The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-01 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

THE HAGUE, FEB. 28.
Count van Lynden and Baron von Hardenbroek
will leave shortly for Japan on a special mission,
bearer of presents from the King of Holland to
the Emperor of Japan.

RUSSIA. AND THE BALTIC.

Letters from Riga and Revel, down to the 19th
inst., state that the severity of the winter had put
a stop to all commercial transactions. If the frost
continued with equal intensity for a few days
longer, it was very possible that goods might be
conveyed from shore to shore across the ice through-
out the whole extent of the Gulfs of Bothnia and
Finland.

In pursuance of orders received from St. Peters-
burg by General de Berg, commanding in chief in
Finland, a notice had been issued inviting contrac-
tors to send in tenders for the supply of immense
quantities of all kinds of provisions for the use of
the army to be assembled in that province.
These supplies are to be delivered at the various
storehouses lately established in different parts
of the country. The Government has been
particularly employed for some time past on mat-
ters connected with the victualling depart-
ment, and vast magazines have been organised
in all parts of the empire that can possibly
be involved in the war, where large quantities of
grain, salt meat, spirits, &c., have been accumu-
lated. The greatest activity is now shown in pro-
visioning every fortified place on both sides of the
Gulf. Abo, Sweaborg, Helsingfors, and the other
towns that may have to stand a siege either by sea
or land, are being victualled for eighteen months ;
and the contractors are expressly bound to deliver
their supplies by the 10th of March.
The Grand Duke Constantine has made several
rounds of inspection to the various naval arsenals
throughout the month of February. Orders have
been issuedfor the rendezvous, at places appointed,
of all the marine battalions organised last year for
the coast defence of the two Gulfs. They were to
be inspected by the Grand Duke on the Ist of
March, and then to be distributed among the gun-
boats, for service in which they were specially
destined.

General Geroffski, commanding in the province
of Orenburg, has been entrusted by the Emperor
with the organization of the Bashkir cavalry, of
which mention has been recently made. These
horsemen, brought from the most remote parts of
the empire, were armed in 1812 only with bows
and arrows ; but they are now all supplied with
rifles and sabres, and have been regularly drilled
by officers sent among them for that purpose. Two
regimen is of them have already been inspected by
the Emperor in their route through St. Peters-
burg ; ten others are said to be expected there,
and it is thought that the number can be still fur-
.ther extended.

A Copenhagen journal announces, under the
date Of " Flensburg, Feb. 24," that an English
agent has been there for the purpose of arranging
with the municipal and railway authorities the
necessary measures for making that port the point
of communication between England and her fleet
in the Baltic. A horse tramway will be laid down
to the port, so as to afford every-facility for loading
and unloading ; and then all supplies for the Eng-
lish fleet will be conveyed by the Tonning-Flens-
burg Railway.