THE FIELD OF WAR. 
OUR WOODEN WALLS. 
THE BALTIC FLEET. 
DESTRUCTION OF GUSTAFSWEREN. 
(by SUBMARINE AND EDltorEAN TELEGRAPH.) 
Stockholm, May 18.— The English fleet have destroyed 
the castle and fort of Gustafsweren, iu the Gulf of Finland, 
und have token 1,500 prisoners. 
The Berlin National Zeitung has a paragraph, dated St. 
Petersburg, May 9, in which it is stated that the Russian 
fleet lying before Cronstadt was in perfect readiness for ac- 
tion, and that the whole place swarmed with sailors, marines 
and land troops ; that about 10,000 men were quartered in 
the fortress and various forts, the greatest number that Cron- 
stadt can contain; that on the island extending to the west 
from tho fortress, were posted troops in tents, mostly Guards • 
that additional works were being constructed at Pane fort,’ 
and the other forts rendered as strong as possible. In the 
harbour of St. Peter’s the merchant ships are almost exclu- 
sively Russian; only one English, the Ann M'Alister, on 
board which Sir Hamilton Seymour’s effects were not allowed 
to bo shipped. 
BLOCKADE OF RIGA. 
Hamburg, May 19.— The following letter, from Captain 
A. Cowper Key, of the Amphion frigate, was posted here to- 
day : — 
(Translation.) 
“II.M.S. Amphion, Meruel Roads, May 12, 1854. 
“ Sir, — I have the honour to request you will inform her 
Majesty’s Consuls in Riga, Libau, and Windau, that those 
ports are strictly blockaded, and that all ships leaving the 
same, whether fully or partly loaded, will be dotained, and 
sent either to England or to France, with a view to their 
being condemned. This communication you will cause to 
be mude public in those ports. 
“ I have the honour, See., 
“ A. C. Key, Captain. 
“To Mr. J. Hertslett, H.M. Consul, Memcl.” 
Copenhagen, May 16. — Yesterday tho stenm-frigate 
Penelope, 30 guns, arrived here with 60 officers and 30 
midshipmen, for distribution among the fleet. She pas-ed 
seven vessels of the French fleet at the Island of Anholt, in 
tho Categat, yesterday morning. She takes on coals for 
tho fleet. It is rumoured that a plan of attack upon Cron- 
stadt has been agreed upon between the English and French 
Admirals, but it certainly will not be carried into effect 
before the arrival of the gun steamer flotilla. 
Stockholm, May 15 — Her Majesty’s steamer Amphion 
arrived in Farnsund May 2 with 2 prizes— viz., the inland 
schooner Kajaden [Najasdisa ?], of Ulaborg, from Lubeck, 
captured April 22 in the Gulfot Finland, and the Carolina, 
of Riga, from St. Ubes, captured in the ice off Riga, April 
28 ; and on the 3rd of May the schooner Gebrooder, of Riga, 
also a prize, arrived in Farosund. All threo prizes sailed 
May 5 to the southward. 
Admiralty. — Advices wore received on Monday at the 
Admiralty, under date Memcl, May 18, that her Majesty’s 
sloop Archer had arrived off that port, escorting another of 
her Majesty’s steamers, having four Russian prize 6hips in 
tow, captured in Libau harbour. 
The Downs. — On Monday the Eurydice, Captain 
Ommanney, sailed from the Downs in company with 
the S6millante, French ship of war, her Majesty’s steamer 
Miranda, Captain Lyons, and the Brisk, not for tho Baltic, 
but to operate against the Russians in tho White Sea. 
Copenhagen, May 20.— Tho British transport, Holyrood 
arrived here yesterday from the fluot, and continued in tho 
ovemng her course to England. She brought intelligence of 
tho British fleet having been 50 miles offHangoe Point, 
preparing for the bombardment of that place when she 
If':;, H ''" goe 18 1,10 so, “h point of Finland, situate at tho 
north of tho entrance Into the Gulf of Finland, and tho same 
place from which Admiral Plumridgo's squadron was fired 
upon when cruising in tho Gulf of Finland on special 
service. Several British vessels have been up the Gulf of 
Bothnia and found ice there still. Tho Stockholm 
Ajtonolad of the 13th inst. contains confused rumours of 
the operations of the fleet, of an attack having been madu 
upon Aland, of a heavy cannonade being hoard from tho 
east, See., not worth repeating. The Frencli fleet Is still In 
tho Bolt. The letters from St. Petersburg are to tho 16th 
inst. '1 he effects of Sir Hamilton Seymour had been shipped 
on hoard a Prussian vessel. It is also said that tho Ann 
M'AIIster had sailed from Cronstadt on tho 15th. Tho 
total number of vossols entered since the opening of tho 
navigation had been 16, and, although the period had 
arrived at which the blockade was understood to be iutondod 
to commence, an attempt would be made to load them, in 
the hope of getting them away. From Riga tho dates aro 
to the 18th iust. Complaints are mado of the annoyance 
experienced by the merchants from perplexity as to tho 
actual intentions of tho English Government, sinco, not- 
withstanding the notice of blockade, a Dutch captain had 
arrived, and stated that he hud been on board a cruiser off 
the neighbouring port of Domesness, and hail ascertained 
from the commander that his vessol could 6afoly proceed to 
Riga. 
Tho Resistance, 10 guns, troop-trnnsport, Mastor-Com- 
mander M. Bradshaw, has 6ailod from Sheernoss for tho 
Baltic. Mr. R. Leighton, master marinor of Hartlepool, 
proceeds in the Resistance as pilot for tho Baltic. , 
Tho Holyrood, tcrew steam hired transport, Commandor 
COtlMOIUNT. 
noMr. 
M:scaiEP. 
K1TTHN. 
ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLCB MATCH OFF QUAY’S CHURCII.— Drawn by T. G. Dutton, 
