Turks Bombarding Insurgents

Canea, Island of Crete, March 26. - At 8 o'ulock last evening the insurgents succeeded in blowing up the blockhouse at Malaxa with dynamite. The whole structure was soon in ñames, and the Turkish warships commenced bombarding the insurgents. The fleet fired ninety shells upon the insurgents, and some of these feil inside the blockhou&e. Of the Turkish garrifon, numbering sixty-four, one escaped to Nerokhuri and eighteen others to Suda. It is believed that the others perished. Constantinople, March 27. - It was asperted here last night on what is regarded as reliable authority that in consequence of the refusal of Lord Salisbury to join in a blockade of Greek ports Germany has given notice to the powers of her intention to withdraw from the concert. Athens. March 27. - The bombardment of Malaxa has produced a painful impression here. The newspapers are filled with indignant protests. The Cretan delegates in Athens have published a pamphlet in English protesting against autonomy and declaring that they prefer the Ottoman yoke, Just as they did after the failure of the insurrection in 1866. The pamphlet closes with the declaration: "The Cretans will die if necessary for the sake of the cause of unión with Greece." Athens, March 29. - The ministers of the powers held a conference yesterday ana it is stated arew up the terms of a collective note to the Greek government reuesting that the Greek troops be reealled from the frontier. It is understood that a similar note will be presented to the porte and that if either power refuses its principal ports will be blockaded. When the Crown Prinee Constantin left Athens Saturday he was given a tremendous ovation by the populace. The dominant cry was "Union and War." Admiral Canevaro, eommander of the international fleet jn Cretan waters, is stated to assert that eonditions in the interior of the island are so terrible, as the result oí famine and hardship, that even the lepersq are leaving the lazar house; the inhabitants are panic stricken, and the dead lie by the roadside unburied.