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may not, perhaps, in such communications expect the
military feeling of which so much ignorance is shown in
this extract, but we may expect truth. The reasons for
intrusting the leading of the assault on the Redan on the
Bth of September to the 97th and 90th Regiments were ob-
vious, and it was my pride and pleasure to feel that a diffi.
cult, dangerous, and important service was so intrusted, by
a fair and honourable claim, to Major Welsford, leading a
part of your I egiment as the first storming party, and to
Colonel Handcock, commanding your regiment, following
on the same duty.
These your two field officers, and many of your regiment,
died fighting in and at the Redan. There scarcely requires
any other answer to the remark which I have above quoted.
—Yours sincerely,
W. J. CODRINGTON, LieuteGleneral.
WAR IN ASIA.

We have not Set received the official details of the
repulse of the Russians on the 29th of September,
but they have reached Paris. The following extracts
from private letters and correspondents give some of
the leading features of the events of that day. The
defence was conducted by the Hungarian General
Kmeti, under General Williams ; and Colonel Lake
and the other English officers greatly distinguished
themselves. The attack of the Russians was obsti•
nate and well sustained, but the defence was as
obstinate and more successfnl. The advance of
Omer Pacha was eagerly hoped for at Kars. A
telegraphic despatch from Trebizond on the Bth of
October states :

The Russians are supposed to be preparing to attack
Kars again.
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The correspondent of the Daily News, writing
from Erzeroum, states that an express had arrived
from Kars with letters of the 30th
The letters were written in the evening, and contained
the intelligence that on the morning of that day the
Russians invested Kara on all sides in full force. The
batteries at Kars opened a murderous fire on the besiegers.
Three times did the Russians gain a footing in the Turkish
retrenchments—and three times were they driven out by
the Turks at the point of the bayonet. Colonel Lake
distinguished himself in the contest, not only by his
courage, but by his skill. It was he who drove the enemy
from the Inglis Tabia. Eight hundred Russians were
slain before a redoubt defended by four hundred Turks.
The firing lasted seven hours and a half, when the Russians
took to flight. The Turks performed prodigies of valour,
and the European officers—Colonel Lake and Captains
Teesdale and Thompson—distinguished themselves. Mr.
Churchill, formerly attache of our embassy from Persia,
and now secretary to General Williams, commanded at
one of the redoubts, and showed himself a thorough
Englishman.--Sept. 30.

The loss of the Russians was estimated at 8,000
or 9,000 killed and wounded :

The enemy lost besides this a great quantity of stores ;
and about 300 prisoners were taken, amongst whom were
many officers. Four guns are said to have been taken.
The loss of the Turks is reckoned at about 750 killed
and wounded.

A private letter dated Kars, Oct. Ist, from one of
the English officers, gives the following laconic ver-
sion of the affair :

The fight was a most bloody one, and lasted seven
hours and a half, without one second's intermission.
The Russians left upwards of 2,000 men dead on the
fold ; and their loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners,
must have exceeded 6,000 men. What do you think of
us Kars chaps after that? I was not actively engaged, as
they knew better than to attack my almost impregnable
battery a second time; but I did great service with my
heavy guns, and twice drove them out of a battery they
had taken, and turned upon us. It was a nasty sight—the
field—afterwards. It was completely covered with dead
bodies, mostly Russians, as our men did not lose more
than five or six hundred altogether. The Turks fought,
not like lions, but like fiends. I ne►er saw such despe-
rate recklessness of life. You can form some idea of what
a desperate business it was, when I tell you that the Bus•
sinus had their whole force concentrated upon General
Kmeti's division, which, with the reinforcements he
afterwards received, did not amount to 8,000 men. The
reports have just come in, and there are more than
3,000 killed on the side of the enemy.

The Times correspondent at Batoum, Oct. oth,
draws a lamentable picture of the state of Omer
Pacba's army, hut the Sirdar was using every exer-
tion to put his force upon an efficient footing. The
arrival of the 18,000 men from Balaklava would
swell the number, this correspondent asserts, to
50,000 men, but it was extremely doubtful whether
Omer Pacha could attempt the relief of Kars.

From the camp in the Crimea we learn as
follows :

The Turkish troops are beginning to embark more
rapidly. Several Turkish vessels have been sent down to
Kamiesch to take them, and more than half of them have
already gone.

The officers who have come back from Asia say that
everybody is agreeably surprised by the readiness with
which the Circassians come forward with provisions at
very low prices. The Russians have fort►fied all the
passes leading up to Tiflis, as if they expected some
advance from the Turks. If an officer of Omer Paella's
staff is to be credited who arrived a few days ago, the
concentration of forces on that point had already the effect
to induce the Russians to retire from Kars, and that place
had been provisioned.--Tnnes Cor., Oct.l3th.