The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-05
SELECTIONS FROM FOREIGN PAPERS
COMMANDMENT OF DJIDDA.
[From lhe London Tlmes, Aag. 2o.l

We publish the account which we have received by
telegraph of the bombardment of Dlidda, but
bound add that as far present information
tends know not what to say of the proceeding Thus
much Is perfectly cear-that II at the time the massa
ces had occurred or immediately after their occurrence
Captain Pulen had turned his guns upon the offending
town. and had thus caught the muderers were red
handed the opinion of the civilized world would have
sanctioned any extreme TO which he might have
resored bombardnent of Djidda at the very moment
when the houses of the English and French consuls
yet red with the blood Of their inmates would have
been most ntclgible and justiabe proceeding Capt
Puen might thus have earned for himself the character Of
energetic and vigorous officer But what was the real
| course pursued se aE
The British steamer bore away, and when the matter
brought under the cognizance Of the home govern
ment, appeal was made to Constantnople The Turkish
authorities met demand for redress in the most
straightforward spirit 1ney instantly appointed special
commissioner to proceed to Ddda fof the express pur
pose Of bringing the rioters and murdcrers to condgn
| punishment. What more corld they dol What more
had we right to ask The officer selected for the pur
pose Of carrying the resolutions Of the Turkish gov
errnient was insignificant man but lsinail Pasha,
the hero of Kalat There can be kind Of doubt that
the Turkish government thoroughly in earnest and
would gladly have hung all the Djidda murderers
whom they could lay their hands. They despatched
steamer with 500 Egyptian troops board to sup
port the authority of their special commissioner and did
1 In short, all that men could do ga E fs 3s54-
Inc end of all this that Captain Pullen with the
Cyclops arrived off Ddda on the 23d Of July. Hamik
Pacha, whom take to he the governor OF the town,
to the Knmin announcing that If within 36 hours he
did not receive satisfactory to his regulations
hc would proceed to lombard tho town, The Turkish
special commissioner expected from day to day, f
not from hour to hour but that appears to have made
but little difference hours after the limit of time
announced the bombardment began, and was, doubt
not, trumpcry affair enough The bombardnent con.
tuued until the evening Of the p6t fhs next day the
Turkish troops arrived 1he asa sent out say that
he had arrested and confined the murderer but could
not execute them until tho arrival of the special commits
| soner, as he had not power of life aid death.
This met teemed satisfactory, and, after
various small passes Of negotiation, the 9Th of the
| present month the bonibardmcnt was resumed. The
same day Ismal Pasha arrived with lsb Egyptians tie
next morning eleven of the murdcIers executed in
sight OF thn town and shipping, and four Others were
sent of to Constannope. Now, what the English pub
lie will desire to know is this 'Why should the whole
tenor and object of negotiations with ConstaatInople
have been stutfed by so violent proceeding this
| Either to take the law into hands or
not. If we're, we should have dohe Sd 1T Rtst e
not should have awaited tae action Of the Turkish
government, who were certainly not hanging back IN the
matter Captain Pulen must have been acting in obe-
dience to orders from hoite. tn What grounds were
these dispatches ifnbes, and what they y
/ COMMENTS UPON THE BoMBARDMENT IN 8.
H. go ataa a FRANCE q l aa 4. q,
me Pdus publishes the news of the boinbartlment of
1 Ddda by the English ~ with note Of admiration,
and observes This Is considerable event, and at
which have reason to be somewhat surprised We
had thought that 1t understood brtwecn France aid
tngand that the CRIME OF Dda called ior an exemplary
pnnbhment, but that u WAS 10 DC lniced py tie Two
| government simultaneously England, Us usual mas
lost no ume and hay nS inc means OF repression on te
spot shc was abie 10 act before us put we cannot cp
thinking that the punishment Oh tne Dada assassihs
would have been neither less energetic less salny
if it had been inflicted by the two nations together in
their Joint name However we trust that TINS lesson
will have decisive influence "a the East and ml modify
the spnlt OF hosuity whch AZ present a'mateS the
greater part OF the popuation Inc s1tc Oh turkey Is
there can be no douot, dcporaoiei ana we may pc
neve te correspondence WHICH we ieeec 'is uay'
such as 10 teleh the peace OF EUROPE very seriously
III Is quite evident that the osoroes now eoihs on IN
every quarter OF the turkish empire are not leefapie TO
casual and transient circumstances aN' ny5a 'af
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lhh NohiAiNu VI lHE hii4ANAio lEihl"l1hH.
~ stsA tFrom the London Morning Post n'"t''a
The sowncss Of the signals through the Atlantic tel
trcity in passing through the length Of the wire If
dieuIty in tnnsmittp as rapidly as the instruments
could he worked hut when the wire is covered with
outt ncba and immersed IN water IL retains the cleo
trcity and the charge once communicated to the wire
reouires time for m DISCHARGE The first signal made is
transmitted almost nsantaneor,sly through the conduct
inc viro To the at the other end but the
wire does not really part with the charge and the cleo
frcitv II retans nrevept the effect Of second signal
from being perceived on the distant instrument This
peculiar effect begins to be perceived in an immersed
wire Mt Il distance Of ffty miles and increases in force as
the distance 40 that at two hundred miles COM
municatlon Nv Morses telegram would be impraot,,be
influence Of the external conductor when the telegraph
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