls abroad, was but the opening
Of MIR. Manns revolutionary outline. Those
circulars have fallen into disrepute-the whole
of that radical programme seems to have col.
lapsed with the Ostend Convention I; but still
it may be that the conservative and common
sense policy Of our Minister at Paris is dis.
pleasing to the Kitchen Cabinet, and that they
have more pliable man in their eye to take
his place.
Meantime, the Cabinet organ having called
for an explanation from cur Minister at Paris
concerning his attendance al the re Deum
aforesaid, we must await his reply before we
can finally pronounce upon this question of his
recall. II is small affair, to be sure; but we
must remember that the spols Of the admins
traitor are well nigh exhausted, and that our
democratic place hunters still infest the White
House by night and by day. Let Mr.. Mason
prepare himself accordingly for confession of
the curiosity which carried him to Notrc Dame.
and for a humble apology, or proceed at once
to pack up his trunk for speedy return from
the gaieties of Paris to the solltpdes of the
Old Dominion,