The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-10 00:00:00

END OF THE WAR.

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Our Special Correspondent, says the Daily News,
at the Russian headquarters confirms the opinion we
have more than once expressed as to the insufficiency
of the existing Russian means of military communica-
tion between Roumania and Bulgaria. The imperial
army is moving across the river in a continuous stream,
and according to one telegram 120,000 Russians have
crossed the Danube at Sistova, of whom as many as
20,000 are cavalry, and there are 250 guns, many of
them of large calibre. Horses, cannon, caisson.,
baggage waggons, fourgons, and ambulances, besides
artillery, are pouring over the Sistova bridge day and
night. The great number of cavalry which enters into
the composition of the army, neces.itating a suspen-
sion of the traffic for several hours each time. It
remains to be seen how the siege train is to be got
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Our Correspondent cautions us against the Bucharest
reports crediting the Russians with further advances
than they have made. The want of cavalry prevented
an early movement. Our correspondent reports the
opinion of the camp that a direct advance on the
Balkans will be made, and the Turks be compelled to
come out of Shumla to prevent it. From Shumla a
report comes of • battle, said to have been fought at
Iliela on Thursday, which lasted twelve hours. There
is no reason for supposing that this wan more than one
of those reconnaissances which it is becoming the
fashion with some to report an battles. The Russians
have no motive whatever for attacking Biela before
they are prepared to do no with effect.
At Constantinople it is reported that the Turkish
commanders have entered Cettigne, the capital of
Montenegro. From Vienna it in stated that ade facto
peace, without any treaty, has been made by the with-
drawal of the Turkish troops. It in said that the
Austrian Government, although most unwilling to do
so, found itself under the necessity of interferring in
favour of the Montenegrins in order to prevent &naval
demonstration which the Government of Italy had
resolved to make with the game object. Perhaps
some of these details may be subject to correction, but
the important fact is that the tsar is at an end.

THE MELT.
It Ii now stated that the English fleet is to go to flail!-
troll. That is serious news. To send it to Besika Bay
was sufficiently significant to be mischevious. But in
order for the fleet to pass the Dardenellm we must have
the permission of the Turkish Goverment, and the per-
mission will not be granted unless the Parte has very good
reason to believe that our ironclad, will enter as friends.
It is difficult to understand how Lord Salisbury or Mr.
Cross could be a party to such a step as that It would be
entirely contrary to their recent declarations. There is all
the less need for intervention, because the Turks seem
very well able to defend themselves. There is no longer
reason to doubt that they have inflicted some very severe
defeats on the Russians in Asia, though there the
Russians seemed at first to be carrying everything before
them, and when we talk about the Russians entering
Constantinople, we forget that before reaching that city
Adrianople has to be taken, and before taking Adrianople
the Balkan Mountains have to be crossed, and before
crossing the Balkins there is the Turkish quadrilateral to
be dealt with. Is there any chance of all these various
steps being taken before the early winter sets in

[By MIGRATE, THIS-DAT].
REPULSE OF THE TURKS.

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The Turkish hawking forces made an attempt on
June 30th to surprise the garrison of Sayarld. The
Russians were aware of the intention, and after ONNI
hours fighting repulsed the Turks with heavy lON.

ENGLAND AND THE WAIL

In the House of Commons this afternoon, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that there was no
foundation for the rumour of the proposed British
occupation of Constantinople and the Dardanelles.

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