§ MR. HAYTERasked Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether he has any further information to communicate to the House with reference to the state of affairs in Crete, more especially with reference to the measures which the Turkish Government are adopting to crush the insurrection in the neighbourhood of Canea? The latest telegram received stated—
The state of affairs at Canea was critical. The Mahomedans were armed and encamped outside the town, and demanded the recall of Salieh Pasha, the Governor of Crete. Adosides Pasha had called a meeting of the leading Mussulmans and ordered them to compel their co-religionists to disperse, or they would be 500 treated as rebels. They had not yet obeyed the summons. Communication with the interior of the island was interrupted.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in reply, said, the latest intelligence the Government had received had come from Lord Salisbury, and was dated the 28th of June. Information had been received of a serious engagement at Apocorona, and in consequence of the serious misconduct of the Pasha representations were made to Sir Austen Layard, and the Pasha had been superseded. He understood that Lord Salisbury, on the same day, desired Sir Austen Layard to make strong representations of the strong feeling which Her Majesty's Government were aware existed upon the subject, and to urge on the Porte the strictest moderation and the repression of outrages.