The Express. — London, England, 1858-07-12 00:00:00

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S. irsbasr Maltsiss Oulefts—Ommisse al 7. BIOS WATT A AT LONDON BILIDOZ. we Ilaf—amas. aas Aftswesia. a. W• usinia.-Morelas. aas -Allumma, a. la LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 12. SPORTINO INTELLIGENCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS," eentaining the results of the day's Rama, is pub lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at siz o'clock. 'fats Telegram informs us that a massacre was per petrated on the Christian residents of Jiddah—the pert of Mecca—by the Mara'nun population, on the night of the 15th of June. All telegraphic asnouncementa are necessarily brief and obscure, and those of our Acting-Consul-General in Egypt parti cularly so. We are therefore left quite in the dark as to the actual extent of the butchery, and ss to whither it has been the result of some strictly local outbreak, or of some insurrectionary move ment with wider ramifications. It is stated that the English Vice-Consul, the French Vice-Con sul and his wife, with twenty other persons, have been martkred ; and that the daughter of the French Ceased, and the French interpreter—both badly wounded, with twenty.foar other Christian - fugitives, had been brought to Suez in her Majesty's ship Cyclops. The Oovernor•Oeneral of the Hadjaz had arrived at Jiddab, with 800 soldiers, bet whether he had succeeded in re-establishing erase is not known. If the statement that the French and English Vie►(brasM have both perished in this massacre he cornet, the affair will, and ought to be narrowly inquired into by their Governments. It is, however, of vital consequence that their interference be in a proper spirit. Infinite harm may be done if they act merely with a view to make political capital— to curry favour with their respective publics, by attaining specious and showy results. That this may be their polity is quite within the range of possi bility. The present French Government is quite as much a Government of Cusps de 77tidere as of Corps sr Etat : and the present English Government— with its " Conservative policy and Radical princi " plea"—bas a natural propensity to imitate ita Gallic prototype at humble distance. It is possible that the murderous outbreak at Jiddah may have had its origin in some widely ramified combination to resist Christian influence and encroac►ments throughout the Museulman world. Everywhere in Islam we may trace recent symptoms of a resuscitated feeling of bitterness towards Christians. In Turkey it may be discerned in the movements of the old Mahometan party. In Persia, we had not long ago something nearly approaching to • proclamation of a holy war against Christians. In India England is fighting with an insurgent population, of which the Mahometan element is decidedly the most invete rately hostile. From all the rude and predatory bitussulman tribes to the North-West of our India& frontier* come ominous murmurs. All these things indicate a simultaneous re-awakening of hostility to Christians, and everything Christian, among the ma jority of the Mahometan populations, that may lead tea general combination, if it dace not spring from • general conspiracy. It has been too much over looked that, effete and apathetic as Mahon• taniens is by many people supposed to have become a large proportion of the world's population still holA the faith as it is in Islam, and that these peoples have constant systematic communication with each other. the mere existence of which, not its mode or nature, is known to Christendom. hlnesulman communities exist as far south as the line in Africa, and in the Indian Archipelago. Mussulman communities— independent, or in subjection to Governments of some other faith —are found as far East as Chios ; within a short distance of the West Coast of Africa; in Morocco and all along the south coasts of the hfeditarraisean ; se far north ea the Danube, and fez into the interior of the Russian dominions both in Europe and Asia. Different Mahometan tribes and nations have attained to different grades of civilisa tion. Some can warmly be regarded as baring risen above the savage eats; others are possessed both of refinement end knowledge. The various shade. of opinion among the professore of Islam are almost as numerous as those among the professors of Christianity. In proportion as you remove from the Arabian centre, you find Mahometaniam varying in character.ln Persia it has retained a tinge of Zoroastrian ; in India it fades by impercep tible gradations into the native ruperstitions; among the Malays to the South, and the Tartar tribes in Ramie, many aboriginal superstitions are prevalent; in Africa, Fetishism has frequently made strange asenpromises with Islam. But among all Mahouts bra populations there is found a capacity and in elligencs--latent or developed--superior to those which characterise peoples which have not yet emerged from Heathenism. The Mustilman creed— social and religious—has a common origin with the creeds of the Christians and the European Jews: it confers upon its follower,, in common with the pro fessors of those other true creeds, a higher civilisation than has been attained to by any other portion of tne human race. Except in China, Christians and Ma. honsetam are the only dominant races wherever they are fiend. Except in Chins, Maltossetans are thennly religionists who hare not yet entirely seccumbed in the struggle for ascendancy with the Christian rases. And them widely diffused reasoner' of • eammea faith have a central place of to-union when every year, at a Fled season...representatives of every tribe and tongue among Sheen meet together. At Meom, on each recurrence of (he great religioua fes tival of Islam, assemble crowd, of Mahotoetana from every region where Mabometans exist. And their thoaghts and convenation, during the time they re main together, are not %reclusively devoted to mil itia'. They find time fee the transaction of more amides. business. Many conunersial transactions are then and then carried on. And political news THE EXPRESS, MONDAY,EVENING, JULY from every region of Islam is there interelanged. ' The Turk and Tartar, the Figlatah of Aikisa and the native of Morocco, near thsr a e li the Menulinan insurrection egabill the Fdia t in India ; the Malay, the inhabitants of Eindostan and the Deccan, the pilgrims from Zanzibar, and the natives of Arabia hear how the Nazarenes are en croaching on the northern frontiers of Islam, and of the humiliating concessions made them, within his own dominions, by the Sultan of Roux. Every sac ceeding celebration of the Hejira is a new Mahe metaa " Revival," confirming the pilgrims in their hereditary faith, re-inspiring them with a sense of a common interest in opposition to the Christians. Nor are there wanting bold and intriguing spirits, who take up their abode for longer or shorter periods at Mecca, with a view to form political combinations. The fact is that Islam is quite u much a system of States as Christendom. It is a different, an infe rior type of civilisation ;—it embraces aportionof the world's population which does not entirely !wog aim the moral deed of Christendom ; but the pro fessors of Islam have enough in common with Chris tiana to admit of compacts and treaties being con cluded with and observed by them; and the organi sation of Mussulman States is too advanced to admit of our dealing with them u we deal with the strag gling bib.. of Australia, and America, and South Africa. The territories of Christian and Muesulman States are already much intermingled, and may any day become more so. The commerce between Chris tian and 3lahometan nations is extensive, and of vital consequence to both. That coils of international law which is now recognised and appealed to by all States of the Christian civilisation in their dealings , with each other, has never been regarded as en tirely applicable, perhaps is not entirely appli cable, to negotiations and transactions between Christian and Mahometan States. But it is dear from history and from passing events that some universally recognised system of policy—some inter national code—that shall regulate the relations of Christendom to Islam is an urgent want. The rela tions of Christian to Mahometan communities have never been exhaustively examined or clearly defined. The spirit of the present age will not admit of Christendom arraying itself against Islam as in the age of the Crusades. But the spirit of antagonism . between organised Christendom and organised which survived the Crusades, which sent Spaniards, • after the extirpation of the Moslem from the Pepin , Bala, to wage a " holy war" against Infidels in the New World, which sent swarms of "soldiers of " the Cross" from Portugal round the Cape to the Indian Ocean, and which kept alive the long internecine struggle between the Porte and the German Empire on the Danube, still survives among other Christian populations besides the Rus sian. It is in a state of come, but it is not extinct- Austria is quite as ready to avail herself of the discon tents of the Christian subjects of Turkey as Russia. Francs, as protectress of the " Latin Christians," still cherishes the feelings which erst animated GOD FREY' of BOULOGNE ; and harangues have of late been delivered on Missionary platforms in Eng land, by English Protestants, which smack more of the ecclesiastical policy of Prue the HERMIT than is altogether consistent with the Nineteenth Century's construction of the Christian doctrine of toleration. The seen of the Christian civideation of our day have ceased to profess the policy of extir pating Mahometanism by the sword ; but as re garde Mahometans, they have not adopted a better creed, and their conduct towards Mahometans is apt to be regulated by principles widely different from those which regulate their conduct towards one ano ther. It is time that this should mess to be the case. It is time that some effort should be made by Christians and Mahometans, to meet upon equal terms under the protect ion of recognised principles, social and political. The recognition of Turkey as an integral member of the European system was a step, bat a very short and undecided one, in this direction. The tracessersis in which England, France, Austria, and Russia have since indulged, as regards the Ottoman Empire, would seem to indicate that none of the contracting Powers had a very distinct notion of what that recog nition implied. To our understanding the adoption of Turkey into the European system implied—let. That with regard to Turkey, as with regard to European States in general, "the age of conquest is " past ;" 2nd. That the nations and inhabitant of the Turkish Empire must be left to settle their own internal political disputes ; to adjust the balance of power between sectarians, within their own frontier, for themselves. Now against both of these principles the whole of the frier Powers are at this moment sinning. Austria and Russia are, as re gards Turkey, coveting their neighbour's provinces, and insidiously seeking to remove the old landmarks which their fathers have set up. France is hard at work, by making herself the head of a sectarian party in Turkey, to acquire an influence in the policy of that empire, which no independent State can with safety or honour concede to aliens. And England—if the least selfish, assuredly the most blinded of all—can discern no better way to ensure the permanence and independence of the Ottoman Empire than by interfering to arrest the spirit of program in Turkey, and to assist Mussalman bigotry in re-imaposiag fetters upon all the Christian popula- tions. This is miserable work, and if persisted in an only serve to afford materials for keeping alive at Mecca that fire of hatred to Christians from which kindled brands are every year distributed to all the nations of Islam. The question of the policy of Christendom u re gards Turkey is but a part of an infinitely greater question—the policy of Christendom as regards Islam. The Ottoman Empire is bet a frontier state el Islam, and of all the Ishunitie States the one in which the more intelligent and powerfal portion of the population is least thoroughly imbued with Mabometan peculiarities. The perpetuation of the Ottoman Empire is a hopeless task, and one of very little practical importance. What Christendom and Islam have an equal interest in is, that when the hoar of the disruption of the Ottoman Empire arrives--and it cannot now be tar distant-00 undue advantage shall be taken by any European Power to subjugate or annex any of its fragments; that the autonomy of all the populations at present web- Jest to the Porte—be they Christians or be they Mumulmans shall be respected. This can only be accomplished by recognising and honestly acting upon an equitable system of international policy between the aggregate States of Christendom and the aggregate States of Islam. Every Christian has an interest in the achievement of this desirable end. By recognising Islam as an integral part of the greet system of nations, an abundant worm of national jealousies, enmities, sad' wars would be dried up. America would be as much benefited by this as Europe, for the relations between its western shores and the Mahometan world are daily increasing, and will continue to inereve. But no country has =oh& direct, pervading, and vital interest in placing the relations of Christendom and Islam on a eatis fectory footing, as Oreat Britain. In India we have troublesome Mehemet= subjects ; on the north-west frontier of Aeglo-India we have troublesome Mehe met= neighbours; between Alexandria and Aden our' way to India lies through Mehemet= populations oar extending commerce with the West Coast and in- terior of Africa will bring us into contact with more ; the mast embieraming questions which threaten as islhelkediterranrean arise 'out of the ill-defised code which regulates the relations of Christredosh to Islam. And where among our living statesmen is there one who appears to have the slightest suspicion of the importance and urgency of these consider ' ations P Here is an honourable field of exertion, quite unoccupied, and open to a re-organised Inde pendent Party. ,TEST INTELLIGENCE. MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS Al JEDDAH. DEATHS OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH CONSIIIS. The following telegram, from Acting Agent and Consul-General Green, was received at the Foreign office, ria Malta, on the 11th of July, at 1.30 a.m. Her Majesty's ship Cyclops arrived at Suez, from Jeddah, on the 3rd inst. On the evening of the 15th of June the M►hom medan inhabitants of Jeddah rose and massacred the Christians. Among the victims were Mr. Page, the English Vice Consul ; Mr. Evaillard, the French Consul, and his wife ; and about twenty others. The English and French Con sulates were plundered. The Cyclops was anchored about two miles from the town, and during the night some Greeks swam off to the vessel. The next morning two boats sent to the town were attacked and obliged to fight [? fire] on those who endeavoured to intercept their retreat. On the 19th, the Governor-General of the Hedjaz, who was at Mecca, arrived with 800 men. The Cyclops left Jeddah on the 24th, and brings up the Christians who escaped, including the daughter of the French Consul and the French interpreter, both badly wounded, and twenty-four others. INDIA AND CHINA. EXPECTED HOSTILITIES. ALEXANDRIA, Juir 7. The steamer Bentinck arrived at Sues yesterday morning, with Calcutta dates to the 4th ultimo. British columns marching in Owalior. I have no information from Madras, dates from which place are to the 10th. The intelligence from Lord Elgin is to the 29th April, when the allied forces were in the Gulf of Peihek. The French had got two gunboats over the bar, but our two despatch-boats had stuck. The English and French admirals were both at Peihek, and it was expected that in a few days the tint blow in the north might be struck by the cap ture of the forts at the mouth of the river. The Chinese government had named commissioners to negotiate, but the letter announcing the fact had retired adwing [? owing] to an assumption of supe riority on the part of the Chinese. This telegram arrived at Malta from Alexandria by the contract steam•packet Vectis at 3.15 p.m. on Joly 10th. M. STOPFORD, Rear-Admiral. We (Tines) have received the following telegram from our Malta correspondent: ° ALEXANDRIA, JILT 7. " The Calcutta and China mails have arrived to day with intelligence from Calcutta to the 3rd of June, Madras to the 10th, Hong Kong to the 22nd of May. " On the 31st of May Sir Colin Campbell was still at Futtehghur. The Calpee rebels were ad vancing upon Gwalior. They were not plundering, but paying for everything. A British column from Capes was marching in pursuit. General Rose had refused the command in Gwalior on account of ill health. " Seindia is reported to have been beaten by the rebels on the let of June, and to have arrived at Agra- " The rebels were again becoming troublesome in Central India and re-occupying many forts from which they had been driven by General Rose. "General lones had barnt Mohumdee and the ad jacent villages without opposition. Chundy was ac- cupied by Smith's Brigade. " Troops were marching against the Moelvie at Shahabod, and working parties had been set to destroy the jungles in which the mutineers still held out. " The Barrackpore regiments have received the option of disbandment or of service in China. " CHINA. " The allied fleet was at anchor off the mouth of the Peiho on the 29th of April. Six days had been allowed for a reply to the demands of the plenipo tentiaries ; the time having expired on the 13th, the steamer Sampson had taken up two gunboats and 160 Bappers to the Peiho. "Her Majesty's 69th Regiment was reported under orders for the north. "The French transport Gironde had arrived with 900 marine intently." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (sr lIIIIIMAILINI AND suns' rsuaaAno VIM 01111 OW 00111ASPONDIXT.) MALTA, rots 10. By the Calmat& and China mail we have dates from Hong Kong, May 22 ; Calcutta, Jane 3 ; and Madru, June 10. The Calcutta produce market is quiet. Imports are in lees demand; money easy ; freights unchanged. Exchange 2e. ld. to 2s. lid. At Madras, exchange 2s. lid. to 2s. lid. At Hong Kong the opium market is quiet. Ex change 4s. 71d. to 4s. 9d. At Shanghai imports are quiet; tea unaltered; silks lower; stock in the interior reported large; settlements 3,000 to 3,000 balm. Exchange 6e. Id. to oe. 3d. At Jeddah the English and French Consuls have been massacred, and with them 21 other Christians. Malta places Bengal) , in ten day quarantine. MALTA, SUNDAY NIDNIONT. The Pere, with the India Mails of the btb, has jest arrived, only seven days eight hours from South ampton. This is unprecedented. Admiral Fatal:Awe, in the Marlborough, arrived this afternsem.—Timar. MONTENEGRO. A letter from Cattalo of the 28th nit., in the diossisuy Geeetts, says : blesisougne there a onions attack from the Turks, erten en eonteatentid in eooddirable knee In the Nebo& of &abut In conesemot of Ibis haling of alarm, eU the inhabitant, of Le Conlin have been plead on • war footing, eV egrktd- Innel epoollone ere interrnpied, imoveable columns be,. barn elnitsend dog the beaks of the Lam of &nowt end dep6ta if as ad amisaition have been farmed In different *etc Positive oaken lore been given that In ease el Wank no ere &AU think of dieselieg his own property, bet that on the fret slam way tee den troottil• at the kentled pool. thus el Dap% sad °mill's% 'bee Prince Natio a ill go hissOfswi Oar pet la the cwohtt. .._...., EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CliOlt ova OWN 001UMPOWD1017.) PARIS, Saxe a Evntnta. The ifasifirwr continues to note that the Confe rees* meets to oonsider the question of the " Danu bian Principalities." This sufficiently disposes of the conjecture that the affair of the Principalities was settled at Etiolles, and that the Conference was about to proceed to the discussion of other matters, The Indlpendarws thinks that Moldo-Wallachian interests will continue exclusively to occupy the attention of the Conference during the rest of this month, and perhaps till the middle of August; it suggests the probability of an adjournment after wards till October, and that during the vacation • commission will draw up new organic regulations to be promulgated at Jassy and Bucharest. •Although England and Austria oppose the " union" it is thought that they do not object to the Danubian Principalities being called the " United Provinces." A Paris letter of the 9th, in the Nord of Brussels, says: If I may believe information which I consider deserving of credit, the labours of the plenipotentiaries for settling the question of the Principalities have already bad for result to secure judicial and oommerdal union. The formation of a central committee destined to serve u a bond between the two Moldo-Wellachian Assemblies may be elm considered an the commencement of the political union, although but little independence is left to this oommittoe, and that its attri butions are very restricted. In spite of these advantages ob tained by the partisans of the union they are far from being satisfied, for England and Austria are said to have suc ceeded not only in setting aside the unity of government, bat also in abrogating the prov.sion that the two provinces should have one flag and one army. There is also a very im portant question still to be solved—whether the poet of hos podar shall be for life or hereditary. England, it is said, wishes that the two hospodan shall be hereditary, as the means of rendering more irrevocable the separation of the two provisoes. The partisans of the union, on the con trary, not having been able to obtain their point of a single bospodar prefer the status quo, or two hospodars for life, as there would then be more chance of one day bringing about the triumph of those who wish for a dynastic union. Count Welewski has been charged by the Conference to draw up the articles which are to regulate the orgrnisation of the Principalities, a fact which shows that the opinions repre sented by nano, and Russia hare not met with any *heck. The Emperor and Empress will (says the M . essager 4 rOutust) hear mass on August 16 (the fte Na poleon) in the church of Sainte Anne d'Anray. Sainte Anne is one of the patron saints of Brittany, and in that pious province no pilgrimage is more popular than that to the Auray shine. It follows from the above news that their Majesties will not be in Paris at the fetes of August 16. A letter from Baden-Baden, in an obscure pro vincial journal called the Gazette du Rhin Moyen, mattes that great preparations are making in the Grand Duchess Stephanie's palace for the reception of the Emperor Napoleon, who is expected there from Plombieres, and will " probably be accom panied by the Empress." It adds that the Duchess of Hamilton will do the honours of the palace. I have heard nothing of the above news in any other quarter. It was reported here a little wbile ago that the Empress was going to Plombieres, but the tumour has not been confirmed. M. Emile de Girardin, who is about to travel for some time, gave a grand farewell dinner to his friends a few days since. Prince Napoleon was present and received numerous congratulations on his appointment to the Ministry of Algiers and the Colonies. It is reported that he agreed with M. de Girardin and the majority of his guests that the limits within which existing legislation confines the expression of publics opinion ought to be extended. Dr. Brulais, of the Regina Cali, whose arrival at St. Nazaire I mentioned yesterday, proceeded at once to his native town, Nantes. There he found a letter from the Minister of State, informing 1"m that the Emperor, desiring to give the young sur geon a testimonial of his Majesty's sense of the courage and tact wb;ch he had displayed daring two days and nights which hie life was threatened by the negro emigrants, had granted him a pension of I,Boofr. from his private purse. The Independance states that the negotiation between the Viceroy of Egypt and an English com pany for a loan upon a mortgage of the Alexandria and Suez Railway has gone off, in consequence of the jealousy of France. SPAIN. MADRID, JILT 10. Fifteen civil governors have been superseded. The floating debt has increased 33 millions. The news from Mexico is bad. Cite Court. OSBORN', Jr LT 10. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanicd by Princess Loniaa and Prince Arthur, drove ontio an open Gurley yesterday afternoon. _ __ Jrts 11. Majesty and the Prince Consort drove out yraterday shersocet. Prism Aldred arrived at Osborne in the inseam from Alveetenk. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Diwueli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marqui• of f3al;qlsv , i, the Earl of Hardwick., the Right Hon. Spencer Wal pole, the Earl of Malmeabury, Sir E. Hewer Lytton, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Sir HenryStrawy had an interview with the Earl of Derby, on y, at hie official residen c e In Dolt-dig itised. — Alderman Copeland, M.P., Mr. Joh, Mastet.uen (presi dent), Mr. Thos. Jackson (vice -preeideot), Mr. George Moore (treasurer), and Mr. A. L. Baal (t vetati), • depute llon from the Commercial Traveller.' Soho& t, had au int s eise with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Bate-de,, et him °Metal residenoe in Downing -street. The Judicial Committee of the Fri./ Connell sad on Beams day. An appeal from the Prerogative Court, Hodgson v. Beaucheone," part heard, was resumed. The lords prcentt were, Lord Cranworth, the Chancollor of the Dttohy of Cornwell, the Judge of the Admiralty Covet, and Bir C. Cromwell. Deepatehee ware omit on SMorday from the Colonitl dace to the Governors of the Australien rotaries, and to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, end Hong Hong. THE QUERN'S VISIT TO CHERBOURG. It is mid that her Majesty will be accompanied to Cherbourg by Lord Malsesstrary, Lord Derby, Mr. Diann% and the Dab et Malakoff. The Minister of Marine hr ordered the inscription reeording the completion of the works and the inauguration of the inner dock to be &earl, In order that the royal vieit may be Winded in the scroll. The Brussels ',depopulated* says that the Queen will only stay one day at Cherbourg. She will mils*, as announced is the Montle**, on the 4th, and will Imre on the sth, In order to keep her appointment at Cologne on the 10th. ♦ fatter from Berlin of the Sth,spealli7i6 of the approaching Tait of the Queen to Prussia, rye:—" Her Majesty will spend a fortnight in the Rheniah province in the beginning of August. She has requested that an official reception may be dispensed with, and that the visit which she makes to her daughter may have no ohmmeter beyond that of a family in terview." Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Doke of Mecklenburg-I%mM: end his son, the young Pt:nes Adolphus Sr. expected to arrive in London In the Dour of week *la wea . from Germany. His Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Counter d'Apposyi will give a grand entertainment to morrow, at Meads. House, to hie Royal Highness the Duke if Cambridge; abet which the minter will hove en amenably. The 'Marquis snd Marchioness of Stafford are staying with the Duke of fintherlmad at Trentham. The illiortal remains of the young Berl Dower were intetmd in the family mausoleum at that place on Friday last. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil leave Grosvenor-square early la the preecnt week for Barleigh Home, near Stamford, where the noble mempds end marchioness will shortly receive a select circle of felseeb. Lord Blantyre has arrived at Stafford House from Carlsbad. The noble lord and her ladyship will leave town la a few days for their seat to Suotland. Lord and Lady Clermont have retuned to Clavicle's Hotel. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchesses of Cam bridge and Mecklenbargh-Ettrelliz and the Pilosas Mazy honoured Mr. and the Misses Vincent rk:th their compiliy at a late lowlier on Friday, at Thornwood Lodge, Camp den-bill. The party braid to meet their royal bighorns at luncheon were--the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelms ford, the Cocotte' of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, Marla Marchioness of Alitabcry, Baron flintlock, the Earl and Countess of &salary sad Lady Louise Primrose, the Earl and Counter of Eflingbire and Lady Maria Howard; and Mr. Augustus Lumley. A email and distlago'ned eircle afterwards attended to meet their royal bighorns, bat the rainy weather precluded the usual promeceds la tits gardens. The Earl of Wilton entertained the members of the Catch Club at dinner, on Fridev ...ming, at his nsseeica in Grosvenor-square. The Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Westminster, the Right Hon. Colonel Coed W. Forester, Hon. Robert Lawley, Sir William Hu rts. Yr. Gilmore, and iilarge party were present. Covers Inds laid for 20. The Earl and Conntrse of Clanearty entertained at dinner, on Friday last, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford, his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Dallas, the Earl and Comatose of Bradford, Lady Loots' le Poer Trench, Lord Dangles, Sir Robert Pagans, Mrs, Gssroigne, Mr. Conolly, M.P., &c. The annual oration in honour of the great Harvey was delivered in the noble library of the Royal College of Physicians, on Saturday afternoon, by Dr. Wood, one of the fellows of the college. In spite of the unfavourable state of the weather there was a good attendance of profeasional and, Wadi& gentlemen, including a considerable lumbar of the Plows and members of the college. The oration, as usual is Leda, steered the unstained attention of the 'adieux, being classically composed and eloquently delivered. The offices of Dean of the Arches and Official hind* of the Arches' Court have bean costarred by the Archbishop of Canterbury en the Right Rea. Dr. Lushington. The functions of the Dean of the Arches are now merely nominal, but the 011Idal Principal of the Arches' Court le She Judge of the Cant of Appeal of the Pro Cam of Canter bury. The Court of Appeal wee formerly held in Bow Church, or the Arches' Church (Smiths Karim de elreubra), and hews it dm ived its name of the Arches' Court, which aceempembd it when the seat of jadiatture wag transferred is the CORMS Hall of the Collage of Advocate. in Doctors' COINIMICSIL It U reported that Dr. Travers Twit's ual succeed Dr. Lualtlngton as Chancellor of the Diocese of London.—Times. Mr. George Thompson, formerly representative in Parliament of the Tower Ilamkts, has just returned to England from India, in indifferent health, after an &bermes of two years and a half. But COLIN CAMPBELL'S AIDES-DE-CAMP.—We an that 'MIN from letters received by the loot mail Irma I that both air D. Baird sad Captain F re d er i e k Allem, A. .C. to It Colin Campbell, were recovering from their sewers filmes. We understand that Iflr David Baird is expected home, sad that Cartels Alison ban been ordered as go to the bills for the moms, of his health.—Glorecno Onseirr. --- PETITION AGAINST THE INCOME-TAX COMMIS -1110311111•.—A petition he bees presented to the Hoes of Omennone by Mr. W.P. for Southampton, on be. MY at Mr. Tucker, anotionser and saber of the corpora tion of that love. Mr. Tucker states that the district 00113• Illiksers for several rem esseneed his at a higher one. dim Ow were waeranted In by the neon be made, dna hi appealed sad was estpdred to prednee hh books, and that int lie refusing to do so. he had to pay the surcharge, whisk India ler eaveral rem L 1866 he emitted to seed fa any aelnen, winners he woe twesesed fa a anm above whetlee hog Me petit biers sod received no sere till caned epee SR payment. Mr. Tooker prays that de e= be W the es ke precedes Of MO tredemou'e betam M emboli Me beer le ride minas., simerisel is the see line d iseisees sod Or eppelides, twee d ersele sigma. gg m midst constOtttal, we or no ampikat per. os to be sa the revising esesesiesisasee attar the moor TYIE dmires barrheers. OATff OF FEALTY AT OXFOID.—The KAM of Oxford (fear Ornbb, Beg.) was Wit week sieved whic a sandarens to show cause why he should not take the venal oath to the university. THE AFRICAN MAIL. (11T ILICI/10 TZLEOPAPIL) MOO 001 Owl 0011111111011D0 PLYMOUTH, MONDAY. The Hope (Captain Macintosh), Africaa Royal Mail steamer, arrived at Plymouth this morning from the west coast of Africa. She left Fernando Po, May 80; Bonny, Jane 3; Lagos, 7; Accra, 9 ; Cape Coast Castle, 11 ; Sierra Leone, 20; Bathurst, 94, dome, 23; Teneriffe, July 1; Madeira, 3. She brings the until mails, a general cargo, 1,800 ounces of gold, and twenty-eight passengers, M ending Mr. Campbell, British Consul at Lagos; and Dr. D►vies, invalided from the Niger expedidition, which he loft May 8. All well at the camp above Rabba. At Monrovia 8,500 dollars had bees awarded to the mail steamer Ratiope for the Regina Cceli affsir. Great dissatisfaction had been - occasioned at Fernando Po, by the newly-arrived Spanish gover nor's ordering all preaching and teaching in the protestant pith to be discontinued, it is supposed by advice of six catholic priests brought out with him. The Alert was at Sierra Leone, Heals at Lagos, Antelope and Myrmidon at Fernando Po. Everything was quiet at the coast. Oil high at present, but good season expected. Stations healthy. ARRIVAL OP THE AGAMEMNON. (THIS DAY.) (NT BRITISH AND TRUK M&ONNTIO TILNORAPZ.) (PROM ODD OWN CORRISTONDINT.) QUEENSTOWN, NONDAT 11 a.m. The Agamemnon haa jnet arrived. A Bombay telegram will be doe in England on Friday next, with news up to the Wank, THE COLLIES LINE OF STltAxiail.--Sone Wimp pribeinks Web le Ibis measly ea (ere Amara gems moat Wiz** dna Celia Mee of alemme anseidas= to rue Mthe Limped Me fa appasidam: the Mainins. Cellianhammimadme eat ample dm are and be 1,1 lebandemal *am mob, de to be sWwid Want se at etsoshompon. ihe emoder and aermiag for the postaose e Zt im a is tien seti esere very mar= me& waled again Inn Iskti sassed h • via with rottaity width local slos him en elide ailmadige ; and Me Amebae gercourst witigelsil the *du of this protest, and confined Mr. Collins tonna, to bit am trod. EMIGRATION TO THE CAPE.—The ship Edward Oliver, Captain Baker, 1,166 tons register, sailed on &tar day, from Liverpool, with 481 emigrants on board, for Table Bay. These emigrants are composed of English, Scotch, and Irish, of swims triads, a fair properties of them Wag domestic and farm eswante, and have bean sent out by Mr. Field, who is conchtothsg ths eolgratioa from this country to the Caps. TRIs AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS. (Freon the Maboirets Arm, Nay 16.) The extraordinary and long-protracted drought of the summer, and the great scarcity of water on all the gold fields, have led to the discussion, se we mentioned in our Let summary, of the probabilities of our future supply of the precious metal. Unless method, combined action, and ma chinery be called in to aid the labour of the miner, the ceil ing must on the old fields become one holding out fewer inducements than hes hitherto been the case. Water hes been the crying ,want of the miner for the last four months, and so severely bee the want made itself felt that steps are being everywhere taken to prevent u far is possible thOuturrence of the evil. On all Wes natural 10. serveirs and collecting gullies are being leaked out and exa mined, with a view to the formation of water companies. At the commencement of the current year the yield of the gold wee at a very low ebb, and very few signs of any °centred until the partial rains of the month of March had provided the miner with the means of realiaMg the produce of his labour. The following is a statement of the quantities received by escort monthly during the tint four months of this year and 1867, by which it will be seen that the increase has bcen gradual: 1857. 1868. oz. dwt. oz. dwt. January February March April 177,286 0 191,704 0 A new gold field has been opened up on the New South Wales side of the Murray, at the Mo nks Creek. Several bodies of miners from Yao kandandah and other parts of Beechworth have sell out for the new sport. The gold is reported to be found a few feet from the surface, and to be eery pure. The locality is described as at the head of the Massy, above Jingellick, 90 miles from Albury. At the Woolshed, pre parations for sluicing during the winter one very extensive wale are being awned on. The like preparations for the winter are going on at Bendigo, Csatlemaine Maryborough, and Donolly. Ballasrat, the most ciebrated of all the gold fields for the richness of its yields, is, for the present, very quiet. The slaking, generally, le deep, and the leads are becoming more uncertain. The most western field—Plearent Creek —has all the appearance of being about to be deserted for the winter. This has arisen, in a great mesettre, from the extent to which proepecting has been canied on In this district. The means of the working miner have bean wasted, and he has been compelled to seek other spots in which the chances of sitcom are more nearly within his reach. The following is a list of the gold shi it have railed since the Ist April : ' hate er 0100. 0,0 11Y1160. 1114. April 11 /fart:6k ......... ....... 1.00000 a BOl7O 5.16 rmr 31 10 Itortl Cbiel ..... Liverpool ....... . • 93.731 10 halm. ....... WOW% .... 031/1•1911 . nat-K0n....—.. 4704 0110,0616 60001100 Llverp4 . 11.600 27 „ 26 YrUcen May 6 Histlier 3611 Landon.. 7%792 „ 1.1 Wes Liverpool 25,94 T A bill had been introduced into the Legislative Assembly, by the Solicitor-General, for legalising associated compsults of miners on the principle of limited liability. There is much difficulty in framing a measure of that kind; "but the author of this ore," says the Melbourne Herald, " has taken great pains to draw up a sound end practical bill, and it is very likely be will be =armsful in au rying it through the legislature. If so, the measure will have am immensely be neficial effect on ths entire pursuit of .gold mining, inasmuch as it will bring napirll end labour into mutually advantage• nue no-operation In the developmedt of our ineihmatible gold deposits." JEDDAH. Djidda, or Jidda, a mart, city of Arabia, in El- Hotta, being the port of Meow, and one of the chief matreplits for foreign commerce in the peninsula. Latitude 21 deg. 32 min. 42 sec. N., longitude 39 dec. 6 min. E. Resident population, according to AU Bey, 6,000, but this number is often very much increased by the Milne of strangers. The inhabitants are nearly all foreigners, or settlers from other parts of Arabia; the only natives being a few sheriff families attached extlusively to the offices of reli gion and law. Five mosques, poor and mean, the governor's house, and a groan castle. mounting 9 or 10 guns, are the only public building', except the khans, which are numerous and handsome. The houses in the town, built of stone and medreporc, are, from the perishable nature of the material, not very luting; but in the suburbs they are mere huts, constructed of reeds and brushwood, inhabited principally by Bedouins. The streets are unpaved ; but Djidda is, notwith atrnding, cleaner, and in other respects superior to most Ersteta cities of equal size. It is one of the holy places of Mohammedanism, and its sanctity is increased by the neigh borrhood of the reputed tomb of Eve, a rude stone ett actors, about 2 re. te the N. The surrounding country Is a bare desert, destitute of running streams; and though well water is easily procurable, it ia generally bad. The in habitants collect the rain in cisterns, and the commonest neorearies are brought from a distance. Corn, rice, butter, sugar, tobacco, oil, clothing, &0., are imported in very large quantities from Egypt, the Abymir ian eoaat, and (excepting butter) even from Pavia and India. Djidda depends, there fore, for Its existence upon its trade, which is very extensive, end wholly of the transit kind. From the interior dates, and the adebrated balm of Mecca, are brought for shipment west ward ; wok, civet, and incense, are procured from Abys sinia ; muslioe, cloths. oambrica, teak timber, coccu-nut, cocoa-nut oil, pepper, ginger, turmeric, shawls, tissue, &c., are brought from India; the Malay Islands send spices and (what Is not generally known) young females for sale at the Meer market. The *Ake trade, which, next to that of grain, was formerly the most important, has much declined of late, partly owing to the free adn3igsinu of American pro duce to the Mediterranean but principally to the impoliti c exactions of th e Pemba of Egypt upon this branch of com merce. A trade in slaves Is carried on with the Mozambique coast; and, altogether, it is calculated that the port of Djidda employe 2.50 vessels great and small. The imported articles are conveyed by ships to Suez, whence they sad their way to the Mediterranean ports, or by carAvans to Mecca and Medina, from which cities they are again dispersed to Brie, Asia Minor, and Turkey. The caravans to Mecca start daily, those Its Medina every forty or tifty days ; but besides the Djidda carries on no land trade, except amnion ally with N. Yemen for corn. The duties upon corn were formerly 7+ per cent.; they are now double that amount; those upon Indian goods are font 6 to 10 per cent., according to quality; the trade in grain is monopo lised by the Egyptian government. Twice at least in every year Djidda is inundated with inhabitant% via., on the arrival of the Indian neat (about May), whr merchants from all quarters pour is to purchase at the Lest hand ; and during the hadj, when pllgtime come from all the African porta in vast numbers. fa 1831 above 20,000 pilgrims landed either at Djidda or Ifembo, but mostly at the former. There is no manufacture fa the Wan; everything, for use as well as for consumption, is imported, and the occupations of the poorer as of the richer inha bitants, consist almost exclusively of barter:. itCalloas Garpaphiaal Dictionary. TEn ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL, NEAR Num ADlET.—This morning was lamed the report of the cans mitts, on Watley Hospital, together with communicatirms en the 'abject from various scient;fic and medical gentler's& The committee originally consisted of Colonel O'Brien (pad dent) and Captain lAffaa, Dr. Sutherland and Dr. Mspletts, lath Hasens. On the 20th alt., however, Colonel Owen, C. 8., replaced Captain Laffan, the latter being sick. The "8n1& lug " of the committee is included In the following extract : " We have purposely refrained from quoting to any great ex tent the °riotous of the local authorities whom we' have consulted, in order to show that the cue mn be established upon the testimony of peewee who had not committed them selves to any previous opinions. We, however, believe the whole of the opinions to be equally worthy of attention. The unanimity of these op'nions is very remarkab'e, con. Wain, se they do, unqualified expreettions of approval 211 to the soil, climate, and the general healthiness of the dis trict, and of the plans as being milted to the pnrpoee for which the building was designed. We are, therefore, fag, Instilled is coming to the conclusion—l. That the NW le unobjectionable. 2. That the building is well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed. 3. That it is net tie sort of building beat adapted for a medical salmi m the seals contemplated by Mr. Sidney Herbert's , uoaftlik sof was it designed far snob a parr... 4. Considering WIMP expenditure already incurred at Metier, and the isusetane of making early provision for the Ina of the envy; we le not certainly recommend that an otherwise good should converted into a barrack. 5. If • medical selittg i tte be established, it appears to us that the best *eke would be at POMO /arse military station. Whalen, was the Secretary of State may think proper to .40e, w big amt respestfelly to tender our thanks for in. appeaneft his gives as of roplyisg to the' conlidsedel viper! 7111111101 of the ratline@ attached to that report hire a esidge =tee that it was intended to farther the of Mk service; but, however unintention a llr i r state Stallia it contains sad le gaseral tone MA_ .., 61 throw gine delablil IVOR thejadinnist sad even slur genes of every eller re professional pones whe he MO etateened Ma soluden of the see, or in the pia. -et the gees of Ile Royal Viotoria Hospital ; sad *elk they ere, as ever= ohs is, liable to error, the ePtft Ve have new the beam Se sate& shows that there Wire. at el inmate, very seashell getends for the curse which they lege ken due *thee nomeendsd." Dr. Bathed's& At h• mamba ebb of the Una* and lasspial searessfea) Jess east sawn, in the sisua newt, sad states Ids meow fa ice wleth is printed in the return. Catenotac—We regret to hear that thu lady, to whom the whole of the Australian colonies sea ander such deep obligations is lying dangerouslyzigt galtaid • telegraphic message received from IC yneton last r that very little hope is entertained of her recovery—it.- booms Arens, May 13. me st of The British government, in acknowledg the services rendered to the English marrhant venal E•ell of Liverpool. which went on shore in March Isla d ' n " coat of Dndjelli, has awarded gold medals to Chef One: dram Greeley, the commandant at Djidjelli ; M. Jamas or. l _ misesey of the marine of that port ; Lieatraaat Oilivier ris e director of the port; and to Captain Erhard, ch ief IA me Arai Byrum Milmomm