The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-31

Rebel Amba ssndOrs, sIidclI and Mason.
Our Havana correspondence Of this days
issue is exceedingly interesting and suggestive.
1t gives lis the facts of the escape from Charles
ton OF John Slidell and James M Mason, the
lately appointed rebel special ambassadors to
France and England, and the still more import
ant facts of their reception at Havana. BY
the British Consul Crawford in full official uni
form, they were introduced to the Captain
General of Cuba, and by him they were re-
ceiyed with formal hospitality, which can
only be construed as denoting an active sym
pathy on the part of the officials concerned,
British and Spanish, with the cause Of our
Southern rebellion.
Beginning with Slidell, as the more important
of these two vagrant rebel ambassadors it APP
pears that he takes his family with him. Doubt
less he meditates long sojourn in Paris. He
may have some presentiment of the inevitable
suppression of this rebellion At all events,
with his family safely domiciled in Paris, be
and they will be out Of harms way against all
the contingencies Of possible bombardment Of
New Orleans Possessed of immense wealth,
Slidell has also, we dare say, amply
provided for a long residence abroad
against oil the chances of rebel ex-
fscations. AS the first experimental Southern
rebel ambassador to France, his appointment u.s.
! perhaps the very shrewdest that Davis could
have made. True, Sldell is by birth North
ern man. but from his long residence in Louis-
ana, and from his marriage and family connec-
tons there, he has been completely mctamor-
phosel into French creole. As politician he
has been always conspirator of the Southern
democratic revolutionary school-ambitious, an
scrupulous, cunning, dexterous and pcrsevering.
Speaking the French language like native,
and conversant with French ideas, customs, Pc
litics and diplomacy, he is the very msn to put
the best face upon the desperate enterprise Of
our Southern rebels before the government Of
Frasce. In this service, among the fashionable
! circles Of Paris, we dare say that Mrs. Slidcll
will prove powerful ally, judging from her
French accomplishments, her great popularity
as leader of fashionable society at Washing
ton, and from her great influence, through this
channel, in shaping the diplomacy of Mr.. Blu
chanan's administration, foreign and domestic.
Slidell will have another powerful ally in his
Secretary Of Legation, Eustis, a sprightly, dap
per little gentleman from Louisiana, and the
son-in-law of the millionaire banker, Corcoran,
of Washington. This banker made his fortune
out Of the United States Treasury, as broker,
under the benefcent administration of Captain
John Tyler. We know now that Tyler is a
/ rebel, that Eustis is rebel, and that Corcoran
is under suspicion, from his late intimate rela-
tons with the traitors of Mr.. Buchanan's Cabi-
net 1t would, perhaps, not be out of place on
the part of President Lincoln to institute an
inquiry into this matter; for otherwise If Cor
coran is infected with this virus Of secession,
his funds may be diverted against the govern
ment from which they were drawn, to the uses
of this rebel legation at Paris.
Thus much for Slidell and suite. Of Mason,
the rebel Minister to England, little be said,
if we are to consider him as statesman or di-
plomat. He is a Virgnian, Of the aristocratc
type, austere, pompous, solemn and unap-
proachable--qualities which will commend him
to Earl Russell aud the pompous Court Of st.
James. For many years chairman Of the
United States Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, Mason has at least learned the
conventionalities and pettfogging TECHNICAL
ties of diplomacy. He understands, too,
the dogma of Talleyrand, that words are
intended to conceal ideas, and his hatred Of
f"the Yankees" is as intense and cordial as any
British snob could desire. He would rather
sell Virginia and all her confederate rebel
States to England for mess Of pottage than
submit again to the government Of the United
States subject to the control Of Northern ma
jori!y. Sldell, upon this point, is equally ma
lignant and intractable; and hence we cannot
reject the surmise that if driven to cxtrcmitics,
they will propose to England and France a
provisional protectorate over our revolted
States, including the commercial monopoly of
those great Southern staples, cotton, sugar, rice
and tobacco.
Against these traitorous ambassadors from
JEFF. Davis we have Mr.. Adams as our Minister to
England and Mr.. Dayton at Paris Mr.. Adams
we concede, is the right man in the right place
although, we fear, inclined to be little too
,defcrcntial to England at this crisis, when plain
outspoken language is what her case demands
Excepting the advantage of his official posi-
tion it must be said Of Mr.. Dayton that he is
no match for Slidell at Paris. The former Is
as ignorant Of the French language as of
French society, usages, prejudices and peculiari
ties; while Slidcll is conversant with them ALL
and will play in France rather the part Of
French colonist than that of stranger from a
foreign land
We might pursue this subject to some general
remarks upon each and all Of Mr.. Lincoln's OFF,
cial representatives in Europe, but our limits
restrain us. Suffice it to say that, excepting
Messrs. Adams and Dayton, the catalogue is
wholly unsatisfactory, particularly at this i'm
portant juncturc of life or death to our govern
ment. Mr.. Sanford, at Brussels, is iussy, con-
ceited aud consequential humbug, whose diplo-
matte achievements have been limited to the cut
and trimmings Of court costume some specu-
lations in guano and silly speech or two on
this rebellion. Cassius NJ Clay il a fighting