The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-09 00:00:00

LONDON, IVIO_NDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1857.

THR STEVENAGE MURDER.

Since the discovery of the mutilated remains of
a policeman in a pool of water near the village of
Stevenage, Hertfordshire (as announced in a para-
graph in The Sun of Thursday last), circumstances
cave transpired which clearly point to the perpe-
rator of the murder. The name of the unfortu-
nate policeman was John Starkins ; he was for-
inerly in the employ of the Earl of Verulam, at
St. Alban's, and only joined the county constabu-
ary force a few months ago. He had, however,
displayed so much activity and intelligence that he
was frequent'y employed upon occasions where in
ordinary cases the services of more experienced
members of the force are engaged. Numerous
petty depredations have recently taken place in the
neighbourhood of Stevenage, and in consequence
the police have received strict orders to search the
baskets or wallets of the farm labourers returning
k'rom their work. On the afternoon of Friday, the
30th ultimo, Starkins was directed by his inspector
to look after the men returning from their work on
the Hertford side of Stevenage, and he was particu-
larly ordered to watch the proceedings of a man
named Carpenter, who was suspected of stealing
his employer's corn, and who had been frequently
rieard to say that no one policeman should ever
-earch him. The constable was al'o directed to
•eturn to the police station and report himself at
6 o'clock. At half-past 5 o'clock he was seen in a
lane leading from the high road to Norton-green
Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Horn, about 150
;ards from the spot where his body was
subsequently discovered. Nothing more was seen
or heard of until the following Monday, when
in consequence of a strict search having been
ordered to be made for him, a police-constable
named Isgate entered a field called the " Bashes,"
and in a pool of water at the lower end he observed
he foot and hand of a man above the water. He
immediately obtained assistance, and on recovering
the body it proved to be that of the unfortunate
man of whom he was in search. It presented a
chocking spectacle, the throat being cut and the
head nearly severed from the body. There were
Also several wounds on the back of the head and
ihoulders, which appear to have been inflicted by a
knife or dagger. The ground near the pond bore
traces of a desperate struggle. The grass for some
listance was trampled and torn up, and in the field
lay a pair of handcuffs, as though the struggle had
)ccurred while the constable was attempting to
make a capture. The man who has been appre-
tiended, and upon whom suspicion rests as the
oerpetrator of the murder, is the labourer men-
tioned above—Jeremiah Carpenter, an athletic
young man, who for some time had been employed
in the Norton-green farm, and who lived in one
of four cottages at the south end of Stevenage,
About 300 yards out of the town, and about
A mile from the farm. The grounds of suspi-
cion against him are as follow :—On Friday, the
day of the murder, he was not employed at the
farm, but in a field at some distance from it. He
eft work about half-past 5 o'clock in the evening,
and his nearest way home was across the secluded
field in which the murder took place. He did
not, however, reach his cottage until 10 minutes
past 6 o'clock, having taken 40 minutes in going a
distance which he usually walked in 2G. A man
named Shepherd, who works on the same farm, and
lip es in the cottage adjoining to that occupied by
Carpenter, was detained on the farm for a quarter
,f an hour after Carpenter left, but reached home
first, and shortly afterwards saw Carpenter come
from the direction of the railway over a fence into
his own garden, whence he entered his cottage by
the back door. Shephered noticed that the smock-
frock which Carpenter wore was twisted round his
shoulders, and soon afterwards he reappeared from
the cottage dressed in his Sunday clothes, and went
into Shepherd's house, where he stated Mhe hid
been attempting to split the trunk of a tree and
had hurt his leg. Shepherd examined the leg,
which was much swollen, and advised Carpenter to
see a doctor* As soon as the above facts reached
the ears of the police Carpenter was taken into
custody. At the time of his apprehension he wore
the clothes which he had on on the day of the
murder, and on examination it was discovered
that his smockfrock, boots, and pocket-knife, bore
marks of blood. He, however, stoutly denies his
guilt, and accounts for his unusual delay in reach-
ing home on the night of the murder by stating
that be took a circuitous route, At the spot where
the struggle evidently took place in the "Bathes"
a quantity of corn was found lying upon the
ground. It has been examined by Mr. Horn, the
prisoner's employer, who states that it is in every
respect similar to some which had been abstracted
from his premises. A post mortem examination of
the body has been made, and the medical evidence
goes to show that the unfortunate man was
strangled, probably by the murderer grasping bim
by his neckerchief, and that his throat was cut
while be lay in a state of unconscousnese upon the
ground. Carpenter has been examined before Mr.
Prime at Hitchin, and stands remanded. The
adjourned inquest upon the body will take place at
Stevenage this day (Monday.)

PROSTITUTION-THE NEED FOR ITS
REFORM.

(From the Lancet.) •
" This," said Mr. Disraeli in a recent speech, "I
believe to be the age of statistical imposture ;" and
an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer should be no
mean authority on such a point. As concerns pros-
titution, the elaborate statistics collected represent
in only a faint degree the amount of evil that is
doing. Like a hideous parasite, it has swollen into
rank and filthy luxuriance in the shade thrown over
it. Its dimensions have been very accurately mea-
sured. We know, on the best authority,* that
one house in sixty in London is a brothel, and ono
in every sixteen females (of all ages) is, de facto, a
prostitute. Yet, startling as these figures appear,
we repeat that they convey but a feeble impression
of the effects produced on society by the mass of
sanctioned wickedness thus represented. High and
low, rich and poor, the virtuous and the vicious,
alike present evidence of the taint. We plume our-
selves on the decorum of our court ; yet the sworn
testimony of many witnesses in frequent trials
proves that there is a strong undercurrent of licen-
tiousness and immorality—that the powerful in-
fluences of the most virulent court in Europe
is no match for the allurements of Daldeh—
that the high and mighty rush from the fano of
the patrician Pudicitia to abase themselves in the
temple of the Immodest Venus. There is, to be
sure, a flimsy veil thrown over such doings—and
herein only does the vice of the courtier differ from
that of the costermonger, who attempts no conceal-
ment, but lives openly in his sin. " But one in
whoeir livemat
t as
er.
twenty," says Mr. Mayhew, "of the street folks,
matter-afna c t andlive lives free pastare minararmin b ed;" and if
t
whom
is the first stone to be cast ?

It is, however, among the middle classes—in-
comparably the most important to the welfare of
the state, that the chief mischief is done by the
evil that they are the most persistent in ignoring.
The typical Paterfamilias, living in a grand house
near the park, sees his sons allured into de-
bauchery, dares not walk with his daughters
through the streets after rdghtfall, and is disturbed
from his night slumbers by the drunken screams
and foul oaths of prostitutes reeling home with
daylight. If he look from the window, he sees
the pavement—his pavement—occupied by the
flaunting daughters of sin, whose loud, ribald talk
forces him to keep his casement closed. Yet he
refuses to sanction any means for remedying the
evil, or to lend his aid to its reform. He not only
allows the dirt to accumulate, because it is dirt, but
scrupulously carries out the social code under which
prostitution has so notably increased of late years.:
It has grown into a custom to oppose to marriage
every resistance that the most over-strained pru- I
deuce can suggest ; except under circumstances sel-
dom attained until middle life by a man of good
and even high social position. In the meantime
society cares little what may be his private
life during the long years that he is ineligible.
It has even invented a lying, wicked phrase about
his "sowing his wild oats," (as though God had
freighted him with wickedness which must perforce
be scattered abroad), in order to shift the burden on
his shoulders, and thus avoid the recollection that
every incentive to immorality is encouraged to lead
hini astray, and that even if he would avoid the
"social sin that wars against the strength of
youth," his resolvei are combated by temptation
from which there is no escape, and vice that dogs
his very footsteps in the streets, and solicits him to
e vil—

"By unchaste look, loose gesture, and foul talk."
The e effects of this arrangement way be easily sur-
mised : men marry at wore advanced ages, or not
at all. Of women in London above 20 years of
age, 40 per cent. are unmarried, In England and
Wales nearly 50,000 illegitimate children are Ii rn

* Mr. Talbot and other careful observers calculate the
number of brothels in London et 5,000, and the number of
prostitutes_ 80,000.

whose mothers hare all taken the first step in pros-
' titution. And this number, it is supposed, scarcely
amounts to one-third of the actual cases where
wrong is done, ye-, no evidence transpires. If we
remember that in no case does any legal penalty
attach to the betrayer for the wrong lie has done to
the woman, whilst the cordon of prudery is drawn so
tight aronnd her tlat she baa little ohance of escap e
from the wide-opened portals of the way that leads
to destruction, it osn hardly be wondered that the
ranks of prostituf:on are densely filled. And now
the hollow hypocrisy of the present system begins
to show itself. Tte woman who has cast virtue
behind her, who las said, in the bitterness of her
heart, " Evil, be thou my good," is accorded a
licence granted to zone others of her sex. She may
come and go as she will ; no law restrains her—no
thought of " what the world will say." The best
streets are given ue to her, and arranged so as to
suit her hours (ws refer to police management,
gas-lighting, cab-stands, dec.) She may thrust
virtue into the mud without rebuke, may leer at
the passers-by, accost them with her so:icitations,
and insult them if they shrink from contact with
her. In her haunt she reigns omnipotent ; for the
fortunes of many tradesmen are built up by the
wages of prostitution. Taverns, cafes, restaurauts,
&c., where she :esorts, are allowed to remain
open all night for her' convenience. And,
lest her allureaents should fail for want
of gaudy trappings, there are booths in Vanity
Fair (whose owiJors pride themselves on moral
characters of the choicest kind), kept by traders called
" tally-men," who supply her with clothes on
terms especially adapted to her precarious trade,
charging exorbitant prices to cover all risks, and
being paid by instalments. How these are gained
is a matt r of indifference to men who would scarcely
have hesitated to pocket the thirty pieces that
Judas cast from him. It is in grateful acknow-
ledgment of these provisions for their comfort that
loose women flock to London from all parts of
Europe.
Turning from the prostitute to her companion we
see how the evil that she does gradually makes
itself felt. There is Easily a slang word used in the
boudoir which, though uttered by lips that know
no guile, is only a left-off epithet of the harlot,
car-
ried home by her paramour, and taught to his sis-
ters. For one miserable result of unrestrainedly
permitting these women and their companions to
assemble in public places and exchange the kind of
banter in which they indulge, is the p roduction of a
race of wretched boys, half-fledged in manhood,
who take pride in a knowledge of what is vile, who
think they aro clever when they are only blas-
phemous, and witty when they are only obscene.
The one fool who especially makes many, is the
vicious fool. Thus clerks, students, youths with
homes rendered sad by their evil conduct, men who
take the Queen's money and disgrace her service,
with many others of like sort, are attracted by com-
panions, or entrapped by harlots, to join the Satur-
nalia allowed to continue throughout the night in
certain of the streets of London. The first visit is
seldom the last ; for the vice of seusuality is to the
degraded mind as attractive; as the vice ( f
gambling. There is work to be done, perchance in
the morning; but the shaking hand, j the heavy
eyes, the aching head, are unfit to do it. Perhaps
there is a path in life to be won ; but he who walks
in sin is little likely to hap upon it. And if the poor
deluded fool follows out the evil course that our
present social system renders it difficult for him to
altogether escape, his physical degradation too fre-
quently keeps pace with his mental depravity. His
settlement in life is but that of a foul sediment.
Vitiated himself, and " mom datums progenieua
vitiosiorem," his constitution too often points to 12
on the dial of life which his years are at six.
These, then, are the pet, prodigal children of
society ; these are the bright results of non-inter-
ference with the vice of prostitution ; these are the
human beings tempted or driven into vice, and for
whom society has so carefully chosen and ploughed
the ground that they may " sow their wild oats"
unchecked.

Oh ! blind, shirking, hypocritical criers of
" Peace !" when there is no peace—who ig it reaps
the harvest ?

WHO SPENDS THE MONEY ?

(From the lew York Times.)

The women of Ameriea have of late been paying
the penalty of their position. From the extreme
of obsequious gallantry in regard to them we are
passing to the opposite excess of vituperative in-
justice. We are treating them, in fact, very
much as the African savage treats his Fetish. In
the times of our prosperity we could not sufficiently
adulate these lovely and omnipotent beings. We
could refuse them nothing. The best seats at hotel
tables, the only seats in railway cars, the decencies
of the steam-boat deck, and the decorum of the
steam-boat supper were alike reserved for them.
We exacted of our police only one duty, to escort
otaotlirtihsewelhiavadneisgees.da.ntd daughters daintily through the
perils of the streets ; and we expected of all men
only one virtue, that of an almost servile courtesy
are the
Floratreacherous But adversity has overtaken us, and
debtors of the land
liisex",Yand th. piteous cry of "nothing
is the typo of her thoughtless and
wear.
to pay,"
, r,
which
"extravagant
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ay. yesterday
Miss
from all the desperate
ofwi
fe. the”
of the,onlweesdtuTplare to be but the echo
The
us female complaint of " nothing to
argument"mineicieluiietoht of this alteration in the tone
and the wom,a,nm must b'ec
a new one. It is as old, indeed,
as the troubles
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waangdbehrins
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has got himself into a scrape,
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towhelpmeet," and if she can't save
3 to i byuetnhcee
wo:yl:itsbaftolltyb,eseatlelveealsyt
her shoulders the blame.
shoulders so oifutehnl:need something thrown on them,
and
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There selfishfilseht
the concern,hlam blame
fa
ar
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classes of women i
Now, we do not pretend to deny that certain
n. America have of late years been
living to dress, tod drive, and to dance. We
do not pretend t
theaa ordereeil
()off
t, frivolous
females has floweredoenoy thut:ft
World, remarkable among the simpletons of the
c exclusive development of all sorts of
extravagant faults. We do notpretend to deny
_.. that
the vulgar aims and
and
in. the vulgar ambitions of reck-
lesseney-seekitie men have been f • airly
matched among by b
us the equally vulgar aims and
the equally vulgar ambitions of reckless and money-
spendiug women. But we do deny most em had-
cally that the women of America, orthatthe 13
women
of New York, are as body
recklessness and extravagance, er as a body respon-
sible in any appreciable degree for the present cala-
mities of the financial and the commercial world.
This very city of Gotham, whereof the name is a
synonym throughout the land for all manner of
gorgeous follies, and costly absurdities, and expen-
sive immoralities, teems this at moment with quiet,
loving, sincere, and honourable worsen, who regu-
late their own households and share with their
husbands the anxieties of his industrious
career, and
lighten by their counsel as well as by their sym-
pathy the burdens of his perplexing affairs. Hun-
dreds and thousands of these womea there are, and
in every rank of life, in the circles of fashion as well
as in the homes of mechanic toil, whom the trials
of this critical season will find as the tria • l 11 of pro-
sperity have found them—.
' Nobly planned, to warn, to comfort and command."
As the skies darken, as the need of retrenchment
makes itself more sharply and more universally
felt, as ono luxury after another must be put down
by the opulent, and one comfort after another
sacrificed by the merely well-to-do, this truth will
be nobly vindicated in a thousand o s. hous h ld e No
man who knows the sex and their ways will doubt
that the cashmere will be relinquished,
to say the
least, quite as cheerfully as the " Morgan horse,"
and that Mrs. Smith will find it-
quite as easy to
countermand her soiree as Mr. S
with to resign his
membership at the club. The statistics of the past
on this subject are eloquent enough to be of some
use, perhaps, to those who doubt about the future,
and who tremble afresh for Wall-street, whenever
they think of Fifth-avenus.
It has bccorue a commonplace of misogynist decla-
mation, for instance, to aver that the " excessive
importations of superfluous goods from foreign
countries," to which a certain set of economists
choose to trace our present disorders, have been
provoked by the extravagance of our women
Crinoline and moire, gloves and feathers, fans and
furbelows, kickshaws and gewgaws these have
ruined us 1 These have drained I
us of our western
wheat and Californian gold, to9 give us in return
only hotel flirtations and watering-place polkas.
Let us see how this matter stands. For the fiscal
year 1855-6, the importations of silk goods
into this country amounted to 25,200,651 dols.
Truly a "parlous" sera and a tremendouslY
effective figure of speech for a "sermon on
the times" or a lecture on the ladies! But sta-
tistics are like puddings, the proof of their value is
only to be got at by discueeion, Out of these mil-

lions of dollars worth of silk there are certain
" masculinities" to be deducted. We must abstrac
therefrom all the sleeve and shirt-lining,s of some
4,000,000 of male coats, all the cravats and waist-
coats of silk that the American men from Maine to
California contrive in a twelvemonth to consume,
remembering when we make the sum that the
" black satin waistcoat" may almost be considered
as a " national costume" in certain portions of out
beloved country, all the mystical ribbons and
aprons of all the orders and lodges which sw .rm
is
the land, all the flags and banners in which w*
Americans so extravagantly delight, together with
such silken vanities in the way of cushions and cur-
tains, &cc., as are common to both sexes. Allow-
ing less than 2,250,000 dols for all these things,
we have a total of 23,000,000 dols spent by out
women in silks. Is this extravagant ? At an ave-
rage of two dollars per yard in price the quantity *if
silk thus represented would be 11,500,000 yards,
equal,—as a reasonable young lady assures us, t
1,000,000 of silk dresses made very moderately.
Now, there were in the United States in 1850 just
3,363,427 houses occupied by free persons. Of
these houses it is a low estimate to assume than
1,500,000 were tenanted by families whose incomes
averaged 1,000 dole per annum. We have, there-
fore, the proof before us that, out of 1,500,000
households whose resources would certainly justify
the expense, only two-thirds can possibly have in-
dulged themselves in the purchase of a single silk
dress during the years 185&-7.
Again, our importation of gloves in the same dm
amoukted to 1,344,551 dots. This comprises the
value of gloves of all kinds end sizes, and if we limit
the men and children to the 344,550 dols, it gives
us just a singlegmillion of dollars spent upon the
defence and ornament of the 8,000,000 of white
hands upon which 6,000,000 of adult male lips kept
constantly swearing fealty for 12 long months.
Thread laces are certainly in modern times a purely
female gaud, though the legend still survives in this
city of a gentleman whose nuptial garments were
made beauteous with borders of point ; and thread
laces are costly. Yet in 1856-7 our account fur this
triviality rose only to 410,591 dols, against a purely
masculine expenditure of 576,435 dols for fancy fo-
reign fire-arm ! Much was said last year of the fe-
male expenditure in furs, but the remorseless tables
of the Treasury set off against 605,607 dols of gar-
ment furs 1,755,704 dols imported by masculin e hat-
ters. The embroideries of the year constitute a
serious item, rising to 4,604,353 dols, bnt it is per-
haps as well that no observations thereupon should
be indulged by us, who spent at the same time
4,754,582 dols in cigars and foreign smoking tobac-
co, and who must bear pretty largely the responsi-
bility of disbursing over 7,500,000 dols for foreign
wines and spirits.
Our space forbids us from pushing these compa-
risons so far as they might with advantage be car-
ried. It would be unprofitable, for example, to
dwell upon the fact that the total amount of our
expenditure for forelen luxuries of all kinds during
the year 1855-6 does not reach the sum of
50,000,000 dols., while our national income from
the rated property of the country, if calculated at 6
per cent., rose during the same period to 422,293,750
dollars. But the figures which we have given may
at least suffice to satisfy the most captious
and the most querulous of the eons of Adam that
when he rails upon the women as the cause of his
troubles, he is only "darkening counsel by words
without knowledge," and contributing a new e'e-
ment of stupidity and misconception to that confu-
sion of ideas which is the most dangerous as well as
the most humiliating feature of our present national
crisis.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday afternoon the troops belonging to
the third battalion of the 60th Rifles, who are under
orders to embark for India, were inspected at Chat-
ham by Colonel W. H. Eden, commandant of the
garrison. They will leave Chatham this morning
and embark at Gravesend on board the Indomitable
for Madras. Ensign W. L. K. Ogilvy and Ensign
H. St. George Barton, 60th Rifles, go out iu charge
of the reinforcements.

Information has been received at the headquarters
of tho Medical Staff Corps. Chatham, that the autho-
rities at the War-office have it in contemplation to
eend a large body of stewards, wardnaastev, and
orderlies to Alexandria, for the purpose of being
employed in the transit of the troops who are pro
()ceding overland to India, and also of rendering
assistance to the sick and wounded soldiers who
are returning from India.
On Saturday 100 recruits arrived at Chatham Bar-
racks from th• recruiting districts of London, Bris-
tol, and Liverpool, York, making a total of up-
wards of 400 who joined the Ist, 2d, and 3d bat-
talions during the past week.
A troop of the 15th Hussars have left Norwich
en route for Coventry. . .

Large numbers of- recruits continue to arrive at
the Colchester Camp, and a portion of the second
battalion of the troops now in camp are about to be
despatchedto India. Major-General Lawrence, who
has commanded the Camp forsome time, hss received
another appointment in the south-eastern district.
The president of the general court-martial which
recently assembled at Chatham Garrison for the
trial of Ensign T. Stanley Mitchell, 89th Regt., on
a charge of intoxicition when on duty, has received
an intimation that in consequence of the prisoner
having refused to appear before the court, her
Majesty has directed his dismissal from the army.
A. general court-martial assembled at the Royal
Marine head-quarters, Woolwich, on Thursday, for
The trial of First Lieutenant Sharp, on an indict
meut preferred against him by kis commanding
officer, charging him with conduct unbecoming the
character of an officer and a gentleman. The mem-
bers of the court were—Col. Stransharn, president;
Lieut.-Col. Congdon, Brevet-Major Fraser, Bre-
vet-Major Elliott, Captains Bunee, Harris, Wear-
I thy, and Willson, First Lieut. Pritchard, all of the
Royal Marine Light Infantry, and three lieutenant-
colonels and one major of the Royal Artillery.
Lieut. and Adjutant Fraser, R.M.. acted as De-
puty-Judge-Advocate. The court was occupied the
whole of Thursday and Friday in receiving evidence
for the prosecution, which wai to the effect that the
prisoner had absented himself from duty► without
leave, and had endeavoured to justify his conduct
by a series of false statements to his commanding
officer. On Saturday the prisoner read his defence,
declaring his innocence, and referring to his hitherto
unblemished character. The judgment of the Court
will be forwarded to-day fur the approval of tho
Lords Commissioners.

A detachment, consisting of Lieutenant Rideout
1 sergeant and 42 gunners of the Royal Horse Ar-
tillery, Woolwich, have received orders to eushat k
on board the transport John Marshall, at Graves-
end, for Calcutta, for the purpose of filling up va-
cancies in two troops there. _ .

Major-General Sir Frederick Love last week in-
spected the depot battalions et4tioned in Limerick,
and ordered the 2d Bat alion of the Buffs, which has
been raised under Lieut.-Col. Maude, C. 8., in an
incredibly short space of time, to hold itself in readi-
ness to proceed to England. The new battalion pro-
mises to be a very tine regiment, and is already
above the establishment, 650. The head-quarters
are still at Corfu, and are suffering severely from

fevers and ophthalmia.
In a few days a large number of drafts from seve-
ral regiments, including the 21st, 71st, 46th, 48th,
14th, 28th, and 57th, in all about 600 men, will
be assembled in Cork for embarkation en board
her Majesty's ship Urgent- Their destination is for
service in the Mediterranean.
The sailing transport Starr, of Halifax, sailed on
Saturday from Woolwich Arsenal with a cargo of
gun carriages and stores for Bermuda.
Her Majesty's sailing corvette Brilliant, 26, Capt.
Paynter, arrived at Spithead on Saturday afternoon
from the West India station, having been ordered
home on account of yellow fever attacking
her crew most virulently at Grenada. She lost the
Rev. T. H. Watson, chaplain and naval instructor,
and 34 men by that plague, and had in all 102
cases. She left Halifax on the 18th of October,
and Grenada on the 12th of September. At Hali-
fax were her Majesty's ships Indus, 72 (flag), Ata-
lanta, 18, and Buzzard, 6. The surveying steam-
vessel Colombia had been paid off at Halifax, and
her officers and crew sent home by the packet.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Styx, 6, returned
on Saturday to Plyinou.li Sound, from Ferrol,
where she left the steam-frigate Valorous, 16, in
attendance ou the Turkish line-of-bat tle ship Fethie
(Victory), which experienced a storm in the Bay of
Biscay, and had been supplied with a new rudder,
and was receiving a new foretopmast and other
spars. She may be expected shortly at Plymouth
to be fitted with machinery and a screw propeller.
The steam store-ship Urgent, from Portsmouth,
arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday.
Two companies of artillery will proceed this week
for India by the overland route, with au infantry
regiment and a large quantity of ball and cannon
cartridge, which has been prepared at the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, and three other companies will
embark on board the Indomitable at Woolwich and
a screw steam vessel at Gravesend. The ave Qua.