The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-08 00:00:00

LATEST E WS.

THE FLEET BEFORE CRONSTADT.
DANTZIC, JUNE 8.

The Bulldog, Captain Gordon, has arrived with

mails.

The whole fleet was lying five miles west of
Cronstadt.

Admiral Dundas reconnoitres daily.

DANTZIC, THURSDAY.
To-day her Majesty's ship Bulldog, Captain
Gordon, arrived with mails from the fleet.
The British and French fleets were on the 4th
instant close to Croristadt.

The Russian ships were nearly all dismantled
in harbour; only three steamers were serviceable.

Admiral Saunders Dundas has been in the Merlin

to get a nearer view of the fortifications and to
satisfy himself as to the propriety of an attack ;

it is said that he thinks it impracticable. New
works have been added since last year.
Sixteen Russian merchantmen, most of them

loaded with timber, have been captured and de-
stroyed near Cronstadt, and others run ashore
and burned.

VIENNA, JUNE 6.

The official Correspondence, in reporting the
close of the diplomatic conferences, states that
the Russian plenipotentiaries took the Austrian
proposition into consideration, and that Austria
is still ardently striving to effect a mediation upon
the bases of peace laid down.
Letters from Vienna state that Generals Craw-
ford and Letung, appointed military commis-
sioners of Great Britain and France at the head-
quarters of Baron Hess, are about to return home,
their presence in Austria no longer answering any
useful purpose.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 6th.—General Gortscha-
koff writes from Sebastopol, dated the 3d, that
nothing important had taken place up to that date,
either before Sebastopol or in other parts of the
Crimea. "On the 30th May," says the General,
" the Allied fleet hauled off from Genitchi, and the
Russian authorities hoped to be able to save a part
of the supplies which had been set fire to on that
point. The same day the enemy's steamers passed
before one of the ports near Arabat, and burnt a
merchant vessel and some boats." According to
the same despatch, the corps of General Wrangel,
who was charged to watch Eupatoria, had not
quitted its position near Arguim, and the Allied
troops had made no movement into the interior of
the Peninsula of Kertch.

BERLIN, June 6.—Despatches from St. Peters-
burg of the 2d state that General Rudiger has given
orders that no merchant vessel, now in the Russian
ports on the coast of the Baltic, shall put out to
sea. The cause of this measure is that the English
cruisers have captured fivemerchant vessels, burnt
one, and sunk another.
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 2.--Rita Pacha has just
been dismissed, and Mehemet Ruchdi appointed
Seraskier in his place. Derbohor Pacha, General
of the Imperial Guard is dismissed and replaced by
Selim Pacha. The position of the Capitan Pacha
appears to be threatened.
VIENNA, June 6.—According to a report which
is current, the publication of a document relative
to sending a part of the Austrian troops on fur-
lough is expected. The number spoken of is
150,000 men.

MADRID, June 6.—Marshal Espartero is gone to
Aranjuez to-day to lay before her Majesty the re-
signation of MM. Madoz, Lujan, Luzuriaga,
Aguirre, and Santa Cruz. It is supposed that
MM. Bruil, Martinez, Zabala, Fuentrandres, and
Huelvas will be their successors.

HAMBURG, Thursday.—The collective body of
citizens have rejected, by an overwhelming ma-
jority, the new constitution proposed by the Senate.
TURKEY.

Our accounts from Constantinople are to the
28th ult. The camp of Maslak will be renewed,
and occupied by a reserve of 45,000 men, a part of
whom arrived on the 27th. It is thouctht that
Reschid Pacha has been reconciled to Mehemet
Pacha, who is said to have received 500,000 piastres
from the Sultan as an indemnity. A lazaretto
was being formed at the Dardanelles ; 1,500
wooden. barracks have been ordered for the pur-
pose. Advices from Smyrna state that shocks of
earthquake have lately been felt there, but
without causing any damage. Despatches from
Trebisond of the 23d state that the Russian
General Dassiliew, with a numerous suite, had
arrived at Tabriz to notify to the Shah of Persia
the accession of Alexander 11., and to endeavour
to persuade the Shah to maintain his policy of
neutrality. The Russian corps encamped near
Alexandropol has been reinforced by two regi-
ments of cavalry, but it is thought that the hostile
armies will still remain on the defensive. A letter
from Dam ascus of the 17th states that the recruits,
forming part of the Anglo-Turkish Legion, having
disturbed the tranquillity of the city by provoking
the inhabitants, complaints were made to General
Williams by the Pacha in such strong terms, that
the general immediately waited upon him to enter
into explanations."