New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-16
THE STATE OF EUROPE
v~~ On Own Correspondent.

stated In my last letter the most important step the
Turks could take. Constantinople fortified, with
suitable Strengthening Of the forts on the Sosphcrus
and Dardsr ees the independence of Turkey OF any
power holding that capital, would require no foreign
guarantee There is town easy TO be fortified
tan Corstantinople One single side Of the triangle
snly--the one toward the lsnd-wcud require a con
rruous rampant; the second toward the Sea of Mar
mora and the third, toward the Golden Horn require
% Notifications line Of detached forts at a conye-
nert distance from the encente, and continued east.
ward 20 az to protect Pera Gasts aud the northeast
ern bank of the Golden Horn, would both strengthen
the encente and prevent enemy from turning it and
carrying works of siege on the hills commanding the
tswn from behind Pers and Galata
Such fortress would be almost impregoable Its
nuncations canno. be cut off unless the DardaneeS or
the Bospbos s forced and If that were the case the
City would be at lost But two such narrow pas
cages may easily be fortified strongly tina. hostile
fleet car pass through. A Russian army coming from
the land side would have to rely upon perous CON-
nuncation with Sevastopol and Odessa and could
hardly hold out for the time required to take the town,
while ito continuous falling of in numbers would ex-
pose it to defeats from the garrison of the town and the
reserves arriving from Asia
The reply of Russia TO the declaration of neutrality
on the part Of Denmark arrived at Copenhagen the
Goth inst Russia is stated to refuse to Mt to the
neutrality, calling Denmark to take side or the
other Immediately after this notification, the Embas
fadors Of France England and Russia said to have
had conference with the Danish Ministers. Now,
am informed from very trustworthy source, although
can Of course not youch for the correctness of the
information that the protest but fein on the part
of the Cabinet Of ST. Petersburg calculated 70 dr'e
the other powers the faster into formal acknowedg-
uent of the terms ON which the Danish neutrality is
proposed lam assured that recent negotiations were
roinc On between Denmark the one side and France
and England on the other, according to which in the
case Of war, England was to occupy the Sound with
her men-ofwar, and France the Duchy of Schleswg,
with corps d'armte. To thwart this combination,
communicated to Nesserode by the Minister Oerstedt,
Russia is said 10 have intimated to the Copenhagen
Cabinet to propose the declaration OF neutrality lie
now feigns to oppose, and which, ii adhered to by
France and England, viii not only break up their
original PLAN but also, by exemptng from the laws Of
war; goods carried in neutral vessels will secure the
export of Russian merchandise by the Baltic.
The Cars protest against the purchase on the part
Of Prussia of Oldenburg port in the North Sea- is
lora de protest asonisheG as the Berlin public is said
TO have been at this other symptom of the ubiquitous
intemeddling of Timour Tamerlane's successor
The great Manchester Reform meeting" has " come /
"oh, and a great piece of humbug il was, as The ,
Eneiisanaa Justly remarks TIE Aberdeen policy ex-
tolled Turkey insued, Russia glorihed, all interior
ence between foreign states disclaimed-theSe few /
topics which, as far as foreign policy is concerned,
foim the regular stock-in-trade of the Manchester
selool-haye again been expatiated on By NeSsrs Cob
dep Bright and the otler d" 'umble and omely men,"
who want to have "man of peace" at the Horse .
"Guards" aud "lOck out" at the House Of Lords TO
sell the English and to underse all other nations.
Mr. Cobdens speech was mere repetition, and /
disipgenuous one too of the speech he made at the
closing of Parliament. The only laxury of novelty he
INDUCED in consisted of two arguments-the one d.
recteo against France the other against America. 1t /
locks rather suspicious that the same man who took
so prominent part in bringing about the alliance with
France at the time when the exploits OF the Deem
brsts had aroused cry OF indignation in England is
now busted in undoiDg his own work by sneering at
that alliance, and denouncing 1t as "inconslderste'
and "untimely" As TO America, Mr.. Golden declares
that it is from the growth of its manufactures and
commerce and not from the warlike policy of Russia,
that England may fear to endangered the grandeur
of her commercial and national prosperity How does
this tally with his professional free trade cant accord
ing TO which the commercial prosperity of people
depends on the grOaoh o. the and industry
of all other peoples, the notion of any dangerous ri
valry between two industrial peoples being disclamed
as a allacy of protectionst "quacks" How does this
shaving united forever two remote henispheres in the
"bonds Of peace, by placing Europe and America in
absolute and nerircabe dependence each other 2"
II is not the first time that Mr. Golden, in order
to divert from Russia the suspicious aud the anmosity
Of the English people is anxious to turn them against
the United States Of America In 1876, the seizure of
English vessel the Circassian coast BY Russian
man-ofwar and the fiscal regulations OF the ST Pc
terburg Cabinet with regard TO the navigation of the
Danube together with the revelations published in The
Portfolio having evoked the wrath of the English .
people and above ALL the commercial classes against
Russis-Mr. Golden, at that epoch yet Gan infant in
literary life and unearned in public speaking" pub
lished small anonymous pamphlet entitled RGssG
"a Cure for RasSophOba. By Manchester Maagtac-
"trsr" In this pamphlet il is argued that in less
Ethan twenty years this namely. the fear of the |
growth Of American prosperity. AMI not OF Russian
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, will be the sentiment Of the people
Z" OF England generally; and the convictions icM
"te forced upoa he Government Of the eouRry" In the
same pamphlet he protested that, in examining the
various grounds upon which those who discuss the |
subject take up their hostile attitude toward the
/" Russian nation We have discovered, with infinite /
surprise and deep conviction of the truth, that
"century Of arisoerqtic Government in England has
% impregnated all classes with the naughty and AFRO
giant spirit Of their rulers )" against meek Russia
that If the Government Of ST. Petersburg were
transferred to the shores of the Bosphorus splendid
and substantial European city would, in less than
twenty years. spring up in the place of those huts
(which now constitute the capital OF Turkey; noble
buildings would arise learned societies flourish and
"the arts prosper. II Russa's Government should I
attain TO that actual power she would cease the
" Of the sword and begin the battle with the wilder
"ness by constructing railroads building bridges by
fostering the accumulation of capital, the groea Of
cites and the increase Of cir.aiioH and freedOm
The slavery which pollutes Constsntinople would I
INSTANTLY disappear, and commerce and laws pro-
"teehng life and property ~ las now exempfed in 1