The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-02 00:00:00

CAPTURES OF. RUSSIAN PRIZES.

On Tuesday morning a prize was towed into Portsmouth
harbour, which proved to be the brig Livonia, of Riga, 232
tons, ten men, GeorgeMutzkait, master, from Lisbon, with:
300 tons of salt, bound to Elsinore for orders. She sailed
from Lisbon on the 26th ult., the Russian Consul there
assuring the master he might proceed in safety, as Eng-
land would never declare war against Russia. She has no
great guns or ammunition• on board, andwas fallen in with
twenty miles off the Owers, on Monday night, the light at
the time bearing W.N.W.- The Argus, screw revenue
cruiser, Commander Grandy,. fired two pistols to bring to ;
the master of the brig immediately obeyed the signal, and
hove to on the port tack at nine, p.m., when an officer and
five men from the Argus boarded her, and made prize of
her. The brig appears a sound vessel, three years old, and
worth £3,000. The barque Alan and the brig Nadeschda,
from Lisbon, laden with salt, were also brought into Ports-
mouth, having been taken in the channel by the Albaro.
The captain of the barque was offered £2,500 for her at
Lisbon, which he refused.
At ten o'clock, on Tuesday night, the Avon, steam-ten-
der to the Impregnable, guard-ship'at Plymouth, returned
firom a cruise off the Start, bringing with her the Russian
barque Carl, from Lisbon, bound to Stockholm, with a
cargo of 500 tons of salt, Lieut. Miller and a party of
marines from the Impregnable being in charge of the
prize. Four Russian vessels left Lisbon in company with
the Carl. The Carl was captured la miles south of the
Start, and only four miles astern of the Brest fleet.
The Mermaid, revenue screw-schooner, Lieut,-Comman-
den Henry Stokes, picked up a Russian barque, off the
bank of the Isle of Wight. Her name is the Vesta, of
about 400 tons burden, Captain Patterson, laden with salt.
Shelas been towed into Portsmouth: harbour.
On Thursday, her Majesty's revenue cutter, Petrel, Mr.
John Hughes, deputation-officer of the revenue service, in
command, captured the Russian barque Fame, of Wasa,
laden with salt, from Sardinia, John Ottman, master. She
is a fine ship of nearly 500 tons English measurement,
and has more than GOO tons of salt on board, with a crew
of fourteen stout hands.

The Port-Admiral's cutter Fanny, Mr. Scarlett, second
master in charge, returned from her• cruising ground to
Portsmouth on Thursday evening, bringing intelligence
that she had taken a fine barque of 400 tons, laden with
salt.. Flag-Lieutenant Hankey (who specially commanded
the Fanny on this occasion) remained in the prize with
part of the Fanny's crew, navigating her to this port.
The revenue cutter Active, Lieutenant J. H. Tracey,
R.N., brought into Spithead on Saturday as a prize the
Russian barque Fyra Broder (Four Brothers), of 400 tons,
and fourteen men, bound from Hieres for Nystad, laden
with salt.

On Friday night it was reported that Russian ships were
lying off Folkestone. The coast guard succeeded in cap-
turing a Russian barque of about 44)0 tons.
Another Russian prize was brought into Dover harbour
on Saturday afternoon by the Lion.revenne cruiser, Capt.
William Pearn. It is a schooner; the Johannes, Captain
Skoman, of Burgo, laden with salt on Russian account.
Her Majesty's revenue cutter Wiakam, Lieut. A. R. B.
Carter, captured a barque laden with salt, and brought her
into Portsmouth on Sunday, apparently about 400 tons.