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

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The Pads Pays says :-- . .4%-: 'i-k_.__-,12,,,ii;,--'':4.>" _
"It appears-by recent letters'frtbi'MtAa, tEit
during .the last _religious. fetes . serious . dissensions :
broke out between different MuSsulniannatiOnalitiet. ,
and that the fanatic:l part of the population of
fledjaz, having at its head an. Arab "chief named
Beckel-Hafer, who has ztcquired an immense repu- '
tatien for sanctity, has formed itself into an inde-
pendent religious party celled " the sect of true be-
lievers." This sect is said to b? fast increasing. Its -;
tendencies aro very nnfavoo ratrle towards the Porte. :
It does not recognise in the Sultan the title bf.pro- • .
tector of the true beievers artl t emporia ehiof,ofthli . _1
MussulillaTP, Which, as Emperor of the Cottomarip,-;
he has borne. without dispute •for many- cen'ttiii*,..-,
This State of things deserves notice. The rights
of the religious head of the Ottomans are Incon.;.-
testable. Their maintenance is-esseutjg to --tlr
tranquillity of .the Fast." - •
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A letter from- Szisreck (Croatia), on the frontiers
of Bosnia, of July 11, says : : . '- ,
" We are most anxiously expecting tho Archduke
Leopold, ?....,,. :.- :; , icti:g the fa•ti-liz%ti...tis '
of A gran), 7.1".11''',,'1. ).-_,4410,1,,uCe IS very necessary- to
the taking cf measures for plaUng all this country
in a stale of security. Within the last two days
upwards of 6,000 Christian rayahs from BOsnia have
taken refuge on the Austrian territory, flying from
the Turks, who commit all sorts of viotence and

excesses. These unfortunate people state that be-
tween the 26th and 28th of June, more than 180
3 (meg Christian girls were carried off by Turkish
soldiers, and that after this outrage the fanatics de-
vastated churches and pillaged houses. The Chris- .
tians, who were some time since disarmed by Other
Pacha, defended themselves as they beat could with
ploughshares, scythes, and pitchforks, and for a
time they made a good face against their assailants,
but on July 8 they were completely defeated and
put to flight, with tbeir women and children. Our
authorities received them kindly, and distributed •
provisions among them." •
The execution of the hattiehumaioun, as far-
as regards the recruitment meets with great
opposition in the provinces of Bagdad. A letter
from that city, of the 9th, in the Presse d'Orient,
announces that in consequence of some mani-
festations which have taken place on that
subject, Omer Pacha„ instead of being able
to act, as he had hoped to do, aedinst the
murderers of Jeddah, bysending a detachment of his _
troops to that point, has been obliged to keep them
rear him, and to postpone his intended expedition.
into the urdistan, in order to put an end to the.
depredations of the tribe of Bari-Lam, who had re-
volted and pillaged the country in all directions
within only about 45 miles of Bagdad. - A great
number of farmers have taken refuge in Persia in
order to escape the recruitment. Some partial en-'
gagements had taken place bet Ween the troops of
Omer Pacha and the insurgent 4- but the latter, who
are about 15,000. strong, keep their ground, and,
by adopting the Arab tactic of dispersing when sub.
ject to attack, manage to escape the punishment
which threatens them. IL is, however, feared that
the revolt, by being joined by other:tribes, may be-
come
more formidable and call for fresh troop
being sent by the Turkish Government.

JEDDAH OR JIDDA.

(Extract from " Sinai, the fle3jlz, and Soudan."
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 line of. mean buildings. From the
sea there is no entrance except through the
shabby irregular courts of the customhouse,
which are littered with lizy employ 63 and bales
of cclie3 and gum. The gate is at the end of a
wide stree,, one side of wh'clr is occupied by a
palace. built by the former Slit riff, Glioleb, and
is lined. on either side by a dark row of coffee- be oths,
which are filled from morning to night with crowds
of idlers all smoking uargileh. The bazaar, prin-
cipally composed of wooden booths, runs almost at
right angles to this street, leaving in the centre only
a narrow pa.zsage often obstructed by camels and
their loads, which they deposit before the entrance
of the okels. 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
di-play coarse china, porcelain, or European
earthenware—the venerable willow-patt.,rn pre-
dominant on the English wares—cottons, coarse
abayahs, cornelian beads and rosaries. Two. or .
three shops sell Indian and Syrian silks. The
crowd which fills the street forms a most interest-
ing sight, on account of the number of different
races whose representatives compose it—Turks,
nomad Arabs, Meccans, Persians, Affghans, Indians,
blacks of every shack, 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 ctiriously
carved lattices and beautiful doors of teak; the
greater number, though lofty, are externally mean,
and in their interior confined and shabby. •
Of all the towns in the East none has so distinc-
tive a physiognomy as Jeddah ; it is even more
oriental than Damascus, though es striking fer its
ugliness as Damascus for its beauty. A single
Greek mercantile house, the keeper of a wine shop,
and anArmenian broker, are the only Christians in-the
place. A most unpleasing sight to the English eye
are the crowds of poor Indians who litter in the .
streets like dogs. These Indians are pilgrims•who
have returned here from Mecca, but being desti-
tute of means to continue their journey, live on
alms a life of squalid idleness. Accordidg to the
most probable calculation, the number of houses,
large and smallrmay beabout 4,000, and the popu-
lation perhaps reaches 20,000. Of the present
population (1854) 1,500 are Indians, including
many of the wealthiest merchants, nearly the
whole trade of Jidda being in the hands of British
subjects.