The Russians were to have repassed the Danube on Thursday.
Violent rains and wide-spread inundations had delayed the opening of the campaign; and the exhausted state of the countries where its first scenes must be performed, will retard its progress. The Russian soldiers march to the battle-field "always singing cheerful songs." The Emperor no longer accompanies the army, his ama- teur generalship having been found inconvenient : but General Diebitsch, the new commander, is thought to be of all military men in Russia the fittest for this service.
On the Turkish side, the Sultan's most powerful vassal, the Viceroy of Egypt, is to furnish a large contingent of men armed and disciplined in the European manner ; and to act in the Asiatic provinces—to which end, however, they must encounter a. long and difficult march through the deserts of Palestine.
Some differences appear to have arisen between the Captain of the British brig of war Weasel and the Pacha of Acre, about an Ionian vessel which the Turks had seized.
The Greeks are again moving : they have taken Lepanto.
