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tRE SCREW STEAMER BALTIC.—This handsome iron
screw steamer, which was launched from the building-
yard of Mr. Alexander Denny about 10 days ago, has
already received the greater portion of her machinery,
and-is rapidly being finished for sea. The entire opera-
tions are expected to be completed by the 30th of this
month, when she will take her departure for Hull, be-
tween which port and Copenhagen she is intended to ply,
in concert with the Humber, also a new' ship, just about
ready for launching. The Baltic has all the appearance of
realizing the high expectations formed of her, both in regard
to speed and safety. She will have extra accommodation
for first and second class passengers, for whose comfort
every possible provision, will be made, whether in regard
to space, ventilation, or protection from the weather. She
is the property of Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Sons, and
Co., Hull, whose business reputation affords ample
security to shippers and passengers. Her comminder,
Captain Atkinson, has been long and favourably known
in connection with the Baltic trade, and knows every
creek and corner of the passage as intimately as a river
skipper knows the windings and turnings of the Clyde.
The Baltic's dimensions are as follows :—Length between
perpendiculars, 180 feet ; breadth of beam, 26 feet ;
depth, 15 feet ; burden, 600 tons. Her engines, which
are supplied by Messrs. Tulloch and Denny, are on the
.direct acting principle, and of 110 horse power.—
Dumbarton Herald.
Sp. PETERSBIIRG.—From St. Peteisburg the dates are
to the 11th of April, when tallow and other produce
continued to be purchased for tranamiss;on to the fron-
tier and the Prussian port of Memel. The o,lessa let-
ters are to the 7th. They state that business was wholly
suspended, but make no mention of a blockade. Advices
from Riga yesterday of the 13th inst. state that a recur-
rence- of sharp frosts at night prevented the breaking up
-of-the ice in the neighbourhood of the town, although
at the upper parts of the river it had been disappearing
for some days. Toe ha/ was likewise full of ice, and 20
vessels caught by it were in a rather dangerou4 position.
One of them, a Dutchman in ballast, had just been
wrecked.

THE SUITORS' FUND AND FEE FUND.—The annual
accounts of these funds have been presented' to Parlia-
ment. The Suitors' Fund consists of 3,882,558/. stock ;
62,442/.-out of the dividends are applied to the payment
of the salaries of the judges and officers of the Chancery
Courts, and the other expenses of those courts, and the
surplus interest is carried over to-the Suitors' Fee Fund.
This latter fund, with the above contribution and with the
aid of 67,0191., "receivedfrom theCommissinners of Inland
Revenue"(an item to which some explanation might have
been appended), amounted to 183,764/. in the year ending
in'November 'oat ; and the 'amount was applied to the
payment of other Chancery salaries and compensations.
The list of Chancery compensations and pensions seems
framed upon a liberal scale. This account has among
its items—annual payments it must be presumed—com-
pensation to two Six-Clerks for loss of office and profits
3,1551., to 20 sworn clerks 28,5961., one deputy-clerk of
enrolments, deputy record-keeper, and agent to sworn
clerk, 1,4531., the late blerk of custodies (in lunacy)
14681., chief clerk to a Master 7501., pension to a retired
Master, 1,500/., to two retired registrars, 2,541/ , to the
late Master of Reports, 2,2501.

" SERVICE OF AQUEDUCTS AND FOUNTAINS AT CON-
STA,NTIIYOPLE.--Ttle Turkish capital offers the pecu-
liarity that good and salutary regulations exist where a
mere chaos was hithertosupposed to occupy their place.
According to late calculations, based on curiect obser-
vations and tables, the fifteen systems of sources and
water wells which surround Constantinople, and from
which numerous aqueducts and cisterns are alimented,
yield a daily supply of 249 lulehs of water, which is
equinlent to 12,267,532 kilogr. ; and as the population
of the Turkish capital is calculated at 600,000, a daily
supply of 2,044 kilogr. for every person indiscriminately
is resulting therefrom. The administration and ser-
vice of this water supply is confided to an especial
()lass or order of men, the corps of the Su-Jaldshi, or
well-tnasters. This regularly organised corps exercises
a licensed art, and if they possess no theoretical know-
ledge, still they practise their art according to some
traditional rules and principles. To this corps all the
works relating to the searching after water, its conduct-
ing and distribution, as far as want and even comfort
are concerned, are confided. The corporation of the
Su-Jaldshi now consists of about 300 Turks and 100
Albanese Greeks, who are exclusively selected from
some families of am district of Drinopolis, in the Epirus.
The inhabitants of five or six villages emigrate for the
sake of occupying the situations of well-wasters in Con-
statinople and ether Turkish cities.

Yesterday the adjourned vestry meeting of the in-
habitant ratepayers of this extensive pariah: was held in
the New Vestry Hall.* Kennington-green, for the pur:
pose of taking the poll for the election of churchwardens
and committee forming the Ifighway Board. The Rev.
C. B. Dalton, M.A., the Vicar, presided.
Considerable interest exists throughout the parish as
to the election of not only the churchwardens, but the
persons who are to form the Board of Highways, com-
mittees being appointed in the various districts to sup-
port their respective candidates.

At the conclusion of the day's proceedings, the Rev.
Mr. Dalton announced the result of the day's poll to be
for—Mr. Grey, 277 ; for Mr. Plews, 275 ; Mr. Stratton,
195 ; and Mr. Barnard, 143, giving a large majority in
favour of Messrs. Grey and Plews. For the Highway
Board, the numbers announced by the rev. vicar were
sufficient to show that Messrs. Price, Hodson, Taylor,
Moseley, Doiilton, Hsyton, King, Wade, Mason,
Avern, Bowles, Deacon, Bryan, Wells, Valler, Nott,
Orme, White, Attee, and Littlejohn, were in the
majority.
At a late hour in the evening, a meeting of the com-
mittee and supporters of the election of Messrs. Grey
and Plews as churchwardens was held at the Duke of.
Sussex, Oakley-street, Dr. Sewell in the chair, when,
after much discussion, resolutions were carried to carry
out and increase the satisfactory result that had arisen
from their exertions to secure the return of their candi-
dates, Mr. Grey and Mr. Plews, as also their list of the
Board of Highways. The polling will finally close to-
morrow.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.-(THIS .DAY.)

TITTERING A FORGED Nova.—William Turner, an
elderly man, was brought up before Mr. Bingham,
charged with uttering a forged Si. note.
Mr. John Lowe stated that he was the landlord of
the Grosvenor Arms, Green-street, and that on the
10th of February last the prisoner came into his house
and partook of a glass of gill, and, in the course of con-
versation, he said he was an old customer of the late
landlord, and should continue his custom with witness.
He then went out, and in a short time he returned and
gave me an order for half a gallon of gin, saying that
he had found it so very good, and directed
it to be sent to Mr. Gardner, 26, -Gilnert-street.
The prisoner paid for the gin with the Si. note
produced, and witness wrote his name upon it, and gave
him 4/. 13s. 4d. change. Prosecutor sent the gin to 26,
Gilbert-street, but found no one there. He was positive
prisoner w,as the man. The note was a forgery.
Police-constable Rigden, said he apprehended the
yesterday afternoon, in Holborn. He told him the
charge against him, but he made no reply. He then
conveyed him to the station,- where he was searched,
but nothing found upon him.
The prisoner; who declined making any defence, was
remanded fora week.

An experimental trial, under the direction of theßoard
of Ordnance, hay taken place at the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, of Captain Maker's " Rifled " musket bullet,
which was very successful at 200 and 300 yards.. A
further trial at an extended range will shortly take
place.—British Army Despatch.
SHIPMENTS OF SPECIE.—The shipments of specieby the
Peniosular and Oriental. steamer Ripon amount to
198,700/., of which 69,0851. is gold (including about
50,0001. for military expenditures at Malta), while.
129,6571. is silver for Singapore, Ilonz-Kong, Canton,
and Shanghai. Pending the delivery of the last Austra-
lian arrivals a small sum of gold was again taken from
the Bank of England yesterday for trans►nission to Paris.
COLONIAL GOLD COMPANY.—The subjoined- memo-
randum is from the Colonial Gold Company. It indi-
cates that the question of profitableness of quartz
crushing in New South Wales will soon be put to a de-
cisive test :

" The Colonial Gold Company have received advices by
the Harbinger from their superintendent in Nbw South
Wales, to the 30th of December.
" Mr. Spence writes from Louisa (Creek--` You will be
glad to learn that this morning (the 30th) we got up steam
for the first time, and tried the engine. She worked most
beautifully from the first, without a jar, leakage, or any-
thing objectionable. We put the wheel round ,about 30
revolutions in the minute, and there was no little satisfac-
tion at the completion of so important a portion of the
undertaking. The large wheel of the crushing house is to
be on the ground this evening, which we shall soon have in
its place, and then the rollers will be raised to the cradles,
and we shall finish the walls and cover all in. One of the
' kilns is ready, another nearly so, and the tratnroad is
being laid down, not only along the ridge and to the house,
but also on an inclined plane into the long level, so as to
do away as much as possible with the windlass.
" Mr. Spence calculates that lie can deliver and reduce
30 tons of quartz per day, one month with another ; and
taking the average of 3 tons per diem, for 25 days in the
month, or at the rate of 9,0 0 tons per annum, he estimates
that all charges for breaking down, quarrying, raising,
breaking, loading waggons, and delivery, at kilns, for
calcining, and expenses of engine and reduction houses,
and general superintendence and incidentals, will amount
to (per ton of quartz) 1/. 10s.
£3 10 0
Value of gold per ounce
Less royalty, 3 per cent £o 21i
Proportion to Great Nugget
Company
Estimated charge 1 10 0

2 5 81

Supposed profit
RI. 4 3i perton
on 30 tons per diem, yielding one ounce. And he adds
`Should we realise the success thus anticipated, I shall
immediately proceed to wake all nocessary preparations for
raising a more extensive establishment in one of the many
localities open to us, where auriferous quartz can he 9b.
tained in abundance, on Government ground.'"

CONSTANTI,7,.TOPLE, April 10.-:=-A'Very large num
.
ber of the-subjects of Kin°. Otho resident in Furkey, have Acknowledged allegiance to the Sultan,
and Will remain in the conntry.
Omer Paella is at ,BardsChik, which is., now his
head-quarters. The Cossacks show themselves at
Trajan's Wall; but no regulars are seen. '
GamaTou, April 11.—The Villein has arrived
here with the 44tkRegiment, -and three companies
of the 50th. .
The Xangaroo, with the 93d 'Regiment (High-
landers), and other detachments. The troops were
well. The Greeks are flying from Turkey.
Another despatch of the same date, states that
four, chiefs and -150 Greek prisoners. had .been
brought in from Vvlo.
Steamers and transports now arrive every day
from Toulon,-Marseilles, Algiers, and Malta.
Gam-1201,r, April B.—General Browne and
Colonela Sullivan and Laurence, with. the Rifle
.Brigade, and Colonel Victor, of the Artillery, with
100 Sappers, have arrived at the -camp of Conrail,
thiee leagues from Gallipoli. Four thousand
French soldiers, under the orders of General Can-
robed; are encamped there. Horses are not to be
had. The beat understanding exists among the
allied • troops. The Pasha of Adrianople does
everything in his power to faCilitate our arrange-
ments. The Sappers have begun to fortify the
Isthmus.
A letter from Constantinople, of the Gth, states
that the Divan, in order to provide.for the subsis
tenee of the allied troops, had. decided to prohibit
the re-exportation of rice, flour,• and wheat im
ported into Constantinople in transitit. The French
and English ambassadors are said to have raise( no
objection to this measure, but the Austrian minister
presented some few observations. The French mil-
-1 bassador is said to have made an application to the
Divan, which -had been favourably received, but
at which the orthodox Greeks showed some dis-
content. General- Baraguay d'Hilliers demanded
-An exemption for a hundred poor Greek Catholic
families, for the most part natives of Syra and of
Hucos, who were formerly under French protec-
tion.- M. de Wildenbruck,- the Prussian Minister,
is, itris said, about to quit Constantinople. He is a
man full of moderation and straightforwardness, and
who, throughout the grave questions which have
been in agitation for the last twelve months, has
always expressed himself very energetically against
the violence and arbitrary conduct of Russia.
Another letter states that, in Consequence-of a
rumour set afloat by some of the Greek partisans
of Russia, that there was a conspiracy on foot for a
general massacre of the Christians by the Turks, a
panic took place among the Christian inhabitants,
and
.there was a. great rush for passports : 9,006
were, it is said, granted in two days, and of these
a considerable number having been obtained fraudu-
lently by-Christian subjects of the Porte, an order
wss issued to annul the passports granted, and a
commission was appointed,-composed of two Chris-
tians and two Turks," who could alone grant pass-
ports in future. At the same time, a notice was
posted up,- that any subject of the kingdom of
Greece who wished to become a sulject• of the
Sultan Might be allowed to do s.o; on finding two
respectable persons to guarantee his good conduct.:
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7.—The declaration of
--war by ,the allied Powers has_ reached us; and
though an event long foreseen and hourly expected,
yet it is of so momentous a nature that the excite-
ment and interest equal that produced' by the most
startling surprise. At last the anomalous periad
of inertness and expectation is at au end, the tran-
-sition state from peace to war hail been traversed,
the labours of diplomacy are past, and nothing re-
;mains but the- swift and steady prosecution of a
vigorous war. The. world must be made to see
that hostilities, though long delayed and unwil-
lingly - undertaken, can be efficiently- conducted,
and that, though.civilised and peace-loving nations.
shrink from deluging a continent. in blood, they.
are restrained, not by fear of the enemy, but by, a
sense of the responsibility incurred by those who.
rashly enter into strife, even though tempted•as we
have been. Among those who rejoice most at the
ultimate decision of the Western Power's are -otir
allies the Turks ; for, to say the truth, some doubts
have till now been' hidden in the-depths of their
hearts as to the sincerity of their defenders—doubts
perhaps strengthened by". the plain speaking of
Parliament and the press as to Christian wrongs
and Ottoman misgovernment.
-The French force which has arrived at Gallipoli
includes two Lieutenant-Generals and three Gene-
rals of Brigade. They have turned the dervishes
out of their convent, which they are about to con-
vert into an hospital. The men are at _present
engaged in sinking wells and preparing for the re-
ception of a considerable force. Yet officers' both
French and English, are far from satisfied with
the position'of affairs. They complain that neither
the Governments nor the people of the two na-
tions appreciate the magnitude of 'the struggle,
the' vastness of resources required, the back-
wardness of our preparations, and the time that
must elapse before our armies can act efficiently.
The few French troops at Gallipoli are all who
`are as yet on Turkish ground ; and even this hand-
ful of men are ;obliged to _borrow Turkish tents to
defend themselves from the weather. The town
itself is not large enough to accommodate 10,030
men without a general expulsion of the inhabitants.
3,000 horses`are daily expected, and no place has
been prepared for them—it is even recommended
that a detachment should be sent- to cut wood at
Lampsaki, for ;he purpose of constructing stables.
Three mouths is considered the shortest time which
must elapse before a force can be concentrated at
Varna able to take the field with fair prospects, and
if hesitation or timidity find a place in the counsels
of statesmen or generals, the summer may be
passing away -before- a campaign begins, which
must close again in October.- 'From the number-of
military men here, and the active part which almost
all will have to take in the coniing struggle, these
matters ate continually discussed, and in a closer
and more practical manner than is usual in general
society at home. There certainly dues not prevail
in this capital that overweening confidende and that
contemptuous estimate of the-Russian power which
are universal at present in London society. On the
contrary, men- who knOw the Danube and -the
Dobrudschaas well as the neigh bourboo.l ofCharing-
cross are forced to confess the skill and foresight of
the Russian tactic_s ; and it is among such chiefly'
that I find alarm experienced at the slight concern
which the British public give themselves as to the
means of carrying on an offensive war against over-
whelming numbers, in the heart of a desolated
country, and amid a disaffected population. It
must be remembered that Bulgaria has been eaten
up lay the Ottoman armies. For-a space .of 10
months provisions of all kinds- have- been taken
from the peaSantry, who have._ not. received one
piastre in exchange. On this subject misconception
prevails-in England, and has penetrated even into
the House of Comm Ons, It has been asserted that
the Turks have paid for all they have received.
is trite that acknowledgments have been given, and
that the-Bulgarian peasant has a claim on the Trea-
sury of Constantinople ; but what has taken place
a hundred times will probably occur again; The
unfortunate creditors, sick with deferred hope, will
be' glad to part with their securities at a tenth. of
their value. Then the Armenians will go among
them, buy up the paper, and offer it to the Porte
at perhaps 25 per cent. of its nominal worth. The
Pashas in power will be induced to accede to the
arrangement by an offer ofbalf the Armenian's pro-
fits, and every one will be contented, except the
unhappy peasant who sees _the little earnings of
years swept away, and knows that rich men are
growing richer by his own misfortunes. This is
the country through which our armies must pass,
and whence it is expected by some to draw sup-
plies. That it is exhausted is beyond doubt, and,
should it remain tranquil, such a result will be
chiefly due to the recollection of the Russian atro-
cities in 1828, and a feeling that the little finger of
Muscovite despotism is thicker than the loins of
Ottoman misrule. The necessity of, preparations
on the largest scale for a war of unexampled obsti-

nacy is admitted by all-here, and, though the Go-
vernment is doubtless well-informed as to the ne-

cessities of the case, it is to be feared that the
English public, in their admiration of the vast dis:
plays of naval power exhibited by their fleets, are
sonaewkat disposed to forget that the real conflict
must be decided on the Danube, 'that the offdnsive

must be titken by us, and that anything short of
Complete victory is for us a defeat. The measures
against the Hellenic population arc being car-
7ied out with unexampled'severity. Every steamer
that leavee for Myra is crowelvd with human

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so thickly wedged together that to -walk
..ile deck i.; impossible. b At least 400 are, said to
have taken their departure in one, vessel. Meat
of them have been reduced to the depths of povertY#
and when thrown ashore, friendless and destitute,
at the Piraens, three-fourths of the men will pre'
bably go to swell-the ranks of the TilesSalian instil**
gents, or take to their old trade .of piracy in the
.../E4ean. The deep and well-wooded. _inlets of the
-Lyciati coast-and islands may probably again swag'''.
with corsairs, as they did in the time
.of Latni.l
and. Conrade, though- war steamers are rather dir
ferent enemies-to-those which were
_encountered bli,
the grandfathers of the.present race. , Numbers °'
the shops in-Pera will be shut up ,b the_expulsie„
of their: owners.: More than 80 inedimlltten, tm"
most skilful in the capital, are. abOut to leave;
Hotelkeepers, dragomans, domestic servant; het,,
male awl female; are all. comprised in this sweepillb
edict.. Yet -there is a feature in this affair more de'
plorable than. even -the: wide-spread misery wbleg
will.-result. It will hardly be believed: hat apostl
to the Romisli.Chureh_ is sufficient to protect te_d
Hellenic subject from banishment and: ruin.
it be wondered, that the lower class Of the Gres"
communion :sympathise with- the-Russians and IT
hold the-Aleinands of Menschikoff,_. when they ae°_,
that their religion places
_them- in:a- worse positio_a
than their brethren who by acknowledgment of!,
Papal supremacy obtain the most- invidious Pft,
vileges—privileges continually turned by the Lan
priests into engines- of -Proselytism.? In the PT,
sent ~case, two men may . be:. equally. Hellen
equally-. sultjects of .ging•-• ; _ but if
.one be
,e,
Catholic, he enjoys French protction—the cert%
.sate ofihis archbishop is -suftieieot to enable
reside unmolested iu. the, capital, andpursue!at
ordinary.- business, while the other is driven out
a few days' notice, to wander in misery-and des,
tution. Of the 13,000 who -reside in Constaat'a
nople -alone but a Small number possess via
means of transporting themselves- to Athens
seeking another occupation. They are solo;
everything -to obtain: the passage money 'ls
their families, awl when disgorged by the steal:lli,
on the shores of - Preece; they will be- as delici,
tote as if:thrown on the 'beach of a desert islaecto
The Banshee passed through without stopping
bo
the sth. She was probably
.on her way to t
fleet, and carried with her,the declaration Of
Whatever may be the case with -the, land
meats, there is no doubt.that. the
_fleet:lain ear
„a
tal condition. The men are well and in ..
spirits ; practising with shot and shell goes on 10
tinually, terrifying the Pasha of Varna with
belief that the Russians are at hand. The OS
*crews,. from' the Admirals and Post-Captains doh
wards, will be glad that the singular state oft
is over by which Russian- vessels- could only 15
requested to go back to port, and every man ly
the affair of Navarino before his eye; and of
danger of finding victory over an obstinate en°oy.
described by statesmen as a• ", disastrous cirelf
stance." The fleets are still at Kavarna, but vwe7?
be sure they *ill not stay long.. after the Ado„,,t,
have, learned that they . are,. at liberty to
.a-
Whether Varna be in any positive danger It • difficult. to. say. There-is a' story told here that tp
iso
military and civil • Pashas have . quarrelled, and ,
not speak to each other, and that • whenev!4‘
stranger Makes :his appearance, each does ai'l,
can to influence the new comer against his 1%9
This may be a joke,-but it is characteristic of
class inquestion, and not unworthy of being o°4l
as a specimen, of the reputation which .governel;io
officials enjoy. There seems a temporary lnir
. the passenger:arrivals froniWestern Europe--Pro,
.ba,bly, the flood w)l burst upon us again, in the PA,
sent week. As
.it is, the •: own is quite Europe
hied, and the round hat is no. longer. an object
wonder and. aversion to the
.dogs .of Pera.
form still the, great body of visitors, and for t
et
or three days .after the arrival of every stem
they may; be' met with in every, quarter of sf
boul, sight-seeing -with, incredible energy and id
solution. They all with
,the,i.lea of g'ip;
up, to, the Danube, " seeing a brush," and Woo
liens" when.ithey. retnrn. to the clubs.. Hosve,id
when it mimes to the point, their courage 'for
them, • and they • ignominiously . re,..etnbark t
Marseilles,
,or compromise the matter by a visint rrf
Trebizond in the Austrian steamer.ams'so
_to state, that General Tiuling,. comnianding.„. 0.4
engineer .corps; has- met with.. rather a s°l'o
A ~few-..dnys. since- he was ridiel
Stamboul, when, passing.thrOngh'onii of the 1;n p
4,e
pitous and wretc!iedly-paved aileyaof that qual'o,
his horse. stumbled, and- the General-:was thVito
.lie received a severe hurt" ill 1tt1e:x.4%.*,-and
three days art ; a bseess -..forruveti ;'requiring :01
gical aid. Au operation has been perfOrmed,
the Gt-neral- is now at -,Tsierapia under flied le).,
treatment, with every,sprobability.'of doing 11,60
Thu accident is rather ruifuithhate at the Pret
moment, as his stirvices -.ill.probably be in in' sod
diate request.' . ThiS large barracks of Scutari 00
'llaoud Pasha are being prepared fur the recer „0
of troops. • The French will probably occuP)l,4l,
latter, While the British are stationed at Sou 1-c'
They are 'both very_ large and commodious st P.lOl
titres, and; --besides; differ in an important P °OO%
fiem those which we are aeeustonied to see in mIY
native land. The ranges- of buildings in the ne
bourhood of HYdeLpark and Trafalgar-square air
eyesores to every one who is capable of distingt 5)1
ing beauty from Ugliness ; while ..the' edifices .40
the. accommodation of. troops which Eurol ;0,
skill' has lately erected in this capital are of pl of
ing and • tasteful aspect ; an as the situa 08
is generally well -chosen, on the brow- of "iOO
.gently rising hill, they forman-agreeable addi t'ik
to the landscape, and contrast well with the
titude of wooden houses which cluster in t
neighbourhood.
Letters from Constantinople, of the 2d, that M. Bruck (the Austrian .ambassador) het! rad COll2O taciturn and reserved. He neither reee';
nor paid visits, but lived-secluded; and affecte'
be enigmatical and Mysterions. s The attache of
the Prussian embassy speak with very little
serve, and openly proclaim their indignation aga'
•England and their sympathies for the Czar.
A correspondent of the Siecle says the Tar' 40
Government applied to the French and Eng id
ambassadors for an anxiliary corps of land fe 110
to be sent to Varna; and was answered that , to
ambassadors could not take upon themselves 'Ol9
dispose of the army in driblets, and must refer.. •
request to their Governments. .

I THE BALTIC. •
~ r
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, April 19.--The
.lish fleet is off Gothland. The Austerlitz has Kioge Bay. Bishop Mourad, A.ndra, Hall, I Lef
-
ring,--and others, have been dismissed.
ti COPENHAGEN, April 18.—Four. Russian al or
laden with, cargo, were captured. in the Baltic ‘iot
terday, and carried past here to-day as Prize°
London. - '
KIM, April 16.—A Kierletter of the 16th ii
`says: --The orders .which Admiral 'Napier
with him when he left Kioge Bay last 'Tuesday I 0
strutted him to_ blockade all the Russian porta, he
the Baltic. Notice of this will 'doubtless soot, be
forwarded to all our consuls in these Parts. -1.1
despatches, which it is understood that tl a Da lls
less brought to COpeuhagen on the 12th, std
that 18 Russian ships of the line were lying at I'l' 4
singfors, and might soon be attacked ; they see
as if they intended, as soon as it became posei,_i 0,
to put, over to Revel. Admiral Plumridge e
r
watching them with four frigates. There
strong hopes that ,Acludral Napier :will soon gl'
an account of them, if they venture out fromtij a
;
shelter. The last Swedish steamer reports hay.`",.o
met the precursors of the English fleet not far fro
Riga.

•A. Copenhagen ebrresponddi reports by
graph that it was the Alban, steam-sloop, and
...„"
the A.mphion, screw-frigate, which got agrow'
She is now. afloat-... - • tha
A letter from Stettin says :—lt appears Woo
article in -the 'Copenhagen, Fadrelandet that, op
steam-frigate Dauntless had lately advanced it
the Gulf of Finland as far as Sveaborg, wb.rere.,
saw 18 Russian ships of the line lying. The lin/ ie
-rieuse, which was also out reconnoitring, Pi ,tr
chase to a Russian corvette, but the latter e° (0,
trived, to -escape to Sveaborg. Admiral Phil oil
ridge's division of the fleet, which was sent out co.
a cruise, was composed of the screw-steamer 3
perieuse, 51, the Tribune, 31, the Dauntless' s'
and the paddle-wheel-steatiter Leopard, 18. Fr- it
private letters*from various ports in the Baltic
appears that up to the 15th instant, there "4, it
still large masses of ice in Port Baltic, buicoo
was no longer compact ; that up to the 8301-
date there was in Reiel much "floating ice, ,1t
gerous -to vessels ; and that up to the 133,°1 -a,•
of the 9th the ice: was &min the Gulf of Bclue-ra
100 •
We have still warm Weatherdn Stettin, and, on, trail
whole, the'probability is that the Gulf of
Will be free from ice earlier than last year"..-cli.°' •
the 6th of May. The imposts of all kinds 0n,,,,-/4
landed ,proprietors and peasants of Russian PT:eat
are fast reducing them to beggary. . Each of tae
must furnlh a certain number of bushels t
and pay a certain sum in money, according lwrar
extent of land. To make matters worse, the_ 1111.'g
ortif
farmers have been informed that the will beet' t, a required to provide, of course without parnefilaa
certain ntunher of horses. Private letters both r be
we
den and Norwaysay that Sweden will not /nu%
able to rest neutral,_ public opinion being decideo•
i n favour of a close alliance with the western pow ray,
It is probable that a ministerial crisis will sh°
arise ui Swede% oinailar to that lIQW