The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

SPAIN.

The deputation met at Madrid on the 30th ult., and
proceeded with the discussion on the amendment of M.
Isturitz. The discussion was adjourned till the following
day. General Prim has been removed from the place in
which he was first confined to the old barracks of the
Garde du Corps. The court-martial had been organised,
and was to assemble on the follawing day.
The papers found on General Prim at the time he was
arrested are said to have seriously compromised him as
connected with the attempted assassination of General
icarvaez, and the result of his preliminary examination is
considered as far from satisfactory. A profound mystery
hangs over the whole affair.
Letters from Barcelona of the 30th state, that the tran-
quility of the city had not been further troubled. Several
more arrests had, however, taken place. Four of the
ringleaders are to be shot, and nine sent to the galleys.
The Chamber of Deputies have rejected an amendment
to Narvaez's proposition for the overthrow of the consti-
tution, by a majority of 124 to 26. Much ex‘litement pre-
vails. Most of the French opposition papers denounce
Espartero, as the head and front of the movements in
Madrid and Catalonia.

DR. WOLFF.
Captain Grover has received the following letter from
the Rev. Dr. Wolff:—

" Meshed, Alonth of Shaban, 23

" My dear Grover,—Not venturing when at Bokhara
to keep a journal, I have forgotten the date of the Chris-
tian month. After the infamous Nayib Abdool Summut
Kban had forced from me the promise to pay him 6,000
tolas, I should, after all, have been put to death, if Abbas
Kuli Khan, the Persian Ambassador, had not saved me.
I am now arrived in Persia, broken down in constitution,
robbed of everything I had, and with a debt of 6,000 tolas
(X 2,500), which I am to pay to the brother of the Nayib
Abdool Summut Khan, who is to accompany me to Te-
heran. You thought that £4,000 might be collected for
my mission ; if you can now assist me in paying the debt
above-mentioned to the infamous Nayib, who forced the
promise from me in his garden, surrounded by his guards,
well—if not, I shall be obliged to go to prison in Persia.
The King bas also sent with me an Ambassador who is
to go to England, and the Nayib has forced me to pro-
mise to pay the expenses of that Ambassador out of the
money he advanced me. That same Ambassador has ex-
cited the Turcomans of Mawr and Sarakhs against us—
i.e., against Abbas Kuli Khan and myself, on our way to
Meshed, and forced Abbas Kuli Khan to pay him and
the other ambassadors appointed for Persia 150 tillas in
the midst of the desert !—Yours affectionately,
"JOSEPH WOLFF."
" Meshed.

" The above, though dated at Meshed, was written at
Mostroon. lam now at Meshed, and two hours after
me your gholam (special courier), Ali Ahmed Beyk, ar-
rived. He found me broken down in Mullah Mehdee's
house. I will only add, that the Nayib wants only the
interest of the above money to be paid to his son when of
age. The Ambassador from Bokhara is also here ; he has
letters and presents for the Schah, the Sultan. and Queen
Victoria. The Nayib has settled with the King that I
should bear the Ambassador's expenses from the money
the Nayib expects to be paid back. lam not yet out of
danger, but am too confused to explain all now. Mullah
Mehder will do it fcg me. Lieutenant Wyburd has been
murdered at Bokhara. " JOSEPH WOLFF."
(NOTE BY CAPTAIN GROVER.)
Lieutenant Wyburd, of the Indian army, is another
diplomatic victim. This talented officer was sent on a
secret diplomatic mission to Khiva in the year 1835, and
has never since been heard of. This unfortunate man, it
is right to state, was not altogether abandoned to his fate
by the British Government, for, in a letter written to me
by Lord Aberdeen's direction, I find it stated, that on
Colonel Stoddart's being sent on his mission to Bokhara
in the year 1838, he was instructed to inquire after Lieut.
Wyburd. I have not, however, been able to learn that
any effort has been made in his behalf since that time. I
directed Dr. Wolff to obtain all the information he could
concerning this wretched man, and to purchase his free-
dom should be be in slavery. The Doctor says, he has
been murdered at Bokhara ; but it remains to be seen on
what evidence that assertion is made.

I am advised to state an interesting circumstance that
occurred to me at St. Petersburgh, as it will show that
the good Doctor's mission has not been entirely useless.
Dr. Wolff was authorised to draw upon my private for-
tune for the ransom of any Christian prisoners he might
find at Bokhara. In the first batch he purchased were
ten Russians, and this circumstance was fortunately offi-
cially known in Russia before my arrival. A message
was brought to me from the Emperor by the British Mi-
nister, expressing his Majesty's thanks and wish to re-
imburse me. My reply was,—" that I considered it a
great honour to have been in any way instrumental in the
release of his subjects, and that repayment was quite out
of the question." I am glad to have this opportunity
publicly to thank his Majesty for his gracious declaration
communicated to me by the British Minister,—that his
Majesty will do everything in his power for the relief of
Dr. Wolff.

JOHN GROVER, Captain Unattached.
Army and Navy Club, Nov. 6.

The Independent of Montpellier states, that in the late
storm at Cette, 20 persons lost their lives, six vessels were
sunk, an immense number of others received great da-
mage, and 200 houses were more or less injured. A sub-
scription has been opened at Cette for the relief of the
most needy of the sufferers.—French paper.

FATAL DUEL.—A fatal duel has just taken place in the
environs of Versailles between-two pupils of the Polytech-
nic School. One of them was killed, and the other took
flight, declaring his intention to surrender himself when
the time came for him to take his trial. The seconds,
and the surgeon who attended them to the ground, were
arrested at Versailles, and brought to Paris on Friday.—
Galignani.

ISTHMUS or PANAMA.—The long-projected idea of
carrying on the correspondence between Europe and Peru,
across the Isthmus of Panama, is, it is said, about to be
realised. It is proposed that three fast-sailing vessels,
ably commanded, shall be appointed to convey the letters,
passengers, and merchandise, between Callao and Panama,
touching every voyage at Payta. By sending the des-
patches from Europe to Chagres, and thence across the
isthmus, to be again embarked from the point at which
the new packets arrive, it is expected that they will reach
the city of Lima in sixty or seventy days from the time of
their departure, whereas it requires double the time for
them to arrive at their destination by the passage round
Cape Horn.
NAVIGATION OF THE NILE.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company have sent out a beautiful new iron
steamer of seventy horses power, called the Delta, for the
navigation of the Nile and the conveyance of passengers
to and from Cairo. She arrived at Alexandria on the
20th ult., having performed the voyage from Dartmouth
in twenty-eight days, and drawing only twenty-four inches
water. This powerful steam company has already two
small river-steamers on the Nile, the Cairo and the
Lotus, for the same purpose, which the Egyptian govern-
ment, by especial privilege, allowed to be placed there at
a time when the overland route to India required much
assistance, and Egypt possessed few means of transport
for passengers at her command. The case is now widely
different, and the Nile will very soon be able to offer ho-
nourable rivalry to the Rhine or Rhone. It is said, how..
ever, that the Pacha persists in restricting the internal
navigation of the Nile to boats of his own country, and
that the Delta must therefore be sold or sent back to this
country.