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open as soon as the harbors would be in possession of the national Government, had induced the French Emperor to verify the truth of his statements, which the private reports of the French Consuls in the Southern ports flatly contradicted. In consequence, he sent Mr. Mercler to ascertain which, of the American or French representative's report, was the correct one. Mr. Mercier had several conversations with the representatives of the Confederate States in Richmond, particularly with Mr. Benjamin, whom he knew before, and there acquired the certainty, which he, however, had since the beginning of the war, of the unwillingness of the Southern people to compromise, or to go back to the old Union. His observations, although different in form from those of Mr. Geoffrey, are substantially the same. In a recent report to the Emperor, Mr. Mejean, the French Consul at New Orleans, says that although no trace of Union feeling is visible in New Orleans, he doubts not that if the Confe