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:THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY E V ENING, JULY 16, 1858.

sentiments. We may fairly banter the Conser-
vatives good temperedly for recognising in office
that the nation will have certain measures which
they have always opposed. But seriously to call
it political immorality fur men to adopt the
views which we deem right, to abuse them
for accepting the truth when we ought rather
to blame them only for past errors, is the
height of perversity. Conservatives, no doubt,
like Liberals, have been guilty enough of one poli-
tical creed in office and another in opposition.
We blame, however, and justly enough, the
Liberal leaders for being less liberal in office than
out of it. Are we, then, to turn round, when the
Conservatives are in, and abuse them for being
more liberal ? In regard t 3 any Ministry, with
us, byegones shall always be byegones, if they will
adopt what we deem right measures. We don't
want, in politics, to have a kind of Arabian blood
feud.

THE APPROACHING- PROROGATION OF
PARLIAMENT.

It is now said in political circles that—subject, of
course, to the state of the public business—Parlia-
ment will be prorogued on the 31st inst., and that
the Speaker will give his customary entertainment
to the Sergeant-at-Arms and other principal officers
of the House of Commons on Wednesday, the 28th
inst. The Ministerial whitebait dinner is ap•
pointed for Saturday, the 24th inst.

TSB ATLANTIC CABLE.

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 13.

Th© Agamemnon, Captain Preedy, is coaling,
The Niagara, Captain Hudson, and Gorgon, Cap-
tain Dayman, have coaled, and the Valorous, Cap-
tain Aldham, has nearly coaled. The whole
expedition will, it is rumoured, start again about
Monday, the 19th.

ITALIAN OPERA, DRURY-LANE.

MR. E. T. SMITH'S BENEFIT.

Saturday evening, the last night of the Italian
opera season at Old Drury; has been fixed foe the
benefit of Mr. E. T. Smith, the enterprising and
untiring lessee of this national establishment. The
opera selected for the occasion is Mozart's magnifi-
cent opera of " Don Giovanni," thus powerfully
cast : Donna Anna, Madame Viardot Garcia ;
Elvira, Madlle. Sedlazek ; Zorlina, Madame Per-
siani ; Don Giovanni, Signor Badiali ; Leporello,
Signor Rovere ; Commendatore, Signor Manfredi ;
Masetto, Signor Kinni ; and Don Ottavio, Signor
Naudin. After the opera, Dibdin's musical farce
of "The Waterman" will be given, in which Mr.
Charles Braham, Mr. J. Newcombe (lessee of the
Theatre Royal, Plymouth), and Miss Rebecca
Isaacs, will appear. Setting mid() the intrinsic
merit of the entertainments, we think the public
are under great obligations to Mr. Smith ;
for had it not been for his persevering
spirit thousands would never have experienced
the delight of hearing Italian opera, supported
by first rate artistes, at a moderate price. To
him we are also under obligations for the intro-
duction of several artistes of the greatest ability,
who, bad it not been for the opening of Old
Drury, would to this day have remained amongst
the " illustrious obscure." We therefore expect
to•morrow evening to witness an overflowing
house, as an acknowledgment on the part of
the public that Mr. Smith's exertions to provide,
first-rate entertainment for the million has not
been disregarded or unappreciated.

I. A.TES NEWS.

THE JEDDAH MASSACRE.

By the Veetis, just arrived at Marseilles, we have
received Egyptian journals and letters which con-
tain details of this deplorable affair. A supplement
of the Progresso di Egitto of Alexandria has the
following communicated, it says, by an eye-
witness

" It was at sunset on the 15th, not the 7th, re
stated in the telegraphic despatches, that the event
occurred. The pretext of it is said to be this :
Two brothers possessed a vessel, which being un-
der the protection of the English Consul was
accustomed to carry the English flag, but one of
them thought fit to replace that flag by the Otto-
man one. The other brother protested to the Eng-
li.ol Consul, Mr. Page, and that gentleman went on
board the vessel, at the head of 15 sailors, and had
the English flag hoisted. This irritated the people.
Another version is that the outbreak was occasioned
by a slave having been allowed to take refuge in
the English Consulate. Whatever the pretext, the
movement had long been prepared, and it is certain
that the principal, cause of it was the irritation of
the principal owners of vessels at the new
Medjidie line of steamers having been esta-
blished. It is added that some Indian agents were
not strangers to it. The number of insurgents
exceeded 5,000 ; the Turkish Caimacan had only
100 soldiers. The English Consul was literally cut
to pieces ; two dragomans and an Indian domestic

were massacred. The French Consul was killed
by stabs from a sword and a knife. His wife
was killed by a stab in the breast, after having

killed a Hadramite and wounded another. Their

daughter received a slight wound in the throat ;
the chancellor received several stabs from a sword ;
the lady's maid was not wounded. These three
persons have arrived in Egypt. In the house of
MM. Sava and Company, twelve persons were
wounded, and amongst them were the three bro-
thers of that name. The total number of victims
.was 23 ; the number of persons received on board
the Cyclops was 24. The Pacha, who had been
at Mecca, found, on his return, that all the Chrir-

tians had left the town: Calm was re-established,
and the commander of the Cyclops, as a first
satisfaction, required the flags to be re-established
and saluted. It is said that a number of arrests
were made. The houses and warehouses were
sacked. It is said that the brothers Sava had
more than 100,000 tartarh' worth of goods or
specie belonging. ,to third parties. The person
from whom we receive these details accuses the
Okil of Meccas :of, having prepared the rising, and
he declares that all :the inhabitants, great and
small, were accomplices in it. Our informant
escaped by miracle ; he was on a high terrace
with five companions ; the five ware killed ;
he jumped into the sea and remained there for a
long time,ll when he, succeeded in reaching the
Cyclops."
Another account says :

" The chancellor of the French consulate, M.
Emerat, defended himself
.bravely with a poinard
which he wrested from the first man who attacked
him ;he wounded several. The archives of the
two consulates of France and England were scat-
tered about or degtroyed. Tho day after the event
there were rejoicings
.at Mecca, and a solemn
thanksgiving was offered up."

A letter from Alexa,iidria sAys

"The forcible substitution of the English for
the Ottoman flag was made the pretext of the out
break ; but the real cause of it was that the popu-
lace had long entertained bitter animosity against
the Christians, and that it was kept alive by the
chiefs of the Mahometan religion. The house of
the English consul was first invaded by the sa-
vages ; after killing him they cut his body into
, pieces, and threw the 'pieces into the street to be
devoured by dogs. Theia the massacre and pillage of
Europeans commenced in all parts. The French
consulate was taken by assault. The consul, M.
Eveillard, was killed as, assisted by his chancAlor
and the kavas, he vas defending his house. In the
course of the conflict, Mine. Eveillard was slightly
wounded, but it was not that which caused her
death—it was apoplexy, brought on by emotion
at seeing her husband fall. -Mlle. Eveillard, see-
ing an Arab struggling with M. Emerat, bit him
so severely that he let go his hold. She was
afterwards rescued by 4_ woman belonging to
an .adjacent harem, to --whom she had shown
some kindness a few daystefore. The Cairn tcan,
having been a)plied to:in:the absence of the go-
vernor said, withaPparent unconcern, that he had
not forces enough at his disposition to establish
order, and he did nothing. The governor ou his
return appeared irritated, had 150 men arrested,
caused tho. Englislitand French filgs to be paraded
through the town,.. and, then saluted by 21 guns.
The Europeans WhO escaped sought refuga in the
citadel,; and amongst them were M. Emerat and
Mdlle. Eveillard. The captain of the Cyclops, on learn-
ing what had taken place, armed two boats' crews,
and subsequently two others, and sent them to-
wards land ; but a number of armed men on shore
made, signs to them not to approach. He then
placed his vessel as near "0 possible to the town,
with the intention of -,boulloarding it, but the go-
vernor sent a flag of
truce to beg of him not to do
so, in order not to punish the innocent with the
guilty, and promisingl:eparation. All the Chris-
tians who were killed were cut to pieces."

nouncement of the abolition of privateering that
the private property of subjects or citizens of the
belligerent powers should be exempt from seizure
at sea by the respective ships of war. With these
exceptions, all the Cabinets have adhered unre-
servedly to the four principles which constitute
the declaration of the Congress of Paris ; and in
that way is ratified in the international law of
almost all the States of Europe and America, a
progress to which your Majesty's Government, con-
tinuing one of the most honourable traditions of
French policy, may congratulate itself on having
powerfully contributed. In order to prove and
make known these adhesions, I propose to your
Majesty to authorise the in,ertion in the Bulletin
des Lois of the official notes in which they are an-
nounced, and if your Majesty accedes to this pro-
position, I will have published in the same manner
such adhesions as may hereafter reach me.—l
am, &c., `c WALEWSKI."

To the report is appended the signature of the
Emperor, declaring that the proposal made by the
Minis'er is approved of.

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.

Despatches quoted by the Pays state that the
Turks have attacked the Montenegrins. The latter,
after having been thrice assailed, have withdrawn
into their mountains to await the enemy.
A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, re-
ceived by the Turkish Ambassador Extraordinary
in Paris or by the French Government, announces
that the Porte had sent to Jeddah a corps of 2,000
men, for the purpose of inflicting exemplary chas-
tisement on the assassins of the French and English
Consuls. M. Emuat, who was chancellor to the
Consul at that place, and who, under the trying
circumstanceshe passed through, showed great reso-
lution and courage, has been named Knight of the
Legion of Honour. it is said that orders have been
sent to the Commandant of the naval division in the
Chinese seas to despatch two ships of war at once to
the Red Sea. The Admiral commanding on the
Greek station is ordered to proceed to Candia. If
Russia be wronged she is much to be pitied, but
there are persons who persist in tracing her hand in
the troubles that have taken place lately in various
parts of the Turkish empire; and it is now, as ever,
her interest that peace and order shall never be
established in Turkey. It is stated that the loan
which the Viceroy of Egypt wished to make with
an English company is abandoned. The guarantees
demanded were—the rail way from Alexandria to
Suez, the abandonment in favour of the company
of one of the provinces of the Delta, and lands de-
pending on the town. It was these demands, it is
said, which caused the matter to be broken off.
We give this version as repeated in semi-official
quarters here, without vouching for its accuracy.
The 1119niteur publishes the comparative return
of the revenue for the first six months of 1858 and
1857. The total receipts of the former period were
539,927,000 f., and the latter 526,017,000 f., being
an increase in favour of 1858 of 13,910,000 f.
BOURSE, Ju`y 15,—The following were the latest
quotations
per Cents 95 25 I Credit Fonder
Do. end month - ' Belgian 4
3 per Cent. ..... 68 25 Piedmonteso (5)
Do. end month 6B 30 Roman 9O
Bank Shares ..... 3097 50 Austrian

Credit Mobilier : 631 25
Do. Account 632 50

Spanish Threes
illome Dobt

RAILWAYS.—FOR CASH.
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto - Eastern
Lyon and Mediteran.. 766 i Grand Central —
New Ditto — Sardinian
.... ....._ . . .

Geneva

CANADA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNING.

The-serew steamship Nova Scotian has arrived
from Quebec with advices to the 3d and from New
Yoik to the 2d inst.

She has on board the remaining officers and 435
non-commissioned officers, rank and file, of the
100th Regiment.
Dulness was the characteristic in the Quebec
timber-market ; freights hardening, and vessels
for London and the British Channel scarce and in
demand.

Advices received at New York from Washing-
ton on the Ist inst. state that despatches which
had been received at the Mexican Legation were
silent upon the subject of the American Minister
having demanded and received his passports. The
Government had received despatches, contents
unknown. Proceedings against foreigners who
refused to pay continued. Non-contents ordered
away. Russians, Germans, and Americans had
&aimed protection from the United States Min-
ister.

At Buffilo, a fire in the lumber-yard of Vansleck,
Churchill, and Barker had destroyed 6,000,000 ft.
of pine lumbeland :other property, to the value
of 300,000 dollars.

NEW YORK, JULY 2.

Cotton very dull, quotations nominally un-
changed ; flour ditto ; wheat dull at opening, but
closed a shade firmer, particularly for sound ;
corn dull for common ; prime firm, prices un-
changed ; pork steady ; beef unchanged ; cut
meats and lard. ditto ; sugars active and firmer ;
spirits of turpentine steady ; rosin buoyant •
freights firmer.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY 1.

Sale of cotton, 2,000 bales, at a quarter cent.
advance ; middling quoted 12 cents. ; sugar and
molasses quiet ; flour steady. Exchange on New
York unchanged. Freights firm, but without
change.

Another letter-assert4-titatjhe number of the killed
was 45, and that of the persons arrested by order
of the governor .300. 'lt adds that the latter gave
6,000 fr. to the Christiahs. who escaped. It states
also that the captain of the Cyclops before leaving
established proVisional 'consuls.