The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-25 00:00:00

AVERAGES OF GRAIN.

In consequence, it is presumed, of a doubt being enter-
tained respecting the accuracy of the Averages, they will not
be declared until to-morrow.

THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE EXETER COFFEE-
HOUSE, STRAND.—Mr. Mason, of Brighton, who was lately
robbed of 701. at the above coffee-house, remained till Tues-
day morning, in the hopes of being able to find the missing
45/., and by a most singular circumstance he recovered his
stolen property. Being much annoyed by a London bug
on Monday night, he told the landlord of it, who forthwith
resolved upon having his beds taken down. On removing
the bed, in which the prisoner Gill (who is charged with
the robbery) slept on the night of the robbery, the chamber-
maid felt a hard substance in the mattress, andi on minutely
examining the mattress they discovered that a portion of it,
where the lump was felt, had been sewn up in a very bung-
ling manner, and on unripping the stitches they discovered
Mr. Mason's purse, partly burnt, but containing the missing
451. This circumstance will establish the theft against the
prisoner. Had the prisoner secreted the whole of the stolen
property in the mattress, he would, without doubt, have es-
caped detection.

ST. CLEMENT'S DANES.—Last night there was a
very fully-attended supper party of parishioners of St. Cle-
ment's Danes, at Mr. Spillman's, Strand, for the purpose of
presenting a massive and superbly-finished silver box to Mr.
Henry Thomas Woods, their late Churchwarden. D. Boobyer,
Esq., presided. In presenting the box, the chairman' pointedly
and appropriately dwelt on the merits and valuable services
of ;their brother parishioner, to whom he had to hand this
testiniony: of the estimation iu which he was held ; and re-
, Inarked`that their friend had gone through all the parochial
- officeS, ifdt only with great credit to himself, but with vast
advantagitb his neighbours. He added that he was glad
two sons 'of Mr.-Woods were among them ; and he trusted
that what they- 'beheld that evening would stimulate them to
emulate the conduct of their respected parent. The Chair-
man theapresented the box, on which was the following in-
scriptidn :—" Saint Clements Danes, Easter, 1844.—Presented
to Mr. Henry Thomas }Voods, by a few friends and brother
parishioners, in testimony of their personal esteem and re-
spect for his integrity, and particularly for his usefulness
during the past year." Mr. Woods, in returning his ac-
knowledgment for the honour thus conferred on him, said
".that he had had the honour of being apprenticed in their
parish, that he had succeeded to his master's business, and
/hat he earnestly concurred in the wish that his example
might be a stimulus to his sons. To encourage them, he
should leave with his family this valuable token, and im-
press'on them the value of such efforts as had secured that
testimony from his brother parishioners.
DEATH Or THE HON. HUGH LINDSAT:—At his
house in Berkeley-square, on; the morning of the 23d inst.,
aged seventy-nine, the Hon. Hugh Lindsay, brother to the
late and uncle to the present Earl of Balcarres. He served
in early life in the Royal Navy, 'and was present in several
actions under Lord Rodney and Lord St. Vincent, and among
others that of the Ist of June. He afterwards entered the
East India Company's service, and for the last thirty years
held the situation of one of the Directors. For many years
he represented in Parliament the boroughs of Perth, Cupar,
and Dundee. He held also the situation of Marshal to the'
Admiralty. • His death will be lamented not only by his
relations but by many attached friends. He married Jane
Gordon, daughter of Lord Rockville, fourth son of William,
second Earl of Aberdeen, and the Countess of 'Dumfries,,
and leaves two children, Hugh Hamilton Lindsay,
for Sandwich, and Lady Antrobus, wife of Sir Edmund An-
trobus, Bart.
THE WILL FORGERIES.—Since the conviction of
Barber and Fletcher, some important disclosures have been !•
made, and it is expected that Fletcher will now make a full
disclosure of the whole facts, by which, it is stated, that
another celebrated firm will be implicated.

SPOIITING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.
501. for four-yrs-olds, 7st Blb ; fivo yrs, Bst 111 b ; six
and aged, 9st 31b.
Mr. Watson's Antidote, 4 yrs
Lord Exeter's Maria Diaz, 4 yrs 2
Even betting. The mare made running at a steady
racing pace to the Duke's stand, where the 'horse took
it up, left her at the cords and won easy by three lengths.
Match .—T.Y.C., 200, h. ft. Duke of Bedford's Oakley,
Bst 7lb (Robinson), beat Lord Exeter's Pergularia,
4st 71b (Kitchener). 9to 2 on Oakley, who won easy
by a length.
Sweepstakes of 50 sov. each, h ft, T.M.M. (5 Subs.)
Duke of Rutland's Hyrcanian, 4 yrs, 6st 71b (Cotton) 1
Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware, aged, Est 121 b 2
Lord Chesterfield's Barbarina, 4 yrs, sst 4lb
13 to 8 on Hyrcanian, 13 to 6 agst I-am-not-aware,
and 4 to 1 agst Barbarina. Won by a length ; Bar-
barina was beaten a long way.
BETTING THIS MORNING.
DERBY.-5 to 2 agst Ratan (taken), 4to 1 agst The
Ugly Buck, 16 to 1 agst Bay Momus, 16 to 1 agst Cam-
panero, 40 to 1 agst Lancet.
aiss.-16 to 1 agst Emerald, 25 to 1 agst Crenoline.
The others as before.

(logers)

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.) •
NEWMARKET. BETTING ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
13 to 8 agst The Bee —t 10 to 1 agst any other
3 to 1 agst Emerald 20 to 1 agst The Bee winning
6 to 1 agst Zenobia this and the Oaks—t
6 to 1 agst Merope
All are scratched except The Bee, the Princess, Captain
Daintree's filly, Merope, Jamaica, Sister to Martingale,
Seakale filly, Emerald, Zenobia, Example, and Mr. Godwin's
two. The -Princess is doubtful, and Mr. Godwin's two are
not here.

cur.
25 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn
25 to 1 agst Everton—t
25 to 1 agst Freedom--t
30 to 1 agst Xanthus
33 to 1 agst Martyr
,ERBY.

CHESTER
6 to 1 agst Bramble—t
7 to 1 agst Pagan
12 to 1 agst Cattonite
15 to 1 agst Pharaoh,
20 to 1 agst Nutwith

33 to 1 agst Lancet
35 tol agst King of the Gipsies
50 to 1 agst LOadstone—t
1000 to 15 agst Lord G. Ben-
tinck's lot—t.
10 to 1 agst All the Touch-
stones
OAKS.

5 to 2 agst Ratan—t --
4 to 1 agst Ugly Buck
12 to 1 agst Leander--t
16 to 1 agst Campanero—t
16 to 1 agst Bay Momus
20 to 1 agst Orlando
33 to 1 agst lonian

20 to 1 agst Zenobia
18 to 1 agst Fanny Eden—t

7 to 1 agst Barricade—t
8 to 1 agst The Bee—t
17 to 1 agst Emerald--t ,
1000 to 5 agst Bramble for Chester Cup, larricade for
Oaks, and Ratan for Derby and St. Leger.

ENTRIES FOR TO-MORROW.

Queen's Plate—Coranna and Czar.
Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, winner to be sold for 801.
&c.—Colt, by The Saddler out of Miss Etty, Molly Moggs,
Mocha, Sister to Pompey, and Commerce.
The Ugly Buck and Wadastra c left Newmarket this morn-
ing for Stockbridge.

COLONEL STODDART AND CAP,

TAIN CONOLLY.

Captain Grover has just received letters from Dr. Wolff,
dated Teheran, Feb.l2. The doctor had been received with
great distinction by*the King of Persia, who recollected hav-
ing met him at Meshed twelve years ago, when he was only
Prince Royal, and reminded him of their conversation. The
doctor rode on horseback in full canonicals, accompanied by
Colonel Shiel in his uniform, going to and returning from
the Court. • He then visited the Ambassador, recently arrived
from Bokhara, who denied in -tot° the fact of the execution of
our. friends. The Ambassador and the attaches rose when he
entered the room, treated him with the greatest civility and
respect, and the Ambassador expressed a strong desire of ac-
companying him to Bokhara.

The cloct`Or was to leave Teheran on the 14th of February,
accompanied by an escort, ordered by the King, and by
Rajab, who had been servant to both Stoddart and Conolly :
he had been bastinadoed at Bokhara, by the Ameer's order,
on account of his faithful attachment to his masters, and had
exposed his life by going to Cabul.
The doctor had also seen the Ambassador of the King of
Khiva, an enemy of the King of Bokhara, and he could give
no information whatever concerning the death 01 the captives.
" Therefore," says the doctor, "whilst I beg you not to be
too sanguine of my success, I also beg you not to despair of
it ; for as all the Persians I have hitherto seen, tell me,
Malloom neest, nothing is certain about it' . . . . you
must not expect from me an exact and detailed journal, for
I shall neither carry ink nor paper with me, and I shall write
to you in Persian from Bokhara, and send the letteis through
the medium of the Amcor, in case Stoddart and Conolly are
alive; should they not be alive, I shall not write at all until
I have left the frontiers of Bokhara."
Colonel Shiers exertions have been unremitting.

THE SOVEREIGN PRINCES OF
THE HOUSE OF GONZAGA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—An erroneous notice relative to my hereditary pos-
sessions of Mantua, and the Sovereign Princes of the house
of Gonzaga, having been inserted in the Gazette Universel
diAngsbourg, dated Ist of this month; No. 92, I avail myself
of your.valuable journal to observe
Ist. That the statement therein contained is untrue of
Mantua ever having belonged to the Emperors of Germany :
on the contrary, historical facts and authentic documents
piOve that the family Of Gonzaga reigned there during seven
centuries,, according to 'the salique, law derived from the
Capitulars of Charlemagne, and consolidated in this country
on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Hugo, grandson of
Lothaire, King of Lombardy, with a noble Princess of. Loin-
bardy, named Uonzaglien, or Gonzanglien, whence he adopted
the name .of .Gonzaga.
The empire of Germany was at this time, and long after,
torn in• pieces by dissensions and intrigues; and in conse-
quence of the powerful aid granted by Franeois First de Gon-
zaga to the Emperor.Sigisniond, he came in person to Mantua
in 1433, for the express purpose of signing a diploma con-
firming Franeois de Gonzaga sovereign lord of Mantua to
perpetuity for him and his posterity masculine, in all the
branches, in. the titles and privileges of Sovereign Margrave
of Mantua and Princes of the Roman empire.
2d. As far as regards the personal allusion cited also as
beingintended for me in the Ahnanack of Gotha, in the year
1838, I declare positively that I never authorised, directly or
indirectly, any such insertion, as the details in reference to
my family ,are false. So, far from approving the article (alit
is said in the Gazette d'Augsbourg), I have several times de-
manded its rectification, but uselessly ; and the Editor of the
Almanack in his last letter, dated the 13th July, 1943, " en-
treated me most humbly to excuse him, as it would be deti-
mental to his interests as publisher of the Almanach if ho
made any insertion regarding me or my family."
3d. It is equally false that the title of Murzynowski
belongs to us frOm the marriage of a Margrave Valentine fie
Gonzaga with a Princess Lubomirski. We have adopted
this title since the first marriage of my father, Prince Joseph
Gonzaga di Castiglione with the Princess Suzoff,"Countess of
Murzynowski, whose name may be found in the list of the
ladies chauoiness, in the chapter of the noble order cf the
four Emperors, and admitted before 1789 under the title of
her Serene Highness the Princess Helen Gonzaga Castig-
lione, at the same time as Marie Antoinette, and the Dau-
phine de France.
4th. As to my adoption of the title of Murzy-
nowski, in Germany or elsewhere, I consider myself at
liberty to do so, in the same manner as other Sovereign
Princes, who frequently select an inferior title for political
motives, or for economy on their travels, or when not ac-
tually in their dominions.

The author of the article in the Gazette d'Augsbourg ex-
presses his thanks to the Count Pompei detta for the infor-
mation contained in his genealogy of the Princes of Gonzaga.
I cannot cite this persoa as an impartial historian, as he
writes under the influence of the Austrian Government, and
occupies actually a post at Milan of some importance.
I confirm the facts recorded in the memoir of the Com-
mander Pourret des Gauds, member of several, literary
societies, and as a general reply to all attacks for the future,
and at the present moment, I will maintain my protestation
of the 26th of April, 1843, addressed to all the Kings,
Princes, and Potentates of Europe, and my lawful rights to
the throne of my ancestors, before a congress of Sovereigns,
and in face of all Europe, whenever the occasion presents
itself.

You will oblige me by inserting this answer to the Gazette
d'Augstourg as soon as possible, in your estimable journal;
and believe me, Sir, yours truly,
ALEXANDER, PRINCE DE GONZAGA,
Duke of Mantua.
Boulogne-sur-Mer, April 22, 1844.

WOOD PAVEMENT.-Sir Peter Laurie and Mr.
Williams, M.P., having applied to the Commissioners for
paving Regent-street and. Whitehall to be allowed to attend
and state their objections to the use of wood-pavement, the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests have directed a letter
to be sent to Sir Peter Laurie declining the proposed inter-
view, as it was decided on Saturday last " that the experi-
ment in Regent-street not having been yet sufficiently tested,
no further extension of wood-pavement in the Commissioners'
district would be sanctioned at present."
ScnooLs FOR Am—Yesterday, at two o'clock,
Lord John Russell, M.P., laid the foundation-stone of a
school-house, which is in course of erection on a site, the gift
of the Society of Friends, situated in Chequer-alley, Bunhill-
row, the intention of the founder being, that the benefit of the
education to be given should be bestowed upon children of
all denominations. The building is about 80 feet long, and
30 feet wide, and erected in a very plain style. It will con-
tain about 500 children.

BRIGHTON, APRIL 24.—The latest arrivals at this
fashionable watering-place comprise Viscount and Viscountess
Combermere, Lord -Teignmoutfi, Lady Polwarth, Lady Sin-
clair, Lady M‘Naghten. Lady Louisa and Miss Georgians
Lygon, the Marquis of Thomond (for the benefit of his health),
Lady Mary Leslie (from Shrub Hill, Dorking), Capt. Measen,
Sir E. L. Lushington, and Lady Agnes Buller. The de-
partures include thg Earl and Countess of Egmont, for Lon-
don ; Lady Dallas, for Regent's Park ; Sir Arthur Clifton, for
Bath ; General St. John, for Newick.

HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—This being the day
appointed for the celebration of her Most Gracious Majesty's
birthday, when she attains her twenty-fifth year, the morn-
ing was ushered in by the ringing of a merry peal at the
churches throughout the metropolis, Kensington, and Wind-
sor. The Royal standard was hoisted at the Tower, Somer-
set-house, the Italian Opera, St. Martin's, St. Giles's, and St.
Margaret's church, 'Westminster. At ten o'clock, A.M.,
there was a grand parade in St. James's-park of a battalion
of each regiment of the Foot Guards in their new uniforms,
attended by their respective bands, when they were inspected
by the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief and Colonel
of the Grenadier Guards; by his Royal Highness Field-Mar=
shal the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Coldstream
Guards; his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Colonel of the
Scots Fusilier Guards ; and Field-Marshal his Majesty Leo-
pold, the King of the Belgians, and a numerous military staff.
After the parade, the bands of the three regiment of guards
marched to the Colour Court, at-St. James's Palace, where
they performed several choice pieces of music. At one o'clock
a Royal salute was fired by the guns in St. James's Park and
the Tower.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.—We have been
informed that James Alexander, Esq., has forwarded a dona-
tion of 1001. to the benefit department of this excellent insti-
tution.

Mr. Charles Kemble had the honour, yesterday
evening, of reading to her Majesty and the Court, at Buck-
ingham Palace, Shakspeare's play of Cymbeline, slightly com-
pressed.

THE POSTMEN AND HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION.—According to annual custom, the letter-
carriers of the metropolis, both general and twopenny, have
been furnished with coats, waistcoats, and hats, which they
wore for the first time this day, in commemoration of her
Majesty's birth. The men thus clothed amount to upwards
of 700. One hundred and sixty have been taken into the
office during the last fortnight to enable the officers to carry
out the extra London district deliveries, which, 'we under-
stand, are to come into operation upon the canting.' st of Alay.