The Lancaster Gazette

Hostile Feeling of the French President.—Some week or ten days ago the New York Courier and Enquirer informed the public, in very general terms, that a probability of war with the United States had been intimated in France, as coming from an influential quarter. The Courier of Tuesday is more explicit, giving names and particulars, as follows:

'We understand that as long ago as in May last, Mr. Rush, our minister in Paris, wrote to Mr. Clayton, our Secretary of State, that the President of the French Republic had declared, that if France was to engage in war, it would be with the United States. The despatch in which this fact was stated bore date the 3d of May; and on the 12th of May, M. Poussin made the peremptory demand on Mr. Clayton, avowedly under instructions from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, for satisfaction for the insult offered to the French flag by Commander Carpenter.

'M. Poussin distinctly claims to have done and said nothing more, in all this correspondence, than explicit and imperative instructions from his own government obliged him to do and say. These several facts, viewed in connection, are thought to warrant the inference that the French government regards the detention of the Eugenie as an insult offered to the French flag; that satisfaction for that insult was demanded and refused by the government of the United States; and that, setting the dismissal of his minister entirely out of the question as an unimportant incident, Louis Napoleon may deem it due to the honor of the French nation to prosecute the demand even to the point of open war; and Mr. Rush's despatch is referred to as evidence that he intended to do so from the beginning.'