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
S'inla's screw propeller, damaged on the outward
passage.
The Simla left Malta on the 31st ult., and Gib-
raltar,- oil 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 silk, 51 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
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 16 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 RtQam-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. . - Af • '4`7 r .A.
Ff:O4 Gib'falr ta, ,
in
st..- Vile 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 Orien-
talCOMPany'ssteaMer 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 'froth
Gibraltar by the Colombo, for the East. Deputy-
Commissary Weir, doing duty at Gibraltar, had
also received orderg.to take charge of the expedi-
tion to thci 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 '6Bth 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' 1,6:W0n at 90 days' date,. 51 ;
Spanish pillaredslollars, 8 per cent. premium.

Cabinet messenger arrived in London on Sa-
turdny;' 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 under 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 Silistri, and acting with the main body of
Omer Pacha's army. • There was a French force also
marching on Schutnia, by way of Adrianople, through
the Balkan' Pass ; and every movement gave indication
of coming into contact with the enemy. Flow glorious
it would be to record a victory over the Russians on or
about the 18th of jiine; 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 Devonshii;e, according. to the subjoined bylletin, is-
sued by his g(•aeds- medical advisers, Dr. Ferguson add
Mr. Nussey, yesterday, was progressing towards re-
covery ;--•" The Duke of Devonshire continues to go on
well." The inquiries from the n9bitity and gentry were
again extremely numerous.