INSURRECTION IN CANDIA.

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 139, 1 December 1866, Page 3

INSURRECTION IN CANDIA.

There is every appearance that the Eastern question has come up in earnest. The Turkish Empire is in the throes of dissolution. The subject races are rising in all quarters, and the Sultan and- his advisers are at their wits-end.. The most formidable trouble at the present time is the revolt of the. Cretans. At first disregawled, this rebellion has grown to alarms ing proportions. Besides numerous skirmishes betAveen the natives and the Turkish troops, a great battle has been fought, in which it is said that 60,000. or 70,000 were engaged on the two sides.. According to the last accounts, the Islanders achieved a decided victory over the Sultan's try ops. The engagement took plaoe at Sajino. Three thousand Egyptians wure placed "liors de combat,' 1 and the Pasha in command, with the remainder o.f

ths forces capitulated. Tho Cretans captured a considerable quantity of munitions of war, several flags, and four guns. Telegrams this morning inform us that another combat has since taken place near Mileka, in which the insurgents were dyfeaj^d. Four districts are reported to have offered to submit to tho Turkish authorities. The- Imperial fore-js in the Island now amount to 30,000 men. Should this success be confirmed, as soon a? the tidings arc disseminated there will bo. outbreaks in almost ovoiy part of the Ottoman Empire. Already .the lire is kindling. Through Thessaly and Epirtis, and in tho mountains of Albanj r , so threatening a spirit prevails that the Turkish Government h;;s yoinforced tho garrisons iv those districts, and has sont its ablest soldier, Omar Pasha, to Bosnia, to check any manifestations among the Slavs. In the Lebanon, too, the old feud between tho Druses and the Maronites has broken out with all its former bitterness, and the Government has got entangled with the quarrel. This distracting preoccupation with his rebellious subjects has compuliod the Sultan to compromise matters with tho new ruler of the Danubiiin Principalities. He has svirroiulercd nearly all his rights as suzerain to keep Prince Charles quiet.. The neutrality of Montenegro has be^n purchased with ports and towns. Meanwhile, the young King of Groove is disposed to bo troublesome. Visions of a Greek kingdom of glowing splendour float before his eyes. His ambitious thoughts have broken forth into rash words. 110 claims to be " not King of Graoco only, but of all the HoHoiiOo." In the midst ox this embroilment the "sick man "knows not where to look for effective hulp or roal sympathy. England* and France will scarcely risk another war to kcup the Turk in Europe ; Russia is known to- be tho instigator of sedition and revolt among the Christian populations of Turkey ; and tlu jCrotans have actually issued an appeal ffp President Johnson — of nil potentates — to save " the native land of Jupiter arid Minus " from its oppressors.