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

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DR. INOLFF.

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, but 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 misleading the public on this very grave af-
fair. In his letter of the 27th the Rev. Doctor says:—
. though
five haveve nowo six
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its
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m e
in-
stantly to England with one r f his ambassadors, I am in the
greatest danger. I cannot stir out
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ire, withoutKtkwnin,, hs
kind me by the t o
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le
of three men. Dil Ilassa Khan, the •
Assaf Addaula, as shamefully robbed, deceiver!. and outraged
imuee: butTh I
Tire
think Per liewill io
Persian
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ad'r A K
it in ITN power to rescue me.
Neyeb Abdool samct Khan has extorted from me a writing to
ay him five thousand tomans to effect my liberation. I sus-
pect him that he was the cause of Stoddart and Conolly's death,
in spite of his continued protestation of friendship. •
n The Ameer is now at Samarcand. and I am here awaiting
the most fatal order from the King daily to reach me. It is true
that poor Stoddart openly professed Christianity. after he had
made a forced profession of Maliqmmedanism. Do for me what
you can, as far as the honour of England is not compromised.
All the inhabitants wish that either Russia or England should
lake the country.

" Do not believe any former reports of my speedy departure,
for I am in great danger. " JOSEPH WOLFF."

" TO ALL THE MONARCHS OF EUROPE.
Bukhara, Aug. 1, 1844.
" SIRES—I set out for Bokhara to ransom t' e lives of two
officers, Stoddart and Conolly, but both oft em were murdered,
many months previous to my departure, and I know nut whe-
ther or not ,his blood of 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."

IRE LAND.

The Dublin Monitor states, that the O'Connell tribute
for this year amounts to £28,8.50, and two parishes still
remain to be " made up,"
Dr. WHale, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam,
has promised £l,OOO towards the erection of a convent in
Castlehar.

FATHER M ATTH EW.—The 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.
H YDEOPHOB lA.—A n awful case-of hydrophobia occur-
red at Marehaltcwn 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 alter bit Mrs. Coffey and her daugh-
ter—the melancholy result was the death of both last week
from the dire malady.—Cork Constilzeion.
TRADE or Dunr.m.—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, 18:13, the
receipts in Dublin amounted to £938.99], 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 front of the Custom-house, 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 five
to seven yards, and what is very strange, the outer wall
next the river kept its place, sinking a little, but not slip.
ping from its original position. Fears are entertained for
the safety of the Custom-house whioh is built on piles.
HEROIC CONDUCT.—On Thursday evening last, the
largest of the bears in the Dublin Zoolog,cal Gardens
managed to get from the pit into the outer cage before
the keeper had made his escape from the latter place. 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 Monchy last, a letter was
read from Mr. O'Connell. tic labours to :how through-
out that in seeking for the repeal, the Roman Catholics
desire no ecclesiastical wcendancy, 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,fircible 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 letter, he heaves repeal over-
board, and, submitting to the views of Mr. Grafforter,