The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-11 00:00:00

ALLEGED BARBARITY OF THE TURKS
IN CANDIA.

We read in the Actnir National of yesterday's
date :—" Some time ago, it will be remembered,
the English steamer Assurance received on board
some children, women, and old men of Selinos ;
the captain of the ship promised to return in a
week and take those who wished to find shelter
from the barbarity of the Turks. A few days
afterwards a frigate without colours appeared, sure
enough, on the horizon ; the fugitives rushed to the
sea shore. When she had approached near enough
to the land the frigate launched a long boat, over
which waved the English flag ; the shore was
crowded with Christians, who had hastened forth
at sight of this signal of safety. At the same moment
the vessel displayed the Ottoman flag, and discharged
all her guns upon this unarmed crowd. This incredible
act of barbarity is attested by one of the principal
papers of Greece, the //ennupo/iti printed at Syra ;
the committee of that town received the news in
a letter, dated the Bth (20th) December, addressed
to it in the name of the General Assembly of the
Cretans. According to this letter, the number of
victims was considerable. Before such a fact the
heart throbs with indignation ; public opinion
claims satisfaction ; the rights of humanity must
be avenged, and it ought to be known whether the
commander of the Turkish frigate obeyed the fero-
cious instincts of his race or the instructions of his
government."

Tim CASE or THE TORNADO. —The crew of the
Tornado, it appears, are still imprisoned in Cadiz, and the
trial of the vessel is still going on before the Spanish Prize
Court. A Cadiz paper reported a few days ago that the
court had admitted the demand of the Auditor de Guerra
that the vessel should be declared lawful price. But this
admission seems not to be equivalent to a sentence of the
court to the same effect, for we find the same journal
speaking of the defence of the Tornado as a matter still to
be undertaken, and with respect to which there was some
difficulty, because so exalted waatho patriotism of Spanish
lawyers that not one in Cadiz could be found to defend a
vessel accused of being a Chilian. Our English maxim
that innocence is to be assumed till guilt is proved, does
not seem to receive much consideration in Cadiz. It was
said that a Madrid lawyer had undertaken to defend the
Tornado, but the Cadiz journal had discovered that this
gentleman was some relation to the unfortunate Admiral
Pareja, who shot himself before Valparaiso, and the
writer could not conceive it possible therefore that he
should undertake the defence of a vessel charged, no matter
whether rightly or wrongly, with being a Chilian.—Gibrab
tar Chrimiele Dee. 27.

,
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—
The following members of the college having been elected
Fellows at previous meetings of the council, were admitted
as such on the 10th inat., viz.—Messrs. Thomas JOllell
Dyke, Merthyr Tydfil, diploma of membership, dated
Noven'ber 2, 1838, and Thomas Edward Ainyot, Dias,
Norfolk, April 12, 1839. The next examination in Ana-
tomy and Physiology will take place to.nionow, and the
pass examination in Pathology and Surgery, for the di-
ploma of membership of the college, on the 19th inst.,
after which the annual course of lectures will be com-
menced by Professor Huxley, who will deliver twenty-four
lectures on the "Osteology and Dentition oftbe Sauropsida,
or Reptiles and Birds ;" and the lectures for the present
year will be completed by Professor Hancock, who will
deliver six lectures on the " Anatomy and Surgery of the
Foot," in continuation of his course of last year.
THE INSTITUTION or CIVIL ENGINEERS.—At
the last meeting of the members of this society, on the Bth
inst., Mr. C. H. Gregory, vice.presi.lent, in the chair, six
candidates were balloted for, and declared duly elected,
including five members, viz. :—Mr. John Clark, engineer
to the municipal council of Shanghae ; Mr. Lewis Henry
Moorsom, resident engineer in charge of works at the
London-road Station, Manchester, of the London and
North Western and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire Railway Companies ; Mr. James Long Parker, execu-
tive engineer of the first grade in the service of the govern-
ment of India, Meerut ; Mr. Charles Same, chief engineer
to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway
Company ; and Mr. Edwin Thomas, engineer to the
Regent's Canal Company ; and one associate, viz. :—Mr.
Adam Fettipleas Bland), resident engineer, Millwall-
decks.