The Warrington Examiner. — 1870-04-30 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

ERSEINE." From this time the following despatch from Lord Clarendon to Mr. Erskine tells all that needs to be told of this sad affair—of a tragedy which, while it has provoked a determined cry in this country for vengeance on the murderers, has exhibited to the whole world the extreme lawlessness which obtains in a country that, only a few years back, made such a loud boast of its progress both intellectually and morally. The despatch is dated Saturday, the 23rd, and Lord Clarendon says : "Sir,—Your telegram of the 20th of April, in the evening, announcing that the health of the captives was satisfactory, but that the brigands still held out for terms which the Greek Government could not admit, and further expressing the hope that the mission of General Church's aide-de-camp and the military measures taken to prevent the escape of the brigands would prove satisfactory, was received in the night of the 21st; and on the following morning your despatches of the 12th and 14th of April, containing the particular of the capture and the steps taken up to the lastnamed date, reached my hands. "Late in the evening of the 22nd your further telegram of the afternoon of the 20th was received, and caused me no small anxiety; for I gathered from it that an attack on the brigands by the troops was likely to be made, or, at all events, that some plan was in agitation for facilitating the escape of the prisoners by other means than those which had hitherto been contemplated. "My worst fears were realised on the receipt of your telegrams of the 22nd, sent off respectively at 2 a.m. and. 7.30 a.m., which reached the Foreign Office this afternoon, and brought the distressing intelligence that Mr. Herbert and the Secretary of the Italian Legation had been put to death by the brigands, apparently under the pressure of an attack made by the troops upon them; and that Mr. Vyner had been carried off by them; and that nothing was known of Mr. Lloyd. "I telegraphed to you at once that if you should have reason to suppose that the safety of the surviving prisoners might be secured by the grant of an amnesty, you should apply to the Greek Government, and in the name of Her Majesty's Government. and in the strongest terms, require that such amnestV should be granted. "Three hours after this was done, your final telegram of this afternoon was received, conveying the sad intelligence that Mr. Vyner and Mr. Lloyd had shared the fate of their companions and mentioning that the former of them had been killed near Thebes. tn then I am days must scarcely in a position to give you any further instrueil y "I need not dwell on the anxiety with which Her Majesty's Government await your detailed reports of elapset s before t hterya gaeideyr. fearecelived, a that mune tions. I can only hope, and indeed I do not doubt, after having read your despatches already received: that you will have left no measure untried which held out a prospect of effecting the release of the prisoners, and that you failed not to use every argument which might prevail with the Greek Government to waive the futile, and under the circumstances untenable, objection which they made to granting the amnesty, which seems to have been insisted on by the brigands as an indispensable condition to the surrender of the captives,_  ;‘ I will inform you of the wishes of the relatives of the deceased as to the disposal of their remains as soon as I can ascertain them.—! am, &.e., "