The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-04 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

The writer of a letter from Seskar, bearing date
Sept. 23, states that he had a very interesting con-
versation a few days since with a Swedish gentle-
man of high family connexions, and holding an
important public office. He said, " What do we
(northern nations) rare for Russian preponderance
in the south ; it is her preponderance in the north
that hangs over us like a nightmare, and if the
Allies do not beat Russia in the north as they have
done in the south, the Baltic will be a Russian
lake, and Sweden and Denmark will be absorbed.
If the Allia3 would guarantee Finland and the
Aland Isles to the Swedes, and enter into treaties
to this effect, and maintain the integrity of Sweden
and Denmark, we would cheerfully join them ;
nay, we should be rejoiced and glory in the al-
liance, and with our flotilla of gun-boats, and
60,000 troops, besides the Danish forces, Russia
would soon bite the dust." Now this appears to
be common sense ; but for the Danes or Swedes to
come without this guarantee would be murder. If
we deserted them they would be at the mercy of
the Northern bear.

Count Bernstorff and Count Hatzfeld, Prussian
Ambassadors to the Courts of London and Paris,
have arrived at Coblenz, summoned, it is said, by
the King of Prussia, in order to inform him ver-
bally of the actual state of affairs, and the present
intentions of the Cabinets of Paris and London.
It is rumoured that the French and British Am-
bassadors to Foreign Courts have received from
their respective Cabinets a circular respecting the
present political position of the Allies since the
taking of Sebastopol.

A letter from Brazil states that two Greek mer-
chants of that town went mad on learning the fall
of Sebastopol, and that another at Bucharest was
struck with apoplexy for the same reason. The
same letter states that three Greek and one Swedish
vessel have foundered at the mouth of Sulina, and
rendered the passage still more difficult ; there
being now no more than one fathom of water over
the bar.

The Madrid journals of the 28th ult. announce
that the Duke de la Victoria had been to the Escu-
rial to pay a visit to the Queen. Some of them
pretend that the object of his visit was to offer his
resignation, but those which speak in the name of
the government say that it was only to congratu-
late her Majesty on her recovery.

A letter from Vienna, of the 29th ult., says :
" The Austrian ambassador in London, Count Col-
loredo, has arrived here from his country seat, and
will probably return in a week to his post. Prince
Anatole Demidoff, attache to the Russian embassy,
is to leave Vienna on account of ill health, and go
to Naples.

The King of Prussia was expected at Stuttgard
on the 2d, on a visit to the King of Wurtemberg.

A letter from Berlin states that the Bank intends
this week raising its rate of discount from 4 to 5
per cent.

The Wallachian Government has prohibited to
the end of the year the exportation of tallow and
of oxen.

The Count de Chambord is at present on a visit
to his mother, the Duchess de Berry, at the chateau
of Bronsee, in Styria.

ADDRESS OF ALEXANDER 11. TO THE
INHABITANTS OF MOSCOW.

ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 24.
On the 20th, at noon, the Emperor Alexander,
accompanied by the Grand Prince Michael, left
Moscow and set out for Nicolaieff, after issuing the
following rescript to the military Governor-General
and A.D.C. General Count Zakrevski, for the
citizens of Moscow :--
" Count Arsenius Andreievitch,—From the time
that I ascended the throne of my ancestors it has
been my heartfelt wish to visit the dear and trusted
ancient capital of my empire—the city in which I
was born and received baptism under the protection
of the relics of the worker of miracles, St. Alexis
of Moscow. Having now fulfilled this wish, I have
experienced from the inhabitants of Moscow a re-
ception which has caused great gladness to myself
and my whole house—a reception such as Russia
has at all times given to her sovereigns. I commia-
sion you to express my heartiest acknowledgments
to all classes in Moscow. My haupiness would
have been complete had not preceding events
clouded these fortunate moments. It is already
known, by my order of the day addressed to the
Russian armies, that the garrison of Sebastopol,
after an unexampled siege of eleven months, after
deeds of prowess previously unheard of, after a
self-denial, and the repulse of six obstinate attacks,
has passed over to the north side of the town, leav-
ing to the enemy only bloody ruins. Sebastopol's
heroic defenders have achieved all that human
strength could perform. Past and present event
I accept as the inscrutable will of Providence, who
chastens Russia with heavy hours of trial. But
Russia's trials were once far heavier, and God the
Lord sent down to her his all-bountiful and invisi-
ble aid. Wherefore let us also now put our trust
in Him : He will defend Russia, the orthodox,
who has drawn the sword for the just cause, the
cause of Christianity. The incessant proofs of all
and every one's readiness to sacrifice property,
family, and the last drop of their blood for main-
taining the integrity of the empire and the national
honour, delight me. It is precisely in these na-
tional feelings and efforts that I find consolation
an:l strength, and from my whole heart, indissolu-
bly blended with my loyal and gallant people, I,
with trust in God's help and grace, repeat the
words of Alexander I.: Where truth is, there
also is God l' I remain unalterably well inclined

towards you.
" Moscow, Sept. 20."

"ALEXANDER.

LETTER FROM OMER PACHA TO HIS

OLD TUTOR.

We read in Voss's Gazette of the 27th ult. :—" Major
Graff, formerly tutor to Omer Pacha, died a few day.
since at Gosport, at the age of 74. At the end of last
year he received the following letter from his former pupil:
Rustchuk, Dec. 18.—Honoured Monsieur Graff,—l
have this moment heard by a letter from one of the
friends of my youth, Captain Kekik, that you are quietly
passing your old days as a retired officer at Gospich,
and I cannot, on receiving this pleasing news, resist
the pleasure of addresing you a few lines. You will ex-
cuse my not conforming to a certain ceremonial, but
addressing you in the terms of a pupil grateful to his
old master. It would be very agreeable to me to give
you a sketch of my life so full of events, but the want of
time will not allow my doing so now. lam at present
the generalissimo of all the troops which are in European
Turkey ; in a few days I shall proceed with a part of
those troops to the Crimea, and I hope that, there also,
the God of Victory will be, as usual, favourable to me.
For the last 14 years I have been continually engaged
in war, and, nevertheless, I am still robust and in good
health. I have never ceased to devote myself to the
study of military science ; and, in the midst of all my
undertakings, I have been attended with the greatest,
good fortune that a man can aspire to. My breast is
adorned with seven Turkish and four foreign decora-
tions, these latter being the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, the English order of the Bath, the Russian
order of St. Anne, and the Spanish order of Isabella,
all four of the first class, and I have besides rendered
myself worthy before the enemy of three sabres of
honour enriched with diamonds. All that, Monsieur
Graff, I owe to you, as it was you who gave me the
first notions of the military art, and I express to you my
warmest thanks for it. lam most anxious to send you
some object as a slight proof of my gratitude, but I am
travelling, and cannot realise my desire. I consequently
take the liberty of sending you 200 golden ducats (nearly
1001.), with a request to you not to be offended at my
doing so, but to employ that sum in the purchase of
some remembrance of me. I have given that sum to
M. de Rowler, the Austrian consul in Bulgaria, who
will hand it you, as well as my picture. Accept, M.
Graff, the expression of the consideration with which I
am your grateful

" 'OMER M. P. MICHEL LATTAS.' "

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pondent of the New York _DairmocuAor.—A
Times, writing from
Philadelphia, says :—As regard? bonnets,
to grow frightfully less, and before winter sets in it is
probable that a large rosette fixed on the back of the hair
will take their place.
A NEW BOMB.—We bear that a young man, ~.„,„
warden, near this city, a tailor by trade, of -'-', a
has invented a
bomb shell with this peculiar property, that it only ex-
plodes on coming in contact with any object after b •
discharged from the mortar. The slightest touch 15
cause it to scatter destruction all around, but it willwn t
waste its strength in the air. It has been manufactured
by a relative of the inventor, who is employed in Boni,
iron works, and the inventor went up to London last
week in obedience to a summons from one of the Go-
vernment offices,—Chester Courant.