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

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
Cclonel Shiel in his uniform, going to and returning from
the Court. He then visited the Ambassador, recently arrived
from Bokhara, who denied in tato 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 doctor was to leave Teheran on the 14th of February,

accompanied by an escort, ordered by the King, and 15y
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,
lalloont 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 letters through
the medium of the Ameer, 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 Bokhard."
Colonel Shiel's 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 lions(
of Gonzaga, having been inserted in the Gazette Universet
d'Augsbourg, 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 i
on the contrary, historical facts and authentic documents
prove 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 Lom-
bardy, named Gonzaglien, 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 Francois First de Gon-
zaga to the Emperor Sigismond, he came in person to Mantua
in 1433, for the express purpose of signing a diploma con-
trming Frangois 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
being intended for me in the Almanack 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 (as it
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, 1843, " en-
treated me most humbly to excuse him, as it would be detri-
mental to his interests as publisher of the Almanack if he
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 de
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 a 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 tit
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'Augsbour9 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 person 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'Augsbourg as soon as possible, in your estimable journal;
and believe me, Sir, yours truly,
AL EXANDER, 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."
Scuono roil Am—Yesterday, at two o'clock,
Lord John Ruin% 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 lwill cong, and
pig style. It on-
-30 feet wide, and erected in a very p
tain about 500 children.
i7ivals at this
BRIGHTON, APRIL 24.—The latest a
sc?untFss
fashionable watering-place comprise Viscount and N.::
Combermere Lord Teignmouth, Lady Polwarth, Lao," Sin-
clair, Lady Al‘Naghten. -Lady Louisa and Miss Georgiaoa
Lygon, the Marquis of Thommid (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 the 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.H.,
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 tired by the guns in St. James's Park and
the rower.

PROVIDENT CLERICS' ASISOCIATION.—We have been
informed that James Alexander, Esq., has forwarded a dona-
tion of 1001. to the benefit department of thii 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 onattingjst of May.