The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-29 00:00:00

THE COURT.

The Queen gave a splendid entertainment, at Virginia
Water, on Saturday, in celebration of Prince Albert's
twenty-fourth birthday.
RETURN OF TILE COL RT TO WINDSOR.—On Thursday
afternoon, at half-past five o'clock, her Majesty arrived
at the Castle from the Slough station, in an open travel-
ling carriage and four, escorted by a detachment of the
Ist regiment of Life Guards, commanded by Lieutenant
Cavendish. Her Majesty arrived at Slough from the
Paddington terminus in the Great Western Railway state
carriage, the distance being performed in 27 minutes.
The Queen was accompanied by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and attended by the Countess of Dun-
more, lady in waiting.
ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS DE JOIN-
VILLE AND LE Due D'AUNIALE.—At nine o'clock on
Monday morning the Pluto French war-steamer, Rear-
Admiral Prince de Joinville, and his brother, Le Duc
de Aumale, arrived at Woolwich, attended by the Archi-
tnede and Napoleon war steamers in the French service.
A field battery of the Royal Artillery, under the com-
mand of Captain Tylden, stationed in the dock-yard, fired
a salute to announce the arrival of their royal highnesses.
At half-past ten o'clock their royal highnesses entered
the barge of the William and Mary yacht, and were
steered to the landing place by Commander Smith. At
the moment their royal highnesses stepped on shore,
another royal salute was fired from the field battery sta-
tioned in the dock-yard, and the illUstrious visitors were
received with the usual honours. The Marquis de Chabot
and Marshal Count Sebastiani, attached to the French
embassy, and Lord Hawarden and Captain F. Seymour,
attached to the British court, were in waiting on the ar-
rival of their royal highnesses, and left Woolwich imme-
diately after the illustrious visitors landed, to accompany
them to Windsor Castle on a visit to her majesty.—
Morning Chronicle.
TIIE FRENCH PRINCES.—Some surprise has been ex-
, pressed at the sudden departure of the French princes,
who have been sight-seeing in London these last few days ;
but the truth, we hear is, that the Prince de Joinville and
the Duc d'Aumale were merely commissioned by their
royal father to wait upon the Queen for the purpose of
inviting her Majesty and the Prince Consort to beat off
Treport, near the Chateau d'Eu, in any marine excursion
which her Majesty and Prince Albert may be about to
take, so that his Majesty Louis Philippe may be enabled
to pay the Queen a sea visit. Having executed this com-
mission, the princes forthwith returned.

The eldest son of the Marchioness Townsend, and Mr.
Margetts, who assumed the title of Earl of Leicester, but
who has been deprived of that dignity by the Townshend
Peerage Act. has obtained the Royal license to bear the
name and arms of Dunn• Gardner.

A. letter from Berlin, Aug. 13th, states that Prince Al-
bert, during his stay at Jerusalem, contributed by his in-
terference to smooth down the difficulties which had
arisen between the bishop, Dr. Alexander, and the Pacha,
relative to the construction of a Protestant church and an
hospital.
A subject at present much talked of in the higher eh--
Iles of society.in London is that of the precedency of the
Marchioness of Douglass. According to the strict rules
of precedency, the position of the noble marchioness
would of course be below that of a princess of a sovereign
family. But the decision will depend upon her Majesty.
TIIE SUSSEX DUKEDOM.—A petition was presented on
Tuesday night, in the House of Lords (though not heard
in the gallery), from Sir Augustus d'Este to her Majesty,
" claiming to be Duke of Sussex, Earl of Inverness, and
Baron of Arklow, and praying that her Majesty will be
graciously pleased to order a writ of summons to pass the
great seal, to summon the petitioner to sit in parliament,
and there to enjoy the rank and privileges to the said titles,
dignities, and honours belonging." This petition was
presented to their lordships by her Majesty's command,
together with the report of the Attorney-General thereon.
It was read and referred to the Committee for Privileges
"to consider and report." The Sussex dukedom claim
will, therefore, in all probability, be one of the subjects of
discussion and investigation next session.

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—
The Times of Tuesday contains an interesting narrative of
a Mussulman fellow-prisoner of the above-named gentle-
men, who gives a minute account of their execution, by
order of the Ameer of Bokhara, the particulars of which
of
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the executioners.
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he stood upon the graves of the two officers. A strong
opinion of the general truth of the statement is expressed
by Colonel Sheil, British minister at the court of Persia.
We extract the following passage :—On the 17th of June,
the Ameer gave orders that Colonel Stoddart should be
killed in the presence of Captain Conolly, who was to be
offered life if he were to become a Mahomedan. In the
afternoon they were taken outside the prison into the
street, which is a kind of small square. Their hands
were tied across in front. Many persons assembled to
behold the spectacle. Their graves were dug before their
eyes. Colonel Stoddart exclaimed aloud at the cruelty
and tyranny of the Ameer. His head was then cut off
with a knife. The chief executioner then turned to Cap-
tain Conolly, and said—" The Ameer spares your life if
you will become a Mussulman." Captain Conolly an
swered, " Colonel Stoddart has been a Mussulman -
for
three years, and you have killed him ; you killed Yosoo,
too ; I will not be a Mussulman, and I am ready to die."
Saying which he stretched forth his neck. His head was
then cut off.