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SUN 0 FTICIA Six o'Clock.

SPAIN.
_ The Madrid journals of the Bth have arrived,
but they contain nothing of much importance.
The Gazette announces that the Queen, as usual
in Holy Week, had ordered that a man under
sentence of death for murder should have the
imprisonment for life,
and
datlhtyat
ficommutedveother
mt o
e nabout to be tried for
the same crime, should, in the event of con-
viction, have the sentence of death, to which
they would be liable, commuted to one of per-
petual imprisonment. The Pope's Nuncio was
endeavouring to arrange the affair between the
Bishop of Osma and the government, but it was
not considered likely that he would . succeed.
Extensive military preparations had been made
to quell with rigour any attempt at disturbance.
The last two numbers of the Soberania
`of
had been seized for the publication of
seditious articles, and the responsible editor is to be
prosecuted. It is stated in a letter that Lord How-
den had declared to the Government that he was
perfectly willing that what he had done in the
affair of the Protestants at Seville should be sub-
mitted to Lord Clarendon. The Bth being Sunday,
the Stock Exchange was not open.
It was stated in a letter from Lisbon, via Madrid,
that the Duke of Saldanha has,
on account of ill
health, resigned the Ministry of War to Viscount
de Luz, but that he retains the presidency of the
council and the command of the army.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTe":I,IGENC;
Mails for the troops in the Pu.
Tells (Greece), Turkey,
and the Crime, the sick and ,
wounded in Scutari,
Smyrna Hospital and the feet, and transport service in
the Black Sea, will be made 11
p at the General Post-
office and deLettersspatched on Monday evening, via mar.
seilles. must be pre-paid.
Several alterations were made in the numbers of the
men and officers embarked at Portsmouth on board the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company's new trans-
port Alma, Captain Evans. The following is a cor-
rect list of the troops she received :—Coldstream
Guards Colonel Drummond, Lieutenant-Colonel
Cocks, Captain Thellusson, Lieutenants Lane and
Adair, two servants, 307 non-commissioned officers
and privates, and six horses. Grenadier Guardi—Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Wynyard, Captains Digby and the Hon.
W. Quinn, Lieutenants Earl of Carrick and Malet,, two
servants, 412 non-commissioned officers and privates,
and two horses. Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieut.-Colonel
Hepburn, Captain Astley, Lieutenants Campbell, the
Hon. M'Hay, and Moncrieffe, four servants, 310 non-
commissioned officers and privates, and one horse.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenants Baillie and Woodford, En-
signs Eccles and Playne, Major Bordmore, 20th, Cap•
tains Arbuckle, 57th, and Dowbiggin, and the Rev. E.
J. Parker Medical Staff—Staff Surgeons Hadley and
M'Andrew, and Assistant-Staff Surgeon Coates.
These were all on board yesterday and very comfort.
ably berthed. Capt. Evans and his officers were mod
assiduous in their personal attention to the officers and
men. The ship was visited during the day by Lord
George Paukt, Lord George Lennox, Colonel Sibthorp,
M.P., Fee. At about half-past 6 o'clock the Alma
steamed out of harbour for her destination. She left
with 1,030 men besides her own crew, 30 officers, and
19 horses. She landed the detachments of the 18th
Royal Irish and the 50th. The 71st and the Sappers and
Miners did not arrive.. The troops went away in high
spirits, and there is no reason to doubt that the first trip
of the vessel will be aisatisfactory one in every respect.
The Great Britain, steam-transport, Captain Grey,
also embarked at Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday the
following troops :-Ist Foot, Ist battalion, Captain Car-
lyon, Lieutenants Brady and Lowe, Ensigns Heywood
and Watson ; and Lieutenant Oakes and 128 men. 4th
Foot, Captain Wilby, Lieutenants Constable, George,
Elliott' and Breton, and 128 men. 18th Royal Irish,
Major Call, Captains Ward and Graves, Lieutenants
I),,eklim2ton, Ring, and Wilfor3, Ensign Cettee, and
128 men. 23th Regiment, Captains Huey and Gerstein,
Lieutenant r Turner, Sinith, Day, and Irwin, and 128 men.
38th Regiment, Captain Daniel, Lieutenants Snell and
Hume, Ensigns Stansfield and Wilkie, arid 128 men. 44th
Regiment, Captains Green and Mansfield, Lieutenants
Kendall, Pigott, Raymond, and Hoieaith, and 128 men.
East Kent Militia, 22 officers, 599 men, 2 officers' wives,
2 children, 48 men, and 43 children. A very good sys-
tem was pursued in embarking troops in this ship. Each
soldier, on passing.the gangboard and entering the ship,
had one buckle of his knapsack eased bp the captain,
another officer gave the man a printed ticket, correspond-
ing with the number of the part of the ship he was to be
berthed in, and the number of the hammock he would
find slung for him, and also with the number painted
over the hook of the hammock ; thus, men were told off
in an orderly, steady, regular, and certain manner. The
men having had the night to settle comfortably into their
places, the ship will leave Portsmouth harbour early ihis
morning for Malta. The detachment which crossed over
from the Isle of Wight to go on board her had largely
printed upon their tattered colours, "The 28th Slashers
—Sebastopol or death." All cheered vociferously.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Caldwell, at
Spithead, got up a new foreyard yesterday, and looks all
ataunt again. Her tender, the Lightning, will be ready
to attend upon her this day, it is expected.
On Thursday the screw steam-ship Russell, Captain
F. Soott, proceeded out on a trial of her machinery.
She left Sheerness harbour at 7.30 a.m., went down the
Swin and continued running between the Nere and the
Mouse light-vessels, until she returned into harbour at
6 p.m. Her machinery acted in every way satisfactorily ;
she made from 85 to 102 revolutions per minute with an
average of 471 b. per square inch. Her speed under un-
favourable circumstances (the screw propeller not being
sufficiently immersed in consequence of her not being
down to her intended draught water line) exceeded 7
knots. Diameter of screw propeller, 12 feet ; pitch of
ditto, 9 feet 6 inches ; 30-inch cylinder, (effective), and
30-inch stroke.
The Hawke, 60, screw steam-ship, Captain E. Oin-
manney, passed Sheerness from Folly Point yesterday
morning, and proceeded out of port ou a trial of her
machinery.
Commander Victor G. Hickley (12th December, 1850),
has taken up his commission in the Childers, 12-gun
sloop at Chatham. She is ordered to be got ready for
sea with all possible despatch and 'proceed to the Nore.
China is named as her destination.
• Mr. Randal M`Donneli, Acting Assistant-Surgeon of
the Janus, has left Sheerness to join the Duke of Wel-
lington for service in the Lightning steam tender.
The Trafalgar, 120 guns, will be taken into the fitting
basin at Sheerness this day. Her officers, marines, and
the remaining part of the crew, will be lodged in the
naval barracks in the dockyard.
The Admiralty have been pleased to grant permission
for all the Russian prisoners now on board the Devon-
shire receiving ship at Sheerness, to have two interme-
diate days in every month to go on shore for exercise
and recreation. There are at present about twenty-five
Russian subjects on board, exclusive of other prisoners,
for breaking the blockade, and whose vessels have been
seized under assimilated papers.
The Volage, 22, floating magazine for the Baltic, is
getting on rapidly with her rigging and internal fitments,.
She is daily expected to be commissioned, and can be got
ready for sea in a few days.
A general order has been issued from the Deputy-
Adjutant-General's office, Woolwich, stating that the
Government has sanctioned an augmentation to the
Royal Regiment of Artillery from the Ist of April,
1855, of one battalion, to be numbered the 14th, and to
consist of the following eetablisditneet :—Staff-1 colonel
commandant, 2 colonels, 3 lieutenant-colonels, 1 lieu-
tenant-colonel on major's pay, 1 adjutant, 1 quartermas
ter, 1 seigeant-mejor, 1 quartet maeter-serg
eTtd-a' 1 re-
ir., 8
pository,ergeant. Eight companies —8
second captains, 24 lieutenants, 8 comrany_ai sergeants,
u:;e4i.so
sergeants, 40 corp‘ralN, 40 bombardiers,. j
00 1,3 promotions
have gunners
and drivers, and 16 trumpetere. a
have taken place in the regime
the Or.tnant,e
en-
tion t r those attached, to
the, ne„wee, wen.
the aggregate,
oi-
Minrial6cernpflaer„d catzttlasses for the
and
etsbtee is•dnalayi
llaarrgnel
sndueni!retrisn u:m:eneacip
of
gaged in shipping boxes containing the p
n
bore
of carbines, pistols
nearly 2,000 stand
ari
!ether guns of large calibre,
(revolvers),
an` 'reten
i percussion
lvers) fieraevl oaci
cavalry
a sabres,larr7.
navy ; several Lancaster
0 various
di 8
ons,
40.
hollow and solid shot t,

l Somerset o
ari:eelriai• soregdt
e. Militialn
number c
oh na
ivoe.ef
During the—auntn from Plymouth, where they have
tqbEentninscoeeeni:°nebfl:4ollj,ffetrbdi eetraurwneildi
ateocetihtteitrhehuines,
additionalbut it is
bounty
i. le
(IP present
ta
week3l
ei3l4 cons;tl l drrl e
circular,rlA: bt.
and
join .the regiment.
reThe Oxford Militia Regiment of Light Infantry will
in a few days arrive in Plymouth Garrison for duty, to
returnedtha to
of
replace the other regiments disorganised by the leaving
the men. The Oxford Militia is one of the few regi-
ments sworn in for foreign service. The regiment has
lung since exceeded its quota of volunteers for foreign
service, and whenever the War-office may deem it ad-
viable to remove them, upwards of 700 bayonets will
be ready to respond to the call, both officers and men
anxioutly looking forward to the route.
b e
ntlmmediate
enrolmentsteps
b f are e 1 about bfobur t
theto bene taken for
ifnolreGnththeoLAerrgrnkal.:.
lery Militia for the defence of the coasts of
and
he Lug
%i i
tradeire.
the
n Colonel
eces aMr
yo ragpapnl i ic
as
ttihoen commas
totiie magistrates, last,anga:ln
body %ill
for the corps. The headquarters of
bethis
will intrusted with the
the provisions of the Militia Acts,
be at Swansea, and the men
w batteries which are in
Ordnance along the coast.
the Board of,
contemplation by .
inber..between 200 and 300
This Artillery Militia will
distinct
frets the county militia,
working and defence of the new
men, and is entirely distir
which has its head-quarters at Cardiff.
for a
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OF
gAGOEf the f i eTHEn dFis Rolf Nt
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I re
tion was held sin the
board-room.
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meuisTbeueßultnosi
business having passed, it
was stated that the concert to be given by the New
Philharmonic Society, at Exeter for the ben 4t of
would receive a more than usual amount of
distinguished hospital, would
patronage. . In addition ,to that of her
Majesty, and a long list of distinguished names, the con-
cert will be honoured by the patronage of the Emperor
of France, whose readinest and condescension ias yes-
terday communicated to the hospital by Count Walewski,
the French ambassador.