The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-25 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

STOCKHOLM, May 19.—News was received from
the fleet on the 16th. Up to that date, Sir Charles
Napier had made no attempt on Revel, the Island
of Aland, or Gustafsorn, although reports that he
had attached and taken all those places have for
some time been in circulation here. The Admiral
is probably waiting for the junction of the French
division, and there can hardly be a doubt that his
first object will be to prevent the Russian ships of
war which have been confined by the ice at Hels-
ingfors from effecting their escape to Cronstadt.
The capture of the enemy's islands and ports must
be a matter of secondary consideration with him,
as they can, with little difficulty, be taken at any
time • but it is of the utmost importance to prevent
the time;
squadron from joining the fleet as-
sembled at Cronstadt.

Th- Afeambladet of Stockholm says :—" Events
are pressing on. The North is more interested
than ever in their solution. Each moment of de-
lay, each hesitation to contract an alliance with
the Western Powers is suicide for Sweden. She is
preparing an abyss which will swallow her up if
she persists in her resolution. Yet the Government
is well aware of the country, it knows the wants
of the Swedish people. Let not our inferiority of
numbers be spoken of, the valour of our troops is
well known, and the Western Powers will not dis-
dain 20,000 warriors supported by 10,000 of our
brothers from the Western coast. Let it not be
forgotten that Finland desires nothing more than
to be again united to Sweden. The honour of
Sweden is at stake, and our representatives ought
not to forget that fact."
The Cologne Gazette quotes letters from Stock-
holm, of the 18th, announcing that the states of
the kingdom have substituted a moderate tariff for
the prohibitive import and export laws hitherto in
force.
A letter from Berlin of the 21st, in the Cologne
Gazette, states from Memel that eight Russian
prizes have been brought into that, port by British
vessels. These prizes were, it is stated, cut out
of the port of Liebau, the town being threatened
with bombardment, if the garrison, consisting of
400 dragoons, offered the slightest resistance. The
prizes are to be taken to England.
A letter from Riga of the 13th, in the Moniteur,
says :—" The number of vessels which have entered
this port since the breaking up of the ice amounts
to 102, of which about two-thirds are neutrals.
All these vessels have taken in cargoes, and again
sailed, with the exception of about 10, and these
will also have left in two days. In consequence
of the precipitation imposed on commerce in order
to take advantage of the free exit of the vessels
before the blockade, freight for England has risen
enormously, as much as 141. per ton having been
paid for the ports of the United Kingdom.'

GREECE.
THE ULTIMATUM OF THE WESTERN
POWERS.

Advices from Athens, of the 18th inst., in the
Austrian Correspondence, states that an ultimatum
has been given to the Greek Government by the
Western Powers, which must be replied to by the
22d.

A strict blockade of the Greek coast is expected

The ultimatum requires the immediate recall of
all officers that have joined the insurgents, and the
dissolution of the volunteer corps.

Revolutionary committees are recruiting among
the Roumeliotes and lonians.

Insurgents infest the neighbourhood of Salonica,
in Macedonia. 40,000 Turks are advancing against
them.

Five vessels of the combined English and French
fleets were in the Piraeus. The insurgents had
taken Paramythia and Margariti.

FRAN CE.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that,
now that the steamers have accomplished their trans-
port service, by carrying troops from France and
Algeria, to the seat of war, the fleets will receive
important reinforcements.

The Baltic wilil now be composed of 31 sail, of
which 8 are new steamers.
In the Black Sea Admirals Hamelin andßruat have
30 sail, and Admiral Barhier de Tinan commands a
subdivision, now in the waters of Greece, of 14 sail
more, of which nine are steamers.

Besides this, 17 frigates, corvettes, and steamers
will remain ready at Toulon, to embark at any
moment 12,000 men. The reserve squadron of 14
line-of-battle ships, of which seven are furnished
with the screw, will be ready in a short time.
The Paris correspondent of the Times writes,
under date of yesterday :
" Despatches were received here last night from
Vienna, announcing that a new protocol, composed
of the Austro-Prussian treaty and the Anglo-French
convention combined, has been agreed to by the
Four Powers—Austria, Prussia, England, and
France ; that it engages them to a community of
action, with a view to the re-establishment of
peace ; and that the said protocol was to be signed
at 7 o'clock last evening at Vienna, by the repre-
sentatives of the Powers. Those conventions,
thus blended into one common protocol, are re-
garded as an additional guarantee of the adherence
of the Gorman Powers to the Anglo-French al-
liance. It is true that more impatient politicians
desire some more positive act on the part of
Austria and Prussia, but it is something to find
that they havl) wade a step in advance, and at

all events that they do not recede. I have
reason to believe that the French Government
have received despatches from their Minister at
Vienna confirming the intelligence I communicate.
" We may expect soon to hear important intelli-
gence from the Black Sea, as, after au inspection of
Sebastopol and the coast near it, I am informed
that Admiral Hamelin has written to his Govern-
ment demanding that a body of troops for landing
shall be sent with as little delay as possible to the
East. I have already mentioned the intended
barkation of heavy artillery for the same direction,
and there is now little doubt that a great blow is
meditated against Sebastopol and the Crimea. The
troops that Admiral Hamelin demands are to be
forwarded without delay."

THE TREATY BETWEEN ENGLAND,
FRANCE, AND TURKEY.
The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing Imperial decree :

" PARIS, MAY 23.
" Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national
will, Emperor of the French,
" To all present and to come, greeting :
" On the report of our minister the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs,
" We have decreed and decree as follows :

" Art. 1. A treaty of alliance, destined to guarantee
the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire,
having been signed at Constantinople on the 12th of
March of the present year 1854, between the French
empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land, and the Sublime Ottoman Porte, this treaty hav-
ing been ratified, and the respective ratifications having
been exchanged on the Bth of May, the said treaty, the
tenour of which follows, will receive its full and entire
execution.

" TREATY.

" His Majesty the Emperor of the French and her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland having been invited by his Imperial
Majesty the Sultan to aid him in repelling the aggression
directed by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias
against the territories of tht; Sublime Ottoman Porte—an
aggrcs ..ion by which the integrity of the Ottoman Em-
pire and the independence of the throne of H.I.M. the
Sultan are menaced ; and their said Majesties, being

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fully persuaded that the existence of the Ottoman Em-
pire, within its actual limits, is essential to the mainte-
nance of the balance of power between the states of
Europe, and having, in consequence, consented to give
11.1. M. the Sultan the assistance he has asked for this
object, it has appeared fit to their said Majesties and to
the Sultan to conclude a treaty, in order to de-
clare explicitly their intentions, agreeably to that which
precedes, and to regulate the manner in which their said
Majesties will lend assistance to H.LM. the Sultan.
" With this view their said Majesties and H. I. M.

the Sultan have named as their plenipotentiaries :
"His majesty the Emperor of the French, General of
Division Count Baraguay d'ailliers, vice-president of the
Senate, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion
of Honour, &c., his ambassador extraordinary and pleni-
potentiary to the Ottoman Porte ;
" Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Very Honourable Strat-
ford, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, peer of the United
Kingdom, and member of her Britannic Majesty's Privy
Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,
her ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to
the Ottoman Porte ; _ . .

" And his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, Mustapha
Reschid Paella, his Minister of Foreign Affairs ;
'• Who, after having reciprocally communicated their
full powers, found it to be in good and due form, agreed

on the following articles :--
" Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor of the French,
and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, having already, at the request'
of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, ordered powerful
divisions of their naval forces to repair to Constantinople,
and to extend to the Ottoman territory and flag the pro-
tection that circumstances would permit, their said
Majesties engage, by the present treaty, to co-operate
still further with his Imperial Majesty the Sultan for
the defence of the Ottoman territory, • in Europe and
Asia, against the Russian aggression, and employing
for this end such a number of their land troops as
may appear necessary for attaining this object :
which land troops their said Majesties will forthwith
despatch towards such and such points of the Otto-
man territory as shall be judged expedient ; and his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan agrees that the English and
French land troops, thus despatched for the defence of
the Ottoman territory, shall receive the same friendly
reception, and shall be treated with the same considera-
tion as the French and British naval forces already em-
ployed for some time in the Turkish waters.
" Art. 2. The high contracting parties engage, each
on kis part, to communicate reciprocally to each other,
without loss of time, every proposition that one of them
might receive from the Emperor of Russia, whether di-
rectly or indirectly, with a view to the cessation of hos-
tilities, of an armistice or peace ; and his Imperial Ma-
jesty the Sultan engages, moreover, to conclude no ar-
mistice, and to enter into no negotiation for peace, ner
to conclude any preliminary of peace nor any treaty of
peace with the Emperor of Russia, without the know-
ledge and consent of the high contracting parties.
"Art. 3. As soon as the object of the present treaty
shall have been attained by-the conclusion of a treaty
of peace, his Majesty the Emperor of the French and
her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland will make arrangements at once for
withdrawing immediately all their military and naval
forces employed for realising the object of the present
treaty, and all the fortresses or positions in the Ottoman
territory that shall have been provisionally occupied by
the military forces of France and England shall be re-
stored to the authorities of the Sublime Ottoman Porte
within the space of forty days, or sooner, if possible, to
date from the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty
by which the present war shall be terminated.
"Art. 4. It is understood that the auxiliary armies
shall preserve the faculty of taking such part as may ap-
pear suitable in the operations directed against the com-
mon enemy, the Ottoman authorities, whether civil or
military, not claiming to exercise the least control over
their movements ; on the contrary, all aid and facility
shall be afforded them by these authorities, especially
•for their disembarkation, their marching, dwelling, or
encampment, their subsistence, and that of their horses,
and for their communications, whether they may act
together or may act separately.
"It is understood, on the other hand, that the com-
manders of the said armies engage to maintain the
strictest discipline among their respective troops, and
will cause to be respected by them the laws and usages
of the country.
"It is of course understood that property is to be
every where respected. It is, moreover, understood on
either side that the general plan of the campaign shall
be discussed and agreed noon between the Commanders-
in-Chief of the three armies, and that if a considerabie
part of the allied troops should be in line with the Otto-
man troops, no operation can be executed against the
enemy without having been previously concerted with
the commanders of the allied forces. Lastly, due at-
tention shall be paid to every requirement, relative to the
wants of the service, addressed by the Commanders-in-
Chief of the auxiliary troops, whether to the Ottoman
Government through the medium of their respective
embassies, or in case of urgency, to the local authorities,
unless paramount objections, distinctly explained, may
prevent its execution.
" Art. 5. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the
ratifications shall be exchanged at Constantinople within
the space of 6 weeks, or sooner if possible, to date from
the day of signature.
"In faith of which the respective plenipotentiaries
have signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
" Done in triplicate, to one and the same effect, at
Constantinople, on the twelfth day of March, 1854.
(Signed) " BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS.
" STRATFORD DE REDOLIFFR.
" RESCRID.

" Art. 2. Our Minister and Secretary of State for
the department of Foreign Affairs is charged with the
execution of the present decree.
" Given at St. Cloud, May 23.
(Signed) " NAPOLEON.
(Countersigned) " DROUYN DE LHIITS,
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
" Seen and sealed with the Seal of the State.
(Signed) " ABBATUCCI,
Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals."

M. Saint Marc Girardin states in the Debats that
lie has received many communications, suggesting
that the French Government should appoint a
scientific and archmlogical commission to
i be at-
tached to the army of the East. It s more
than probable that the Government will listrn to
this appeal, supposing it not already to have
thought of the subject. Smilar commissions were
sent into the Morea on the occasion of the war
against Mehemet Ali into Algeria, and (at an ear-
lier date) into Egypt. M. Saint
Marc Girardin ob-
serves that the French traditions in this kind ought
especially to be followed on the present occasion.
The country now about to he traversed by our
armies is full of classical associations. Not only
the Chersonesus and Thrace, but Gallipoli itself, is
celebrated in history. Gallipoli was a military posi-
tion long disputed by Philip of Macedon with the
Greeks, and ultimately wrested from them. Candia,
so often mentioned by Demosthenes, is there. The
banks of the Hellespont, the Propontis, and the
Bosphorus, are studded with ruined, towns, which
have a name in history. A chaos of remains is there
which it would be glorious for French erudition to
penetrate. All the successive rulers of the country
—Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, Vene-
tians, Genoese, and Turks—contributed by Theirbuildings or demolitions to the confusion of monu-
ments which now exists. _

General d'Hautpoul, Grand Referendaire of the
Senate, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the
camp to be established in the neighbourhood of
Toulon. It is understood that the appointment is
preliminary to his beinc, elevated to the dignity of
Marshal of France. Generals d'Ornano and Bara-
guay d'Hi]liers are also to be appointed Marshals of
France.
The Bourse yesterday was firm. The Three per
Cents. closed at 6Sf. 20c. for the end of the month;
the Four-awl a-half per Cents. at 94f. 75e. ; and
the New Loan, at 68f. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,105 f. ; Rouen, 907 f. 50c. ; Havre, 460 f. ; Great
Northern, 812 f. 50c. ; Strasburg, 745 f. ; New
Shares, seof. ; Faris and Lyons, 907 f. 50c, 14yons