Later from Europe — the rebel rams building in France.
The steamship
Asia, from
Queenstown on the 2d of April reached
Halifax on the 14th, on her voyage to
Boston.
The news is generally unimportant.
It is said that
Maximilian's difficulties with the Restorer of
Austria were arranged, and that the of
Mexico would soon be announced It was not proclaimed, however, at the latest date.
Napoleon dispatched one of his Generate to aid in the solution of the Hapsburg family complications about
Mexico.
The rebel privateer
Georgia was in the river
Garonne,
France, opposite
Bordeaux, for refitting. --The crew of the
Georgia would not give any information relative to the recent operations or the alleged burning of the American ship
William Cramptoe.
A correspondence between
Secretary Seward and the
British authorities on the
Chesapeake case was punished; but it adds nothing to what is already known on the subject.
In
Denmark the Prussians had opened the first before Dupfel.
It is said that the Hungarians in the Austrian army retired from before federate in a sort of revolutionary or mutinous spirit.
The negotiations for a conference were still going on.
A bond a paper says that
Napoleon will gain his end in having a Congress led by the very power which rejected the original proposition for such an .
The British channel squadron had been ordered to make ready for sea.
Garibaldi was to have a very grand reception in
Southampton.
The
Liverpool cotton market was quiet, with unchanged rates, on the 3d of April. Breadstuffs inactive and looking downward.
Provisions heavy, with a downward tendency.
Consols closed in
London on the 21 at 91½ . American securities closed that.
The French papers publish an article from the
Opinion National, of
Paris, which includes official documents, and proves that the
French Government is quietly conniving at the efforts of the rebel agents to have iron clad war vessels built in
France for the rebel service.
From recitations of the
Opinion, it appears that firm at
Nantes and
Bordeaux have been for months at work building war vessels, ostensibly for
China, but really for the rebels.
Mr. Dayton last fall laid before the
French Government proofs of the real destination of the vessels, and after much delay the work was stopped by Government orders.
But during the last two months, as the
Opinion declares, that work has been resumed, and two of the vessels are now ready to be passed over to the rebel agents.
Lieut Maury and
Captain Buttock have been prominent in these negotiations.
These vessels are iron-clad, and the rebel authorities have ordered an entire fleet, which the
Government of
Napoleon.
III.
seems willing to have built at French ports, in spits of its relegated desire to maintain a strict neutrality.
