The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-27 00:00:00

MALTA.

MALTA, June 21.—The French packet Alex-
andre, which arrived last night from Alexandria,
is to sail this morni4; for Marseilles.
The Lanrentine Julia, French brig transport
(791), from Marseilles, with 15 soldiers and 20
horses, for Kamiesch ; and the Lucie, French
brigantine transport (712), from Marseilles, with
29 soldiers and 30 horses, for Kamiesh, have also
arrived.

Yesterday evenino. a French screw line-of-battle
ship was signalled to the north-west, steering east-
wards. On arriving off the island, she turned and
took a four-masted American vessel in tow, sup-
posed to be the Great Republic, from Marseilles,
with French troops for the Crimea. A French
sailing line-of-battle ship also passed from east
to west yesterday evening. Early this morning
her Majesty's ship Himalaya came in from Bala-
klava and Cmstantinople, and will proceed to
England in two or three day to refit, with a few

sick and wounded on board. The Himalaya, on
her passage from Constantinople during the night
of the 18th, in a partial fog, ran foul of a foreign
merchant barque, carrying away the barque's bow-
sprit and topmast, and doing her other trifling
damage. She was immediately taken in tow by
the Himalaya, which returned with her to Syra,
then distant 70 miles. The Himalaya sustained
no other damage than one of her boats being broken
to pieces. No casualty of any kind occurred among
the mules on board during the whole transit from
Gibraltar to the Crimea, and they were lauded in
first-rate condition.

THE BALTIC FLEET.
OFF SESKAR, Juno 18.—At 7 o'clock on the
morning of the 11th the Magicienne retnrned from
a cruise along the coast of Finland between Hel-
siigfors and Viborg ; on the 9th, when passing
between the island of Rivansari and the mainland,
she came suddenly upon an encampment of about
3,000 of the enemy, who had with them six
heavy field-pieces ; she came to an anchor
about 1,200 yards from the shore, when the
Russians opened fire upon her, which she imme-
diately returned with such rapidity and correct-
ness of aim that the enemy were forced to retreat
to the woods, out of range of her guns. They must
have suffered severely, for the Magicienne fired
more than 100 shot and shell in less than a quarter
of an hour, and at that distance the execution must
have been very great. The ship escaped without
the slightest accident, except that the first shot
from the enemy cut through her chain cable and
lodged in her stem, where it now remains as a
trophy, and, continuing her cruise, she captured
and destroyed several schooners and ga]liots laden
with hewn granite for the forts at Crolistadt.

JUNE 15.
At 4 30 p.m., the Merlin parted company on a
mission to Helsingfors, with a flag of truco from
Admiral Dundas, most likely concerning the mur-
der of the boat's crew at Hango.

JUNE 18.
At 2 a.m. this morning the Vulture arrived with
the mails, having accomplished the distance from
Dantzic to Seskar in 62 hours. The Merlin and
the Driver arrived almost at the same time, the lat-
ter from cruising, and the former with the answer
to the Commander-in-Chief's despatches to the Go-
vernor of Helsingfors. She arrived off there on
Saturday at 1 p.m., when a boat came out of the
harbour to meet her, and, having received the de-
spatch, hastened back again ; but it was not until
Sunday at 2 p.m., during which time the Merlin
lay at anchor within 3,500 yards of the fortress,
that an answer was returned. It is with great
pleasure I am now enabled to correct a part of my
last letter, the incorrectness in which was owing to
the confused account given by the only man who
was supposed to have escaped death at Hango. It
now appears that only four of our men were killed;
the others have been made prisoners. I believe
none of the officers were wounded, and two of those
killed were the stewards.

We are most anxiously awaiting the arrival of
mortar vessels and batteries. The people from the
village on Seskar have returned from the island
they had fled to. There are about 150 women and
children ; not a boy above 12 years old has been
left, husbands and sons having been taken away to
serve the Emperor.