Two accounts are current of what has occurred in Montenegro.
According to the more probable one, Suleiman Pasha, with forty battalions, had fought his way to such a position that he could occupy Cettinge after the next engagement. He had, how- ever, lost 10,000 men in the effort, and on receipt of the news that the Russians had crossed the Danube, he desisted, and trans- ferred his forces to the northward, intending to aid in the defence against the Russians. According, however, to another account, which may have some truth in it, Italy threatened to intervene vigorously on behalf of the Montenegrins, and the Austrian Government, unwilling to allow this new complication, compelled the Porte to withdraw Suleiman Pasha. Whatever the precise cause, he has withdrawn, and Montenegro is not to be destroyed for assisting the Herzegovinians.
