The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-17 00:00:00

et on putting on

to sea be loon(

hoisted his sail, he ran from St. Kitt's to St. Thomas's, I
distance of 200 miles, and there picked up his ship. (Cheers.,
He (Sir C. Napier) had heard of the circumstance, and hi
thought that if the governor bad acted in the manner impute(
to him it was highly necessary that he should be called ti
Hear, hear.)—Lord Stanley promised to mak

account

GALLANT CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—The Persian, 16
sloop, commander T. N. Eden, appears to be very fortunate

in her crui

exploit of an officer belonging to this sloop is narrated in
letter brought to this port by a vessel from the coast c
Africa. The Persian was off Whydah, in the bight of Benin
when early in the morning of the 17th of December,
large suspicious-looking
_vessel was descried, at some dia

as in command of two t

six men in each, immediately pushed towar

wood,althc

der a broiling stin—

essel in the mean t

and in

heir opponents were treble i

;is, cutlasses and pistols, drove them below, and establishe

iemselves in possession without t
,und their prize to be a Portugu,.
She had mounted two long gu,_
th canister shot, and had a complemen

e loss of a man. They

se slaver, a fine brig of 248

Birdwood soon after joined his slpop,

miles distant, when be and his companions were congratulated
by his brother officers and ship's company on the success of
their enterprise. The prisoners were put on shore at 1,1, hy-
dab, and their valuable prize was sent into Sierra Leone for
adjudication. There is no doubt Mr. Birdwood's gallant
conduct will not escape the attention of the admiralty.—

Standard,

ARRIVAL OE THE CHINESE RANSOM, MARCH 15.
Her Majesty's ship Blonde, Captain Sir T. Bouchier, ar-
rived at Portsmouth on Friday last from China, having on
board Sycee silver to the amount of 3,000,000 of dollars.
The Blonde is the third ship that has brought to this country
a freight of this description. Mr. J. W. Cooper, of her
Majesty's Treasury, who has received the whole of the
treasure brought over by ber Majesty's ships Modeste and
Columbine, on the two previous occasions, was directed by
their lordships to proceed to Portsmouth to receive the
amount now brought by the Blonde. The silver was
packed in 523 cases, some of them containing 20,000 dollars
each, and weighing each half a ton. The unloading corn •
menced on Monday morning, under the immediate direction
of Mr. Cooper, it was a task of considerable difficulty, the
weight of the metal and the motion of the ship having so
severely tried the strength of the packages, that a large num-
ber of them required repair. This was so successfully ac-
complished, that not the slightest loss took place during the
transfer. By great exertion the unloading was completed
on Tuesday evening, and on Wednesday morning one-half
of the whole amount brought by the Blonde teft Portsmouth
at eight o'clock, by the Southampton Railway. It arrived
at the Vauxhall terminus shortly after one o'clock. Mr.
Cooper came up by the same train, in charge of the treasure.
On its arrival it was transferred to waggons, which, at a
quarter past two o'clock, started under the escort of a party
of the 75th regiment, for the Royal Mint, where it was
safely lodged. Mr. Cooper was to return to Portsmouth by
the train in the evening, to take charge of the remainder
of the silver brought by the Blonde, which will be brought
up to the Mint on Friday. Her Majesty's ship Herald,
having on board silver to the amount of nearly two millions
dollars more, is daily expected at Portsmouth from China,
and when this sum is received it will complete the first in-
stalment of the ransom payable under the late treaty with
the Emperor of China.
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IMPROVED CRAXES
on Saturday. His principle

Mr. Gale's crar

he Cour

as fairly tried

s in spreading over seve-