The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—The

Times publishes a letter from Captain Grover, of the 20th
inst., in which he says—" In the letter which Dr. Wolff
was forced to write at Bokhara, and which you had the
goodness to insert at my request, the King of Bokhara
proclaims to the world that he put to death Colonel Stod-
dart and Captain Conolly in the month of Sarratan, 1259.
The Christian date is not given in Dr. Wolff's letter, but
for the information of the public I inserted within brackets
what I had calculated as the English date. I was wrong;
the correct date should be July (Cancer,) 1843. It there-
fore appears that at the time I proposed to her Majesty's
Government to proceed at my own cost and on my own
responsibility to Bokhara to attempt the release of Col.
Stoddart and Captain Conolly, those wretched men were
actually alive."
THE STEPNEY POISONING CASE.—James Cockburn
Delaney, the surgeon, whose singular and suspicious case
attracted so much interest some time since, was on Wed-
nesday brought up at the Central Criminal Court, Lon—
don, to answer the charge of having poisoned his wife.
The trial occupied the court during the whole of Wednes-
day and Thursday, when the evidence produced for the
prosecution was almost entirely a repetition of that which
has already been published in the accounts of the inquest.
Mr. Bodkin, who conducted the defence, made an able ad-
dress to the jnry, and called on several witnesses, among
whom was the prisoner's brother, the Rev. F. R. Belaney,
who testified to the happy terms on which he had lived
with the deceased. Mr. Baron Gurney summed up, and
the jury, after a consultation of four hours, returned the
verdict, " Not Guilty."

On Tuesday last, being St. Bernard's day, the conse-
cration of a Romish monastery, or Roman catholic church
and abbey, took place at Mount St. Bernard, Leicester-
shire, and, being the first consecration of an abbey church
in England since the Reformation, the attendance of
Romish bishops, priests, nobles, and gentry holding the
Romish faith, was exceedingly numerous. The services
commenced with a grand procession of monks and eccle-
siastics, from the old temporary monastic buildings,
chanting appropriate ps films ; and, on reaching the abbey,
after the usual ceremonies, the office of consecration was
performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh. Bishop of Cam-
bysopolis ; high mass by the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman,
Bishop of Melipotamus, assisted by the Right Rev. Dr.
Morris, Bishop of Troy. A sermon was afteawards
preached by Dr. Wiseman, and the day being spent in re.
ligious exercises, vespers were sung, and the proceedings
were closed by a sermon from Dr. Morris.
ROYAL VISITORS.—The Prince of Prussia arrived at
Stratkfieldsaye shortly before seven o'clock on Monday
evening, and the same night the Duke of Wellington gave
a grand banquet. On Tuesday morning, the prince, ac-
companied by the Duke of Wellington, as Chancellor,
proceeded to Oxford. At five o'clock, the royal party
drove off in the direction of Nuneham. It was generally
remarked that the Duke of Wellington was looking much
better than upon the occasion of his last visit with Prince
Albert, three years since. The royal party dined with
the Archbishop of York, at Nuneham. On Wednesday
morning the Prince visited Stowe, and went thence to
Derby, where he was to sleep. Thence, after visiting
Chatsworth, he proceeded by York and Newcastle to
Edinburgh, where he was to sleep. On Friday, the royal
party were to visit Glasgow. On Monday last, the Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, went from
Kew to Alton Towers, Staffordshire, on a visit to the
Earl of Shrewsbury, and returned to Kew on Wednes-
day.

SUICIDE.—On Wednesday last two young women aged
20 and 18, sisters, threw themselves into the Grand Sur-
rey Canal, near Deptford. They were observed by a
shipwright who immediately precipitated himself into the
canal and rescued one, who was resuscitated after great
exertion, but who again would have attempted to destroy
herself. The other was unfortunately drowned. At the
inquest it came out in evidence that the poor creatures
were slop-shirt makers for which they were paid five
farthings a-piece, and of which each of them could make
eight if they worked to the utmost of their power. They
never had dinner and the only meals of which they par-
took were breakfast at eight o'clock, and a meal which
they called supper at six o'clock in the evening. In
consequence of their extreme want the deceased girl bad
pawned some shirts entrusted to her to make, and it was
believed that this was one of the chief causes for the
commission of the rash act. Alas, alas, that such oc-
curences should take place in Christian England, but it
is one of the fruits of "buying in the cheapest market
and selling in the dearest."

THE RECENT DISCLOSURES AT THE POST-OFFICE.—
The inquiries at the Post-office into the circumstances
connected with the recent cases of letter opening by the
letter-carriers appointed to deliver and collect the letters
belonging to the leading members of the sporting world
resident in the metropolis, are still being instituted from
day to day. The six men implicated by the letter-carrier
Tapson in his statement to the authorities of the Post-
office, we understand, have all admitted having received
their information, as to the state of the odds and other
racing particulars, from the opening of letters directed to,
or received from, Lord George Bentinck, Mr. Tattersall,
Mr. Ives, and other celebrated sporting characters. Upon
the strength of these communications several parties con-
nected with the turf have received the earliest information
of what it was proposed to do in the case -of a favourite
horse whose betting value was upon the decline, or upon
the situation of a well-backed four-year-old, the position
of which upon the list it might be considered advantageous
to raise at " Tattersall's. ' These letter-carriers, it
appears also, have'been in the habit of betting themselves
to a large amount, at the races at Epsom, Goodwood, and
other meetings of importance, as well as upon the Leger
at Doncaster, during the current year.
Two returns have lately been printed by order of the
House of Commons, which at this peculiar juncture of
affairs will be read with interest, and, we are inclined to
think, with satisfaction. The first gives the " amount of
horse-power ordered for her Majesty's steam-vessels be-
tween the Ist day of April, 1839, and the 31st of August,
1841," as follows :
Horse-power. I Number of vessels. I Tonnage.