The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-27 00:00:00

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CONSTANTINOPLI, Dec. Is.
The telegraph will hare long since annoeneed the
fall of Kars on the 24th ult. The first intelligence

of this sad event reached as a oeuple of days ago, pm
Phebe steamer, but was not confirmed officially tin
yesterday, on the arrival of the Trehisond mail. The
garrison, it appears, worn out with fatigue, wick
heart-rending saiferinp and privations, during sm.
ral months, was at last reduced by a famine, to utter
exhaustion, and all are now, it is apprehended, rank
and file, prisoners of war.
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The dispatches from Peneronm, as well es a variety
of other accounts, depict the horrors and deaolatice
of the belesgusred city—nay, it is further stated, OR
the beat authority, that such was the extremity d
woe and misery to which the inhabited@
and soldiery were at lest reduced, that the most die.
gusting articles of every description, which might
sum for sustenance, were eagerly @eight after and
bought up et a fabulous price. A medical man and
seantryman, for instance, it has been stated to me,
paid cheerfully fora oat, the enormous sum of 21.
The rations of the troops amounted daily per man to
one hundred drachms, comprising a little handset,
aid other horrors, with a handful of flour, whereof a
portion was baked into a miss, and the rest diluted
with a little water served ea soup.
This lamentable tale, as may be well imagined, bee
plunged our city into the deepest mourning and . :
&Simko ; inasmuch as all might have been avertek
and things taken a far different turn—nay, even the .
Caucasus and the whole of the Georgian peovtmle•
have been long since is the possession of the Allis%
had it not been for the fatal sad really in-
conceivable improvidence of thaw entrusted
with the conduct of the war. Over and
over again, in almost every communisation fres
the very outset of the contest, your Braman
correspondent, and all those in a position to estimate
the red exigencies of the situation, have never
ceased to point out the necessity of sending a maths-
gent of the allied armies to co-operate with the Sul-
tan's forces in the campaign of Anatolia; but all to
no purpose. These prudent ank ',modest suggestion -
founded on local knowledge and obeervauon, met
with not the smallest attention from the Allied
Governments, and, strange to say, with little or none
from the leading organs of public opinion, which, to
do them justice, have on all other minions battled
bravely in this great cause, and combatted success.
fully the vacillating policy or misdirection of our
rulers.
The fate of Bars, and of its heroic defender;, will
no doubt create a great sensation, and awaken at
length, perhaps, those whom it concerns, to the dal•
lots necessity of immediate action, with a view to
the defence of the finest and most fertile provinces of
the Ottoman empire. Whether or not all will be
too late, as in the memorable catastrophe of Snap,
lamat a loss to determine. The season of medfiitz
operations may be perhaps gone by as i
our armies, but not so, depend upon it, with
the Muscovite hordes, whose victorious banners now
float on Kan, and will,ers long, on &mom Than
is nothing to arrest their course. It is impossible to
calculate the results, and unless some energetic
measures be taken without delay, the probability is,
that the whole of Asia Minor will be, ere long, oae
scene of ravage and devastation; despite the obstacles
end severity of the approaching season.
In addition to the CAMP above noticed, which
necessitated mainly the surrender of Kars, I have
heard from usually well-informed sources, that
much blame attaches to the conduct of Muohir Salim
Pasha, commander-in-chief of the Sultan's fence at
Brseroum. Without myself vouching for the accu-
racy of these reports, I merely consider it a duty to
mention that this General is accused of apathy,
indolenoe, and still worse, on that trying emer-
gency, and if these statements be well-founded
he will meet, no doubt, with a due reward at the
hands of his government. The Machir had at hie
disposal from 8,000 to 10,000 well disciplined troops
of the line, and more them halt that number of Bashi-
Basouks, besides 1,000 horses and 40 pieces of no&
lent artillery. There were also tour most efficient
British offioers, ready to serve and assist him,
and the only obstacle intervening between
the luck less city of Ban, and the imposing
forces of the Muchir, consisted in a body of from
8,000 to 4,000 Russians, encamped in the vici-
nity of Delli-Babe. And still it is stated—l cat.
not say whether truly or not--that in answer to the
continual prayers and entreaties for succour from the
heroic garrison and starving population of the doomed
fortress, the Pacha's replies were invariably duly.—
that, he instance," he was preparing toadvanoe,” "wait-
ag reinforcements from Constantinople," " appro.
ihensive of the Russians attacking Erzeroum,"whs?SN,
lat the time, they nere advancing right on Bans
finally, that "he thought of taking the route d
Olti, and inch like " Verbs et Tome; amonsting, is
substance, to an unwillingness throughout to move
hand or foot, to extricate the unfortunate town from
impending ruin.
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