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

SPAIN.

MALTA.
FURTHER ARRIVALS OF TROOPS.
The following is from Malta, dated March 17 :—The
Orinoco steamer, which left Malta (after landing the
Coldstream Guards) on the 4th for Gibraltar, returned
on :the 15th, bringing Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. A. A.
Spencer; Majors Staveley and Fielden ; Captains
MacMahon (lady and two children), Spring (lady and
three children), Browne, Fen wick, Faussett, Robinson,
Howard, and Hon. C. Agar; Lieutenants Green, Cooper,
Streatfield, Preston, Caulfield, Fletcher, Thornton,
Hon. H. Handcock, and Hoskins ; Ensigns Ingham,
Eyre, Wood, Bradford, and Horey ; Paymaster
Bennett ; Adjutant Gregory ; Quartermaster Walsh ;
Surgeon Swittenham, and Assistant-Surgeons Thomson
and Gibbons, and 923 non-commissioned officers and
privates, five women and three children, of the 44th
Regiment, which were immediately landed, and marched
to the encampment prepared for them at St. Clements,
within the Cottonera district. The hired transport
Orient, Captain Lawrence, followed on the morning of
yesterday, the 16th, in twenty-five days from Cork and
seventeen from Gibraltar, bringing Lieutenant-Colonel
Trollope ; Captains Tyler, Dickson, and Daubeney ;
Lieutenants Wilkieson, Gwynne, Cook, and Hay ; En-
signs Gilpin and Cubitt ; Paymaster Drought; Adjutant
Sanderson ; Quartermaster Nowlan ; Assistant-Surgeon
Young, 428 non-commissioned officers and privates, 29
women, and 42 children, of the 62d ; besides detach-
ments for the 9th and 49th Regiments. The 62d was
landed on the same afternoon, and marched into the
Floriana, Barrack, being intended to form part of the
local garrison. The detachments joined their respective
head-quarters. These arrivals bring up tho number of
troops which have reached this island, by nine steamers
and three transports, since the 28th of February, to
286 officers, 8,109 non-commissioned officers and pri--
vates, 251 females (including officers' wives), and 111
children. Total, 8,757.
The troops under tents have had two nights of very
heavy rain, which cannot but have drenched their bed-
ding.

An order has been issued for the medical officers of
regiments destined for Turkey to instruct daily the
bandsmen and drummers in binding up wounds and
such other surgical and medical assistance usually ex-
acted from this class of auxiliaries in the field.
A subaltern has been ordered to mount guard at
sunset at the Porto Reale, or principal town gate
of Valletta, and a sergeant's guard takes the Marina
gate at sunset, relieving the police stationed there
throughout the day. Several cargoes of bullocks have
arrived from Tunis, Tripoli, and other ports of Barbary,
but firewood and straw continue wanting. The com-
missariat department has been reinforced by another as-
sistant and three other deputy-assistant commissaries-
general, making up the entire staff to fourteen.
The Leander frigate, Cyclops steam-frigate, and Apollo
store-ship, sailed for Beycos Bay on the 15th, with stores
and provisions for the fleet still at anchor there, on the
13th inst.
Eregli, in the Sea of Marmora, is spoken of as a place
at which there is a probability of the English troops being
disembarked; but this would be in case of the Austrians
being undecided. If they were to declare an armed neu-
trality, or an active union with the Western Powers, our
troops would then be landed at Varna or in the Crimea.
Nothing but the destruction of Sebastopol can give per-
manence to any settlement of the present difficulties; and
whatever we may choose to do at first, that great
object must be always kept in view. It is not true that
any Russian ships have made an attack on Chevketil
since the allied fleets entered the Black Sea, so th Lt the
blame attached to them by the English papers for suffer-
ing such a thing is without foundation.
The Russians have placed a boon across the Sulina
mouth of the Danube, and the Retribution had been or-
dered to go and ascertain the truth of this matter. Un-
fortunately we have no steamers which can enter the
Danube, or even the sea of Azof. There are none, ex-
cept the Ardent or Triton, drawing less than sixteen
feet, which is too much for the latter place ; and for
the former, vessels of the Nemesis kind would be re-
quisite. It is to be hoped that steamers of such light
draught of water are being built, or can be easily ob-
tained, for when the war begins they will be absolute
necessaries. Besides what they might do with their own
armament, they would be the very life of boat attacks
when at a distance from the fleet, and in watering, pro-
visioning, &c., would render essential service.
An order has been received from the Admiralty that
all supernumerary midshipmen and cadets shall be sent
to England to complete the complements in the ships
fitting out for the Baltic fleet. New charts of the Black
Sea, on a large scale, with the latest information re-
garding Sebastopol, &c., have been distributed from the
Hydrographic-office.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. MAGDALEN
HALL, March 24.—The Lusby open scholarship has been
awarded to Mr. C. H. Hoole, from the Islington Pro-
prietary School.
DEPARTURES FOR AUSTRALIA.—The departures from
the port of London for the Australian colonies during
the past week show a great decrease. They have com-
prised only three vessels— one to Port Philip, of 314
tons ; one to Adelaide, of 592 tons ; and one to Laun-
ceston, of 292 tons. Their total capacity was conse-
quently only 1,198 tons. The rates of freight, which
have been heavy, exhibited a firmer tendency yesterday,
owing to the favourable nature of the advices from Aus-
tralia by the overland mail.
SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE.—On the night of the
19th inst., at half-past ten o'ch ck, a smart shock of an
earthquake was experienced at St. Sebastian, north
coast of Spain. The walls of houses trembled, and the
horizontal oscillations which accompany such pheno-
mena were apparent. This is the second shock which
has taken place at St. Sebastian within the last six
months It was felt forseveral miles round St. Sebastian.
ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE —Mr. Wm. Cooke
(proprietor of Astley's Royal Amphitheatre), in accord.
ance with the very generally expressed wishes, of a nu-
merous circle of friends and patrons, purposes taking
his first annual complimentary benefit on Monday,
April 3, when it is hoped that the response will be such
as unequivocally to evince that his managerial efforts in
catering for the amusement of the patrons of " the first
amphitheatre in the world" have not yet been in vain.
The entertainments will embrace the principal resources
of the establishment, and, from the well-appreciated
efforts of Mr. Cooke, we are quite sure that he will not
fail on this occasion to present to his patrons such a
display of artistic horsemanship as will secure him a long
term of general approbation and public support.
BUSINESS OF THE PORT OF LONDON.-411 the gene.
ral business of the port of London during the past week
there has been great activity, the supply of grain which
has come to hand having been larger than for a long
time. The number of ships reported inward was 467
tbi ,
uarters
over the prd
evious week, and the total quan-
etly. n.f 2gsrlain reporte was 224,225 quarters, including
113,260 qof wheat. The nu,nber of vessels
vcli eared outward was 105, being 8 less than in the pre-
o week. Of these, 24 were in ballast, and three, as
above stated, for the Australian colonies. The total of
vessels on the berth loading for those colonies on the
22d inst. was 84, being the same number as on the 22d
ult. Their de,tinetion is-10 for Adelaide, 6 for Gee-
long. 12 for I-Lbw t Town, 3 for Launceston, 11 for
Melbourne, 3 for New Zealand, 14 for Port Philip, 1
for Portland Bay, 23 for Sydney, and 1 for Swan
River,
THE COINAGE OF 1853.—There was coined at the
Mint in 1853, 10,597,993 sovereigns, 2,708,766 half-
sovereigns, no crowns or half-crowns, 3,919,950 florins,
4,256,188 shillings, 3,837,930 sixpences, 16,038 four-
pences, 36,168 threepences, 4,752 silver twopences, and
7,920 silver pence (of these last two coins the same num•
ber is printed every year for Maunday money, we be-
Here), 1,021,440 pennies, 1,559,040 halfpence, 1,028,628
farthings, and 955,224 half-farthings. The total value
of the coinage of the year was 12,663,000/. ; the average
of the previous five years was only 4,000,0001.

In the Madrid Gazette of the 22d, contains a
notification that the Queen has ordered two Post-
office vans to be constructed for the railway from
Madrid to the Meditteranean.
A school of practical navigation is about to be
established on board the man-of-war the Soberano.
Colonel Garcia Munos, who was arrested in the
recent events, had been sent off to the Canaries.
The Queen, accompanied by the King Don Fran-
cisco and by the Princess of the Asturias, was to
go on the 23d, in grand ceremony to the Church of
Atocha, to decorate the statue of the Virgin with
the Collar of the Golden Fleece. This will be done
to fulfil a vow made by her Majesty.
The Three per Cents. were done at 34.50 ; the
New Three per Cents. at 18.30 ; the Debt of the
First Class at 8.10; and that of the Second at 4.30.

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