The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

DR. WOLFF.

We (Morning Post) publish the following from autho-
rity :—Letters have been received from Dr. Wolff, dated
Bokhara, June 27, and August 1. Their contents exhi-
bit the same magnanimous self-devotion, hut they stand
in melancholy contrast with those idle reports which have
appeared lately in the papers, and which, whatever may
be the motives of those who employ themselves in origi-
nating them, can answer no other end than that of mys-
tifying and misleadin, the public on this very grave af-
fair. In his letter of the 27th the Rev. Doctor says
1 have now been already two months in this place. and al
though five or six times the Kii g has promised to send me in-
stantly to England with one of his ambassadors, I am in the
sent with me by the .
greatest danger. I cannot stir out of thlestvouse without a guard
of three men. nil tiassa Khan, the ft
Assaf Addaula, i.as shamefully robbed, deceived, and outraged
me. The Persian ambassador, Abt:rd• Kolle Khan, is kind h,
me. but 1 think he will not have it in Ills power to rescue me.
Neyeb Abdool Samet Khan has extorted from me a writing to
ay him five thousand tomans to effect toy liberation. I sus-
i
n s thoees ot4fin,hiticaselcrooriris.itei
now
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trtohsteae
ntriitcatii
nit iegoandn
adoi.fl
yf;irtnioednr I am
he
pect him thlt he was the cause of Stoddart and Conolly's death,
each
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twi as i
trueti n g
the
that poor Stoddart openly professed Christianity. after he had
made a forced profession of Mahommedanism. Do for me what
you can. as tar as the honour of England is not compromised
All the inhabitants wish that either Ittou:sia or England should
take the country

• Do not be,ieve any former reports of my speedy departure
for I am in great danger. " Josurn Wor.FF."

" TO ALL THE MONARCHS OF EUROPE.
Bokhara, Aug. I, 1844.
" SIRES—I set ont for Bokhara to ransom t e lives of two
Stoddart and Conolly, but both of t em were murdered,
many months previous to my depattnt e, and I know nct whe-
ther cr not his blood cf mine shall be spilt. Ido not supplicate
for my own safety, but. Monarchs, two hundred thousand Per-
sian slaves, many of them people of high talent, sigh in the
kingdom of Bokhara. Endeavour to effect their liberation, and
I shall rejoice in the grave that my blood has been the cause of
the ransom of so many human beings. lam too much agi-
tated, and watched besides, to be able to write more.

" JOSEPH WOLFF."

IRELAND.

The Dublin Monitor states, that the O'Connell tribute
for this year amounts to £28,850, and two parishes still
remain to be " made up."

Dr. Nig-laic, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam,
has promised £l,OOO towards the erection of a convent ir
Castlebar.

FATHER M ATTHEW.—Tbe last 'number of the Inquirer
contains a painful statement of the embarrassed circum-
stances in which this gentleman is at present placed, and
an appeal in his behalf. The embarrassments have been
increased by his zeal in the temperance movement.
HYDROCnOMA.—An awful case of hydrophobia occur-
red at Marthaltcwn last week. There had been a pig be-
longing to a Mrs. Coffey bitten by a rabid dog: the pig
was killed, and a cat in the house ate part of the entrails;
the cat a short time after bit Mrs. Coffey and her daugh-
ter—the melancholy result was the death of both last week
from the dire malady.—Cork Constitu. ion.
TRADE OF DUBLIN.—The quarter ended on the 10th
instant-gives a customs receipt in this port for £274,734,
against £263,759 received in the similar period of 1843 ;
showing an excess in favour of the current year of
£10,875. The year ended the 18th October, 1843, the
receipts in Dublin amounted to £938.991. the year ended
on Wednesday week gives a receipt of £1,037,769 ; being
£98,778 of an increase in favour of this year.
SINKING OF THE DUBLIN CUSTOM-HOUSE QUAY.—
Tuesday evening, at the Custom-house Quay, and imme-
diately in frcnt of the Customhouse, a portion of the
quay, about 130 yards, suddenly sunk from its Usual level,
in some places, upwards of seven, and in others fifteen
feet in depth. The breadth of the breach varies from flee
to seven yards, and what is very strange, the outer wall
next the river ktpt its place, sill:jog a little, but not slip.
ping from its original position. Fears are entertained for
the safety of the Custom-house whioli is built on piles.
HEROIC CONDUCT.—On Thursday evening last, the
largest of the bears in the Dublin 'Zoological Gardens
managed to get from the pit into the outer cage before
the keeper had made his escape from the latterplace. The
hear seized him by the leg and threw him down, and
would, in all probability, have torn him to pieces, but that
one of the gardeners, a stout fellow, named Power, flew
to his rescue,_ and, with a well-aimed blow of an iron-bar,
struck the bear on the head with such force that the
animal died shortly after.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—At the usual weekly meeting
of the Repeal Assoliation, on Monday last, a letter was
read from Mr. O'Connell. He labours to t how through.
out that in seeking for the repeal, the Roman Catholics
desire no ecclesiastical ascendancy, and that the Irish
Protestants ought not to retain any jealousy or apprehen-
sion on that score. He has abandoned the intention, if
he had any, of holding any more " monster" meetings,
upon the ground that it would appear to be an insulting
braggadocio to revive them. Speaking of the Irish peo-
ple, he gives us a vision of what we may expect after his
death. He says :—" Whilst we, leading agitators; and
particularly whilst I. happen to live, they will never seek
to carry the repeal by forcible or violent means. But the
man is worse than mad who does not perceive in the con-
duct of the Irish people that determination to establish
self-government, which, when the present leaders, and I
amongst them are removed, may well produce separation,
but can never tolerate the continuance of the Union."—
Towards the close of the leiter, be heaves repeal over-
board, and, submitting to the views of Mr. Gray:Porter,