The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE SHOOTING STAR.

LIVERPOOL, FILTDAT EVENINO.

The Shooting Star lige arrived from Melbourne.
She left on the 21st of April, and brings 44,000
ounces of gold, equal to 184,0001.

MUSSULMAN OUTRAGES LN CANDIA.

We read in the Constitolionnel of yesterday (July
16) the following statement:
We have received a detailed- account of the
shocking events which have just occurred in the
Isle of Candle. We feel it a matter of justice to lay
before our readers both the narrative we have re-
ceived and the letter of the person from whom it
comes. It is not difficult to perceive that the sym-
pathies of this correspondent are enlisted in favour
of Vely Pacha ; but the son of Mustapha Pacha, who
has long lived amongst us, has been sufficiently at-
tacked to entitle hie defenders to a fair hearing, and
at all events his conduct now seems to be of a nature
to redeem many faults.
" Candia, July 6, 1868.
" ' Monsieur le Redacteur-en-Chef,—l have the
honour to send you a complete and truthful narrative
of an atrocious act, which in the present temper of
the world towards Turkey will produce an immense
sensation. I do not take upon myself either to
defend or to attack Turkey; I merely tell the truth.
Vely Fische has been much calumniated of late by
the Eastern press, whose libels have been echoed by
some French journals. Ile will, before long, per-
:amity present a complete justification to Europe.
' CH. GARIN DE LAMORFLAN,
Formerly an employe in the Ministry of the Interior.
As an eye and ear witness of all that is stated
in the accompanying correspondence, I certify its
entire correctness. VAUME,
" Doctor of Medicine resident in Candia,' "
Candle, July 4, 1868.
An event of revolting barbarity, and one maculated
to provoke universal reprobation, has just occurred in
Candia. In the evening of July 2, a Massalman
was murdered in his shop by a Greek servant, sided,
it is said, by two accomplices. The assassin was
arrested, and as tho crime, in consequence of passing
events, was more than commonly serious, the coun-
cil was immediately called upon to investigate the
affair. Alter a confession on the part of the guilty
man, he was sentenced to death. But no capital
sentence can legally be carried into effect without
the i/am of the head of religion. The mollsh gave
his i/am, but in the regular and legal form—that
is to say, declaring the sentence not to be execu-
tory until it had received the high approbation of
government at Constantinople. Such is the law
which for many years peat has been in force in the
Ottoman empire. While the council was sitting the
Turkish population • of the town, greatly excited by
the crime which had been committed, crowded
around the house of the victim end uttered threats
of death against the Christiana. Armed bands pa-
raded the streets calling for vengeance; a colonel,
Mehmed Boy, was wounded in the thigh; a general,
Ali Pacha, was threatened in :he streets while at-
tempting to restore order; numbers of terrified
people rushed to the consulates to seek a place of
safety • the tumult did not subside till a very late
hour Of the night. The murdered man was to be
buried in the morning of the 3rd ; hie body was
taken as far as the gates of the town, but there the
funeral procession was stopped by about 2,000 Turks,
who declared that they would not allow the corpse to
be interred until the assassin had been delivered up to
them to be banged. In order to make what follows
intelligible, it is necessary here to explain how, and
by whom, authority is represented in this town. On
the occasion of the events which happened in Crete
about six weeks ago, Admiral Ahmet Paella was sent
from Constantinople to Crete, to take the command
of the land and sea furors there ; an imperial ooni-
mirsary, Remzi Effendi, was associated with him, to
attend to the internal administration conjointly with
Vely Pacha. Subsequently (for reasons which will
very soon be made public), Vely Poch& was dismissed,

and without waiting for the arrival of his successor,
Semi Pacha, the Admiral Ahmet Pacha, contrary to
established rules in Turkey, deprived Vely Pacha of
all authority ; he concentrated the civil and
military power in his own hands, and officially
informed foreign consuls that until the arrival of Saud
Pacha, the new governor-general, they must transact
business with him, Ahmet Pacha, alone. From that
time Ahmet Pacha assumed the direction of affairs
and presided at the council, to which he only sum-
moned Vely Pacha when he felt the want of hie
assistance. It happens that neither in the evening
or the night of July 2 was Vely Pache present at
the council, so that he took no part whatever in the
deliberations which preceded and followed the con-
demnation of the murderer to death. On the morn-
ing of the 3rd he was told that the Greek had been
tried, condemned, and executed during the night.
He thereupon went to the council to protest against
such a monstrous act of illegality. Ahmet Pacha
then informed him that the Greek was still living,
but that the populace clamoured for him that
they might put him to death, and that his
own opinion as well as that of all the
council (the Mollah excepted) was that it
would be prudent to comply with the demand
in order to calm the public excitement. Vely Pacha
protested with generous indignation against each a
course ; he spoke of the horror, the shame of such a
concession to a rabble, and dwelt upon the disastrous
political consequences which would inevitably ensue.
Seeing that Ahmet Pacha had at his disposal two
frigates and 3,000 good troops, he thought it was
better to resort to force, even at the risk of sacri-
ficing a hundred lives, than to allow the honour of
the imperial government to be dragged in the mud.
The admiral persisted in his opinion, but he never-
theless asked Vely Puha to parley with the
rioter', and attempt to make them hear reason.
Vely accepted this perilous mission. Accom-
companiod by Remsi Effendi he went in the
midst of the armed groups, and read to the Mount-
mans the law ordaining that all capital sentences
must be submitted to the Sublime Porte for approval;
he then exhorted them to allow the corpse of the
murdered man to be peaceably interred, and to wait
with patience till orders could be received from
Constantinople. At one moment he hoped that the
mob would listen to his advice ; but tumultuous cries
were soon uttered ; a drunken Arab levelled his
musket at him, and his life was only saved by the
presence of mind of an old officer of his father's,
named Rechid Effendi, who escorted him safely
back to the council. There an indescribable scene
took place. Ahmet Packs, and the members of the
council, Greeks as well as Turks, were for delivering
up the assassin to the people ; a deputation from the
principal Greek merchants shared this opinion, and
urged that it should be immediately acted upon ;
Vely Pacha refused to sign the fatal order. An old
Kurd chief, Bedran Pacha, declared that he would
rather see his three sons die before his eyes than be
guilty of such an act of weakness ; Remzi Effendi
took part with Vely Pacha, and refused to sign. At
this moment the sound of a volley of musketry was
heard. The Mussulmans who had marched upon
Ahmet Pacha's house, in which the council was
held, fired not upon the troops, bat into the air.
Ahmet Pacha rose from hie seat in a terrible fury,
and said to Vely, " Paths, this is the consequence
of your disobedience of my orders ; will you sign the
warrant ?" " You may do as you please," replied
Vely, " I will net sign. " I don't care," exclaimed
Ahmet, transported with fury, and throwing off his
sabre and his coat, " Let the Greek be given up,
strangled, and dragged round the market-plane.
Verslein t bogloursoun meidana tehekilsin !) The
admiral had scarcely uttered these words, when his
zapties, tchaons, and servants, made a rush to the
prison, followed by the populace. A rope was want-
ing, and, oh horror ! an officer of the imperial navy,
the chief of the admiral's staff, cut a cord from a
trunk, and gave it to the rioters. In an instant
they broke:open the prison doors, and dragged out the
Greek, who, hurried to his death by twenty execu-
tioners disputing for precedence, was in a few mo-
menta a corpse. The body, to which were attached
the chains of a galley slave, which clanked lugu-
briously as it was moved along, was then dragged
by a band of Degrees and hideous children along the
quays and streets for two hours, the rioters
halting in front of the Consulates, and cry-
ing out " Hurrah! Let us show these dogs that
we also know how to obtain what we ask for." The
Consuls all exhibited a coolness which it would be
difficult to call Stoical ; let us at once add that the
French Consul was absent on leave. Before the
French consulate a member of the council, Chefilt-
Effendi, cried out, " Come, let us drag this dog,"
and then the horrible procession resumed its coarse.
The patrols allowed it to pees, because such were
the orders of Ahmet Pacha. He had said to General
Ali Paths, "Let the populace drag the dead body r
and when Ali Pacha expressed his astonish-
ment at such an order, the admiral replied,
" Oh, I am brave, and I have proved that
more than once, but I also know how to be
patient when necessary." An old servant of Mustapha
Pacha, Emin-Agha, having been adjured by Vely
Pacha to see the body buried at whatever risk to
himself, went alone and took it in his arms, all
bloody and disfigured, to the hospital ; it was at last
decently interred, a priest and about ten courageous
chriatians following it to the grave. Vely Pacha
afterwards made a formal application to the consuls
resident in Candies, that is to ray the English,
Austrian, American, Greek, and Sardinian consuls,
and the provisional manager of the French consulate,
to transmit his account of the affair to their respec-
tive governments. He declared that not only had
he nothing to do with it, but that he had positively
refused to sign any of the papers relating to it;
aithla t
responsibility
necoibnilseityqueinntltyhe amaashtteerd,
andh tisheanddees
plofy
deplored what had occurred. lie concluded
by saying that, as he saw no security for the Chris-
tian population, he had, as a last piece of advice to
the admiral, recommended him to allow the Chris-
tians to take refuge on board his ships. Such is •
faithful account of the unheard-of scenes which have
occurred under our very eyes. Before any court of
justice as before the tribunal of public opinion, we
are ready to swear that we have told the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing bat the truth.
July s.—As the mail is leaving, we add a few words
more. Yesterday evening several Greek families
embarked for Byre, Cerigo, egc., in sailing boats.
To-day the Austrian steamer has carried off several
more. The terror is at its height. M. Chary de
Lafosse, the French Consul, has this moment arrived
in the Austrian steamer returning from France.