New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-12
lvroaa the N. y. HsrsEd, April $.
later from Europe.

lSrom the N y. Herald, April
later from Europe.
The Collins mail steamship Baltic, Captain
Briggs, arrived at four o'clock yesterday after
noon She left Liverpool on Thursday, the
23d uIt
The Baltic is under command Of Capt. Geo,
Briggs, Capt Comstock having left the ship at
Liverpool on a visit TO the Continent
She brings Liverpool dates Of the 23d, with
London papers Of the 22d, and a telegraphfc
dispatch Of midnight, Of the latter date, also
from London
The Cambria had returned from Malta, and
will be again dispatched
1t is announced that dispatches from St. Pc
tersburg had reached Vienna and Berlin. stating
tnat Russia rejects altogether the uifimafisss
mum of the Western Powers
The Marquis of Clanricarde failed to elicit
from the Government its intentions with respec,
to neutral flags in the coming war. His en-
deavor to gain precise information was attended
with no better success than other inquiries or!
the same subject.
A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna states
that Baron Meyendorf had an audience of the
Emperor, which lasted two hours and it is re
ported that on the explanation Of the intentions
of Austria will depend the stay of the Russian
Minister in hatcapital
Another dispatch states that something II
extreme Importance was settled ON Friday, the
| 18th ult., between the Austrian and Prussia,l
Governments, as a member Of the Prussian EN- l
bassy went to 0derberg by special train, i'm
mediately after conference between Count
Buol and the Prussian Minister
Seventy Thousand men had been auartered at
| Sebastopol, and. thirty thousand at Odessa, Be.
| tween Moscow and Odessa one hundred Thousand
were on the march
| The Russians were preparing chains to stretcL
across the mouth of the Danube The Russian
| subjects in Turkey, England and France, are
about to be summoned to return home The
export Of gold from Russia is reported to be pro-
hibited. Since the prohibition Of the export Of
corn from Odessa, the price had fallen from ST.,
silver roubles. Failures were feared at
| Odessa
We learn that reinfogcements had arrived al
Kalafat. The Russians, it is said, will assume
/ the offensive in April
The French Government had received intelli-
gence ofthe conclusion Of the convention between
4 England, France and Turkey. These Powers
| bind themselves to pursue no separate negotia-
| tions with Russia, and the defense Of Turkey is
/ duly provided for.
The aspect Of the London stock markets was
/ very fiat, and prices were lower, while the ten
4 dency was, if any thing, somewhat inclined to-
/ wards further fall. There was not very
active business doing in Consols, 40 the quota
| tions were S9s to S94 for money and s94 to for
account Exchequer bills are 5s to los prem.
/ Four French ships of war, under the com
mand of Admiral Deschenes have sailed from
4 Toulon to join Napiers feet in the Baltic The
ships sent are the Austerlitz, 100 guns; the
i Hercule, Duquesclen and Trident
1 Sir Charles Napier, in the steam frigate Val
orous, arrived at Copenhagen on the Goth
| The first acts of Fuad Efendi on reaching
Janina were to grant general amnesty, and
remit part of the taxes and, secondly, to sene
messenger to Athens TO demand an explana
tion of the conduct of the Greek Government
4 There are reports of some further difficultie
with the Greek insurgents, but they are of n,
authenticity.
The Danish ministry remained in office.
i Abd-el-Kader has contributed 600O francs, al
i Broussa, towards the expenses Of the war
/ On the 10th. in the Commons, Mr. Kinnaird
put the following motion in what State tbs
correspondence between the British and United
States Governments, with reference to colored
seamen, being British subjects, on the vessels tt
which they belong arriving at a port in any
of the Southern States, being imprisoned on ae
count of their color, now is; and whether ther,
would be any objection to lay the correspond
ence on the table of the House Lord Johr
Russell, in reply, stated that there had been
great deal of correspondence, and benehcia
changes had been proposed in Georgia and Soutl
Carolina, which would soon be carried into eff
feet. He thought it was better not to produc,
\ the correspondence. as hopes were entertainet
that there would be great Improvement in IN
1 legislation Of the States he had mentioned.
4. The London Correspondent Of the Herald. il
his letter of March 2lst, saws: As regards th,
rumors of new negotiations of peace, they arr
rumors and not worth listening to. The hou
of negotiation is past. The rejection of the las
uitimatam of the Western Powers by the Cza,
y has been received here and at Paris by tele
graph 1t has not yet been officially communi
\ Gated to the Foreign Secretary AS soon as i
4 is, a royal message will be sent down to tn
houses Of Parliament, and the official declara
tion of war will follow. Sir Charles Napier'
4 fleet is already in the Baltic The English Elm
bassador at Berlin sent him courier with tn
news of the rejection of the ultimatum as 500,
as he received it, that he might act according t
any previous instructions he might have reeei
we'd The armaments of Russia on the Balti
are on an immense scale, and hard blows viii
take place The Russian navy can, to say tn
least, show fight The following statement is
l believe, reliable:
The entire marine Of Russia is collected a
two stations, those of the Baltic andof the Blac
Sea. OF these, that of the Baltic is divided int
three sections, and that of the Black Sea int
two But this does not include the various gun
boats and small craft Each division Of tn
fleet consists usually of one three decker, eigh
two -deckers, six frigates, one corvette ard fiv
smaller vessels. Thus, the Baltic fleet woul
number twenty seven vessels Of the line, inelu
ding three three deckers, eighteen frjpates ant