The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-03 00:00:00

OMER PACHA IN ASIA.

(Fronk the Atowitein.)
TREBIZOND, SEPT. 13.
Omer Pacha, after stopping two days at Pistons
(distant about a league from Trebizond), where stress
of weather compelled him to put in, arrived in our
roads on the 10th. The generalissimo landed an
hour after the arrival of the Ottoman steamer, the
Chepper, which brought him, and, accompanied by the
Count de Meffray, hie aide-de-camp, repaired to the
governor's palace, where he received the visits of the
Turkish authorities cad the consuls. The next
morning he left, after returning the visits of the
consular body.
According to the information I have been able to
procure, Omer Pacha's troops will have collected at
Batoum in ten or twelve days' time ; we venture to
hope they will arrive in time to save Kars.
According to the latest news of the Bth from
Erzeroutn, letters of the 2nd from Kan confidently
stated that the garrison defending that place had
still some provisions left. Now, a scarcity of supplies
would alone be sufficieot to bring about a catastrophe.
Bat there is one peculiarity in the climate that may
at any moment compel the Russians to retire from
Kars; it is the possibility of a heavy fall of snow at
the environs of the &drew
The latest letters from Erzeroutn, dated the sth
inst., inform us that Hstiz Pacha is using ever
effort to once more collect some hands of basin-
bezouks. The cholera had almost entirely left the
town.

(PROW •

BRZEROUM, Barr. 4.
We have received letters from Kars of the 24th
and 25th of August. They give us nothing of interest
except the news of the continuation of the blockade,
and the thorough devastation of the surrounding dis-
trict by the Russians. Yesterday we reoeived. a
letter from Kars. Our friend, while denying the
possibility of a catastrophe, still makes some admis-
sions which are not pleasant The provisions of the
army of defence could last no longer than the 15th
of the present month. If up to this date no rein-
forcements and supplies could be obtained, the town
would be obliged to surrender and submit to the
conditions imposed by General Mouravieff.
Such a catastrophe would have terrible conse-
quences. The army in Kars, kept together until
now by the influence and savoir fair. of General
Williams, when once compelled to *offender, would
crumble into atoms. Each soldier would take the
road to his own country. The Turkish Government,
thus deprived of a nucleus for recruiting, would be
obliged to go through all the difficulties of getting
together and equipping a new army. Still worse
would be the lose of the magnificent artillery which
the Turks possess in Kars.
We have here a report that 30,000 Russians at-
tacked Kars in two divisions—on one side with four
battalions, six guns, and a division of irregular
cavalry, and on the other side with the great mejc•
rity of the force. The bashi-basouks and the regulars
attacked this force, of which 300 were killed—the
rest retreated. Thie report, although vouched for by
the authority of General Tahir Pachs, requires con-
firmation. We entertain doubts on the subject, in-
asmuch as the arrival of any person from Kan is sure
to be the signal of news spread abroad by the Dacha,
and this is certain to be contradicted by subsequent
letters. _ _

Last week a regiment of regular cavalry and some
thousands of the Kurdish irregulars set out from
Deve %you to Olti, where convoys are organised to
take provisions to Kars. Two other regiments of
cavalry set out from Deve Bojem to Molten Suliman,
on the road from Bayszid. Vely Pacha, with the
artillery and infantry, remains at Dave Boylan.
The bashi•bezoults node? Hags Pacha have de-
serted with the exception of four hundred which re-
main here with their bey. In the coarse of their
march towards Laristan they did not spare the
Turkish villages. They plundered them of every-
thing which was worth taking away. The calcula-
tion of their value most be summed up from the fol-
lowing items. Firstly, they put the country in deadly
fear by their habits of plunder ; secondly, they gene-
rated the cholera amongst themselves, and left it as
an heritage to the town ; and lastly, they have con-
summated their iniquity by their desertion.
Hafts Pacha remains here covered with disgrace
and shame, not daring to write to hie government an
account of his unlucky expedition. Judging from
the information that I barstools ived as to the manner
in which he levied his troops, I am not at all
astonished at the result.
Immediately after the receipt of the order to
organise an army, Halls Puha sent to all the Deri
Bays in Trebisond. These men bad been despoiled of
all their ill-acquired property by the tanzimat. He
nominated each one of these to the government of a
district, making it a condition that they should fur-
nish him with a man from every family in their dis-
trict. The boys thus suddenly placed in power made
use of it to enrich themselves, by taking bribes from
the rich to escape the conscription.
A conspiracy has been discovered in Kars, the object
of which was to fire the powder magazines. During
the explosion the Itaiskaa were to make the assault.