The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-21 00:00:00

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A Vienna letter of the 15th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—"The accession of Spain to the
Western Alliance is now considered certain. In-
telligence to that effect has reached us both from
Paris and Madrid. But it is also believed that
this will not be the only accession, and that it
will be followed by that of the Scandinavian
States. It is asserted that England and France
have agreed to the conditions proposed by Swe-
den ; they guarantee her actual possessions, and
engage, in case she can reconquer her ancient
States, to place sufficient troops at her disposal
for a *pertain number of years to maintain pos-
session of them. As to Denmark, the matter is
stated to be as good as settled there also, the
Danish Admiral Aiourier, now in Paris, being
entrusted with the necessary powers for the de-
finitive conclusion of a treaty with the Western
Powers."

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO
PARIS.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Queen left St. Cloud this morning at half-
past ten for Paris, visited the Exposition of Fine
Arts, lunched at the Elysee, and received the
Foreign Ambassadors. In .the course of the
morning her Majesty visited the Sainte Chapelle,
and also the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Here
her Majesty was received by the Archbishop of
Paris, who pronounced a discourse. The royal
party then visited the Hotel de Ville, followed
the. Rue Antoine Bastille, and returned by the
Bo u e nat.

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(Front the Moniteur.)

Their Excellencies the Ministers, the Presi-
dent of the Legislative Corps and the President
of the Council of State, had the honour of being
presented to-day, at three o'clock, in the Palace
of St. Cloud, to her Majesty the Queen of Eng-
land and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, by
his Majesty the Emperor. His Excellency the
President of the Senate, being absent from Paris,
was not able to be present at this presentation.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

Her Majesty has passed the whole of the day
privately at St. Cloud. We stated yesterday that
she would come to Paris at 11 in the morning to
attend Divine service at the chapel of the British
embassy, and this was the arrangement, but last
night Dr. Hall, the chaplain, received a command
to proceed to St. Cloud this morning to read
prayers and preach before the Queen there. Pro-
bably the unexpectedly late hour at which her
Majesty arrived at St. Cloud last night rendered
this change in the arrangements necessary for her

convenience. The performances on the occasion
of the Queen's visit to the Grand Opera, on Tues-
day, will commence with selections from Verdi,
Halevy, and Moyerbeer, in which all the principal
singers of the company will appear. There will
afterwards be a ballet, at the conclusion of which
" God save the Queen" will be sung by the whole
strength of the company. No augmentation in
th• price of places will be made, but this is a fact
of small importance to the public, inasmuch as

every seat has been long since taken.
At the Opera Comique the stalls usually charged
6fr. will cost 25fr.

THE BOMBARDMENT -
SWEABORG.
( From the Special Correspondent of the Times.. )
DANTZIC, AUG. 17.
The Vulture (6), Captain Glasse, arrived in the roads
at about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She brings the
weekly mails from Nargen, to which place the Allied
squadron returned on the 13th- inst.
On the 7th August, at 9.30 a.m., signal was made
from the flag-ship, "Outward and leewardmost ships'
weigh." The fleet, consisting of 9 British line-of-battle
ships, 13 steam-frigates and sloops, 16 mortar-vessels,
and an equal number of gun-boats, sailed from Nargen,
and after a pleasant run of five hours, anchored at a
distance of about 5,000 yards from the fortress of
Sweaborg. In the course of the same evening the
French fleet joined, and immediately commenced throw-
ing up a mortar battery on the island of Langorn, situate
some 2,050 yards to the north of the cluster of five
islands which form the principal part of the fortress of
Sweaborg. During the Bth both fleets were busily
employed preparing for action ; the mortar vessels were
towed into position, about 3,70 yards from the fortress,
with 400 fathoms each of cable to "haul and veer on,'
as circumstances might require. This arrangement'
proved of the greatest advantage, and much credit is
due to the originator of this excellent idea. The
line-of- battle ships remained in the sane order
they had
at first anchored in. The steamers Ma
gicienne, Vulture, and Euryalus took up a position
in rear of the mortar vessels, for the purpose of
being ready
to give them and the gun-boats an,,
assistance they might require. The Lightning and
Locust were ordered to hold themselves in readiness
to tow out any gun or mortar vessels that might be in-
jured, or otherwise rendered incapable of remaining
longer under fire ;
in fact, every possible arrangement
having been made,
which prudence and foresight could
suggest, the signal was made from the flagship at 7.15
on the morning of. the
.9th, "pun and mortar veFsel-
open fire with shell." At 7.30 a.m. 'the first mortar way
fired and taken up along the whole line,_ ills gun-boats
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