The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-13 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE ENGLISH AND AUSTRIAN
ADMIRALS TO THE GOVERNOR OF BEY-
ROUT, AND HIS REPLY.

Roads ofßeyrout, Sept. 11

EXCELLENCV,—We, admirals of the Anglo-Austrian
squadron, acting according to the instructions of our re-
spective governments, and in the interest of his highness,
the Sultan, hold it our duty to lay before your excellency
our earnest desire to avoid all effusion of blood ; inviting
your excellency to withdraw your troops from Beyrout,
and to consign the town to our joint forces, to be by them
protected and delivered to his highness, the Sultan.
Your excellency will have seen, in the fire of our ships
yesterday, but an example of what we shall be obliged to

The fire was not continued this morning, in order that/
your excellency might take advantage of, and, after mature
reflection, decide in conformity with our merciful intentions,
that the innocent inhabitants be spared the unavoidable
consequences of the means which we shall be forced to
adopt. We entreat your excellency to send us as speedy
an answer as possible.
Your very humble and obedient servants,
ROBERT STOPFORD7 Admiral-in-Chief.
BANDEIRA, Austrian Rear-Admiral.

ADMIRALS,—You are acquainted with my orders ; and,
after the refusal which, as was my duty, I returned to the
proposals made me in the name of your governments to
betray my master and benefactor, it was impossible to
suppose that I should act in opposition to his wishes.
As you observe, I was enabled yesterday fully to appre-
ciate all the extent of evil it was in your power to bring
down on innocent families, strangers to the present mis-
understanding
For the sake of killing five of my soldiers, you have ruined
and brought families into desolation ; you have killed women,
a tender infant and its mother, an old man, two unfortunate
peasants, and, doubtless, many others whose names have
not reached me ; and, far from slackening the lire of your
ships, when my soldiers (who, during that deplorable day,
did not once fire) fell back cn the town across the inhabited
country of Beyrout, your fire, I say, became more vigorous
and destructive for the unfortunate peasants, rather than
for my soldiers. You appear determined to make your-
selves masters of the town, notwithstanding that, in any
event, the question will remain as before. If the fortune
of war prove adverse to me, Beyrout shall only fall into
your power when reduced to cinders. This town has not
ceased being inhabited ' • and, moreover, it contains mer-
chandise imported from Europe, the value of which is con-
siderable. Under these circumstances, I have constantly
endeavoured to justify throughout the grateful thanks which
I have received from Europeans. Guards have been posted
to secure respect to their habitations and their magazines.
They would find them untouched on their return.
It lies not in my power to deliver the town ; my orders
are for its defence, and I shall defend it, come what may,
I, therefore, am not the person to address it' you are really
desirous of sparing innocent persons from the inevitable
horrors of warfare, which in a few hours you have power to
bring down on them. Mehemit Ali alone can give you an
answer on this question. If, then, you attack Beyrout.
and if its inhabitants are buried in the ruins, let me not be
responsible for the blood that is shed.

I have the honour to remain,
Your humble and obedient servant

General SOLIMAN

Beyrout, Saturday, two hours after sunrise

DONCASTER AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.-011
Friday last, agreeably to prev;ous arrangement, a meeting
was held at Swinton, to promote the formation of a junction
railway from Doncaster to the North Midland. There were
present, from Doncaster, the mayor, Mr. Alderman Clark,
and Messrs. councillors Goodwin, Milner, and Johnson,
accompanied by the town-clerk, and Mr. Alexander, the
surveyor; Messrs. Wm. Vickers, G. W. Chambers, S.
Jackson, and T. Linley, directors of the Sheffield and
Rotherham Railway, accompanied by their solicitor, super-
intendent, and secretary ; Messrs. F. Parker and T. B.
Pease, directors of the North Midland Railway ; Mr. Wilson,
of Kilnhurst, and Messrs. P.obert Stephenson and Swanwick,
the engineers. The mayor of Doncaster having been called
to the chair, Mr. Wm. Vickers briefly explained the corre-
spondence between the corporation of Doncaster and the
directors. which had led to this meeting ; and the mayor
ya. then unanimously On the motion of
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stated the prevailing feeling of the town over which he pre-
sided, in favour of a railway communication between that
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passed, to the effect, That a communication by railway,
between Doncaster and the North Midland Railway, at the
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nearest and most convenient point, would be attended with
local and general benefit." It was further resolved, that as
deposit an addi_a matter of precaution, it was desirable to
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tional plan of a branch falling into the North Midland
Railway at the Swinton station ; and the engineers received
orders accordingly. This alteration, it was stated, would
not prevent an application to parliament in the next session
—Doncaster Gazette.