The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-22 00:00:00

SWEDEN.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing letter from Stockholm, dated Nov. 13 :
" In proportion as the sojourn of General Can-
robert is prolonged the population of Stockholm
gives louder vent to its sympathies for the person
of the illustrious soldier and for the country which
he represents. Whenever the carriages stop which
have been placed at his disposal by the King,
crowds assemble and cheer.
" Invited yesterday to the Royal box at the
Opera, the General was the object of a real ovation.
On his arrival the house greeted him with applause,
and successively demanded the national hymn of
Sweden and that of France. The King, who en-
tered the box shortly afterwards, received the most
enthusiastic welcome.
" General Canrobert devotes his mornings to
visits to the military establishments, and the even-
ings to the fetes given in his honour by the Court
and high functionaries.
"The sojourn at Stockholm of the Ambassador
Extraordinary of the Emperor Napoleon appears
likely to be prolonged a few days more. It is as-
serted that on his way to Copenhagen the General
will proceed by lend as far as Elsinore."
A letter from Hamburg says :—" According to
letters from Stockholm, of the 13th, General Can-
robert was to leave that city on the 18th for Copen-
hagen, where the French Minister, M. Dotezac,
has officially announced his speedy arrival. The
King will come to the Palace of Christiansborg to
receive him, and a series of fetes will be given in
honour of the Ambassador Extraordinary of the
Emperor of the French. The French corvette
Assas remains, by order of Admiral Penaud, near
the island of Gothland, to be at the disposal of
General Canrobert."
A letter from Stockholm, in the Post Ampt
Gazette, says :—" The English steam corvette
Harrier which arrived on the Bth at Tralhavet,
near Waxholm, left again on the 10th to watch
the movements of an American mad which has,

it is said, a cargo of revolvers on board for Russia
and which intends taking advantage of the first
favourable opportunity to reach Finland."

DENMARK
A letter from Cupenhagen, in Voss's Gazette of
Berlin, says :—" The people are preparing a grand
reception for General Canrobert, who is expected
here in a few days, and will thus testify the sym-
pathies of the Danish people for the Western
powers, and its disposition to take part in the war
against Russia. Notwithstanding the statements
of certain journals, the general will be received
here with the greatest enthusiasm ; the students
in particular and the society of workmen have an-
nounced their intention of taking part in the re-
ception."

RUSSIA.
Advices from St. Petersburg say the most gloomy
feelings exist for the future. It is believed there
that the Allies will attack the capital in the spring.
A double line of fortified works will be erected
round the city during the winter.
The Augsburg Gazette says that accounts from
Warsaw state that the Emperor Alexander, on his
return, will visit the military preparations which
are now being made in the Baltic provinces. The
recruitment in Russia is being conducted with the
greatest vigour.
It is the intention of the Emperor of Russia to
visit the Baltic provinces immediately, in order to
inspect the military and naval preparations now
being carried on to a considerable extent in that
direction.

A letter from Odessa in the Nord, dated Nov.
5, mentions the town of Marioupol, on the north
coast of th- Sea of Azoff, aq having been bombarded
by the English on the 31st ult. ; more than 100
balls, shells, and other combustibles were thrown
into the town ; and the fire was suspended only in
consequence of a merchant there hoisting the Aus-
trian flag over his warehouses. As this took place
Oct. 31, it is not impossible that it may be some-
thing quite distinct from the affair telegraphed by
Admiral Lyons on the 18th inst., in which such
large stores of provisions were destroyed.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The Sublime Porte has just addressed the fol-
lowing rescript to the Hospodar of Moldavia on
the subject of the Greek monasteries :

" A commission, composed of several high dig-
nitaries of the empire, having been instituted for
the purpose of examining and deciding, in accord-
ance with right and equity, on the question of the
estates belonging to the Greek convents situated
in the Principalities, as long as this commission
was devoting itself to a conscientious inquiry re-
specting that affair, it was your duty to await the
sovereign decision of the Government. Never-
theless a kind of sequestration has been placed by
you on the estates in question, and notices have
been published with injunctions to the tenants not
to pay their half-yearly rents to the monasteries.
The Government reserves to itself the right of
adopting a resolution to this effect, and will cause
it to be put in force by the heads of those monas-
teries ; and, such being notorious, your conduct
with respect to them, and your testifying to them
your distrust, has been deemed inopportune. The
Wallachian Government, which is interested to an
equal degree with yourself in this question, has
acts d differently, and, in fact, these measures of
yours were dictated by no case of necessity.
As the sovereign decision, whatever it may be,
will have to be put into execution, you are invited
to remove without delay the said sequestration ;
and for this end the present rescript will b• trans-
mitted to you.

The 11th Sofer, in the year 1272 of the Hegira.

PORTUGAL.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.
The Rattler steamer brings Lisbon letters of the
14th inst., but no political news of importance.
Upon the departure of M. Fontes Pereira de
Mello, who arrived in England by the last Penin-
sular steamer, a Royal decree was published, stating
that the interests of the State rendered necessary
that Minister's absence for 40 days, during which
the Finance Portfolio is to be under the charge of
the Minister of Justice, and the Department of
Public Works under that of M. Fonseca-Magal-
haens, the Minister of the Interior.
No official notification had been made as to the
reasons for this visit of M. Fontes to England, but
it was generally supposed to be connected with an
arrangement respecting the half-realised conversion
of Portuguese bonds which had been decreed in so
exceptional a manner by Mr. Fontes, and was un •
derstood to have a very prejudicial effect upon all
his efforts to promote, upon a satisfactory basis,
railroads and other public works in Portugal.
The Vectis steam-packet landed her English
mails at Lisbon on the 11th, and left for Cadiz and
Gibralt,r on the 12th ; and on the 13th the Tay,
with th outward mails for Brazil, coaled at Lis-
bon, and went on again at five the same afternoon.
Her Majesty's ships St. George awl Neptune
were at anchor in the Tagus on the 14th.
At the hour the Rattler lett Lisbon the funeral
procession of M. Joze Sebastiao, owner of Paucas
and eldest brother of the Duke of Saldanha, was
passing through the streets. M. Jose Sebastiao
had been long unwell, and his death took place
only two days after the decease of his wife, who
had died very suddenly.