The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-10-31

t seen that the settlement vi eie 'eAoa
/ of the sound dues, will probably be ATTENDED
: with many difficulties:
The Paris correspondent Y, of the lndepen
n dance Beige, in his last letter. aludes' IN M;
: ex cathedra style, to our dispute with Denmarf
touching the sound tolls. He denies poslllveiy
: the reports that France has been attempting te
e negotiate the entrance of Denmark into the all
r ance against Russia, that Denmark wished te
I.stipulate as condition Of her entrance into the
league that France would protect her against The
United States pretension to exemption IRON
i sound tolls after the expiration OF the existing
0 treaty, that Napoleon rejected this condition
: and that the result has been GOODNESS between
. the two courts. els there any one, ne asks
"who really believes that France and England
S would not be able promptly to compass thei1
Y end, if they thought it necessary that Swede1
= and Denmark should Join the alliance, and really
desired that they should do SOP Y. then adds
respecting the matter in dispute with the Uniteo
States:
Upon this very question, presented to us as
c it is at this moment, there would be long dis
t cussion to enter upon if we are to examine 1t
, thoroughly and in all its bearings, but at pres
ent will confne myself to remarking that
France cannot be called upon to undertake SIN
gle-handed the cause of Denmark, and in the
manner that Denmark would desire, and it is
, even still less possible that the United States
should come and settle this question perempto-
rily and arbitrarily to suit themselves. This is
; a question of European interest, and as such ii
will be examined and settled by the govern
ments of Europe. When this shall be done, ii
f would be strange if an American powershould
pretend to violate the rules established and re-
coenized as part of the law of nations of Eu-
) rope and to make for herself distinct law to
suit her own fancy. If that American power
! should presume to do violence to the European
settlement, it would not be France singly that
would have to protect Denmark. 1t would be
entire Europe, whose duty it would become to
cause its law and dignity to be respected by &C
cepting the war which the outrage of the Uni
ted States would have declared against it y
The semi official writer distinctly intimates,
as you perceive, that the United States will not
be permitted to play the proud and dignifed
role which in my last letter, while rather re-
GREETING that our government should have SO
promptly assumed it, was contemplating with
some satisfaction as an American considering
it as proof of our weghtin the scale of nations.
We see plainly in the above extract an express
sion Of the jealousy of American interference
| in European concerns to which made allusion
| had no idea, however, that this jealousy would
be so strong or so universally shared in as to
provoke an alliance of centre Europe" in OPP
position to their own superior interests, which
would be with US in the dispute torebuke and
chastse our presumption. Yet there is perhaps
no writer, without the limits of the official Mon
teur, whose lucubrations are more entitled than
those of ''Y.'' to the special consideration ac
corded to those known to be inspired in high
governmental regions, emanatlng IN fact from
one of the ministry If they do not actually
proceed 'Ffom the chair, or from beside the
chair" and it would be we'll, if our government
does pursue this matter with as high hand
and to the extremity threatened, thatit accom-
pany the measures with such demonstration
of force as will show that we are prepared for
and willing to meet any contingency to which
the crisis may give rise. The semi official jour
nal (Pays) has long rather taunting article
upon this subject 1t suggests that it will soon
be necessary to convoke a European congress
to regulate this matter of the sound tells and
other mooted questions of general import. A
letter from Berlin in the Augsburg Gazette
states that the Danish government has declared
itself willing to reduce for all countries the sound
uucn IL 10 Sdiu tildb AuStiitt udS stiOuSlt IC-
commended Denmark to make this concession,
and that this latter power will shortly make its
intentions known to all the states interested in
the question. Another letter from Berlin Of
the 4th. in the Cologne Gazette, says:
Austria is said to have offered her meditation
to Denmark in her difference with the United
States. Doubts are entertained here as to
WHISTLER the United States will consent to the
compromise which Denmark intends proposing
of lowering the sound duties generally, but
Prussia would be quite disposed to accept it.
The New York Herald publishes an account
of an official correspondence on the affairs of
the republic of Dominica, embodied in letter
from its Washington correspondent, which
clearly confirms all that has been alleged of
the wide scope of lord Clarendon's sbalance
of power in both hemispberes. Not only have
the English and French consuls compelled the
Dominicans to retract the new and enlarged
treaty of amity and commerce, which through
the agency of gen. Cazneau, they had made
with this republic, but they have extorted stip-
ulations from them that, IN all their diplomatic
engagements hereafter, there shall be no dis
tinctions of caste Or color conceded to by any
foreign power, and no admission of any colo
nlZing adFenIurefS nom OtneT countries, dIiHeC
or unarmad. There is no installing, says the
Richmond Dispatch, the country or the section
Of country at which this blow is aimed. We
trust it is not too late for our government to
meet in becoming manner this demonstration
of resolution by the allied powers, to over
throw the Monroe policy of non-interventon,
on the part Of the European governments, in
the domestic affairs of the independent nations
of this continent.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Republic
can, writing from Great Salt lake, says that ga
sweet substance has been discovered on the
rocks and leaves of the trees in Utah valley,
large quantities of which have been collected,
boiled, strained and run in cakes like maple
sugar, which it resembles. Like honey dew,
it is formed by the elements, and the most ex-
traordinary circumstance connected with it is
the immense quantity extending over SO great
space" 1t contains, he says, much saccha-
rine matter. No doubt the cunning old poly
gamist, Brigham Young, will seize upon this
new substance as a nroof til at kind Providpnca