The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-12

Nearly sixty days have elapsed since portion
of the Mussulman population of Jiddah, on the
Red Sea, rose upon the handful of Christians re-
siding at that Port, and Unfortunately massa-
cred a considerable number of Them including
the English and French Consuls. Nothing could
be more natural than that just such sanguinary
outbreak should take place at point reluctantly
opened to Christian merchants, and among
Ieople in constant contact with the thousands OF
pilgrims who resort thither from all parts of Asia
for the purpose of proceeding overland to the Holy
City of Mecca, some sixty-four miles distant. To
Jiddah also they return, after having accomplished
their VOWS, and duly performed all the ceremonies
which the Koran enjons upon true believers. In
the full bloom Of a newly acquired sanctity,
fanaticsm finds its freest expression; while the
course of recent events-the war with Persia, and
the rebellion in India; the decay of the Moslem
power, and the concessions granted by the Sultan
to his Christian subjecs-have afforded but so
many additional arguments for hating, with in
creased bitterness, the whole race of Europeans;
for heaping insults upon them whenever the OPP
portunity offered, and for Selling any plausible
pretext to murder them in open day, and in de-
fiance of the feeble efforts made to restrain them
by the Turkish authorities. But not in iddah only
has this sangunary spirit manifested itself 1t has
broken out in Gambia, in Bosnia, in Herzegovina
at Jaffa and at Belgrade and threatens to make
itself felt wherever the Christians are weak, and
the Mussulmans intolerant The Crimean war;
which was to give strength and independence TO
the Turkish power; to bring the proud but indo-
lent followers of Mahomet within the pale of Eu-
ropean progress and civilization; which was to
soften old prejudices, awaken an interest in COM
mercial pursuits clothe the shores of the Black
Sea with thriving towns and villages, and throng
the ports of Arabia Felix with the vessels of all
nations has produced directly the contrary effect
The contempt that was cast upon the Turkish
forces: the evident distrust with which they were
regarded the sights that were put upon their of.
fcers; the distant service upon which they were
sent; the sympathy evinced by the Turkish Gov
eminent for the wounded Europeans, as compared
with the indifference it manifested to the suffer-
ings of the native troops, and the sense of con-
scious superiority which the victorious allies but
too often took pains to concea-all these things
operating together upon the minds of the Moslem
zealots, tended TO revive the old traditional an
tagonsm by leading them to brood over their
fallen condition, and to compare it with what it
once was when their power extended from the
gates of Vienna to the shores of farthest India
The series of ourages recently recorded will doubt
less lead to Il modification of the policy of the
Western allies with respect to Turkey The in
herent weakness of the Government, though for
merly questioned, is now admitted, and the mpos-
sibility of maintaining its Jurisdiction over an
Empire SO extensive, yet so loosely held together,
Is daily becoming more apparent Under the
vigorous rule OF MEHEMEr ALL that bold, but un-
scrupulous Nlceroy, made his name feared. and his
authority respected from the gates of Cairo to the
mountains OF Abyssna, and so long as he exerciSed
control over the inhabitants of .Gddab +ho,e,l
Christian might be insulted his person was n,o.
late. 1t is only since the authority Of tho PIT
was restored, that no authority whatever has ~
reality. been exercised Every Pacha ruline, o,,ou
remote provinces is, in effect, Independent of his
sovereign. If he yields obedience in minor matters
it is because his interest prompts him to do So If
he refuses to recognize the mandates of the Porte,
il is more than probable that he will successfully
resist the order for his deposition, and will finally
escape punishment for his contumacy, either
through change of ministry, or from the inability
of the Government to enforce its DEGREES 1t is
only in the capital, and in the adjacent provinces
that the Tdnqimat in favor of the Christian popu-
lation meets with observance. On the outskirts Of
the Empire, and especially in Arabia, no proca-
nation of the Sultan granting trading privileges
to Europeans, or enfranchsing the Christian in
babtants of Turkey from the pains and penalties
to which, through many centuries, they have been
subjected by the dominant race, can, even at this
day be carried into effect unless it is supported by
the presence Of an efficient body Of troops COM
. manded by an energeieand enlightened officer. AT
Jiddah, sea FORTHWITH a rapidly increasing COM