Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-10-21

! Foreign News.
We have some furthersnews By the Per s
sia at New York.
THE WITHDRAWAL OF MIR. MASON
FROM ENaLAND.-The text Of the letter
in which Mr.. Mason announces the termi-
nation Of the Confederate mission TO Eng.
land Is as follows: = "a. ss 3 -. -
No. "a UPPER SEYMOUR ST., 49,,
PoRTMAN SQUARE, LONDON,
s. September 81, 1868.
The Right Honorable Earl Russell, Her
Mgssty's Secretary Of STATE for Foreign
Affairs. -
MY LORD: In q despatch from the Sec
,retary Of State Of the Confederate States OF
America, dated 4th day Of August last,
and now lust received, il am instructed to
consider the mission which brought me to
England as at an end, and am directed
to withdraw at once from the country.
The reasons for terminating this mission
are set forth in an extract from the despatch
which I have the honor to communicate.
herewith
ssThe President believes that the Gov
sernmsut of her Majesty has determined to
decline the overtures made through you
for establishing, BY treaty, friendly rela,
tions between the two Governments, and
entertains no intention Of receiving you as
the accredited minister Of this Government
near the British Court. Under these cirt
sepmstances, your continnd residence in
London is neither conducive to the inter
ests nor consistent with the dignity of this
Government, and the President therefore
requests that you consider your mission at
an end, and that you Withdraw With your
Secretary from London"
Having made known to your lordship,
on my arrival here, the character and pur.
poses Of the mission entrusted to me by my
Government, have deemed it due TO cour-
tesy thus to make known to the Govern
ment Of her Majesty its termination, and
that / shall, as directed, at once Withdraw
from England. 4
/ have the honor to be your iordship,s
very obedient servant,
- 3 j. NJ. MASON
On this letter, the London ladeS makes
the following comments, (supposed to be
ssinspired, y setting forth several reasons
for the withdrawal which are not embodied
in Mr. Maaons letter .
s:Mr Siidell, we understand, will remain
in France, as special commissioner TO that
Government, nor isit all contemplated TO
terminate that mission, and yet France,
equally with England, has 50 far RETAINED
from entering into international relations
wifi Isshe Confederate States. There must
be, theD, some overriding cause for sshe DIFF.
ference thus made between France and
England, in the termination of the mission
to one and not to the other, To those at
all conyersant with what is passing in the
Southern States, this is no mystery Mr.:
Slidell has been received and uniformly
treated by the Government Of France with
every mark Of consideration and respect for
the Government he represents. There may
be grave reasons regarding policy or public
law why France, Ike England, may not
deem it imcumbsnt as yet to recognize
those States as an independents political
power; but their representative has been
freely admitted to every formof intercourse
with the Government of France, to personal
interviews with the Emperor whenever ne
has asked for them, with immediate access
| to all or any of the ministry, at first request.
This would, indeed, seem but an ordinary
| courtesy toa gentleman in his position ;.the
refusal of it would be more than q discour'
tesy; it would be an actual indignity to
those whose representative he is In Eng
land Mr.. Mason has been held by the Gov
bernment in the very opposite position. Hii
/ correspondence with the Foreign othce
|slaid before Congress at Richmond, we know
from the Southern press, produced a feeling
] ofdeepand universal indignation. ltshew
ed that, with the exception Of asingle7 ant
formal interview with Earl Russell, on -hl
arrival, appointed at his residence, and no
at the Foreign Office, he had been admitted
| to no intercourse whatever" -
| The London Globe ridicules this kind 0
argument, and says there is no courtesy Q
discourtesy in the matter--it is all policy
! For reasons which he alone knows, tn
Emperor of the French coafers with Nh
j 1Sidell; for reasons which we all know
Earl Russell has not conferred with MI
, Mason.
+ The Expulsion of British Consuls.
! RIoHMoND, October 14:-The oHicis
correspondence With the State Department
relative to the dismissal Of the British Cor
suls, is published in the Sentinel TIN
morning, and occupies nearly q page of ths
paper. The first letter, dated the 9th inst
is addressed by Secretary BENJAMIN to MI
Slidell, informing him Of the cause Of ez
pulsion of the British consular agents i
4.