The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-11 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

COPENHAGEN, Sept. G.—King Oscar's proposition
for a new regency law has been received as was ex-
pected—the Parliamentary Constitution committee
has rejected it.

Now that the royal Swedish quarantine-madness
has dared to lay the war-ships of the allies in
quarantine, although the system has been re-
peatedly shown to be utterly useless and absurd,
and although the cholera is in full play at Stock-
holm itself, it is supposed that the Western Powers
will take steps for putting an end to the whole
monomania.

The Czar has distributed orders and medals to a
number of the persons engaged in the affair at
Gamla-Carleby.
Political pamphlets on the war, and on the ne-
cessity for Sweden immediately joining the allies,
are rapidly appearing in Stockholm, and all par-
ties appear to agree that the Court cannot delay
this step much longer. At the same time, the
opinion of the country is that this question is inti-
mately connected with the restoration of Poland,
without which step Sweden will come into a dan-
gerdus and false position. Prussia and Austria, if
they understand their own interest, must see that
they would gain by this as much as the rest of
Europe. What is just, and necessary, and advan-
tageous, will therefore be accomplished.

AUSTRIA
VIENNA, SEPT. 7.
Reliable information was given yesterday with
respect to the views and immediate intentions
of the Austrian Government. The sum and sub-
stance of it are as follows :

" The Emperor presided at a Cabinet Council to-
day. Russia's rejection of the four guarantees will
form no immediate' casus belli ; but Austria will
be severe in supporting the said guarantees, as
necessary to the restoration of peace and the future
consolidation of the balance of power in Europe.
Meanwhile, Austria will await the favourable re-
sults that are expected from the present hostile
preparations against Sebastopol; and satisfied with
having thwarted Russia's plans against Turkey,
Austria will, for the present, persist in maintain-
ing vigorously armed neutrality."
A letter from Vienna of the sth, in Voss's Gazette
of Berlin, states that the overtures made by Count
Arnim, the Prussian ambassador, to the Emperor
of Austria in a private audience, are known to have
given great satisfaction, whatever their nature
might be. The Emperor was subsequently present
at a council of ministers, where certain military
measures were taken into consideration, which
would lead to a supposition that Austria was about
to take the offensive. It was rumoured that Prince
Gortschakoff would quit Vienna for a week on
leave, and that such a step was the forerunner of
his recal.
A letter from Prague, of the 4th, in the Univer-
sal German Gazette, says :—" We have had such
indications hero during the last three days as enable
us to judge pretty well of the sense of the Russian
reply. During that time troops, horses, and am-
munition have been proceeding without interrup-
tion to the terminus of the railway to proceed to
Brunn. These movements are being carried on
with such precipitation that one might almost be-
lieve that war had been declared. They were not
even suspended durii Sunday."
The accounts from the inundated districts in
Silesia and Posnania are deplorable. In the
neighbourhood of Glogau alone thirty villages are
under water, and the vicinity resembles a vast
lake. A space of 15 square miles, inhabited by
about 8,000 souls, is submerged. The waters have
risen above the roofs of numerous habitations,
ruining and destroying all housed crops, drowning
sheep, cattle, and poultry, and causing incalculable
losses and misery. Then come apprehensions of
fevers among human beings, and murrain among
cattle—a most deplorable prospect !