Montenegro is, we imagine, now safe, as the Turks, who
have entered the country, after terrible losses have possessed them- selves of nothing—even if they have not been driven out, as a recent telegram implies—and will now be discouraged ; but the news from Asia is unfavourable to the Russians. There is no reason to doubt that the Turkish army at Delibaba, heavily reinforced, has repulsed two Russian attacks, after one of which, as the Russians admit, the Turks collected their dead in Russian positions. The slowness of the Russians has given the Turks time to recover themselves from the defeat of the 16th, and they evidently occupy a most formidable
position. The investment of Bayazid also by a tribe of Kurds has compelled them to send reinforcements thither, and men are expended rapidly in frequent but unsuccessful attacks on Kars. The Turkish danger is not over, as the army at Delibaba may be turned by the corps advancing through Bardes ; but another corps (ramie must be forwarded to the Caucasus, a slow business. It is rumoured that Turkish success is in part due to a new com- mander, but Mukhtar Pasha has not, by the latest accounts, been removed.
