The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

THE EXPREIP, FRIDAY EVV,7INO, OCTOBER 26 1R55.

• LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

MOVEMENTS OF THE ALLIES.

RUSSIAN DESPATCH.
(117 IMMO TILIGHAPIL.)

ST. PETERSBURG, THURSDAY.

On the 22nd about 40,000 of the allied forces
advanced from Eapatoria to Tulat.• The next day
they reached the heights at Bchagadiauin, but
retreated beyond Andatotschi on perceiving our
(Russian) Lancers on their left flack.

• A plies of this name omen on the map halt•wsp on
the high road between liapatoris and eimpheropol.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS
AT KARS.

(TROY WIZ OWN

ERZER,OIIII, Oct. 5.

Yesterday evening there arrived here an exprers
with ktters of the 30th of September from Ears.
The letters were written in the evening, and contained
the intelligenoe that on the morning of that day
the Russians invested Kars on all sides in full force.
The batteries at Kars opened a murderous fire oe 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 hie
skill. It was he who drove the enemy from the
Inglis Table. 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 distioguishcd
themselves. Mr. Churchill, formerly altacki of our
embassy from Persia, and now secretary to General
Williams, commanded at one of the redoubts, and
showed himself a thorough Englishman. A postscript
of a letter of the lit instant adds, that the
loss of the Russians is estimated at about
eight or nine thousand killed or wounded.
About four thousand corpses lie under the walls of
Lars. The Turks are busied now in burying them.
The enemy lost besides this a great quantity of
stores i and about 300 prisoners were taken, amongst
whom were many oMoers. Four guns are said to
have been taken. The loss of the Turks is reckoned
at about 730 killed and wounded.

This great battle, which had so fortunate a termi-
ition—thanka to the skill of the commander, Grue-
-1 Williams—shows clearly enough that the Turkish

soldier, when well led, is not only brave, but able to
distinguish himself like the soldier of any other
nation. At the same time it must con-
TWOS Europe in general, and the Turkish
government in particular, that the latter has
no good native officers, shine, from the eommence-
mint of hostilities in Asia until the present moment,
this is the only victory the Turks have gained, and
this is owing to General Williams. When the Turks
were ander native commanders they experienced
nothing but defeats.

I hope that by Tuesday we shall have other de-
spatches from Kars. I will forward them without
delay when they arrive.
This evening I saw a letter written by a Bey of
Livens (Turkish Georgia). He says that Omer Puba
having concentrated his troops in Churuksti, had
marched on Ursughet, and that he had made himself
master of the place without much difficulty. He re-
ceived there a deputation from the Georgian nobility,
who made their submission to the Porte in
the name of the inhabitants of the district.
According to this letter Omer Pacha was marching
towards Akeltsick, for the purpose of making a di-
version in favour of Ears, and of ultimately coming to
the assistance of that city. This last news tallies
with that contained in letters received the day before
yesterday, which say that Omer Pacha has communi-
cated with the Muhl: in Kars, telling him to main-
tain his position for twenty days, at the expiration of
which he would be at Bars with hie army. He must
be near there by this time; and it would be most
fortunate if he should arrive in time to cut off the
retreat of General Mourayieft; and be able to invest
Alexandropol.
P.B. Not one of the European officers at Kars was
killed or wounded.

(MIZE MN AN =OLIN' OPTICZI INCIAOND IN TEN

sarns )

KARS, OCT. 1.

Here las on the Karadagh agaio, none the
worse for my late illness. Last night the Russians
attacked as in force, and (between you and me and the
poet) very nearly took Kan. The fight was a most
bloody one, and lasted seven hours and a half, with-
out ono *soma's intermission. The Russians left
upwards of 2,000 men dead on the field; and their
loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners must have ex-
seeded 8,000 men. What do you think of us Kars
chaps after that ? I was not actively urged, u
they knew better than to attack my almost impreg-
nabis 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 epos as. It was

a nasty sight—the field—afterwards. It was com-
pletely fevered with dead bodies, mostly Russian, as
our men did not lose mare than an or six hundred
altogether. The defence was commanded by dear old
General Rmeti; and when our general thanked him
in the name of Queen Victoria, for his gallant re-
putes of the enemy, I thought the brave old boy
would have bunt his heart open—he was so proud.
The Turks fought—not like HODS, bat like fiends. I
saw such desperate recklessness of life. You
can form some idea of what a desperate business it was,
when I tell you that the Russians had their whole
force concentrated upon General Lustre division,
which, with the reinforcements he afterwards re-

oeived, did not amount to 8,000 men. The reports
have just come in, and there are more than 3,000
killed on the aide of the enemy.

Oar Paris correspondent's letter had not arrived at
the hoar for going to preme, a fact easily amounted
for by the state of the weather, referred to else-
where.

A NEW FISHERIES COEPANY.—A prospectus his
been issued of a eoestmey. to be called " The British and,
Groat Grimsby Fisberies Coespsay." to be establisbed seder
the Limited Liabilities Act is tbe:iirt lasteses, bet after-
wards to be governed seder a &mil Chatter, Of ►y a win!
act of wilsetset. The amount of the capital is to be
200,0001., divided Leto shares of 10i. eaeb, EL per share to
be payable epos alletoseet.
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Upwards of 20,000 bullocks' shark hobos aro
Imported aloataiy hoe llostheetptort from Reath Asiestee.
TM bees of ma rieked out for cotton' purees, tad
the net an mead mouro.
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It is semapated that about 2,000 invalids frees the
crimes base already weed %halvah Detain, sad been ea.
Audaissd there at the 'arenas et lord caws mine
ituallearee arrival La that nutty as Leni-Lisatsesas.

THE RUSSIANS IN THE CRIMEA.
Oar, .21.

Bektchi-Sergi is a Tartar town, and it; a military
point of view not a tenable position. This is, how- '
ever, not the cue with Simphesopol, which is quite
Raglan, and well fortified. A gentleman who has
just returned from the Crimea states that even if the
Allies were to take the latter town the Rassians
would not necessarily be obliged to evacuate the
Crimes, but that they must first be beaten and forced
to retreat behind the line of the river Selghir. Pere-
kop has no running streams, and obtains its water
from wells, which he describes as very deep. All
about the north of the Crimea there is a great scarcity
of good water. Perekop, if attacked, must soon fall,
as the garrison is far from numerous, and they must
sot expect any relief, as the army coming to their
assistance could not supply itself with water. It is true
that the Allies would also find difficulty in obtaining
this necessary beverage, bat in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the town there Sr. welts. Should the seat
of war be extended at a later period to the interior of
Russia, the operations from the Crimea mold not be
made in the direction of Nicolaieff, on account of the
vast extent of the intervening steppes ; but the base
of the operations most be formed by the river Dniester.
On the other hand, the distance from the frontiers of
Moldavia to the fortress of Kaminiie is only two days'
march through the steppes. However, the object of
the Allies is confined at present to the conquest of
the Crimea.