The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

INDIA,

The Rombay Times, of Fehr's!), 2nd, says :—Tit a past
fortnight leaves no room for our customary complaint of
want of warlike intelligence; and though the British
empire in the East enjoys undisturbed peace, there are
serious disquiettples somvvrhat beyond the limits of its
border, and we have at present ships of war on hostile
missions, b ttli in the Red ::ea and Pers'an Gulf,
On the 14th inst., •he Queeen (steamer) was despatched
to Juddah, to afford protection to the French and EN--
fish consuls in the southern ports' of Arabia. and to
endeavour to suppress the contest there threatened
between the Turks and Arabs. _ _ _

From time immemorial a flour'shing trade in slaves has
prevailed betwixt. the chief places on the Arabian and
African shores. Massowah, a town of between 3,000 and
4.000 populati,m. is the chief point of export. There used
to be about 2,0n0 slaves sold annually at Massowah, of
whom one-half were Christians. Some months since the
Sultan issued orders to the Turkish authorities at Juddah
and Mecca for its suppression; the order was proclaimed
a.s imperial, and to be implicitly obeyed. The Ulemahs
and inhabitants on this proceeded to the Court of Justice
to demand on what authority the aboli ion of slavery had
hen ordered. On the &man of the Sultan being quoted,
it was d-nounced by them as opposed to the Koran, and
the Cadi being attacked, escaped with his life, and
with difficulty found refuge in the sanctuary.' The
order was read a second tiers, but treated with such
scorn that violence immediately ensued, and numbers
were wounded on both sides. The troops having fired
at the Muezzin, and shot the priest as he went up to
prayer. a battle f Towed betwixt them and the towns-
people, in which about a hundred of the latter fel, when a
general rising all around immediately ensued. The troops
were compelled to retreat. and were beleaguered in the
fort. A similar amou. tof excitement, and from the same
cause. had arisen at Juddah, and both plac .s are now in
a state of siege. Mean While the people told the authori-
ties that as the Sultan must doubtless; on the present
occasioned have been moved by his allies, the French and
English. the digs or these nations must be pulled down
and their representatives expelled. The Pacha ofJuddah,.
taking the consul under his protection, proposed referring
the question to the Porte, when the multitude declared
that unless their wishes were complied with instantly,
they would take the matter into their own hands.

Intelligence of Mr. Murray's dispute with the govern-
ment of Persia reached Bombay on the 16th January, by
the Semiramis, which brought a despatch from the
ambassador, with a request for the immediate despatch
of a steamer for Bushir. Four steamers and a sloop-of-
war were ordered to be got in instant readiness for sea.
Extensive supplies were said to have been ordered for
the commissariat, and a land force was spoken of as
under orders. Much of this turned out to be exaggera-
tion; two only of the steamers, with sixty artillerymen
to work the guns, being the only force despatched, or in
contemplation. It is difficult, indeed, to discover even
what services they can. perform. Such vessels cannot
get within four miles of Bushir for want of water.
A considerable force is collecting around Oodeypore; the
Rana, it is asserted, being, alike with his chiefs, dis-
satisfied with the extent to which our interposition has
proceeded.
Troops continue to accumulate at Cawnpore, and
arrangements advance steadily and tranquilly for the
annexation of Oude.

Although the Sontal disturhane es no longer wear the
character of au insurrection, the country continnes far
from quiet.
Sir William Gomm has taken a final leave of the
Bengal army, at the conclusion of a five years' admini-
stration.

Such has of late becoma the state of our financial ar-
rangements, that five per cent paper has gone down to 99,
and four per cent to 83, from the conviction amongst the
monied classes that we shall some morning discover, as
we did last year, when least expecting it, that there is
not as much cash in the treasury as will meet the charges
of the month, so that a six per cent loan must on the
instant be improvised.

Our prospictive Governor-general, Lord Canning, is at
present sojourning amongst us, having arrived from Suez
by the Feroze on the 281:t u`t. lie was received in great
stare at a landing place prepared on purpose in the dock-
yard, but too late in the evening to see about him. A
grand levee occurred on the 30th, followed by a native
Durban

On the 31st his lordshio visited the caves of Kennery, in
Salsette, examined the Vehar hills, and closed the day by
perfnrmtngin state the cerem,,ny of turning the first sod of
our proj,:cted waterworks. He leaves on the sth, taking
Madras in his wey to Calcutta, and will assume office about
the Ist March. The Ma.quis f Dalhousie continues at
Calcutta, winding up the arrangements at the close of his
administration.

We intim .ted four months since the commencement of
spinning operations at Mr. Landon's cotton factory at
Broach. The yarns have now come to the market, and are
spoken of in terms of the highest comtwndatinn. Though
made, we believe, exclusively of short staple Broach cotton,
they fetch in the market nearly ten per cent more than
Manchester yarn of the same designation, and oth,lre have
in consequence already been received sufficient to keep the
factory in constant work for the four months.