The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-04 00:00:00

"Yesterday the fleet was at anchor off Kjoge."

Another telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated
March 31, says :—" Prince Charles of Prussia is
appointed General in-Chief of the Artillery; and
Prince Albert is named Admiral, at the earnest re-
quest of the Russian Ambassador. The Govern-
ment has authorised thetransport toßussia of 1,600
cases of muskets which had been seized at Brom-
berg. It is considered probable that there will be
one more sitting of the Conference of Vienna, at
which the Plenipotentiaries c f Austria and Prussia
will come under a formal engagement as to the
course of those two Powers on the Eastern ques-
tion."

The Universal German, Gazette, under date of
Vienna 29th ult., says :—" The important news
has just been received that the Austrian troops on
the frontier of Hungary have thrown a bridge over
the Danube, near Belgrade. Luis measure may he
considered as the prelude to an active intei vention.
A division of the army has taken up a position in
Esclavonia. The fortresses of Brod and Grodiza
situated on the frontier are abundantly supplied
with everything necessary as well as that of Essegg,
on the second line. Eight military hospitals are
ready.
From another Vienna letter we learn that the
transport of troops to the south has been resumed,
and the 10th infantry corps, with the Ist cavalry
corps, have been placed on a war footing. The
army of the south has 124 siege guns and many
mortars for throwing shells of 120 lbs. The five
steam-tugs on the lower Danube have been armed,
and now cruise between Semlin and Orsova.

Notwithstanding the many rumours in circula-
tion to the contrary, there is reason to believe (says
the Paris correspondent of the Morning Chronicle)
that Austria still persists in her determination to
maintain neutrality—a neutrality so favourable to
the cause of Russia, that the Emperor Nicholas has
intimated that it is all he asks or could expect.
Even the semblance of opposition to the ambition
of the Czar, which she manifested some time ago, is
now too much for her. I understand that within
the last few days, when the Austrian Minister was
reminded by the representatives of England and
France of his declaration that -the Austrian Govern-
ment would consider the passage of the Danube by
the Russians as a cams belli, the answer of the
Count de Buol-Schauenstein was, that the casus
belli which he contemplated was an offensive move-
ment on the part of Russia, in the shape of the
passage of the Danube, for the purpose of sub-
duing the Ottoman empire, and before the decla-
ration of war by France and England against Rus-
sia ; but now that war had been commenced be-
tween Russia on the one side, and the Allied
Powers on the other, the Vienna Cabinet had no
intention of interfering between the belligerent
Powers, so as to interrupt the military operations
of the Russian army ; and he added that Austria
would continue to maintain this attitude until the
day when the interests of Germany might be con-
sidered in danger. The Austrian army, it is con-
fidently stated, will decidedly occupy Servia, and
that immediately.
We learn that the Russian General Dahn, of the
Engineers, has been appointed commandant in
chief of Sebastopol, and of all troops in that town
and neighbourhood.
According to accounts from St. Petersburg of
the 17th, a second levy for 1854 is expected to take
place in August next, when one man out of every
hundred will be taken. These men will be imme-
diately incorporated in the different regiments.
The reserves and the demi-invalides of the Cossacks
of the Don (about 80,000 in number) will also take
the field.

Ttie Correspondence of Berlin, of the 30th ult.,
says :—" Last night 150 seamen belonging to the
Russian ship of the line Navarino, just disarmed
at Flushing, arrived here with their officers. They
were received by order of the King at the railway
station at Potsdam, and each sub-officer had paid
to him one ducat and each sailor a thaler. They
immediately afterwards continued their journey to
Stettin."

In the sitting of the Germanic Diet on the 30th
ult. a despatch from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs was communicated, in which the Diet was
informed that the coasting trade will be thrown
open in England, with an invitation to it to adopt
a similar measure. The Russian Minister com-
municated officially to the Assembly the news of
the birth of a Princess, daughter of the Grand
Duke Constantine.