Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-15
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Denmark 2,460,o00 So.s6S,sl7 le,lle,seS
way 4,1ee,274 2s,ss5,7oo ee,e56,oo0
In the above calculations have purposcly omitted
the loans about be contracted for purposes by
the different Powers and the results of which cannot as
yet be obtained with degree Of exactness II Is es
timated howevci that the aggregate Of these loans will
add little short OF SS0000O0O0 to the financial oblga-
tions Of the countries above enumerated.
1t will be from this statement that commercially
speaking there is country Europe more independent
Of other nations than Russia. With population more
than double that OF Great Britain and nearly double that
Of France her exports only In the proportion oil
fifth Of the and fourth Of tho other. or these, &C.
real productions constitute part; and as the large
andhoders in fact the producers the loss arising from
the interruption Of this class Of exports would fall entire
y upon them, and be little fiat all felt by the great mass
OF the populations; but, putting this consideration aside
Il Is question whether the withdrawal Of such large
proportion Of able bodied agricultural abores as will be
required for the service Of the vast armies that the Gar
will be compelled to keep on foot, will not in itself sensi.
bly, affect the OF production, and keep II within
the limits Of home consumption. In case, although
the suspension OF her foreign trade would doubt
considerable Inconvenience and perhaps even distress, in
districts it would be OF sufficiently general and
passing nature to influence for moment the policy OF
the government.
But in calculating Russis's power OF endurance under
the pressure of the adverse circumstances in which
continued blockade might place her. there is one import
element that lost sight Of and which
IN the emu react fatally upon ner opPoncn's her puoc
debt amounts only twelfth part of that OF Eug
land third part OF that OF Francc. AZ long she
Confines herself defensive operations within her
her expenditures Will be comparatively light
will be by issues oil paper rouoes-the ususl
reEcy which her troops paid until they the
irouers Thus situated, she Afford pat emily
the Of Time will DO Tor her than the
most powerful armies the most lavish expenditure OF
mon effect What Moscow proved to Napoleon,
the system OF blockade persevesed i'll, will prove TO the
allies"
Fom these considerations and others which assigns,
the Herald contends that the system OF blockade adopted
by the COALITION will prove emncutly disastrous to them
selves aud that unless bent their destruction
they must abandon it, Then the question, it
whether they will the Only other atcrua
tive left open them-namely carry the into the
interior OF Russia. To eIhbi. the chances of the
cess of the allies in the OF such ,vement, it
publishes table showing approximately the military aud
naval resources of tho different powers which will figure
upon the sccne-which annex with ex from its
observations thereon