The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-27
N the Special Correspondent OF the n. 7. Tribu
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.

From Special Correspondent Of the n Y. Tribune.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE
Schemes against the Un;ted States-DeRma TO
join the Ailiance-7he Sound duties Maintained
| The American Commission at Sevastopol-Ihe
| place IMPROBABLE.
PARIS, Thursday Sept 6. 1856.
There are facts transpiring at this moment in
! arts of very grave import to the United States
facts which going to influence SO largely the ex
terror relations of the country for years to come,
that too much importance cannot be given to the
subject while yet in its infancy. The people of the
United States are upon the eve of Presidential
election, and to those abroad who with anxiety
the complications which are arising for the future
of their country, the importance which is given to
sectional questions at home and the little attention
paid to exterior relations only serve to Increase
/ their anxiety.
There are at this moment in Paris two Special
Commssioners-the one from she Government of
Denmark, the other from that of Spain-who are
daily closeted with the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, endeavoring TO arrange treaties of alliance
offensive and defensive, against Russia the one
hand and the United States on the other. The
Spanish alliance, which has already been sufficient
~ discussed, and whose features and objects are
already known to the American public, meets with
complications in its adjustment in religious questions
and questions foreign to the interests of the United
States, which very much retard its consummation
and which even render the issue OF the negotiations
doubtful 1t is none the less true, however, that
such negotiations are going on, and that they had
for primary and sole nstigation the Cuban ques~
| ton.
The other negotiation, however, that with the
Government of Denmark, makes more rapid pro-
gress. 1t is now three weeks since the emissary
of the DANISH Government arrived in Paris, bring
| ing with him as an entering-wedge into the good
graces of the French Government the Order of the
Elephant, IS a present from the King of Denmark
TO the Emperor of France. Owing to the confu-
sion attendant upon the Queens visit, negotia.
tons were not entered upon till a week after the
arrival of the Commissioner, and the interviews
with Count Walewski have taken place daily ever
since. Go se- q; .... s. isoziia -'a.a
In recent letter to the Tribune, stated that
public opinion in France as expressed through the
columns of the Liberal journals and in the Streets
in regard TO the question of the Sound Dues, (for
the question is exciting vast deal Of attention in
France1 was rather favorable to the position taken
by the United States This opinion is still just
one, but the same sentiments whether from justice
policy the reader win himself judge do not pre-
vail with the French Government. The French
Government is not only listening with an attentive
ear to the propositions which Denmark offers, but
there is imminent danger that it viii accept them.
Denmark agrees to enter the alliance against Rus
STA on condition that England and France win, first
| by threatening attitude, and secondly by cannon,
il necessary, aid her against the United States and
after the close Of the war, protect her against
Russia. = - --t
The Danish Government is determined not to sub
mt to demand, for to yield to the United States
would be 10 give up the principle on which t bases
its claim, and all nations would at enjoy the
same right Denmark is deeply involved in debt
to Russia, and France is holding out to her the idea
that if che wall join the alliance, the success Of the
allies will be proportionalls insured, and at the
close of the war, such settlement will be made as
| will release Denmark from her ties TO Russia
| Without the Sound Dues Denmark would soon be
| so completely insolvent that her independent ex
istence a nation would be in imminent peril.
Do not these facts very clearly point out the prob
able termination of the negotiations which are now
going on in the Cabinet of the French Minister OF
| Foreign Affairs. t.-
Russia, knowing that the sympathies of the United
States are with her in the present contest and anx
ious to embro so powerful a nation in quarrel with
her enemies will not only be willing but will rOce
to see her dependency Qor such Denmark is) sepa-
rate herself from her and join the Allies Russis.
will then expect, by losing the neutrality of small
State to gain the active cooperation of powerful
one; and to accomplish this the Russian Cabinet will
bring to bear the whole force Of its consumnate
diplomacy.
Neither France nor England desires q war with
the United States, either on their own account or
that of others, and if the Emperor Of France (who
now controls the government Of both England and
France) believed seriously that the United States
would go to war against Denmark, as an ally of
France and England he would be the last man to
enter into such alliance. But il 50 happens that
the Emperor of France beleves-and have the
best of evidence for making the assertion-that the
United States is too weak in her President and Cab
met too weak in her slavery discussions, to boldly
face the menaces which an alliance of this kind
would offer her. He is instructed to believe, by his
faithful NJ Sartiges at Washington that in the face
Of positive stand on the part of Denmark, which
is in very good position to defend vigorously the
passage of her Sound and Belt, backed by the Gov
ernments of France and England, the unwarlike,
conservative, and timid Mr.. Marcy would yield upon
some technicaity which would be accepted as an
equivalent for the point yielded. The Emperor be-
ieves further and will be excused for saying that
| during a four years residence in France, / have
never We. met any Frenchman, however intelligent,
who could comprehend the institutions or the PEG.
pie of the United States) that the moment any Sc
rious calamity happens to the country, such as a
| threatened war against the powerful nations of
Western Europe, that that moment viii be seized
upon by the South to declare her Independence of
the policy and the dictation of the North and that
she will take immediate steps for secession and
dissolution Of the Union. He does not believe that
this event will occur but he believes that the fear
of it will operate so forciby upon the nerves Of the
feeble Government which is now in power at Wash
| ington that Denmark will obtain all she demands
without arriving at such an extremity, and France
and England will come off principal gamers by the
operation in the aid which they viii get from Dem
! mark against Russia. The war once concluded
and the services of Denmark no longer required, it
is quite probable that the Emperor Of France might
be among the first 70 declare the Sound Dues IN.
just, and their payment by France a burden which
she could not tolerate. ..7 @
! II is the decided sentiment of every American
have met that the United States should neither yield
the position she has taken, agree to a Congress OF
Nations take the initiative in the renewal of
the treaty between the two countries. IL Is her
right par erceleace, aside from any question which
may exist between her and Denmark, TO take the
initiative in any steps for the abolition Of the bar
barous restraints to which the commerce Of the
world is subjected by ancient customs and prejudi-
ces; and on such an occasion as this she ought to
assert her right Tta
As much as England and France may be ANXIOUS