The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-17

DAILY DISPATCH
! & WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY II, Is5s
ssnsg TUE GERMAN PowERs--TnE FouR AR.
s. TrcIxs.-The Paris correspondent dec. pa,
Of the National fntelligencer says that Prus
e sia refuses to commit herself against Russia
even to the no very dangerous extent that
Austria has done, until she knows what in.
depreciation the Powers mean to put upon
the .four guarantees" that are to form the
basis Of negotiations for peace She wants
: particularly to know how far the Powers
wish to stretch that guarantee which looks to
the limitation of Russian power in the Black
- Sea There must be something definite on
that point before Prussia will commit herself
further with the Allies. She is willing, adds
the correspondent, that the Black Sea should
De opened to the fleets of France and Eng.
land, $50 is Russia herself) but not that Sc.
oastopol should be totally broken up as a
Russian naval pot, or that the number of
7 shsps to be kept by the Gar in the Black Sea
should be limited by any thiEtg. but his own
means and views Of expediency
The same writer says that Lord John Rms
sells declaration that it is not the intention
81 of the allies to attempt to permanently Sc
5,2 yer any portion of the actual Russian en-
pre- has not been very favorably received
in France He adds thatnothing has appear
ed to shake his confidence in the opinion he
has before expressed. that Austria is not upon
the eve of declaring war on Russia, nor Rus
sia on Austria, and that Germany is only
her
neutrality as long as possible.
The London correspondent OF the 1ntelli-
gsncer mentions report that the Gar is will
ling to take the basis of the four articles pro-
posed by the Allies provided he may be al
lowed to add fifth. This fifth is said to be,
~ that France and England shall each be at lib
erty to erect fortifcation on the Black Sea
equal to Sebastopol, by which the interests
of each will be as safe as if Sebastopol were
destroyed, and Russia be spared the humilia-
p p ton and the allies the blood and treasure re-
CURED by the demolition of Sebastopol.
The correspondent thinks this would be IN
admissible because it would subject the al
lies to heavy expenditure, in order that the
Gar may not experience an humiliation 1t
81 strikes us that if such proposition has been
made, and the allies are wise, they would do
q well to accept it. Can anything surpass the
audacty of their demand their high-handed
and outrageous demand, that Sebastopol, a
frontier port of Russia, on the borders OF
great sea, where its guns can hurt none but
those who voluntarily come within its range,
should be demolished, ard that too when
they have besieged it thus far in vain, and
there is quite as strong probability of Their
defeat as SUGGEST What should we think,
t7 10 the event of the allies making war upon
the L. States, of demand for the demolition
of New Orleans? They say that Sebastopol
must be destroyed, because an expedite n
from that point can at any time menace Cen
stautinople. And so they might also say,
that as fillibustering expeditions can easily
sail from New Orleans to Cuba. that source
of uneasiness to Spain must be removed
They are as friendly to Spain as Turkey, IS
much opposed to the spread of Democracy
us of Despotism, and would have just as
strong motives and as good reason to make
the demand in the one case as the other. 1t
is indeed most extraordinary demand, one
to which the Emperor of Russia cannot &C
cede without national and personal disgrace,
of the most ignominious kind. Knowing his
pride and resoluteness, as they do they may
be sure that he will never consent to the de-
,nolition of Sebastopol even though war
Of thirty years duration, with ell its accumu-
lated hosSors to Russia and to every country
of Europe, be the result 1t may be expen-
sive to England and France to build and keep
up fortresses ON the Black Sea; but let them
make an estimate of that cost, and then COM
pare it with the cost of thirty years war
with Russia If they want to save morey,
and if they are sincerely solicitous for the
safety of Turkey, they can accomplish their
objects by adopting the suggestion to build
fortresses of their own on the Black Sea.
GEN Wool, THE UNION AND THE SEcREs
TARY OF WAR.-The Union of Sunday morn
ing publishes a letter of Gen. Wool to the
editor of that paper, commenting upon some
remarks in the Union which he deemed un.
- Just to himself. The Union also publishes,
s s in vindicaton of itself, correspondence be.
tween Gen. Wool and the Secretary of War,
spon the points embraced in its remarks
ss@ That portion of the Unions criticism to
which Gen. Wool takes exceptions is as fol-
~ lows:
The military purpose for which the officer (mesu.
ing myself sent to the Pacific coast ia esosnsIy
marked by his assignment to brevet rank The last
mails bring sad intelligence of Indian msssscrss
military department of the Pacific. If the com
mander Of that apartment is to be given up local
country, which feels deep interest in the protsc
ton Of its eal hs ssaia.. such ousge: has right
lost in turning ever the military command of de-
The disehsrse Of his duties by his civil empioSmsnts
nor BY overzeaous attention to his political pres,
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