The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-10 00:00:00

THE BALTIC FLEET.

KIEL, Nov. 9.—No sailing orders have yet ar-
rived. The coaling of the steamers is completed.
Admiral Napier has returned to the squadron.
The ships were dressed to-day, and fired royal
salutes, in commemoration of the Prince of Wales's
birth-day.
The departure from Nargen of Sir Charles
Napier, with the 12 screw line-of-battle ships under
his immediate orders, has been a source of infinite
satisfaction to the residents of Revel, who, for the
past three months, were in expectation that their
city would be bombarded. As soon as thef were
assured of the withdrawal from the Gulf of Finland
of the main portion of the fleet, a series of rejoic-
ings commenced, and festivities on a grand scale
were given in honour of the peaceable termination
of the present year's campaign.
Nov. 7.—lt has been notified to the Commander-
in-Chief that any men-of-war putting into Nor-
wegian ports are not to be subjected to the sur-
veillance of the quarantine regulations.
An arrangement on the part of the Board of
Admiralty has been made with the Post-office au-
thorities for a daily communication to and from
the fleet, via Kiel. All letters in future will be
forwarded to this port, instead of to Dantzic, but
the rate of postage has not yet been determined on.
The chartered steam-trausporcs Holyrood and
Gothenburg sail this afternoon—the former for
England—the latter for Faro, with provisions for
the Euryalus and Arrogant.
We read in a Hamburg letter of the sth, pub-
lished in the /ndependance of Brussels :

" Whilst Admiral Napier seems to be amusing him-
self at Hamburg, and while the 20 ships, mostly liners,
of the English fleet do not stir from the port of Kiel, we
learn by way of Lubeck that 10 light war steamers of
the English still remain in the Baltic, where they occupy
three naval stations near one another, so that they can
unite in a short time should events require it.
" Although the division of the Russian fleet at
Sweaborg has as yet made no attempt to leave this
port, now free and no longer blockaded, the English
steam squadron seems to have for its mission that of re-
maining partly at Oregrund and partly at Faro Sound
until the ice is sufficiently thick to prevent the exit of
the Russian naval forces. It is probable that the pro-
longed stay made by the English fleet at the anchorage
of Kiel, whence it could return to the Baltic in a few
days, is connected with the eventualities of an excursion
on the part of the Russian ships into that sea.
"On the 28th of Odtober last not one ship of war
belonging to the 'Allies was to be seen at the Island
of Aland. The last, the Penelope frigate, left the
anchorage of Ledsund on the 27th ult. to join the
Odin at Oregrund, from which place they observed
the Gulf of Bothnia. The weather, just as it always is at
this late season of the year, was exceedingly bad in those
latitudes, and almost every day some deplorable calamity
occurred among the shipping.
"Towards the end of October the islands of Aland
were entirely free and completely evacuated. The
Russian Government had not yet taken any measures
for re-establishing its authority en them. It was
expected, however, that the moment the ice should
cause all danger to disappear, the Governor of
Finland would hasten to reinstate those public
functionaries, whom the war had compelled to leave
the island. The communications with Finland had
already become: very frequent. Every day steamers
were arriving from the mainland, and the importation,
favoured by Swedish commerce, of both European and
exotic articles, which Finland since last spring had
often been obliged to do without, has been going on
freely on a great scale since th Allied fleets retired.
" I have yet to add that in imitation of the Russians,
who, as I informed you at the time, destroyed their
lighthouses and beacons at the beginning of the war,
the English now, in their turn, have also removed all
the sea marks which they placed as guides to their na-
vigation."