The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-24 00:00:00

THZ WAR.

Tbs sews Bess the mot ef -war is the East is af import-
wee. The Basesises have succeeded in forcing the Schipke
Paw threagls that Bike% and they are reported to have
anweleelp merreneded Itastitiek. At limns the Russians
added Mem P. we! had arrived there with the
ablest sg edieving Irseepetra hue were forged to retire
=ltasir added pagiliow• They. however, received
mad renewed the attack. Desperate fight-
ing giedee& but the Turks completely scattered the
estateg.ehe esiered enormous losses. Russian reinforce-
lon node thew way so for as Teal Zaghra. end
capenel • Stekite camp. Their advance is causing
=aim ebreeehout the population in the Smith of
. awl mew ire flying to Constantinople. Farther
ageswate resels ea of the barbarities by the Rtesians
wile sae the St. Petersburg journals thinks it un-
napeons7 to notice, and describes them as " calumnies."
A bee lansither of English newspaper correspondents who
as. aim ha Bulgaria have signed and sent to the Porte •
deeheatkie on the subject. and this is officially published.
It ageism that the Igussulman population has been
leaseered and their homes given up to pillage. and adds
that wearies and children form the greater number of the
vid••• Itilether lighting is reported from Asia.

RUSSIAN AD% s!IrTAGF.A.

The Ruidans have obtained another advantage in '
Bulgaria. A correspondent at Bucharest telegraphs
that Tchernavoda hoe been occupied, and that a
Russian have is marching on Silistria. in which port
the shiptarig is sail to be on fire. The Turks. it is
added, ret fire to Tchernaooda before leaving it.
&Marl Pacha, the leader of the six thousand Turks
who were captured at Nicopolis, has surrendered his
scimitar to the Czar, and has been gent to Bucharest
en node for Muses. His fellow prisoners are also
being sent northward by railway. The Turkish
population is flying southward, and Adrianople is
crowded aritb refugees. The advance of the Russians is
reported by a Constantinople correspondent to be
more serious than was at first supposed. Great alarm
prevails in the Turkish capital, for the Porte scarcely
expect, to be able to wive Adrianople, and the country
between there and the capital is wholly without
defence., while the ppillation in Constantinople is
unarmed and helpless. Sat vet Pascha persists in
retiring, Ailfi is llnt going to be Minister of Public
Works, as W al4 reported. Abdul Kerim Packs has
been diamis' red from his command of the Turkish force.
in Bulgaria. lie will be succeeded by Jlehemed Ali
According to a telegram from Constantinople of
Fridays date, the Turkish Government believes that
35,000 Ktiatitir, have crossed the Balkans. This is not
improbable, as now that the Russians are widening
the Hainkoi Pass and taking that of Shipka they can
push any number ot men across. Field W.teries and
train have been parsing since the middle of the week.
The Russian. are very re, icent in their 'bulletins, a.
usual when any critical operations is in program. A
telegram from Adrianople states that Suleiman Packs,
with his battalions from Montenegro, is expected there
Their number is said to be 20.000._

In'titTridm—iart7a-ti; Tuft-Cie:C:4 Adrianople Govern-
ment officials, telegraph clerks, and railway officers
have fled from their posts in fear of the Itnisians.
The state of things in Asia remains unchanged.
A Special Correspondent at SALMI; mentions one
MI; of the heavy lames of the Russians, especially
those about Batmen, in attacking Turkish positions.
This is the inferiority of the firearms, of the infantry.
The Russian infantry me summed to be armed with
the Berdan rifle. but the Correspondent saw corps
armed with flint locks, while the Turks were provided
with Snider, ILutivi Henry, and even Winchester or
repeating rifles. The Turkish army has been the first
in Europe to place repeating rifles in the hands of its
infantry.

Orden have been received at Aldershot for the 2nd, Bth,
and 16a Regiments to embark for foreign 'nee on
Wedneadal next, and the 19th and 109th Regiments ate
to be held in readiness for immediate embarkation. These
troops are to be sent to Malta.

(By Telegraph this day.)

BuCHARIIIT, SUNDAY NIGHT.

Wicidin has been actively bombarded and vigorous
fighting going on, in which the Russians were severely
repulsed. For the purpose of creating diversion the
Roumanians attempted crossing the Danube in boats,
amistod by 'monitors, but were compelled by the
Turks to &OM. The monitors are sersondy injured,
and one is reported as sinking.