The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

We have news from Stockholm up to the 14th
inst., informing us that the fleets have left Aland,
but without giving further particulars at present.
The destruction of the forts at Bomarsund showed
that it was not intended to occupy Aland as a mi-
litary post this winter, and now the departure of
the fleets seems to justify the assumption that this
archipelago is not to be made into a naval station for
the present at any rate. In every way the people
exhibit their sympathy for the Western Powers, and
it is evident that the Government waits only for
them to undertake seriously the crippling of the Rus-
sian naval power in the Baltic to hold different
language than it has hitherto done. As long as
there is a powerful fleet enclosed within the moles
of Swoaborg and Cronstadt, and capable of passing
out when Napier and ice permit, the Swedish Go-
vernment would not be justified in exposing its
coasts to the tender mercies of its unneighbourly
neighbours.
A telegraphic despatch informs us that Austria
advised Sweden on the 14th, that, now Russia had
withdrawn from the Danubian Principalities, and
the mouths of the Sulina were open again, she did
not feel herself called upon to give up her neutral
position.
The Royal message, read closing the Storthing by
the Stadthalter, was as, follows :
"Good gentlemen and Norwegian men,—l regret
that the present state of political affairs has admitted
neither of my own nor the Queen's coronation in this
year, nor of my closing your session in person. The
advantageous position which I have succeeded in at-
taining for the united kingdom, in the midst of the
complications which disturb our quarter of the world
has enabled the Storthing, by ample votes, to meet my
wishes for the material development of the country.
While I fully recognise and appreciate the public
spirit which these votes have exhibited, I could have
wished that the Storthing had granted the sums I desired
for the necessary development of our system of defence
in its entire extent. May Providence now and hence-
forth stretch out its protecting hand over Norway and
her stanch inhabitants. Atter having accom-
plished your mission and task, you return now to your
homes and occupations. I hope and trust that all hap-
piness may attend you, and remain, good gentlemen and
Norwegian men, in all Royal grace and favour, well
affected to you all in general, and to each in particular."
RUSSIA.

The Austrian Soldaten Freund has the following
from Tirasopol, opposite to Bender, dated Sep-
tember 9 :

"The appearance off the Suline and Dniester mouth
of some enemy's ships was signalised to Odessa on the Ist
inst. On the night of the 31st August a Russian steamer
arrived at Odessa from Sebastopol with despatches
front Prince Menschikoff, and returned after a stay of
only two hours. On the 4th and sth of September six
enemy's vessels anchored in the bight of Lustdorf.
This they do always when they pay Odessa a visit. How
many other vessels had arrived there since was not known
at Odessa. Half the population of the latter town have
already come to Tirasopol, and no doubt is entertained
that the enemy's armada will commence operations by
the conquest of that city. The new field works on the
heights which command the sea fortifications and harbour
of Sebastopol amphitheatrically, and are destined to op-
pose the first rush of the enemy upon these positions,
are finished and completely armed. People think that
if the Turks could maintain themselves at Kalafat and
Silistria, the Russians will not abandon the fortified
places in the Orimean Peninsula without a struggle; and
the Russians appear prepared at every point for this
struggle.
"They have had from thirty to forty years' time for this
(but only commenced the circle of land defences of Sebas-
topol within the last three months), and have greatly rein-
forced all points of defence. We are assured that a special
corps of cavalry, with an excellent body of horse artillery,
to the amount of 15,000 men, has been concentrated with-
in the last fortnight in the Crimea. Ono thing is certain,
that the forces in the Crimea do not consist of the least
effective, but of the choicest Russian troops."
A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Berlin Na-
tional, says that the efforts made by tho Govern-
ment to supply the place of the immense number
of hands drained from the agricultural population,
which during the last eighteen months alone has
amounted to more than 300,000, exclusive of re-
serves, by colonising Jews in the Steppes, have
succeeded to a certain extent in the Government
of Ekalerenastaff, near the Dnieper.