Prince George's visit to Candia, reported in last Saturday's Times,
passed off without hitch or collision, though twenty thousand Christian peasants had flocked into a town already crowded with Mahommedan refugees. The Prince, who arrived from Suds Bay in H.M.S. Dido,' proceeded on foot to the Cathedral amid a scene of great enthusiasm, received the Mahommedan notables, held a reception at the house of Mustafa Bey, and attended service in the principal mosque. Afterwards, at the ddetiner given in his honour by Captain Shaw, Governor of the town, he proposed the Queen's health, and, addressing the people from the window, advised them to for- give and forget, and invited the Mahommedans to remain in the island. Prince George, who is described by those who know him as an amiable Hercules—he inherits the wonderful physical strength of the Romanoffs—appears to have made an excellent impression on the Mahommedans as well as the Christians, though the perfect order which prevailed is ascribed in great measure to the arrangements of the British authorities. The Times' correspondent gives a curious picture of the decoration of the town, in which "the long rows of ruined houses, beneath which in some cases the fire is still smouldering, are almost concealed by festoons and banners." We shall be glad when these somewhat deceptive semblances of rejoicing are replaced by more solid indications of peace and prosperity.
