The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-10 00:00:00

THE LATE TURIEISki REVERSE IN ASIA.

The following account of the most recent events at
the seat of war in Asia is taken from an extraordi-
nary supplement to the Invalids Russo:

Aide•de-Camp General Mouravieff, commaader.in-chief
of the corps et the Oeeeeeee, eeuunucee carer date of the
4th (16th) Sept., f►om the camp at Tchaotlik-Tohai, that
the festival of his Majesty the Emperor bad been signalised
by a happy affair of cavalry, in which oar Cossacks, oar
militia, and our dragoons, commanded by Lieut. General
Kovalenky, had completely beaten a detachment of
1,600 regular cavalry, s►out 1,000 Bashi-Snooks,
and some hundreds of dismounted troopers, with four
mountain guns. Ali Pasha, who commanded this detach
meat, a brave old general, who has takes part is most of
the recent wars of Turkey, was made prisoner. Moreover,
we raptured one offline and 46 men, a flag, two standards,
the four guns previously mentioned, 68 caissons with pow
der, and 66 caissons with cartridges. The whole camp, with
an extensive booty, remained in our hands.
The following are the details of this combat:
"General Moaravieff having learnt that great supplies of
provisions were being collected at Olti and at Peniaki, and
finding that Turkish troops were come to Peniaki and
Paujroat, with the design of penetrating to Kars by way of
Amnia's, despatched in the night of Aug. 28.9 (9th and
10th of Sept.), a detachment of infantry and cavalry, with
20 pewee of light artillery, sod eight rocket.staods,l
under the command of Lient..General Kuvalenky, who bad
orders to beat the enemy assembled in the neighbourhood
of Peniaki, sod to open the rowels which lead thence to
Kars by Paujrout and the Santini' of Gel.
" After s forced march of 70 vents, our cavalry came up
with the enemy's detachment, which was commanded by
three Pashas, near the village of Peniski. The Turkish
disinosabad horsemen occupied the tides of the neighbour
iag mountains ; the basbi-baseeks were placed on a rising
ground in advance of the village, having the cavalry and
artillery in their rear.

" Oa the 30th of August (Sept. U) towards six o'eloek
in the evening, commenced an obstinate struggle, in which
our troopp, notwithstanding a wtll•sustaiaed fire of canister
shot and musketry, drove the enemy from thp village, and
captured one gnu. Seize I with a pion fright, the Turks
took to light, is spite of all the efforts of Ali Paeha to
resew the combat. The Panha himself, surrounded by cur
Comas, defended himself heroically ; but he was winded
and made prisoner by the officer (yesnonl) Serdukoff.
"After having crushed the last resistance, the Cossacks
engaged in the pursuit of the fugitives by the routes of
Oki sad Hoeft, and an stopping to make prisoners, took
care to deprive the Turks of all possibility of reading
This rapid pursuit extended along the two routes for a die
lance of not Ins than 15 vents, sandlot us en opportunity
of carrying dr all the seamy's cannon, the last of which
was taken nose than nine vents from the Turkish camp.
"Our loss consists of two Cossacks and six militiamen
Invalided.

BERLIN, Mom)Ay.
The elections for the Chamber of Deputise took
place today at Berlin.
Count de Schwerin, the former President of the
Second Chamber, has been elected in three places ;
and M. Patow, Councillor of Legation, in two.
There has also been elected :—M. Ramos, Direc-
tor-General of Customs; , M. de Prittwitz, Major.
General; M. Mathias, Superior Councillor of Re-
gency; and M. Fleck, Councillor-General.

'l'lll POPULATIOX OF THE CIUMEA.-A letter from
Thereof* la the Movedirser es‘•:—" 1s the present state of
thiags, some sheet isf..nwatios es to the y 6911.016 of the
Crimes may not be wittiest jetsam to your readers, mad
seed yew the %nowise, whit* has remelted me from ea
esthete& souse. The total number of male inhabituts
I. the peninula may be divided se fellows : 166,000 Tanen.,
of wheat 90,000 are permits, farmers, or shepherds; 16,000
Imam and Kellam, whir at the um* time u priests or
isages ; ipso Mynas., Nide% • kind of feudal lord.,
whose hillemee and pileups hue Dot without peat die.
salty teeleleg hedge demhation, Red 60,000 bourgeois and
petty teedamasa melee, In the *owes. The Christian
dam sot ameast to more then 22,000 or 23,00 b.
Mt rin ser* of enreprma origin. The number et Res
tea troika. who have establblied themeless
etilt=slaaa the amaaest. are au ululated at more
Iles MK Mikity, tad male perionlarly Coutamiatiple,
hem Ifamilhall a aeadagent of 10,000 Greeks, who sets.
.billed tbmieshea he the most pert at lialsklavp rad
100Asoesaines, at the wheat, hileeted this rt.
'Mehl sad 6, 1.1000 Peke, Gemara, sed Pruett. husks a
Me Mali. part el the peptides, eolopiele this emeas."

OCTOBER 10, 1

'he Nowitnir of yesterday contains a Brash dal
limed by his Excellency the President of the
Bente. at the Agricultural Fête of Carmelites
(Ewe). We quote the concluding portion of the
edam':

ar country, gentlemen, is destined to rim very high 1
sack the raga of the Emperor. Let as aid this stational
reig by might', within oar sphere, the level of all armed
se. Prase* has already reamed in the epee of Europe the
title of " groat adios," bestowed oat it by Napoleon 1.
Timeliness of the No•th, whom the supersttion of an
agree policy declared to be lavalsersble, has bees
scatted by the lightaiag from the Books of our
batilioss, and the Imperial Bogle hovers over the
oagegnable Sebastopol—that proud femme, which was
prairie; the downfall of Constantinople. and vomiting its
inendiary fleets over the Black Sea. Let us be proud of
thee magaideent successes : they are these of a great
Fork, a great govenment, sad a great period. The re.

esublishment of the empire las cot merely given to an
Repent, it has restored us, with him nod by him, the
ehry, the power, the respect, and admiration of the world.
Time words, gentlemen, are not a digression foreign to our
+ulieet. The national honour is one of the most fervent
latches of faith for the people of the fields, and we are
slow welcome when we talk of it to these good folks,
whose hearts, thoroughly French, have ever preserved. as
in sgi wing houth, the membranes of oar heroic con-
tests, the worship of the Emperor, and the nnaffmtedly
guano santlmont of patriotism.

1 The letter of our Paris correspondent, dated yes-
terday evening, had not arrived when we went to

THE WAR IN ASIA.

tram ova ow*

E2ZEROUM, Sees. it.
We have received letters from Kers of the Ist and
3rd instant, which confirm our preceding deepatchee.
They add that the Russian cavalry patrol the whole
country, and watch with the greatest attention all
the roads by which Kars is approached. Corn is
exceedingly scarce here, and detachments are con-
tinually being sent out for the purpose of procuring
I.dder. The Russians oppose to these detachments
bodies of infantry, and sometimes of cavalry. The
miserable condition of the horse', both of the cavalry
and artillery, was such that the Machir determined
to send them from Kai. More then three thousand,
with a thousand riders, left the city on their road to
Olti. The Russians received intelligence of this, and
tell upon the troop near Chiakmak, between two and
three leagues from Karp, on the night of the 6th inst.
They put the Turks to flight, 200 of the latter being
left on the field of battle. he remnant fled in various
directions. A few hundred men and horses arrived
in Olti. Of the remainder we have received no
account. _ _

To show the miserable condition of the cavalry
of Kan, it will be sufficient to state that of tour re-
giments of this arm of the service, forming a portion
of the corps from Arabistan, only four squadrons can
be got together. These, united with the model
squadron, form our whole force of cavalry. The
infantry and artillety are no better off. They are ill
clothed, not paid, miserably fed, and shoeless. For-
ronately foe them, General Williams and the rest of
the European officers sustain by their example the
courage of the troops.
It is clear, then, that, wanting cavalry, the fore.
at Kars is neither in a condition to retreat nor to
give battle. Obliged to shut itself up within forti-
fications, a force of 10,000 Russians is sufficient to
keep the garrison in check. Such a blockade will
take place if General Mouravieff is obliged to send
reinforcements to the army called together to oppose
Omer Pacha. Kars, however, under these circum-
stances, would be enabled to receive provisions, and
would hold its own until the retreat of the Russians
should open the road to Ersarount.
It is satisfactory that in Kars the sanitary condi-
tion of the people remains good. There are not 300
invalids in the hospital. Chalet's has, however, been
prevalent in the province: it is on the point of
vanishing here. In the military hospitals about two
deaths per diem happen from this cause, and in the
City Gnm three to fi te.
An adjutant from the Seraskier arrived here yes-
terday from Constantinople, with orders to pay the
Bashi-Bunks at the rate of 60 piastres per month
per man. The difficulty will be to find them, u
many of them have deserted, and they have been
decimated by cholera.
There is no doubt that the arrival of Omer Pacha
with his army will give the Russians some uneati•
nese ; but it Es a question whether he will be able to
save Kars.

The Animism have retreated from Melseghirt and
Bultinmek tolled Klisia and Deli Baba. One battalion
took shelter in Erivan. Yesterday we heard that
some squadrons of Cossacks had been seen on the
road to Hinis, situated about twenty hour.' distance
from here. Their intention must have been to inter-
cept convoy...
Cholera still rages amongst the troops at Olti and
Hassan Hsieh. _ _ _

The adjutant mentioned above brought money to
the amount of fourteen thousand purses for toe army.
With this remittance the military cheat contains
about fifty thousand pumas.