The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-10 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 3d contain nothing
important. _

The Queen, on the day before, attended the
singing of a Te Deum, at the church of Atocha, on
the occasion of the anniversary of her escape from
assassination in 1852.

The King accompanied her Majesty, and the
Gazette says that she was warmly and respectfully
received by the people assembled in the streets.

The Espana states that General BoadellaTcap-
tain-general of Lerida, has been deprived of his
command.

The Clamor Public° of the 3d was seized by the
police. _

- A letter from a Ministerial source says :—" More
calm and moderation have been remarked amongst
the members of the Opposition, since the removal
from Madrid of three or four of their chiefs. The
rumour has been spread of an approaching dissolu-
tion of the two Chambers, but it has not the least
foundation."

The Three per Cents. were done at Madrid on
Feb. 4, at 37.

ITALY.

From Turin, under date of 2d inst., we learn
that the armaments were being continued in Pied-
mont with great energy.

DENMARK AND SWEDEN.
The Swedish declaration of neutrality, which has
been published subsequently to that of Denmark,
is almost identical with the latter as regards pro-
visions and text, but exhibits this deviation—that,
while Denmark only closes the harbour of Chris-
tiansoe, on the island of Bornholm (where the,
Danish state prison is), to the vessels of the bel-
ligerent Powers, Sweden and Norway close the
ports of Stockholm and Christiania, Herten, Carl-
scrona, Carlstein, and Slitoe. This slight devia-
tion, however, innocent as it appears, makes a
material difference between the two, for the har-
bours just mentioned are almost the only ports in
the vicinity of the probable future scene of action
that are accessible to vessels of a deep draught of
water. This denial of access to a few specific ports
to both parties, apparently, is virtually a prohibi-
tion of access to the whole coast for the combined
fleets, and for them alone. The Russian fleet can-
not put out to sea till after the vernal equinox is
past, when the ice is thawed and the storms are
over, while the combined fleets must take up their
position in the Baltic long before the fair weather
comes, to be ready to welcome the Russians when
they commence their summer navigation. The
last-mentioned Barbour, Slitoe, or Slitohamm, on
the island of Gothland, is precisely the spot of all
others to station a squadron of observation for the
purpose of intercepting the Croustadt fleet as it
leaves the Bay of Finland. The same may be said
of the harbour of Cappelmann, as regards observ-
ing the Guf of Bothnia.
This declaration of the neutrality of the Scandi-
navian Powers has been hailed with gratification
in England as a sign of opposition to Russia; and
doubtless, so far as it renders the repetition of the
" untoward events" of 1801 and 1807 unnecessary,
it is a subject of congratulation ; but, if our fleets
pass the Sound by virtue of this declaration of
neutrality, we are bound by its provisions,
which we should not be if we forced the passage. If
England and France recognise the recent Scandi-
navian declaration of neutrality, they will be in a
worse position in case of war than if Denmark had
sided with Russia and closed the Sound. There are
negotiations going on now between Copenhagen
and Stockholm for the promulgation of a series of
quarantine regulations, which will have for their
effect the exclusion of vessels of war from harbours
not specified in the declarations of neutrality above
alluded to. This is the trick that Russia has al-
ready playing at the mouth
of
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ypliincation here is clearly
of Russian paternity, Neither the Swedish nor
the Danish nation is too well disposed towards
Russia, but the Governments of the two coun-
tries are, and this whole declaration of neutrality
—coming as it did at a season when it was of
no consequence to any Power for maritime pur-
poses—was intended to -be only the first link
in a chain of neutralities, which the firmness
of Austria and Prussia alone has within the
last few days prevented from being extended
round the neck of Germany. The neutrality of
Denmark is a nonentity if England and France do
not recognise it,
' and choose to pass the Sound.
Denmark s
Only chance of its being respected lay
in the hope of Prussia being prevailed on to join
the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the character
of a Baltic Power ; but Prussia has thought fit to
hold back. Holstein which contains the impor-
tant Baltic harbour
of Kiel, while it belongs to
Denmark as a ducal fief, is at the same time an in-
tegral part of the German Bund, and Denmark
cannot undertake implicitly for the neutrality of
that harbour until the Baud has spoken. This
has not taken place and will not ; but the King of
Denmark was prepared, as Duke of Holstein and
Lauenburg, to instruct his representative at Frank-
fort to support any motion there for any active
declarative declaration of neutrality.
With almost no exception, the public press of
Norway and Sweden looks cn the " armed neu-
trality" and the " joint operations at sea" as inevi-
tably involving them in war, and that, too, on the
side of Russia, which they pronounce to be opposed
to their political and, historical Pyzapati*N..,

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