The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-19 00:00:00

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THIS DAY

On account of whom it may concern.
Tuts DAY, the 19th instant, at One o'clock,
at the Brokers' office, 8, India-buildings,
About 50 Bales Damaged Egyptian COTTON,
ex Pactolus, from AlexaYNndria.—For further particulars
REOLDS & GIBSON, Brokers.

Tim DAY, the 19th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the
Brokers' office, 33, Tithebarn-street,
50 Pipes South American TALLOW,
ex Rita, from Buenos Ayres.—Apply to
ISAAC lIADWEN, SUN. & CO., Brokers.

TO-MORROW

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ZS Bales Mocha COFFEE.
BROWNE, HUNTER & CO., Brokers

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1866

ENGLAND has for some years been the hospital
for the " sick men" of all nations. She not only
looks after the disabled foreigners who are thrown
upon her shores, but if any alien State runs its
nose against the bricks, loses an army,

or even drops its shoe, her philanthropists,
cures, ministers of State, considerate peers,
independent members of the House of Commons,
and even literary and intellectual cobblers rush to
the rescue of the sufferer. When Turkey was
taken ill, we went to work to remove her malady
with arms and money, and we are now called upon
to take Denmark, with her chronic chest disease,
or shortness of fiscal breath, in hand, and save
Denmark for the Danes. A number of
diplomatic physicians have already met to consider
her painful case, but the world has not been made
acquainted with the exact character of the remedy
they have suggested, The London Times, however,
has discovered the old lady's lost shoe, and is
anxious to restore the treasure, fearing the
patient may suffer greater anguish from being
kept without it. The zapato was found where
most other State slippers are, in a quagmire of
indebtedness. Denmark had been levying ocean
taxation on the shipping of the world for centuries
for which there was no " value received." She had
borrowed many millions of rix-dollars on this
piratical income, and when she could borrow no
more money, there she stuck. That Great Britain
should have been both the heaviest lender, and tax
or Sound Dues payer, is not to be wondered at,
considering that pure philanthropy deadens all
feeling, and banishes all thought of self. When-
ever Denmark fell sick she always wanted cash, and
our State quacks believing that as many diseases
became epidemic by sympathy, thought a cure
might be wrought in her case through the same
medium; therefore, instead of putting the sufferer
to any unnecessary pain, they clapped the blister
on John Bull's back, and then obliging that kind
creature, the British shipowner, to swallow the
bolus which would have been better for the Danes
had they taken it themselves.

thought,

But to illustrate the real extent and alarming
features of Denmark's disorder, we will allow the
London Times to state the entire case, as it did
on Monday last. America says just what the
British shipowner and Merchant think. " The
0 Sound Dues are a nuisance ; let there be no
" Sound Dues." To this the " leading journal" adds
—" To Denmark, however, the Sound Dues are
" the staff of life ; the bread by which, as a nation,
" she exists ; by them her internal government is
" kept up; by them her foreign obligations are
" punctually met and paid. It so happens that a
" great portion of the Danish foreign debt has
" been contracted in this country, and these
" very Sound dues have been assigned as
0 a security to the British bondholder. We have no
" doubt that even this short explanation will make
" many a reader sympathise more strongly with
". Danish independence than he has ever done
" before." Here we have the facts in a
concise form. England has been snared into
lending money for the perpetuation of an unjust
and oppressive tax on her commerce, so far as her
contributions is concerned, and on imposts, which
other countries have, very properly, decided on not
paying after a certain day.
Jf such glaring impositions when practised upon
our eapf.talists are to make " many a reader" of the
London Times " sympathise more strongly with
" Danish independencd,'' we can only say that
pampered political corruption must speedily
subvert the last feelings of honour and patriotism
left in the land. Of the 2,300,000 rix-dollars
which our cotemporary alleges the Sound Dues
yield annually, England alone, out of all the
nations of the world who use the Sound, pays 45
per cent. And what do the mercantile public
think Denmark proposes, and the London Times
approves? To capitalise the Dues' revenue for a
sum of 35,000,000 rix-dollars. By this operation
the Danes are to lose 1,000,000 rix-dollars per
annum, but for this they are "to be freed from
Russian intrigue." Then, British shipping, it is
" will benefit in the proportion between
,eOOl., the present sum levied in the shape of
Sound Dues, and 45,0001., the interest of the
" sum which it is proposed that England should
pay in the way of capitalisation." It is as well
"
here to observe, that the authors and promoters of
this notable scheme do not tell us who are to be
the fortunate recipients of the proposed "bene-
There is, manifestly, a difference
of 15,0001. per annum between the sum
which is said to be paid ROW, and that which is
to be exacted henceforth; but whether that sum
is to be taken from the British bondholders,"
vhose " sympathy with Danish independence
hoped will become stronger, and given to
the British shipowners, on the principle that Paul
should be compelled to pay Peter, is not made
to appear. Now it is quite certain that the United
States will not accept the terms proposed. " The
" Sound Dues are a nuisance ; let there be no
" Sound Dues." This is the opinion of the
Washington Cabinet, expressed officially through
Mr. MARCY, and after such a declaration it is not