...of the Southern States as belligerents. The Rebel ports being under strict blockade, they could cross the Atlantic only by reaching Havana, where, under a neutral flag, they might get conveyance to Europe . They took passage in the Trent, bound from Havana to St. Thomas, from which island a regular line of British steamers ran to England. In Mr. Richard H. Dana's notes to Wheaton's Elements of In...