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

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Simla, Captain Brooks, arrived
at Southampton on Saturday afternoon, bringing
the heavy portion of the East India, China, and
Australian mails, which had been detained some
days at Malta during the temporary repairs of the
Simla's screw propeller, damaged on the outward
passage.

The Simla left Malta on the 31st ult., and Gib-
raltar, on the sth inst. She brings on freight 1
box of specie, 3 boxes of gold dust, 100 boxes and
296 barrels of raisins, 36 cases of sponges, 418 bales
of si]k, 54 bales of goats'-wool, 186 bags of nuts,
156 boxes of liquorice paste, 27 bales of carpets,
and 119 packages of general merchandise. Among
the passengers are Sir Henry Pottinger, Judge and
Lady Hulme, and General Jervis.
On the 31st ult., off Goso, the Simla passed a
large steamer (supposed to be the Orinoco) with
two transports in tow ; on the Ist inst., at noon,
exchanged signals with the screw steamer Tamau-
lipas, steering to the south-east of Cape Bon, and
at 5.30 p.m. of the same day with the General
Screw-steamer Jason, 68 miles west of Cape Bon ;
and on the 3d inst. passed the Himalaya, 40 miles
west of Algiers ; on the 6th spoke the transport
No. 82, 30 miles south-east of Cape St. Vincent,
and at noon passed a steam-frigate; on the 7th
spoke the steamer Candia, 20 miles north of the
Burlings.
The mails by the Simla have been brought home
in charge of Captain Brooks, the Admiralty agent,
Lieutenant Kemp, having been ordered to the
Black Sea.

From Gibraltar we have accounts to the sth
inst. The screw-steamer Melita arrived from
Malta on the 4th, and left the same afternoon for
Liverpool. Her Majesty's steamer Stromboli, with
a cargo of shot and shells for the fleet in the Black Sea,
arrived at Gibraltar on the sth inst. in seven and a-
half days from Spithead. The Peninsular and Orion-
talCompany's steamer Iberia reached Gibraltar on the
sth, and was to leave the same evening for Cadiz,
Lisbon, Oporto, Vigo, and Southampton. The
Colombo, with the outward India mails from South-
ampton of the 20th ult., arrived on the 25th, in
four days and ten hours. Deputy-Assistant-Com-
missary-General Swain took his departure from
Gibraltar by the Colombo, for the East. Deputy-
Commissary Weir, doing duty at Gibraltar, had
also received orders to take charge of the expedi-
tion to the Archipelago, and embarked by the
Orinoco. The English transport-ship Sydney
passed the straits of Gibraltar on the 25th ult.
The steam troop-ship Carnac, with detachments of
the 3d, 62d, and 68th Regiments, touched at
Gibraltar on the 25th ult., five days from Cork, on
her way to Malta. The Royal mail steam-ship
Orinoco, five days and a-half from Southampton,
with the 97th Regiment on board, arrived on the
27th, and after coaling, sailed, it was said, for
Candia, touching at Malta. The steamer Tamau-
lipus seven days from Liverpool for Beyront, ar-
rived on the 27th ult. The General Screw Steam-
shipping Company's steamers Hydaspes and Jason,
the former having on board the 42d Royal High-
landers, and the latter 250 horses and field bat-
teries, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar en
route to Constantinople on the 27th and 28th ult.
The screw-steamer Rhone, five days and a-half from
Liverpool, arrived on the Ist inst. bound to Genoa.
Exchange on London at 90 days' date, 51 ;
Spanish pillared dollars, 8 per cent, premium.

A Cabinet messenger arrived in London on Sa-
turday, from Constantinople, which city he left on
the Ist of June, calling at Athens. The Guards had
not left Scutari on the Ist, but the Light Division,
under Sir George Brown, had sailed for Varna. Every-
thing was in readiness for the transport of the divisions
of the Duke of Cambridge and Sir De Lacy Evans, and
of the cavalry tinder the Earl of Lucan. Several
French transports had gone up the Bosphorus, and it
was fully expected that the French and English force,
under Lord Raglan and Marshal St. Arnaud, would be in
line by the 10th of June (yesterday), about fifteen miles
from Varna, on the road to Schumla, intercepting the
route from Silistria, and acting with the main body of
Omer Paella's army. There was a French force alEo
marching on Schumla, by way of Adrianople, through
the Balkan Fass ; and every movement gave indication
of coming into contact with the enemy. How glorious
it wouldbe to record a victory over the Russians on or
about the 18th of June, by the combined nations, now
so happily united, who fought so bravely against each
other on that memorable day I—Observer.
HEALTH OF THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.—The Duke
of Devonshire, according to the subjoined bulletin, is-
sued by his grace's medical advisers, Dr. Ferguson and
Mr. Nussey, yesterday, was progressing towards re-
covery :—" The Duke of Devonshire continues to go on
well." The inquiries from the nobility and gentry were
again extremely numerous.