The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-24 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA

The Times correspondent, writing May 8, says—The
appearance of scurvy in some regiments—notwithstand-
ing that there is more fresh meat supplied than salt, and
vegetables are abundant—is considered very extraordi-
nary. Colonel M'Murdo has found at Trebizonde a
market for his best horses and mules. The Russians
have established a rigid quarantine in the Sea of AzofT.
The general orders received by the mail this morning
are chiefly filled with regulations concerning the re-
embarkation of the army. The Bth Hussars and 7th
Lancers have embarked for England • the 3rd regiment
was to embark in the Adelaide. The leaves of absence
are numerous. Regulations are at length given for the
distribution of the military medals, given by the
Emperor of the French, for non-commissioned officers
and privetes of the English army.

The Post sees no political objection to the alliance
between the young Prince of Prussia and the Princess
Royal. The Prince is not answerable for the errors of
the Prussian Court. He and his father are alike adverse
to the party which has recently possessed court influence
at Berlin. Prussia is the first and most considerable
country with which it is in the power of our royal family
to connect itself; and it is a good thing to step forth
from that eternal circle of small powers which have long
been rendered ridiculous.
The Ddly News, in reference to the debate on the
maritime law, last night, is glad to announce that com-
mon sense and common humanity triumphed. Accord-
ing to the opposition, robbery of the defenceless. and
plunder of the unarmed is not cruel, cowardly, or un-
christianlike, provided it be perpetrated out of sight of
land. Because their ancestors of Norman blood were
thorough-going pirates it is honourable, and, indeed,
rather a proof of high breeding, to encourage wholesale
larceny on the high seas. The Daily News attributes the
ministerial majority partly to Lord Clarendon having
shown that the principle adopted at the Paris Congress
had been acted on repeatedly and in a great majority of
instances.

THE SUSPECTED CASE OF POISONING AT ASHTON.—The
adjourned inquest on Emma Stott was resumed on Thursday
afternoon, before Mr. Rutter, county coroner. The coroner
having called over thq names of the jury, said to the chief
constable: Mr. Buckley, have you been enabled to discover
any additional evidence ? Mr. Buckley: I have not, sir.
The coroner then turned to the foreman of the jury, and
said that he could not see that they could, under the cir-
cumstances, come to any other conclusion than that which
he recommended at the, previous enquiry, namely, that they
should return an open verdict, that the deceased Emma
Stott died from the effect of poison, but how, when, or by
whom administered, there was no evidence to show. The
jury returned a verdict in accordance with the suggestion of
the coroner, and the prisoner was taken away in the custody
of the police, to meet the charge of attempting to poison
her husband.

CORONERS INQUESTS.—Yesterday the coroner held the
following inquests :—On the body of George Lewis, a boy,
aged 8 years, who was killed on the railway, near Sandhills
bridge. The affair was purely one of accident, and the jury
~found accordingly.—On the body of Samuel Gaskin, aged
43 years, a hair-dresser, who resided at No. 21, Mansfield-
street, and who died suddenly. The deceased had been
addicted to drink, and it seemed that death followed a fit,
which took -place after a "heavy bout of drinking." The
jury found a verdict of "died of excessive drinking".—On
the body of Hugh Hughes, aged 18 years (an apprentice
to a ship builder), who was attacked by scarletina last
Sunday. It was supposed that the deceased caught the
infect'on from a child who died of the same disorder.
The inquest was adjourned to this day in order to have
the evidence of a medical gentleman in the case.