Staunton Spectator

FRANCE

The Paris correspondent of the New York "Herald," under date July 7th, writes:

The "Moniteur" has at length given the imperial version of the interview between his Majesty and Mr. Roebuck, so graphically described by the latter. The official journal of Sunday morning last contains the following:

The journals have given publicity to an incident which occurred in the House of Commons during the session of Tuesday last, on the occasion of the proposition of Mr. Roebuck. A few explanations will suffice to dissipate the misunderstanding to which this incident has given place. Messrs. Roebuck and Lindsay visited Fontainebleau for the purpose of persuading The Emperor to make an official movement at London for the recognition of the Southern States, as, in their opinion, this recognition would not put an end to the struggle which overwhelms with blood the United States. The Emperor expressed to them his desire to see peace established in those territories, but observed to them that, the proposition of mediation addressed to London in the month of October last not having been agreed to by England, he did not think it his duty to make a new one before he was sure of its acceptance; that nevertheless the Ambassador of France at London would receive instructions to sound the intentions of Lord Palmerston upon this point, and to give him to understand that if the English Cabinet believed that the recognition of the South would put an end to the war the Emperor would be disposed to follow it in this direction. All impartial men will see by this simple statement that the Emperor has not endeavored, as certain sheets pretend, to influence the British Parliament by means of two of its members, and that everything was limited to frank explanations, exchanged in an interview which his Majesty had no reason to refuse.

The secessionists here consider this document as a decided expression of opinion on the part of the French government in favor of the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, and now assert that this will take place in the course of a month. Mr. Slidell, who has returned from England, is said to have freely expressed this opinion. That the statement contains the expression of a disposition on the part of the Emperor to recognise the Southern Confederacy seems to be the opinion of all the journals which have remarked upon it.