The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-28 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1854.

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THIS EVENING, and Every Evening at Eight o'Clock, (except
Saturday) ; and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Two.
Stalls, 3s. (which can be taken at the box. office every day from 11
till 4 ; area, 45.; gallery, ls.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

CONSTANTINOPLE TO-NIGHT at Eight,
and Every Day at Half-past Two and Eight o'clock. The
Lecture is delivered by Mr. CHARLES KENNEY or Mr. J. 11.
STOCQUELER, and has been written by Mr. ALBERT SMITH
and Mr. SHIRLEY BROOKS.
Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 2s.
EGYPTIAN HALL.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms,
(Lessee, Cites. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fthaam-road),
—The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR TEIE SEASON.
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
CELEBRATED BAN I). Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PA TRON—II.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.
DURING LENT, a POPULAR LECTURE on ASTRONOMY,
SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED, by Dr. BACHUOFFNES, on Wed-
nesday and Friday at three, and at eight o'clock in the evenings.
MAGNIFIED PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, and a NEW SERIES
of DISSOLVING VIEWS. _ _

LECTURE by J. H. PEPIin, Esq., on PAPER MAKING and Its
DECORATION with COLOURS.

LECTURE by Dr. BACROFFNER on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT
UNIVEINAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
DESCRIPTION of RUST'S PATENT TUBULAR PIANOFORTE,
and of TRESTRAIL'S PATENT METHOD of RAISING
SUNKEN VESSELS.

Open Mornings and Ereaings. Admission, Is.; Schools and
Children under Ten years of age, Ralf-price.

NGARIAN CONCERTS.-
ILII ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE.—Every NIGHT,
Eight to Ten—Admission, la. The selections for the performance
of the HUNGARIAN B ND through the week include the finest
efforts of ancient composers, with brilliant Morceaux, popular
National Melodies, Marches, &c., which, with concerted vocalism,
new Songs and Ballads, by artistes of acknowledged merit, renders
each evening a feature amongst the high•class amusements of the
Metropolis. Kalozdy, Leader of the Band. Morning Performance.
Wednesday and Saturday, at Three.

ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE, in Imperial Quarts
and Pints.
Bottled by PARKER and TWINING, Beer Merchants,
.5%, PALL-MALL.
Quarts, Bs.; pints, 55,; half•piuts (for lancheon), 3s. per dozen.
Also in casks of 18 gallons and upwards.
We refer the learned to Baron Liebig, the temperate to Dr. Car-
penter, invalids to the Medical Profession, and the robust to the best
Clubs of London, for the merits of our stock of ALLSOPP'S ALE.
The "Thirsty Soul" and "Constant Reader" of the Times we can
also satisfy with our Imperial Measure.
Address— PRAKER and TWINING, 5%, PALL-MALL.

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 27.

The Royal mail steam-ship Orinoco, Captain Wilson,
arrived here this morning direct from Malta, having left
that island on the evening of the 17th. It will be re-
membered that the Orinoco was ope of the ships
offered to Government by the Royal West India Mail
Steam-packet Company for the conveyance of troops,
and she was the first ship of the expedition that arrived
at Malta.

Some idea may be formed of the great facilities
afforded for the transport service in war time by ships
of the Orinoco's class, by the following analysis of the
recent voyage :—The Orinoco left Southampton on the
23d of February, having received on board 990 of the
Coldstream Guards and 13 horses. She reached Malta
on the 4th of March, disembarked the troops, baggage,
horses, ordnance stores, &c. ; filled up coals and water
during the night, and left next morning for Gibraltar, at
which fortress she arrived on the 9th inst., and received
573 tons of coal, embarked 973 of the 44th Regiment
with their baggage and eight horses ; left the next day
at two o'clock ; arrived off Malta on the evening of the
14th of March ; entered Valetta harbour at daylight the
next morning ; di embarked troops, &c., filled up coals
and water complete for England, and sailed on the even-
ing of the 17th of March, returningto Southampton this
day, having been absent from England only 32 days,
during which she has traversed 6,226 miles. The Are-
thusa, Captain Mends, was lying at Malta when the
Orinoco left, loading with stores for the fleet, and would
leave early the ensuing week. The Vulcan, Commander
Von Donop, was also receiving coals for the same desti-
nation. Her Majesty's steamer Ardent arrived from the
fleet on the afternoon of the 16th of March, and the
Banshee early on the morning of the 17th, from Con-
stantinople, with a special messengexa‘bastd ; she left
again, before daylight, for Marseilles." AL 4:7_ I

The Orinoco is to be coaled, watered, and provisioned
immediately, and held at the disposal of the Government
for further service, if necessary. She will be got ready
for sea by Friday or Saturday next. The Trent, belong-
ing to the same company, will be ready for the reception
of troops on the 30th inst., and the Medway on the Ist
of April. The Orinoco, Trent, and Medway are capable
of carrying three regiments. The two latter ships, after
taking out troops, are, we understand, to be employed
for a considerable time in the Mediterranean and Black
Sea under Government orders.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 27.
The St. George, 121, Captain Byres, C. 8., at Spit-
head, we were told this morning, is still about 400 short
of her number of 970. The Coast-guardmen she shipped,
prior to leaving Devonport, have been withdrawn from
her.

A ship is standing in from the eastward, apparently
one of the horse transports from the Thames.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 27.

Rear-Admiral Montagu Stopford arrived here yester-
day, and hoisted his flag (Blue) at the mizen, on board
the Royal William, 120, ordinary guard-ship, as Com-
modore-Superintendent of the Devonport Dockyard, in
the absence of Captain M. Seymour, doing duty as cap-
tain of the fleet on board the Duke of Wellington, 131.
At 8 a.m. to-day Admiral Stopford proceeded into the
Sound, and paid wages on board the screw steam-ship
James Watt, 91, Captain the Hon. George Elliott. At
1 p.m. Lieutenant-Colonel F. Graham, who is appointed
to command the Royal Marines in the Baltic fleet, em-
barked in the James Watt, and at 5 p.m. she left the
Sound for Portsmouth. The 20th Regiment, stationed
at Devonport, expect to embark on the Bth of April for
the Baltic fleet.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 27.

A casting took place on Friday last, at the foundry in
Woolwich Dockyard, of a fine brass screw propeller
for the James Watt, 91, screw steam-ship, and, although
10/ tons of metal were used in the casting, it was suffici-
ently cool to be taken out of its mould to-day, and
was found to be perfect in every respect. The workmen,
by continuing at their employment in making the mould,
sometimes as late as 10 o'clock, p.m., were enabled to
make the casting sooner than would otherwise have been
the case, although it was required as early as possible
to enable the James Watt to proceed to join the Baltic
fleet. The Algiers, 91, screw steam-ship, has had a
brass screw propeller already supplied to her of the
same pattern as has been cast for the James Watt ; and
the Nile, 91, sorew steam-ship, and the Hannibal, 91,
screw steam-ship, are to have similar brass screw pro-
pellers cast for them.