The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-07 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA.

The Levant Herald of the 29th ult. says that the
commotion in Crete shows no sign of abatement. Up
to the date of the latest news from the island no
actual collision had taken place between the insur-
gents and the troops, both the governor and the
military commander Ferik Osman Pacha, pleading
illness as their reason for inaction. The former
had, it was said, twice tendered his resignation,
but the Porte has declined to accept it. Osman
Pacha was at Retymo, laid up with gout, and his
doctors had recommendeda change of climate. The
alarm of the Mussulman population, who are
largely in the minority in the island, is
described as being great, and most of ther
have taken refuge in the three garrisonec
towns of Candia, Canea, and Retymo, the military
authorities of which at first did their best to pre-
vent their flocking in. " Here in the capital " (adds
the Levant Herald) " the government appears bent
on trying a further effort of conciliation, and if that
fail, on stamping the movement out by a free use
of military force. Kiraly Mustapha Pacha, who
governed the island during its occupation by
Mehemet Ali, and reaped his reward in the accu-
mulation of a princely fortune, is, it is said, at the
Porte, to be named imperial commissioner to in-
vestigate on the spot the alleged grievances of the
insurgents. As a token of palace favour in prospect
of this service, he received on Sunday the Osmaniii
in brilliants. Simultaneously with this appoint-
ment, Ferik Yayha Pacha has been named to the
command of the troops in the island, with Ali and
Mehemed Pachas as his brigadiers. These officers
left on Monday by a special steamer to take up
their commands. In the meantime, the main body
of the insurgents is still concentrated in the district
of Apocorona, receiving daily accessions, but keep-
ing strictly on the defensive."

FATAL AFFRAY.—Mr. Henry Russell, a painter,
of Southampton, returning home from Winchester by
the mail tram, which arrived at Southampton about
half-past 11 on Monday night, on his way home called
in at the Unicorn Inn, St. Mary-street, where he
found Mr. Ballantyne, draper, sitting in the par-
lour with the landlord. They had some whisky and
water, and the two began joking and chafing, and
to speak about religion with each other, which speedily
ended in a quarreL Russell slapped Ballantyne on the
cheek open-handed. Ballantyne rose to his feet, end
would have struck Russell, out Mr. Palmer,the land-
lord, prevented it. He said " Mr. Russell and Mr.
Ballantyne, I don't allow this in my house." He kept
Ballantyne back in the passage while Russell passed out.
They were neither of them sober, though both far from
tipsy. After Russell had got out into the street he came
back into the passage, and said to Ballantyne, " I will
give you a good thrashing with my umbrella when you
come outside." The landlord kept Ballantyne in the
two or three minutes—long enough to enable Russell togetge
part of the way home, and when Ballantyne forced himself
away to go out Russell stood there on the pavement. They
met, and Ballantyne said, "Well ;" Russell said, " You
are a blackguard, ' and struck him with the umbrella about
the head. Ballantyne felt annoyed at it, struck right and
left, and gave him tome very severe blows. Russell de-
fended himself as well as he could, and in the struggle fell
backwards into the middle of the road. Palmer ran to his
FENIANISM TN THE ARMY.—Private O'Reilly, of assistance and found him quite insensible. Ballantyne stood
the 10th Hussars, has been sentenced to twenty years' penal hy. Palmer lifted Russell, gave him some water, and wiped
servitude in Dublin for Fenianism and desertion. Seven his face, and he came round. He offered him a bed, but
of the military prisoners recently convicted of treason- he declined it. He said, "I shall be right by-and-by ;it is
felony, and among them the principals, Chambers, a sad affair; I didn't think he would have struck me like
M'Carthy, and Darragh, have been despatched from Mount- that." Ballantyne said, " Good night, Mr. Russell, lam
joy prison in the same city to Pentonville, several of them sorry for what I have done." Russell, who was then per-
being under sentence of penal servitude for life. fectly sensible, shook hands with him, and wished him
THE PRUSSIAN NELDLE-GEN.—The barrel is good night. Russell's housekeeper states that after he
closed by a sliding plunge or bolt, which can be pushed got to bed, about lon Tuesday morning, he complained
forward against the barrel, or withdrawn for the admission of pains in his bead but was quite sensible, and slept
of the cartridge. In the former position it is secured by occasionally, waking about 4 o'clock, when he tried to
turning it with the assistance of a small knob or lever, a speak but could not, and seemed choked, after that he
quarter circle to the right, on the principle of a common went off to sleep and he never spoke again. Medical aid
door bolt. The plunge is hollow, its front end forming, was called in about 6, but he was dead before the doctor
when the arm is shut, a sort of cap to the back end of the arrived. A post swrtent examination of the body was
barrel—the two being coned to correspond one with the other. made by Dr. Beneraft, who gave it as his opinion that
The long steel needle from which the gun derives its name death was due to the extrairuation of blood from a !up-
end by which the explosion of the charge is effected, work; turgid vessel caused by the fracture of the bane of the
in the hollow bolt, being driven forward by means of a skulL The fracture, he apprehended, was caused by a
spiral spring. The spring and needle are set and the fall and not by& blow. Ballantyne was taken intoeustody
needle, so to speak, cocked by means of a trigger. The about 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning and examined before
action of the trigger likewise releases the needle, which is the borough magistrates the same day and remanded till
shot forward into a patch of detonating composition in the Wednesday, when he was committed for trial at the next
The ammunition °m um. of an assizes at Winchester on the charge of manslaughter, but
centre of the cartridge.
egg-shaped bullet, its ease embedded in a papier macho admitted to bid. ,
sabot. In the hinder part of the sabot is the fulminate ; A Mtrariaa IN LIVIRPOOL Form YEAR/ AGO.—
and behind this again, in a thin paper case which is choked InDeeember, 1862, atimker named Robert Reid, reidingin
over the apex of the bullet, is the powder. The needle • court in Thurloerstreet, Liverpool, quarrelled with his wife
gun and its amtnimition have been familiar to us for and killed her by stabbing her twice with • knife. Though
years, and the minutest details of its construction and of a reward of 1001. was offered for his apprehension, he
that of the cartridge, including the pretended secret re- managed to escape to the United States, and there he was
/pectin; the nature and preparation of the detonating recognised a few weeks ago in a prison at Brooklyn, near
composition, are well known to us, and an estimate of the New York. A Liverpool inspector named Marsden was
value of the system has long been formed.—Corskill Maga• sent to New York, and yesterday morning he arrived at
tilSe for September. Liverpool with Reid,. in the City of London. Raid, who
DT/ BARRY'S DELICIOUS RIIVALENTA AILLEICA looked very ill and in the last stage of consumption, was
FOOD cures dyspepsia, indigestion, cough, asthma, consumption, Yesterday charged with the murder of his wife before Mr.
debility, constipstion, diarrhani, pelpltation, nervous, Mons, Reifies, saipendiary magistrate, and, on the demand of his
Leer, and stomach compleints. Cure No. 61,413.--'• Rome, July attorney, Mr. Cobb, remanded for seven days.
Sl, IBo6.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, wpwially Pans FLEES.—Arrangements have been made
dace, abendonialia,!:rother remedies, he his confined hhneelf
entirely to Da . good. sad ?Ai Haim., canno, Isrgi. for two more great prise fights in London and the distriet.
this excellent food too highly."--Gasette de Midi. Du Barry and One is to be fount ea Monday, the 25th inst., between
co.. No. 71, Rag.,
.;e London, W. In tins, at la lid. ; Baldwin sad Marsden ; and one on Tuesday, the 23rd of
lib., ts. fit ; isis., Us.; tea, 404..-iadverinssoestj October, between Flapper and &Meek.

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION OF 1867•

• (PROM • 0011ZEIPONDINT.)
I was startled one day last week, crossing the
Plass Vend6me, by perceiving an avenue of trees
which had apparently sprung, by some miracle,
theearth, and were spreading their welcome
over the toothsome splendours of Giraudin's
ws, and the tipplers of American aspect who
frimant a grog shop on the opposite side of the
wlr Had Birnam Wood removed to Dunsinsae
It was amusing to watch the wondering, the
stastied expression of the passers by as the strange
vision broke upon them. Presently the grove of
shady trees moved forward in stately line, and
wound round the western side of the Place.

There was a shout of laughter when the little crowd
of merry Parisians perceived that the grove was
moving forward, each tree slung in a vast bag upon
wheels, and drawn by three or four stout Norman
homy. They were only a few of the forest that is
to move by degrees to the Champs de Mars, there
to cover with cool greenery the visitors to the Ex-
hibition in 1867.
imperial commissioners are determined to
maki the open-air department of the Exhibition
as remarkable and se original in appearance as the
covered galleries. Looking at the new coloured
plan of the entire Exhibition, which has just been
hewed, the idea of a vast ancient park is conveyed.
There are great groves of trees, there is ample
green award, there are even waterfalls ; and scat-
fated over this broad and beautiful will be
found exhibitions of agriculture and orriculture,
cattle and poultry shows, pisciculture, model home-
steads, implements of every variety and of every
nation, from the rude thing with which the Indian
scratettes the earth to the latest improvement in
the steam-plough. There will be distilleries, and
other works that are allied with agriculture ;
field will be marked out in which all kinds of agri-

cultural implements may be tried under the eye; of
juries. The place will be alive with fine speci-
mens of the beasts of burden of various countries.

itabid intli Military.

ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 6.—APPOINTIMITIL —Lien-
tenant& G. T. Morrell, to the Wellesley ; and T. F. Hodg-
kinson, to the Victory, additional.

CHATHAM, pr. ti.

The hired troop-ship Walmer Castle, which has
been taken up by the Hon. Council of India for the mu-
veyanos of reinforcements of cavalry and infantry troops
to India, is ordered to be in readiness to embark her de-
tachments at Gravesend, on the 11th inst., far Madras.
This afternoon a party of 100 convicts, the whole of
whom have been sentenced to long periods of penal servi-
k tude, embarked from the dockyard on board the paddle-
wheel steamer Adder, Mr. Blakey, stester-oomamader,
and were conveyed out to the Wore, to the Corona. by
which they proceed to Western Australis. The Corona
will call in at Portsmouth and Portland, and receive on
board a number of convicts from sash of thine stations.

Ritrtirommemirrs Tog CANADA.—LivisPoOL,
THUBSDAY.—To-clay 282 men belonging to the Royal
Artillery, 7th Foot 23rd Foot, and 60th Foot, left Liver-
pool for Qualm( a the mail steamer Moravian. The
officers in command were Captain* Bennett, Lieutenants
Alleyne, Robertson, Smith, Bennyon, Ledbetter,
field and M'Kenna. We understand that the departure
of the slime reinforcements has been rather unexpected,
and it is lively stated here that the Fenian@ will have
the borders" before the troops at present ordered
to Canada can have reached that agony. Two steamers
belonging to the Cunard Company are at preessit being
fitted up here for the transport of troops to Canada. The
Allan •M,Mpany's steamship Dammam will mil next
I Thuredgy with troops for Quebec.

The insects that labour for the good of man will be
shown at their work. The silkworm will be upon
his niulberry leaf • the bee will be seen busy in his
waxen cell ; the Cochineal may be studied on the
oak-leaf, or as he presents himself in Mexico ; on
the cactus plant there will be model hives and
modern cooooneries. In the park alleys
will be daintily arranged basins or ponds,
in which the fishes, cruatacea, and molluscs
that are useful to man, will be found in
their natural state. Many a visitor will be
astonished as he views the various systems of piaci-
culture, to find that the science which has been cul-
tivated only of late years among us, and by which
we are only just now beginning to profit (albeit it
has been known a long time now, that salmon is the
nearest approach to beef in its nutritious qualities),
was understood so long ago in the extreme east.
Much has to be learned yet in this science. It has
been warmly supported by the French Emperor,
who bas seconded with liberal grants the learned
operations of M. Coate. But if recent reports be
true, this scientific gentleman's costly experiments
in oyster culture have fallen far short of the pro-
mised result. A very interesting feature of next
year's Exhibition will be the competition among
the fish cultivators ; among whom, it may be re-
marked, the sister of the late celebrated Mdlle.
Rachel is a conspicuous experimentalist. The
horticultural display will be spread in the parks,
and the flowers will be constantly renewed accord-
ing to their season throughout the period during
which the Exhibition will be open. With the
shrubs and flowers will be displayed various
gardening plans, and hothouse designs and
systems. The general plan and conception of
the park is in the English, or picturesque
style, with winding paths and abrupt turns. Even
in this park the plan of the covered exhibition has
been carried out. The part of the park allotted to
each country will be immediately outside its space
within the building ; so that when the clothes of
all nations, and the art and food of all nations have
been examined, the traveller may make a journey
round the agriculture and the horticulture of the
world ; noting the beasts of burden, the ploughs
and harrows, the homesteads and farm produce of
each country on his way. Let him issue from the
exhibition building where he may, he will find him-
self under a broad colonnade with parterres of the
richest flowers before him. The manner in which
the furnaces and boilers for providing motive power
for the machinery have been distributed is inge-
nious. They will be found well shut in, so as not
to spoil the effect of the park, at intervals all round
the building ; and they will illustrate at the same
time all the various economical and ingenious
ways in which the precious steam of our day
is generated. But this is not all. About the
furnacesand boilers the commissionershave grouped
the various industries which require fire for their
pursuit. The smith will be seen at his forge, the
nailer at his work. Here and there amid the
trees we shall catch the red light of a forge, or
hear the metallic music of the anvil. Amid one
group we shall find glass-makers making glass, and
in another the exquisitely skilful bronze-caster
pouring the bright liquid metal into his sand-mould,
and near him the enamel worker, with anxious face,
committing his beautiful labours to the furnace.
The change from the regular lines of the galleries,
from the measured Work of man, to nature spread
in the open parks, will be gradual. From the forge
and the furnace, the visitor will reach the stable
and the poultry-yard, and survey the various races
of the animal kingdom that man has subjected to
his use. By the Ecole Militaire a river will be made
to divide itself into two branches, to flow to the
west and to the east through the park, and to
empty itself finally into the Seine. By
the Ecole also will be set up labora-
tories for the learned who may wish to
make experiments, and an amphitheatre where
professors who have any new theory to propound
to the learned may address them. Even the banks
of the Seine have been adapted to the convenience
of visitors, so that those who travel to it by boat
may land within the precincts of the Exhibition
itself. There will be even baths at hand for the
visitors' enjoyment. The Seine will be utilised,
moreover, for the display of hydraulic and other
kindred machines. The hydraulic machines will,
of course, be turned to account to supply the river
in the park, and to water the gardens. Having
been at the pains and vast expense of spreading a
beautiful park upon a desert of sand, the authori-
ties naturally wish to turn it to the utmost account.
They have resolved to leave all the park, with the
restaurants of all nations, open till midnight. It
will be a fairy scene on summer evenings, and
will preserve its charm over visitors by its infinite
variety. Round about will be theatres, and con-
certs, and clubs, all brilliantly lit with gas, to say
nothing of lecture and meeting rooms, wherein the
serious lessons of the great show will be submitted
to those who may be in search of something more
than mere amusement.

Plinarriotoric SocigrY.—A quarterly court of
the governors of this society, which has for its object the
reformation of juvenile offenders, was held yesterday at the
London Tavern ; Mr. W. Gladstone, the treasurer, in the
chair. The report for the quarter ending 30th June last
stated that the total receipts during that period were
2,8351. 13s. 5d., including"' balance of 9451.95. 10d. in the
hands of the bombers. Of this sum 591. was the farm ac-
count, and 421. had been received from brick-making. The
expenditure amounted to 2,2391.45. 3d., leavin
rteg
there
we • balancere
in hand of 6961. 9s. 2d. During the quar
admitted 27 boys, four of whom were from the London
police courts, one from the Central Criminal Court, and
the remainder from different part of the country. During
the same period 21 boys were discharged, 15 being at or
near the end al their teems. Two boys bad deserted and
had not yet been
orecovered, one Tads sent to prison
for desertion, and had died. e nember la the
school 011 the 31st August last was 261. The Chairman, in
moving the adoption of the report, said the institution was
in a most,presperatui condition. The Secretary announced
that the Harvest-home* scald be held attbeinstifscticra
on Wodmeedsy next.