Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-11-27

Is sun suIfounoeo by sympathising friends
who, with accomplished and attentive physi.
clans, Drs. HALL and May, render him all the
aid and alienation of which his situation ad.
mits
The Sound Dues of Dsnmark.-Some time
since, we called the attention of the country
to the efforts of the Government to obtain
peacefully the abrogation of that intolerabls
tax which "prescription" alone has saddled
upon the commerce of all nations Subse-
luently, the movement of Mr.. Walker, OF
New York, in the House of Representatives
caused official Information on the subject to be
spread before the public. It is understood
here that, since then, Mr.. Bedinger has been
iaboriously pushing the matter with the
Danish Government. His labors in this con-
lection have attracted no little attention In
europe.
Some months ago, very able pamphlet on
The history, &C., of the Sound dues up to the
commencement Of 1858, appeared in the Ger
aan language at Bremen. The Cologne Ga
5stte, paper of great eruditlon and influence,
las late article on the subject, which we
lave caused to be translated, as follows:
"Has not the proper time arrived when
,omething more than mere reduction of this
lefariOus imposition can be effected? The
'nergetic position which the United States
nave lately taken, puts this matter in calm
md dlgnifed manner, on the ground assumed
~ the German Hansa in the fourteenth cen.
Jury. Already, in 1S48, the question of Sound
dues was started by the United States, but it
ell asleep again in 1S49, because Count
MOltke, in appealing to the magnanimity of
the United States, urged that the discussion
be deferred to more pacific time, and be-
cause Mr.. Flenniken, the representative OF
the United States at Copenhagen, apprehend-
ed that England and Prussia were opposed to
the measure, as the Sound dues were pledged
or mortgaged to the former (England) for the
payment OF interest, and as the latter rus.
sia) regarded Helsingfor as its most important
sea police station All at once, however, on
the 18th of July, 1853, the State Department
at Washington takes up the negotiations Of
ls4e, and the new envoy, Mr.. Henri Bedinger,
is directed most earnestly to urge this ubjsci
affecting so injuriously important interests of
the United States The Secretary Of State,
Mr.. Marcy, cannot understand how the United
States can be bound by the circumstances that
some European powers by treaties with which
the United States had no concern, agreed to
the payment Of Sound dues, or how the,
should tolerate manifest wrong any longer
for o other reason than that OF having ao
quiesced In 1t for considerable time. Moth
ing,' says Mr.. Marcy, has been more remote
from the purpose of our Government from
the day on which it was ushered into exist
ence, than that Of surrendering to any power
I0h Of TIC inn "a ~. :..Lx
commerce. This right we claim, and will use
all proper means TO secure to US the full en-
oyment of in every quarter of the globe Mr..
BediDger. then, in letter of October IL, 1853,
asks permission to offer some indemnity or
equiv alent to the Danish Government for the
Sound dues; but Mr.. Marcy replies immedi
ately from Washington: That tho President
declines authorizing him to offer to the Danish
Government any compensation for the re-
moval Of that as favor which he has demand
ID as right and the House of Representa-.
tives conf rms by resolu ion Of 3Oth Decem-
Der, 1858, this view of the subject. On the lst
Of April, of this year. Mr. Bedinger receiy ed
from the Danish Minister communication
that the Danish Charge at Washington had
been instructed to request the American Coy
to defer pressing this question until
the political horiz ION in Europe sha all assume
more tranquil aspect. Thus stands the case
The European treaties have expired, and the
United States, on their part, have at last
brought back the question to its original and
only correct point of view. The United States
have, by their resolute steps, alse made strong
er the existing necessity Tor European diplo-
nacy-not TO pass over or lose sight of the
I'D question at new Vienna Congress, as in
lol4-'15, and to solve it more satisfactorily
than was done by the frustrated Conventions
Df IS4I-'4S -
Hopes Of the Safe ty Of the Albany-We
earn that there has been forwarded to the
Navy Department letter from the Master of
he Albany, addressed to his father, and writ
en just as the ship was about to leave Aspin-
wall, in which it is stated that she was about
% 60 through the Mono Pass-that is, to make
he voyage on the south side of Cuba. At