The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-27 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

the monk was not found in forty-night hours. Not
a &ngle.i•oice is-raiKed in behalf of the Jews. I
sincerely -hope that Fatlier Tomaso or his servant
will be found, in order to prevent some direful
crimes.

" E. KILBEE."
Beyrout, Feb. 27.

" I had the honour of writing to you on the
20th inst., respecting the murder of Father Thomas,
at Damascus. I 1.1-erred to the letter which M.
A lfondery wrote to vou ; but having letters of the
24th from that town this morning, I hasten to
communicate their contents to you.
"The Israelites at Damascus are charged with
being implicated in the murder ; but it appeals that
every perquisition hitherto made has produced no
result. .Nevertheless :nost of the heads of the prin-
cipal Jewish families have been imprisoned, and
though their houses have been mrrowly searched,
notlyng to criminate them has been discovered. A
young Jew, about 20
years old, died on the 19th,
in consequence of the bastinado he had received,
because he had affirmed that he had seen the capu-
chin enter a Turkish house.

" Several persons are of . opinion that this affair
is owing to the local Government having made the
priest disappear in order to avail themselves of the
outcry his loss would occasion as a pretext for levy.
ing money on the Jews of Damascus. We shall
SQC6 see to whom this murder is to be attributed.

P. LAURELLA."

The following letter, addressed to Messieurs
onorte and Cohen, at Constantinople, furnishes
t ith more ample details respecting the tortures
inflicted rin this unfottunate race :
I write
,these lines to you, after having wished,
you peace and salvation, with great grief at hearts
to-A%form you of ;he tribulations of our brethren'in
Damasetis. 7
4‘ I ‘vroteVqop on the 21st February, and I
was in hopes of being able to inform you to day
that the calumny had been discovered ; but as my
hopes have not been realised, I shall give you a
succinct and correct account of the whole matter.

On Wednesday, February 5, a: priest, who
had lived at Damascus for the last forty years, Ruda
denly disappeared with his servant. This prihr
followed the medical profession, and visitettea-
tholic,'Armenian, and Jewish houses, for the pur.;
pose of vaccinating. On the following day, same
Turks and Greeks came into the Jewish quarter,
affirming that they had seen the priest and his ser•
vant in it on the preceding evening. They laid
hold of a poor Jewish barber, and dragged him
before the Pacha, who instantly ordered him to re-
ceive 500 blows on his heels ; and, as he made no
avowal, the most cruel tortures that tyranny tvold
invent were, adMinistered.

" In the meanwhile, the Greeks advised him to
denimuce some rich Jews as the perpetrators of
the crime, and, being unable to resist and,further the torture to Which he was exposed,
he named seven of the richest Jews in Damas-
eus—v:s., David Harary and his three brO,-
thers„loaCk, Haron, and Joseph, Joseph Landiado, I
Mons. Abulafia and Moses , Dekar-Luda. The
barber stated that they had sent for him, and offerer]
him 800 piasoks
,if he would sacriace Ow priest,
because.ihey Wanted his Wood for their holy bread ;
that he had refused, ,but did not know wiiat -Was
become of the priest. The Pachainstantly ordered
the seven :Jews to be brought before him and to be
bastinadoed. • The poor wretches • protested that
they.were innocent, and said that the Jews, who
were prohibited feeding on , the blood of minim's,
were not likely to commit an act so repugnant to
human naturo.as.theone they were accuseZof. The
Paella would hear no justification—ordered them
to be loaded with chains, end made them undergo
the most einel sufferings by forcing them to remain
standing during forty hours without giving them
anything to eat Or drink, or allowing them to sleep.
He then sent for the three Rahbins, Jacob Antevi,
Aaron Arari, and Azararia Halfaen, and torture,:t
dicta till their flesh flew off in large bits, ai'.;.inc,
them in -the meanwhile whether they had employed
blood in their holy bread ; they replied that if such
had lit.en their custom their proselytes would have
proclaimed the fact long ago.
'c The Paella then proceeded to the college, had
the children thrown into prison and chained, pro-
I hibiled their being seen by their mothers, allown's
9
I them but an ounce c bread and a glass of watera
day each, hoeing that their parents, in order to
hherote their children, world make some disclosures.
' A generous-hearted Jew came forward and told
'chi:: Paella that the calumny in question had already
been discussed by all the pawers ip)Europe,-and had
been declared ioadinissable, and that' it.was , uot an
, equitable ae4ion to inflict welt cruelties - tit-4411m
accusation wrenched out of an individual Immetans
of torture. The Padli ordered this individual to
be beaten tilt lie expired.
! _ ".Tl-,Pac.ha then proceeded in person with 600
men die'to J•s.,wi.s.h quarter, and ordered the houses
of tbeJktv Licensed to be demolished, in the hope
1 of diseiiierifigi'the'dead bodies ; but having made
no dikovery of the kind, he ordered the prisoners
to. be : dragged -by their sexual organs to a sewer
near the palace, and to be thrown into it. ' Not
being. able to support . this torture, they preferred
death, and acknowledged the charge to be true. The
Governor then inquired where they bad put the
blood of the men murdered, to which one of them
replied, that it had been put into a bottle and given
to Moses Abalafia. The latter denied this ; but
having' received 1,000 stripes without making any
acknowledgment, he was exposed to the most
horrid torture, which made him say that he
had placed the bottle of blood in a cupboard.
—As he could not stand on his feet, the Go-
vernor had the unfortunate man carried on
tho shoulders of four soldiers to open the cup-
board ; but when this was opened, it contained
nothing but. gold ; and as the Governor inquired
for the bottle, Abalafia replied, that he had shown
him the gold to be relieved from the calumny. The
sufferer was then tottured afresh in order to induce
him to turn Turk to save his life. The others were
treated in the same manner,- and these proceedings
have lasted a month. An astrologer declared that
he had discovered that the prisoners had assassi-
nated the priest, and that the servant had been
killed he Raphael Farki, Nathan Levi, Aaron
Levi, Mardocai Tarki, and Aarrkes di Listone,
and the two first were arrested immediately ; the
others had effected their escape.
4. This is the way in which justice, my dear
friends, is administered here. The banker, Nigri,
has embraced Islamism, being unable to support
any danger the tortures to which he was exposed."

VERY LIKE TORY HIGH CHURCH

PERSECUTION.

(mom A CORRESPONDENT.)
At the annual meeting held in the Vestry of St. Mar-
garct'A Church, King's Lynn, on Easter Monday, after
the preliminary proceedings, " A rate of eight-pence ip
the pound" was proposed ; upon which an amendment.
" That this Meeting do now adjourn," was moved, -4!4
carried by a show of hands, upon which a poll was ae-:
mande(i, arid granted by the Chairman.
Two of the choristers of St. Nicholas Chapel, in the
same parish, voted on Wednesday fur the arncmclment, and
on Friday received an intimation from the Tory Chapel
Warden that their services would be no longer required.
It is not fur a moment to be supposed that the vote which.
f.ley gave was by any means the :muse of their dismissal ;
but it happened a little saispi,!ar that they should be the
oi.ly petsons who received -cheir discharge upon the occa-
sion ; but such was tbt; fact
One of the ehori:.iers has since met with an engagement
at the ludepent'Ant Chapel, the funds of which are raised
entirely upoo, the voluntary principle.

Tacvl.ioni is expected to fulfil a short engagement
tti the finperi?l Theatre of Vienna, eu route from the Russian
(tapitaL and is not expectedtoreach town before the close of
the
ensuing month. The principal danceuse from La Scala, at
'Milan. has been engaged to succeed Fanny Elssler.
DROPNIORE LODGE.—Lady Grenville is en-
tertaining the Countess Carysfort and the Ladies Proby, the
Hon. George and Lady Louisa Fortescuc, and the Right Hon.
On Friday last, her Majesty and Prince
honoured her Latyship with a morning visit
Albert
ta Grenville.
univti(,lle.
to inspect the beautiful grounds attached to the mansion.
131.7cic1icrtsT LODGE, BERKSIIIRE.—Lord J.
Rusq.ll is entertrining a family eirele at this delightful villa..
The Rev. Lord Wriothesly Russell, the new Canon of Windsor ;
Mr. Henry and Lady Theresa Lister, the Hon. Miss Lisier,
and Lord llibblesdale, are among the Noble Secretary
S'otte's
visitert. Lord John will leave to-morrow, Tuesday, te,r Wil-
ton-crescent, and Mr. and Lady Theresa Lister for *),,, Coup,
tees of Morley's, Kent 11,-,use. Viscount Alelhow,.,, paid hilt
Lordship a visit Sidarday, en route from the o,,fieto town.
The Earl of Kintioull is mu,:lt 'aettvr; The
answer to inquiries, yesterday, at ihttipde'a House 'was- that
his Lordship was out of danger.
DEATH OF LADY BARBA HA. NEWDIGATE•
,"7",
W e have to announce the demise of the, above Lady, whoiliked.
Wednesday last., at the family villa, on Blaeltheath. Tho •
deceased was (laughter of the late and, sister of.the present:Earl
of Daehmaith, anti was barn 29th November, 1791, and mar-
ried in April, lc:20, Mr. F. Newdigaie. -
ALDERMAN HARMER.---In the B • I: .urtil'on
Saturday morning, Mr. Charles Phillips fop, 01 thet.
name of Mr. Alderman Harmer removed from tit 0
on the gr?une at att;
Nti,,O.arstle \a'SboOufito theC(l!elltritr
frome tla
teen'ussßeinenss; Mr. Justice Williamsch ,
granted the application.

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