Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1858-07-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TURKEY. THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAH.  A letter from Alexandria, dated the 6th instant, anil published in the Paris correspondence of the Times, gives, among other details of the massacre at Jeddah, the following particu'ars of the attack on the French Consulate:—" About sunset, on the 15th of June, the house of the English Vice Consul at Jeddah was suddenly attacked, and invaded by some hundreds of Hadramites (inhabitants of Southern Arabia) who seized the p-rson of the Consul, wounded him grievously, and then flung him, still alive, from the window into the street, where a mob of the same fanatics hacked his body into pieces. The house was then lillaged, the servants and two dragomen assassinated, and the archives of the Consulate were burnt. While this horrible scene was going on, similar crimes were committed on the French Consulate. This Consul, also attacked by a band of fanatics who penetrated into the house by the windows, fell mortally wounded by several sabre cuts. His wife was killed by a dagger thrust in the breast, after having defended -herself courageously, killed the murderiir of her husband, and wounded several others. Her daughter, 18 years of age, , succeeded in e-caping by a secret door. In th• next room were the Chancellor of the Consulate and his servant. The latter is a Mussulman, an old soldier who formerly served in a battalion of native Algerines. These two men and the Consul's young daughter defended themselvss so heroic illy that the murderers retreated for a moment; they soon returned to the charge, but this time etnybiyed a stratagem. A Hadramite, an acquaintance of the Chancellor's, approached him, and said, • Come out—come with me; I wish to save you from certain death.' Confiding in these promises, the brave young man quitted the room ; he was instantly struck s ith a poinard, which only slightly wounded him in the arm. Knocked down by the blow, his throat was seized by the assassin, and he was on the point of perishing when the Consul's daughter threw herself on the assassin, and bit him so deeply in the hand that he was forced to let go. Thereupon another of these wretches attacked the courageous young girl, and gave her a sabre cut across the face. She fell senseless, but the Chancellor, who had sprung to his feet, inflicted a blow on the last assassin. Meanwhile the Chancellor's servant, struggling :with admirable energy against the-e miscreants, killed three of them, wounded several other=, and so succeeded in covering the flight of the Consul's daughter, of the Chancellor, and of a servant, who have all arrived this evening, in company with the brave soldier, at the residence of the Consul General of France, in Alexandria." (From the Magnetic Telegraph Company's Despatch.) Coxsir STI sor E, Wednesday, July 14. Commissioners will be immediately despatched by the Porte to Jeddah. Their mission will be to bring to Justice all who took part in the late massacre. The district will be placed under martial law, and the petsous accused will be tried and punished in the tartst summary  manner. According to a despatch received in Paris on Thursday, the Ottoman troops had commenced attacks on the \tort enecrins.