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

lent position, from whence he can return to the
mountain, or easily march upon Gibe I 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
t hateo
it, t abandonedand
it
;to the Christians are re-
turning the support of the
thanks
French and to the organisation which the cona-

mandant of the expeditionary corps endeavours

to give them, they are trying to reattach them-
selves to life. But we cannot shut our eyes to the
fact that the state of the Christians in Syria
demands still more energetic and decisive mea-
sures. Under the presSurc of public conscience,
Niussuiman 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
Fund Peclia when proceeding. to Deir-el-Kamar.
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ing them ample pecuniary aid, and through the
constant co-operation of Christian communities.
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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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avenged, the surviving victims to be raised and
protected ; lastly, to wish that a strong and durable
these
organisation may henceforth spare the world a spec.
tacle that harrows the hearts and revolts the con-
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 circumstances :—On 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
duo 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
letter 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, which
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 injuries 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 positively that there was nothing of
the kind. It transpired also that the accident hap-
pened at 7 15, whereas the luggage train was duo
at Long Preston at G 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."

TILE DOUBLE 21IURDER 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 hi!'"
He came to Bradford with good recomtnendations,
some nine or ten months ago. Ho received aguinea
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
in some degree
protector.
of one who ought to have :beenndttheir
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had
of ill-treatment, not only from his cohabiting with
hheeernepsourht
jeaettpedrehsyenhtecruiriruentais, thoaat the woman
hilhdirsenh—avbinotgh
left otherhfemales—with
insufficient food. From a letter found 'Ton her
at H tton •
person, from a sister . y ,it appears that she
had left her husband twice from his bad
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conduct,
and that she again intended to leave him
(Mbeen (Monday). On Sunday he had
out, and, it is
said, in a house of indifferent fame, not far from his
' own house, where she had gone in search of him;
but had been threatened with violence
went away; She retired, 131 violence unless she
home, locked the door, but, it appears, had gone
children, two and four and taken the two infant
in the house, with years of age, to the only bed
her, and that in the single room
in a humble cottage, at 26, High-street, which they
had for some time
with her,me occupied, taking a razor to bed
had deliberately cut the throats of both
her children,'she
and then attempted to commit suicide
by Cutting her own. It is only proper to say that
th© wife confessed to Inspector Shuttleworth that
she al one 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
that eff
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 y
hof
food was found, though this might arise rotm_ t e
fact that she intended to leave him the nett day ;
but it would also in some measure seetml to confirm
the statement made that she fr e
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like the
bloody
turn-down bedstead, their bodies,
lied the miserable room is in
floor, still unwashed the
reality a chamber of horrors.-111anchester
Examiner.
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