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ELIZA MARIA PARSONS, at present and
for ten months past, residing at No. 13, Great Portland-street,
Cavendish-square, in the parish of Saint Marylebone, in the county of
Middlesex, bread and biscuit baker, and previously for six years re-
siding at Caldicot Hill, near Watford, in the parish of Bushy and
county of Ilerts, and being out of business or employment, do
hereby give notice that I intend to present a petition to the
Court of Bankruptcy, Basingliall-street, in the city of London, pray-
ing to be examined touching my debts, sstate, and effects, and to be
protected from all process upon making a fall disclosure and surren-
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and I hereby further give notice that the time when the matter of the
said petition shall be heard is to be advertised in the London Gazette
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ICIIARLES WOOD, at present, and for twelve
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being a bookbinder, pocket-book maker, and embosser, trading as such
in copartnership with Richard Wood, under the firm of R. and C.
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that I intend to present a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing-
hall-street, London,praying to he examined touching my debts, estate,
and effects, and to be protected from all process, upon making a full
disclosure and surrender of such estate and effects for payment of
my just and lawful debts ; and I hereby further give notice, that
the time when the matter of the said petition shall be heard is to
be advertised in the London Gazette and in the Morning Sun news-
paper one month at the least after the date hereof; as witness my
hand, this 29th day of January, In the year of our or
ALd, 1844
CHRLES WOOD.
Witness, 11. B. Roberts.

ir JAMES BLUNT, at present and for five
weeks past, residing at No. 10, Church-street, in the parish
of Saint Mary, Newington, in the county of Surrey, out of business,
and for twelve months then last previously residing at Whittlesea, in
the Isle of Ely, in the parish of Whittlesea, and county of Cambridge,
and being a farmer, do hereby give notice that I intend to present a
petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, pray-
ing to be examined touching my debts, estate, and effects, and to be
protected from all process upon making a full disclosure and surren-
der of such estate and effects, for payment of my just and lawful
debts : and I hereby further give notice that the time when the
matter of the said petition shall be heard, is to be advertised in the
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my hand, this 30th day of January, in the year of our LJAMESordBLUNT., 1844.

THE NEW GRESHAM CLUB.
The foundation stone of the new Gresham Club, in King Wil-
liam-street, was laid en Wednesday, at ten, A.M., by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, in the presence of the Sheriffs, several
of the Aldermen, the Trustees of the Committee, and many
other influential gentlemen of the City, and amongst whose
we noticed Dr. Croly, W. Tite, Beadenhall, of the house of
Smith, Payne, and Co., Thomas Lamie Murray, Joseph Un-
derwood, kichard Westall, Andrew Caldecott, G. Harker,
Henry Mayor, John Carter, H. Melvin, Ferguson Camroux,
Wilkinson, Powell Davis, R. Jaffray, and others. His
Lordship having inspected the plans, and approved of them,
proceeded to deposit the coins, and a vellum scroll, indicative
of the purposes of the Club, and inscribed with the names of
the trustees, &c., in a leaden box, which lies embedded in a
well in the stone. The Chairman of the Committee, Mr.
Lamie Murray, presented his Lordship with the silver trowel,
and the implements provided for the occasion, who, having
spread the mortar, the builders, Messrs. Cubitt, declared the
stone to be well and properly laid. The Chairman then ad-
dressed his Lordship—" My Lord, I have now to thank you,
on the part of the members of the Club, for your condescen-
sion] on the present occasion, in the laying ot the foundation
stone of an institution which, I trust, will be found to take
its rank amongst the many which ornament our noble city,
founded, as they all have been, by the perseverance and en-
terprise of the citizens, amongst the foremost of whom stands
Sir Thomas Gresham, whose name the Club has honoured
itself in taking." The design is Italian, and is by (r. H.
Flower, who is the architect appointed by the Committee to
carry out the works, and, when completed, it will add an-
other ornamental feature to the City improvements.

SIR H. POTTINGER AND THE
AMEERS OF SINDE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

_ _
-Cruernseg, Fels. 46 1844.
Stn,—l have only just seen Ittajor William Pottinger's
letter, in which, evidently alluding to my former letter to
you, he says :
" Any one who can imagine that under any 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, 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 "foul 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 Pottinger
himself, not once, or lightly, but many times in his official
letters, advised, recommended, and urged, as the proper thing
to 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, 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, but that his come anion 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 perceive, 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 lie enjoyed. . . . The information I
have been able to collect, respecting the character of my in-
formant is favourable to him ; and I have scarcely any
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
of Captain Conollv."
The Austrian consul-General Ghersi, in a dispatch, dated
Trebisonde, 14th Dec. 1843, after stating that eight people,
just arrived from Bokhara, declare that Colonel Stoddart was
alive, concludes thus, " Quant au Capt. Conolly les notions
donnees par ces huit individus, semblent moms precises, ils
disent pourtant de l'avoir entreva dans l'habitation meme du
Col. Stoddart, et croyent qu'il remplit, aupres, de lui, les
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 Oreniserg writes to Count Nesse:rode
on the 26th of December last, that he had 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 mission 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 Bokhara that they had been
executed.

A gentleman who was attached to M. de Boutenieff's mission at
Bokhara, however, told Lord Stuart de Rothe•ay that the state-
ment 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. adds, that
Lord Stuart de Rothesay
he had been unable to elicit from the Russian Governtuent any in-
formation which would corroborate the hope of the officers being still
alive, and that the language of
all ersons at St. Petersburgh tends to
confirm the account sent home originally by Lieut.-Colonel Sheil.
p
The Eastern merchants at St. Petersburgh who have intercourse
with Bokharian 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 1, sends
horns a statement made to him by Reit) Bey, a native of Herat,
who was in Colonel Stoddart's servicei during his first captivity,
and afterwards in Captain Conolly's. This man was in confinement,
together with others of Captain •Conolly'a servants, including
Yeusoof, the Greek, in the Black Well, and confirms in many
particulars, the statement of Mahomed Suleh Akhoonzadeh,
formerly given in the Times., He was liberated, and shortly
afterwards heard ;that Mahomed Suleh and Allandad Khan had
been put into the Well. About forty days after his libe.
ration he received orders from the officers to leave
Bokhara; and he went to Herat, where he was
seven months ill, and he then went to Meshed. He was told
at Herat by Gool Mahomed, another servant of Captain Conolly,
who had been in the well with him, but who was released two or
three days after himself, that he, Gool' Mahomed, was in Bokhara
at the time it was declared that the officers had been put to death,
but that he had never seen any one who had witnessed their exe-
cution, which was said to have taken place in a small square near
the prison, which, however, was not much frequented. Goal Mah. o-
med said he took courage, and ventured to go to the place of execution
about a week after the event. He examined it carefully, but
was unable to find any traces of blood, or of earth recently dug,
nor were there any mounds like graves. For these
.. reasons Gool
Mahomed thinks they were rot killed, and Rejib himself hopes
they are not dead, for the Ameer, he says, has a practice of secretly
putting people into prison, and of placing them under the charge of
one pson, who is certain to suffer death ie reeals their exfin
ence.er He confinede one of his Viziers in this manner for ve
years, whom he finally liberated.
An envoy from Bokhara had arrived in Teheran, but Colonel
Sheil had listen unable, in consequence of the Shah and his Minis-
ters being out of town, to communicate with him before the depar.
ture of his messenger.
Sir S. Canning sends home by a messenger dispatched on the 3d
of January, a report from the British Vice-Consul at Trebizond,
dated December 11, stating that eight natives of Bukhara had
arrived there on a pilgrimage to Mecca, having left Bokhara
six months previously, and passed through Meshed, Teheran,
Tabreez, and Erzerum. These persons say that they left in
Bokhara an English " Miralai " (Colonel), who had been a resi.
dent there for three years, had become a Mussulman, and on doing
so had received from the Ameer the title of Khan and the situa-
tion of Chief of Artillery, and was named by the Ameer Abdul
Semmet Khan. He is a tall man, having a long dark beard,
and has with him a companion, a middle-sized man, with a
short light board, who served Abdul Semmet Khan as secretary,
but they did not know if he had become a Mussulman. Both were
in the confidence and favour of the Ameer, and seemed to enjoy
freedom, more particularly the Colonel or Khan, who was admitted
in the presence, and allowed to sit at the side of the Ameer. Both
lived in a large dwelling, or fort,allotted to them. This statement was
first made to the doctor of the quarantine; the British Vice-Consul
received the same account from four of the party, whom he
saw first ; but although the other four, who came in after.
wards, confirmed the statement respecting the English Colonel
or Abdul Semmet Khan, they did not confirm that regard-
ing his secretary. They said the latter might be in Bokhara, but
they had not seen him, They had frequently seen the Colonel,
and had received alms from him.
Some of the compsnions of the above patty reached Trebizond
on the 15th of December, and the quarantine doctor told the Bri.
tish Vice-Consul that they confirmed the statement of the others,
though they had no previous communication with them.
With respect to the foregoing statements from Trebizond,
it is to be observed that a person, named Abdool Samar Khan,
appears continually in the correspondence of the Foreign.
office, in connection with the officers. Colonel Stoddart's re-
lease from his first confinement was effected by the instru-
mentality of thli person, and both of the officers lodged in
his house for a short time after Captain Conolly's arrival,
and Captain Conolly got from him a sum of nearly 1,6001.
(3,000 tillahs). Of this person Colonel Stoddart wrote, in
March, 1841, that he was a native of Aaerbijan, and arrived
in Bokhara about four years before; that he was 57 years of
age, forty of which, on and off,
. he had been with the British,
having been drilled by them at Tabreez, and lived with them in
India ; that after his arrival he persuaded the Ameer to let him
drill the Persian slaves, and he had accordingly disciplined a large
with a powder factory and a fur-
body of them, with twelve guns,
rine for casting guns, etc.
Colonel Shell calls this person the Chief of Artillery at
Bokhara, and he received a letter from him in June last,
dated March 24, 1843, in which he refers to the money ad.
vanced by him to Captain Conolly. He did not mention the
death of the officers in this letter, though he sent a manu-
script dated March, 1841, given to him as a keepsake by
Captain Conolly. Bnt after saying that the officers were
taken from his house on the breaking out of the insurrection at
Caubul, he goes on—" All my exertions in their favour were fruit-
less, and these were so strenuous that the Ameer began to enter-
tain suspicion of me, and treated me with harshness. As he who
contends with., fate will injure himself, my efforts were fruitless."