The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-10-13


Mason announces the termination OF tn,
Confederate mission to England is as fol
lows.
No ~ UPPER SEYMOUR ST.,
POrtman Square,
London, Sept. 81, 1868.
The Right Hon. Ea.f Russell, Her Majesiy's
Secretary Of State for Foreign Affairs
My Lord-fn dispatch from the Secretar,
OF State of the Confederate States of Amer
lea, dated 4tb day Of Aughst last, and now
just received, am instructed to consider tht
mission which brought me to England as q,
an end, and am directed to withdraw al
once from the country.
The reasons for terminating this mission
are set forth in an extract from the dispatc ck
which ! have the honor to communicate
herewith:
"Thc President believes that the Govern
ment Of Her Majesty has determined to de
cline the Overtures made through you fol
establishing, by treaty, friendly relations be
tween the two Governments, and entertains
no intention Of receiving you as the accred
tied minister of this Government near { Ii.
British Court. Under these cir .umstancef
your continued residence in London is nei
ther conducive TO the interests nor consistent
with the dignity Of this Government, and
the President therefore requests that you
consider your mission ut an end, and that
you withdraw with your Secretary from,
London"
Having made known to your ordship On
my arrival here the character and purposes OF
the mission entrusted to me by nv Govern
ment, l have deemed it due to courtesy thus
to make known to the Government of Her
Majesty its termination, and that shall, as
directed, at once withdraw from England
[ have the honor tO he
Your Lordship's very obt serv't,
}. NJ. MASON.
On this letter the London Inder makes
the following comments, (supposed to be
''inspired, setting forth several reasons
for the withdrawal, which are not cmbo-
died in Mr. Mason's letter:
''Mr. Slidell, we understand, will remain in
France, as special commissioner to that Gov
ernment, nor is it at all contemplated to ter
inmate that mission, and yet France, equally
with England, has 50 far refrained from en-
tering into international relations with the
States. There must be, then,
some ovcr-rulng cause for the difference
thus made between France aud England, in
the termination of the mission to one and
not to the other. To those at all conver-
SAINT with what is passing in the Southern
States, this is no mystery. Mr.. Slidell has
been rec cived ana uniformly treated by the
Government Of France with every mark of
consideration and respect for the Govern
ment he represents. There may be grave
reasons rcgal ding policy OF public law why
France, like England, may not deem it in-
cumbent as yet to recognize those States as
Ill Independent political power; but their
every form of intercourse with the Coy
crnment of France, to personal interviews
with the Emperor whenever he has a ked
for them, with immediate access to
all or any of the ministry, at first request. -
This would indeed seem but an ordinary
courtesy to gentleman in his position; the
relusal Of it would be more than discour-
tesy: it would be an actual indignity to those
whose representative he is. In England Mr.
Mason has been held by the Government in
the very opposite position. Hiscorrespond-
ence with the Foreign Office, laid before
Congress mt Richmond, We know, from the
Southern press, produced a feeling of deep
and universal Indignation. 1t showed that,
with the exception of single and formal in
teryiew with Earl Russell, on his arrival,
appointed ut his residence, and not at the
Foreign Office, he had been admitted to no
whatever"
The London Globe ridicules this kind of
and says there is no courtesy or
discourtesy in the mattcr-it is all policy
For reasons which he alone knows, the En-
peror Of the French confers with MIR. Slidell;
for reasons which we all know, Earl Russell
has not conferred with Mr. Mason.
Sir Edward Lytton Bvlwer, during a
speech at Kitchen, England, ridicnled the
idea of Canada seeking union with the
United States.
1t is reported, says the Manchester eng
Guardian, that the Great Eastern is to be
sold ut auction.
Jamaica cotton has been spun into fine
quality Of thread at mill in Mansfield, Eng
land.
The Polish insurgents are said to have
been defeated with heavy loss at place in
ne Government of Plock.
1t is reported in Paris that the Prince i'm
perial is to be made King of Algiers, with
he Duke of Malakoff for his vicerOy.
Queen Victoria and her daughter-in-law
we're merrilg pickniciDg at Balmoral.