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

THE BALTIC.

DANTZIC, Juno I.—Two German merchants who
arrived yesterday from Warsaw inform me that the
accounts in the German papers of the assembling of
great masses of troops in Poland are exaggerated,
there being now a smaller number than usual in
that country. Warsaw itself is all bustle, and has
a thoroughly military appearance. The forts are
also well garrisoned, but very few soldiers are to be
seen in the interior of the country, over a consider-
able portion of which one of my informants lately
passed. His impression is that numerous troops
have been lately sent from Poland to the Gulf of
Finland. It appears by his statements that the
country is for the present perfectly tranquil, that
no allusion to the great political question of the day
is ever made in public, and that no foreign journals
are delivered before their accounts of the events
on the theatres of war are cut out. Both my,
informants state that great misery prevails in Po-
land, and that the people are in too dejected a state
to think of an insurrection. Matters, however,
will assume a very different hue the moment the
Western Powers throw a gleam of hope over that
unfortunate country. The followingparagraph
appears in the Liantzic Damphvot :—"ln this town
as well as in Neufah-wasser (a large village about
five miles distant) arrangements are being made for
weekly supplies of meat for the combined fleet. So
large a quantity is required that Dantzic alone can-
not furnish it, and it has been necessary to enter
into contracts with other Baltic ports. it is
asserted that a Dantzie firm has engaged to
deliver weekly 27,000 pounds weight of meat."
The Konigsberg Llartungschc Zeitung of yester-
day, states that since the recent seizure by the
Amphion and Conflict, war steamers, of a number
of merchant vessels in the harbour of Libau, many
families have left that town and gone into the
interior of the country. By order of the Czar,
the account book and funds of the custom house at
Polanger (a little town on the Baltic, higher up
than Memel), have been transferred to the town
of Erottingen, about two German miles inland.
An army corps, sixty thousand strong, under the
command of General 'Von Sievern—stretches from
Polanger to beyond Mitan, "in order," as the
above-named journal states, "to prevent any serious
advance of the enemy into the interior of the
country." And apropos of Erottingen, it may be
stated that the clergyman of the Evangelical
Church there has appointed a " solemn church
festival," in order to commemorate the pres enta-
tion to that church, by the King of Prussia, of a
crucifix and two altar lamps. Meat is becoming
very scarce and dear in Memel, on account of the
prohibition of the exportation of cattle from Rus-
sia. One of the objects of that prohibition is, no
doubt, to prevent the English getting supplies.
According to the above-named Konigsberg journal,
an officer of the Conflict war steamer, who had been
much injured by the machinery, has expired in
Memel. The name is not given. One of the
butchers of Dantzic, who is making arrangements
for the procuring of cattle for the combined fleet,
is now proudly relating how he had the honour of
furnishing meat to Lord Nelson's fleet, and to Na-
poleon's army, when the one was in the Baltic and
the other in Pomerania. The worthy old man,
who is much respected hero, supplied also the Rus-
sian army in 1830, but on that point he maintains
perfect silence. Times are changed.

ANTICIPATED ATTACK UPON SEBAS-
TOPOL.

We find the following in a Constantinople letter
of May 23 :—lt is asserted that the Euphrates
brought out orders from France and England for
the admirals to attack Sebastopol. These orders,
it is said, were communicated to them by the
Council of War at Varna. There is nothing un-
likely in this assertion, especially if, as has been
said, Admiral Dundas had secret instructions,
which bound his hands, and prevented his striking
a decisive blow, while Ministers at home were
waiting for " something to turn up." The
attack upon Odessa is quite compatible with the
existence of such instructions. The firing upon
a flag of truce was an accident which it was im-
possible to anticipate, and it may be assumed
that the moment he was compelled to use
his own discretion, Admiral Dundas naturally
adopted the only'co rso congenial to the feelings of a
British sailor. It must also be confessed, that if
the hands of the admirals were tied by instructions
from home, the givers of those orders were assisted
by the winds and fogs of the Black sea, width pre.

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vented our operations on a gr ale. These
winds and fogs furnish a ready r to any ques-
tions that may be asked in Parliament.

RUPTURE BETWEEN SWEDEN AND
RUSSIA.

There was a report in Paris about the Court that
the Swedish squadron had received orders to com-
bine its force with the allied fleets in the Baltic,
and that the Swedish Minister at St. Petersburg
had demanded his passports.

LOSSES SUSTAINED BY THE RUSSIAN
.ARMY OF OCCUPATION.

"The Russian army," says the Moniteur de
d'

"Has suffered considerable losses since the opening
of the campaign, not only on the field of battle, butalso
by disease. We long predicted that unavoidable result
of the sojourn of that army in a damp and marshy
country. Some journals have described the plan of
operations agreed upon by the Generals and Admirals of
the allied land and sea forces. They even assign to each
the post which he is to occupy. We doubt the correct•
ness of their information. Such decisions generally re-
main secret, and it is only by accomplished facts that
they become known to the public. The only inference
we can draw from the relative position of the armies is,
that the situation of the Russians is by no means re-
assuring for the General in command of them, and that
we are on the eve of important events. The co-opera-
tion of the European Powers most interested in the
question, and the moral support of those which are
either unwilling or unable to take an active part in the
conflict, are secured to England and France, and it is
accordingly to be hoped that the struggle will be prompt,
vigorous, and decisive."