The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

DR. 'WOLFF,

A letter from Dr. Wolff, dated Trebisonde, Feb. 12,
1845, has been published, from which we take the follow-
ing extracts :
" I am very anxious that the world should know that
the chief instigator of the murder of Colonel Stoddart,
Captain Conolly, Naselli. and six other English officers,
is Nayeb Abdul Samut Khan, a Persian, who is employed
by the King of Bokhara, for the purpose of disciplining
his troops in the European manner, and as he knows very
little of military art, he is very jealous of every European
officer who comes to Bukhara. I was at the very time
with that horrid fellow in his garden when he put to dea,h
an officer in the service of the Sultan of Constantinople,
who was on his way to Kokan, for the purpose of again
seeing his mother, whom the poor fellow had not seen for
the space of eleven yearn. He had with him a firman
from the Sultan Abdul Mej,d, letters from the Cadi of
Constantinople, Kamili Pa-ha of Etzeroum ; but in spite
of all he was arrested on his arrival at Bokhara, sent to
the Nayeb Abdul Samut Khan, and put to death by that
villain. The name of that unfortunate officer was Hajee
Mohammed, of Kokan, Yoos Bashi in the army of the
Sultan. It is worth the while to give you a short sketch
of the life of Abdul Samut Khan He was born at Ta-
briz, and entered the service of Mohammed Ali Mirza,
at Kerman Shah, when Messrs. Court and Deveam were
tbere. Abdul Samut Khan was expelled by the Prince
from thence, on account of bad conduct, upon which he
entered the service of Abbas Mirza, where he (Abdul
Samut Khan) behaved himself so badly, that his ear was
cut off by order of the late Abbas Mirza, and he was ba-
nished from Tabriz. I met at Cahul in Affghaunistan,
in the year 1832, with the late Sir Alex. Burnes, who told
me—' You will find at Peshawur a very great rascal in
the service of Sultan Mohammed Khan : be on your
guard against him, for under the pretence of attachment
to the English nation he tries to do them every harm in
his power, and thus he tries to do to any other European.'
I therefore came not near the fellow on my arrival at Pe-
shawur. Soon after he intrigued against Sultan Moham-
med Khan, and escaped from Peshawur, and went to
Cabul, where he tried to excite a revolution against Dost
Mohammed Kan. He was detected, whereupon be es-
caped into Bokhara; there be entered the service of the
Umeer, and has already accumulated a fortune of 60,000
tomans. He is the chief of the artillery, and has the title
of Nayeb. He has detained there a certain Giovanni Or-

Amount on sale ........ Lando, from Parma. whom I had got the permission from
Receipts at ports of the United States the Uuneer to take with me to Europe ; but as the said
since Sept. 1. 1844 .. 1'397'800 " Giovanni Orlando was informed of the plan of Abdul
„ „ „ same period last year.. 1,191,690 ~ Samut Khan to have me murdered on the road, be was
„ „ ~ year before.. 1,510,274 „ afraid to follow me, and wished me to inform a e Austrian
Exports from U. S. since Sept. 1, 1844.. 816,340 ~ Ambassador at Constantinople that he (Giovanni °Han-
,' same period last year.. 430.751 ~ do) was detained at Bokhara by the blood-hound Abdul
.9 ,t year before.. 695,627 ~ Samut Khan, and was afraid to leave that place with roe,
Exchanges.—Paris, 5f 25 to 5f.231 ; London, 1091 to 10. for he was aware that he (Abdul Samut Khan) had hired
Freights.—Liverpool, ; Havre, te. ten assassins to kill me on the road to Meshed, which was
(From Messrs. Wright and Lezcin's Circular.) also true !
Our last circular was issued on the 17th inst., on which "I am now going to mention to you another circum-
date we received accounts from Liverpool to the 11th stance of quite a dill's rent nature ; for you must be aware
January, which, exhibiting little or no alteration in that that I have made a pikrimage to suffering humanity, and,
trinket, produced no change here. On the 20th inst. we if possible, to afford consolation and relief to some of
were in possession of Liverpool dates to 4th February, them. When I was at Meshed, the capital of Khoras-
per Hibernia, showing a redualutr of an id. per lb. on san, in the year 1831, I found there a community of Jews,
the quotations of the previous steamer. The nature of consisting of about 230 families, most of them very re-
these accounts having been pretty g nerally anticipated, spectably, and in good circumstances. When I arrived
no disappointment was felt, and sales continued without there, in the month of March, 1844, in my way to Bok-
change
in prices. Thi sales for the week ending 22d inst. hara, I found that most of them had turned Mussulmans,
amounted to 14,000 bales, and during this week to last and a few of them had preferred death to a change of
evening, 10,500 bales. Since the 21st inst. we have had their ancient faith. Ths reason of this apostasy to the
a good inquiry from shippers to Liverpool and Havre, and the faith of Mohammed was as follows :—A Jewess was
the hulk of the operations, having been confined to Mo. afflicted with a sore hand ; she consulted, therefore, a Mus-
bile and New Orleans of ordinary and middling qualities, fulmar] physician, who advised her to kill a dog and wash
the former grade we consider lc., and the latter ie. higher her sore hand with the blood of the dog ! The poor wo-
than at the close of last week, and we have altered our man did so accordingly. It was just on the day of Bai-
quotations above to conform with the advance. ram. Instantly the rumour was spread that the Jews had
Since the date of our last, we have had a considerable killed a dog in derision of the Mohammedan feast. One
increase to our stock by arrivals from the South, and Said exclaimed, " Allah Daad 1" i.e . ' God has given
there is a very good selection of cotton on the market. them into your hands !' upon which thousands ran to the
Holders appear willing to meet the demand when a fair houses of the Jews, burning them down, and killing in
market price can be obtained. Since the date of our last an instant about thirty-five of them. The rest saved
there have been no operations of moment on speculation. their lives with the Chief Rabbi at their head by exclaim-
FREIGHTS.—The rate to Liverpot4 at the date of our ing, ' God and nothing but God, and Mahammed the Pro-
last circular was 5.16 d. for square and id. for round bales. phet of God. Only a few of the old Jews and Jewesses
Atter the arrival of the Hibernia, the rate advanced to continued exclaiming, Hear, Israel, the Lord our God
id. for square and 7-16 d. for round, at which considerable is one Lord !" The law of Moses is truth, the prophets
cotton hs been ngagd in he pckets, and two or three truth 1' and their heads were struck off. The rest went
transient vessels havee t also been put on the berih. To the next day to the mosque, when they were congratulated
Havre, the amount offering has been quite small, and the by the Mohammedan population with the words, The
rate has declined to ie. per lb. light of Mahammed and Ali has shone upon you'' How-
EXCHANGES.—The demand for exchange for this ever, more than eighty families soon after, with their
steamer ha. been tolerably extensive, hut with a better wives and children, emigrated pattly to Heraut, partly to
supple of bilk on London, the closing rates yesterday Yazd, Cabul, and partly to Teherrn, where they exercise
were 91 to 10 prem. again their former religion. Eighty families are still at
The f Mowing are the particulars of the operations in Meshed, who outwardly are Mussulmans, but in secret
the principal Southern markets, in continuation from observe their former religion. Suspected of the latter,
dates us given in our last : the chief Mullah has established a regular inquisition
•1- I ate a letter to the chief Mullah, and

In Charleston, during the week ending 15th inst., the
market wa: quiet UplAndft, and buyers had the ad.
vantage to the event of an kc. to to., the sales amount-
ing to 7,000 b.iles. Sea Islands wet e in good request, and
1,000 bales were taken without change in Price. Freights
continued very dull, and id. was taken by vessels loading

over them. wro
stated to him the great interest all the European powers
take in the well-being of the Jews, and recommended
them to his protection, which he promised to afford to
them. The year 1839, in which the massacre of ti- Jews
happened, is recorded by the Mohammedans of Meshed by
the name of the year of ' Allah Daad."

to fill up.
Early in the week ending 22d inst. the market declined
on the 10%%er grades of Upland, a further Ic., arid on the
qualities " good middling" and upwards. an /c. when
purchasers entered the market freely, and before the
clos.: of the week this decline had been regained. The

General Oribei who had been dismissed from the com-
mand of the Basque provinces for not putting Zurbano's
sons in,t4ntly to death, according to general orders, had
been tried by a court-martial and honourably acquitted.