The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-11-20 00:00:00

STEAM NAVIGATION IN RUSSIA,

The prospectus of the new Russian Steam Navi-
gation and Traffic Company, the statutes of which
received the Emperor's sanction on the 3rd of
August, is published very conspicuously in the
Journal de St. Petersbourg. This company, which
by the extent of its resources, and by its import-

(Ince to " the regeneration of the internal-r
and
foreign trade of Southern Russia," is regarded as
one likely to rank above all other existing Russian
companies, will have a capital of six millions of
roubles to begin with, divided into 20,000 shares
of 300 roubles reach. At a future period this capi-
tal may be raised to nine millions, by the creation of
10,000 new shares, if agreed to by a general meeting
of shareholders. By the 25th statute of the company,
none but Russian subjects can be shareholders, the
laws of the empire prohibiting any foreigners from
taking part in the coasting trade between the Sea
of Azoff and the Russian Black Sea ports, which is
an essential part of the company's undertaking.
Like the Russian-American Company, it is to be
placed under the special protection of the imperial
Government. The objects of its establishment are
defined as being " the development of the trade of
Southern Russia, and of the commercial as well as
f the postal communications by steamboats, between

that part

countrie9

The company is bound to keep up certain lines
of communication. Between Odessa and Constan-
tinople, Athos, Smyrna, Rhodes, Beyrout, Jaffa,
and Alexandria, its steamboats are to ply three
times a month, as well as between Odessa, the Sea
of Azoff, and the Circassian coast. If it should be
deemed advisable, boats from Odessa may touch at On Tuesday night, an enquiry, which did not terminate
the ports of the Crimea, as also those of the Anato- until a late hour, took place at the Elephant and Castle,
Tian coast, before proceeding to Constantinople ;or Kings-road, Camden-town, before Mr. Brent, deputy-
a line may be established from Odessa, taking in coroner, touching the death of Jane Stanton, a lunatic,
aged. fifty, who died in a carriage on the Great Northern
Galatz and the ports of the Principalities, and
R
ending at. Constantinople. adway, under very extraordidary and mysterious circum-
stances, while under an order of removal from the Stamford
There is to be weekly communication between Union, in Lincolnshire, to the Camberwell Lunatic Asylum.
Odessa and Galatz by boats which will stop at A young female, named Thorpe, who had lodged for
Salina, Ismail, and Reni ; there are also to be some time with the deceased at Stamford, and who, in corn-
boats every week from Odessa to Eupatoria, Sebas- parry with Mr. Withorne, the assistant overseer of the
topol, Yalta, Theodosia, and Kertch, as well as Stamford Union, travelled with the deceased to London,
from Odessa to Kinburn and Nicholaieff, on the was examined. She said that on the journey the deceased
river Bong, and to Kherson, on the Dnieper was in a very re kly condition, and
she expressed the
Boats are to ply once a week between Kertch, opinion once or twice that she was either dying or dead.
Marioupol, Berdiansk, and Taganrog.
At Essendine, a few miles this side of Stamford, the de-
The company are bound, moreover, to provide ceased was in so helpless a condition that upon changing
for eighteen voyages in the year from Odessa to trains she had to be conveyed in a chair from one train
to
'
Trieste, calling at Constantinople, Syra, the lonian was then dead or not, but afterwards some other passengers
' the other. The witness was unable to say if the deceased
Isles, and Ancona. as well as for eighteen voyages expressed their opinion that she was either dead or dying,
in the year from Odessa to Marseilles, stopping at and this induced her to cover the deceased's face over with
Constantinople, the Pirreus, Messina, Naples, a shawl. However, notwithstanding this, the assistant-
epaiiotdheantees
station
Leghorn, and Genoa.
These lines are to be opened for traffic as soon the deceased until they arrived at th%Kedi
King
really
as the vessels can be built, but the whole system overseer, who sat reading a book, took no.n,n,osticceroosse
terminus, when they found that the deceased
da ,sw' previous,
is to be completely in operation within the period (lead. Throughout the journey, and for
of five years from this time. The Government in conse9uenca of
will cede to the company, at a price to be fixed by by juming oat of a, wi'T that the &ceased had not ta(en any
valuation, all the steamboats belonging to the foodand thet daystwo
otness altuhee ddecewassde
ti
having
priorc to her removal. Mr. W. Lambert,
department which has conducted hitherto the priertotrsrof the ailway d the atwitttreamitp3‘tveisdtcsouaticoidne,
postal and commercial intercourse between thealso gave
different ports of New Russia, together with theas
deceased'sdi
o.
also
t.
till
ev oegteeukl
al, idt
condition
of
aEdtshisteei
trainonnd i n e
upon, ;
the wharves, warehoused, and stores belonging to Lambert said 'hconsidered she was dying, and he was
e
that department. surprised she should have been taken on to London.
arriving
and Mr.
The company is to be aided by the Government Further evidence of a corroborative character having
with a subvention calculated at so much per mile, been given, the coroner summed up, severely animadverting-
allowed upon the voyages actually made by thequarters
company's vessels. This allowance during the first overseer, Mr. Withorne, and the jury, after three
s nand
ten years will be at the rate of 5 roubles 22 copecks of an hour's deliberation, recorded an open verdictdr a
upon the careless and indifferent conduct of the assistant
"
for the Levant voyages, 3 roubles 491 copecks for precise cause of the deceased's death, specieillya
did
Knot receive
the Marseilles, and 4 roubles 71 copecks for the the jury consider that the deccas.ehdo
Trieste voyages ; the allowance for the Black Sea the
effi smteannt,
faotrtde nut inoin
t from h eller.
rlNav'iettlinrwonoem
in the railway train,
trips will be something lower. Afteilthe first ten and that medicalne39ttwenliance should have been procured
relieving officer officer of
years the subsidy will decrease regularly in each when the deceased was first discovered ill, and they highly
year. Above this mileage, an annual grant of censure the conduct of Mr. Withorne." The investigation
61,000 roubles is secured during twenty years. then terminated.

DEATH OF A LUNATIC ON A RAILWAY.

NEW OT.GAN AT LINCOLN'S-INN CHAPEL.—Thr ugh the
liberality of the benehers of the learnel society of Lincr,ln'b-

CONVICTION OF STOWELL, THE INFORMER.—On Tuesday
at the Surrey Sessions, Thomas Stowell, described as an
attorney's clerk, was indicted for obtaining by false pre—
tences £5 from Harriett Perry, with fraudulent intent. The
jury returned a vcr..lict of guilty, and there being former
convictions against the prisoner for misdemeanour, he was
sentenced to 12 months' hard labour in Wandsworth House
of Correction

inn, and the influence and good taste of Mr. ilayter, M.P.,
treasuror of the inn for this year, a munificent organ has
been erected in the chapel, at a cost of £l,OOO.

A B,uouutt WITHOUT A Mavou.—The Town Council of
esterfield have just disclvered that they are in an awk-

:Id on Monday, Mr. William Drabble, solicitor, one --W
of MURDER or THE GIPSY KING.° stated a few dars
be retiring aldermen, was elected to the civic chair by the age, that the body of an old man, named Stanley,
unanimous voice of the Town Council. It so happened that the " Gipsy King of the West," had been found in the river
Mr. Drabble was elected to the mayoralty just five minutes pert, and that there was no doubt, from the medical
before his re•election to the aldermanic bench ; cense- evidence and other circumstances, that he had been mut.-
quently he had ceased to be a member of the corporation dered. At the inquest which has been headduced. ld before
MRhoda
r. W.
at the .time of his appointment to civic honours. The A. Cockey some additional evidence was
unfortunate feature in the matter is, the blunder cannot be Stanley, 'thee vif of the deceased, stated that her husband
remedied until next November, for the Municipal Act of left the van early on Tuesday morning to go to the fair ; she
1835 expressly stares that, except in the event of death, the did not accompany him, but saw him in the
h aftternoon, wh
the
en
election of mayors shall only be made once in each year— they bad some drink together. Ile left er o
Ago to
to wit, on the 9th of November. horse fair, and she never saw him alive again. Almost his
PROPOSED DIVISION OF THE DIOCESE OF LONDON.— last act was to buy a pony for his " poor old woman to ride,"
Tuesday's Times contained a leading article in which it is as he thought she was getting up in yews, and needed such
sought to prove that a division of the present extensive help in her wanderings about the country. The witness
diocese of London, by the creation of an independent
seemed frantic with grief, as she said deceased "was such a
episcopal see fee Westminster, which would be productive of good old man to her." The ostler et the inn where deceased
many disadvantages, inasmuch as jealousies would spring stopped, last saw bim standing in the passage in company
tin between two bishops living so near each other. ' The with a "strange man," who was respectably dressed. Mr.
Wiese; then, propounds a 'scheme which it supposes would Haines) surgeon, deposed that death bad been caused by
meet all difficulties namely, that Hertfordshire should be
taken out of the diocese of London. " For example," says strangulation. There was a dark redeband round the neck
of the deceaeed, which had evidently been produced by the
tfie infallible journal,"it might be worth conside:ing
whether the abstraction straction of Hertfordshire and all that part
of Middlesex which is Rot in London would not sufficiently Sae-defence, and there
neckcloth being tightly pressed against it.l_tHwiasshasnudspseweteerde
clenched, and were raised as if in
t.awllouupldinnoe
diocese, at any rate for the present." If the was a heavy frown on the countenance.
relieve that
techleasvieasyteicnatlurmedatute)rosn, on which
rhiidcilicuiltouiss g i PITY
that the old man had met with foul play by some of the
support that suspicion, inasmuch as be seems to have been
tribe, but no evidence has been adduced tending to
recommendation, inasmuch as many lago the whole ofpopular among le" • exertions are
LI 0 Times
oracular, was
aii;*
.years
Hertfordshire was taken from the discover the ,
diocese of London, and made by the police to endeavour to
has since that time Nrmed part of the see of Rochester. and the inquest has been adjourned for that purpose.

e council,