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

THE BALTIC.

DINTZIC, 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 over made in public, and that no foreign journals
are delivered before their accounts of the events
on the theatres of war are cut out. , Beth 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 following paragraph
appears in the Dantzic Dal4pAvot 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. Sc)
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 Dantzic firm has engaged to
deliver weekly 27,000 pound; weight of meat."
The Konigsberg flartungsche 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 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 Siovorn—stretches from
Polanger to beyond Mitan, "in order," as the
'::bove-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 here, 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, Adidial Dundas naturally
adopted the onlycourse congenial ;:o the feelings of a
British sailor. It must ,p4o ,btkeopfessed., 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, which pre- I