The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-04
ii. CAMERON & co., Publishers.
Affairs IN EurOpe.

We have European news to the 22d
ult by the steamer Australia, which
arrived ct New York on the lst Great
interest was felt in the progress of the
campaign in Virginia and the report OF
O victory by Grant, occasioned a fall in
the Confederate loan Of three to four
per cent 4 Paris correspondent OF
the London Post, q paper by no means
friendly TO the Union cause, says that
it l. evidently the determination of the
French Emperor 10 observe the strictest
neutrality in American affairs The
rebel vessels Of wan building in French
porte have been forbidden to leave un-
Ill they can clearly establish that they
are not intended for the rebels, or any
eontraband use. a number Of leading
Liverpool ship owners have sent q me
mortal to the House Of Commons set
ting forth the danger 10 which British
shipping may be exposed under a state
Of affairs which permits a belligerent
to construct and send to sea vessels Of
war from neutral ports, as the Alabama
and Georgia, and praying that measures
be adopted by the Government in con
junction with that of the United States
and other powers. 10 prevent such a
state Of things
The London Daily News Of the 18th,
saws the Conference on Danish affairs
can hardly be said to have advanced a
single step. The divergence Of opinion,
not only between the belligerents, but
between Austria and Prussia and the
neuteral Powers Is so wide, that as yet
they have not been able TO agree on
any common basis Of discussion. The
German Powers repudiated altogether,
their treaty engagements toward Den
mark, asserting that the war has liber-
ated them from all International obi
cations relating to the Danish State
even those solemnly contracted in con-
cert with the other Powers, and avow-
edly for European objects. On the
other hand, the Danish plenipotcnta-
ries necessarily insist on the provisions
of the London treaty as binding on all
its signitaries, and in thisview they are,
of course, supported 10y the neutral
Powers. 1t is clear, therefore, that UNI
less Austria and Prussia modify their
point of view in harmony with the
Judgment Of the mediating Powers,
deliberations Of the Conference can have
no result. The Conference will not
meet again until the 2Sth Of May
more than half the time agreed upon
for the cessation of hostilities will then
have expired, and unless all prelimi-
nary difficulties are then overcome
there will be little chance of the delib-
erations leading to any practical result
France evidently is endeavoling to
get out of the Mexican difficulty. Al
ready troops from that country are
arriving in large numbers, at home.
Napoleon evidently intends to let Maxi
millian fight it out, with Mexicans,
and Americans, as best he can He
POLITICALLY says give you an empire
if you can hold your seat well and good,
if not, the disgrace, and discontinue
Will be youTs-not mine.
IN the part which France will be call
ed upon to act in the great European |
drama, within two months, chat country |
VIII need every man, and every franc /
il can raise; and Mexico will be left |
TO sitself Things are now becoming
deeply interesting
We presume, ere this, the news has
reached Europe that Grant had advanc-
ed to the North Anna and-in a day or
two, they viii have intelligence of his
crossing the Psmunky, as he accom-
plished that feat on the night of the |
25th and morning of the Doth The |
effect upon the Confederate loan can be |
imagined.