The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-21 00:00:00

THE SERPENTINE IN HYDE PARK.

Thero were at one time 30,000 persons, including ladies
skating and sliding. Fifteen persons of both sexes were
taken into the Royal Humane Society's receiving-house'
suffering from severe cut heads, and a boy only 13 years of
ago had QM Si Ulf) =no broken, and alter Doing attended

THE LONG WATER., KENSINGTON-GARDENS.
Fifteen thousand ladies and gentlemen, including many
members of the nobility belonging to the Skating Club,
ventured upon this splendid sheet of ice, which is now in
first-rate condition, it being nearly four inches in thickness.
No accident of any importance took place during the day.
Messrs. Spencer, Turner, and I3oldero, of Lisson-grove,
have written to Mr. L. Young, and state in their letter
that as a severe drain has been made upon the resources of
the Royal Humane Society, they proposed to raise a small
subscription to express the sympathy of the firm with the
society, and to recognise the conduct of the icemen, police-
constables, and others who rendered distinguished services
to the sufferers, and who endeavoured to meet the wishes
of those who have been painfully bereaved of relatives and
friends. Mr. Bright, who brough the communication to
Mr. Young, showed that the firm had subscribed three
guineas, and others smaller sums, amounting in the whole
to over £5.

The Candian Insurrection.

ATHENS, Jan. 10.

Advices have been received here from Candia to
the 4th inst. They were brought to the Piraeus by
the Russian steamer Taman, which left Canea on
the evening of the 4th inst., and proceeded thence
to Selinon and Sphakia with orders to take on board
some Cretan families if no opposition were offered
by the Turks. UnfoAtaately„however, bad weather
prevented the Taman from fulfilling her mission.
According to the intelligence brought by this vessel
Zimbrakakio had established his head quarters at
Omalos. The Cretan Assembly continued to sit at
Aya, Roumelia. The winter has set in with great
severity, and cau4ed much,suffering among the in-
surgents, whose courage and energy nevertheless
continued unabated. On the 31st Dec. Mustapha
Pasha sent a steam vessel to Sphakia, and invited
the villages of that difArict to send representatives
to him, which the Sphakates refused to do. It was
thought probable therefore that Mustapha Pasha
would march, against them. On the 3d January an
Italian iron clad frigate, and a despatch boat of the
same nation, anchored in the roads of Sonda. These
vessels probably belonged to the flotilla sent by the
Italian Government to support its representations
on the subject of the Principe Tomasso. The Turkish
governor, suspecting that incendiary journals and
letters found their way into the island through seve-
ral consuls, requested from the French and English
consuls permission to open the despatches addressed
to them. This request was acceded to by the French,
but refused by the English Consul.

The Governor's dragoman went to the Austrian
Lloyd's mail packet agency and requested to be
allowed to open despatches addressed to the Greek
Consul, which, however, the agent declined to permit.
The Greek steamers Panhellemurn and Hydra
have made their eighth voyage to Crete with provi-
sions and ammunition for the insurgents, notwith-
standing the surveillance of the coast by Turkish
cruisers.

The new Greek Ministry has submitted to the
Chamber several important bills, one of which grants
the concession for draining Lake Copias to a French
company ; another bill grants to the Ministry of
War a credit of one million in order to make im-
provements in the armament of the national forces
commensurate with recent inventions. Diplomatic
missions are about to be sent abroad, and the ap-
pointments are stated to be as follows :—M. Brailas
(ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs), to London ; M.
Theodore Delyannis (ex-Minister), to Paris ; M.
Spyridon Metaxas (ex-deputy), to St. Petersburg ;
M. Conduriottis (deputy and ex-Minister), to Flo-
rence; M. Gregoire Ypsilantis (deputy), to Vienna
and Berlin ; M. Rangairs (ex-Minister) to Wash-
ington ; M. Pierre Delyannis will continue to repre-
sent, Greece at. Constantinople.

CircularDispatchof the Turkish Government

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 14.

Subjoined is the text of the circular dispatch for-
warded on the 26th ult. by the Turkish Government
to its representatives at Paris, London, and St.
Petersburg, in which complaint is made of the recent
policy pursued by Greece :

" Constantinople, Dec. 26.
" Sir,--You have already learnt from my former
dispatches the pacification of the island of Crete
and the concentration of the remaining insurgents
solely at the two points of Selinos and Kissamos. I
hope to be able to announce to you by telegraph
their complete subjugation before the arrival of
this despatch. It is notorious, Sir, that the insur-
rection might have been suppressed far sooner, and
perhaps without bloodshed, if Hellenic agitators
entering from abroad had not influenced the inha-
bitants of the island by criminal intrigues and
menacing threats, which have only contributed to
prolong the revolt and increase the number of the
unfortunate victims.

" When the Ilellenes became convinced of the
non-success of their guilty plans with regard to Crete
they began openly to disturb tranquillity in Epirus
and Thessaly. Throwing aside all disguise, they
come to organise bands of robbers, who cross the
frontiers under the protection of the military force
of the Greek Goverment assembled at Lamia and
who i into
their theireir p
Carvassara, murder those of our Christian subjects
fall n
rhoapnedsrty.
while offering resistance,
and
plunder
" Large preparations have been made by sea and
on land with the intention of more energetic pro-
ceedings' in the spring.
' We find ourselves, therefore, at present not face
to face with an insurrection at home, but in pre-
sence of a Government which endeavours and
makes manifest preparations to revolutionise our
territory. lam happy to be able to state that
notwithstanding the most violent intrigues of
Greece, the greatest quiet prevails throughout the
empire. In view of the events now becoming de-
veloped, therefore, we feel thoroughly convinced
that friendly Powers will admit that the manifestly
hostile conduct of the Greek Government, both with
regard to Crete and to the general tranquillity in
the other provinces of the realm, is without parallel
between two States living at peace. They will
at the same time admit that the Sublime Porte,
solely inspired by the wish of preserving peace, has
given proofs of unexampled self-denial. But there
are limits which cannot and must not be over-
stepped, and it can hardly longer remain a matter
of indifference to his Imperial Majesty the Sultan
that a considerable portion of his subjects who
desire to live quietly and enjoy the protection
guaranteed to them, should fall sacrifices to the
passions and destructive schemes of Greek ad-
ventures, and that the tranquilllity of his empire
should be disturbed and endangerel. If there-
fore the Greek Government, settling aside the
obligations imposed upon it by treaties, should
persevere in the course it has hitherto pursued, the
Imperial Government will find itself compelled to
adopt measures required by the duty of providing
for its own security, leaving at the same time to the
Greeks the full responsibility for all the conse-
quences such measures might entail.

" We are of opinion, sir, that the three protecting
Powers of Greece, who so sincerely uphold peace and
tranquillity in the East, and in like manner wish to
see the treaties held invioltate which guarantee the
integrity of the rellm, will alone be able to avert
this possibility by bringing back, through collective
and effectual action, the Greek Government to the
path of legality and international duties, and by
categorically declaring that they disapprove their
present conduct. I repeat, sir, that we look upon
such action as the only means to induce the Cabinet
of Athens to change its aggressive attitude, to bring
the Greek revolutionary party to reason, and finally,
to avert a breach between the two Governments,
after the Sublime Porte has already vainly exhausted