The Press.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

T Ij E E S S, AUGUST 21, lBOB.

with all the beauty of the warrior David; but as be sat
before us I was only reminded of the poorest form of the
Taraelitish type as exhibited iu decay and penurious greed
in its poorest haunts among us. His hands and feet were
delicate and line, his garments scanty ar.d foul. Here was
this Begnm, a lady of some thirty-five, very aggravating
to the ex-Great Mogul, who was both in paia and anguish,
and very anxious to get away from him. "Why," said
she, the old " (Yes, I believe the correlative word in
English is) " fool goes on as if he was a King ; he's no
King now. I want to go away from him. He's a trouble-
some, nasty, cross old fellow, and Fru quite tired of him."
Bowstrings and sacks!—was not this dreadful language ?
lint the rx-Mogul is a philosopher; he merely asked one
of his attendants for a piece of coffee-cake or chocolate,
put a small piece in his mouth, mumbled it, smiled, and,
pointing with his thumbs over his shoulder in the direction
from which the shrill and angry accents of queenly wrath
were coining, said, with all the shrug and bonhomie of a
withered little French marquis of the old school, Mon (lieu!
—I mean, " Allah ! listen to her! " And so we left him
alone in his misery. He nuirbers upwards of eighty-two
years, but they are said to be only of lunar months, and
that his real age is seventy-eight. It is needless to say he
will never, if sent, reach Caffraria alive.

THE BOMBARDMENT OF JEDDAH.

The following telegram has been received at the
Foreign•oQice from Consul-General Green:—

ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 13.
Her Majesty's ship Cyclops arrived at Suez from
Jeddah last night.
I have received th 3 following telegraph from
Captain Pullen :
Cyclops arrived at Jeddah *2:lrd of July.
liatuik Pasha at Mecca. Satisfaction demanded, and
letter sent to liamaik im, under flying seal, saying if no
satisfactory answer received iu sixty-six hours, shall pro-
ceed to extremities. _

On the morning of the 27)th, twenty hours E? forty)
having intervened from time of sending despatch, and no
reply, commenced bombarding on the town at intervals.
Fourteen or fifteen bungalows burnt and destroyed.
11 a.m.—Letter received from Pasha not satisfactory.
Resumed operations, and continued occasionally until
evening of the 20th, both from boats and ships, with shot,
shell, and rockets.
27th.—'troops arrived, 507 Bashi•l3sz mks ; time given
to land.

28th.—Gassa [Pasha 'l] arrived; comes on bcard next
day ; can come to no satisfactory arrangements ; cannot
execute murderers, but has them confined, station [stating?]
th3t has not the power of life and death.
Time extended to sl!ow pilgrims to embark.
80th.—Lady Canning loaves for Yerubo with Moorish
princes.
Depositions of murderers sent off, and proved guilty by
their own local courts. Their execution insisted upon on
morning of the 2nd instant, and not complied with by the
evening of the 4th.
Commence.l bombarding again on the morning of
the flth.

Before a reply is received the labari steamer arrived
with troops, 4SO Erptims.
Ismail Passain [Pasha?] commands, with power to
satisfy the just demands of England and France.
On the morning of the 6th eleven murderers executed
[in] sight of the town and shipping in port, and four
more culprits to he sent to Constantinople.
The Cyclops left Jeddah on the morning of the 7th
instant, and has brought up a messenger from the Pasha,
with despatches for Constantinople.
Mr. Vice•Consui Calvert has my despatches for the Ad-
miralty, and leaves immediately.

worthy a nation which has preserved its elistenee thesno
reign over us and be our emperor !" they out changing dynasties for countless
of " Hail, great king! welcome, oh lauguegs' and, with cries
of European civilizetion China would fare 3.
! broughteem
and poultry and vegetables down as nreseuYt cattle
'the Pioneer
acted on the principle of timeo Danes's. O the z'th
uAIY if he
May the Staunch end Bustard, g
n- gu of
taming the Marines and small-arm teen ofroof
Furious, under Captains Sir Frederick Nttle Plsull
and
°lwwin"e
Sherurd Osborn, sighted Tiensin, and the f I
dry
the admirals in their respective ships, Co
,;;j
tshoat they exceeded far
pu sh d
Avalanche, anchored opposite the town. Tr/wrae'iel ,„eir s,;:,
h! tpheeerttloi t
ohni, sd
their most simples
etyoul
1"
towards Toongchaw, the port of Pekin, and
ten miles from that city. The
largerdistant only
g
brought to a standstill very shortly after er"
Tiensin, but the K,strel, of 40-horse power, with the }eatingthe ships'
boats in tow, succeeded in reaching a village shout
miles above this town. Meantime other gut&'° el
-et
employed clearing the junks out of the river betweenli Tiewere
sin and the mouth, so as to render it impossible fur
Chinese to bar our egress by sinking junks. The the
owdof
these making their escape in obedience to orders
times so great as to cause as hopeless a jam as n
sionally be seen inside Temple-bar. Thus wes% -flees.
plished in a few days, and without the slightest dillieCll7ll.
4
en operation which the French admiral bad declared itil
•
possible unless supported by a land force of 4,000 men, as
which might have been as successfully undertakeas
mouth sooner had not obstacles existed of a far graver cha-
racter than any which the Chinese have it in their poser
to interpose. At this time of the year the loss of that
mouth, the finest in the year, is most deeply to be regretted
Already we have most disagreeable evidence of the prod.
inky and probable temperature of a Pekin summer. As
soon as the ambassadors were made aware of the complete
success of the admirals, they determined to follow then to
Tiensin, in pursuance of their original iutention, awl
reached that city on the morning of the 30th of May.
spacious temple, occasionally used as a resiience by a
former Emperor, commanding a view of the river st its
junction with the :.'arand Canal, anti opposite the city, wie
appropriated for the accommodation of the French and
English Ambassadors. Numbers of Chinese servants were
in attendance ; many of the rooms bad been newly papered,
And the work of furbishing up was going on briskly. Baron
Gros and Lord Elgin occupy two light and airy pavilions
on the summit of a mound, ascended by a pathway of orna-
mental rockwork. Their respective buffs are scattered in
sundry fragile buildings of quaint construction, with paper
walls, or have made their bedrooms in a joss-house, is
which gods and goddesses are the principal articles of
furniture. A spacious garden, inclosed by a wall, surrounds
the whole. English and French guards occupy the out-
houses and stand sentry at the principal entrances. The
national flags float proudly over all, and a line of gunboats
are moored within twenty yards of the windows. These
consist at present of the Coromandel, Cormorant, Stasey,
and Opossum ( English), the Avalanche, Fusee, end Dee-
gonne (French). The Staunch, Bustard, and Kestrel are
anchored a mile above the town, and the Leven, Woodcock,
and Firm are somewhere between this and the fleet. The
Woodcock and Kestrel, both 40-horse power, arrived a few
days after the capture of Tungkoa. A party of engineers
have also arrived from Hong Kong in the Sampewt, and
are engaged in blowing up the forts, after whirls it is ex-
pected they will come here. Numerous pintails afford
abundant barrack accommodation. Notwithstanding the
great variations in the temperature (the thermometer
ranges from 65 deg. to SO deg. in the twenty-four hours),
the health of the men continues excellent; supplies are
abundant, although some little reluctance has been apple
rent on the part of the country people lately in bringing
them in, through fear of incurring the displeasure of the
authorities. Ice is a luxury in which the Chinese tea
classes freely indulge during the summer months; boats
and coolies carrying large blocks of it are constantly seen
passing to and fro, and the barbarians have not been slow
to avail themselves of so refreshing an article of con-
sumption.
The interior of the city has been explored, but offers
few attractions to the stranger. The streets are broader
than those in southern cities, the houses poorer, and the
curiosity shops not to be discovered at all.
The city is nearly a square, situated on the angle formed
by the junction of the Grand Canal with the Polio River;
each face is about a mile long, the wall, which would offer
no great obstacle either from its height cr solidity to an
attacking force, is said to mount only eighty cannon.
Formerly a large floating population inhabited boats 'in the
river and canal, and an extensive water traffic radieted
all directions from this point. Since, however, the de-
struction of a large portion of the Grand Canal by the ec-
centric course recently taken by the Yellow River, the
traffic upon the smaller channels, which depended !Ly
this main artery for their supply, has very much decreases}
in extent and importance. The suburbs of Tiensin au'n't
a great extent of ground, but the houses are generally inerde
mud huts, surrounded by mud walls, betweeu which win
narrow dirty lanes Beyonl the suburbs are kitchen.
gardens and fruit trees, and then a plain, unbruki n it
anything higher than brickkilns, extends to the hormr
Four rivers meander through this plain, their course market)
by groves of trees and far as eye Can reach stretches a
vast expanse of bearded wheat undivided by fenco or
hedgerow. Most of the roads are raised causeways, Ali:
great portion of this country is submerged after the nil
The 'hitches by which it is traceried in every direction are
well bridged. Ponies and mules are abundant, and soS3e,
of the members of the missions already take their eventnt
rides along the road to Pekin. The bands of the Catesi a
and Nemesis play morning and evening, and collect large
crowds of taliniring Chinese.
The wholesome effect which thie movement on Tiensin.
hes vroduccd upon the Chinese Government is already