MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 131, 12 July 1845, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

DIL WOLFF. Captain Grover has just received the following ftom the Rev. Dr Wolff Meshed, Month of Shaba n, 23, “My Dear Grover; Not venturing, when at Bokharu to keep a journal, I have forgotten the dale of the Christian month 1 After the infamous Nayib Abdool Summufe Khan had forced from me the promise to pay him 6000 tilias, I should after all have been put to death, if Abbas Kulii Khaog the Persian ambassabor, had not saved me, lam now in Persia, broken down in constitution, robbed of every thing I had, and with a debt of 6000 tilias (.£2500), which I am to pay to the brother of the Nayib Abdool Sammut Khan, who is to accompany me to Tehran.

“ You thought that sg4ooo could be collected for my purpose ; if you can now assist me in paying the debt abovemen-* tioned of the infamous Nayib, who forced* < ncnmiiip in his o-arden.. surrounded hv his guards, well ; if not I shah be obligee to go to prison in Persia, «The King has also sent with mean ambassador who is to go to England, and the Nayib has forced me to promise to payr the expense of the ambassador out of the money he advanced to me. That same ambassador has excited the Turcomans of Mawr and Sarahehs against us ; i. e. a against Abbas Rulli Khan and myself, oil our way to Meshed, and forced Abbas Kullj Khan to pay him and the other ambassador appointed for Persia, 150 tilias in the midst; of the desert. Yours affectionately,, “Joseph Wolff/'

An Expensive Doll.— The Cour* rier Francais states that the King has sent a splendid doll, worih 10,000 f. to the Sultan Abdul Medjid, as a present for his daughter Nairue, who is four years old, Mr. Sturge a Teetotaller.—. Case of Conscience.— A good dea! of amusement has been excited by the announcement in the lust monthly Corn Circular of the Messis. Sturge, that the linn intend in future to decline the sale of malting barley. The Speaker of the House of Commons a Brewer S The Right Hon* Charles Shaw Lcfev.-c, M. J\, qualified tovote lor the City of London, is a partner ih the brewhouse of Messrs. Whitbread and Co. Weli might Napoleon declare that we were a nation of traders !

March of Civilization. —A shorfc time since, at the Howden Horse Fair—> the greatest perhaps in England,—among those present, strange as it may appear, there was a buyer from the Emperor o£ CJtiua, in the person of one of his subjeets, attended by an interpreter Owing to the scarcity of animals of every kind in a horse is a great curiosity. Jonathan Walker, a master marine?, is lying in prison in Florida, U. S., heavilyironed, so that he can only sit or he, awaiting his trial for having taken on board his vessel, seven runaway negro slaves. What a fine thing it is to live in a free country I