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

THE BALTIC.

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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 Ilels-
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 Aelsingfors 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.

FRANCE.

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 willl now be composed of 31 sail, of
which 8 are new steamers.
Iu the Black Sea Admirals Hamelin and Buat have
30 sail, and Admiral Barbier 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 stro-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 German Powers to the AnE,do-French al-
liance. it is true that
desire some more positive act on the part of
Austria and Prussia, but it is something to find
that they have made a step in advance, and at