Widnes Examiner. — 1882-07-22 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TALES- 01? SUVFERING.  Telegraphing, on Tuesday, the Daily News correspondent at Alexandria says:—The history of the bombardment of the forts and the burning of the town of Alexandria will be the most thrilling and exciting narrative of modern times. Every day harrowing scenes and facts are brought to light. In going my rounds I came aarossa family whose axperience and sufferings exceed those of any other case II have yet heard of. it is a highly respectable family, wealtnown to me, consisting of father, mother, and eight children, mostly of tender age. They were left in charge of- a valuable house of a wealthy relatiou. After the bombardment the house was attacked and, robbed, and many of the houses near being on fire, the family removed to another house at Cumetdik, in the outskirts of the town, where they thought , to be safe from the mob and the fire. In. this they were right, as everyone had fled from there, and there was nothing worth, molesting. Expecting X. remain only a few hours, the family' half-clad, took refuge on the top, floor of their house. Although they had plenty of money with then), they ha& no food. These ten creatures tasted: neither food-nor drink from Tuesday,the 11th, to Friday, the 14th, with the exception of an infant at the breast, Below and round them they saw the fire raging and themob pillaging, and they huddled together with fear. They gradually became incapable of thinking about their own safety,and without hope were resigning themselves to,adingering death. On Friday, the 14th,a gentleman was passing the house and saw the father signal to him with a baby at the window. He immediately rendered assistance and rescued the whole family from their terrible position, bat with great difficulty, owing to their extreme weakness. The gentleman succeeded in marching the family to the landing place and getting them on board the steamet Molded, where they are at this moment gradually recovering, thanks to the kindness of all concerned. At Ramleh, an English barrister and his wife, the only English family who elected to remain there, had a severe time, and escaped only with their lives. They veln frequently attacked. They resisted as long as possible, and then obtained a gaud and peemeetlei to the oersoelVlsoldLls  1 guaidhouse prison. Here they were protected from Wednesday, the 12th, to Sunday, the IGth. Their only clothes they wore, and th-2v had a small dole of Arab food. On Sunday they walked, from Ramleh to the Matins, seven miles under a burnine; sun, and embarked with scanty clothing aboard the Tanjore, where tley were gladly received, as it was  feared titey 'were murdered. The number of such cases, the details of which will never be published, is legion. The dead, as usual, will be soon forgotten, but the living must be compensated. Nothing can repay them for the mental anguish and bodily sufferings of the past short week, but England must find the ways and means to alleviate to some extent the fearful ruin of innocent people. It is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the destruction. If the official reports do not convey full accounts, members of Parlia•nent and others have only to visit A.lexandria in the autalna instead of going to Pompeii or Rome, and they will sea iflOta ruin and desolation in one day than in Italy in a week. visit' TO