The Russian Generals in Europe conceal their movements with such
success that it is difficult to understand that they are moving at all. According to the Times' correspondent, who writes from Bucharest, they have crossed over 120,000 men of all arms from Simnitza, and are moving on Tirnova, where their light cavalry have already arrived. According to other accounts these num- bers are exaggerated, and the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, Abdul Kerlin, is preparing to attack them in flank, while one journal persistently reports that they have been seriously defeated in a great battle at Biela. The balance of evidence seems to show that they have occupied Tirnova, though not in force, that a re- connoitring party of no importance was cut up at Biela, and that a great force, of numbers as yet uncertain, has crossed, and is wait- ing till the magazines are completed, and the works by which it is indispensable to protect the head of the bridge. Abdul Kerim's sluggishness is unintelligible, but Redif Pasha, the 'War Minister, a man of energy and decision though not of the high- est judgment, has gone to the front to confer with him, and we ought shortly to hear of a great battle. It must be the Turkish interest to destroy the Russians before their crossing is completed.
