The latest intelligence from Europe is by the Africa to the 27th ult. We give the following summary of the news:
The American question.
The London Army and Nary Gazette says that the Messrs. Laird have refuse! several offers for the Mersey rams, declaring that they are not for sale. It is understood that the United States Ministers, both at London and Paris, are making continued efforts to prevent the steamer Rappahannock leaving Calais for the high seas as a rebel cruiser. Stores for the ship had reached Calais from England. Six of the men who were enlisted to serve on board the Union steamer Kearsarge, at Queenstown, and who were recently disembarked at Cork, have been committed for trial. Affidavits were produced, showing that they had enlisted for three years for the purpose of fighting in the service of the United States. The London Morning Herald publishes a letter from Mr. D. J. McRae, the financial agent of the rebel Government in Europe, to show that the authorities at Richmond are taking measures to support their credit by duly providing for the liquidation of those bonds which may happen to be drawn in March next. Mr. McRae says: ‘ It is said that cotton may be purchased at the present rate of exchange cheaper in the Confederacy with sterling than with the bonds of the loan. In reply to this I have to state that it is now under the consideration of the Government at Richmond to prohibit altogether the exportation of cotton, except such as is pledged by its own obligations. I have every reason to believe that this necessary and salutary measure will be promptly adopted.--The total of such obligations other than those of the seven per cent cotton loan does not reach $200,000. ’ The London Globe takes a favorable view of rebel prospects, arguing that the retreat of Meade and the inability of Grant to follow Bragg are reassuring for the rebel cause. The Times reminds those who anticipate an early breakdown of the Confederate cause, that conquest in the field must be succeeded by military occupation. President Lincoln proposes, on republican principles, to vest the Government of each seceded State in one tenth of the population who will swear allegiance to him and obedience to his acts of Congress and proclamation. These men will be no more able to maintain themselves than were the thirty tyrants of Athens without the aid of the Lacedaemonian garrison. They will form a detested oligarchy like the Normans in Saxon England, only that they will rule over men braver and more warlike than themselves. Even when the North has surrendered her liberty and beggared her finances, she will not be able permanently to hold her immense countries and keep their hostile populations on the terms. The Times adds: "Though we conceive it to be quite possible that, overborne by perpetually recruited numbers and immense resources, the South may become unable to retain large armies in the field, yet between that and subjugation there is an interval which we do not expect to see filled up. The Confederate sailing privateer Tuscaloosa, better known as the Conrad, and tender to the Alabama, seems following up the work of her illustrious rival. The American ship Living Age, which has arrived at London from Akyab, reports that on the 13th of September, being then in latitude 25� south and longitude 2� east, she was brought to by the Tuscaloosa and declared a prize, but released on giving a bond for $160,000. The Tuscaloosa is in charge of Capt Low, late of the Alabama, and intended cruising for some time in that position on the lookout for the homeward bound. Mr. Superviede, who had arrived in Paris in the character of "special envoy from the Confederate States," is a Frenchman by birth, and was formerly an advocate in the South of France. He has been living in Texas for the last seventeen years, and is now a naturalized American. He got away from Matamoras on board a French ship-of-war, which the Admiral lent him to go to Vera Cruz, where he embarked on the French steamer Florida for St. Nazarite, as before stated.France.
The Corps Legislatif had debated the Loan bill at length. M. Thiers and other opposition members spoke in favor of a pacific policy on the part of the Government. M. Picard censured the Government for the Mexican expedition. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 242 to 14.The German Danish question.
At a meeting at Altona, in which thousands took part, Prince Frederick was formally proclaimed Duke of Holstein amid the greatest enthusiasm. The town was subsequently illuminated, and great crowds traversed the streets singing the national song of Holstein. Order was every where maintained. Telegraphic communication with Holstein became into erupted at noon on the 25th of December. It was reported that the General commanding the Austrian troops at Hamburg had been recalled. The Saxon troops entered Altona on December 24. The Danes left as the Federal troops appeared. The Federal Commissioners in Holstein declares that they will assume the administration of a flairs without prejudice to the temporarily suspended rights of the sovereign.The latest News.
Liverpool, Dec. 23, 1863.
--The Danish Ministry have tendered their resignation to the King, and it has been accepted.
England and Russia continue to exercise a pressure in Denmark on the Holstein question.
