The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-09 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR.

The following are our latest telegraphic des
patches :

THE BALTIC.
RETURN OF SIR C. NAPIER.

PARIS, FRIPAY NIGHT.
A despatch from Dantzic announces. that Ad-
miral Napier intends to leave Ledsund at six
o'clock this morning, with the Gladiator and the
Cumberland, for England.

DANTZIC, FRIDAY.
The steam-corvette Bulldog, Captain Hall, has
come in with the news that the Basilisk and Hecla
had left Aland, having taken in tow two French
ships which were conveying the troops back to
France.

The Belleisle hospital ship and the Cumberland
are the next to go home. •

Another despatch, of the same date, is as LD

lows : •
The Bulldog, which left the fleet on the stb, has
arrived.

Admiral Napier was gone up to the Isle of
Nargen.
The French troops are leaving.
The Gladiator, Cumberland, and Bellisle have
left for England.

THE ALAND ISLANDS.
A letter from. Stockholm, of August 29, in the
Universal German Gazette, says :—" A deputation
of peasants arrived here a few days back from the
Aland Islands to obtain the occupation of these
islands by Sweden and their incorporation with
that State. Their petition was duly presented to
the Diet, and this day a large deputation of the
members of the Diet laid the prayer of the petition
before the King."

RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE
OF BOMARSUND.

•
The following are the terms in which the Inva-
lids Russe,as copied from the St. Peterbarg Journal,
of the 21st August (September 2), announces the
capture of Bomarsund by the allied troops :
"NEWS FROM THE BALTIC SEA.
"The last news from the isles of Aland stops at
the 27th of July, the date of the arrival of the
French troops, which were intended to land. From that
time the complete investment commenced, both by
land and sea, of the fortifications of those islands,
and all means of procuring direct and certain informa-
tion from them ceased to exist. We only know that
it was through the hearsaystatements of the inhabitants,
brought to the knowledge of the Governor of Abo, that
the enemy, after having landed as many as 10,000 men
upon the principal isle, had begun to erect batteries, and
was assailing our fortifications with numerous artillery.
After the 31st of July there was heard at Abo a heavy
cannonade on the isle of Aland, which did not cease
from morning to night ; but all the accounts agree
saying that our fortifications held out vigorously, and
that they destroyed a'hattery constructed by the French
near the village of Finsby. From the 2d of August the
• cannonade was obviously redoubled in intensity ; but it
suddenly ceased on the 4th, and the sad news soon spread
that the enemy had taken the fort of Aland.
"Although up to this moment we have not received
any positive news from .Aland beyond the reports of
private persons, the unhappy fate of our fortifications
cannot be doubted. All the accounts, though differing
in certain distaiis, correspond as to the principal points.
" The fortifications of Aland were composed of a for-
tified barracks occupying the eastern extreniity of the
principle isle, upon the strait of Bomarsund, and of
three-towers respectively designated by the letters C,
and Z. These works, separated from each other, alone
were finished ; the greatest part of the fortress was only
rough-cast, and it existed merely in project. The garri-
son was composed of the battalion of the line of Finland
No. 10, to which were added two companies of the bat-
talion of grenadiers, tirailleura, under the command of
Colonel Furubjelm, who, up to the commencement of the
siege, had occupied a coast battery temporarily raised at
the south of the fort. The first efforts of the enemy
were directed, as it appears, against the tower C, situ-
ated at the west of the fort, and they rendered them-
selves masters of it on the 2d of August, after a bom-
bardment without intermission. According to the re-
port of some persons, the brave defenders of this tower,
at last deprived of all possibility of continuing their re-
sistance, decided upon making a desperate sortie, which
threw the ranks of the enemy into disorder, and they
blew up the tower after the French had effected an entry
into it.
" On the 3d August, the enemy attacked the other
tower, U, situate on Cape Nord wick, to the north of
the principal fort, and they rendered themselves
masters of that also, but not without experiencing
a sensible loss, On the 4th, at the break of
day, the enemy directed all his efforts, both by
land and sea, against the fortified barracks, which was
Inundated with a perfect hailstorm of bombs and bullets.
At fait, about ona o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy
ecupied this last fortificition. Toe report runs that
the cornmindatit of the place, Major-General Bodisco,
and Colonel Xurubjelin, as well as a part of. the garri•
son, are still alive, and prisoners of war. It is said that
the enemy was astonished at the energy and the dura-
tion of their resistance, and that in testimony of their
esteem for the gallant defenders of the fort they have
returned the officers their swords.
" This is all that is known respecting this sad event
—an event which there is no possibility of hindering.
However lamentable may be the fate of the fortifications
of Aland, isolated as they were in some manner of an
advanced post, we- have still here, also, the consolation
that the Russian troops remained faithful to their duty,
and to military honour. In defending for a period of
eight days, against fifty-eight ships and a land force of
10,000 men, a secondary and unfinished fort, the garri-
son of Aland has won the applause even of the enemy,
and has heroically sustained the glory of the Russian
arms.

" On the 10th of August five of the enemy's steam-
ships entered the Archipelago of Abo, and directed
themselves against 17 gun-boats of the second battalion
of the flotilla of the west, which, with .some small
steam-tugs, were anchored near the isle of Rotual,
barring the channel leading to Abo. The enemy opened
a violent cannonade at a distance of 2,000 sageres. His
shot, shell, and bombs fell for the greatest part beyond
the gun-boats, which quietly waited till the enemy
should approach within range, and only then opened fire
from their pieces. The cannonade lasted more than two
hours and a-half, during which we had three me❑ killed
and eight wounded. Among-the number of the latter
were three men of the naval militia of Finland.
"Tile enemy then retired, one of his steamers having
to be towel, by re.ason of the
.injuries it bad received.
"In his report of this affair, the captain of the vessel
of the first rank, Akouloff, commander of the. western
brigade of the paddle flotilla, bears testimony with par-
ticular praise to the coolness and the excellent disposi-
tion of the Corvette, Captain Atryganieff, commander
of the 2d battalion, and eulogises the zeal of all the Offi-
cers, as well as the crews.

“His Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to ex-
press his satisfaction of the conduct of the officers, and
to confer twelve marks of honour of the military order
among the crews.” •

THE BRITISH EXPEDITION.
•
COUNCIL OF WAR.
VARNA, August 28.—The Council of War held
at Marshal St. Arnaud's quarters on Saturday last,
August 26, was no doubt one of the most im-
portant which has yet taken place.
M. St. Arnaud has issued the following order of
the day:—