The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

THE OCCUPATION OF ALAND.

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 23.—1 t is reported here that
if the pending negotiations for the occupation of
Aland by Sweden with 20,000 Swedish troops
should fail, the fortifications of Bomarsund are to
be blown up before the Ist of September.
A telegraphic despatch, dated Berlin, Friday,
says :—The French troops at Bomarsund suffer
extremely from cholera, and will probably embark
again immediately.

THE GERMAN POWERS.
VIENNA, Friday Evening.—Prince Gortschakoff
is said to have received intimation from St. Peters-
burg that no direct answer will be given to the last
propositions forwarded by Austria, but she will be
asked what her intentions really are.
The armaments here are on i greater scale than
ever.

The Wanderer of Vienna, of the 21st, says :
" It is said that Count d'Arnim, the Prussian am-
oassadorat this Court, has gone to Berlin, in order
to ascertain definitively the intentions of Prussia
with regard to Russia, and to compare the proposi-
tions ut the latter with the demands for guaran-
tees, by submitting them to a fresh examination.
In the serious complications of the Eastern ques-
tion, it will be heard with pleasure that, in the
;pinion of the diplomatists: of Vienna, the majority
of the German Governments share in the views of
the Austrian Government, and think with it this,:
the guarantees set down by the Western Powers
are in accordance with the interests of Germany,
and that they are acceptable. It is, mentioned in
:iiplomatic circles here, that the Islands of Aland,
which have been taken by the allied troops, will be
declared independent of Russia, and placed under
the protection of the Western Powers, and that the
same p'an wilrbe pursued with all the other islands
that may fall into their power."
The last number of the Prussian Correspondence
contains another article on the protocols of tht
Conference of Vienna. It concludes thus :
"In comparing the protocols quoted by us with that
the 9th of April, which is posterior to them, it is seen
that the points on which the Four Powers were com-
pletely agreed on April 9, were no other than those
which are formally mentioned as such in the protocol of
that day, viz., Ist, the maintenance of the integrity of
the Ottoman empire, the evacuation of the principalities
being naturally a principal condition of that state of
things ; 2dlv, the guarantee of the religious and civil
rights of the Christian subjects of the Porte by means
which would not interfere in any way with the indepen-
dence and sovereignty of the Sultan. These two points
:lesignate the object of the concert mentioned in the
protocol, and when we add that the Powers have pledged
~hemselves to seek out in comnfon the guarantees best
calculated to connect the exislence of the Ottoman em-
pire with the general European equilibrium, and that
they have bound themselves not to conclude either with
Russia or with any other Power any convention contrary
to the principles laid down in the protocol, we shall
have called to mind the obligations which Prussia has
contracted in participating in the conference of Vienna.
No one can deny that Prussia has been faithful to these
obligations."