Orders have been received at Portsmouth for the immediate equipment
of the Spartiate ship of war. The Mediterranean is supposed to be her destination.
In the rage of competition between the rival companies who run steamvessels between London and Margate, the conveyance to Margate on Monday morning was gratis, the passengers having nothing to pay but the pier-dues.
The crew of a French packet bound irons Mexico for Bourdeaus lately mutinied and murdered all the officers except the boatswain, as well as all the passengers on board,—between 80 and 100. There was upwards of 300,000 dollars in specie, besides 50,000 dollars' worth of cochineal, on board, principally belonging to the passengers, who were old Spaniards leaving the country. One of the mutineers was taken at St. Jago de Cuba,and committed to prisomwhere lie confessed the whole of the piratical transaction.
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