The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL-L(THIS _DAY).

James Brown, dressed in the garb of a stableman, was
placed at the bar, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with
stealing two sucking pigs, the property of Mr. Pratt,
butcher, of Gray's-inn-road.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had
been seen hanging about the prosecutor's shop for some
time, and last night, about ten minutes past six, while
Mr. North was inside his shop, serving a customer, the
prisoner went up to the place where the pigs were lying,
and putting a cloth over them took them up and ran
away. The prosecutor followed him for some distance,
and his repeated cries of "stop thief" induced two coal
heavers to stop him, when he threw the pigs away.
When he was taken by Mr. Pratt he asked him what he
intended to do with hint, and when told that he would
be locked up, he said he hoped not, and made strenuous
efforts to make his escape, but was unsuccessful. Being
handed over to the custody of the police, he said he
had done wrong, and vas sorry for it. The pigs were
worth 1/.
The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was
committed for trial.

THE YELLOW FEVER.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 23.—The Royal Mail steamship
Orinoco has to-day bees released from quarantine, and
has entered the docks to discharge her cargo, the
passengers having landed in the afternoon. We are
informed that the data von which the release has been
effected are founded on a strict inquiry instituted by Mr.
Wiblin, which resulted in a report that the last case
of fever was that of a Mr. Stephens, a passenger,
whose first symptoms of attack, in the shape of black
vomit, occurred on the 13th inst., and, as ten days
are now elapsed since that occurrence, Sir William
Pym telegraphed last night to the effect that, if no
fresh case should have appeared, pratique was to be
immediately granted at the expiration of the stipulated
quarantine period of ten days usually enforced. We
ers even a dose of medicine has
been
ngtianvedn ttheatannyot efthe
passengers or crew for the
past four days, from which it is to be inferred that
the whole of the invdids are doing well; and that
any further fatal case may now be apprehended.
The Royal Mail Stean-packet Company desirous to
do all in their powe to relieve the invalids from
their sufferings, sanctiened the proffered services of Dr.
Warburgh, who went on board the Orinoco, and who
will further visit any future vessels that may be similarly
afflicted, and will reman during such time as the respec-
tive vessels may be keit in quarantine, for the purpose
of co-operating with tie surgeons of the ships in the
proper treatment of all cases of yellow fever. Dr. War-
burg has had extensivE experience in fever cases abroad,
and, it is expected, wil do much to alleviate the suffer-
ings of any of the passengers or crew who may be at-
tacked with yellow fever, The Lords of the Admiralty,
it is understood, sent mit instructions by the last packet
(La Plata), to prohibit the sending home of yellow fever
invalids by the Royal Mail steam-ships, or of distressed
British subjects, supposed to be labouring under, or re-
covering from, attuks of yellow fever. In both the
Plata and the Medway the breaking out of yellow fever
was clearly traced to the invalid seamen taken on board
in the West Indies, and who introduced the epidemic on
board those vessels. This practice is now to be discon-
tinued, and it is hoped that the health of the homeward.
bound steamers will thereby be improved and pre-
served..

LAUNCII.OP TRE GENERAL SCREW STEAM•

SHIP ARGO.

1 The Argo, the sixth of the splendid fleet of 1,800 tons
iron screw-ships, built by Mare and Co., for the General
Screw-steam Compaq, who have the contract for con-
veying the mails to
Cape of Good Rote, Mauritius, and Calcutta, was
launched from Orchard-yard, Blackwall, yesterday morn-
-Bt. Vincent, Ascension,St. Helena
ing, in gallant style and for the first time floated on
the water as beautiful a specimen of naval architecture
as ever swam upon the River Thames or any other
water.

The &rgo is 247 feet long, 39 feet in breadth, 27
feet 3 inches in depth. She measures 1810 tons,
and is to have engines nominally 300-horses power.
This enterprising empany
have now afloat, in ad-
dition to the smtller ships, including the Har-
binger, the following sister ships :—Queen of the
South, Lady Jocelyn, Indiana, Calcutta, Mauritius, Hy-
daspes, and Argo, and we may remark, that confessedly
a finer, more faithfully built, and more handsome and
efficient fleet of screv-steamers were never turned out,
as the performances of those now in commission have
proved ; and we may further remark that if the Argo
proves
,as efficient a ship as the Queen of the South, she
will bring that credit to Mr. Mare of which the best
British shipbuilders it Great Britain may well be proud.
The steaming qualities of the second 1,800 ton ship, the
Lady Jocelyn, has surpassed any paddle-wheel ocean
steamer that ever started on the route to India ; but the
Queen of the South is the first screw ship that has made

the voyage to and from India, and we may form some
notion of the general qualities of these ships when it is
known ;that her passages, under all the vicissitudes
naturally attendant on the first voyage of so large a screw
steamer, have been most successfully made, and that
especially her sailing qualities are so far superior as to
rival most of the celebrated clippers of the day, Ameri-
can or English.