The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA EVENING, JUNE 4, 1855.

successively adopted by the country. We venture,
however, to warn them again. This evening they
will meet under a heavy responsibility. The most
firm and warlike tone the House can take in its de-
bates and its resolutions is assuredly the one most
in the interest of peace. Let the manly tone of
our Parliament back the recent movements of the
Allies ; let our soldiers, and let St. Petersburg
both see that the time for half measures is com-
pletely gone, that we have kicked away that worse
than useless crutch, Austria, that we defy Prussia,
and that we mean to go to work as we can if we
will—and we are mistaken if Russia does not
strike even too soon. Too soon we mean to dis-
pose our Ministers to demand all they should.
Nothing hitherto has been so adverse to peace as
the avowed moderation of the Allies' demands.
Russia has seen that she could take little harm
from '.continuing a war at the end of which she
was to lose nothing. Lord J. RUSSELL'S un-
statesmanlike avowal that they " did not wish to
diminish the territories of Russia" has, we believe,
more than anything, induced her to be lavish of
her own blood, at the cost to us of so much of
Ours. The ABERDEEN-GLADSTONE policy of hold-
ing back our forces, and the RUSSELL one of
guaranteeing Russia her stolen territories, are
accountable for most of the blood already shed.
Announce that we shall retain henceforth all we
can conquer, and will conquer all we can, and blood
will speedily cease to flow.

We never could understand why merely because
Russia strongly objects, we should recede a mo-
ment from the demand that the Black Sea should
become a purely commercial lake. The Ministry
which does not insist on that deserves to be im-
peached. " Limitation" is truly an absurdity.
With Allied Consuls in every port a naval attack
could not, on the other principle, be ever organised
by Russia. In addition to the territorial penalties,
which any honest Ministry will now inflict on
Russia, one of the most important of securities is
to compel her to pay the whole costs of the War.
True, she might raise the loan to do it on the ex-
changes of Paris and London, bu.t, she would be
saddled with a debt heavy for her means, and it
would not be so easy for her to maintain a peace
army of 800,000 men, and impossible to move
them till commerce had increased and enriched
her ; and then she would, by that very circum-
stance, be less disposed to renew the losing game
of aggression. There is one consideration which
should determine us never to place the Crimea in
Russian hands again. There lie in thousands the
martyrs to the Austro-Gladstone policy. Let
friends to the cause for which they really bled
guard their sacred tombs. They fell as the
HAMPDENS of European liberty ; never let the
Russian serf insult their graves.

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and was then to fortify Kars. The Russian

troops that were expected at Tiflis had been sent
off to the Crimea, and in consequence great appre-
hensions were entertained in Tiflis of an attack bv

Schamyl and the Turks.

Brigandage continues in Greece. Thessaly is

agitated.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY MORNING.
The Indus, with advices from Constantinople of
the 21st ult., has just arrived.
Her despatches will be for warded by train at
1 p.m.

According to advices from the Crimea of the
26th ult., all was going on well at that date.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Moniteur publishes the following despatch
'rom General Pelissier to the Minister of War:—

CRIMEA, JUNE 1, 10 r.m.

We have sprung two mines in front of the
Flagstaff Bastion ; the second explosion did con-

siderable damage to the enemy.

In the ravine of Careening Bay in advance of

our works our engineers discovered a transverse

line of 24 cubic cases filled with gunpowder, each
40 centimetres thick in the inside, placed at equal
distances, and buried just beneath the sod ; each
case, containing one-fiftieth of a kilogramme of

powder, is covered with a fulminating apparatus,
which would explode by the simple pressure of
the foot. These cases have been taken up by our

engineers.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 24.

The corps which Omer Pacha has embarked at
Eupatoria and landed at Karaiesch consists of
25,000 picked men and 40 guns. They were
to be replaced by an Egyptian and Tunisian divi-

sion.

The Russians dare rapidly raising redoubts on
the north side of Sebastopol, but they are not yet
armed; 60,000 of the Allied troops will remain
betbre Sebastopol when the advance is made.
General Mouravieff, Commander-in-Chief of the
Russian detached army of the Caucasus, is in

great want of reinforcements. To supply their
lack he is attempting to raise troops by voluntary

enlistment from among the Armenian population.
He is at the same time endeavouring to negotiate
a suspension of hostilities with Schamyl.
Under the orders of General Williams fifteen
redoubts have been constructed for the defence of
Erzeroum. It is believed that new hostilities
will not be long delayed.

DANTZIC, JUNE 1.

The English Post-office steamer has just arrived.
When she quitted the fleet under Admiral Dun-
das, it was only a few miles from Cronstadt.

STOCKHOLM, JUNE 1.

The King has named as Ambassador to Vienna
Baron de Marden-stroom, who has till now been
Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs. This day's journals approve the choice,
and augur from it that important negotiations
are about to open.

policy of Sweden, -in the present emergency.
Although there is no reason to doubt the King's
remaining faithful to the family traditional policy
of the Bernaclpttes, it cannot be expected that he
seriously contemplates acting in opposition to the
united will of France and England by declining to
take part in the campaign about to commence, and
insisting on the further main tenance of his neutrality.
Many significant signs indicate that the days of the
present cabinet are numbered; and it cannot be de-
nied that a change of ministers at this juncture
would be received by the nation with great satis-
faction, as it is well known that they are but the
willing tools of the crown. An active participa-
tion, in the war must necessarily require great ex-
penses, which involve the convening the Diet for
thp purpose of voting supplies ; and this would be
the best opportunity for the expression of public
opinion. It must, however, be added that the
Government is
,still in possession of a large part
of the sums so liberally voted by the last Diet
under the generic denomination of the " neu-
trality fund," and which might be used by the
executive in defraying the first expenses of the
war, although, perhaps, strictly speaking, voted
for another purpose. However, judging from
the tide of public feeling, it
.is not very hazardous
to prognosticate, not only that the Diet would
make no objection to the alteration, but that, once
fairly engaged in a war, they would liberally vote
any amount of supplies required for the energetic
prosecution of the same. The Swedish press have
of late become rather backward in discussing the
question of peace or war, but the tongue is not so
reserved, and it is not to be wondered at that it
forms the great subject of conversation in every
circle. The Aftonbladet is the only paper that now
raises its voice in favour of war, and demands from
the ministers a categorical explanation of their in-
tentions, that the country may know immediately
what it has to expect. •

THE BALTIC FLEET.
DANTZIC, JUNE 1.
The Princess Alice, despatch boat, Lieutenant
Underwood, arrived here yesterday afternoon, with
the weekly mails, which she brought on from Faro
Sound, the Firefly, Captain Otter, having carried
them to thip place from the fleet.
The news is this week of a very scanty nature.
The whole of the fleet, with the exception of the
Ajax, left the island of Nargen last Saturday, the
26th ult., and, after a few days' cruise, . anchored
again about 16 miles below Cronstadt._

As the Firefly was on the way to Faro Sound,
with the mails from the fleet, she met the French
squadron, consisting of three line-of-battle ships
and one corvette, off Dagerof, the extreme north-
west point of the island of Dago, situate near the
entrance to the Gulf of Finland.
The Magicienne and Merlin have taken several
prizes at a place called Biorko Sound, to the north-
west of Cronstadt.

The general state of health in the fleet continues
to be satisfactory ; during the last 10 days there
has only been one fresh case of small-pox. The
patients in the hospitals on Faro Island, also ap-
pear to be progressing favourably ; about 20 are so
far recovered as to be able to rejoin their respec-
tive ships ; only four cases have as yet terminated
fatally. Lieutenant Hannant, first lieutenant of
the Duke of Wellington, has, however, fallen a
victim to the disease.

The Orion, Captain Erskine, was sent up on the
29th to reconnoitre Cronstadt. He saw six very
large line-of-battle ships, all ready equipped for
sea. . _ _

Commander Marten, R.N., of her Majesty's ship
Exmouth, came down in the Princess Alice yester-
day, on his way to England, having been appointed
to the Royal Albert, flag ship of Admiral Sir
Edmund Lyons, in the Black Sea.