The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-01 00:00:00

MONT CENIS.

The traffic receipts on this company's line for the
week ending on the 21st of January amounted to
24,188 f. (£967), and for the corresponding week
last year to 20,808 f. (£832), showing an increase
of 3,380 f. (£135).

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCA.

A Malta correspondent writes under date of
Va7etta, Jan. 25 :—" Her Majesty's sloop Ante-
lope, Lieut.-Commander J. Buchanan, arrived at
Malta on the 19th inst. She left Constantinople
on the 16th, and arrived at Rhodes on the 20th of
December. Ilaving embarked her Majesty's Vice-
Consul, Mr. Beliotti, she proceeded on a visit to
the Sporades and other islands of the Archipelago,
calling in at 13 of theni. On the 16th of January,
in lat. 86 14 N., long. 18 25 E*2 she fell in with a
deserted and waterlogged brig, with sails much
damaged, and having no boats, rudder, or waist
bulwarks, and laden apparently with staves,
but with nothing to indicate Ler nationality.
Some attempts were made to take her in tow.
The weather, however, coming on stormy the
wreck was obliged to be cast off and abandoned.
At Santorin the volcano was in great activity.
The French packet Asie, which arrived last week
from Bombay, via the Suez Canal, has the honour
of being the first vessel to make the voyage to and
from India by this route. She was six days from
Bombay to Aden, five and a half from Aden to
Suez, and fourteen hours and a half in travers-
ing the Canal. Her greatest draught was five and
a half metres. Captain Lapierre, of this vessel,
received quite an ovation at Bombay. At Lake
Timsah, on his return, M. de Lesseps went on
board to congratulate him on his successful voyage,
and also telegraphed similar congratulations to his
owners, Messrs. Marc, Fraissiuet, Pere et Fils, of
Marseilles, who replied as follows:—' Thank you
for your compliment. We have always had faith
in the success of your great undertaking.' Capt.
Lapierre was also feted at Port Said. The Asie
has on board 600 tons of merchandise and fifteen
first-class passengers from Bombay. The Danish
frigate Sjelland, 26 guns, Captain M. Brunn, left
this port on the 19th instant, for Turin and Naples.
The North German frigate Arcona, 22 guns,
Captain Scbleinitz, which has been here some time
under repair, left the same evening for Port-au-
Prince, calling at Gibraltar and Madeira. The
officers of both these ships express themselves very
much pleased with the attentions they received
during their stay at this island. The Royal Vic-
toria Yacht Club schooner Vega also left on the
19th instant for Syracuse, with Sir William Brown
and party. The Royal Northern Yacht Club cutter
Oimara, Captain Harty, arrived here on the 20th
instant, from Alexandria, bound for Nice. She:has
on board Mr. T. Wylie (owner) and Mrs. Allen
and family. The troopship Simoom, Captain Leth-
bridge, at present in port preparing for sea,
will probably leave on return to England about
the middle of the week, with a company of
Royal Engineers from this garrison, time-expired
men, naval and military invalids, and a few women
and children. Her Majesty's Reamer Weser, which
has been lent to Mr. Gabrielle, the contractor, left
Malta harbour on Thursday, taking in tow a
dredger and six lighters for Brindisi, where works
for the improvement of the harbour are to be
commenced and completed with every possible de-
spatch. The Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief
will, it is said, inspect the seamen of the squadron
under small arms, and with field-pieces at Floriana,
on the 26th inst. We learn from Gibraltar that
her Majesty's ship Cruiser, Commander G. G.
Duff, arrived there from Cadiz, on the 13th inst.,
all well. She was to proceed, after completing with
coal, to Malaga, to relieve the Enterprise, Com-
mander Bosanquet. The Peninsular and Oriental
packet Nyanza, from Southampton and Gibraltar,
reports having fallen in with the Austrian barque
Caterina V. Stefano Gudares master, on the 10th
inst., 49 min. west of Brent, in a sinking condi-
tion, and making signals of distress. Although a
gale of wind was blowing at the time, and a
very heavy sea running, the lifeboat of the
Nyanza was sent away in charge of the second
officer, Mr. W. Kirkness, and happily suc-
ceeded in rescuing the master and 13 hands of
the unfortunate barque, over which the sea
was making a clean breach at every roll. The
crew were landed at Gibraltar. The Caterina V.
belonged to Fiume, and was bound from Odessa for
Falmouth, for orders, with a cargo of grain. The
French steam despatch boat Salamandre, 2 guns,
arrived here on the 21st inst. from France, last from
Syracuse, and left on the 24th for Tripoli. This
vessel has been stationed on the coast of Barbary
for the protection of French shipping from pirates
who have lately committed some depredations in
that quarter. The Himalaya troopship, Capt. S. B
Piers, arrived on the 23d inst. from Queenstown,
with the 17th Regiment and draughts, and leaves
to-night for Alexandria. She will remain at that
port until the first week in March and take troops
to England, instead of returning at once, as was
first arranged. She brought for Malta Mr. Castel
Sherard, Sub-Lieut., appointed to the Royal Oak.
The Himalaya fell in with the barque Yarrow, of
Shoreham, on the 14th inst., off Cape Finisterre, in
a disabled condition, having lost her rudder. After
making two attempts to tow the barque into port,
which failed on account of the heavy weather, the
crew were taken on board the Himalaya, and the
barque was abandoned. The crew were landed at
Gibraltar."

The Salamander l addlewheel steamer, Staff Com-
mander Swain, left Portsmouth yesterday after-
noon for the eastward.

GERALD MASSEY'S NEW POEMS.--413 our notice
of this charming volume, on Friday evening last, it
should have been mentioned that the work is issued in
crown for the general purchasers, and in quarto for sub-
scribers. One of the last sentences in our review ought
(only for a typographical oversight) to have commenced
"Fondling a child in the loving arms of his Muse," &c.