NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE Danube has not yet been
crossed, though the rumours of an immediate attempt have become lively, but the Russians have gained an important success on the Asiatic side. On the 15th inst. they attacked a wing of the Turkish army commanded by Mehemed Pasha, and posted on hills in a position above Delibaba, about fifty miles from Erzeroum. The Russians are said to have bad 20,000 mss and the Turks 12,000, and after a desperate contest, the latter, overwhelmed by the Russian artillery, gave way, and fled into the plain, where they were hotly pursued by the Cossacks. Sir Arnold Kemball, the British Commissioner, bad to ride for his life, the Cossacks being under the im- pression. that ho was in command of the Turkish army. Mehemed Pasha was killed on the spot, fighting among his men, the loss in dead exceeded a thousand, and the rout appears to have been most complete. Mukhtar Pasha's army will be the next attacked, and if this is destroyed or dis- persed, nothing will remain between the Russians and Erzeroum. lib official news of this disaster has yet reached Constantinople, but instead a wild story is published of the Russians at Bayazid being blockaded by 15,000 Koords.
