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London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

RESTORATION OP KARS.
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 8.

By intelligence from Constantinople, it appears
that the province of Kars was evacuated on the
9th ultimo by the Russians, who retired upon
Alexandropol.

SIGNIFICANT SYMPTOMS.
MADRID, SErr. 5.

The Gazette publishes a royal decree which re-
lieves several military chiefs, in certain provinces,
from the control of the civil command.

General O'Donnell has received, from his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French, the Grand Cor-
don of the Legion of Honour. The insignia were
placed in a box covered with sky blue velvet
ornamented with golden bees, and with the ini-
tials of the Emperor.

A letter from Vienna of the 3d, in the Augs-
burg Gaxette, says :—" Our Government, particu-
larly M. de Bruck and the Archduke Maximilian,
are exerting all their efforts in support of the
principle that the Adriatic is an Austrian sea, in
order to consolidate the domination of the Aus-
trian navy on those shores. A war between Mon-
tenegro and Turkey might lead to disagreeable
complications, since the Turks would take advan-
tage of their sea ports of Slek and Sutarina to send
troops and ammunition. One of the principal ob-
jects of the mission of Count de Leiningen in
January, 1353, was to obtain the cession of these
ports to Austria, or at least the exclusive use of
them ; but the war in the East caused the nego-
tiations to remain a dead letter. It is clear that
with her new maritime tendencies it is of great in-
terest for Austria to obtain this concession, and
from that circumstance the struggle between Mon-
tenegro and Turkey acquires great importance for
her."

M. Ottenfels, the Austrian charge d'affaires at
Paris, has called on the Government to prohibit
the subscription which M. Manin had opened in
Paris for the proposed 100 guns to arm the for-
tress of Alessandria. The French Foreign-office
communicated to the Austrian charge that the
Government of the Emperor had, not waited for
this interrogation, but had already taken steps to
prevent the subscriptions in question.
TURKEY.
(Prom the Times' Correspondent.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 28.
_ _ _

Kars has been evacuated by the Russians. The
Turks took possession on the 6th inst. Three of
the English officers attached to the British com-
missary with the Turkish army in Asia, Major
Stuart, Major Fraser, and Mr. Evans, were pre-
sent at the surrender, not in their official capa-
city, but as spectators. These gentlemen went to
Kars before Hussein Pasha and his force, and
were received in their quality as visitors with
the greatest attention. Colonel Buetoff, the civil
commander of the town, ceded them his quarters,
and both he and his colleague, Colonel Melc-
koff, an Armenian, the military commander of the
town, vied with each other in civility, and af-
forded them every opportunity of satisfying their
curiosity on every point. Their stay there was
celebrated by festivals with streams of champagne
and numberless toasts, among them that of General
Williams, with a salute from the guns of the cita-
del. As in the Crimea, the Russian officers seem
to have been very communicative on past events,
especially about the main subject of interest, their
unsuccessful attack upon Kars. They say that
Mouravieff was entirely against an attack, and
opposed it to the last moment, in spite of
the urgent entreaties of several of his officers.
But the troops were so dissatisfied at this seem-
ing want of confidence in their leader, that he
was in the end obliged to yield against his own
better conviction, and ordered the attack. Ac-
cording to accounts given by the Russian officers
the thing was decided one evening at dinner and
executed, which seems rather a contradiction with
the circumstance that several days before the at-
tack took place the Russian heavy baggage was
seen going back towards Gumri, an unmistakable
evidence that they must have contemplated the
attack for some time before they executed it.
Neither the failure of the attack nor the heavy
losses sustained seem to have, even for an instant,
occasioned the idea of a retreat, and General Mou •
ravieff, when asked in the evening after defeat what
his orders were, is said to have replied, " Draw in
your posts and double the patrols."
When Kars was evacuated the Russians had 5000
men on the territory, under the command of Gen.
Lruhloff. Only a very small part of these troops
formed the garrison of the town—the main body
was encamped between Kars and Erzeroum, at. the
foot of the Soghanli range. When the Turks under
Hussein Pasha came to take possession of the town
this force retired to the other side of Kars, and
encamped about four miles on the road to Gumri.
There they still were when the English officers left,
so that what we know hitherto positively is only
the evacuation of the town, not of the territory of
Bars.

The town was given over with the usual ceremo-
nies. The account which I gave you in my last
about the destruction of a part of the citadel walls
proves to be correct. The destruction is, however,
only partial, orders having been received to stop
it. It was likewise by orders from St. Petersburg
that the work of destruction was commenced.

The accounts of the state of the country are very
sad. Not a Turkish house is standing on the whole
territory which had been occupied by the Russians.
Most of the Mussulman inhabitants fled voluntarily
at the approach of the Russians, and their houses
were pulled down and burned for firewood, and the
few crops that had been sown eaten up by Cossack
horses. As soon as the Russians began to retire the
Turks gradually came back to their desolate house-
holds ; but it is difficult to see how they will be
able to pass the seven or eight winter mouths,
and to wait for the next crops without a sub-
vention of some kind. The Armenian villages
have remained unmolested during the Russian
occupation. A number of families petitioned the
Russian commanders to be allowed to expatriate
themselves and to retire into Russia after the with-
drawal of the Russian forces, but they were told to
remain, as they are thought much more useful in
the enemy's country, where they bad rendered con-
siderable services during the war. Russia knew
very well what she was doing when she gave back
so generously the provinces she had conquered
from Persia, keeping only the district about Ararat,
with the seat of the Armenian Patriarch, through
whom she has the whole large Armenian popula-
tion both in Persia and Turkey at his disposal.

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur de la Flotte announces that a divi-
sion of gun-boats is about to be placed at the dis-
posal of the governor of Sone6l.
A Paris letter, in the Independance of Brussels,
says :

" It is said that there is a community of views between
France and Prussia on the Neufchatel affair. The latter
proposes to abandon any pretensions to the canton of
Neufchatel, in return for an indemnity to be fixed by
common accord, under the mediation of the great powers
of Europe. The Congress of Paris, which is about to
re-assemble to settle the points left undecided as to the
frontiers of the Danubian principalities, will probably
terminate the -Neufchatel affair once for all."

BOURSE, Sept. B.—The following were the last
quotations :

Cub. fr. e. End of Moab.
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