The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-19 00:00:00

THE GERMAN POWERS.

VIENNA, MAY 16.—Our official journal publishes
an Imperial decree calling out 95,000 recruits.
This measure has produced a general sensation.
The same journal announces the occupation of the
frontiers of the south-east and north-east of the
empire by Austrian troops, although it is stated
the pacific relations of the Court of Vienna with
the foreign powers have not been affected.
.COLOGNE, MAY 16.—With respect to the position
which the middle states of Germany intend taking
up relative to the Austro-Prussian offensive and
defensive treaty, we now hear of a proposal made
by the Bavarian Government, making its adhesion
to the central powers conditional upon their
guaranteeing the independence of Greece.
In diplomatic circles at Vienna. it is related that
M. de Bonin was sacrificed at the express demand
of Russia. The ex-Minister of War some time since
wrote a memorial respecting what ought to be the
policy of Prussia in the Oriental question, and this
gave great offence to the Emperor Nicholas.
.Baron
Budberg, and his Russian colleague at Vienna,
knew that M. de Bonin was to be dismissed two
days before his portfolio was actually taken from
him. Reliable information has been given that
the King of Prussia has positively declared to the
Austrian Court that as long as he lives he will never
draw his sword against his Imperial brother-in-law.
A Berlin letter of the 15th, in the ( ologne
Gazette says, it is asserted that there is in the
convention between Austria and Prussia, which
was recently concluded a clause declaring that

'Russia shall be' ailed upon to evacuate imme-
diately the Principalities of the Danube. It is
not doubted, says the letter, that the Einparor of
Russia will reply in the negative, for, it is known
that he had already declined to comply with the
proposition of Prussia for a successive evacuation
of the Principalities within determined delays, as the
basis of a mediation for peace on the part of
Prussia.
PESTII, May 9.—Two emissaries of Kossuth's
were hanged on the 29th ult. at a place called St.
George, iu Transylvania. Their names were Joseph
Varady and Franz Bartalis. Two of their com-
panions were reprieved, but will have to endure an
imprisonment for eighteen years iu irons and with
hard labour.

A letter from Vienna of the 14th, in the Na-
tional Gazette of Berlin, states that an extraordi-
nary courier was daily expected there from St.
Petersburg. It was rumoured that he would be
the bearer of a summons from the Emperor of
Russia, to the Emperor of Austria, to declare him-
self positively and openly on the Eastern question,
and of an offer on the part of Russia, if Austria
will adhere to the policy dale Czar, to take no ad-
vautige of any immediate consequences which the
war may give to him, without having firstcome toan
understanding with the Cabinet of Vienna. There
is not the slightest prospect, says the letter in the
National Gazette, of the Austrian Cabinet being
tempted by this offer to depart from the prin-
ciples which it has proclaimed in the protocol of
Vienna.

THE BALTIC.
CAPTURE OF AN ISLAND.

COPENHAGEN, May 17.—Tire Fulton, steamer,
has arrived here from Stockholm, and reports that
the British fleet, under Sir Charles Napier, ha I
proceeded northward, and on the 12th inst. had
taken Boomersand, on the island of Aland.
The i bustitutionnel asserts that there is no truth
in the statement of a London journal, that two of
the French men of-war in passing near Copen-
hagen, ran into each other, and sustained such
great damage that they hail to return to Brest.
COPENHAGEN, May 12. .'The Swedish post steamer
Svenska Lejonet hal gone eown in Ystad har-
bour, from the injuries it received in the late storm.
A Stockholm vessel, laden with salt, attempted
to break the blockade and enter Riga. On
being hailed she neglected the signals and refused
to lie by, so a, cannon-ball smashed her stern. She
immediately returned to Stockholm. Her owners
were impudent enough to demand compensation.
The English embassy very properly told them to
thank their stars that .mn.tters were no worse.
" The Storm Birds" is the name of a collectio❑ of
vigorous chansons which have just appeared in
Stockholm. One of them is entitled " Sir Charles
Napier ;" it is full of energy. A dinner was given
in Helsingfors, on the 28th ult. to a number of
naval officers. Verses were sung, written by
Topelius, who has just been made professor, for
composing a poem full of the most fulsome flattery,
when the Emperor last visited Finland. The
Finnish papers contain some details respecting the
fleet.

The following extracts are from the letters of a
correspondent on board one of her Majesty's
steamers, writing off the Island of Dago, at the
entrance of the Gulf of Finland :

•' After leaving Kioge Bay, and when we arrived off
Gothland, we were ordered to cruise off the Island of
Dago. There is a lighthouse at the west end of this
island, called Dager Ort, but the Russians think it a
waste of oil to ligh it now, so we have to feel our way
instead of seeing it. I expected to have been able to
send a full account of the movements of the fleet, but
our departure fur this cruising ground put an end to my
expectations.
"The Archer is stationed shout 30 miles to the south
of us to prevent merchant ships passing between Da,ro
and Oesel, and, I. believe, • another ship stilt further
south, to stop, any vessel entering the Gulf of Riga.
We are to prevent any vessel entering the Gulf of Fin-
land ; but, as the harbours in that gulf are not yet. free
from ice; our duties are not of the most aniuous descrip-
tion at present. The Commam.ler•hi-Chief has been cruis-
ing about 30 mi es to the westward of Dager Oit, but is
now cruising off Gottska Sandoe.
"APRIL, 24,—The Vulture arrived here this morning
to make us acquainted with the Admiral's rendezvous,
since which the Driver, the James Watt, and the Hecla
have gone up to join him. They have been cruising
here for some days looking fir him, as also the French
90-gun screw steamer Austerlitz. This cruising affords
a capital opportunity for getting the crews well drilled
and in order, and I have no doubt the newly•commis-
sioned ships will much benefit by it. We had target
practice a few days since, and the firing was most excel-
lent. The shot which did not strike the target struck
the water so near as to keep the target continually in
motion.

" APRIL 29.—We are still cruising off Daf.o, but with-
out having taken any prizes: \Ve hear there are two
Russian steamers at sea somewhere about this neighbour-
hood, so we are keeping a sharp look-out for them. The
weather has been very rough and stormy during the past
week. We have not seen the Admiral yet, but under-
stand he has gone Hango Bay, about 80 miles ninth of
where we are stationed. We expected we had a prize
yesterlay, but it turned out to be a Pru.sian barque
from the Gulf of Finland. Our vessel does not cruise
more than 30 miles from this place.
" Sometimes our friends, the Russians, light up at
Dager Ort Lighthouse, but oftener not. This point, as
,you will see by the map, forms the southern entrance of
the Gulf of Finland ; consequently all vessels hound for
the Gulf would make Dager Ort (i. e., Cape Dago, or
Pager, or Dager Point), as the navigation of it-is very
difficult. We fancy the Russians by lighting up occa-
sionally wish to lead us astray, and, as we have reason
to think they have erected a
.battery near the lighthouse
since we carne here, •we of convict do not go within gun-
shot, as our duties are only to blockade the gulf.
"- The Dauntless and the Arrogant paid us a visit
three days ago ; they were off somewhere on detached
service. We occasionally pay the Atelier a. visit, and
she also comes up here to visit us in return. Toe
weather is intensely cold.
" WEDNESDAY, May 3.—We are still off Dager Ort
Lighthouse. We saw the Prince Regent on Monday
morning, just after daylight, so we immediately g..t up
steam in case she was not a friend, for it would be no

joke to get under the guns of a Russian liner in a sina
vessel like this.

" The weather is still very cold here—much more so
than I experienced at the entrance to the Arctic regions,
but we manage to make ourselves pretty comfortable."

THE BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA.

The Moniteur informs us that as soon as the
Turkish Minister of Marine became acquainted with
the successful result of the attack upon Odessa by
the combined fleets, he addressed the following
letter to Admiral Hamelin :

" Mr. Adn►iral,—Tne English frigate Terribly bas
brought us the news of the success obtained at Odessa
by the allied fleets. It would be useless to describe to
you the joy occasioned by this news.
" By order of his Majesty the Sultan the Turkish fleet
will enter the Black Sea on Thursday. It will soon,
hope, be with you. The command-in-chief is intrusted
to Ferik Ahmet Pasha, who will have as his second in
command Hassan Pasha, commander of the Egyptian
division. They have orders to join the allied squadron
immediately, and to act entirely in concert with it
throughout the whole of the campaign which it has so
gloriously commenced.
"The reinforcement which we send you is doubtless
inconsiderable, but the Sultan is confident as well as my-
self that officers and sailors will endeavonr by their zeal
and their courage to render go .td service, in spite of the
smallness of their number, to the aided squadron, and
that if their assistance should, from the strength of the
squadron, be useless, or of secondary weight in the
balance of victory, they will nevertheless, in the presence
of dangers which they ardently desire to share, prove
themselves worthy of fighting with you.
" It only remains for me, Mr. Admiral, to wish you
complete success and a happy return. Should it not be
possible for rne, during this campaign, to join you in per-
son, as I should have wishel, my mind and my heart
at least will be with you, and with those courageous
officers and intrepid seamen, and I shall feel gratification•
if your Excellency will be to them the interpreter of th►e
sentiments of admiration and gratitude, not only n‘
myself, but of the whole nation. May Heaven assns
their noble and generous effort!, and enable the--
speedily to return glorious and triumphant to Constai
tinople !

"Accept, &c., " MEHmED.'

MALTA, MAY 12.

On the return, on Monday last, of the Kangaroo seve-
ral letters were received in town, giving copious details
of the action off Odessa ; and the following, which
reached me, is well worth the ttention f all who are
interested in the events taking place in the Euxine. I
offer it with the fullest confidence, and can vouch for its
entire truthfulness. It bears the date—
" Odessa. April 24.
"On the 17th both fleets left Baltschik at 10 30, with
a fair wind. The following day they fell in with a brig,
a Prize to the Retribution, Niger, and one of the French
steamers, and heard they had taken 12 other Russian
vessels of the Danube.

" Arrived off this harbour at 4 p.m. on the 20th. The
followinc, day the French steamer Caton was sent in,
with Admiral Durnlas's flag-lieutenant, to demand that
the English, French, and Russian vessels should be
given up ; the answer to be sent before sunset. No
answer was sent. •

" On the following morning the pr.ddle-wheel steamers
were ordered to get up steam at 4 p.m., and to take 50
marines from each line•of-battle ship, and a rocket-boat
from each ship. The Sanspreil and Higliflyer to go in
as a reserve,

" At 4.30 p.m. the first division left, the Sampson,
Captain Jones, leading, followed by the French steamers
Vauban, Tiger, and Descartes. Second division—Ter-
rible, Mogador, Retribution, and Furious. A splendid
morning ; quite calm. The vessels steamed slowly in,
having the rocket-boats in tow, and at 6.30 a.m. the
Sampson, a long way ahead of the others, fired the first
Flea into the fort from a distance nf a mile, which was
returned ; the shot struck her, broke one or two spokes
of her wheel, and passed between the twin nien who were
steering, without, however, striking either of them,
although the binnacle was broken.
" Tho firin g noon became general, and some English

and French morel ant ships slipped and got nut, receiving
several shots troll. the batteries: A mate of air English -
ship. the Catht,riiie S anst,,il, was killed.

Having fried some of the ships, and not wishing to
injure the neutral veseis in the quarantine harbour, the
fire wNs directed to the Imperial fort, behind which
were all the Russian ships, and then the firing of shot
and ~11,-,11 was ter ific. The fort returned the fire wall
and rapilly, bat it was soon seen that it was impossible
for it to continue a re,ista.nce, as the men were shot
away front their guns as soon as they were brought up.
One of the guns was dismantled, and, in the face of $
frightful shower of shot and shell, remounted. At
a.m. a signal was made for the Arethusa frigate to go
close in to the citadel and fire a few broadsides into it,
so as to unmask the batteries and ascertain how many
mortars and guns there were. It was cheering to see
her going in, under her topsails, shorten sail, and pour
in broadside Lfter broad-isle—which the fort returned by
shot and shell from mortars, without, however, striking
her. She must have done much damage.
`• At 9 a. in the signal for her recall was made. She re-
turned slowly, keeping up a continual shower of shell
until out of reach At 10 am. the fire was still continued,
arid the ships in the harbour began to feel its effect.
Borne were dismasted, and others were sunk. A shed
took fire at 12 o'clock within the fort, and at 1 p tn. the
magazine blew up, with a tremendous explosion, filling
the air with smoke and dust to such an amount of den-

sity as to put an end to the firing from that port ; it
was continued, however, from others. The rocket-
boats now closed in, driving their 24-pounders through
the ships and Imperial sheds, every one of which was
on fire before sunset, and burnt all night twist brilliantly.
" There are still some ships in port ; all the crews are
prisoners and the vessels detained. I believe nothing
more will be done at present, for there is no wish to
fire the city. The population has all left,•and the houses
are filled with troops ; 28,000 infantry, and 10,000
caVal ry._ . .

i• Curious enough it is that neither the paddles nor
the engines of any one of the steamer.; are injured, al-
though all the vesselA engaged were struck.
" Great credit is due to Captain Jones, who, laying
his vessel as close in as he could, kept up a very de-
structive fire.

" The killed and wounded on shore must have been
very great, as the gunnels were frequently replaced, and
silo wed the, greatest coolness.
"Soon after the. action commenced the Vauban re-
ceived a red:.hot shot inboard, and was compelled to re-
move out of the range of fire to have it cut out. She
was immediately isur.ounded by our boats With fire-
engines ; the fire was quickly extin4uished, when s"e
returned into action. She had five shot-, but no casualty.
The very best feeling exists between officers and men of
the allied ff .er, whose only rivalry consists in the endea-
vour to be foremost in t me fray.
" The merchant captains who are prisoners owe it to
them-elves, for before the Consul left he warned them
all of the danger of retniiininv, pointing out the impossi-
bility of escaping a long ch-tention.

"On the 23d an officer was sent in to offer an ex-
chancre of prisoners. This morning a reply was sent off
to the B. hannia, stating that no arrangement could be
made without authority first granted by the Governor of
Sebastopol.
"The Fury came in during the action, and, seeing

what was g, .g on, rar into the fray, firing a few shells
even before she held communication with the Admiral.
" We are expecting the Inflexible every moment.
"On the Ist of April the Russian authorities de•
manded, arid obtained, the registers of all British ships
in port. . . . .

"Ttie following are-1, names of the vessels that left
Odessa on the morning of attack ; 2, those in the upper
mole ; 3, vessels ballasted and ready fur sea, but not al-
lowed to go out :
" 1 The barque Wexford, of Wexford, 307 tons ;
barque Martha -Kay, Sunderland, 360 tons; barque
Conciliator, Shields, 350 tons ; barque John Oldham,
London, 430 tons ; barque Livinia, 323 tons ; barque
Thetnis, Sunderl,nd, 320 tons ; barque Princess, 369
tons ; barque Menaffea, Wexford, 360 tons ; brig
Ad.-dplii, Shields, 2SO tons.
"2. The barque Billow Queen, Arbroath ; barque
Sea, Sunderland ; brig John and Eleanor,-Sinelds,,dis-
charging wheat.
"3. The brig Regina, Sunderland ; brig Catherine,
Leith; brig R ichard Mount, London ; barque Swift,
Shields —ballast. d and ready to sail.
The following general memorandum was issued on
the 24th

" Britannia, off Odessa, April 24.
" The Vice-Admiral commanding-iii-chief offers his
best thanks for the zealous and effective marmer in
which the Imperial Mole and Russian shipping kt Odessa
have been destroyed by the division of steam-ships
under the immediate command of Captain Jones, of the
Samp-on.

IThe Vice-Admiral trusts that the inviolability of
a flag of truce will in future be strictly and honourably
maintained, and hopes that the whole of the squadron
under his command may soon have an opportunity of
showing their zeal and efficiency against the common
enemy.

" ' DEANS DUNDAS, Vice-Admiral.'

"A merchant captain who came out of Odessa on
Sunday (the 23d) reports the casualties by death at 500 ;
the wounded are infinitely more numerous."

A letter from Odessa, of the 30th ultimo, via
Vienna, mentions a fact which, says the Patrie,
shows to what extent the Russian authority carry
duplicity and falsehood. In the night after the
►,omhardinent of the military port, General Osten-
Sacken had the dead soldiers, amounting to be-
tween 500 and GOO, removed and buried seven or
eight miles beyond the town. The next day, in
order to make tl►e people believe that the loss had
been trifling, he hail forty soldiers, who had been
left lying dead on the batteries, buried at Odessa
with great pomp. A citizen, who (luring the night
had seen what was passing, and mentioned it, was
arrested on a charge of propagating false newt, and
being tried by a court martial was sentenced to
death.

FOREIGN CONSULS AT ODESSA, AND

THE BOMBARDMENT.
The last munher of the Russian invalid, the
semi-official journal, contains the following under
the head of " News from the Black Sea :"
" Aide•de-Camp General Annenkoff, acting as gover•
nor-general of New Russia and Bessarahi i, has brought
to the knowledge of H. M the Emperor that, on the
22d April, during the bombardment of Odessa by the
enemy's fleets, three inhabitants of the town (Alexis
Filippoft, son of a druggist, A Stroiko, a retired soldier,
and Sophia Fed-sseieff, a soldier's wife) were killyd, and
eight wei e wounded ; and that shells and congreve
roe-k. is set fire to 14 small houses in the Faubourg of the
Perecype, and damaged in the town 52 houses built in stoi e,
all belonging to private persons. The houses which
have most suffered are those of Prince Woronzoff, the
neighbouring one occupied by the officertof the governor-
genera!, and that of M. Naryschkine, on the boulevard.
Whilst testifying that in these last days of trial order
and public tranquillity were not troubled in the town
ai.d its neighbourhood by any culpable act, Aide-de-
Camp-General Annenkoff has transmitted the following
letter, which was addresse.; to him by all the foreign
consuls; residing at Odessa—a letter in which they ex-
press to the local authorities the most sincere gratitude
for the protection accorded to all foreigners :

" Odessa, 28th April.—The undersigned foreign
Consul—General and Consuls residing at Odessa, alter
having had the honour to offcr, conjointly with your
Excellency, the tribute of their profound gratitude to
his Excellency the Aide-de-Camp General Baron d'Osten
Sacken, chief of the 3 I corps, consider it their duty to
express the same sentimei.t4 of gratitude to your Ex-
cellency, as also to hi • Excellency Lieutenant-General
Krusenstern, military governor of the town, for the
efficacious measures and perfectly paternal solicitude with
which they were kind enough to preAerve in the days of
danger the families and interests of their fellow sub-
jects celebrated in this town. Hoping that your Ex-
cellency will be kind enough to accept the expression of
the sentiments •which animate them, the undersigned
gladly seize this occasion to offer you the homage of all
their respect.
CHEVALIER DE CISCIIINI, Consul of Austria
BERZOLESE, Consul- General of Sardinia ;—H.
JUNG, Consul of the Netherlands ;—ETTLINGER,
Consul of Bavaria ; BAGUER Y RIBAS, Consul-
General of Spain and of Parma, in Russia ;
Wieicise, Consul of Sweden and Norway ;
MENGER, Consul Of Prussia ; COUNT PARRO,
Consul-General of Portugal ; NUGUES DEI'SAN
SECUNDO, Consul General of the Two Sicilies.'
At the sane time, the Axle-de-Camp.General Baron
d'Osten Sacken announces that the quarantine, and par-
ticularly the qmirter of passengers, was exposed to a
violent fire of the enemy's artillery, and that the passen-
gers were transferred from it to another edifice, out of
the reach of cannon to save them from the danger that
menaced them. A similar measure of precaution was
taken for the captains and crews of merchant-vessels
those under the enemy's flags, as well as those which
belong to the neutral powers. In order to preserve the
souvenir of the shameful attack of the Anglo-French
fleet, the holes of the enemy's halls in the edifices of the
town have been marked in black on the walls."