Which is made clearer by the extract from the despatch of the English _chargé_ to Lord Stanley: (Extract.) _Mr. Barron to Lord Stanley (Received August 6)._ CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23, 1867. "The French _chargé d'affaires_ has called to inform me that, having received instructions from his Government to despatch vessels to Crete for the purpose of removing homeless victims of the war, whenever it should be advisable, he deemed the last advices from the French consul at Canéa (enclosed herewith in copy) to be such as to oblige him to use the discretionary power placed in his hands. On the receipt of this despatch he immediately concerted measures with the Russian Ambassador, who was provided in advance with corresponding instructions, and they both sent late on the 26th identical instructions by telegraph to their respective naval officers in the Mediterranean." The number of relieving ships sent to Crete in obedience to this accord was four French, three Russian, followed by two Italian; and, lest isolation should seem intervention, three Austrian, not over well-willed, and one small Prussian gunboat, that the now great Power might not be left out of the new question. This movement had, in my opinion, no direct effect on the military question, the Sphakian expedition having already done its worst, and begun to recoil, before the arrival of Admiral Simon with his ships; but it did, no doubt, prevent the success of the conciliatory movement which followed. The Generalissimo, after his return to Canéa, about the middle of September, issued a proclamation prepared at Constantinople, offering a general amnesty and an armistice of six weeks, preparatory to measures of a softer and more persuasive character. The Turkish officials, in their intercourse with the consuls, frankly admitted that force had failed, and that no hope of its more successful appliance remained. The depleted army could only with great difficulty, and slowly, be refilled. Reinforcements were obtained, but not enough to keep the cadres at their full condition, and a despatch of the English consul at Beyrout[K] attests the dread of this service which had infected the troops in other sections of the Ottoman empire, while battalions in Crete mutinied and refused to labor any longer. [K] _Acting Consul-General Rogers to Lord Stanley (Received November 27)._ BEYROUT, November 14, 1867. MY LORD: I have the honor to report to your lordship that yesterday the Turkish steam-frigate _Peikizaafar_, 72 guns, commanded by Captain Selim Bey, having embarked nearly 2,000 soldiers at this port, started direct for the island of Candia. Of the soldiers intended to be sent on this mission, I am assured that about ninety deserted, and most of them were kept in close confinement till they were sent on board, and they openly expressed their grief at being sent on this expedition. They are in considerable arrears of pay.--I have, etc.,