The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-16 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

EXPECTED ATTACK ON SWEABORG.
The following telegraphic despatch is dated
Gothland, Sunday :
" Both fleets are at Boresund, twenty miles
from Sweaborg, and it is expected they will at-
tack the latter place on the 13th. Admiral Corry
is at Dagerhut. There are sixteen Russian sail
in Sweaborg. The hospital ship has arrived. Rus-
sian ship, loaded-with stone, to sink off Sweaborg.
Dauntless gone to England with several prizes.
A letter of the 7th; in the Moniteur, says :
" Our last accounts of Sir C. Napier are to the
4th. At that date the admiral was with the
greater part of the English fleet and the Austerlitz
at Berosund, near Helsingfors, where he thinks
that he saw (ou it croyait apercevoir) ten Russian
vessels."

COPENHAGEN, June 11.—The Fcedrelandet con-
tains another leader on the neutrality. It shows
that this system of neutrality has always been the
bane of Denmark, and that the Government should
at once declare for the Western Powers, instead of
wasting its energies in acts of internal despotism.
A private letter in the 'antar Posten states that
the commander of Sweaborg has been imprisoned
for life. He had sold the cannon-balls by thou-
sands, and provided others of wood, painted black.
He had also converted two ra•' 'parts into gardens.
They are employed night and day in restoring the
fortress. In Finland they fear a Swedish land force
more than the allied fleet. The whole of the south
coast is sprinkled with Cossack pickets. Some of
the new fir gunboats have been tried ; they split
at the first shot. Abo is defended by twelve of
these boats, and by some batteries. The Russ'an
troops in garrison there are in very bad spirits.
Commerce has ceased, and prices are very high.
The peasants are paid for military transports in
paper money, at half the usual prices. The mili-
tary, except the guards, are small and weakly men,
and excessively given to drunkenness.
The Swedish papers continue to advocate union
with the West, and everything shows that the time
is at hand when Sweden will declare itself. At
the same time it is universally asserted that a di-
version must be made in Poland, and that the in-
dependence of that noble country must be at once
restored. If the war is to be seriously carried on,
this step must soon be taken.
The Finni sh battalion of guards has reached St.
Petersburg after four weeks' march. It is em-
ployed as the body-guard of the Imperial family.
Letters from the Russo-Prussian frontier an-
nounce that some detachments of troops have ad-
vanced from the interior of Russia towards Polan-
gen. They are intended, it is said, to defend the
coasts of Courland and Livonia against any attacks
which may be directed against the provinces of the
Baltic. This force consists of 1,000 infantry, 400
cavalry, and 6 pieces of cannon.
' The Emperor of Russia paid Cronstad t another
visit on the 2d inst. His Majesty was accompanied
by the Grand Duke Constantine, Prince Dolgo-
rouski, Minister of War, Count d'Adlerberg, Minis-
ter of the Imperial Household, and the General of
Infantry, Count Kisseleff.
Admiral Ricord issued an order of the day on the
10th, at Cronstadt, upon hoisting his flag on board
the Peter I. In this the worthy old veteran tells
the fleet he has served 60 years ; that he is ap-
pointed commander of the two divisions of the Bal-
tic fleet, ready to " receive " the enemy; that he
need not remind the crews of their thities ; that all
must die one day or the other, and that all must
prefer to die at once, rather than allow the glorious
gag of Russia to fall into the enemy's hand. The
good old admiral might apparently have spared the
latter recommendation, unless he could receive per-
mission to go forth "to meet," in lieu of remaining
snugly under or behind the land batteries, "to re-
ceive ' the coming foe.