The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

THE BALTIC FLEET.

HAN-GO, Nov. 25,—0n the 17th inst. her Ma-
jesty's ship Orion, the last of the line-of-battle
ships of the Baltic fleet, sailed from Nargen for
Kiel, at the same time Admiral Baynes, in the Re-
tribution, weighed in company with the fleet left at
Nargen. The Retribution and Geyser pioceeded to
Faro ; Imperieuse, Euryalus, Magicienne, and
Cossack, to Hango ; Amphion and Esk to the
anchorage at Wormso. These vessels employed
cruizing, blockading the entrance of the Gulf of
Finland, and anchoring at intervals. Admiral
Baynes remains anchored at Faro. The Geyser
arrived at Hango on the 23d from Faro, with de-
spatches for the senior officer, and the Dantzic mails
for the vessels there. The Conflict was coaling at
Faro on the 22d, and was to sail the next day for
her old cruizing ground (the coast of Courland).
The Imperieuse, Euryalus, Centaur, Bulldog,
Magicienne, and Gordon were at Hango on the
25th, where the ice had begun forming in shore.
Two deserters came off to the Imperieuse on the
22d, who 'itated they were two farmer's sons, and
had beer drawn for the new levy, and they wanted
to go to England, offoring to pay for their passage.
The Centaur, Magicienne, and Bulldog weighed
on the 25th to cruise to the N.E., and to observe
the state of the ice.

The weather has been extraordinarily mild for
this season of the year up to the 23d inst., when
there was a heavy fall of snow, with the ther-
mometer down to 26 deg. ; the cold increases daily,
and early this morning (25th) the thermometer was
down to 12 deg., being 20 deg. below freezing
point. _ _

H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, Kiel, Nov. 30.
No news worthy of recording since my last, and
as yet we know nothing of our departure. Pilots
are however retained here, so that we are able to
be off at a moment's notice. We have no ice hero,
but the Elbe is partly frozen, and skating has taken
place on the Alster.

General Canrobert arrived here to-day from
Copenhagen, and visited the French and English
flag-ships, both of which manned yards and saluted
him, as did also the Danish war-steamer in the bar-
boar. It is supposed he departs to-night by the
train to Hamburg.
A letter from Helsingfors, of Russian origin, says
—At 8 o'clock on the morning of Nov. 14, two gun-
boats with a detachment of infantry, approached the
village of Toktom (in the vicinity of the village of
Ekness), intending to effect a descent ; but at a sig-
nal from a vessel of the line, which was behind,
they took another direction, and approached the
bay which terminates in Cape Hangoud. To prevent
the enemy from disembarking, two companies of a
battalion of grenadiers went to the menaced point,
and, notwithstanding terrible broadsides from the
vessel of the line, took up a good position. When
the gun-boats wore within a distance of 200 feet
from the bank, our soldiers opened a fire of mus-
ketry which compelled the enemy to retire. It was
seen from the shore that four of the crew were
wounded by the first fire. The vessel of the line
continued the bombardment until noon ; it then
turned about and sailed from Hangoud. We bad
neither killed nor wounded in this little affair.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 29th ult. revivs the
report which has been so often current of the Duke
de la Victoria being disposed to execute his project
of retiring from public life ; but it was known in
political circles that he will not resign his post until
the constitution shall have been promulgated and
order consolidated. The democratic papers attack
the Minister of War with great vehemence.
Letters from Barcelona say that, as the manu •
facturers had produced more than they could sell2ll
and were not able to obtain credit, there was a
scarcity of work% and the authorities had to
take measures to afford relief to the working classes.
This situation caused disquietude, but it was not
believed that it would produce disturbances ; if,
however, any were to take place, the Government
was determined to repress them energetically. It
was rumoured that a son of the Emperor of Mo-
rocco had arrived at Melilla to put an end to the
continual hostilities between the Moors and the
Spaniards; but what was considered more pro-
bable was, that some Moorish dignitary, charged
to collect taxes from the Moors of the Riff, had
gone to Melilla from curiosity. The Duke and
Duchegs de Montpensier arrived at Seville on the
25th ult.