The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-15 00:00:00

IURKEY AND CRLTE.

The Grand Vizier, AaliPacha, has addressed the
following circular to the Consuls of France, Aus-
tria, Italy, and Russia

" La Canee, Oct. 26, 1867.
" Monsieur le Consul,.—Since my arrival at La
Canee I have been in a position to test the practical
inconveniences of the measure adopted by tLe Great
Powers, relative to the transport to the Hellenic
territory of the subjects of his Majesty the Sultan.
1 am willing to hope that the humane reasons which
determined the transport of the families having
ceased to exist, even in supposition, the ships, be-
longing to the Great Power which you have the
honour to represent, will speedily receive the order
to abstain henceforth from all interference.

"In any case, without interfering with the prin-
ciple admitted in my proclamation as regards the
families desirous of emigrating voluntarily and
spontaneously, I must draw your attention to a point
of detail which requires to be logically referred to
the philanthropic conception from which it ema-
nates.

" It was apparently with a view to remove the in-
offensive families from the calamities of the state of
war and to provide for them a better condition
that the Powers decided to effect their transport to
Greece.

" Now, by virtue of the proclamation of Serdare-
krem, confirmed by me, the Imperial troops have
ceased their war operations, and are abstaining from
all offensive measures.

" On the other hand, you are doubtless aware tha.
the emigrants have exchanged the situation in whicl
they were placed at Crete, so pitiful as it was sup.
posed- to be, for one very much worse.

" These are undeniable facts. Another fact not
less certain is the method employed by the foreign
volunteers to force the families to expatriation.
They are placed under the necessity of choosing
between their reunion to the bands of emigration,
and this under the pain of incendiarism or death.

" The incursions made in the district of Candia,
which have cost the lives of four persons, and the
fifteen thousand olive trees burned in the district of
Berthymno, prove that the system of terrorism in-
flicted on the island is not confined to menaces.

" However, my intention is not, I repeat, to
oppose the least obstacle to the voluntary and spon-
taneous emigration of the families.
"This letter has then simply for its object to beg
of you to request the commanders of ships belong-
ing to the Power you represent not to embark the
emigrants, except at -, where Imperial Govern-
ment Commissioners will be charged to satisfy
themselves as to the spontaneity of the expatriation
" Accept, Monsieur le Consul, the assurance o
my distinguished consideration.
(Signed)

" AALI."

The following is the text of the answer of the
Cretan Committee to the proclamation of Aali

Pacha :

" The Committee of Malvision, Temenos, and Mes-
sara, to his Excellency Redshid Pacha, Governor

of Heraclion.

" Some days ago your Excellency sent to Saint
Myron some functionaries of the Porte, who read
to the Cretans already subjected a proclamation
concerning the insurgents who are courageously and
unceasingly struggling to reconquer their liberty.
In the first place, it was very useless, and even
ridiculous, to read this proclamation to people whom
you hold under your yoke, and who are, for the
moment, subjugated ; however, we will answer
categorically both you and the government you re-
present.
"For 15 months we have sustained, with arms in
our hands, a struggle unequal, but legitimate, for
we have armed ourselves definitively to shake off
the horrible yoke which the Government of the
Sultan has caused to weigh upon us for two centu-
ries, and under which we have suffered the most
terrible evils.

" From all time the Cretan population, notoriously
intelligent and friendly toprogress, has been esteemed
by all ; but since it has lived. under the dominion of
your idle and enervated race, it has been stricken
with impuissance and sterility. Crete, formerly so
prosperous, and which contained a million of in-
habitants, has become in the rapacious hands of the
Sultans, a desert and unfruitful country, which can-
not even nourish the small number of inhabitants
escaped from the pitiless swords of its barbarous
invaders.
" The light of our age has spread itself over all
the earth ; but we have been able to receive but a
faint reflection of it through the thick Bceotism of
your race, which intercepts the rays. This feeblelight
has, however, sufficed to awaken us from our slumbers.
We have considered the sadness and misery of our
position, thanks to the inertia of your administration;
we have compared ourselves with other European
peoples; we have asked ourselves what would
be our future; we Lave not been able to discover
any chance of progress for ourselves nor of amelior-
ation of our fate under the sovereignty of the Sul
tan ; the Tanzitn.it and the Hata houmayoun, vain
promises, of which a long experience has shown the

inefficiency, were not of a nature to reassure us as
to our future fate. No longer, then, hoping any-
thing, we have taken up arms, and relying on the
right of nationalities, we have boldly proclaimed the
forfeiture of the Turkish domination, and, confident
in our right, have voted our reunion to our mother
country, Greece.
" A war of extermination has for several months
continued its ravages over our beautiful island. The
unbridled hordes of Asia and Africa, let loose upon
our unhappy country to fight a people who are
weak and innumerous, but courageous and tenacious,
commit the. most horrible outrages on women, chil-
dren, the aged, and defenceless, and by these
abominations they have justly raised the indigna-
tion of all the peoples, both of the Old and the New
World.

After so many calamities and dizasters, after such
sacrifices on our part, how can your Excellency
seriously propose to us to lay down our arms, and
to have confidence in the amnesty granted by the.