The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-11 00:00:00

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.

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ANTWERP, APRIL s.—The Antwerp Steam Naviga
tion Company is going to make a direct communication
between Antwerp and Hull. The fine steamer the
Princess Victoria, which was employed between Ant-
werp and London, will be placed on this line. There
will be at least one departure weekly from each port.
The first will be at the end of the month, and in the be-
ginning of May.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 9.—The Minister of Finance has
announced that a voluntary gift has been received by
the Trzasury, though the giver mould not be liable to
the extraordinary income-tax ; this person is Mr. Win.
Dennison, an inhabitant of Java, who is here for a short
time, he has given a cheque for 10,000 florins on his
agent at Batavia.
TURKISH FRONTIERS, MARCH 26.—Letters from Bu-
charest announce that Prince Bibesca seeing that in the
unfavourable temper of the Assembly any agreement
in a resolution tending to promote the interest of the
country was impossible, had suddenly dissolved the As-
sembly.

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT

cONOLLY.

Captain Grover his received Dr. Wolff's journal up
to Feb. 6. Ile left Tabrcez on Jan. 20, and, after a peril-
ous and painful journey, reached Tehran, in perfect
health, on Feb. 4. Fifty-six miles from Tehran he was
obliged to write to Colonel Shiel, petitioning that five
horses might be sent to his assistance. Colonel Shiel
instantly sent the required horses, and wrote in the
kindest terms, inviting the Doctor to take up his
quarters at the British embassy, and promising every
assistance. The Doctor says, " Could anything be more
kind than this ? He (Colonel Shiel) has also detained
In his house Meshede Rajah, who was three years ser-
vant to Colonel Stoddurt, and by whom he (Meshede
ilothb)r was sent to Caubul. He had been imprisoned at
a
I have takcn him into my service, and he will
accompa:tilyme to Bukhara in about ten days time. I
have met with the greatest kindness and hospitality from
Colonel Shiel, and the gentlemen attached to the embassy,
and I wish this to be understood in the strictest sense of
the word."

Dr. Wolff further says, " Colonel Shiel told me that he
had seen the Ambassador from Bokhara,cid who told him
retirel ore
keptd Captain n
that he did not believe that Colonel St
Conully had been killed, but that they
prison !" 1)r. Wolff- had seen Countyde
liu>siati Envoy. and received from him an aecounetm,f the
interview with the Ambassador, which differed but little
from that published some time ago in the papers. The
Doctor ha. not vet been to visit the Bokhara _limb:-
sailor, as he wishes previously to be presented to the
King of Persia.
1)r. Wulff says Colonel Stoddart's servant told him
that " people had been frequently confined fol five years
ut Bokhara, and believed by all the inhabitants to have
been killed. and then suddenly had made their appear-
ance again." The Docter then says :
" So much is certain that no one at Bokhara has wit-
ii(f.ssal the execution of Stoddart or Conon.), and my de-
:el taina-ion therefore of going straight to Bokhara is
unshaken and unabated.. .1 shall now begin to draw
money on Drummonds in good earnest, for I must appear
respectably at Bukhara, as the Great Mullah fro/a