The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-19 00:00:00

REMARKS.

very little change is reported in barometrical pressures during the
last twenty-fonr hours : at the western stations readings are about
one-tet.th of an inch lower. Pressure at Scarborough is more than
four-tel.ths of an inch below that at L'Orient. Since yesterday tem-
peratures have risen in the north and west, and are generally very
high. The vII 1 yesterday was rather fresh from the eastward on our
southern coast. Light winds are reported this morning from
northern st, ions : on our other coasts winds are moderate, with
directions varyi g between south and cart. The weather continues
very dry.

The assassins of Prince Michael appear to have done
their work con amore. The Neue Preis Trsse says :
" Whilst the Prince, struck by three balls, was lying
lifeless on tlee ground, one of the assassins threw
himself •on the body and plunged a knife into
it several times. It was mutilated and backed,
and the nose was literally cut off. The body has
three gaping wounds, the arm and leg are pierced,
and the articulations of the hand so injured that
the glove which he wore had to be cut from end to end to
draw it off. The wounds in the face produced a frightfu
picture. What gives a more terrible aspect to the murder
is the report that the poignards and knives were poisoned.
The murderers fired sixteen shots." This extravagance of
violence seems to indicate that the assassins were not mur-:
derers in the pay of another person, but the avengers of
some wrong of their o vii. In the meanwhile Russian and
Austrian diplomatists are mutually accusing each other of
having perpetrated the crime.
A correspondent of the Morning Post sends that journal
an account of a recent visit to Crete. He went from
Constantinople to Suda Bay on board the Turkish
gunboat Candia. This vessel is one of the five •
blockade-runners that the Turkish Government
bought from the Americans after the war. She came
down with her holds crammed with stores and provisions
of various kinds, so that there remained no other place for
the stowage of the bullion that was also carried (E3),0)0)
than the cabins, which were consequently filled completely
with sacks of silver and small bronze moneys, and kept
sacredly locked. • All bands, therefore, slept and lived on
deck. On board there were four companies of infantry.
ArriVed at Kanea, the correspondent found the troops well
employed in making roads and building fortified stations at
intervals. One that is advancing the most rapidly at
present starts from ICanea, by Galata and Alikiani to the
east, to a little distance beyond which place it is complete,
and then turns down the D6rt southward across the
island by Omalo, and so on to the coast. Fortified towers
are also in course Of comtruction across the eastern
end of the island, commanding the passes, and it is on
the sates of these works that a little harassing war
fire is kept up from day to day. Wherever the
troops move to work, todies of insurgents follow them,
and ly taking up safe positions are able to give
the troops some annoyance. In a skirmish which took
place at Alikiani two days before the date of the corn.
munication (June 1), one captain, two sergeants, and five
Or six men were sent in wounded, and the insurgents were
stated to have lost some fifteen or twenty. There bad been
some little row at Candia, and Omar Pasha had shewn the
writer a sort of infernal machine that the Cretans were
using, comprising a tin case, capable of containing about
'6olb. of powder, and a little clock machine apart from,
but capable of being attached to it, which, being woundup,
explodes the w:.ole at the time that it is set for. The
invention is said to be American. The pans and mat
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