The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-21
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THE CANADA'S MAUS.
THE rNsuRREc1IoN N CANDIDA

A June ~ '-i i' tt 4
The Oppressed Christians Of Gambia have cal led the
day and the Pore has been bu'licd into abject sub
mission as its most Inyeterat5 well 'wshes can desire
LAST wck mentioned few Of the modest demands OF the
insurgents but left undctailed round half score Of
others equally unreasonable and not t. bc listened to by
any government with the slightest respect for or ability
TO maintain its own authority Well, the whole have
been conceded and the obnoxious governor recalled q
Having already twice referred TO tho Canadian distur
Dances and stated pretty fully nay opinion Of the gney
ances' by which they have been ostersibly excited
need now only very briefly report their humating con-
clusion. On the Sd inst Achmet Pacha, the naval
and military commander Of the island and Rhemzy Ef
fendi, commissioner, al ~ from the Porte, landed at
Canee and the following day proceeded to hold par
Icy with the insurgents at Posi In the interior depu
tation from the alcontents there met the imperial rep
resentAives and resubmitted TO them the string
OF complaints and demands which ha already been made
to, and conclusively answered by vely Pacha After
show of argument the part Of the commissioners,
everything asked for conceded, except the recall of
the governor which, have said has since capped
the humiliation of the Porte. On Thursday last Sani
Pacha the Minister Of Instruction. nominated to the
vacant government after it had been offered to- and
fused by Mehemet Pacha the Chief of the Police The
new governor starts for his pest early in the coming
week, accompanied by four battalions of infantry
The Porte has thus been made to eat very dirty
'leek indeed and Ms yet without the expected
satisfactory result for the latest news from the
island reports that though every demand preferred had
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their arms and threatened crusade against the Mussul
man population AS these last form majority in the
towns where great excitement has been occesoned by
these concessions to the Insurgents they have armed in
selfdefence and in view of the abec weakness of the
authorities will probably begin their protective measures
by the massacre of many Christians they lay
hands Indeed, the whole tenor Of the intelligence
received by the last steamer encourages the belief that
far from being pacifed by the humilatng capitulaons
just made by the government Gambia is the of
furnishing ediyng and just illustration Of the
suit of foreign intrigue among the Christian subjects of
the Porte the sincees enemy Of Idsh progress and
civilization desire SO far the recall of Vey Pa ;ha
goes it is here matter of notorety that French agency
has been busy for several weeks past working out the
accomplished result Of his disgrace and have good
authority for jnsnuating that to similar instrumcntay
is to be attributed the whole Of this Condian nsurrec
ton Such occurrences these, however, fast has
enng settlement of the Christian question in this
country and shall therefore have early occasion to say
much that long vexed topic than any cpl
sodca events like those Of Gambia at present call for