The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, MONDAY EVINING.
The important news which I sent you last week'
that General Combat had been charged with a
mission to Stockholm, is confirmed to-day by the
Moniteur, which simply announces hie departure,
without saying for what purpose. The ostensible
object of the journey is, however, to convey to King
Oscar the insignia of the Legion of Honour; but
no one can doubt for a moment that had this
been the only purpose of the mission, some less
important personage than the ex-Commander-in-
Chief of the army of the Crimea would have been
selected to fulfil it. There can be no doubt that
General Canrobert's instructions are to exercise a
certain amount of pressure upon the Court of Stock-
holm with reference to the war. According to the
Independanat Beige he is to demand winter quarters
for the Allied ships in the Swedish ports. Several
foreign journals speak of a diplomatic mission from
St. Petersburg to Stockholm, in order to counter-
balance the influence of General Canrobert.

If the following correspondence in the Conatster
tionnel can be relied upon, the campaign in the Crimea
is nearly at an end for this winter :
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writing on the 18th,

informs us that the Allied troops who had advanced
beyond the Setback, whore they were, it was said, to
take up a position, have received orders to return to
their former encampments on the Tchernaya, and in
the valley of Baidar. He adds that the bad state of the
roads, which will soon brooms perfectly impractiftble, es-
pecially for an army with artillery and a large ntatirisi, is
the sole cause of the adjournment of the plan which was
said to have been resolved, to pursue the Russian
army, and force it to accept a decisive battle.
It is believed, then, that nothing more will be
dons during the winter than to attack vigorously
the forts on the northern aide of fiebutopol, so as to destroy
them and expel the Russians. Preparations for that pur-
pose are accordingly being made, and the enemy is endea-
vouring to prevent them by inersasiog his fire more and
more every day against the town. This news is not calcu-
lated to satisfy the bops that had been entertained of an
early affair; but we must take into account the difficulties
of the ground, and if there has been wet weather in the
Crimea as is France, a modification of the plans of the cam-
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paign may have been necessary. After all, the General-in -
Chief confided to no one what be projected, and so what is
said now may be merely conjecture. What can be affirmed
is that our base of operations is a good one, and that the
Allied Generals have the advantage over their adversaries
of having no need to fear either for their communications or
for their supplies.

The following despatch was received to-day :
VIENNA, Ocr. 28.

General Prince Gortchakoff has received, through Genera)
Elmekelberg, fall powers from the Emperor either to defend
or abandon the Crises aceordieg to eireaustanost, without
Wog considered responsible for his determination.

The Bourse opened very well. There was a talk
of diplomatic attempts to renew negotiations for
peace, and the presence at Paris of the Ministers of
Bavaria and Saxony was looked upon ea significant
in this point of view. The telegraphic despatch
given above, announcing that Gortobakoff had re-
ceived full powers to evacuate the Crimea if he
thought it necessary, was regarded as a peaceful
symptom. The Rente, however, did not maintain a
rise of 10c. with which it opened, but closed weak at
Saturday's price, 641 r. 30c. Credit Mobilier fell
281 r. 75c.; Austrian railways, 15fr. French railways
were all lower.

The Minister at War has decided that in all dis-
tricts where the price of meat exceeds Hr. the kilo-
gramme, the difference shall be made up to the troops
from the war budget.
The King of Sardinia will, according to present
arrangements, arrive in Paris by the middle of next
mouth. In all probability he will be present on the
15th, at the closing of the Universal Exhibition. His
Majesty will be received at, the Tuileries, and not at
St. Cloud, it being apprehended that in his conva-
lescent state he would find the latter residence too
cold in November. There is a talk of a grand bunt-
ing party at Fontainebleau ; but this of course must
depend on the weather, the King of Sardinia's health,
and other circumstances.
I am told seriously, by a person who does not
readily lend:an ear to canards, that an interview
lately took place at one, of the northern towns of
France between the Emperor Napoleon, King Leo-
pold, and Lord Palmerston.
The day after the official fete to close the Universal
Exhibition there will take place a grand musical cere-
mony in the transept of the building. A concert of
1,250 musicians, conducted by M. Hector Berlioz,
will be given there. The following is a part of the
programme of this monster concert:—the chorus of
Handers "Judas Maccabeus;" the Overture of
" Freischutz," executed by 100 violins; the benedic-
tion of the daggers, from the " Huguenots," and also
the quatuor of the monks, sung by 80 ban voice..
M. Berlioz will produce on the ooession a Te Deum
of his own composition, as also a grand triumphal
march. There will be concerts in the Palais de
rlndustrie for ten succeeding days afterwards.
A letter from Constantinople, in the Monitory,
states that orders have been sent from that city to
Smyrna for the immediate execution of the two Greeks
who a short time since assassinated a sailor belonging
to the French brig Olivier.
Cardinal Wiseman was received yesterday by the
Emperor at St. Cloud.
Abd-el-Kader has arrived at Constantinople.
The works of the Pont d'Arcole are advancing
rapidly towards a conclusion. On Saturday tri-
eoloured flags were hoisted on the left and right of
the key-stone, with " A la Ville de Paris,lBss," in-
scribed on them in letters of gold. Foot passengers
can now pace over, and as the usual trials of strength
by means of an immense weight of sand and stone
have been successfully gone through, on Nov. 1 the
bridge will be opened for general traffic.
The body of•Villars, the actor of the Gymnase,
who has been for some days missing, has been found.
On Friday, as a boatman of Bas-Meudon was fishing
in the Seine, he perceived the body of a man in the
water Having got it out, he gave information of the
fact to the nearest commissary of police, who found
the features so swollen as to be scarcely dis-
tiogaishable. Oa the body were a blue frock
coat, black silk waistcoat, and grey trousers,
with varnished leather boots. The pockets
of the trousers were turned inside out, so that
at first suspicions were entertained of a crime having
been committed ; but u, after a most careful exami-
nation, the body presented no trace whatever of vio•
leave, that idea was given up. A white pockethand-
kerchief, marked with a " V.," was fouod in the
coat pocket, and that circumstance, joined to the fact
that the clothes answered exactly to the description
sent to all the police agents, led the commissary to
believe that the body was that of Vinare. On the
body being taken to the Morgue, it was there identi-
fied in the most positive manner. The belief amongst
the friends of the deceased is that his mind had be-
come affected, and that in that state he made away
with himself.

KARS AND ITS DEFENDERS,

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BRZEROI7II, Oct 9.
No news hie been received from Ran sines tit
date of the let inst. A rumour, however, is ennui
here in the city that the Russian general, attar tba
defeat on the 29th of September, had demagog
reinforcements from Alexandropol, with the immix
of making a second attack upon Kars.

In the absence of other news, I send you the boo,
lation of the despatch written by the Muchir of gm
Ito the council of war here :

u On the dawn of the 29th of September, the Ras.
sian army advanced in four columns on Kars. As
was ascertained that the movement was not, like the
last attack, a feint, General Williams and lege.
Peas, the general of the army of Arabistan, took su
possible precautions for receiving the enemy. As du
latter approached within range, our batteries opened
a fire upon them, which was answered on the ohm
side. The contest was carried on with spirit en be
sides. The enemy several times succeeded in fon*
an entrance into the city. Five times they gm*
to get possession of the Inglis Tabia, and spiked eQ
of the guns. After each success, however, they
were driven out at the point of the bayonet. Oa
moats were filled with Russian corpse,. At lag
the enemy, worn out by continual slaughter g
every point, took to flight, leaving four thowaad
two hundred dead before the walls, one gun, use,
&c., after a contest which had continued for men
hours."

Other letters from Kars tell us, that cm the mom
lug after the battle the Turkish soldiers picked 1p
more than four thousand Russian muskets, and Met
the inhabitants of liars collected three thousand
more. This proves that seven thousand Rangier"
were killed or wounded. The fire of the Turks OM.
sioned great slaughter in the rinks of the ellen
during their retreat. Altogether, there ma am*
be any exaggeration in eaying that the low d fig
enemy must have amounted to about sight or alas
thousand men put hors de combat. Thirty-tes bat.
talions of Russian infantry were engaged.
The Muchir adds, in hie letter, that his lam

amounted to about eight hundred killed andammisd,
Amongst these were two colonels, two makes, obi
several subalterns. Two colonels and a nuke 4(
inferior officers were wounded. Amongst the ho.

elan prisoners are two officers, both wounded.
Here we are preparing immense convoy, of p..
visions and ammunition, to be sent to Kurd*
orders for their transmission are received from eat
place. As the Russian cavalry did not 'atria tie
affair of the 29tb, it is enabled to enfcroe thebloads
of Kars. It would, therefore, be imprudent to
despatch provisions as long u the enemy ruin
there.

The Turkish army does not include any cavally,
and is therefore obliged to limit its operations to the
defence of the city.

We have no definite news with respect to Ow
Pacha in these parte. Letters from Trebicocd, olds
3rd instant, report that he had arrived in Chan*
and that be had lately received reinforcements boa
the Crimea to the amount of 6,000 men.

In my last letter I told you that the battle of Li
took place on the 30th of September. This vase
mistake, copied from letters sent from Bars. Ths
error in the date has since been rectified.

The English officers attached to the staff of Germol
Williams are working to complete the intended ford.
fioakions and to construct nr w ones. In a little ties
we shall be able to boast of being in a strongly bn
tified lace.

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Another courier from Kars arrived here yesteeday.
He brought I. tters from Titbit Pemba, the Commode`
in-Chief. He says that the Russians left 9475 sea
dead in the entrenchments. He reports also that
about six thousand killed and wounded merest:del
away on 2,400 care, and that the total lots of the
Russians is calculated at 20,000 men. About 12,000
Russian muskets were picked op on the field of battle
by the Turkish soldiers, and by the inhabitants el
Kars. These were sold in the city for fire pintas
(tenpence) each. The soldiers have ?roped s
great harseet of booty. Some have obtained it
watches, rings, money, &c., as much as 70,000 piegrai
One of the least fortunate made as mutt u 1,000
piaatresls spoils taken from the Russians. The oesy
in their Sight left on the field knapsacks with pea
visions for three days, cloaks, &c. Many of the
soldiers have as many as four of these coverings to
protect themselves from the cold. Amooga the
killed on the side of the Russians are 275 officered
all ranks. The damage done to the entrenchmesb
during the battle were repaired in the night follow:
ing, and the next morning every man was st
hie
pest read to repulse a second attack. Marfa
the Turkish officers of superior rank who dist"-
guished themselves were Kerim Bache and Colt
Puha. Colonel Zaccaria Bey, a Circamdas,
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severely wounded.
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We are in hopes daily of the arrival of a acacia free
General Williams, whose account will be to*
worthy.