The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-20 00:00:00

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TEUISDAT.

Accounts from Asia give some details of the last
days of the resistance of Sam On the 14th Nevem- i
bee General Mouravieff summoned the garrison
to surrender. On the 16th a council of war
of the offsets of the garrison was held, at
which General Williams presided. After this council
a Sag of truce was sent to the Russian General
to demand a suspension of hostilities for ten
days, and permission to lend a courier to Erse-
roam. General Mouravieff offered an honour-
able capitulation. An English dicer, Colonel
Thompson, left for Erseroum, and found the
Randall* within three leagues of that place.
selim Pasha, at the head of the troops ordered to
relieve San, had not quitted his positions.
Col. Thompson left &zero= again on the 19th,
and returned to Kan on the 22nd. General Wil-
' llama demanded an interview of General Monravieff
' Tor the 24th.

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The men of the garrison were completely worn out
by famine; the flesh of the horses had been reserved
for the sick in the hospitals.

FRANCE FOR PEACE.

The Conseihstiootnal, of yesterday, pronounces itsell
la favour of a pesos. and considers that the task of
the Allies has been accomplished. Oar oontcmporary
masa thus :
All that the Restos war could give to Frame
either in moral or political results, is strength, SW
sidewalks% so lamas, is the mosacile of Europa, it km
greeted. Why, therefor*, U the preehe Ma for width
She war wee .ommeaesd has been sesompliebeili
should not France agree to • puce on the
lilies. peopeeed sime the secamencomest of MM.
Mist by the Allied IPowen, provided such be
the wish of Russia. Frame could , not desire the
matimatios of the war unless is the view of pawing be.
Feed the aim stipulated la the treaty of the 10th Apia,
Mtge it would elegem a question of dismembering the Rue-
elm empire. The latter act could ghee be done at she
molt of some toe Power. Would not Frame in that
wee maim • sompasestim for the advantages whisk
meld imam to oar Bump's& state. Would it set
bejastilied is emoUag that compeasatioa ? But la that
.use it would no inapt soesem the if war with its
special aim, as the treaty of the 10th of April with its par-
Maier charaster ; ft would be =this( lees thee the re-
emetnietion of the map of Europe, and a 'within of the
trestles of 1815. Certainly, if it could eater Into the
theaghts and policy of Eat/lead to propose tolraass a similar
measure, and it meld be head agetvenieut mil proper to
France to entertain the proposal, the 'estimation of the
war with that aim la view might appear desirable
to many; and it mast be admitted that a
melba of that astute, aotwithetending the sacri-
lege it would demand, would be popular. Bat
tbs Eastern war ha. not celled that question tato ezieteme;
it is amiss the aim with which Englsed and France armed
themselves &plait Russia; and, so long se it is aot content-
plated to depart from the limits of the treaty of the 10th of
April, there can be no reasonable motive to desire the cos-
Situation of the war.

FRANCE.

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PARIS, Wlwxsea►t ETRIMIG.
At the Bourse, although the disposition to operate
for the rise was checked by a fall of per
east. in Consols, the Rent* rose 10c., °law
lug at 65fr. ; Credit Mobilise rose 60fr.,
which g►eat improvement was in pert occasioned by
the intelligence (contradicting a telegraphic despatch
of a few days since) that the Spanish Government
had acceded to the establishment of a branch of
the Society in Madrid. It was also reported that
3,000 miles of Spanish railways had been conceded to
the company. The Geneva railway rose 43fr. 750.,
it being understood that the negotiations of this com-
pany with the Lyons and Mediterranean were on the
point of a favourable °occlusion. Lyons and Medi-
terranean retie 16fr. All the railways were higher.
Several rose as much as 6fr.