The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-24 00:00:00

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(Font the Mining Journal of this day. )
Very little change has taken place in the Mining Share
Market this week, but there is a hir average amount of busi-
ness doing in most descriptions of stock, whilst one or two
mines have had a considerable rise in price. Amongst these
latter, Cillmars have risen from 51. to 101, ; West Alfred Con-
sols, 201. to 271. 125., 301.

In the Bullion Market—Mexican and South American dol-
lars, ss. 2id. per oz. Bar silver containing gold, all gold
above 5 grs. in the pound to be paid for, ss. lad. per oz.
standard. Bar silyer without gold, ss. lid. per oz. standard.
Bar gold, 778.- 95. per oz. standard. Columbian doubloons,
765. 6d. per oz. Spanish Carolus dollars, 6s. per oz. Fine
cake silver, ss. 64d, per oz
The Gold Mining Share Market this week has been marked
by a trifling depression in some instances. Anglo-Californian
and Agua Frias still assume a position in the market ; but this
arises from the fact that in neither of these have sales been
pressed. The shareholderS in the Anglo-California Gold Min-
ing Company are looking forward with great interest to the
statements and explanations to be afforded to them at the
general meeting by Sir 11. Huntley, and which it is antici-
pated will give some credible information as to the state of quartz

[fling in California. The Sydney illarning Herald publish% a
Doug article ion the, companies promoted in London for work-
iug gold miiV in the -Australian colonies, and makes some
Severe comments; on the gullibility of the English public, the
fraudulent mannerin which most of these associations have
been concocted, and animadverts on those who, by the sale of
land, assisteoy forgery, contrived to extract so largo a sum
from their ignorant dupes. Nearly all the associations formed
in London are stigmatised as worthleis ; and it appears a
matter of wonder to the colonists that people at home could
be so blindly led those who have so wilfully and grossly
deceived them. The general opinion, both iu New South
Wales and Victoria, is that companies formed in London for
working gold mines-there will not pay ; and our own expo.
rience within the, last few month has shown that many of
these bubble concoctions have exploded, without returning
anything to:the shareholders.
In Miscellaneous Shares the market has been firm, and land
securities have shown an advance,
•Iluiron*.id Coal Companies cluing the week but-few trat-,
I_l4Y4O.Wi huTe4t,lituplace.
•

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS,

SIEGE OF SILISTRIA

Advices from the Danubian Principalities state
that General Daniienberg has succeeded to the
Chief command over the Russian forces, in conse-
quence of the wounds received by the Generals
lately in command.

The complete defeat of the Russians on the 16th
is confirmed, a portion of the besieging army
having been forced to recross the Danub© in all
haste.

The Turks took several standards and a grew
quantity of baggage.

Five Russian Generals were either killed or
wounded in this affair alone.

THE ALLIED FLEETS NEAR CRONSTADT.
STETTIN, June 22.—We have just received in-
telligence that the main body of the Allied Fleets,
upwards of 40 sail, of which 16 or 17 are three-
deckers, have been sighted from the western end
of the island of Cronstadt.

A despatch from Dantzig says :—On the 21st all
the steam-ships of the combined fleets left their
anchorage, and proceeded direct to Cronsta,dt.
Before passing Helsingfors three of the small
steamers ran in within the batteries, and counted
thirteen Russian line-of-battle ships lying across
the harbour.

DEATH OF GENERAL LUDERS.
According to information from Bucharest of the
18th, General Luders had his jaw shattered by a
bullet before Silistria, and has since died. This
fact had been concealed from the Russian troops,
who had great confidence in the talent and bravery
of that general, and whose discouragement it was
feared might be thereby increased.

RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK
UPON GAMLA-KARLEBY.

We extract the following from a report contained
in an extraordinary supplement of the Invalids
Busse :

"On the 26th of May, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
two English steamers were signalled as being in sight of
the town of Gamla•Karleby. A few gunboats approached
the shore to-sound the channel, and at 9 in the evening
9 sloops of 16 oars, and 16 of 20 oars, each armed with
a gun, were put to sea. One of them, under a flag of
truce, came close to the shore. The burgomaster, who
received the English officer who was on board this boat,
replied to all his questions and summonses that he could
not allow him to come any nearer to the town, or to
destroy the vessels, or what he called the contraband of
war. The English officer then withdrew, threatening to
enter the town by force. In fact towards 11 o'clock at night,
the 9 boats advanced towards the shore. Two pieces of ar-
tillery of the garrison, two Finland companies of the line
No. 12, and 100 armed inhabitants of the town, favoured
by the localities and the country buildings, received the
enemy with a cannonade and a fire to which the artil-
lery and musketry of the boats replied. The combat
lasted till nearly midnight. In the end the enemy was
forced to retire, towing two boats which had been da-
maged with a great number of killed and wounded, and
with very few of the rowers left. One of the boats re-
mained in the possession of the conquerors with 22 sea-
men, who were made prisoners. Among the latter there
were four wounded men. The dead body of the officer
and the bodies of five sailors were in the boat, and dur-
ing the fight several other bodies had been thrown into
the sea. With this boat we captured its flag, a bronze
cannon of large calibre, munitions, guns, pistols, and
the whole of its armament. According to the state-
ments of the prisoners, the other boats also received
severe injuries, and one of them was sunk. Thanks to
God, the loss on our side was quite insignificant. Four
men only were slightly wounded. Thus the town of
Gamla,Karleby, threatened with the same fate as Brahe-
stadt and Uleaborg, was saved by a handful of troops,
assisted by the brave inhabitants. It is to be remarked
that these troops rushed from very distant points with
unheard-of rapidity."

AUTHENTIC DET AILS OF THE ROYAL
. CONFERENCE AT TETSCHEN.—POLICY
OF AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
The Debuts publishes a long article on the inter-
view of the two Sovereigns of Austria and Prussia
at Tetschen, in which it gives some curious infor-
mation on ie important resolutions adopted during
the conferences which took place. The interview,
as is known, took place on the invitation of the
Emperor Francis Joseph, who wrote an autograph
letter to King Frederick William, his uncle, pro-
posing that he should come to Tetschen to see the
new Empress, unless he preferred to receive the
visit of his nephew and niece at Potsdam. (The
Queen of Prussia, the Archduchess Sophia, and the
Duchess Louisa, of Bavaria, are sisters.) The
King of Prussia went to Tetschen. The confer-
ences had a double object ; first, the conduct to
be observed by the two Sovereigns with respect to
the States which met at Bamberg ; and, secondly,
with respect to all the eventualities which might
happen in the East. The first was considered
secondary, at least for the moment ; and the at-
tention of the Sovereigns was directed to the
second. But on this point the questions were al-
ready clearly settled by the treaty of Berlin of the
20th April, the military convention between
Prussia and Austria, and the note which Austria
addressed on the 2d of June to the St. Petersburg
Cabinet. The Sovereigns had, therefore, to con-
sider what they were to do in either of the three
cases—first, that the Czar should yield ; secondly,
that he should resist ; and, thirdly, that in an-
nouncing the intention to yield, he should demand
previous explanations as to what would be done ul-
teriorly touching the state of war and the opening
of a congress. All this has been regulated at Tots-
then with great precision ; but at the same time the
Sovereigns were desirous to make a last attempt,
and to renew the demands of the note of the 2d of
June, by a personal appeal to the Czar. After the
conference, other notes were sent to St. Petersburg,
again insisting and formally offering the mediation
of the two Powers if the St. Petersburg Cabinet
would accept the conditions proposed by the two
Powers. In these notes an express demand is
made upon the Emperor Nicholas that he should
order the immediate and absolute evacuation of
the principalities by his army, and engage himself
to terminate pacifically his difference with Turkey,
by means of a conference of the four Powers, which
would thus become a conference of six. If the
Emperor made these two concessions, and if he
executed them without delay or reserve, Austria
and Prussia would engage to serve as intermedi-
aries at Paris, London, and Constantinople, to ob-
tain for him an honourable peace. These conclu-
sions do not differ from those of the note of the 2d
of June, with this exception—that Russia is no
longer allowed to fix the period of the evacuation,
and that Prussia and Austria are more explicit in
their offers of mediation, and their engagements to
procure for Russia an honourable peace. The
Debuts then goes on to say :
"If the answer should be a refusal, everything is pre- .
pared at Vienna as well as at Berlin to commence the
war, and to commence it on a grand scale. Austria will

take the initiative, leaving to Prussia the care of cover-
ing her frontiers against internal troubles. The parts
being thus distributed, the means will not be wanting to
either Power. Austria has given developments to her
armies which surpass all that has been previously seen ;
nothing is wanting to them—neither discipline, nor in-
struction, nor numerous battalions, nor stores of every
kind, nor able and approved generals. The young Em-
peror has brought them together in these great circum-
stances ; and very recently General Benedick, who was
the right hand of Marshal Radetzky, has been sent to
Vienna. General Hess will remain near the Emperor.
We are assured that an Austrian army of at least
180,000 men will enter the Principalities the very day the
refusal of the Emperor Nicholas is known in Vienna, and
that the refusal is considered irrevocable. Prussia is.
ready on her side. She has already commenced the
mobilization of her army. That army is immense. The
lists of the Ministry of War prove that she can have
an effective force of more than 500,000 men. For the
present, so great a number will not be collected ; but
Austria has assured herself that, in certain foreseen cir-
cumstances, Prussia will place the whole of that force
AA her .disposal. Prussia will not make direct war
against Russia ; she will merely assist Austria, so as to
allow the latter the free disposal of all her forces, and to
direct them against Russia. This expedient was con-
trived because the King of Prussia was unwilling that
his troops should meet those of his brother-in-law in the
field of battle."
The Debats says that against so great a mass of
enemies there cannot be a doubt but that Russia
wiltbarotbed to abandon the Principalities, and
to defend the - southern provinces of the empire,
which will inevitably be invaded, "and after their
invasion there can be no longer any question as to
the integrity of Russia, for no one will wish-to give
up what Russia loses.' Russia will consequently
lose by this war what she got by previous wars,
and, above all, lose her prestige and influence.
If the retinal be categorical, the next step of the
Powers is clear. " The chances aro against Russia,
who will probably be so much weakened that, for
a long time to come, she will not again be a danger
to the European equilibrium."
TheDebats thinks it more difficult to what
will happeii if, the Czar should accede to the propo-
sitions of the two Powers, repass the Pruth, and
consent to another conference at Vienna. " But
even in that case," says the Debats, " Russia will
not find herself such as she was before the crisis,
and it will be justice : for it would be a bad exam-
ple that she should be allowed with impunity to
disquiet Europe and trouble its repose." It fore-
sees great difficulties in conciliating so many inte-
rests, but says that the Vienna Cabinet is prepared
for that second hypothesis, and that, in accordance
with the' Cabinet of Berlin, it will undertake the
negotiations, the two Cabinets being determined
not to separate, and to insist on the acceptance of
their mediation. They will say that -it is a con-
sequence of their participation in the conference of
Vienna.; that it was as paediators they took mt.

that conference ; that they have only one wish--
the maintenance of the peace of Europe, the integ-
rity of Turkey, and the independence of the Sultan
—that when the struggle commenced they bad n°
direct interest in -it, and that they
have only to
continue the part of mediators.
"If Austria is acceptedas a mediatex, she will 811.
ply herself to the obtaining of two great general results.
She will strengthen Turkey, which she wishes to with-
draw from any preponderating influence, and she will
organise against the future invasioni of Russia a system
of defence which may satisfy Europa, and will preserve
it from a return of the troubles which have writated it
for the last year. In pursuing this double result,
Austria will show herself faithful to her old and COn.
stant policy. She has never been of those who have COw
tributed to the weakening of the Porte ; she has never
approved of the dismemberment of the Turkish empire'
she never took part in the creation of the kieg°°",,, i
of Greece ; she never encouraged per approved °
the attempts of the pachas who wished to throw
off the authority of the Sultan, and to proclaim
their independence. Austria believes in the vitality
of the Ottoman Empire, and desires it. She lag
not blind to the causes which may eventually
to the destruction of the Turkish Empire, but 511'
will do all sea can to postpone that destruction. re'
fore the present crisis this was a cause of difference be-
tween her and the Russian Cabinet. . , The A-°11"
trian Cabinet having, however, permitted the eventua-
lity of the fall of the Ottoman Empire to enter into the
discussion, the Russian and Austrian Courts perceived
that they could understand each other without niue"
difficulty as to these eventualties, for the one and the,.
other absolutely excluded the re-establishment of a great
Greek State, of a Byzantine Empire, and agreed that
the only thing they should allow in these great countries
was a number of small States, independent and neutral,
placed under the protection of Europe. It is, there-
fore, easy for Austria to be of the same advice with the
Cabinets which support and protect the Porte. It 13
sufficient for that that the Black Sea should always ua
open to the military navies of all countries—that Russia
should renounce the protectorate of the Danubian Prin•
cipalities, which has too often served as a pretext for
their occupation--and that the mouths of the DaDube
should cease to be in the hands of Russia."
This, then, is the plan to be proposed by Austris,
for the restoration of peace, should Russia consen,!
to accept her mediation. There cannot be a doilyt
of the fact, for the article of the Debats is evi-
dently derived from Austria herself. It is for the
Western Powers to consider whether the terws are
such as they ought to accept. The Debats seems
to think that there is no doubt about the consent,
of the Western Powers, for it passes that question
over in silence.