The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-14 00:00:00

EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1867.

LATj:ST INTELLIGENCE.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.

The A reitir Natimtal represents the following to
be the situation of affairs in Candia in its corre-
spondence from Athens, dated Jan. 3 :
The exact position of the combatants in Candia is this :
Of the 40,000 men sent from Turkey and Egypt against
Cretans, there are scarcely half left—war,fatigue, and the
epidemics which invariably accompany Turkish armies,
having destroyed about 20,000. Those that remain
are disorganised and dispirited at the results of •
struggle which has little in common with ordinary warfare.
The real strength of filustapha niche consists of • corps of
3,000 native Turks (they were originally 5,000 in number)
who have distinguished themselves on every omission. The
Cretans can bring into line 8,000 combatants well armed,
of whom 2,000 are volunteers. But this is only the kernel
of the organised resistance. There are besides a number
of guerillas whose evolutions around the Turkish army are
incessant and do immense damage. The 6,000 Cretans
have arms, provisions, and munitions at their disposal.
They ere full of ardour like the volunteer troops, act
under the orders of the able chiefs whose military
education was completed in the schools of Greece and
France, and all have entire confidence in the success of
their enterprise. Even should the Porte be able to send
10,000 fresh troops to Crete, they would not be sufficient
to suppress the revolt, and then it must become a ques-
tion how long Europe will remain a spectator of a contest
that apparently will be endless, if foreign intervention
does not take place. In Epirus and Thesssly events are
marching with the greatest rapidity. The insur-
gents have invited the Greek general Rousso-
milla and Colonel Kaakari to put themselves at
their head, and it is reported in Athens that they have
already left for this purpose, and fresh recruits leave every
day to join the insurgents. The provisional government of
Epirus have issued a proclamation inviting the Thessalians
to make common cause with them and to unite under a
common government.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMB.)

ITALY.
SPEECH OF THE KING.
FLORENCE, J. 13, EVENING..

To-day King Victor Emmanuel received the
deputation charged to present to his Majesty the
address of the Chamber of Deputies in reply to the
spoech from the throne. The King addressed a
few words to the deputation, in which his Majesty,
after expressing congratulations at the results
which Italy had obtained, said that there now
remained two questions to be resolved—that of
the finances, and the Roman question. With
respect to the finances, he hopes that the dif-
ficulties would be shortly surmounted, and
that the financial statement of Signor Scialoja
would disperse many clouds. Concerning Rome
his Majesty said that this was a question of time
which will resolve it agreeably to the national
aspirations.
It is announced that the question of the Prin-
cipe Tommasso has been arranged in principle
between the Turkish and Italian governments. It
only remains to fix the indemnity to be paid by
the Porte to the company owning the steamer.
It is believed that Count Latour will proceed to
Japan as Italian Minister.