The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-18 00:00:00

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~e_sNing of our clear,st mother the Empress Aleiandra
Feodorowna, to ordain and to make known to ail men
" 1. That in case of our decease previous to our
dearly beloved son and successor's having attahaorl the
:ull age rcquired by law for the majority 9,-1, fi4n Emperor,
we have (until he shall have atta!ned that full age) nomi-
nated our dearly-beloved brothp,',„ the Grand Duke Conc.
stantine Nicolaijewit4, Vtegent of thempire ana of
the territories inAv t 4610 froM thP, Kingdomls':)land
and tl.lO franc DtiOhy of Finla-:d.
cease a,lso to eall to
2-* That, in Q4l4° it ''tould please Cod after our de-
has attained h;',3 • •
-Ifunself our first-born son, before ho
fortuity to the • In....jority, and consequently, in eon-•
regulating the succession to the throne
of Rusts, our next sbn mounts it, the Grand Duke Con.-
:,,antineNicolaijevvitch shall remain Regent of the Em•
pire until this our next son comes of age.
"3. That, in all the contingencies indicated in the
foregoing paragraphs 1 and 2 the guardianship both of our
first-born son and of all our other children until their
coming of age shall in its full power and extent be vested
in our deak,est Consort, the Empress Maria Alexam-
dro was.
4( Whilst we, in thus early settling and proMulgating
these rules, removing erary doubt as to our will and our
intentions with reference to the government of the Ern,
desi
pile
re grit he ng the minority of the heirs to our throne, we
very commencement of our reign to give our
beloved faithful subjects a new proof of our reverential
respect for the laws of our common Fatherland. And
may they then always and by all be observed as sacredly,
and may the prosperity, power, and happiness of the
Empire entrusted to us by Gnd ever consolidate them-
selves more and more on this arm basis.
"Given at Zarskc,je:Sselo, May 21st (0.5.), in -the
year after the birth of ChristlBst, and in the first of our
reign.
TheMa "ALEXANDER."
ynurriber of the Russian Marine Magazine,
which appeared only very lately, contains little of
interest bilyond the reports of M. Mansuroff, who,
was seat as Imperial Commissioner into the Criir_ea,
for the purpose of inquiring into the state of the
medical arrangements there, and of distributing
the patriotic gifts, of his countrymer., a mission
very nearly akin to that of the Times' Commis-
sioner at kataria. His reports reyeal much that
will offeT a corresponding pendant to the pictures
yokk have already published of the state of things in
our hospitals. The numbers of the seamen, to whom
his mission seems in great measure to have been
confined, are now so reduced that this corps is
as such no longer employed in any action of
importance. At the approach of the warmer
season, which began in Sebastopol in the middle
of April, an endeavour was made to relieve
the hospitals by removing all such, whether sick'
or wounded, as could in any way bear the Ise-
moval. There had, however, been a fearful defi-
ciency of vehielbs, and such a lack of hay awl, straw,
that many of these ina+alids had had nothing be-
tween them and the bare boards of the carts. A
batch of 236 sack and wounded (of course only the
less gravely injured would be selected for such a
trip) forwarded from Sebastopol to Simpheropol lost
26 of its number before reaching its destination,
partly by death, and partly by thoir inability to
bear the jolting of the arabas.
I have been assured that a despatch forwarded
home from one of the foreign missions here, con-
tains the statement that Count Munster, the
tary representative of Prussia at St. Petersburg,
had lately informed his own Court that Prince
Gortschakoff has telegraphed to the Emperor to the
effect that, now that his supplies of provisions are
partly cut off and partly rendered extremely diffi-
cult of 'attainment; he cannot undertake to hold
Sebastopol for longer than a certain short space of
time mentioned by him; that above all things else,
hay had become scarce, and that he in this despatch
begs for instructions as to whether he may pro-
cee to give battle to the besiegers in the open
field,' for the purpose of relieving the fortress. In
connection with this part of the subject, he draws
attention to the amount of losses the troops hither-
to despatched to, the Crimea have suffered ; this
amount is mentioned as 50,000. The whole story
is very plausible and probable, and so natural that
almost anybody might invent it ; the contents of
the supposed despatch may be true, but I have not
been able to establish' the faCt that Count Munster
really has telegraphed; anything of the kind ; on
the contrary, all that I have learned tends to
strengthen a contrary opinion.

THE BALTIC FLEET.

DANTZIC, JUNE 15.
The Vulture, 6, Capt. Glasse, arrived in the
roads at 11 o'clock last night, with the mails. She
left the fleet anchored off Cronstadt, in. the same
position as reported last week.
On the 9th inst. the Merlin and Firefly, hav-
ing on board the French Admiral, all the. Cap-
tains, and several of the Commanders in the fleet,
left the anchorage and accompanied by the Dragon
and a French steam-corvette D'Assas, went
up to reconnoitre the fortifications on the north
side of Cronstadt- After passing Tolbouken Light-
house, they had proceeded to within about 2,500
yards of Fort Risbank, when suddenly two of
those long,•talked of and much-dreaded infernal
machines exploded right- under the bows 'of the
Merlin, and a third burst, almost at the same mo-
ment, under the Firefly. The two steamers, al-
though, of course, severely shaken, were, however,
strange to say, but very slightly damaged by the
':pl..)sion.
As the. Vulture was lying on the 3d inst. off the
island of Nargen, three Poles, serving iu the 12th
Russian Regiment of.the Line, deserted, and came
on board ; they were handed over to the command-
ing officer, Captain Warden, of the Ajax, who for-
warded them on to the Commander-in-Chief. On
the following day two civilians deserted to the Ajax ;
and if what they told the officers of that vessel be
true, there are many others in Revel only watching
fora favourable opportunity to follow their example
in order to avoid the conscription, of which they
seem to be in great dread.
The Bulldog, on her passage last week from here
to the fleet, with mails and despatches, broke down
near Faro Sound, in consequence of some accident
to her machinery. She succeeded, however, in
reachine. Nargen, from which place the Lightning
took on the
There has been a report circulating on 'Change
of late that it is the intention of some of the most
influential and enterprising firms in Dantzic to
establish a regular liue of small steamers, between
this port and London, for the conveyance of passen-
gers and freights, but especially wheat. To this end
arranganents have already been entered ihto with
an eminent shipbuilder in London fbr the purchase
of a new and powerful steamer of about 400 tons
and it is also contemplated to build two other
steamers of about the same size at Dantzic, to be
employed on the same line.
The timber trade has been for some time past
and still. continues in a very dull and depressed
state, arising in a great measure from the scarcity
of vessels, in consequence of, which freights have
Trisen upwards of 2s. during the last three weeks.
he prices, moreover, demantled by. the Polish
merchants, who are just beginning to arrive, with
fresh supplies from Poland, are still too high 'to
encourage purchasers to buy for export.
The corn trade has received a chock, owing to
the dull accounts from all parts. Prices have
fallen from 2s. to 4s. from the highest point. There
is little or nothing offering for sale, partly on ac-
count of the low stocks, and partly because sellers
prefer holding until better times.
Weather very changeable.
A telegraphic despatch from Kiel, dated 16th,
inst., announces the arrival at that port of Admiral
Baynes's squadron, en route to the Baltic.

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