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levy the sound The second is because,

+ niZance OF that particular questions SUE II Woui
1t be competent to deal with the great lnterna
n tional principles involved, and affect the night
g of commercial freedom, as well as access to tn
q Baltic The proposition Is pronounced obJec
o tionable because BY the terms IN which 1t wa
h made, it was contemplated that the consIdera
i ton of the question Of the sound dues shout
h he comn1insled with and made subordinate
: a matter wholly extraneous- the bal
: ance of power among the governments of Eu
e rope. At the sametime the message declare
that the u. s. are ready to pay fair proper
s ton of the expenses incurred by Denmark 70
y the improvement of the navigation of the sound
d The difficulty with Mr. Dillon, the Frenc
c consul, is announced to have been settled. a
also is that with doct. King, at Athens.
: The Spanish government is reported TO hav
g expressed its disapprobation Of the action Q
: the authorities in Cuba in the Black War
i ror case. and to have paid the indemni
t ty claimed for the damages sustained
Spain has also agreed to pay indemnity 7
: American citizens for losses sustained, in con
sequence of the sudden repeating of the deere
t of 1914, permitting the free importation Q
building materials and provisions into the islam
+ for six months The satisfaction claimed 70
the outrage perpetrated in the FL Dorado case
it is stated has not yet been received: but Their
is no doubt. tits added, that it will be accorded
The president expresses the hope that the U
s. will be able to settle in an amicable manner
all her difficulties with Spain
i The state Of our affairs with Mexico is re
ferred to. The unhappy condition of tina
country, has prevented the pressing of thu
claims of American citizens against Mexico
for redress of grievances which they have sus
tanned. These will be pressed as soon as a
stable government shall be established.
/ Central American affairs are also noticed. =
The message states that the weakness of the
/ government, and their consequent inability to
! repel lnvaslons, has devolred upon the presi-
dent the greater necessity of restraining them
from being sent out from this country
Treaties ofamity, commerce and navigation
are announced TO have been concluded with the
Two Sicilies and Nicaragua upon the princi-
pies of commercial reciprocity. cd ae
| The receipts into the o. S. treasury from all
| sources are stated to have amounted TO about
s65, OO5, $50. The payments, exclusive ofthe
public debt, are reported to have been upwards
of $50, OO0,o 600
The amount of the public debt of the U. S.
is now reduced below $40, 100000.
The message suggests the creation of a re-
tired list for disabled army officers, and an in.
crease of compensation to officers in active SER
vice. The recommendation formerly made bv
the president for the partial reorganization Of
the army is renewed.
With regard to the navy, the message also
suggests further legislation. An appropria-
ton for the building of sixteen new sloops of
war is recommended.
WAR AND FooD.-The governments of the
old world present a remarkable contrast 70 that
of the United States They are struggling for
gold land contracting vast debts, while the Anne
rcan governments strugglingt to get rid of gold
and get in its debts. The English chancellor
and the French minister issue the most taking
offers for money in stocks, and our minister
offers tempting proposals for his stocks in mon
ey. The ministers of Europe are contriyino,
however, to make new taxes and old ones more
productive, the American congress is puzzled
with the problem how to diminish the revenue
by amelioratng taxes. The political fears of
Europe and America are both directed to revo-
luton as the consequence of financial embar- |
rassment, but from Numerically opposite caus-
es. The gulf of bankruptcy yawns before /
ruption threatens tooyerwhelm republicans. In !
France, particularly, the evil day is at hand, /
since it seems to be a fatality that no govern
ment can stand bad harvest. To the fright
full cost of the war, is added now deficiency /
in food seldom equalled, and from which the
gravest results are apprehended by the govern
ment. ~ %@Fs
The measures adopted intimate that the live
liest fears exist in relation to the coming year,
and it is a curious fact that food is higher in
the usual markets of supply than in those of
showing the operation of causes
other than commercial, at work. If the gov
al France, like that of the old Roman
empire, Rndertaken to feed the imperial city at
all, it must do SO wholly. since the moment it
enters the markets to purchase. it raises prices
upon all mercantile buyers, and when it sells,
it is at a loss. which individual merchants can
not and will not sustain. The moment there
fore. it is known that the government is in The
markets, the consumers lose the whole coupe
ration for their supply of the vast mercantile
ca ptal employed in the trade. The inadequate
operations of the government then jeopardise
starvation. To avoid such result, the gov
must enlarge the system of supplying
bakers tickets TO the people of Paris, By guar.
anteeing profit to all importers of food! The
question of government stability is fast resoly-
ing itself into one of food and finance The
we'll being of the people must be considered,
and these are incompatible with gigantic wars
from government motives. The money which
has been raised in France, and wasted this year
in war, would have met the food question with
out much difficulty. As is, the horrors of ia
mine for the masses are augmented by the evils
of war, and the coming year is likely to test
the stability of the Napoleon dynasty.
The Washington Union publishes procla-
nation of the president, dated Washington,
Dec 2, to the effect that satisfactory evidence
having been received that the province Of New
has consented to have the provisions
of the reciprocity treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, signed on June 5.
1854, extended to it. and to allow the United
States the full benefit of all the stipulations L
therein contained, SO far as they are applicable
to thatprovnce, the articles enumerated below,
being the growth and produce of the British
North American colonies shall he aS,,;,+o3