The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

THE SONS LONDON, SATURDAY EV:ENING, OCTOBER 27, 1855

Lat er intelligence, however, would seem to
put an end to all doubt about the matter. The
I ockade, by all accounts, is not raised, the Rus-
s ians continuing to invest the place, in the hope,
p robably, that OMER PASHA will be unable to
ref ich the scene of action in time to raise the
siege and prevent the harassed garrison from sue-
c- ambing, not to the force of arms, but under the
!pressure of famine, which impended over them.
now far General MIIRAVIEFF may be warranted
in :his calculations time will show, but we mus'
410 n fess to some slight degree of anxiety for the
fatr) of the beleaguered town and its heroic
d. a D ders.

'OMER PASHA, by the latest accounts from the
er Astern shores of the Black Sea, has not yet set
of at, but is preparing, as fast as he is able, to
m arch into the interior. A force of 10,000 men,
it. would appear, is collected under his command
—6,000 at Batoum and 4,000 at Soukum-Kale,
thich, under incessant drilling, begins to look
/Affective, and probably will prove so, led as they will
be in part by a number of Polish and Hungarian
officers, who are joining the Turkish standard, and
direeted by so able a commander. The vigour of
the General, unfortunately, it would appear, is not
seconded by the authorities at home, for OMER
PACHA. is represented as making the most urgent
appeals that additional troops and the means of
transport should be forwarded to him. If this
be the case, knowing what we do of the apathy
and lack of patriotism, to give it no worse term,
of the Turkish Government, we find it difficult to
resist the conclusion that the garrison at .Kars

must rely on their own stout hearts, under PROVI-
DENCE, exclusively for support—our renal/el being
that the report current of preparations being
made by the Russians for a renewed assault may
prove correct, and that a second and a decisive
victory may rid the garrison entirely of their per-
tinacious assailants. That such a result may
fairly be anticipated, the brilliant victory an
pounced by General WILLIAMS, and the ante-
cedents of the garrison during the siege, are a
sufficient warrant. We would fain hope, how-
ever, that OMER PASHA, with the 30,000 men
he was to have at his command, may overcome
the obstacles with which ho has to contend, and
moving rapidly on Kars, alone, or what would be
better, in conjunction with the garrison, give bat-
iie to the Russians, and scatter them in irrecover-
able defeat. One cannot but sympathise with the
gallant garrison and our heroic fellow-countrymen
at their head, and feel desirous that a period may
bo put to their exertions and an endurance which,
while they have crowned them with immortal
honour cannot long be continued without danger
of the most deplorable results.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Princess Royal, Prince Edward of Saxe Wei-
mar, the Portuguese Minister and Countess Lavradio,
Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Major-General
the Hon. Charles Grey, the R,ght Hon. Sir Charles and
Lady Mary Wood, and Major-General Sir Richard
Et,gbpid.
The band of the 2d Life Guards played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the
Castle.
The Queen and Prince, attended by the Duchess of
Athol], Major-General Buckley, and Colonel Seymour,
left Windsor by a special train of the Great Western
Railway at ten o'clock this morning for London. Her
Majesty drove to Buckingham Palace, afterwards called
on the Duchess of Gloucester, and returned to the Castle
at two o'clock p.m.
The Princess Royal rode in the Riding-house.

The Duke of Somerset will have an audience of her
Majesty at the first Court at Windsor, and will deliver
up to the Queen the insignia of the order worn by his
late father.
The Duchess of Buccleuch has been admitted into the
Roman Catholics Churoh by Dr. Maliming.
His Excellency Count Kiel mansegge and the Countess
Helene Kielmansegge arrived at the Hanoverian Lega-
-1 tion In Grosvenor-place last evening from Ramsgate,
where his excellency and daughter landed from the
Calsis steam-boat at an early hour yesterday morning,
after experiencing a perilous voyage across the channel,
the steamer being compelled t.) make for the Downs,
and eventually succeeding in landing her passengers at

Ramsgate.
The Countess Stanhope met with a severe accident
yesterday morning, by breaking her arm. Her lady-
ship, with the noble earl, was on board the continental
steamer which landed her passengers at Ramsgate yes-
terday morning instead of Dover, in consequence of the
violence of the storm, during which the countess had a
fall by which she sustained the injury. Her ladyship is
however going on favourably.
His Excellency the French Ambassador and the
Countess de Persigny have left the French embassy
(Albert-gate-house) for Broadlands, near Romsey, on a
visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston.
The Earl and Countess Granville entertained a select
circle to dinner last evening at their residence in Bruton-
street.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne•house
for Bowood, Wilts.
The Bishop of Llandaff has given a donation of 1001.
to the fund now being raised to defray the exp-nses of
restoring the cathedral at L'andaff. Baroness Windsor
(Lady Harriet Clive) has likewise given 1001., and Lord
Dynevor and Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., are liberal
donors.

The Earl and Countess of Morley are staying at Say-
tram, Ddl7oll. We are happy to learn that the noble
earl is in much better health.

The Marquis of Clanricarde arrived at the Fiddown
railway station by the mid-day train on Monday
last, and proceeded to Besborough Park, where his
lordship will remain for a few days on a visit with the
Earl of Bessborough.
The Moniteur inserts a poetical address to M. Victor
Hugo, in which that distinguished exile is reproached in
the bitterest mannar for some expressions said to have
escaped him in relation to the war.
Mr. Fillmore, ex• President of the United States, is

staying at Hamburg.
THE BLIND SCHOOL AT PARIS.—On Tuesday a grand
dinner was given at the Blind School, in Paris, on the
occasion of the visit to Paris of M. Rodenbach, Mem-
ber of the Belgian. Legislative Assembly, and burgomas-
ter in Western Flanders, who has been blind from his
birth, and was formerly pupil in the school. His fellow-
citizens have given to M. Rodenbach the appellattin of
the clear-sighted blind man. Several speeches were
made on the occasion, and the entertainment concluded
by a concert given to M. Rodenbach by his young com-
panions in misfortune.
CRUEL HOAX ON DENMARIC.—The Leipsic Gazette
publishes the following letter front Denmark, under the
date of October 17 :—" A good deal is said here about
the arrival of two members of the English Parliament,
Sir Watkin W. Wynn and Sir Fitzroy Kelly, who have
come direct from London with the view of ascertaining
the state of the negotiations between Denmark on the
one hand, and North America, as also Prussia, on the
other, respecting the Sound Dues. These gentlemen ap-
pear to attach a decisive importance to the resolutions
which Prussia will take in this affair. It is also said
these gentlemen have been vent by a great London
banking-house, deeply interested in the loans for which
Denmark has given, by way of security, the produce of
the Sound toll."
MICHAEL3IAS TERM.—The Lord Chancellor has ap-
pointed eleven o'clock on Friday next, the 2d of Novem-
ber, at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street,
for the reception of the Lord Mayor and the other au-
thorities of the City of London, in order to signify her
Majesty's approbation of the Lord Mayor elect. The
Lord Chancellor will on the same day (the first of
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SUICIDE OF A YOUNG GIRL.—On Thursday Mr. Carter
alautiyn
received information of the death of a young female,
Guys Hospital, liiiimosspeiltaf iln,
named Mary Ann Friday, who committed suicide under
the following circumstances :—Deceased was only 17
years of age, and had been married four weeks to a me-'
chanie, with whom she lived very happily until deceased
contracted several debts which she was unable to pay.
Deceased was not able to redeem a cost she had pledged
on S4turday, the 13th, and she left home, nothing more
bein heard of her until the other day, when her body
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was Mural in the Thames off Blackfriars-bridge.
CURIOUS FEE.—It seems by a return to Parliament
-thal the second judge of the Court of Queen's Bench has
a " terroly fee" of 101. for charging the Grand Jury, in
addition to hie salary of Wf,lo/,,

vast plain I have already described. The turf over
which we road is thickly studded with flowers and
aromatic herbs, the last fragrant as the horses' hoofs
bruised them. Quantities of the purple autumn
crocus, a few hollyhocks, southernwood, heliotrope,
and blue nemophila are among the plants wild here,
but cultivated in English gardens, and there are
many others that might be so cultivated with ad-
vantage. Flights of quail, with plover, larks, and
other birds, were seen in great abundance ; and
every now and then the tedium of the march was
relieved by a coursing match, as a hare started from
her form, and was chased by the wild dogs whose
instinct or experience led them to follow the army.
Poor puss had usually the worst of the race, and
presently dangled from the saddle of a dragoon, br
increased the multitudinous appendages of a Bashi-
Bazouk.

OCTOBPER ii.

This morning Capt. Hamilton, R.N., cf her Ma-
jesty's ship Diamond (who had arrived in harbour
lrst night), officially informed the Mushir, Achmet
Pasha, that two regiments of English cavalry and
four divisions of horse artillery might be expected
here forthwith, and the Mushir immediately ordered
the necessary arrangements to be undertaken for
their reception and encampment.

FRANCE.
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENIWG.
According to despatches lately received, the
Russians have rendered the approaches to the
Dnieper and Bug impracticable, by sinking vmlels
and infernal machines. Nicolaieff contains a gr.\r-
rison of 14 battalions of infantry. Large bodies of
troops were centring on this spot. It was sup
posed that the enemy might attack the Allied
troops which occupy Kinburn ; but nothing was
feared from such a movement, as the shipping
would be able to shell the enemy and materially
impede the advance of the troops.
Despatches have arrived which state that Gen.
Prince Gortschakoff is expected to risk a battle.
The new Ministry in Greece is not expected to
last. The brigands continue to commit the most
cruel outrages.
The Duke and Duchess de Brabant went yester-
day morning to Meudon to call on Prince Jerome.
At three o'clock the Emperor and Empress, with
their Royal Highnesses, left St. Cloud to visit the
Hotel de Ville and the manufactory of the Gobe-
lins. In the evening their Majesties and their
illustrious guests honoured the Theatre Francais
with their presence, the pieces performed being
Les Fausses Confidences and La Ligne Droite.
The government has received additional reports
to the 17th of September, from the Governor of
French Guiana, on the situation of the peniten-
tiary establishments in that colony. The yellow
fever which had caused some ravages had, he
states, entirely ceased in some places, and was on
the decline in others.
Cardinal Wiseman has arrived in Paris.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 15th, in
the Presse says :—" Accounts from the Crimea an-
nounce that General d'Allonville recently made a
razzia in the neighbourhood of Eupatori a and
took 700 head of cattle, and that Marshal P€dissier
had just sent him a division of infantry as a rein-
forcement."
The Siecle thus concludes an article in which the
more recent operations of the allies in the East are

examined :
" We see the army of General Gortschakoff menacA
on its left flank by means of a movement, slow, it $s
true, but rendered certain by the construction of good
roads ; menaced in its retreat to Perekop by the army
of Eupatoria, in its supplies and recruitment by the ex-
pedition now accomplished in the Sea of Azoff, and in
course of execution at Kinbourn. We mention these
facts, and leave to the public the task of extracting from
them a favourable augury. Peace is dear to us, but
when we consider what Russia has lost in refusing the
too generous conditions offered to her at Vienna, we
cannot, for the sake of civilisation, regret the continua-
tion of the war. After Kertch, Kinbourn ; after Tagan-
rog, Cherson ; after Sebastopol, if Russia absolutely in-
sists upon it, Nioolaieff. A victory which is favourable
to the principle of nationalities cannot be too decided."
BOURSE, OCT. 26, Two o'clock.—The market has
been very dull. The Bank of France has adopted
no new measures. It has not relieved the trade
by re-establishing the 90 days for the discount of
Bills. The Threes opened at
.64f. 55c. acid 64f.
60c., and went down to 64f. 30c. They have, how-
ever, slightly rallied to 64f. 40c. All other Secu-
rities were equally offered, with a fall of sf. and
' 10f. The Mobilieri receded from 1,202 f. 50(). to
1,190 f.; the Austrian Shares from 732 f. sc. to 726 f.
75e. ; the Eastern Shares from 917 f. 50c. to
912 f. 50c.
Half-past Three.—The prices are about the same
as an hour ago. The fullowiag are the last quota
tions

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
4i par Cents OO 25 —f. —c.
3 per Cents f4 40 64 30
New Loan 65 55
Bank Shares 3200 Roman
Credit 51obilior llB7 50 &ustrian
Belgian Fives l)s} Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese B3 HOMO Debt 33

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS AT KARS.

(From the Supplement to tee London Gazette of Friday,
Oct. 26.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Our. 26.

The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch
from Brigadier-General Williams, her Majesty's
Commissioner with the Turkish Army in Asia, of
which the following is a copy :

" KARS, Sept. 29.

"My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your
Lordship that General Mouravieff, with the bulk
of his army, at day-dawn this morning, attacked
our intrenched position on the heights above Kars
and on the opposite side of the river. The battle
lasted, without a moment's intermission, for nearly
seven hours, when the enemy was driven off in the
greatest disorder, with the loss of 2,500 dead, and
nearly double that number of wounded, who were,
for the most part, carried off by the retreating
enemy. Upwards of 4,000 muskets were left on
the fielai

"Your Lordship can, without a description on
my part, imagine the determination of the assail-
ants, and the undaunted courage of the troops who
defended the position for so many hours.
" The Mushir will, doubtlessly, at a future mo-
ment bring before his Government the conduct of
those officers who have distinguished themselves
on this day,—a day so glorious for the Turkish
arms.

" On my part, I have great gratification in ac-
quainting your Lordship with the gallant conduct
of Lieutenant-Colonel Lake, Major Teesdale, and.
Captain Thompson, who rendered the most im-
portant service in defending the redoubts of Veli
Pasha Tabia, Tahmasb Tabia, and Arab Tabia. I
beg to recommend these officers to your Lordship's
nrotection.

" I also beg to name my secretary, Mr. Churchill,
alti attache of her Majesty's Mission in Persia. He
directed tFO fire of a battery throughout the action,
atbd caused the enemy great loss.
" I also beg to draw your lordship's attention to
th e gallant bearing of Messrs. Zohrab and Rennis-
r.oi 1, who, as interpreters to Lieutenant-Colonel
La ke and Major Teesdale, rendered very effective
ser vice. Dr. Sandwith has boon most active and
effit 3ient in the management of the ambulances and
in the hospital arrangements.
" We are now employed in the burial of the
dead , and I will have the honour, by the next
mess enger, of detailing the movements of this
evenilul day.
" Our loss was about 700 killed and wounded.
" I have, (43e.,
" The Earl. of Clarendon, &c."

" W. F. WILLIAMS.

FRENCH ACCOUNT.
(From the Moniteur.)
The lilockaie of Kare, which place had been isolated
for more than three months from every other part of
Anatolia, had not in any way shaken the firmness of
the Turkish, troops confided to the command of Vassif
Pacha. Different attacks made at various times
against the works which defend the town had been
before repulsed with great vigour, but the favourable
turn which the operations of the allied armies in the
Black Sea lied recently taken appeared to have deter-
mined Gent ;rat Mouravieff to make another desperate
effort. 1.!1 vo hours before sunrise on the 29th
September, the Russian troops, from 35,000 to 40,000
in number, and formed in several deep columns, attacked
the worles placed on the hills to the north of Kars.
The intention of the Russians was to gain possession
of them Theight4 which, once in tho power of the enemy,
would have rendered any further resistance on the part
of the garrison impossible. All the efforts of the enemy
were therefore concentrated on the redoubt of Tackmak
"'labia and the two others adjoining, called the English
and Arab redoubts. The first-named, which was consi-
dered the key to the others, was energetically defended
by Ismail Pacha (General Kmety), whose bravery and en-
thusiasm completely electrified the troops. Four times did
the Russians gain po-session of the redoubts, and were
driven out at the point of the bayonet by the rurkish
soldiers, led on by General Kmety. Aftera desperate cona-
bat, which lasted seven hours, the Russians were compelled
to give way. It could not be even said that they made
a retreat, for they retired in complete disorier, followed
into the plain by the victorious Turks, who took 100
prisoners and one piece of artillery. The fatigue of the
troops and the want of cavalry would not allow of the
pursuit being long kept up. If only a small force of
cavalry had been at hand, the slaughter among the
flying Russians would have been immense. Such was
the confusion among the, enemy that it took them five
hours to collect their scattered battalions into anything
like order. On the 30th, the Turks had buried 4,000
of the Russians, whose bodies filled the ditches
and the redoubts, and it is calculated that as many
more, in killed and wounded, were removed during
the action. The loss of the Turks amounts to
about twelve hundred, in killed and wounded, and
among the former are several superior officers, who
met a glorious death at the head of their men. The
ixighest praise must be given to the admirable arrange-
ments made for the defence by Vassif Pacha. in concert
with General Williams ; as well as to the skill displayed
by General Colmann, who directed the engineering de-
partment, and the daring courage and energy of General

ktnoty and Abdul.Keritn Paella, who headed the troops.
The account of this brilliant affair has caused the greatest
joy in the Turkish capital, and the news was announced
by salvos of artillery.
Another letter in the Moniteur, dated from Erzeroum,
October 5, says :—" General Colmann and General
Williams displayed excellent tactics, but litnety was
the hero of the day."