The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-25 00:00:00

THE ISLAND OF CANDIA.

A pamphlet entitled La Verite sur les Evene-
mens de Candle, by "An Eye-witness," has just
appeared, and the object of it is to show that Vely
Pacha, the governor of that island, who took part
in those events, has been grossly calumniated by
the Greek and French press. The following is a
sketch of the statement which it makes :—lt was
in 1855 that Vely Pacha, after being ambassador
at Paris, became governor of the island—a post
held for 30 years by his father, Mustapha P'acha ;
and, "in accordance with the suggestion of an
august personage at Paris," he immediately
caused roads, which were much needed, to be
made, and effected various administrative reforms.
The hatti-humayoum of 1856, which confers va-
rious advantages on the Christians, subjects them
for the conscription the same as Mussulmans ' • but
the Christians in Candia have the privilege of sup-
plying their contingent either in men or money,
and they preferred to pay in the latter manner. In
1856 and 1857 no payments were made, so that at
the beginning of the present year three years'
payments were due. The amount was equal to
2f. 55c. per head, and the Porte, from the embar-
rassed state of its finances, was obliged to call for
it. But the claim caused great dissatisfaction
among the Christians, and agents of secret socie-
ties of Greece endeavoured to excite them to revolt.
Numbers of them assembled in arms in different
parts of the island, and demanded that the Go-
vernment should be placed in the hands of Chris-
tians. Vely Pacha could easily have put down
this rising; but if he had employed harsh measures,
the Turks would probably have massacred the
Christians, the Christians the Turks, and a
civil war might have followed. But by the tact
and moderation of Vely Pacha, aided by the
foreign consuls, an arrangement was come to, and
" the insurrection ended without the Turks firing
a single shot at the Greeks, or the Greeks one at
the Turks." The pamphlet, after lauding Vely
Pacha for his conduct in this affair, asserts that
his administration was always distinguished by
mildness and justice, and as a proof of it states that
he enabled as many as 500 Christian families, who
years ago had embraced the Mahomedan faith to
escape persecution, to become Christians again;
had afforded Christians facilities for going on pil-
grimages, and had compelled three Christian girls
who wanted to embrace Mahoraedanism in order
indulge in profligacy, to retain their faith and
return to their parents. It also shows that the
report that he had allowed Turkish soldiers to
violate a Christian church at Canea was proved
by the European consuls themselves to be un-
founded. The pamphlet enters into details on the
subject of the disturbances occasioned at Canea at
the beginning of July by the assassination of a
Mussulman by a Greek, and contends that the con-
duct of Vely Pacha in connection with them, was
entirely free from reproach. It afterwards refers
to the absurd calumnies as to Vely Pacha having
caused the aged Bishop of Canea to be so grossly
ill-treated that he died, and of his having had him
just before death conveyed to his home in a cart ;
and it proves clearly from official documents that
the prelate died of apoplexy, and that the " cart"
in which he was placed was .411 -elegant Parisian
carriage.

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