The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-24 00:00:00

PRENCR OPERATIONS IN BYBI4

(From yesterday's 2lfoniteur.)
The arrang merits which General de Beaufort
d'llautpoil, commander of the Syrian expeditionary
corps, made, in concert with Fuad Dacha, for pee e-
trating the Lebanon and there re-establishing the
Christians who had fled to the coast, have already
borne their fruit. The action of Europe, vigorously
represented by our troops, is progressively causing
all the obstacles opposed to it by open or covert
resistance to disappear.
It had been agreed that General de Beaufort
cl'Hautpoul should start from Beyrout and Fuad
Pacha from Saida, and that they should sixnulta•
neously converge in tho direction of Deir el Kamar.
General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul left Beyrout on
the 25th of September at 7 a.m., with 2,500 infan -
try, one mountain battery, and a cavalry escort
consisting of hussars and spahis. Colonel d'Arricau
left at the same time for Ain Sefer, along the
Damascus route, with the 12 companies of the
centre of the 13th Regiment of the line.
The Beyrout route to Deir el Kamar, formed by
the care of the Emir Beshir, is everywhere exceed-
ingly difficult, and at many parts impracticable.
Bristling with rocks, very narrow and presenting
abrupt precipices, the convoy could only advance
with much toil; and therefore, although the stages
were very short, the place of bivouac could not be
reached each day before nightfall.
Three or four thousand Christians--men, women,
and children—left Beyrout at the same time as the
French troops ; others in great numbers followed
them, covering the roads. The I)ruses appeared in
the distance on the hill tops, but without venturing
to approach. Accordingly the march of our troops
was attended with no serious incident as far as Deir
el Kamar, where they arrived on the evening of
the 26th.

Instead of going to Deir el Kamar, Fuad Pacha
was obliged to go to Djezzina, having received
intelligence of gatherings of Druses at Niha and
Badrana. He reached Djezzina on the 25th. The
Druses dispersed as soon as they learned the move-
ment of the French and Turkish forces, and the
Druses of Djezzina and Shouff endeavoured to escape
by themselves towards Merdj Ayoun or Gibel
Sheikh, in order to gain their customary refuge of
Sheba, where Ibrahim Pacha was able to pursue
them. On the 26th Fuad Pacha, leaving his in-
fantry at Djezzina, advanced with his cavalry as
far as. Macnara on the eastern slope of the Lebanon;
he sent some troops to Moktara, under the orders
of Ismal Pacha, there to put himself in communica-
tion with the French and protect the Christians now
returning to their villages; Ismael Pacha was also
ordered to watch all the outlets by which the
Druses might pass from Gibel Sheikh into the
Hauran.

On his side, General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul
gave orders to Colonel d'Arricau to leave Ain Sefer
with his two battalions and proceed to Deir-el-
Kamar, where he arrived on the 29th September,
in order to establish himself at Beth-ed-din, in the
old vast:palace of the Emir Beshir. Thus this French
detachment, admirably posted in a military point
of view, with the Turkish forces of Moktara and
Djezzina, protected the district extending from the
ridges of the Lebanon down to the sea, whilst
connecting us with Beyrout, whenever the French
column should advance.

The cavalry left at Beyrout received' orders to
march on Kab Elias, where it arrived on the 29th
September in the morning, in order to act in the
plain of the Bequaa, or turn the Gibel Sheikh, ac-
cording to circumstances.

It is difficult to form an idea of the state in which
our troops found Deir-el-Kamar ; all the houses are
destroyed; heaps of dead bodies were encumbering
the streets ; it was a sight that cannot be described
to see these thousands of Christians, almost exclu-
sively women and children, returning without any
resources to these ruins, where their fathers,
husbands, and brothers are still lying. The
General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul organised a sort
of municipality, consisting of five of the chief
persons, whose mission it will be to provide for the
most pressing wants of the Christians, and to main-
tain order amidst a population delivered up to so
many afflictions and so much misery.
The Turkish soldiers have been required to bury
so many corpses, which Mussulman indifference
and contempt had left unburied for four months, to
burn the human remains scattered about the ruins,
to clear the streets, and thus give access to the
few houses still capable of offering to the Christians
an indispensable but dangerous refuge. The in-
fection was so great that General de Beaufort
d'Hautpoul was obliged to remove his camp as far
as possible ; he took prudential measures for pre-
venting contagious disease. The battalions of the
13th Regiment of the Line, stationed at Beth-ed-
din, sent men to assist in restoring and roofing the
houses sacked by the Druses.
All these measures, which on the first day of his
arrival at Deir-el-Kamar had been organised by the
French military commandant, were actively carried
out under the superintendence of Colonel d'Arriclu.
Fuad Pacha perceived their importance, and in-
tended adopting them for the villages which it is his
mission to restore.
General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul left Deir• el
Kamar on the 28th of September, to encamp at the
source of the Barouk, near the village of Neba
J3arouk, a position regarded as impregnable in the
Lebanon, and called in the country " The Citadel
of the Druses."

A tolerably large gathering of Druses was
formed in the morning at Defer Nabrak, a small
village situated at 200 metres from the route to be
taken by the French column, and they appeared
inclined to dispute its passage. At the sight of our
troops they took to flight, after killing a poor
Christian who was in too great haste to return to
his village.
On the 28th the column crossed the Lebanon by
a route nearly perpendicular, when it debouched
into the plain of the Bequaa, passing first through
Ain Ledji and the village of Keferaia. The camp
was pitched on the right bank of the Lictani, near
the bridge, and facing the mixed village of Jeb-

Jennin.
During that time Fund Pacha was taking mea-
sures for keeping off the Druses and reinstalling
the Christians, who were returning to the Shouff
and the Djezzina. He was rejoined by General de
Beaufort d.'llautpoul on the 30th Sept. at the village
of Soghebias, at a short distance from the French
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camp, and the two generals were able to cont this
.u.
measures called for by the situation.
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terview Fuad Pacha confirmed
already received by Genera Beauforth
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al. Id to gain the Hauran.
these events, and especially the inadequacy of
111usnilman action, have displaced the question of
direct repression ; it can new only be solved in the
Hartrao. Without speaking of the fresh sacrifices
inaposecl on our soldiers by these delays, we can
only dep lore the moral effect they produce on the
Ma ronite populations, who regard the future with
almost as much terror as they do the past.
Nevertheless, the presence of the French column
in . th e Bequaa has not been unattended with results ;
th .e effect of it has been felt as far as Damascus
ss' ,Mere the bad feelings of the Mussulmans"had been
si towing themselves again after the departure of
F a ad Pacha for Beyrout. The fear of seeing us
ap pear qt the least complication keeps down all
idi I 1 of making any serious disturbance.
On the 2d of October, General de Beauftohret
d' Hautpoul, having lost the hope
findi"ed at
D ruses in the Gibel Sheikh, came and
K a Elias, situated near the opening
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' lent position, from whence he can return to the
mountain, or easily march upon Gibel Sheikh or the
Lebanon, should the Druses attempt to collect there.
Kab Elias is a mixed village, the entire Chris-
tion portion of which has been destroyed. The
Druses have abandoned it; the Christians ale re-
turning to it, and thanks to the support of the
French and to the organisation -which the com-
mandant of the expeditionary corps endeavours
to give them, they are trying to reattach them-
selves to life. But we cannot shut our eves to the

fact that the state of the Christians in Syria

demands still more energetic and decisive mea-
sures. Under the pressure of public conscience,
N;ussu;man authority formed in the very first stage
a system of inquiry and judicial repression ; but it
continues powerless to raise the spirits of the
Maronites—to rescue them from famine.
Thus the unfortunates who followed the French
troops from Bey
rout are dying from despair and
misery, being without resources, clothes, tools, and
means of conveyance. The only assistance hitherto
bestowed is limited to 5,000 piastres distributed by
Fuad Pacha when proceeding to Deir-el-Kamar.
Already a part of these poor creatures are retracing
their steps to Beyrout ; the flag of France is there ;
they believe they Shall still find there both hope and
life. It is urgent that Europe should act by send-
ing them ample pecuniary aid, and through the
constant co•operation of Christian communities.
General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul and our valiant
soldiers represent Christian civilisation, driving,
back to its distant haunts the barbarism of another
age. It is France who sends them there, but they
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are there the image of all Europe, and —urope
ought to wish these crimes against humanity to be

avenged, the surviving victims to be raised and
protected ; lastly, to wish that a strong and durable

organisation may henceforth spare the world a spec-

tacle that harrows the hearts and revolts the cot-

sciences of us all.

This appeal to the compassion of all has already
been anticipated by abundant offerings collected in

all parts of France ; they will soon arrive to re-

animate faltering courage and exhausted, strength.
The Emperor lately issued orders for sending a
million of francs to Syria for distribution as ai

Let so noble an example be followed, and we shall

see the tortures of misery giving way to the kindly
feelings created by labour and a sense of security.

A LADY KILLED AT A RAILWAY STATION.

A coroner's inquest was held at Long Preston,
in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on Friday last,
on the body of a middle-aged maiden lady, named
Alice Proctor, of Close-houses, near Settle, who
was killed at the railway station, at Long Preston,
on the North-Western Railway, under the follow-
ing circumstancesOn the evening of Wednes-
day, the 17th inst., the deceased lady and an elder
sister went by rail to'Long Preston to pay a bridal
visit to a nephew there, recently married. In the
evening both returned to Long Preston station,
with the intention of travelling home by the train
due at the station at 7.33. A female ser-
vant of their nephew (Mr. Proctor) accompanied
them to the station, and perceiving a train in the
distance while on their road thither, they fancied
it was their train, and made haste to catch it.
To save time they did not, as is usual for passen-
gers, first go upon the platform on the side of the
rails on -which the station-house stands, and then
cross the rails, but after having got into the
station-yard they crossed at a nearer point, which
is not properly fenced off. In crossing Miss Eliza-
beth Proctor and the servant went first, the
latter calling out to the deceased lady, "Do be
quick, Miss Alice," as the train was just at hand.
Miss Alice, however, while just about stepping
upon the platform, was knocked down on the rails,
some portions of her dress having, as is supposed,
first been caught by the buffer or connecting rods
of the engine attached to the train, whioh
turned out to be an express luggage train,
travelling at the rate of 20 or 25 miles per
hour, without stopping at the Long Preston
station. As soon as the train had passed
Miss Alice disappeared, and, the assistance' of the
stationmaster having been procured, she was imme-
diately discovered lying on the rails quite dead.
From the irjuries received death must have been
instantaneous. An official from Derby was present
at the inquest on the part of the company. The
station-master and another witness stated in evi-
dence that they did not hear any whistling from
the engine of the train by which the deceased was
killed, and the servant who accompanied her to the
station stated positiyMy that there was nothing of
the kind. It transpired also that the accident hap-
pened at 7 15, .whereas the luggage train was due
at Long Preston at 6 41, and could not have been
far in advance of the passenger train for which it
was mistaken. There is, moreover, it was said, a
great want of better accommodation at the station,
and the protection to passengers and the public is
far from what it ought to be. One of the jury re-
marked that he himself had witnessed three or four
very narrow escapes. The platform on each side of
the rails is very short, and it often happens that
passengers, in leaving a train, have to jump out at
a place apart from the platform where there is a
steep embankment insufficiently protected, and thus
they expose themselves to great danger. The
station-yard, moreover, is not fenced off as it ought
to be from the rails, or this accident would not
have occurred. These facts were strongly com-
mented on by the jury, whose recommendation that
better accommodation and protection be afforded
the gentleman from Derby promised should have
proper attention. The jury eventually returned a
verdict of " Accidental Death."

TEE DOUBLE MURDER AT BRADFORD

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Gowland states that jealousy has led his wife to
commit this dreadful act. They have lived un-
happily together, but it is said the husband has led
an immoral life. They have separated twice, and
were about to separate again. The wife was for-
merly the cook at the Bishop's Palace, at Durham.
She is twenty-six years of age, and her husband is
about thirty. In the service of Messrs. Terry and
Watson, his conduct was unexceptionable ; but,
finding he had led an immoral life, going home at
all hours of the night, they have discharged him.
He came to Bradford with good recommendations,
some nine or ten months ago. He received a guinea
a week as wages.; but his abode of one room in
High-street betokened great poverty. His wife
and children were ill-used, and doomed to cruelty
and starvation, by the selfishness and wickedness
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with her, she had deliberately cut the throats of both
her children, and then attempted to commit suicide
by cutting her own. It is only proper to say that
the wife confessed to Inspector Shuttleworth that
she alone committed the horrid crime, and that her
husband was innocent. It was also clear, from the
marks of blood between the bed and the door, that
she had risen and actually opened the door, after
the murders had been committed, to admit him.
The bloody razor was found upon the bed, and the
whole scene resembled a butcher's more than a
human dwelling.
The recovery of the woman herself was, when
we made inquiries last night, not altogether as im-
possible as was at first supposed, though she can
articulate less distinctly than at first, Without
wishing to exaggerate, we may further state that a
report amongst others has been current to the effect
that she was not properly the wife of Gowland, and
that this had tended greatly to widen the breach
between them. It is certain, however, when the
house was examined, that only
.a small quantity of
food was found, though this might arise from the
fact that she intended to leaasureve himseem the
to confirm
next day ;
but it would also in some me
the statement made that she frequently had occa-
sion to complain of such insufficiency. As the
mangled children are laid together in the low box
turn-down bedstead, their bodies, like 1,
Le bloody
floor, still unwashed, the miserable room is •
in
reality. a chamber of horrors.-31anchester
Examiner.

THE COMINIERCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCE .....
Some of the Manchester merchants who recently returned
from Paris, where they had spent some weeks in giving
valuable assistance in fixing the tariffs to be charged upon
cotton goods, were again telegraphed for on Monday even-
ing, and departed tor the capital yesterday morning.