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age, intimating his sincere respect for him (Dr. Wolff)
On his arrival in the streets of Bokhara, there were at keen
100,000 people assembled, who received him in them ie
manner, shouting nut" Welcome, Welcome," "Peace be upon
you."—(Cheers.) He was then taken before the " King o
Kings" as the King of Bokhara is styled; but, before receiv-
ing audience, he was asked if he would get down from his
horse and bow before the King three times, 'evoke his beard,
and exclaim " Peace to the King." He (Dr. W.) replied that he
would not only do so three times, but twenty times, if required.
He was then received by the King, and after bowing above
twenty times, the King said, " Enough, enough," and ad.
dressed him in the following terms, " Thou man original—
thou man with the star-like tail (a comet), you must go and lay
your address before my Minister of Foreign Affairs." The Rev.
Doctor then proceeded to describe his interview with the Mi-
nister to whom he was referred—in which he informed that
official of the reasons that had induced him to visit Bokhara, the
belief that Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly were not dead, but
imprisoned. " I wish to know," said the Rev. Gentleman," if
they are alive, and if so, 1 desire that they may be given up to
me ; if they are dead, I wish to know the reasons why
their lives were sacrificed." The interview ended with-
out leading to any satisfactory result, and at the ter-
mination of it he was taken to the house where Colonel
Stoddart and Captain Conolly had lived while in Bokhara,
and a guard placed upon the door. Next morning he was
waited upon by the king's chamberlain, accompanied with
another officer, and a writer. The chamberlain, in a very
pompous manner, said he had come from the King to ask two
questions—first, if he could raise the dead? and second, whether
he knew when the day of judgment would take place ? He
(Dr. Wolff) replied, " God is great, and he alone can raise
the dead—to me he has never given the power. With respect
to the resurrection, the Scriptures say that Jesus will come to
judge the world, but I cannot say what may be the day or the
hour." Having received this answer, and after making some
inquiries about the dress which he (Dr. Wolff) wore, the cham-
berlain and his companions retired. On their leaving, three
soldiers were placed at the door, and he heard from without the
remarks of the people, saying that he was doomcd to be an.
other victim. He was next taken before the Nazedan of
Bokhara, who received him in the most cordial manner, and
who had served up, on his account, a splendid breakfast in
the European style. The information, respecting Colonel
Stoddart and Captain Conolly, received during this interview,
was, that they had been considered as two spies, being without
letters, and in consequence put to death. The Nazedan de-
scribed their first coming to Bokhara. Colonel Stoddart came
first, and on being introduced to the king, instead of bowing,
according to the usual custom, he resisted and drew his
sword. He was afterwards thrown into prison, where he re-
canted the Christian faith, and became Maheinetan, and again,
after a short time, relapsed into his old belief. He represented
himself as expecting letters from England, but for 1 4 months none
arrived from any quarter but one from Lord Ellenborough.
Matters were in course of reconciliation when Captain Conolly
came and upset every thing. He was without letters. The
two now began to send letters privately away to CaubUl and
.Persia, - and also- letters to excite war between Khiva and
Cowan. These proceedings excited suspicion and they ware
put to death by having their throats cut. Before suffering
they kissed each ether, when Capt. Conollf said, " Fearnothing,
Steddart, we go to Paradise, to Jesus! ' Colonel Stoddart,
looking at the executioner, said, " Tell your tyrant, I die a
Christian. I am no believer in Mahomet." After this inter-
view he (Dr. Wolff) still being dissatisfied with the informs..
tion received respecting the object of his mission, and refusing
to take his departure, was watched in the strictest
manner. Every word he spoke was taken to
the King. Fortunately the Jews of the city were
allowed to visit him, and he resorted to a stratagem, in order
to deceive those who were appointed to watch him. He ma-
naged to arrange with these Jews that common conversation
should be carried on with them in Persian, but that on any ex-
traordinary or particular matter, he and the party speaking
with him should each take out a book, and pretend to read in
Hebrew, in question and answer. The Reverend Doctor here
gave a specimen of this mode of defeating the tyrant of Bokhara,
which excited much laughter anti applause in the meeting.
Tired out with the delay, he at last, in an interview with
Abdool Samid Khan, the King's Lieutenant, and the brother of
the Persian whom he had seen at Dowlah, charged the latter
with having caused the putting of Colonel Stoddart and
Captain Conolly to death. He admitted having mureer.,4
them, and this admission made, he surround el him (Dr.
Wolff) with his soldiers, and forced him to write
oat an acknowledgment that he owed him (Abdool
Samid Khan), the sum of 6,000 thalers, for services rendered
At last, letters having arrived from the King of Persia, request-
ing his (Dr. Wolff's) liberation, he was set at liberty, and
shortly after he was allowed to appear before the King, who
placed round him, as a robe of honour, a rich Cashmere shawl,
gave him a hundred ducats, made him a present of a horse with
silver mountings, and even wanted to send him an ambassador
to bear him company on the way. He said to him (Dr.
Wolff ) " You are a wise man, and a man of diseretion, and I
will send you back with honours." The King further informed
him that Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly might have
been well-intentioned men, but that they had acted very im-
prudently while in Bokhara. They were stated to have been
killed iii 1843, and not in 1842, as had been supposed. After
describing very briefly his taking leave of Bokbara, the Rev.
Gentleman concluded his address amidst great cheers, having
addressed the meeting for two hours and a half.
The Rev. Mr. SiPTODDA RT, brother of Colonel Stoddart,
next addressed the meeting, and expressed his high admiration
of Dr. Wolff's Christian conduct in undertaking se hanardous
an expedition. He then proceeded to defend his brother, at
some length, from the charge of being a mere soldier, and
gave several instances in which he had distinguished him-
self for literary acquirements and diplomacy. He con-
cluded by declaring that Captain Grover had made
most false and cruel assertions respecting his brother, in the
book which he had published on the subject. This unexpected
attack,which produced the greatest excitement in the meeting,
called up

Captain GROVER, who said that it was with great pain that
he had originally entered int* this matter. In 1841, when it
was believed that Colonel Stoddart was dead, a belief which
he did not anticipate in, and when hie family mourned
for him,

The Hey. Mr. STODDART here shouted out, " We did not
mourn for him. There have been many false statements, and
that is one of them."--(Cries of " Chair, chair," hisses, and
great uproar, which was with difficulty suppressed by the
chairman.)
Captain GROVER then proceeded, and at some length fur-
nished a very clear history of his connexion with this affair,
which gave great satisfaction to the meeting, and was received
with great cheering. Yet, for all his exertions (he concluded)
he had never received the thanks of a single relative of the
deceased.

Captain RANDALL, another relation, spoke to the question,
and thought the Rev. Mr. Stoddart had acted, in an impro-
per manner, and ought to apologise.
The Rev. Gentleman, however, persisted in his opinion re-
specting the contents of the book ; and, after the Chairman,
Mr. 8. Buckingham and Dr. Wolff had spoken condemnatory
of the terms which the rev. gentleman had used, the subject
dropped.
Resolutions were then passed, thanking Captain Grover and
Dr. Wolff for their exertions, and agreeing to raise sums of
money to indemnify Captain Grover for his advances towards
tke mission, and to present a testimonial to the Rev. Dr.
Wolff for his courage, perseverance, and intrepidity.
A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, when the
meeting separated.

ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RAILWAY.—ENLARGEMENT
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Directors of this highly popular project have de-
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branch, and in order to be able to do so, and meet any
increase in the price of iron, have determined to raise
the capital to one million, by issuing in all 40,000 shares,
instead of 30,000, as heretofore intended. We should
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minishing the dissatisfaction expressed by many, of not
getting anything like the number of shares they ap-
plied for, and still more who have not got any at all.
As there does not appear to be a single dis-
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manency, rather than to those who wish to speculate in
the share market. The promised support of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company by their very talented en-
gineer, Mr. Braithwaite, and the success that has at-
tended their own acting engineer, in his Cambridge and
Lincoln line, Mr. Bazalgette, have added much to the
public appreciation of this project.—Esser Herald.
HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCIIPOLE, THE SUFFOLK
GIRL.—We understand that, in consequence of the very
great interest excited by this publication, which is edited
by the Rev. R. Cobbold, of Wortham, Suffolk, and from
the circumstance of the story having been dramatiscd at
several theatres, the first edition is entirely exhausted •
and at the suggestion of numerous persons interested
in the account of the heroine's extraordinary life and
adventures, and who have been disappointed is pro-
' curing copies, the publisher has been induced to issue a
new (Anion compressed into two volumes, with the.iallt..-
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less from the vivid excitement afforded by its startling
details, than from the instructive moral to be derived
from its pages.
THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR MAY.—The
'• Passages in the Lives of Celebrated Statesmen of
Europe," publishing in the .New Monthly Magazine,
which have attracted so much attention in the political
world, are in the number of that popular periodical for
May, illustrative of the career of that illustrious diplo-
matist, Prince Metternich. It is impossible that a subject
of greater interest could have been found—this great
man being not only the tutelary genius of Austria, but
one of the master-spirits of the age, in whose hands are
the destinies of nations. The author of these clever
papers has evidenly been behind the scenes where,
though kings were the actors, the prompter was a Met-
ternich, and lie afforded the reader glimpses as extraor-
dinary as they arc entertaining of the rehearsals for the
important political dramas that have had Europe for a
stage, and the world for an audience. The particulars of
the career of Prince Metternich will be found extremely
interesting, and are believed to corii.?in many startling
incidents and piquant anecdotes hitherto unkiown to the
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