The Withdrawal Of Mason From England

The Index, tne jjonuon orgau ji iö ebels, publishes the text of the letter n which Mr. Mason announces the ermination of the Confedérate mission o England : "21 Upper ?evmour St.. Portman Square. ï Lonïlu, Septe'mbei 21 , 1863. J TiieRigiit Hi"':iWoEarl Russol. , Her llajenty'l StcrSálj of State tor Foreign Affaire: "My Lokd : - In a dispatch from the Secretary üf State of the Confedérate States of Arr.eriea, dated 4th day of August last, and now just received, I am instructed to consider tho mission which brouiht me to England as at an end, and I am directed to withdraw at once from this country. ''The j-casons tor terminating Ibis mission are set iorth in an extract from .he dispatch which I have the honor to cominunic.ate herawtih : ('The President believes that the Government of her Majesty has determined to declined the overtures made :hrough yuu for estabüshing, by treaty, iriendly relations between the two governments, nnd entertains no intention of receiving you as the accredited Minister of this Government near the British Court. TJnder these circumstances your continued refidence in London ia neither conduc've to the intereste, nor consistent with the dignity of this government aud the President therefore requests tbat you consider your miasioo at an end and that you wi hdraw with your secretary fro:n tondoa." "Having made knovvn to your ship OD my arrival hore, the obaraeter and purpnges oí tlia mission entrusted to me bv tny Government. I have deemed itdue to courtesy thus to make known to the Government of Her Majes ty its termination, and that I ehall as directed, at once withdraw from Engiand." "r have the lionor U be j'our JoriMiip'a rerj obediout BfirT3ntJ.M. MASOti.On this the Index makcs the followng cornmente, 6ötting forth eeveral rea6ona for withdrawal which are not enibodied in Mr. Mason's letter ; ';Mt. Slidell, we undeistand will remaiii in France as special cornmiusioner to that government. Nor is it at all Oüntemplated to termínate that mission and yet France, equalïy with Tingland has bo far refrained from entering into international relations with the Confedérate States. "There must be somo overruling cause for the differenee thus made beÚeen France and England in the termination of one missioji and not tbe Qther. To those at all conversant with what is passing in the Southern States this i sno mystery, Mr. Slidell has been recflived and uniformly troaied by tha government of France with every mark of consideration and respect for the goyernment he representw, ïhere may be grave reasons regarding policy or public law why France, like Eugland, mav not deern it incumbent as 3 et to recognize those States aa an independent political power ; but thüir reprebentative lias been freely admitted to every fonn oí intercouree with tbs eminent ol $ ranee to personal interviews wih the Emperor whenever he has asked for them, rtb immediale aceess to all or any c-f the ministry, at first requeat. This vvould, indood, eem but an ordinary courtesy to a gentleman in his positiou --the rêfusal oí it would be more than ti discDurtesy- it would be an actual indignity to those whose representativo he is. "ín England, Mr. Masón has been held by the government in tho very op posite position, His corrospnndence with the Foreiga Office laid before Congress at liichtnond, we kaow froto the southern prese, produced a feelísj of deep and univarsal iudignation. I ahovvod that, with the exception of single and formal interview tb Ear Uusse'l, on his arrival, appointed a his residaoce, and r.ot at the Foi'öig Office, he had been admitted to RO ir tercourse vvhatever,"