NEWS OF THE WEEK.
news from Servia is most disastrous. The Turkish army, 30,000 strong, advanced on the 4th inst. against the Servian entrenchments at Gurgusovatz, and in two days' fighting carried them, thus compelling the Serviarus to abandon Saitschar, and indeed the whole line of the Timok valley, retreating on that of the Morava and the fortified position of Kragojevatz beyond. Their furthest posts eastward are now at Banja, where Tcher- naieff, who has been appointed Commander-in-Chief, intends, according to the latest accounts, to fight once more. The Turks Nve lost heavily, and are not following up their victory rapidly; b, the Servians are represented as dispirited, distrustful of their foreign Generals, and inclined to follow their old tradition, and re- place Prince Milan by another ruler, perhaps Prince Nikita, of Montenegro, who, inactive as he has been, has never fought without victory. The truth of these statements will be best tested by the next engagement, in which the Servians will have great advan- tages of position.
