The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-26 00:00:00

THE BALTIC.

In a letter from an officer of the Odin, dated
Oreground Bay (on the coast of Sweden), 15th
June, we find the following :
" There are four ships of us detached to this re-
mote corner in the Gulf of Bothnia. On the 7th
of June inst. the boats from this ship and the Vul-
ture, with 112 of our people and 80 others, were
sent under an officer of the Vulture to attack
Gamla Karleby, in Finland, in 64 50 N. They
were surprised by a large body of troops, and when
we were ordered to their aid with more boats from
the ships five miles distant, we found 3 officers and 3
men killed, and 17 more disabled belonging to this
ship. A large boat, with 1 officer, 27 men, and a
24-pounder gun belonging to the Vulture, missing,
captured, sunk, or destroyed, besides 1 man killed,
and 3 others wounded. I know you will rejoice in
the safety of the youngsters, although they were
in the thickest of the fire. I will now give you
the names of the officers killed and wounded, in
case of your meeting any one interested, with the
assurance that the wounded aro all out of danger,
and doing well.

'S KILLED.
Lieutenant Carrington, R.N.
Mr. Montagu, Mate.
Mr. Althorpe, Midshipman.
" WOUNDED.
Lieutenant Lewis, R.M.
Mr. Magrath, Midshipman.
ic Missing from Vulture—Mr. Morphy, Mate."
A letter from Stockholm of the\ 16th says
The number of the vessels destroyed by Admiral
Plumridge amounts to 11 at Brahestad and to 10
at Uleaborg. No private house was burnt in
either of these towns, and no blood was shed."
A letter from Dantzic of the 19thstates :—" The
Prince of Prussia has passed through Dantzic on.
his way to inspect the troops of the province. His
Highness received from the citizens the warmest
reception. The municipal authorities organised a
fete in his honour, to which the officials, both civil
and military, as likewise the foreign consuls, were
invited. The flags of France, England, and
Austria were to be seen waving by the side of those
of Dantzic and Prussia. This attention on the
port of the municipality was rendered more impres-
sive by the circumstance that the Russian flag was
excluded."

We extract the following from a letter, dated
Wisby, Island of Gothlaud, June 18
" In my preceding letter from this ancient town I
stated that one of the small steamers of the British fleet
had approached the entrance to Sweaborg, the formid-
able fortress in the Gulf of Finland. I am now informed,
in a letter from Stockholm of yesterday's dite, that that
steamer was the Porcupine, 4 guns, Cagain Melville
Jackson. The names of the other offieers are Mr.
Leech, acting first lintonant, surgoo4 Wetree
,

Goldsmith, first mate, and Mr. Saunders clerk in charge,
lately nominated by the Admiralty purser unattached.
That war steamer was stationed during more than than
three weeks in Farasund, in this island in order t°
guard the coal depot, and it is not a little remarkable
that it ghoul] s suddenly have exchanged that quiet Po'
sition fur one of so much importance and danger. All
the masters of the fleet, and the masters of other large
vessels, were taken cn board the Porcupine, in order to
survey the shoals and pass ages around the entrance to
Sveaborg. It approached so near the .forts that the
Russian soldiers were placed at the guns, waiting until
it should come within range. A long gun, too, W&
trained along up to the telegraph station, for the espo'
cial benefit of the Porcupine. As it first approached
the forts, it observed smoke at some distance —the Rns-
sians probably trying the range of their guns. You
were informed, I believe, in my previous communication,
that the Arrogant and Imperieuse were cruising some
miles off, ready to come to the aid, if necessary, of the
Porcupine, which, by enabling an engineer officer on
board to take a sketch of Sveaborg, has rendered no
slight service to the good cause. The officers on board
the Porcupine had also a good view on the 6th instant
of Helsingfurs. The e (tent and number of the batteries,
however, could not lie fully ascLrbained.
"The following speech was delivered by his Majesty
the King of Sweden on presenting new colours to a bat-
talion of the Sinala,nd grenadiers :
" 'On the colours which I present to you this day is in'
scribed the word Lutzen:' That war recalls to my toe'
mory the glorious time in which Sweden's King fought
and conquered in the cause of enlightenment. That ram°
will remind you also of the courage with which the Sipa'
landers supported him in that holy contest. You possess'
therefore, an ancestry of 200 years. Great reminiscences
impose great duties, and the victories of one's forefathers
exhort to fresh exploits (mans till nya brauder).- The
days of warfare and honour are not yet over. Even nos;
you may be called upon to defend your native land, and
to combat for the dearest of all earthly possessions.
Should Fatherland and I call on you, my brave Sinalan-
ders, to gather around these flags, you will prove that A
long and happy peace has not weakened these arms which
in tranquil times cultivated the Swedish soil, and that
the swords which have long reposed in their scabbards
are not only as sharp, but that they will be as valiantly
borne, as they were on Lutzen's battle-field.'
"This speech was followed with enthusiastic and pro-
longed cheering. His Majesty afterwards presented Dell
colours to the National Militia of this island, and in de.
mg so said :

4t In a time when war's portentous cloud obscures
the northern hemisphere, every obligation becomes
dearer, every duty more sacred. No obligation is
greater than that, in such a time, people and king should
have the same will and act in unison ; no duty is holier
than that of defending our native lard, at the sacrifice.
even of life itself. Such a time, it would seem, may
possibly arrive for the north. (Synas for Norden Ing;
jilga.) Such a time, too, is one in which, as you
prove, no sacrifices are too great fur the maintaining 0'
our self-existence and independence. Should foes At•
tempt to pluck this noble island—this pearl in Sweden's
crown—from the bosom of our motherland, you will all
eagerly gather around these banners which with my 0"
hand I now make over to you ; and you will know he°
to fight for your king and your country. (Enthusiastic
and long-continued cheering.) But before I deliver to
you these pledges of my confidence in your patriotism,
1 ask you, officers, sub-officers, and men, to swear to
defend these colours to the last, so help you God.'

" Those speeches are certainly remarkable ones.
They are such speeches as a King of Sweden could er
propriately deliver on the eve of any other contest
ou
Vie cause of enlightenment,' particularly if we have go
grounds for believing—as his present Majesty
assuredly
has—that his subjects would courageously support hirein so i
holy a contest.' It cannot be forgotten n
Sweden that in fighting for so good a cause, it not enl
conquered, but became one of the most important states
in Europe, respected and feared abroad, and prosperous at
home. Very different would have been its fate had it
espoused the opposite cause. 'The days of warfare' are
certainly not over, for a gigantic contest is now eau"
menced, one, too, at the very gates, as it were, of Sweden'The northern skies are indeed clouded, and clouded Oct
will remain until the sun of liberty—that liberty for which
Gustavus Adolphus fought and died on Lutzen's battle
field' shines forth in all its resplendence. Thl
Swedes who descend from the warriors of Lutzen, and
their sovereign, who now sits on the throne of the great
Swedish hero of 1632, may yet—King Oscar hints
called upon to defend their fatherland. That land Is
coveted, not by the friends, but by the foes, of the
" cause of enlightenment ;" and that ambitious emPire
which plucked Finland—also a pearl in Sweden's crown
—from the bosom of its Swedish motherland, may well
hope to get possession of the island of Gothland, the
most important in the Baltic. Assuredly the Swedish
soldiers of the present day have not degenerated. Manly
and robust in form, in a high state of discipline, "lardy,
brave, and courageous, they are inferior to no troops
in Europe. They are worthy descendants of their
ancestors "of two hundred years." But "great re-
miniscences impose great duties," and the glorious re-
miniscences referred to cannot be separated from tb°
" cause of en'ightenment," and the obligation of core:
bating for it at any sacrifice. In times like the present
" people and king should have the same will and act in
unison," a noble and felicitous sentiment, and one truly
appropriate under present circumstances. There is
one in Sweden or Norway hardy enough to deny that
the overpowering majority of the inhabitants of 01
sister kingdom are heart and soul with England and
France in " the cause of enlightenment" against Bussis'
and barbarisn.„ Let us, accept, thereisre, as a hapPi,
omen, that significant declaration of the monarch of
Sweden, and employ in his regard the solemn and illy
pressive ejaculation with which he concluded his two
admirable discourses.

Yetad Gazette states that a rich inhabitant of that
town--a Swelish one situated nearly opposite 00
Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic—has promised
to give 1,000 dollars banco to the poor, on the day that
he receives certain intelligence of any important defea",
of the Russians.".