The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-17
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FURTHER EXTRACTS.
PEACE sPECULATIoNs,

- Al " - - + EC n III -.
m LETTER FROM RUSSIAN NoBLxMAN
The following Is said to be an extract from pri.
vate letter from Russian nobleman attached to
In Paris
we suffer greatly from the war; and every.
body desires peaee-everybody. But
IN spite Of our sufferings we wculd not consent tn
peace dishonorable to Russia, nor TO one which
should diminish her power In any respect Even
those who opposed the war in the beginning. and
were loudcst in their complaints of MenschikoG
now say the same thing. = : We laugh
at the grotesque idea of Cabinet allowing itself
TO be influenced by the "moral wephtp of the 4, ar
man powers being thrown into the scale Of the
Alhes-an iaea which was started by the French
Emperor and which Is insisted on by his ne,vspa.
pers. 'f'
The moral weight of the German powers /,
They have none! If their moral power had conn.
ted for anything in our eyes we should never have
gone to war, for Austria and Prussia and all the
German powers employed their naval tmoral y
power to prevent us. But our Old Chancellor
Nesselrode thinks il polite to be civil to the said
powers; and so our Emperor will probably return
autograph replies TO the letters he has received
from them-but those letters will say nothing. =
We are all pleased to see how firm the
Car remains in the midst ofhe disasters that have
befallen us. He even beheld the ruins of Sebas-
to pol without any real encouragement. 4
Peace is not so seriously thought of here
and all that Is said about it in England, France and
Germany is silly. doubt even if there will be any
negotiations, but if there be- depend upon it, that
they VIII be undertaken on our part merely to gain
some secondary o6ect-not at all for peace
THE SOUND DUES QUESTION.
Relations 6etoeen Denmark and the United States
Hhdtts to be Done H-Hhdt is thonghtof Mfr. Mar
cys Dispatches 10 the american Minister at Copea
hagcni
From the London Times.l
With the increasing relations between the United
States and the European Powers, with the exten-
SION OF American commerce, and the consciousness
OF unfolding strength on the part of the American
people, many international questions are likely to
arise, and many rights acquesced in by custom are
likely to be contested A document has just issued
from the American Department of State which
places in clear light the position which the United
States government conceives itself entitled to
maintain Mr.. Marcy expressly tells his Minister
at Copenhagen that he has no intention of arguing
further on the question; enough, he thinks has
been said-America has arrived at its conclusion,
which Is that it is not bound to pay.
Whatever justice there may be in the arguments
winch the Americans so peremptorily urge, there
can be no doubt that the payment of these dues,
eonsecrated by prescription and justified by CON-
mon sense, may fairly be demanded. To such an
extent, indeed, has this demand been admitted by
Great Britain, that the interest on Danish loans
raised in this country has been guaranteed on the
receipts of these very Sound Dues Again, the
expense of keeping up the aids to navigation
would fall on small and poor State which gains
but little from the trade of its great neghbors.-
Denmark has, however, no doubt, grounded her
claims on wrong basis She claims the right to
stop any ship at pleasure not because she has built
lighthouses, but because she is one of the Powers
which hold the Strait She alleges that it is only
of her free bounty that ship proceeds, even when
it has paid the dues She holds to the theory that
power possessing the shores of strait may ex-
cude all foreign vessels-a claim entirely indefen-
sible, and one which would, as Mr.. Marcy urges,
close the Dardanelles and the Straits of Reggoi,
and even the Mediterranean. if the British once
more possessed Tangier. If Denmark takes lower
ground she will have the world on her side Every
nation is interested in preserving the safe naviga
fair amount for such safety. The trade of the Bal
tic will probably be vastly increased when this
war has been brought to close, and we trust
that by that time Denmark will have made fair
terms with the nations of both the Old and New
World.