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same misfortune. This news was brought by the sealers E. B. Marvin 

 and W. P. Sayward which arrived in port yesterday, and renewed the 

 excitement created in Victoria by the first intelligence of the Eussian 

 outrages. The names of the vessels latest seized have not yet been 

 ascertained, except that the Vancouver Belle from Vancouver is known 

 to be one of them ; the other Canadians are supposed to be the Maud 8., 

 Geneva, or Bora Steward — two of these three — though this is not posi- 

 tively known. The owners of the Marvin and Sayward were amongst 

 the happiest men in Victoria yesterday when they learned that their 

 smart little craft were at the entrance to the harbor. 



[Extract from the London Standard of September 10, 1802.] 

 THE CAPTURED SEALERS. 



[From our correspondent.] 



Ottawa, Friday night 

 The minister of marine is preparing a case to submit to the British 

 Government relative to the seizure of Canadian sealers by the Eussian 

 cruisers off Copper Island. He says the seizures were made, not in 

 Bering Sea, but in the North Pacific, and that they are most glaring 

 violations of the treaty between Eussia and Great Britain in 1888 (sic). 



[From the London Financial Times, of September 15, 1892.) 

 THE SEIZURE OF SEALERS BY RUSSIANS. 



Victoria, British Columbia, 13th September. 

 A comparison of the statements made by the captain of the Eussian 

 cruiser which seized a number of Canadian sealers in the Northern 

 Pacific and the regular charts prepared by the agents of the marine 

 department shows that the schooner Willie McGowan was 42£ miles 

 from the nearest land when seized. The Rosie Olsen also appears to 

 have been 38 miles and the Ariel 30 miles out at sea. The sealer Agnes 

 Macdonald arrived here to-day and reports that when 20 or 30 miles 

 from Copper Island she put out her boats, which were, however, soon 

 driven in by the Eussians. The Vancouver Belle and other vessels 

 have been seized, all they contained being confiscated. The Eussians 

 are said to have declared that they would seize the British schooners 

 wherever they found them, no matter what distance from the shore. 

 The scaler Libbie will probably make a trip to the Southern Pacific. — 

 Eeuter. 



[Extract from dispatch of United States Consul Myers to the Assistant Secretary of State, dated 



Victoria, October 8, 1892.] 



The British vessels reported as seized by the Eussians off Copper 

 Island are the Carmelite, Willie McGowan, Rosie Olsen, Vancouver Belle, 

 Ariel, and Maria. 



