24 OCTOBER 1863, Page 1
Why the Americans confine their attention so exclusively to Mr
Laird's plots, and ignore, apparently, the like French conspiracies, it is not easy to make out. But at Bordeaux and at Nantes there are a pair of Confederate rams building, and a private account from Bordeaux, on the authenticity of which we can rely, states that the builder gives out that he privately inquired of the French Government whether the rams would be allowed to go, and that the French Government replied in the affirmative.
