The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-07 00:00:00

GENERAL WILLIAMS AND OMBR PACHA.

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A letter from Lteit..Colonel Simmons (who acted
ea her Majesty's Commissioner with Omer Pasha) cont-
umelies upon a paragraph from the pen of Gemmel Wil-
liams eriatainsd I. Colonel Lake's tire of the siege of
Kars, hae laduccd the commander of Woolwich to plaits es
record his complaint agaiest Omer Pasha in regard to the
operations fa Asia Mica,. Sir W. Williams wastes:
" Oa the arrival of Omer Pasha to take command of the
array which was intended to relieve Kam, he wrote to the
Mailer Vault Paoha, by the hands of an aide-de-camp,
telling him that ' if we stood firm for twenty days he would
relieve us.' At that moment I was not aware that Lien-
tossat•Coloael Simmons was with the bead-quarters of the
Generalissimo; but had I supposed him to bit Store I
should naturally have hoped for at least a Use from my
brother sommissiormr, more especially as he was an officer of
the sister goer of Bsgiumrs, brought up at the same milt
tary college, end could sot be ignorant of my position,
although I was, from the imitate of things, utterly gain-
fotatad of Ms._ .

It cad sully be lessened that we waited ausieuly and
worked hard during those twenty days, i. expectation of
the enamor which Omer Puha knew while promising that
he could or would rot render. tielim Paths played the
same pus from Trebisoud, telling us that he ►ad as army
esfeweat to relieve us, and that his man wets burning for
t►e advance. We therefore held on to the hopes isepired
by t►rse two, le, mall famine had reduced the strength
of our devoted little Turks, and rendered impossible all
shames of earthing and cutting their way over the mum-
mies; dud I will venters to say that u long as a moldier of
that genius survives t►e names of those two men will be
mersted. _ . _ _ _ .

_"ln speaking of Omer Paths with reaped to Tolley.
Lieutenant-Colonel Simmoos rail it ' his adopted toiletry.'
I will give some idea of his patriotic sympathy by informing
the reader that, in answer to my despatch to the Gene•
ralissimo, of bating his Excellency. as the sekaow-
lodged bead of the Sultan's force, on the glorious victory
of the 19th of Si ptember, I received a ropy, simply and
without 03111131,114 acknowledging the reesipt of my com-
munication, thus exhibiting to the Reliant and enduring
rodeos of Kars, the deep interest felt for them by their
Generalissimo. On this great occasion, too, I should have
hoped for aline from my brother commies', ner. He knows
whether or not he was by the side of Omer Packs when
the Geseraliseimo rreeived this welcome news. lem alto•

'ether ignorant oa that point.
It is not worth while dimming with Lieut. Colonel
Simmons how far Omer Nth' cuald hare penetrated to-
wards Kars from Barnm, but I will trp•em a clear opinion
that the moment he ceased to operate, as, in my bumble
opinion, a brave and resolute man' should have dose—
that is, towards Kars and the Centre of Georgia—our fate
was sealed; and the instant that 0 1 Mourevieff heard
be had &lowa the remote port of Sachem Hsieh, the Rin-
glet pineal felt himself relieved from his disquietude, and
made op his mind to but his army, and thus join,, the
capture of Kus by' famine.
This opinion to fully supported by that of General
alouravieff himself, ezprered to me and to my Muds-camp
with characteristic frankness. The able and veteran Gene-
ral laughed, and said—' Li soon as I found Omer Paths at
Seehum-Kaleb I bad no doubt of the result of the cams
midge addiag, I was math obliged to Omer racks for
going in that direction.' "
General Williams further states, tbst "in a work now
preparing for the press by competent judges the question of
the neoessity of defending Hers at all will be discerned."

A Lamas riot( LILLE says : "Nothing is talked
of her bat an affair which, if carried oat, will completely
shange the fees of the towo. It is is contemplation to de-
foolish the ramparts and fortifications, sad earry the lime of
defence beyond the adjoiniog commune of Waselsonse sad
pees Evieraiss. Lille, which bar now a population of
from 76.000 to 80,000 soon, heaped ma it were one on
seethes Ia coatis and garrets, will then be able to breathe
freely, and bare pleats of areoureeditios."
The Fredericton (Canada) Head Quarles.' of Get. 17,
lays that fourteen bean have been killed within the lest few
I weeks la three parishes in that asighboarbood.