The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

THE OCCUPATION OF ALAND.

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 23.—1 t is reported here that
if the pending negotiations for the occupation of
Aland by Sweden with 20,000 Swedish troops
should fail, the fortifications of Bomarsund are to
he blown up before the Ist of September.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Berlin, Friday,
says :—The French troops at Botnarsund suffer
extremely from cholera, and will probably embark
again immediately.

THE GERMAN POWERS.
VIENNA, Friday Eve n jug. —Price Gortsch akoff
is said to have received intimation from St. Peters-
burg that no direct answer will be given to the last
propositions forwarded by Austria, but she will be
asked what her intentions really are.
The armaments here are on t greater scale than
ever.

The Wanderer of Vienna, of the 21st, says :
" It is said that Count d'Arnim, the Prussian am-
bassador at this Court, has gone to Berlin, in order
to ascertain definitively the intentions of Prussia
with regard to Russia, and to compare the proposi-
tions et the latter with the demands for guaran-
tees, by submitting them to a fresh examination.
In the serious complications of the Eastern ques-
tion, it will be heard with pleasure that, in the
opinion of the diplomatists of Vienna, the majority
of the German Governments share in the views of
the Austrian Governwei:t, and think with it that
the guarantees set down by the Western Powers
are in accordance with the interests of Germany,
and that they are acceptable. It is mentioned in
diplomatic circles here, that the Islands of Aland,
which have been taken by the allied troops, will be
declared independent of Russia, and placed under
the protection of the Western Powers, and that the
same pan will be pursued with all the other islands
that may fall into their power."
The last number of the Prussian Correspondence
contains another article on the protocols of tilt
Conference of Vienna. It concludes thus :

"In comparing the protocols quoted by us with that
of the 9th of April, which is po.terior to them, it is seen
hat the points on which the Four Powers were com-
pletely agreed on April 9, were no other than those
,vhich are formally ineotioued as such in the protocol o
that day, viz., Ist, the maintenance of the integrity of
the Ottoman empire, the evacuation of the principalitie,
being naturally a principal condition of that state of
things ; 2dlv, the guarantee of the religious and civil
iights of the Christian ,übjects of the Porte by meant-
xhich would not interfere in any way with the indepen-
dence and sovereignty of the Sultan. These two points
lesignate the object cf the concert mentioned in the
protocol, and when we add that the Powers have pledged
•hernse!ves to seek out in common the guarati ees
calculated to connect the exit' ence of the Ottoman em-
pire with the general European equilibrium, and thhi
they have bound themselves not to conclude either witl,
Russia or with any other Power any convention contrar
to the principles laid down in the protocol, we steal;
have called to mind the obligations which Prussia ha-
contracted in participating in the conf Tence of Vienna.
No one can deny that Prussia has been faithful to these
obligations."