The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-19 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 3d of
August, is published very conspicuously in the
Journal de St. Petersbourg. This company, which
by the exteneof its resources, and by its importance
to " the regeneration of the internal and foreign
trade of Southern Russia," is regarded as one likely
to take rank above all other existing Russian com-
panies, will have a capital of six millions of roubles
to begin with, divided into 20,000 shares of 300
roubles each. At a future period this capital 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 are capable of holding
shares, the laws of the empire prohibiting any
foreigners from taking part in the coasting
trade between the Sea of Azoff and the Rus-
sian 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 Go-
vernment. The objects of its establishment are
defined as being " the development of the trade of
Southern Russia, and of the commercial as well as
the postal communications by steamboats between
that part of the empire and foreign countries."
The following details are to be gathered from the
company's statutes :
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
the ports of the Crimea, and also at those of the
Anatolian coast, before proceeding to Constanti
nople ; or a line may be established from Odessa,
taking in Galatz and the ports of the Principalities,
and ending at Constantinople.
There is to be weekly communication between
Odessa and Galatz by boats which will stop at Su-
lina, Ismail, and Reni ; there are also to be boats
every week from Odessa to Eupatoria, Sebastopol,
Yalta, Theodosia, and Kertch, as well as from
Odessa to Kinbourn and Nicolaieff, on the river
Bong, and to Kherson, on the Dnieper. Boats
are to ply once a week between Kertch, Marioupol,
Berdiansk, and Taganrog.
The company are bound, moreover, to provide
for 18 voyages in the year from Odessa to Trieste,
calling at Constantinople, Syra, the lonian Isles,
and Antona, as well as for 18 voyages in the year
from Odessa to Marseilles, stopping at Constanti-
nople, the Piresus, Messina, Naples, Leghorn, and
Genoa.

These lines are to be opened for traffic as soon as
the ♦essels can be built, but the whole system is
to be completely in operation within the period of
five years from this time. The Government will
cede to the company, at a price to be fixed by
♦aluation, all the steam-boats belonging to the
department which has conducted hitherto the postal
and commercial intercourse between the different
ports of New Russia, together with the wharves,
warehouses, and stores belonging to that depart-
ment.

The company is to be aided by the Government
with a subvention calculated at so much per mile,
allowed upon the voyages actually made by the
company's vessels. This allowance during the first
ten years will be at the rats of 5 roubles 22 copecks
for the Levant voyages, 3 roubles 491 copecks for
the Marseilles, and 4 roubles 7/ copecks for the
Trieste ♦oyages ; the allowance for the Black Sea
trips will be somewhat lower. After the first ten
years the subsidy will decrease regularly in each
year. Above this mileage, an annual grant of
64,000 roubles is secured during twenty years.

AXERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.

The Liverpool and Philadelphia Company's screw
steam-ship City of Manchester, Capt. Petrie, will sail
to-morrow at noon, for Philadelphia, with passengers
and cargo. She will carry a mail, for which letters and
newspapers must be pasted before 11 a.m., and with late
fees before 11.30 a.m. to-morrow, all of which must be
mat ked " per City of Manchester."
The mails for the British and North American Royal
Mail steam-_hip Arabia, Capt. Stone, which sails on
Saturday afternoon, will close here at noon, with late hes
at 1 p.m., and at the landing stage at 2 p.m. on that
day.
The next mails from the United States will be brought
by the Collins steam-ship Atlantic, Capt. Oliver Eldridge,
from New York, and those from the Canadian provinces
by the Montreal Ocean Steam Navigation Company's
royal mail screw steam-ship North American, Capt.
Grange, from Quebec, both of which were to sail from
their respective ports on the 86h inst., and may be looked
for to-morrow.
The White Star line of packet ship, the Sardinian,
Capt. B. Sheridan, will sail on Thursday (the appointed
day of the line being the 20th of each month) for Mel-
bourne, with 240 passengers and a full cargo. She will
carry a ship letter bag, for which letters and newspapers
must be marked " per Sardinian," and posted before
a.m., and with late fees before 9.30 a.m. on the 20th.
inst.

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Postmaster-General gave
notice yesterday that the steamer European would take
out the Australian mails on the 12th of next months.
BRAZIL MAILS.—Mr. Priaulx, the Portuguese Vice-
Consul at Southampton, has received notice from the
Post-office authorities stating that, in accordance with
his request, mails will be made up in that town for
places at which the Brazil and Peninsular mail steamers
call. The mails will barnacle up on the day the steamers
leave Southampton. Letters from the above-named
places will no longer be sent to Loudon before they are
delivered.