The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-24 00:00:00

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" Dated in the Yang-tze-Kc.ang, the .sth day of
July, in the year 1842.
(Signed) " HENRY POTTINGEII,
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary.

(True Copy)
" G. A. MALCOLM, Secretary of Legation."

NAVIGATION OF THE YANG-TSZE-KEANG.

(From a Correspondent of the Bombay Times.)
NANKING, AUG. 22.
_

The city, from what we have seen of it, is by no
means strong, haying many weak points, for the walls
though from 35 to 38 feet high in most places, are
here and there only 15. The outer one is of great
extent, and very old; as far as we can judge it must
be 30 to 35 miles round, inclosing a great deal of
open country ; the inner one we do not know the
extent of; being lost every here and there among the
houses; there is also a third enclosure in the centre
of the second, which, I suppose, is the stronghold of
the Tartars ; both the outer and inner walls are com-
manded by hills close to them. A considerable por-
tion of our force are landed, and have taken up a
position to the eastward of the city about four miles
from the ships, the remainder of the force are afloat
to form the column of attack on the side next the
river should it be necessary, which I sincerely hope it
may not. _ _

Old Elepoo is one of the Commissioners, though not
the head one, who, I believe, is some relation of the
Emperor's. The Tartar General has also something
to say in the settlement of affairs. We do not know
the exact number of troops they have in the city, but
I suspect their numbers have considerably decreased
since our arrival, at least so say the country people.
Nobody has yet been to the Porcelain Tower, but in
a few days more we are to be allowed to go to sce it ;
it is situated outside the city, a little to the south of
it. In the event of peace, we are to leave this in

twelve days, picking up the money as we go along
from the various towns. The sooner we are off the
better.

Four of our vessels have been more than five miles
above this—l think it a pity that we should have lain
here so long without sending a couple of the small
steamers to explore further up. The Chinese say
that a moderate sized ship may go 300 miles above
this, there being plenty of water, but a very
strong current. There were
sone or two places be-
:tween this and Chin-keang-foo, which we had some
difficulty hi getting through where the river was nar-
row, and the stream in consequence running like a
sluice. The tide occasions a slight rise and fall here
in the water, but no diminution of the current.

The country all round is very beautiful, and the
roads as far as we have seen of them some five or six
miles round, are really very good. There is not so
much cultivation as there is to the southward, but the
country is well wooded. Supplies are very scarce,
and the Chinese as yet rather shy of us—but within
the last two days boats have been plying about with
vegetables and poultry, and a supply of bullocks was
sent off by the Mandarins a short time ago.
A portion of the money to be paid is now ready
here, which the Commissioners wish Sir Henry to re-
ceive, but he has refused to take any of it, until the
Emperor sanctions their giving it.

THE REVEREND DR. WOLFF.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUAI

Sta,:d would, through the medium of your
Journal, call the attention of the people of England,
and especially that of the dignitaries of the English
Church, to the present situation and circumstances of
the Rev. Dr. Wolff, whose name is alike familiar to
the prince and the peasant in our own country; and
who, during the long period of eighteen years, has
travelled in the service of Christ through the burning
climes of the East—the gloomy deserts of Arabia and
Persia—the plains of Hindoostan ; the ancient land
of Egypt—and among the half civilised tribes of
Tartary and Affghanistan—this excellent man, whose
feet have stood on Mount Zion, and whose tongue has
proclaimed the glad tidings of salvation from the rising
of the sun to the place of his setting, to Mahomedans,
Heathens. and Jews—who has attracted the attention
of the Bishops of. all the Eastern and Western
churches=who has stood in the presence of the Grand
Mogul, and the Kings of Persia and llindoostan,
and whose great talents and merits have been acknow-
ledged by the University of Dublin, the Episcopal
Church in America, reid the Bishop of Exeter, who
addressed him by letter in 1835,—having also
attracted the notice of Mehemet Ali in Egypt, and
Abbas Mirza in Persia—and who has eminently con-
tributed to the success of the Society for the Promotion
of Christianity among the Jews, perhaps more than
any other man—this, same Joseph Wolff, notwith-
standing all this, is now condemned to spend his time
and talents as curate in a country village, equally ob-
scure and insignificant, and is thus strangely neglected
by the Church of England, and even envied by many
of its clergy, on account of his curacy at High Hoy-
land in Yorkshire.

If the Church of England had distributed her gifts
in pro-poition to the real greatness, the talents,. moral
worth, and services of those who are the objects of
her favour, Dr. Wolff would long ago have been not
a mere country curate in an obscure village, but the
honoured pastor of a large and well-endowed church,
if not in a far more dignified situation.
In the course of a well-spent life Dr. Wolff has
acquired all the Oriental and most of the European
languages, and made himself acquainted with the
theology of all religions, and during the time of his
missionary labours has done and suffered more, per-
haps, than any other Christian Missionary, having
often been in the most eminent danger of losing his
life—now being bastinadoed—then sold for a slave in
a strange and savage land—sometimes stripped naked,
and more than once condemned to death—and now
that his impaired constitution permits him no longer
to endure such sufferings in the scenes of his former
labours, and in the service of our Redeemer—to the
disgrace of the Established Church of England be it
said he: is altogether neglected, though never to be
forgotten—for, for many years to come, his name will
be remembered with gratitude and admiration by mil-
lions of men. I am, Sir, respectfully yours,
A FRIEND OF THE REV. DR. 'WOLFF.
November 22, 1842.

[A D VERTISEMEN T.]—TIIE " TIMES" AND THE
PATENTEES OF THE SELF-LIGHTING SEALING WAX.
—Nothwithstanding the difficulties the Patentees of
this simple though useful invention have to contend
with, by the efforts of their extraordinary opponents,
the Times newspaper, and some of the stationers who
are dissatisfied with the ordinary profits of a patent
commodity, the public know full well how to appre-
ciate so useful an article as the Improved Self-Light-
ing Sealing Wax, mounted in reeded tubes, as is suffi-
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journal of the day, when it endeavours to bring into
disrepute and malign an article of manufacture, which
common sense and public opinion decide to e infi-
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under its notice. Alessrs. Davis, Brothers, and Co.,
need not encroach further on these columns, as this
article needs no commendation ; its merits are ob-
vious, and need not be enforced; three operations are
condensed into one, and it is sold at a price that every
one may satisfy themselves of its utility. It may be
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and upwards.
CARMARTHEN CATTLE FAIR.--At our fair last
Monday few sales were effected, and those few were
at greatly reduced prices. This fair has always
hitherto been a very large one ; but this year it was a
very poor one indeed, and but the shadow of its former
stir and fullness. The falling off was no less remark-
able than lamentable. Cattle could find no purchasers
at any price.—Wid.chnian.
REMARKABLE TENACITY OF LIFE. Yesterday.
morning as the workmen were digging up the rub-
bish caused by the late fire on the premises occupied
her hiding
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Thames-street, they heard the mewing of a cat un-
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