The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

DR. IV OLFFS TRAVELS.

Last evening the Rev. Dr. Wolff gave the first of a
series of three lectures on his travels in Affghanistan,
comprehending an account or his first visit to Bokhara,
as also that of his last one, in order to ascertain the fate
of Colonel Stodart and Captain Connolly, in the Hall of
the Horns of Kennington Hotel. The lectures are for
the benefit of the national schools erected in that dis-
trict, and the opening one, last evening, was attended by
a large and respectable audience. In the commence-
ment the Rev. Doctor explained the reasons which led
him to undertake a mission to these countries. In doing
so he stated that after having made himself fully master
of the Oriental languages and theology, in acquiring
which he studied for some time at Rome, where he was
the fellow student of the present Pope Pius the Ninth,
he felt that, being hithself, by the power of the Gospel,
placed as it were in a lonely garden listening to the song
of the nightingale, and enjoying the perfume of roses,
he should endeavour to impart some of those blessings
to the natives of heathen lands, and make an attempt
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Jerusalem, in 1821, he was told by the Jews resi-
dent there that the Jews of Bokhara were, without
doubt, a remnant of the twelve tribes. This he wished
to ascertain, and in order to do so, he set out for that
country in 1830. He then proceeded to give a detail of
the incidents which attended his journey from the time
he left Constantinople up to the period when he was
taken as a slave by the Turkoman's prowess, to his
reaching Bokhara, leaving out the mode of his release
until a future lecture. In the course of this narrative he
gave a detail of the interviews he had with the various
Princes through whose countries he passed. One of the
gratifyingche sights he saw in the course of his travels,
should like much to see in England,
of different denominations, were every
where Greek and Armenian Christians,
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evening to be seen reading the Scriptures tegether, and
endeavouring to convince each other of the truth, with-
out the least symptom of animosity among them. In
the future lectures he would deliver, he would give an
account of his last journey to Bokhara, in reference to
Colonel Stodart and Capt. Connolly; but he considered
it necessary, in the first place, to detail the circumstances
of his first ore, in order that the whole matter might be
fully understood. He wished also to state, that his ob-
ject was not to give a geographical account of the coun-
tries he had visited ; but was strictly of a missionary
nature, his whole aim being, as he had previously stated,
to place others in the enjoyment of those privileges and
blessings which he himself enjoyed.

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TAtitE:rAtianeu.—During the lisit of the Queen and Princen
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cated her decision to the Commissioners of Woods and.
Forests, that the Wellington statue shall be removed
forthwith from its present unsightly elevation.
HER MA.TESTYS STAG HOUNDS.—The meet yester-
day of her Majesty's stag-hounds took place at Wink-
field row, but the field exhibited a smaller muster than
usual, amounting to little more than fifty, including the
Earl of Granville (the Master of the Buck Hounds), the
Marquis of Worcester, the Hon. Mr. Denman, Messrs.
Worley, Cox, &c., &c. An untried deer, on being
turned out in the neighbourhood of Warfield, doubled
back towards Winkfield, heading to the right into Sir
John Walsh's park, and over Chevy Downs to Svvinley,
where it crossed the plantations in the direction of Bag-
shot, taking to the left to King's Beach, thence to Sun-
ninghill, and away for Ascot. The deer then made to
the right to Mr. Crntchley's park, and on nearly to
Fern-hill, where it doubled in the plantation, and ran
back to the One Ton at Sunninghill, thence through the
grounds at Buckhurst Lodge, nearly to Sawyer's Gate,
where it was captured, after an excellent and unusually
fist run of nearly one hour and a half. Earl Granville
and most of the field were upat the take. To-morrow the
private meet will take place at Broom-hill Hut, on the
road between Sunninghill and Bagshot.
Commanders Lowe and Birney, of her Majesty's
ships Pluto and Madagascar, stationed in the Shannon,
have received orders from Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, at
Cove, to use all possible exertions and dispatch to ex-
tricate the Swallow steam-tender, which was driven
on shore at high water in the storm on the morning of
the 21st ult. A large quantity of timber, cordage, and
other materials were taken down to the stranded vessel.
It is expected she will he got off with the present spring
tides, and brought to Limerick for repairs.—Limerick
Chronicle.
John Bright, Esq., M.P., though slightly improv-
ing, is very tar from having his health fully restored.
The intended public meeting at Manchester, on the sub-
ject of bringing him forward at the next election for that
borough, is, therefore, almost indefinitely postponed.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have
caused an inquiry to be made into the efficiency of the
seamen employed in the rigging department of this
dock-3 ard, and a special report is to be made of those
above 60 years of age.—Devonport Telegraph.
CIIILD DuorplNG.—On Sunday evening a female
child, apparently six or eight weeks old, was found upon
the steps inside the iron railing of the Lying-in Hospital
in the City-road. It was wrapped up in two shawls
with clean and comfortable looking clothing, and the ge-
neral appearance beteken respectability. It was handed
over to the police, and sent by Inspector Gravestcek
from the Featherstone-street station to St. Luk(:'s
Wcrkhouse.