The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

CAPTURE OF BEYROUT.

the iffuniteur Parisien and Messager of Tuesday
night, and the itiornittut ‘if Wednesday, published the
annexed intelligence from did Levant, received by the
French Government :

A, It bAs been learnt to-lay by telegraph that a versel
has just arrived direct from Alexandria at Toulon,
bringing news dated the :3,1 of October. According to
this telegraphic intelligence, which will not be explained
except by the despatches themselves, which have been
sent to Paris, it was said at Alexandria that Soliman
Pacha was on the 27th of September in possession of
Beyrout, but that the English fleet had occupied several
points on the Syrian coast."
The Journal des Debate has the following remarks on
the above news :

" Well-informed persons add the annexed details to
the telegraphic despatch of last eveni.ig :
" Soliman had occupied Beyrout with a numerous
detachment of the Egyptian army, amounting altoge-
ther, it is said, to 60,000 men. Several posts on the
coast, Tarabolo (Tripoli), Jaffa, Kaiffa, had been at-
tacked by the fleet of the Allies, and had fallen into
their power. Alexandria, from whence this news ema-
nates, was a prey to great anxiety from the appearance
of the enemy's fleet, which had commenced a vigorous
blockade of the coast. Such are the rumours in circu•
lation, given as a complement of the Mini,terial publica-
tion. We do not guarantee them authentically. It was
on the flth of September that the naval forces of the
Allies were before Beyrout. The news of to-day, dated
the :27th, is consequently of a later date by eighteen
days. From which it results that the Allies must have
actively pursued their operations during that interval,
and availed themselves of the fine season, in order to
obtain some decisive advantage before the approach of
winter.

" Arrived on the oth at Beyrout, their fleet, as we
stated yesterday, made a demonstration, in the first in-
stance before the town, in order to attract the atten-
tion of the Egyptians, and deceive them as to the
point of landing which had been decided upon. That
artifice fully succeeded. Whilst Beyrout was being
attacked,.the landing was effected without any obstacle,
at two leagues more to the north, in the bay of
Djunie, and et the creek of Nahr-el-Kolb, where seven
or eight thousand Turkish troops were forthwith esta-
blished and entrenched.

" During the days of the 10th and 11th of Septem-
ber the torts of Beyrout were vigorously cannonaded.
Soliman Pacha and the Egyptians evacuated the town.
From thence the Allies proceeded to batter and occupy
the two small towns of Djebail and Batroum, both situ-
ated on the coast, between Beyrout and Tripoli.
Everywhere arms were distributed to the mountaineers.
They were conveyed by sea to Batrourn, together with
two hundred and fifty mountaineers, who assisted them
in taking that town.
" The mountain in the environs of Beyrout is divided
into two regions. The one, the Schuf, to the south, is
inhabited by the Druses, and composed of about a
dozen districts. It is there that the town of Deir-el-
Kammar is situated, near which the Prince of the
Druses, the old Beschir, resides in a magnificent forti-
fied castle, where he is always surrounded by a troop of
twelve or fifteen hundred picked cavalry, which he
maintains, and which are devoted to him. The Emir
Besehir remains faithful to Mehemet Ali up to the pre-
sent time.

" The other region, situated to the north of Beyrout,
the Kesrouan, extends from the southern declivity of
the Lebanon to the sea, the Cape of Beyrout separating
the two regions. The Kesrouan is composed of a mix-
ture of villages, inhabited by the Druses and Maronites,
and who all acknowledge alike the sovereignty of the
Prince of the former. Djunie, where the Allies landed
and fortified themselves, is in the centre of the Kes-
rouan, on the coast.

" To the north of the Kesrouan, from Djebail to
Tripoli extends the region of the Lebanon, properly so
called, inhabited by the Maronites, who are, be it
known, Roman Catholics, or rather Christians of the
primitive Greek faith, but re-attached to the Catholic
Church, and to whom the Pope has granted certain in-
dulgences with respect to the liturgy, in order to main-
tain them within the pale of the Roman Church. By
the occupation of Batroum and Tripoli the Allies will
have immediate access with all the Maronite popula-
tion, which even extends from the north of Tripoli to
Mount Akkar.

" Latterly the Maronites rose against the Egyptian
Government. Ibrahim and Soliman quelled the revolt
partly by force and partly by the policy of concession.
It remains to be seen what party those people will es-
pouse. On the one hand, the Allies do not display a
very imposing force with respect to the troops they have
landed ; on the other hand, Ibrahim and Soliman are
there with a very considerable army. It is, therefore,
difficult to discern what cpurse the Syrians will take,
so long as they do not find themselves more powerfully
supported. _ _

It would aypear that,, after its operations on Bey-
rout, Tripoli, and the coast of Lebanon, the allied fleet
Proceeded to the south, on the. coast of Palestine, since
it is reported to have occupied the town of Jaffa, which
is the last port on the side of Egypt. Kaiffa is also
mentioned, which is at the foot of Mount Carmel, in a
bay opposite, and at a league from St. Jean d'Acre.
" There would be nothing improbable in that news.
The telegraphic despatch of Tuesday night informs us
that the British fleet has occupied several points on the
coast of Syria. Besides, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford
officially stated in his report of the 20th of September
that the operations of the fleet would extend from Tri.
poli to Kaiffa. It would appear that, in consequence of
circumstances of which we have no knowledge, those
operations had been extended to Kaiffa, in the vicinity
of Egypt, which would, to a certain degree, render very
probable the rumour of the appearance of the combined
fleet in sight of Alexandria.
" It is officially announced that Soliman Pacha had
resumed possession of Bcyrout on the 27th of Sep-
tember. That town was not occupied by the Allies,
because it is commanded by the Sabel mountains of
Syria. It was retaken without striking a blow ; but the
troops encamped at Djunie, near Beyrout, have they
been dislodged by Soliman's forces? Ibrahim, who was in
Cclesyria, at Balbek, on the eastern extremities of the
Lebanon, did he betake himself to the mountains of
Tripoli, whilst Soliman was resuming Beyrout ? We
shall learn all that at a futtre period.
" To sum up,—those demonstrations which have been
resorted to on every point of the coast, without having
landed troops to leave in each town, do not appear
sufficient to cause the evacuation of Syria, as long as
the Egyptian army possesses the interior of the country,
and that it has free communication with Egypt by land."

GERMANY.

FRANKFORT, OCT. 10.—The intelligence of the
bombardment of Beyrnut has occasioned no other sen-
sation here than a further decline of the funds. The
Vienna Bank shares are quoted at 15 95, beimg a con-
siderable fall within a short period. The Allgenzeine
Zielung renews the report of a treaty of navigation
for the Lower Danube being concluded between Aus-
tria and Russia. This contract is said to be based upon
the stipulations of the Treaty of Vienna. The same
authority announces the arrival at Odessa of twenty
ships to embark troops, artillery, and ammunition, as
well as the report current at that place that a portion of
the Russian fleet had sailed for the Dardanelles. The
report, it is observed, was probably occasioned by this
departure from Sebastopol of the above-mentioned ships
for Odessa,
The Prince of Warsaw (Marshal Paskiewicz) has left
Berlin without anything having transpired respecting
his mission, but there can be little doubt but that the
measures to be taken in either of the two cases now
possible were concerted, and that the Prussians and Rus-
sians have mutually agreed to support each other's move-
ments, whether upon the Rhine or in Asia Minor.
The railway between Munich and Augsburg is in full
play, in consequence of the October festival being cele-
brated with mare than usual gaiety at the former place.
Great preparations have been made for the reception of
the King and Claeen, who are to be present. The
Duchess Dowager of Luchtenberg and the Grand
Duchess Marie have been ill at Tegcrnsee.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
at Rumpenheim from London on the 7th instant.
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, OCT. s.—An Occurrence took
place yesterday,which,although a mere affair of police, yet
deserves, at the present moment, to be explained, as it
will probably be misrepresented in the usual manner by
the French Papers, and magnified into a revolt against
the Prussian Government. Yesterday (Sunday) a num-
ber of soldiers from the battalion lying here in gar-
rison were assembled, with other persons of low rank
frora the city, in a dancing-room, and a dispute,
such as often occurs on these occasions arose. The
heads of all were probably unsteady from drink-
ing. They came to blows, and the soldiers went so
far as to draw their cutlasses, which they used against
the people. A young man was unfortunately wounded
by the blow of a sabre. A great concourse of
people naturally flocked together on the occasion, and
pursued the soldiers, with demonstrations of violence,
to their 'barracks, in front of which the tumult conti
nued for some time to rage. This is the s.mple truth ;
and it must be remarked that the soldiers were Poles,
as one-third of the battalion is composed of Polish
troops. The matter will of course be strictly investi-
gated.-4llgemcine Zeitung.
BERLIN, Oer. 6.—We learn from a sure source that
General Von Thiele, now commanding at Coblentz the
Bth corps of the Prussian army, is appointed Minister
of State and of the Cabinet, in the place of M. de Lot-
turn, who retires in consequence of his advanced age.
This appointment has made a great impression at Ber-
lin.—Allgemeine Zeitung.
An accident is said to have occurred at St. Peters-
burgh during a trial made of a newly-invented bomb,
which explodes on touching the object against which it
is fired. An ammunition waggon was fired at, but did
not for some time explode, on which the General of
Artillery, Bontemps, rode up to inspect it, and just
reached it as it i.nited. The General was so much in-
jured by the explosion that he died after eleven hours
of great suffering.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 16.
Will be repealed the New Play, in rive Acts, written by James
Sheridan Knowles, Esq., entitled
—"HE BRIDE OF MESSINA. _

John di Procida, Mr. Moore; Fernando, Mr. Anderson;
Guiscardo, Mr. Cooper ; Isoline, Miss Ellen Tree.
The Interval between the]Play and the Atterpiece will be oc-
cupied by
A COMIC SCENE between Mr. CHARLES ➢IATHEWS
and Mr. KEELEY, entitled
TWO IN THE MORNING.

After which will he repeated a New Musical Drama, entitled

THE GREEK BOY.

Ifylas, Madame Vestris ; Doge of Venice, M. S Jones ;
Count Malveggio, Mr. Diddear ; Silvio, Mr. Keeley ; Claudio,
Mr. Binge ; Bernardo, Mr. IT. Matthews; Benedetta, Miss
Cooper ; Constanza, Aliss A. Taylor.
_ _ _

To-morrow, the Spanish Curate, with Two in the Morning,
and the Greek Boy.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and -Second
Ircles, ss. ; Second Price, :Is. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
ornmence at Seven o'Clock.
Tick: is and pla( es for the Boxt to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season 'rickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had so'ely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167, New Bond-street.