The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

EVENING, JULY

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.,

(PROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) • .
PARIS, Mownst 171017110.
The Pays gives currency to the following " news"
from India, es having been received from London :
We learn that Mr. Montgomery--sesing that, instead of
oonciliating the inhabitants of Oude, the government con-
tinued the system of spoliation and severity which wee the
origin of the present unhappy state of things, end that the
King of Oude who was in prison in Calcutta long before
the war broke out, is now to be brought to trial for high
treason, and being of opinion that such a proceeding would
produce great irritation among the natives—hue resigned the
°Mos to which Lord Canning appointed him, of chief of the
administration of 0 ude. He accompanied his resignation with
a letter, in which he declared his opinion that if tha present
system should be acted upon much longer, Onde will be use-
vocably lost to England. The seine correspondence men-
tions an important fact which may lead to very serious con-
sequences. The four principal leaders of the revolt—Nana
Sahib, Bahadoor Khan, the Queen of Jhansi, and the
Queen of Oude —have made • treaty of ►lliance, offensive
sad dakasive. They have very considerable forces at their
disposltfea, and have organised native governments which
lore regularly Instilled. This new situation may greatly in-
flumes future operations.
It has been stated that efforts would be made to
let the water into the new Cherbourg dock during
the Queen's visit. I understand, however that the
engineers have reported it impossible that this
should be done earlier than the day originally
fixed, August 7.
It is announced that the twelfth meeting of the
Paris Conference will be held on Thursday.
The Prince Demidoff, who died the other day at
Baden, near Vienna., is not the husband of the
Princess Mathilde, but her nephew.
At the Bonnie the Rents was firm all the day at
Saturday'. prices, bat with little business doing.
The last prior for account was 68fr. 30c., being a
rise of 10c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. The railways
were heavier than the Rente, notwithstanding a
report that the fusion between the Lyons and
Dauphine Company is at length settled and that the
result of the long pending negotiations between
the government and the companies will be declared
officially before the end of the month. The Orleans
fell 6fr. 25c. ; Northern and Lyons, 3fr. 75e. each ;
and Southern sfr. ; Western rose 3fr., and Eastern
closed without change. There were remarkably few
transactions. 4.41....3

A thunderstorm of extraordinary violence bunt
upon Paris about one o'clock this morning. Two
houses in the Place de la Maine at Montmartre were
struck. A girl was wounded in the wrist by the
electric fluid. Another house was injured in the
Roe Poissonniere. It is probable that we shall hear
of some serious casualties.

THE 4 ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH SQUADRON.

(IT ILICTRIC TILIGRAPIL)
LIVERPOOL, TVINDAY MORNING.
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The United States steam frigate Niagara was off
Caps Clear on the 18th inst., at 4 a.m., and her Majesty's
steamer Agamemnon was off IC Inside at 11 cm. on the same
day, with the Atlantic cable.— Tittle (Second Edition).

JIDD4H OR JIDDA.

(EXTRACT FROM "SINAI, Tilt MEDJAE, AND SOrDAN," RI

HAMILTON.)

Jidda is built along the shore in the form of a
parallelogram, extending almost due north and south. From
the sea it has a poor appearance; only a few minarets rise
above the houses, which present a long lice of mean build-
ings. From the sea there is no entrance except through the
shabby irregular courts of the onetom-house, which are
littered with lazy employes and bales of coffee and gum.
The gate is at the end of a wide street, one side of which is
occupied by a palace built by the former Sheriff Oholeb, and
I. lined on either aide by a dark row of coffee-booths, which
are filled from morning to night with crowds of idlers all
smoking the nargileh. The bazaar, principally composed of
wooden booths, runs almost at right angles to this street,
leaving in the centre only a narrow peerage often
obstructed by camels and their loads which they
deposit before the entrance of the okela. The okels are
all placed in this quarter, rendering it no easy matter to
pick one's way through the masses of merchandise around
them. The shops are poorly furnished—more than one-half
of them retail eatables; the rest of them display coarse china,
porcelain, or European earthenware—the venerable willow
pattern predominant on the English wares—cottons., coarse
abayahs, cornelisn beads and rosaries. Two or three shops
sell Indian sad Syrian silks. The crowd which Lille the
street forms a roost interesting sight, on account of the num-
ber of different races whose representatives compose it—Turks,
nomad Arabs, Ideocans, Persians, Mistime, Indians, blacks
of every shade, with features varying from the Jewish to the
Negro type. Behind the bazaar lies the town, composed of
tortuous and narrow streets, in which are a few houses with
curiously carved lattices and beautiful doors of teak; the
pester number, though lofty, ars externally mean, and In
their interior confined sad shabby.
Of all the towns in the East none has se distinctive a
physiognomy es Jidda; it is even more oriental than Da-
mascus, though u striking for its ugliness as Damsons for
its beauty. A single Greek mercantile house, the keeper of •
wine shop, and sn Armenian broker, are the only Chrieliaas
in the place. A most unpleasing eight to the English eye
are the crowds of poor Indians who litter in the streets like
dogs. These Indians are pilgrims who have returned hare
from Meow, but being destitute of means to continue their
journey, live on alma • life of squalid idleness. According
to the most probable calculation, the number of houses, large
sad small, may be about 4,000, and the population perhaps
reaches 20,000. Of the present population (1664) 1,600 are
Indians, including many of the wealthiest merchants, nearly
the whole trade of Jidda being in the hands of British
subjects.