NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Turks are moving at last, but up to Friday evening nothing decisive had been reported. Suleiman Pasha, with forty bat- talions, attacked the Shipka Pass from the south, on the 22nd inst., but was repulsed, the Bulgarian Legion, left to protect the Pam, fighting desperately. At the same time, Mehemet Ali attacked Tirnova, and Osman Pasha, Selvi, the object of both movements being to effect a junction of 'the Turkish armies be- tween the Russians and the Balkans. The Russians would then have to fight a great battle against superior forces with their backs to the Danube, that is, to conquer or be ruined for the year. Both attacks are said to have been repulsed, but fighting was still going on, and the final result must remain for another day, at least, obscure. The accounts from Bucharest are not very favour- able to the Russians, who have not yet received the bulk of their reinforcements. The main body have been delayed by the necessity of marching across Roumania, the railways being over- burdened with the transport of materiel. The evidences of cum- brousness—which is inefficiency—in the Russian transport services accumulate, and the reports of the condition of General Zimmer- mann's army in the Dobrudsoha are most unfavourable. Dysentery has made its appearance in a very bad form, from the deficien- cies in the supply of food, and the wretched Russian careless- ness about the quality of the water which the soldiers drink.
