The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

THE CRETAN INSURRECTION.

REPORTED DESTRUCTION OF THE
ARCADI.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Avatar 24.

The Turkish cruiser 'zed(lin, after a desperate
engagement with the Greek blockade runner, Ar-
cs, in Cretan waters, drove her ashore and de-
stroyed her with great loss of life. The Izeddin
arrived yesterday with the news and to repair
damages.
Arrivals from Trieste are subjected to quaran-
tine on account of cholera.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

ST. PETERSBURG, Atioure 24.

The commander of the Russian fleet in the Medi-
terranean announces that while a Russian ship was
embarking Cretan refugees, she was hailed by a
Turkish steamer. Both vessels were prepared for
action. At the negotiations which ensued the
chief of Omer Pacha's staff declared that the re-
sponsibility would rest with the Russian com-
mander if, after the transport of these Cretan fami-
lies the insurrection should spread.
The Invalide Busse, referring to the fruitless
diplomatic negotiations with Turkey, blames the
Turkish reforms of Fuad Pacha, and calls the Hatti-
humayount a fraud, adding that a peaceful solution
of the Oriental question will only be achieved by
granting the Christians in Turkey independence,
and institutions separated from the Mahometans.
The Emperor returns on the 25th August.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Auocirr 16, 10.47 A.M.
7lbs. shirting', Sr. 12a. • fillbs. ditto, 6r. 14a. ;
40's mule twist, 12i. Cotton very dull ; Dhollerah,
215. Shipments of the week, 15,985 bales.
Exchange on London, Is. 11 3-16 d. to U.
Four per Cent. Government Securities, 90 ;
Five per Cent, ditto, 1060 ; Five-and-a-Half per
Cent. ditto, 1111. Freights to Liverpool, We.
The latest London date is August 10.

CALCUTTA, AVOUST 15.
81lbs. shirtings, 6r. 14a ; 40's mule twist,
61a. Exchange on London, ls. 11 6-16 d. ; Four
per Cent. Government Securities, 89}; Five
per Cent. ditto, 1061 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cent.
ditto, 1101. Freights to England, 675. 6d.

AMERICA.
NNW YORK, Auauccr 24, 6 rat.

The shipments of specie by the steamers leaving
to-day for Europe amount to 500,000 dollars. The
North German Lloyd's steamer Union arrived out
to-day.

Closing prices : Gold, 140%. Sterling exchange
on London, 109 i ; 8-20 United States Bonds, 113 k.
Illinois, 119. Erie, 691. Cotton : Middling Up-
land, 28.
PHILADELPHIA., Arcrsr 24.
Standard white petroleum, 27f.

FRANCE.

(mu ouit OWN coaszarozmzrA)
PARIS, SATURDAY Erzynco.

Showers of communiquis have been visited upon
the journals, which contended that the Emperor's
letter of August 16, 1867, promising that the cross
roads of France should be completed within ten
years, was but a repetition of the letter of August
18, 1861, promising that the same roads should be
made within eight years. It seems that what was
promised in 1861 was the completion of the Amin&
eicitian.c d'interete comintin, which is explained to
mean something less extensive than the Amine
ricinatir urdinairea. The comnimaivis do not,
however, venture to assert that the first promise is
likely to be fulfilled. They only say, and to a cer-
tain extent they prove, that the shortcoming is not
so great as the opposition journals pretended.
It is probably forgotten by most people that
Narvaez's great rival, Marshal O'Donnell, with a
host of his friends and old colleagues, is living
quietly at Bayonne. These refugees are anxiously
watching the present movement. O'Donnell has
sworn that he will never again be reconciled with
the Queen, and he would doubtless be glad to see
the present insurrection succeed, provided General
Prim were first shot. Narvaez, who well knows
the feeling of these gentlemen, means to play them
a sharp trick if he gets over this crisis. They
have hitherto lived abroad drawing their full pay
and pensions, and O'Donnell, when in power, was
not niggardly to his friends ; but Narvaez intends
to recall them all to Madrid, and those who dis-
obey the summons will get no more money. There
is a rumour at Bayonne that Prim? before going
into Spain by Luchon had an mterview with
O'Donnell.

It is quite seriously said that the Pope's best
friend in Rome at this moment is the cholera.
Garibaldi finds that so many of the men upon
whom he had counted on for a rising are, from re-
ligious feelings, afraid to offend the Pope at the
present moment, when they believe his blessing to
be a preservative against the epidemic, that he has
deferred the execut►on of his project till a more con-
venient season.

The persistent reports that Marshal Bazaine,
before leaving Mexico, did all that he could to
deprive the Emperor Maximilian of the means of
defending himself, have made such an impression
on the public mind, that even the government
papers say there ought to be an " inquiry," in order
to refute the calumny. I doubt, however, whether
there will be anything more than one-aided paper
essays. The memorandum now announced by the
Memorial Li and attributed by that
journal to Marshal Bezaine 'himself, is, I am
assured, composed by M. H. Castille out of mate-
rials furnished him by government.
The Epoque says that the Emperor of Austria is
not coming to Paris.
The governor of one of the largest prisons in
the provinces has absconded with a sum of 33,000 f.
public money. This functionary passed for a man
of the highest respectability, and enjoyed the
entire confidence of the Minister of the Interior.
His name is not yet given in the papers, but it is
stated that he belongs to a family, the head of
which, who died in 1862, was a peer under Louis
Phillip, a senator of the second empire, and a
general commanding one of the great military
divisions.
Yesterday, in pursuance of the judgment de-
ciding an appeal that the chairs placed for the ac-
commodation of the public outside' the restaurant
in the Universal Exhibition, were an infringement
of the monopoly granted to the contractor for
seat " throughout the whole arena," a number
of carts, escorted by a sufficient posse comitatis,
took away bodily all the chairs, upon which the
public for several months had been in the
habit of sitting while taking refreshment. The
English caterers published a placard pro-
testing against a breach of contract with
them, which not being to the taste of the
imperial commission was repeatedly pulled down.
I hear, but not having been able to go to the Exhi-
bition to-day cannot be sure of the fact, that some
of the English purveyors have " struck," and shut
up their taverns.
M. Ambroise Thomas's new opera, Hamlet, was
rehearsed on Wednesday for the first time, and is
expected to be produced in January. I cannot
fancy such an essentially contemplative character
as Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark soliloquising
in music, but M. Faure is, we are told, studying
bard to represent the part " properly." Mdlle.
Nilsson will be the Ophelis. Here is the rest of
the cast :—The King, Belval; the Queen, Madame
Gueymard ; Ghost, David ; Marcellus, Grisy ;
Polonius, Mechelacre ; and the Gravediggers,
Gaspard and Hermand.
The new Opera, though to outward appearance
almost finished, will not be ready for a theatrical
representation for the next two years. Although,
therefore, the government has not ventured to assert
by a ciminittniquil that the Emperor's promise that
the works of the Hotel Dieu Hospital should go on
pan passe with those of the opera, has been strictly
kept, the Patrie says the hospital, whose founda-
tions are scarcely perceptible above the ground,
may yet prove a tortoise which will beat the hare-1
the Opera.
Velpeau, the great surgeon, died this morning.
He was not a very old man, and his death is an I
immense loss to the profession and the world.
The physiognomy of the Bourse was not sensibly
different from yesterday. Little business was done.
Renter rose 12i for cash, but closed at yesterday's '
price, 69.77} for account.

Tas AMERICAN AND AFRICAN MAILS.—OR
Saturday the Cunard paddle steamer Persia left the
Mersey for New York, with the mails and a fair cargo, and
upwards of 200 passengers, among whom was Mr. Arthur
Sketchley, who is proceeding to the States to give a series
of readings on the famous "Mrs. Brown" during the next
few months. Tito Lagos, belonging to the African Steam-
ship Company, sailed also on Saturday, with mails for
Madeira, Teneriffe, and the West Coast of Africa, together
with a large cargo and eleven passengers. The steamers due
at Liverpool this week with the American mails, are the
City of London, front New York on the 17th inst. ; the
Nestorian, from Quebec on the same day ; and the Bas-
tian, from New York on the 21st. The City of London
may be expected to arrive in the Mersey to-morow (Tues-
day) morning, and the Nestorian somewhere about the
same time. The Russia (the new Canard steamer) will
most likely reach the Mersey on Saturday. The next
steamer from the West African coast is the Mending°, duo
about the 3rd of next month.

THE MEETING AT SALZBURG.

A communication from Salzburg in the Memorial
Diplomatique says that the result of the exc.hamse
of views and conversations which have taken place
during the stay of the Emperor Napoleon is
summed up in the conviction, shared on both
sides, that a community of political interests exists
between Austria and France. "To translate those
interests into actions (it adds) to which the other
cabinets will be invited to lend their moral support,
will henceforth be the aim of the common efforts
of the two powers. The concurrence asked from
the other states excludes the idea of a special
alliance."

THIC INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.

(arum's runteml

MADRID, ACCOST 21.

The Espana, a provincial journal, says :—" The news
from Catalonia to-day is completely satisfactory, and, in
consequence, the captain-general has Jammed a proclama-
tion granting an amnesty to everyone making his submis-
sion to the authorities. At hens perfect tranquillity pre-
vails, and the insurgents who presented themselves at the
Priory are dispersing, and throwing away their arms. The
numerous detachments of troops which are skilfully dis-
tributed through that territory, which is the revolutionists'
primal.' hope, will utterly destroy the insurgents. Barce-
lona is perfectly tranquil, and the manufactories are open;
the rest of the principality of Catalonia is calm ; wherever
the insolvents may be, they will find the royal army
before them. The band which entered Spain by Upper
Arnim is wandering between Hecho and Canfrano,
menaced by several combined columns. The attitude of
the inhabitants, of the army, and of the authorities, in
their efforts to put down this last and supreme effort of
revolution, has left nothing to be desired. The bands of
Aytona and other leaders have bean beaten almost without
offering resistance."

The Governor of Gerona publishes the following docu-
ment;
" Government of the Province of Girone.
"Two bands, composed of tea men each, have appeared
m this province ; they are being actively pursued by the
armed force. In publishing this intelligenoe in an official
and extraordinary bulletin, it is my duty, and in accord-
ance with the frank feelings by which I am characterised,
to assure the faithful inhabitants of the province that the
appearance of those vagabonds who, in the name of revo-
lutionists, desire nothing but plunder and booty, shall in
no respect disturb the public order. lam fully re-
solved to keep a strict watch, and to punish
with all the rigour of the law any one daring
to interrupt order, or to propegatei intelligence of a nature
to mislead public opinion and distort facts. I shall neglect
no means to secure the tranquillity and well-being of the
country, which through its loyalty and love of labour is so
worthy of my esteem and consideration.
" throne, nut August, 1887.
(Signed) " The Governor, 11910 ESTLVAR."

The Espana, a ministerial organ, does not believe that
the insurgents meet with any serious support in the
country. It considers that the energetic action of the
government will produce the best results, and will amply
suffice to protect the peaceful inhabitants.
The Espanol publishes the following similar remarks:
" As for us, we declare that we have no serious uneasi-
ness on the subject, having confidence in the government.
The revolutionists dipose of so few elemerts that we con-
sider the public order secured. It is for good citizens to
attend to their usual occupations, knowing that the go-
vernment watches over all and for all."
The

of New Castile hen issued a pro-
clamation' establishing martial law throughout that pro-
vince and Madrid.

MADRID, AUGUST 23.
Marshal SPTTILeZ, as Minister of War, has addressed
the following circular to the captains-general:—"Excol•
leney,—The Queen (whom Clod preserve) has deigned, as
you have already been informed by telegraph this day, to
order you to take the requisite measures that the com-
manders of the columns operating against the insurgents
in your districts shall recommend, those individuals who
may distinguish themselves either in the operations of
pursuit or in feats of arms which may occur in
such pursuit. In these recommendations, which your
excellency is charged to collect and forward to this mi•
niatry, you will set forth in a clear and detailed manner
the 'Mica and circumstance connected therewith, iu order
that the government, with full knowledge of the cause,
may accord in each case either immediate promotion or
other suitable recompense.
_ _

---`7looMrinandYou by order of the Queen and for your
guidance, it being her Majesty's will that this regulation
be published u a general order of the army in your
district.

"God preserve you many years.
" (SignuM Duke de Vslssas.
" Madrid, August 19."