The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-08


cannot always avoid breaches OF the petce, leading
20 rapipe and bloodshed, in old communities Of set
TIED law and welEama gamated population, II IS
certainly rather stronger eitort IN the way OF M
ference 20 charge the sushorties Of Panama, or any
part OF them, with o0nnivance at popular outbreak
on that uneasy soil
No thinking politician can dispute the substantial
interest Of the United States in the establishment
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The question for
them vitality concerns the deyelopement Of the re-
sources OF which they are legitmately ID posses
sion. We may, well understand their being fully
alive to its importance, without necessarily
plant OF q rage for new dominion. At the same
time they do not stand alone in the world With re-
gard TO keeping up an efficient police on the lsthmus
Of Panama. nisa proper and lawful object on
sessions on the Pacific with their great reservoirs of
capital and labor in the Northeast it is equally in
cumbent on us to keep an eye ON the future trade
route between the Old World and Australia. Com
from the scene Of action Is o. no
intersect each other at the point under consideration
The strange and offensive element of the project on
which the Cabinet of Washington profess TO be deli
beratng is the utter foegetfuness it involves OF the
fact that the Clayton Bulwer treaty, and all the ne
gotiatoDs and compacts by which it has been rein
forced, are based the admission that this great
channel should be preserved from the paramount in
duence OF my single nation.
Settlement OF the Sound Ducs-Policy OF the
United States towards Denmark.
From the London Post Oct IL
appears ut last tolerably certain that the vexed CUES
ton Of the Sound dues about to reach definite solution
Of date now Tough tey a. old :, the Oldest Of Euro
pean shipping Their origin is unknown; but probably
was IN the days Of the Vikings, when commanding po
The narrow strait either shore Of which they could
poupce upon their prey Was too much for the morality
Of the dragons Of the wave and they proosOy took
they fonnd entangled in those difficult waters Tue
Sound was In short q favorite preserve Of the
they took up their quarters in their pecuer fashion In
NeuetrA and Sicily The Baltic, however, OF the
earliest seats o. European commerce When London did
pool was but tenanted by the Wild fowl whence derives
tts name, the Hapse Towns were powerful confedera
ton Of comDercial republics Indeed II was very much
for the proeton Of commerce against the pracal chief
tains OF the Scandinavian seas well the robber
knight: Of tho Rhine that a. early a. the twelfth cen
Italy, which It one time amounted TO seven.
he rsspsc. and dssd The power Of kings
probably carrying out the suggestion Of this body we
early nd the Danish claim the Sound Dues based upon
guard ships and from the pers Of the by means Of
lights and landmarks The Danes must be remember
ed had possession Of the coasts on both sides ofhe Soand
until about two hundred years agefor the province o!
Scana not coded to Sweden until 1868, and then,
by the treaty OF Roeskeld, stipulated that Sweden
OF this cesson, though she TO receive compeDsa
ton for keeping up the lights her coasts The right
Of Denmark 70 levy this hapost seems never TO have
been contested. II was recognised In treaty With
the Hanse towns in 1858; with England In l4so when
Henry VII. not only acknowledged the justice OF the
claim, but forbrde his subjects evade by pass
ing the Great Belt except in Of absolute necessity,
in which they 70 pay the same dues ct borg
they would have done At Elsnore with the Emperor
Charles " in 1914 and it'll the united provinces OF the
Netherlands in l64s when for the first time, tariff OF
specific duties therein enumerated annexed to the
treaty, and IL stipulated that goods not .Ion
ed in the Lat should pay according 70 mercantile
usage and what had been practised from ancient times
"a stipulation which was, in 110l modified into an Gi
the right WAS never disputed and at the Congress
Vienna in l8l4lb, was LEFT undisturbcd, and the pre-
scrpuve title ofDenmark 70 levy this inpost is therefore
Europe
The United States paid those duties without any treaty
which was provided that neither the vessels Of tn
United States nor their sheuld when they passe
The Sound or the Belts pay higher or other duties ,ha
tions In accepting this concession the Cabinet Of Was
ington pied to dispute the right OF Denmar
wrote 70 the Dspish Minister at Washington, tia
Instructions would be forwarded 10 inc Unite
s..ses Consul a. E.ino,s, 49,. recurring IN him, !
the found ON maintaining nvioste the rules and raGus
tons Of tsc Customs and Id preventing fraud upon tn
fusal Of the United States to pay those duties and w
shall mot enter into that part Of the question further thar
10 remark that the American contribution TO tho Sound
dues forty sixth Of the WHOLE and thirteenth
Of that paid BY the commerce Of this country.
The question, however. having been thus raised
is very w.sly offered l 70 acSep' compsn
The complication nfsiy 70 arise nom the quar-
Prussia a pretext for embroling themselves With Den
mark whenever may suit their policy 70 90 soas NIGH
any time No doubts the capacity Of Russau
sslucson 70 the entrance % he Bc and = RSsss I'd
mits vessel into her pors without certificate that
over p. ns Ss Ss
be remembered that 10 not much the amount OF ths
dues that constitutes the grievance - the h
the cumbersome Formally, the occasional necessity fo
the master going Ashore for purposes connected with ths
. LEAVING n S ship o ns mercy ns ., n
their own purposes. 10 Of importance 70 US tha
the navigation Of the Sound should be perfectly ree FOL
both duties and detention Affect NOT only exports
the Baltic but worry valuable imports Of hides homp
alow, and the many important articles Of matera
We derive nom that source. According 70 tho most scca
rate calculation that be made tho burden imposed By
this toll upon British commerce Ii about CT, 900 an
nuay-a sam certain 70 increase with IN increasing
s.p :: s: sSa
which, irrrespsc i've OF oshsr considerations, vould
"a, which pays annually nearly the same Toll a'
Great Britain, and whose stape export are pecu
sry n.5 VI. . TN the Sound d,,o auss
aS1os.
several other nations equally willing. The whole
,chcme whom carried into effect, viii have most bene
fetal effect upon the comm cree Of the Baltic. Tue 81
crihce OF 10 Denmark will appear serious FIRST
being a. much m s2bo,ec0 out Of . total revenue 81
f2bso COO but there h the set Of OF the OF sbou
900 70 be paid down immediately, and there ap
pears 70 be little doubt that on the whole, the arrange
meni will be profitable to Denmark and 70 all parties
concerned. England, BY the payment Of little than
. million OF money, win Tree her commerce from dues
equally burdensome 70 her imports and her exports, and
w aid in keeping the peace Of tbs world should the unt
States persist In refsr to pay dues which they have
admitted 70 be just she will exhibit her friendnes-
towards that spirited te nation which, not very lone
ago, won the admiration Of Europe by the vaIor with
which defended it, native land and she may possibly
incrt those relations Of commerce with Russa
may preserve that amy between the two nations which
40 much 70 be desired The composition OF Russia Il
sssessed at about f ooono other nation reaching
hall the sum- Indeed, out OF the O. 900 Eng and and
Russia furnish G. $50 600 between them. II may not be
Of pace add that amount OF burden upon
The commerce Of the United States with In 600 600
OF imports and 900 Of exports TO cvade tho pay
mept OF which Neess. Pierce and Marcy we're ready N
wrap the Baltic n Games and risk general all
the world was estimated At the annual sum Of f5 VA
sterling
4 The Frigate Mcprfmac at SO1fhsmpton.
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