According to the latest accounts, Ismail Pasha, the Kurd, has
joined Mukhtar Pasha, with 40 battalions of Kurds—that is, pro- bably 12,000 men—and the two are posted on a low range in front of Erzeroum. The Russians, however, have reached Hassan• Kaleh, and are threatening them from two sides, in the hope of 'compelling thorn to surrender or disperse. The pursuit of the troops beaten in the battles of the Aladja Dagh has been very sharp—the Russians caught the correspondent of the Telegraph, but let him go again—and indeed, so vigorous and decided are Russian movements, that the Turks begin to assert they believe they are guided by Prussian officers. The correspondent of the Telegraph, who sends bulletins from Erzeroum, furnishes what the Turcophiles probably will consider final evidence of the fact. While a prisoner in the Russian camp, he saw an officer wearing a cap like those worn by Prussian cuirassiers. He should have added that he saw many officers who knew German and had heard of Berlin, and then his proof would have been complete. His evidence, however, shows that the war has taken a very different character.
