The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-08 00:00:00

CORPS•

Horse Artillery.-2d and 3d Troops 2d Brigade ; Ist, 2d,
and 3d Troops 3d Brigade.
Foot Artillery.-Ist and 2d Companies, Ist Battalion; Ist
and 2d Companies, 3d Battalion ; Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th Com-
panies, 4th Battalion; sth, 6th, Bth, 9th, and 10th Com-
panies, 6th Battalion ; and Nos. 10, 16, and 17 Light Field
Batteries. _ _

Sappers and Miners.-Ist, 3d, and 4th Companies, and a
company to be formed from all details available at the head
quarters of the corps.
Cavalry, Ist Brigade.—Two squadrons of her Majesty's
9th Lancers; two squadrons sth Regiment of Light Cavalry;
two squadrons 11th Regiment of Light Cavalry; and Wing
2d Irregular Cavalry.
2d Brigade.-3d Regiment of Light Cavalry; Bth Regi-
ment of Irregular Cavalry ; and Cavalry Bundlecund Legion.
3d Brigade.—Her Majesty's 16th Lancers; Ist Regiment
of-Light Cavalry; and 10th Regiment of Light Cavalry.
4th Brigade —Governor General's Body Guard ; 4th Regi-
ment of Light Cavalry ; 4th Regiment of Irregular Cavalry.
Infantry, Ist ,Division, Ist Brigade.—Her Majesty's 3d
Buffs; 39th Regiment of Native Infantry; 51st Regiment of
Native Infantry; and Bundlecund Legion.
2d Brigade.—Her Majesty's 50th Regiment; 50th Regi-
ment of Native Infantry ; and 58th Regiment Native In-
fantry.„ . . _

2d-Division' 3d Brigade.—Her Majesty's 40th Regiment;
2d Regiment Native Infantry Grenadiers ; and 16th Regi-
ment Native Infantry Grenadiers.
4th Brigade.--14th Regiment of Native Infantry 31st
Regiment Native Infantry ; and 43d Regiment Light
Infantry.
3d Division, sth Brigade.—Her Majesty's 39th Regiment ;
35th Regiment of Light Infantry; and t6th Regiment Na-
tive Infantry.
Gth Brigade.-62d Regiment Native Infantry; 70th Regi-
ment Native Infantry; and Khelat-i-Ghilzee Regiment.
Captain-W. G. Lennox, 43cl Light Infantry, charge of the
military chest.

Lieutenant W. S. Dodgson, 31st Native Infantry, baggage
master.
___ _

Brevet Captain W. Lamb, 51st Native Infantry, post.
master.

Surgeon A. Wood, 6th Battalion Artillery, superintending
surgeon.
Surgeon A. Chalmers, M.D., 3d Battalion Artillery, field
surgeon. . .
3d brigade of Horse Artillery,Posed of the Ist and 3d troops
6th company 6th battalion of
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composed
Light Field Battery attached,
the Ist and 2d brigades of Cavalry, and the Ist division of
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Infantry.

SIR H. POTTINGER AND THE
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have onlust seen.
TO ATEMEEEEDRISTOORP S,
Guernsey, Feb. 4, 1844.
letter, in which, evidently alluding to my former letter to
yon, he says
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" Any one who can imagine that under ally circumstances
Sir Henry Pottinger could proclaim a falsehood, proclaims
himself utterly ignorant of the truth, honour, and integrity
of .my brother; and has, in consequence,
Major William Pottinger's
imagined that
which must prove destitute of foundation."
Major •Pottinger has mistaken the tenor of my letter.
It was my firm reliance on. Sir Henry Pottinger's " truth,
honour, and integrity," and on his sense also, which led me to
treat the letter in the Morning Chronicle as a forgery. I
could not believe Sir Henry Pottinger would gratuitously
write of Sir Charles Napier's actions in Sinde as " unprin-
cipled and disgraceful," as leaving a
"ford stain on our good
faith and honour," as marked by " tyranny and spoliation,
cruelty and misery," and. finally express a hope for his eternal
perdition, for doing precisely that which Sir Henry Pottingerhimself, not once, or lightly, but many times in his official
letters, advised, recommended, and urged, as the proper thing
•
0; be done, Sir Charles Napier having much stronger grounds
for so doing, than Sir Henry Pottinger had for so advising.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM NAPIER,
Major-General.

COL. STODDART AND CAPTAIN

CONOLLY:

In a letter addressed by Captain Grover to the editor of
The Sun this day, that gentleman says the subjoined docu-
ment, with that in the Times, comprises all the official in-
formation received by the Committee:—
EXTRACT OF A DISPATCH FROM CONSUL WOOD,

DATED DAMASCUS, Nov. 8, 1843.
" The arrival of pilgrims from Bokhara having given me
the opportunity of eliciting from them some information
respecting the uncertain fate of Colonel Stoddart and Cap-
tain Conolly, I have the honour to state that, according to
the verbal statement made to me by a certain Seid Abdo
Sultan Effendy, who asserts to be the son of the Nakib of
Bokhara, and distantly ,related' to the Khan himself, it
would appear that Colonel Stoddart is still in existence,
under the name of Nasr Khan, bilt that his companion Cap-
tain Conolly, had long ceased to live. It is true, I could not
bring my informant to admit that he owed his untimely
end to the fanaticism or wanton cruelty of his countrymen,
but it was not difficult to percerVe, from the anxiety he
evinced to avoid replying in a direct manner to my ques-
tion, that Captain Conolly was evidently put to death in
prison. He further stated, that Colonel Stoddart, under the
title of Nasr Khan, commanded and instructed the artillery
of the Khan, with whom he had great influence, and whose
consideration and esteem he enjoy!cl. • • • The information I
have been able to collect, respecting the character of my
listaerstiing' in
tahat eight people,
in-
formant is favourable to him ; and I havedissepaarcteehl,ydaante:
reason to doubt the veracity of his statement, which he
could have made more acceptable had his object been to
deceive me, by disavowing altogether the melancholy death
htabitation Tame du
of Captain Conolly."
moms precises, ils
TrTebhiesoAnduest,rlilitthCoDenes.ulo-BG43en,eraaftleGr
just arrived from Bokhara, declare that Colonel Stoddart was
alive, concludes thus, " Quant au Capt. Conolly les notions
dd oi
snennet eps
Col. Stoddart, et croyent qu'il remplit, aupres, de lui, les
oupratralcietedehuiratvionidrievnidtruesgedmanbslein
fonctions de son Kiaia.

(From the Times.)
As great and general interest is felt respecting the fate of Colonel
Stoddart and Captain Conolly, and as the reports which have been
lately received are somewhat contradictory, we are glad to have it
in our power to lay before the public the following summary of the
latest intelligence which has been received from Lord Stuart de
Rothesay, Sir Stratford Canning, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sheil.
The Governor. General of Orenberg writes to Count Nesse:rode
on the 28th of December last, that he bad questioned the leader
of a caravan which had recently arrived from Bokhara in 70
days, and that person said that Lieut.. Colonel Stoddart and Captain
Conolly had been taken to the palace of the Khan six days after
the, departure of the Russian axiissitva in 1842, but that he was
not aware what had -been done with them,, observing at the same
time that it was rot usual to put any one to -death in the Khan's
palace, and that he had *not heard at Bokhata that they had been
executed.

A gentleman who was.a!tached to M. de Bouteniefrs mission at
Sahara', however, told Lord Stuart de Rothesay that the state.
meut of the leader of the caravan that executions never took
place in the Khan's palace was incorrect, for he had heard of
several during his residence. Lord Stuart de Rothesay adds, that
he bad been unable to elicit from the Russian Government any in.
formation which would corroborate the hope of the officers being still
alive, and that the language of all persons at St. Peter,burgh tends to
confirm the account sent tome originally by Lieut.-Colonel Shell.
The Eastern merchants at St. Petersburgh who have intercourse
with Eokharien. traders, although unable or unwilling to confirm
the account of the executions of the officers, do not seem them-
selves to have much doubt of it. _ _ _

Lieutenant. Colonel Shell, under date of December I, sends
hove a statement made to him by Reiib Bey, a Dative of Hero,