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

THE YELLOW FEVER.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 23.—The Royal Mail steamship
Orinoco has to-day been 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 11Pcti which the release has been
effected are founded on a strict inquiry instituted by Mr.
Wiblin, which resulted ii 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 nt-ht to the effect that, if no
fresh case should have appeared, pratique was to be
immediately granted at tie expiration of the stipulated
quarantine period of ter, days usually enforced. We
understand that not even a dose of medicine has
been given to any of tie passengers or crew for the
past four days, from vhich it is to be inferred that
the whole of the are doing well; and that
any fut 'cher fatal case may now be apprehended.
The Royal Mail Stean-packet Company desirous to
do all in their power to relieve the invalids from
their sufferings, sanctioned the proffered services of Dr.
Warburgh, who went el board the Orinoco, and who
will further visit any futire vessels that may be similarly
afflicted, and will remaix during such time as the respec-
tive vessels may be keptin quarantine, for the purpose
of co-operating with tls surgeons of the ships in the
proper treatment of all lases of yellow fever. Dr. War-
burg has had extensive txperience in fever cases abroad,
and, it is expected, will do much to alleviate the suffer-
ings of any of the pasftgers or crew who may be at-
tacked with yellow fever. The Lords of the Admiralty,
it is understood, sent °lt instructions by the last packet
(La Plata), to prohibit :he sending home of yellow fever
invalids by the Royal llail steam-ships, or of distressed
British subjects, suppoEed to be labouring under, or re-
covering from, attacks 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, aid who introduced the epidemic on
board those vessels. This practice is now to be discon-
tinued, and it is hopef that the health of the homeward-
bound steamers wiE thereby be improved and pre-
served.

LAUNCH OF TIE GENERAL SCREW STEAM•

SHIP Al2dr).

The Argo, the sixth of the splendid fleet of 1,800 tons
iron screw-ships, bailt by Mare and Co., for the General
Screw-steam Comiany, who have the contract for con-
veying the nails t 4 St. Vincent, Ascension, St. Helena,
Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Calcutta, was
launched from Orchard-yard, Blackwall, yesterday morn-
ing, in gallant s theandfocirmen of naval architecture
flrattimefloatedon
asth eNvVeartersviasambeauulfunlei a specimen
the River Thames or any other
water.

feet 3 inches in
The Argo is 2
depth. She measures 1810 tons,
feet long, 39 feet in breadth, 27
and is to have tngines nominally 300-horses power.
This enterprising company have now afloat, in ad-
dition to the snaller ships, including the Har-
binger, the follogving sister ships :—Queen of the
South, Lady Jocelfn,
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 mew-steamers were never turned out,
as the performances of those now in commission have
proved ; and we mty further remark that if the Argo
proves as efficient 4 ship as the Queen of the South, she
will bring that credit to Mr. Mare of which the best
British shipbuilders in Great Britain may well be proud.
The steaming qualties of the second 1,800 ton ship, the
Lady Jocelyn, ha 4 surpassed any paddle-wheel ocean
steamer that ever started on the route to India ; but the
Queen of the Soutll is the first screw ship that has made
the voyage to and from India, and we may form some
notion of the generil 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.