THE ENGLISH MAIL

LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. The following telegrams are m addition to those we published on Wednesday. London, October 5. The King of Greece declares his intention to remain neutral during the insurrection m Candia. The United States debt was reduced fifteen million dollars m September last. October 6. It is reported that the Emperor Maximilian has declared that he will never abandon Mexico. General Grant and Mr Stanton urge President Johnson's acceptance of a Bill for the amendment of the Constitution. The New York Herald and the Times advocate its adoption. Mr Seward has recovered. Fair Dhollera cotton, tenpence. October 8. Prussia has formerly taken possession of Hanover. The King of Prussia and Hanover has absolved the subjects of the late King of Hanover from the oath of allegiance. October 9. A great reform demonstration took place at Leeds m favor of manhood suffrage. The formal incorporation of Frankfort, HesseCashel and .Nassau with Prussia occurred yesterday. October 10. The Austrians are evacuating the Venetian fortresses, and transferring them to the French Commissioners, who are transferring them to the Italian Municipalities. The Empress of Mexico is seriously indisposed. A scheme to resuscitate the Agra Bank of India will shortly be promulgated. October 11. The Home Neios publishes a rumor of the recall of Sir William Mansfield, and states that Sir C. Windham is to be his successor. The Duke of Cambridge is expected to recommend the Queen' to restore Jervis to his position m the army. The Italian troops have occupied Pesehiera. Ratifications of treaty have been exchanged. A fresh Fenian invasion of Canada is m contemplation, and the Canadian Government have applied for more troops. Business is quiet, and money more plentiful. The reduction m the Bank rate of discount is expected to be reduced to 4 per cent. The demand is very quiet FRANCE. The Emperor Napoleon's health is said to have already improved under the influence of the sea breezes and mountain air of Biarritz. The weather m France is said to have been positively frightful for some time past. The result has been inundations throughout several departments. So extensive was the inundation on Monday, the 24th, m the district between Moulips and Nevers that railway communication was interrupted. ITALY. Serious disturbances have taken place m Sicily. Numerous bands from the mountains, it is said, had taken up entrenched positions m various parts of the city of Palermo, and could not be driven out. The Government has acted with great energy. Fourteen battalions of troops were despatched to Palermo, where they succeeded m landing on Sunday, September 16, and immediately advanced against the insurgents. The latter opposed the troops, and fighting appears to have taken place daily up to September 22, on which day, it is stated, the royal troops had full possession of the city. Official intelligence states that the bands had been dispersed, and 200 arrests had been made. The insurgents left behind them a considerable quantity of firearms. On the night of the 22nd Palermo was illuminated, and the houses were decorated with flags. Neither the bank nor the prisons were broken open during the disturbances. The ministry have, it is stated, decided to S've full and immediate effect m Sicily to the w on the suppression of religious corporations. Messina has returned Signor Mazzini as its representative m the Italian Parliament. This, says a correspondent, probably gives a clue to the real character of the movement which has occasioned the preceding sad events, and which must not be confounded with brigandage. The Republican party is not yet wholly dead m Sicily, and should be conciliated. TURKEY. An official telegram from Constantinople, dated Sept 23, gives a different version from that contained m a previous column of the great battle m Crete between the insurgents and the Turkish troops. It is announced also that the Turkish troops had been attacked by the Cretan insurgents, and that, after two days' fighting, the Cretans were defeated with a loss of 650 killed and 1120 wounded. The insurgents (it is added) had received 7000 muskets and 300 casks powder from Syra. Another telegram from Constantinople, dated yesterday (the 25th) saya: — The latest iutelligence received at Constantinople from Crete states that m an engagement near Mileca the insurgents had been defeated. Four districts are reported to have offered to submit to the Turkish authorities. The Turkish force m the island now amounts to 30,000 men.

Intelligence received at Constantinople, states that 43,000 Turkish peasants had fled from the

interior '•( the island to the city of Cret<-, tli.it many Crocks li.-i.il abandoned the Ul.uhl, aiid I.h.it tiie jiiivuruor had been relieved of his miictiuis. 'Viva Turkish war vessels, freighted ait.li troops, had left Constantinople for (.'rete. i j .Miissacrus of unarmed Chiistians by the Turks I an! reported to have been made upon a coneidi.-r- --| able scale. A Turkish battalion sent to the village of Senia, to protect the Christians from the massacre of the Mussulmans, made common cause with the assailants. The number of killed is stated at 150, consisting mostly of old men. women, and children, the men capable of bearing arms being absent m the insurgent camps. The villages have been pillaged and destroyed, and the plunder publicly sold m the Christian cemetery. In the town itself the Christian inhabitants are taking refuge at the houses of the various consuls. Protests against these acts of violence have been made by the consular agents of Greece, England. France, and Eussia. A translation of the proclamation of the Cretan Assembly-General announcing the annexation of Crete to Greece has been forwarded to the foreign consuls. It contains a succinct and faithful narrative of the rise ot the present outbreak, the original object of which was to obtain domestic reforms, but which has now assumed an altogether different character. GREECE. The impression produced at Athens and m the provinces by the events now taking place m Crete is immense. Interior conflicts are set aside ; partisans of all shades of opinion are occupied solely with the one idea of national aggrandisement. The people and the government, however, display great sagacity. The Greeks are thoroughly well aware that they are not at present m a position to make war upon Turkey, and while they do not disguise that their good wishes and sympathies go with the insurgents, they do nothing that might compromise them with their more powerful neighbour. Committees are organised m all the towns, but only to assist the wounded and emigrants. It is said that ships have succeeded m forcing the blockade, and m landing munitions and volunteers, but, if true, these acts bave been effected with the greatest secrecy. ROMR A letter from Home states that a band of brigands a short time back entered the village of Acuto, m the territory of Anagui, and seized upon five persons belonging the the principle families of the place. They carried them off to the mountains, and gave them to understand that they must pay a large ransom. The family of one of them sent the sum demanded, and the brigands set free the person so ransomed, giving him a sealed box to be handed to the mayor of the village. The box arrived at its destination, and on being opened was found to contain the ears of four other prisoners, and a letter saying that, if the whole sum demanded was not remitted, the heads would shortly be sent to their friends. AMERICA. By the arrival of the Belgian we have news from New York up to the evening of September 14 The President was continuing his tour m the West. It is stated that while he was enthusiastically welcomed at Louisville and Cincinnati, he met with much opposition from the crowd at Pittsburg. Mr Seward, m reply to a question concerning Mexico said that when they had secured .what they had already, he would talk to them about Mexico. The New York Herald is said to have commenced withdrawing its support from President Johnson. The President is reported to have decided that Mr Jefferson Davis, if not tried m October, shall be released on bail. It is rumoured that Mr Davis had refused to accept a release conditional upon his leaving the country. According to news received at New York from Canada considerable excitement prevails there, owing to the anticipation of Fenian attacks. The New York correspondent of the Standard, writing on September 11, says : — The President has been attacked by an armed band of Radicals ; pistol shots have been fired at him ; several of his friends, as well as certain of the attacking party, have been severely wounded ; one life has been lost. The disturbance occurred at Indianapolis, m the State of Indiana, where the President and suite arrived at a late hour on Monday evening, September 10, having made the trip from St Louis since the morning. A vast crowd had congregated at the railway station to welcome or insult the President, for Indianapolis is a radical stronghold. Mr Johnson, Mr Seward, General Grant, Admiral Farragut, and the other members of the party, entered carriages at the station and proceeded to an hotel known as the Bates House. To this hotel the party were followed by the crowd that had gathered at the railway station, and which received large accessions every moment. The President had not intended to address the people, as he had suffered during the whole day from severe indisposition, but the despotic Republicans were inexorable, and their incessant cries of "Johnson," "Johnson," "Speech," "Speech," fairly compelled the President to say at least a few words. Mr Johnson had only uttered the words "Fellow citizens," however, when the Radicals, acting upon preconcert, set up tremendous cries for "Grant," "Grant," "Farragut," &c. These shouts were immediately answered by shouts of "Johnson," "Johnson," and "Goon," from the opposite party, to which the Radicals replied with yells of "Stop," "Go home," &c. The confusion now became general. The mingled outcries of " Hurrah for Andy Johnson," "Hurrah for Jeff. Davis," "Down with the traitor," "We don't want traitors," "Judas Johnson," " New Orleans," from active partisans, together with the oaths and shrieks and catcalls of the more impartial " patriots " m the mob, created and appalling tumult. Suddenly pistol shots were fired, and a fight began. At least two shots were discharged at the balcony upon which the President and party had been standing, and upon which Mr Johnson and several of the town officers still remained. (The other members of the party had withdrawn from the balcony before the disturbance began). An examination by daylight shows that the ledge beneath the window directly over that m front of which Mr Johnson stood, is chipped by a pistol or rifleball ; while one of the transparencies that hung beneath the balcony is perforated as though by a bullet. Stones were also thrown at the balcony while the President stood there, and clubs and stones were cast upon it after the party had retired. Several windows of the hotel were broken. Mr Johnson was induced to leave his dangerous spot shortly after the beginning of the disturbance, and a prominent citizen of Indianapolis then stepped forward and endeavoured to pacify the mob. His efforts were unavailing, however. Two or three hundred shots were subsequently fired by the mob. One man was shot through the heart Eleven men were ■wounded. Mr Johnson's escape ■was a narrow one. A stray shot, fired by some Radical Booth, might have brought him to the fate of his predecessor. No further disturbances took place during the night, and the Presidential party quietly left Indianapolis this morning.

m the last two years, Hour, wheat, oats, barley, iniize, ami hay, to the value of many thousands ot pounds, have been imported into Wauzanui froiii neighboring colimii:3 whoso soil and climate are far inferior to those around us. The Lady Dunison has just arnvedfrom Newcastle, N.S.W., and part of her cargo consists of seventy-five bales of hay ! The fact of the matter is, that sheep and cattle farming threatens to unman the rising generation m these districts. In a more stern climate, and upon a more sterile soil, where food for man and beast must be sowed, gathered m, and stored up during six months of the year, boys and young men are very different to those growing up around us m these districts. We appeal to the old men around us, who have seen and known what farm labour was m the old country when they were boys, and who see the manner m whioh our young men are being brought up m these districts, to say whether, as yeara roll on, the risiug generation here are not likely to degenerate. Even men with two or three sons, half-a-dozen idle horses, and as fine land as ever a plough turned over, will seriously tell you that ' tanning won't pay,' and that, too, whilst they eat bread from imported flour, and feed their horses on imported oats. We were told that last week oats sold as high as 7s or 8s a bushel m Turakina. Most of our settlers' bread is made from imported flour; hundreds of horses, well fed and m first-rate condition, are hardly kept m exercise ; and yet 'farming won't pay.' Market gardening was tried some years ago, but it did not pay. What is the consequence ? Now and for years to come, the cry is and will be, 'It was tried before, but didn't pay.' Yesterday morning we were rather amused at the vacant stare of the Captain of the Lady Denison when two small cabbages were handed on board with the assurance that there was no more to be had, and we believe they were sixpence each. In the centre of the finest land south of the line, vegetables are scarce, and why ? Years ago when the population was small, and the Maoris would work instead of being kept on pay as fighting men, market gardening would not pay, and therefore it won't pay now ! Prosperity threatens to be the ruin of these districts. Sheep and cattle supply all the wants of the settlers, aud a few of the best horses enable the young men to ride about. Farming utensils, such as ploughs, harrows &c, are to be found at every homestead, but they have fallen into disuse, because ' farming won't pay.' Some fathers begin to feel the truth of our remarks, and m a few years hence, when their sons take their place, they will know as much about farming as if they were never brought up m a rural district. If it were for that reason alone, young men should be taught to handle the plough, aud fathers would find m the long run that m more ways than one farming would pay. — Wanganui Times, Oct. 16.