Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper/Volume 18/Number 450/Foreign News
FOREIGN NEWS.
Maximilian accepted the crown from the Mexican deputation at Miramar on the 10th of April. The formality was conducted with great pomp. The new Emperor made a speech in reply to the deputation, stating that he was convinced that the throne was voted by a great majority of the Mexican people. After this he was addressed as Emperor and the Archduchess as Empress. The Mexican flag was hoisted at the castle of Miramar and saluted with 21 guns. The Emperor commissioned ministers to the courts of Rome, Vienna and Paris, and made quite a number of appointments for his staff and household. On the 11th of April Maximilian was seized with a low fever so that his departure was again delayed. It was thought he would set out on the 14th instant for Rome, where he goes to receive the benediction of the Pope, of which he, as he states himself, stands in great need. The Archduchess, his wife, after some very difficult negotiation in Vienna, and after renouncing her right to the throne of Austria and her income from the State, brought the Emperor Francis Joseph to Miramar to sign the great Imperial State paper of Mexico.
Duppel was still besieged and vigorously bombarded by the Germans. Its fortified works were almost silenced; but still the garrison defended the ruins with vigor. The Danes made a vigorous sortie on the Prussians, but were repulsed. The Conference had not yet assembled in London. The English House of Commons expressed some doubts of the prudence of permitting the English Delegate in the Conference to pledge the nation to any strict course of policy on the Dano-German question without the consent of the Parliament.
Garibaldi had entered London. He had a popular reception of the most enthusiastic description. The crown in the streets was about equal to that which received the Prince and Princess of Wales. Mazzini was endorsed by the working men in their address to Garibaldi. The General had private audiences with Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell. He was afterwards entertained at a banquet given by the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The city fêtes in his honor were to continue some days.
Lord Clarendon had gone on a private mission to Paris. It is said that he was to endeavor to allay an "irritation" which had sprang up in Napoleon's mind towards England since the Mazzini-Stansfeld exposé.
Twelve vessels, from Matamoras, Nassau and Bermuda, laden for the most part with cotton from the rebel States, reached Liverpool in two days.
The City of New York remained fast on Daunt's rock.