The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-12 00:00:00

OPERATIONS ON THE EAST COAST OF

THE BLACK SEA..
A letter from Constantinople, 30th ult., gives
the following details of the proceedings of a part of
the combined squadrons •n the coast of Asia :
" The steamer line-of-battle-ship Agamemnon, and
the Charlemagne, screw French ship of the line, with
three other steamers, which had been detached to the
coasts of Georgia and Abasia, have rejoined the squa-
drons at Baltchik, after having accomplished several im-
pcitant affairs ; amongst others, the capture of the fort
of Soukoum Kale, and of the town of Redout Kale.
The latter place, occupied by 2,000 Russians, was
attacked on the 20th, and summoned to surrender.
The fort having replied to this summons by some
cannon shot, Admiral Lyons ordered the bombardment
of the place, which was entirely destroyed. He after•
wards landed 300 French and English seamen, and 1,200
Turkish soldiers from the corps d'armee of Batoum,
whom he had embarked two days before from
the camp of Chourouk Sou. At the moment of the
landinc, the troops, the Russian garrison of Redout Kale
retired to a village about an hour's mach distant, where
they were promptly overtaken and compelled to lay
down their arms. The Turkish flag was afterwards
hoi-qed on the fortress, and a reinforcement of 800 men
sent by Selim Paella was expected in order to form the
garrison with the 1,200 abovementioned. An English
frigate was leit, provisionally before the place."

INTERVIEW. OF THE EMPEROR OF
AUSTRIA AND KING OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Juno 9.—The departure of the King
yesterday, for the purpose of meeting the Emperor
Francis Joseph at Titschen, near the frontier of
Bohemia, has produced an extraordinary sensation.
This event will doubtless be regarded in England
and France as of essential political importance,
and one calculated to bring matters to a more com-
plete, if not perfect understanding between the
two great governments, and thence decide the atti-
tude which both or either will assume, in case, as
most probable, the Emperor Nicholas's reply to the
Austrian " summons" should prove negatively or
evasively unsatisfactory. It is indisputable that
the interview, though founded on the pretext of
' presenting the Empress to her royal Prussian kins-
man, is essentially political. This results from
the King being attended by his Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs and the Under Secretary for the same
department (M. de Milan) ; and the Emperor by
Count Buol and a high functionary of his chancel-
lery. The two Ministers, as well as their Sove-
reigns, will thus be enabled to communicate and
deliberate personally.

PERSIA AND RUSSIA.
The Patric gives the following news from Persia
" Private letters from Erzeroum of the 12th o
May announce that the late Persian ambassador al
St. Petersburg had arrived on his way to Teheran,
The rupture between Persia and Russia was com.
plete. A great number of Russian subjects resident
in Persia had already left the country from appre-
hension of events likely to occur.

TUNISIAN EXPEDITION.
The Tunisian Government has given notice that
it will require shipping for the conveyance of a di-
vision of 10,000 men to Varna, with 18 guns.

CIRCASSIA.
A letter from Trebisond, in the Moniteur, says :
—" Selim Pacha has sent 10,000 regular troops and.
9,000 Bashi-Bazouks to Ozourgueti. The Rus-
sians have left Ozourgueti for Koutais carrying
with them 450 sick. The inhabitants of the latter
place on hearing of this movement sent to the Rus-
sians to say that the place was in a state of famine,
and that they would be badly received there. All
the Russian troops who have evacuated the for-
tresses on the coast from Anapa, to Redout-Kale,
have marched on Tiflis. Schamyl is within 18
hours' march of that place, at the head of 35,000
men."

RETROGRADE MOVEMENT OF THE
RUSSIANS.
The Moniteur says :—" We learn by telegraph
from Vienna, that according to information trans-
mitted to that capital by the telegraph from Czer-
novitz, in the Bukovina, an unexplained move-
ment was taking place in the Russian army; the
corps, which were marching southwards, beyond
Jassy, were ordered, it seems, to retrograde to the
north, as far as Tirgu Formos, in the direction of
the Bukovina and of Gallicia. The bead-quarters
of Paskiewitch are also removed, it is said, to Jassy,
and the Prince himself was expected by the 11th
or 13th in the capital of Moldavia with all his staff. ,

This intelligence was published on the evening of
the 9th in the (official) A ustlian CurrevoncLitz."

THE BALTIC.

BERLIN', June 11.—The Desperate has arrived
at Dantzig.

She left the fleet all well on the 6th, snugly an•
chored in sight of Helsingfors.:
, Nothing new.

STOCKHOLM, June 7.—News has arrived here
that Admiral Sir Charles Napier, with nine screw
liners, was off Sweaborg (Helsingfors) on the 4th of
June. The rest of the fleet was cruising in the
neighbourhood.

June B.—The Stvenska Tidningen confirms the
arrival of Admiral Napier before Porkala Bay,
three miles south-west of Sweaborg. They can
descry the Russian fleet, about ten liners, lying at
anchor behind the batteries. Admiral Corry is ad-
vancing with his squadron.

The King of Sweden and the Crown Prince are
going for a few days to inspect the troops in the
island of Gotbland.

ROSTOCK, June 5.--The English have appeared
again off Libau, and have taken away 1.0 ships
from the harbour, which they regard as good
prizes.

- ARCHANGEL, May 27.—The ice in the river
broke up on the 12th May, and since then two
ships have arrived from sea.

COPENHAGEN, June 3.—The Swedish papers
contain further details of the affair at Ekness on
the 19th and 20th of May. The Hecla, 6 guns,
Captain Hall, appears to have distinguished her-
self very much. She once ran ashore, was towed
off by the Arrogant, 46, Captain Yelverton, and
played the principal part in destroying the Rus-
s►an battery. A couple of days later the Hecla
went to Stockholm, where Captain Hall was
received on the 29th, with great enthusiasm.
It was rumoured in Stockholm that the British
fleet, which on the 27th still lay before Hango,
had received orders to go up to Helsingfors.
Letters from Torneaelf, in Finland, of the 21st of
May state that the Russian Government has or-
dered the Custom-house officers of every Finnish
sea town to make known to Finnish shipowners
that they ought not to sell their vessels, as the
Government had assured free navigation to them
in the following manner :—That shipowners or
shipmasters had only to apply to Hamburg or to
a Prussian town for the rights of a citizen in that
town, and that it would be granted them, with-
out their thereby losing their. Russian nationality;
and that Prussian shipping-bills would then be
forwarded to them in their quality of Prus-
sian citizens. In fact, cases are known where
Finnish vessels, upon examination of, their ship-
ping documents by British cruisers, have been
released on account of their Prussian nationality.
A Danish officer who has lately been up to the
Finnish Gulf with the Danish Government screw-
corvette Thor states that the fogs are still very
heavy in those waters, and that before their dis-
appearance all operations on the Finnish coast are
difficult and dangerous. The same officer spoke
highly of Captain Key, of the Amphion, and his
exploits at Libau. The Bulldog yesterday arrived
from the French fleet at Kiel, and returns to the
British fleet.

The following ordinance has recently come into
force in Finland, but it has not been formally
published from the fear that it would excite great
discontent :

" We, Nicholas 1., &c., order that the laws relative
to the censorship shall be completed in Finland by the
following enactments :—lndependently of the works of
which the publication is generally prohibited on ac-
count of their splrlt and contents, there cannot
be published in the Finn language any new work, pam-
phlet, periodical, or non-periodical writing of whatever
extent it may be, unless it exclusively refers to religion,
or economic utility. It is absolutely forbidden to
publish in the Finn language, political news or novels,
even the novels which the censorship allows to be pub-
lished in another language. This ordinance, however,
does not prejudice the right of reproducing works which
have been previously printed in the Finn language, and
consequently Finn traditions and legends, the old songs
and the popular poetry of Finland. We also permit the
reproduction Of dictionaries and school books already
printed in the Finn language ; but no new work, book, or
pamphlet, even of the category of school books can be
published without our authorisation."

- COPENHAGEN, Juno 6.—After his victory at
Eckness, Captain Hall could have destroyed that
village in an hour ; but he gallantly spared it.
Its inhabitants were gazing at hi-tett from their homes.
He would not injure these poor people, who had
done nothing against England. His first lieute-
nant, Readcrew, is now, it is hoped, out of danger,
and his sight may perhaps be preserved to him.
The Russian account of the attack on Gustafsvarn,
on the 27th, represents the affair as an entire
failure, and the result—killed, none ; wounded,
eight. A still more extravagant statement must
have been given in No. 118 of Finland's.Allmaiina
Tidning, and intended for the natives, for it has
not been sent to the foreign correspondents. A
battalion of 12 gunboats is being fitted out at
Stockholm. Captain Hall (of the Hecla) has just
inspected Skeppsholmen, the gunboat station there.

FR 'ONCE.
• A rumour has bica freely circulated for soli?o
days past in Paris, that the Emperor of Russia, in
answer to the last note sent by the Austrian Cabi;
net, had proposed an armistice, which would gils
time for the. opening of negotiations upon terult
which might be the basis of an arrangement ; bu
few ever attached much importance to any such
rumour, and it has now been allowed to die awaJr:r
It is, in fact, easy to conceive that the Dint,
Nicholas would follow out Jiis ordinary P°
of duplicity by proposing anything that wouldLt
gain him time ; but it is equally evident that
it would be contrary to the interests of i
England and France to grant it, and that, if rant'g t
the Czar would be the only gainer. The belief 3
'Vienna, according to2letters received on Saturbil
from that city, is, that the Czar will make no 1.0,1
at all to the summons of Austria to evacuate tilct
principalities, and that the knowledge of that fa
has been the cause of the interview between. the
Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia.
MARSEILLES, SATURDAY.—The port of Totr-L
is very animated at the present moment, in coils°
q,uence of the embarkation of troops for Alg,e. rna
and the East. Besides the 24th Light Infautilb
the 28th of the line, and the 9th Cuirassiers, w[tic
are already at sea, and the 7th Dragoons, w Bich
are ready to start, a new brigade composed of "„t
21st and 42d of the line is about to embaeg
Toulon for Gallipoli. The brigade is comp-1311d%
by General Lamotte-Rouge. Lourmel's brig 3
dOff
has arrived at Gallipoli from the Pincus.
Jean Bart left yesterday with troops for Alga°,
It will join the Napoleon at Stova, where the'
will embark the 2d regiment of the foreign legii°9l
and carry them to the East.
The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree P 11;
mulgating the Convention entered into bet Weee,
France and the Grand Duchy of Baden for the ro
ciprocal guarantee of property in literary Fork
and works of art.
BANK OF FRANCE.—The the
following was -
debtor and creditor account of the Bank of France'
made up to Thursday, June 8:
•
Ca.c
Cash and ingots -
Cash at the branch banks lB9, 060 690 ms
Bins ‘•
die yesterday to be paid to-day 693,59°
Bills beeorni.“, doe in Pais, of which
48,203,651e97c. are fioaa the branch
baalis 133,729,20•
Biqs is the branch baiks
Advaaces on c&n and 'n3-ots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. oa p.- sec.....lties of Fraute 19,096,936
Do. in Cie 7Jra ‘ca banks
Do. on railway socrrittes
Do. in t'oe branch banks
Do. to the S.,a:,e by treaty of
Jaye 30, 1848 70,000,000
Discornted Treasamy Bonds
Iten'oes reserve fund 10,000,000 91
Ren.,es of d'soorr;)'e n.is
Hotel a11d.fv..,-21 e a o. ...?e Bank
Real pi.o2e-ty bzanclt banks 4,034,0 91,
)e..-ses t'on 1,401,415 55
Send -'es

,- 91
178,576