The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN CIRCULAR.

The following circular despatch has been sent by
the Austrian Government io its Representatives in
Germany, relative to the Russian despatch ad-
dressed to M. de Glinka, with a view to obtain the
neutrality of Germany, by the offer to maintain the
interpretation given by the Vienna Conferences to
the first two points or guarantees :
"VIENNA, MAY 17.
"The Minister of his Majesty the Emperor of
ia
Russia
to the German Diet, M. de Glinka, has communicated
to tseda
to the members of the Germanic Diet Count Nes lreod '
despatch, of which copy is annexed, and which contains
the assurance that, even in caseoff,the the peace negotiations
at Vienna should be broken Emperor of Russia
will consider himself bound by the arrangements made at
the Conferences relative tcu the future position of the
Danubian Principalities and the regulation of the free
navigation of the Danube res long as the German Courts
maintain a neutral attitud e.
"In reply to a question put by M. de Rechberg as to
whether he bad positive irmtructions to present that de-

spatch to the president of the Diet to be afterwards i
treated officially, M. de Glinka replied that he was not
charged to make that communication, and that be be-
lieved he responded to the intentions of his Court by con-
fining himself to making the communication he had to
make to the individual members of the Confe-deration.
"In a sitting of the Committee on Military Affairs,
Count Rechberg confidentially communicated to the mem-
bers of the committee the substance of his conversation
with the Russian Charge d'Affaires, and the majority
shared his opinion that the declaration of the .Cabinet of
St. Petersburg'ehould be made, not to the President and
by him to the Diet, but simply by the Russian Legation
to the individual envoys to the Diet serarately. • Conse-
quently the step taken by the Court of Russia has not
been the subject of the negotiations (deliberations ?) of
the Federal Assembly.
" The most natural considerations, in fact, appear to
us to oppose its being discussed in the critical circum-
stances of the moment. Austria must certainly be the
least disposed to disavow the value of the agreement
obtained at the Vienna Conferences relative to the two
points in question. It was on the .advice of Austria
that the Diet accepted the said two points ; by commu-
nication of the protocoli of the Conferences- our allies
are enabled to appreciate our efforts to obtain that
result ; and it is not without a feeling of satisfac-
tion that we behold the German Governments receive
the declaration that Russia is ready to maintain the re-
sult of the said negotiations so as to place the interests of
Germany out of question.
" However, the four bases of the peace negotiations
form, for those who participated in them, an inseparable
whole, which the German Confederation has also recog-
nised in its ensemble as a bases proper to establish right
and peace in-Europe ; and it is only when we shall have
arrived at the termination of the crisis which, to our re-
gret, has for the present interrupted the pacific course of
the negotiations, that Austria will be in a position to
appreciate what the interests of Europe and of Ger-
many may then demand, and to express herself in that
respect fully and frankly towards her confederates.
" We entertain the hope that the offer of the Imperial
Court of Russia will have found the members of the
German Confederation more and more strengthened in
their confidence in our line of action. Therefore do we
think that we may rely upon it that they have no in-
tention of making resolutions or propositions the con-
sequences of which might be detrimental to Austria, or
which, at least, might increase the difficulties which
already so numerously hamper our mission in the actual
decisive situation of affairs.

"You are requested to communicate this despatch
to the Government to which you have the honour of
being accredited.
(Signed) "COUNT BUOL."
TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 23.—The ministry of Ali
Pacha is said to have no chance of duration, and
the possibility of Reschid Pacha being recalled is
spoken of. The allied armies receive continual re-
inforcements, and the Russians also receive them
in enormous numbers. Wooden barracks are being
constructed at the camp 9f Maslak, for winter quar-
ters, in place of the Turkish tents. It is said that
the Porte will confide to English generals the com-
mand of a corps of 14,000 Rayahs, but it appears
that the Ministers are not agreed on this point.

THE BALTIC.
KIEL, May 28.

Her Majesty's ship Volcano, 3, Master-Com.
Dyer, now fitted up as a floating factory to repair
any damage to the steam machinery of the Baltic
fleet, arrived here yesterday, in company with the
gun-boat Badger, 3, Mate W. H. Cumming, screw
tender to the Hogue blockship.
HAMBURG, May 29.

Letters from Helsingfors of the 16th instant,
mention the arrival of some English ships of
war two days before, off the Graohara beacon, close
to Sweaborg ; but it appears they only tame to re-
connoitre, as in the evening they disappeared again.
On the 16th instant three hostile ships of war
were telegraphed to the Governor of Abo as being
in sight off Korpo. The troops turned out, and
measures were taken to repel a landing, but the
cruisers had disappeared, and the garrison returned
to their quarters.

ME➢ZEL, May 26.

When the Driver, Commander Gardiner, was
sent in to Baltish Port, to serve the vessels lying
there with the official notice of the blockade, she
found among others an American barque called the
Sammy Appleton, of Boston, U.S., a fine craft of
about 900 tons register, whom she also served with
a warning to clear out within six days. A day or
two afterwards the Driver, being out cruising, fell
in with this very same American, and an officer of
the Driver was sent on board to examine the ship's
papers. They were found perfeCtly in order,
whereupon the officer demanded to see the bills of
lading. The American captain objected to this,
and began to make difficulties which excited the
suspicion of the British officer ; so he insisted on
their production, which was at length complied
with, and from which it appeared that the Sammy
Appleton had just landed at Baltish Port 50,000
rifles and 10,000 revolvers, besides about 800
cwt. of cotton, as the ostensible park of the cargo.
" Oh, ho, you have been landingrifles have you,
my friend ?" quoth the lieutenant. " I\Tow, we'll
just search your hold :" and taking the carpenter
of the Driver with him, as is usual in such cases,
he proceeded to examine and ransack the hold of
the American ship, but without finding anything
suspicious.
" You may thank your stars, my man," said the
lieutenant to the skipper, when the search was con-
cluded, '" that I found no arms on board your ves-
sel, for. had there been one single rifle more than
the number of hands on board, you would have
been nabbed, as sure as my name is --."
" Ah, I calculate I was too wide awake for you
Britishers this time," said the Yankee, chuckling
with delight ; " and I reckon I'm on the safe side
of the hedge now."
Nothing could be done, and the Driver's boat
shoved off. I may add that the Sammy Appleton
entered the Sound on the 15th March, and arrived
at Baltish Port on the 12th of April.
It was her Majesty's sloop Geyser, 6, Commander
ROderick Dew, which captured the greater part of
the prizes off Riga, and the way she did it was as
follows :—They had heard from one of the vessels
they had boarded that several merchant ships were
lying half-loaded outside the bar of Riga, and com-
pleting their cargoes by means of some steamers
plying between the vessels and the shore. Taking
advantage of the darkness of the night, the Geyser,
accompanied by another steamer—l believe the
Archer—stood in towards the land, where they
arrived at daybreak,, and under cover of the morn-
ing fog, and by keeping close to the shore, came
upon them suddenly, with three. small steam-tugs
alongside, in the act of discharging, and thus
caught them in flagrante delicto. The steamers
attempted to tow the merchant vessels inside the
bar, but the Geyser seeing this move fired a ball
from one of her bowchasers at the steam-tugs,
which immediately caused thein to throw off the
sailing ships, and take to their heels. The Geyser
then steamed leisurely up, captured them all
(about six in number), and towed them away.
Prize crews were afterwards put in, and they were
navigated for Elsinore, en route for England.
KONIGSBERG, May 26. A case has just come to
my knowledge from which it appears that the Rus-
sian authorities are not apt to relax the rigour of
their despotic vigilance 'in favour of their " dear
friends the Prussians." A young man has just
returned here, after an absence of six years,
having made an involuntary journey to that happy
country Siberia, where the inhabitants live for six
months for their own pleasure under ground, and
prisoners are doomed to work in' the mines from
one end of the year to the other without seeing the
light of day.
It appears from his statement that this young man
was a clerk in a commercial house at Thorn, in Prus-
sian Poland, and in the year 1848 made the acquaint-
ance of Count Ferdinand Tursky, of Cracow, who
was compromised in the disorders of that year, and
induced by him to cross the'frontiers, where he was
arrested by the Russian authorities, and, being
without a passport, was suspected of being a spy
and participator in the revolutionary movement,
and sent with a caravan of other prisoners to Si-
beria. On his arrival there he wasTurced to serve
as a common soldier for three years, at the end of
which his condition was improved by being em-
ployed in the military hospital of Irkuktzk as a
sort of assistant or nurse. In consequence of some
trifling breach of the rules; he was, however, after
a few months dismissed from this situation, and
sent back to his regiment, which was soon after
marched to a little fortress in Asia, the name of
which he never could ascertain. Here he took an
opportunity to desert, but was arrested in the.
provitce of Tomsk, and condemned to penal ser-
vitude in the mines. It was not before the begin-
ning of 1853 that he had an opportunity_of taking
a step to regain his liberty. The Adjutant-General
of the Emperor, Lieutenant-Generol Annenkoff,
happening to pass through Kainsk on an official
tour of inspection of the troops, the young man
succeeded in giving him a written petition, setting
forth his unhappy position, and laying great stress
on the fact of his being a native of Prussia. The
general made inquiries about him, and ordered him
eventually to be set at liberty. On the 2d of May
last year he commenced his pilgrimage homewards,
and following the great military road through
Tobolsk, Casan, Vladimir, Minsk, Moscow, Wilna,
and Kownow, arrivedat Tanroggen on Easter-day,
having been nearly a whole yea: on his journey,
and performed the distance of 7,000 wersts (above
a thousand miles) entirely on foot.