The Nevada journal., 1854-06-09
MEMEL. April II, 1854.

Five Russian merchant vessels have
been brought into this port, and four more
prizes are in sight, coming in under th'
British flag. The small screw steamship
Conflict, 8, Captain ]. Foote, has taker
these ships, and it is announced that eigh
prizes are coming in.
PORTSMOUTH, May IL, 1854.
The First P,Tze.-This evening, be
tween 6 and o'clock, no little commotiou
was caused in this port by the appearance
in the roadstead of one Of Her Majesty's
steam vessels, having sailing ship in tow
and making for the harbor with all speed
The ramparts were quickly thronged with
the inhabitants, who as soon as the vessel
approached near enough for the colors oil
the sailing craft to be made out as Russian,
loudly cheered her fortunate captors. On
boarding the vessel, we found that her
Majesty's revenue steam cruiser Argus.
Commander nj. w. S. Grandy, which left
Southead yesterday, fell in with the Froya,
! for Abo, 440 tons, Is men, Wickmann,
master, to day about noon, between the
Overs and Beechy Head, (about Is miles
from the latter point,) and boarded her, ul-
timately making prize of her. She is a
fine ship, four years old and apparently in
good condition. She left Lisbon on the
29th ult., with 600 tons of salt as cargo,
and was bound for Abo, although her mas
ter (who speaks very good English says
Elsinore. No opposition was offered to
her detention, and Commander Grandy
accordingly took her in tow and brought
her in here She carries two nine pound
carronades. together with small arms for
her crew, and little ammunition. The
revenue authorities who have boarded her
consider her lawful prize, and the cap,
ture has been duly reported to the Port
Admiral, and by him to the Admiralty.
Eqypt.-Accounts from Alexandria to
April 3, state that the Consul General of
Austria, to whom the protection of Russian
subjects had been confined since the de-
parture of their own Cousul, had officially
informed them that he should cease to
protect them after 29th inst, and that they
must prepare to leave Egypt by that date.
The rupture of the diplomatic relations
between the Porte and Greece leads to the
belief that the Greeks at Alexandra will
also be compelled to leave. Such meas
ure wouid cause great perturbation in the
commerce of that city, as the Greeks are
very numerous there, and almost all of
them are merchants. The rising in Epi-
rus had produced considerable agitation
among the Greeks both at Cairo and Alex
andria.
Accounts from Nassau, n. P, to the
26ih uIt., give the particulars of several
disasters to vessels The Bremen ship
Augusta, from New Orleans for B,emen,
arrived at N. on the Goth, having been
ashore on Memory Rocks two days pre-
vious. The wreckers were awarded S20,,
600 for their services. $4,000 as salvage
was accepted IN the case of the ship James
Wright.
The London Times, of the 18th, pub
lished the following telegraphic dispatch
from its Copenhagen correspondent, and
the information causes much excitement:
's7Ae British frigate Tribune has just
returned from the admiral Plumr1dge
squadron, having taken .fce Russian pri-
zes, and number of prisoners %
These ships had been for some tlrne
under surveillance. They were laden Nth
sulphur, lead, and other contra band of war
were last from Lubec, and IN their way
to Russian por: in the Gulf of Finland.
Napier's feet now mustered thirty-seven
sail, carrying eighteen hundred guns, and
over eighteen thousand men.
It was rumored that the French ship-of-war
you'd be withdrawn from the Black Sea to
reinforce the Baltic feet. On the 18th, the
French squadron under Admiral Perseval Des-
chimes sailed from Rrest to join the feet in the
Baltic. nnder Napier. Letters from Stockholm
of the 10th confirm the statements that the
Russians had dismantled all the Notifications
on the islands Of Aland, and had retired with
guns and stores to the mainland. The Car
| had further ordered that all pilots and meu
capable of bearing arms should remove from
the islands to the mainland of Finland, and
also to remove or burn all ships and boats
| This system of defence is to be pursued all
along the shores of the Baltic and Of the Black
| Sea.
The Black sea-Blockade Of Odessa.
VARNA, April l, 1854.
| The fleets have left in the direction Of Sebas-
| topol
CoNsTANTIyoPLE, April b, 1904.
The whole feet is now in the Black Sea.
The above are the only authentic announce
ments received of the movements OF the fleets,
but our information eked out by private dis
patches 1t was rumored that the bulk of the
feet had gone to Sebastopol but it was more
likely it had gone to Odessa. Correspondence
from the latter port says, of date lst, I'VE are
here in state Of great excitement. For sew
eral davs past we have seen many French and
English sails. They probably intend blockad-
ing US, for they do not leave the spot, but keep
always in sight. Our garrison here is, at this
moment, 10000 strong, and fresh men arrive
every day from Bessaraba BY all this. it is
quite clear that our place is not going 10 be
evacuated but defended. We have made up
our minds here for the worst, and several fami-
lies have already retired inland. The forts
are all armed, and tents are pitched for
the troops 10 the outskirts of the city our
trade is at an end and prices are becoming ru-
inously high The English Consul General was
still here. nm to Yesterday f3lst) The Russian