The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

THE BRITISH FORCES IN TURKEY.

The infantry employed in the East are divided into
four divisions, each of two brigades : Ist Division,
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.,-
Ist Brigade, the Grenadier, Coldstream, and Scots
Fusilier Guards, Brigadier Bentinek. 2nd Brigade,
Brigadier Sir C. Campbell.-42d, 79th, and 93d , Regi-
ments.---2nd Division, Sir De Lacy Evans, K.C.B.
Ist Brigade, Brigadier Pennefather. 30th, 55th,
and 96th Regiments. 2d Brigade, Brigadier Adams.-
41st, 47th, and 49th Regiments.---3d Division, Sir R.
England, K.C.8.,-Ist Brigade, Sir J. Campbell, Bart.-
Ist, 4th, and 78th Regiments. 2nd Brigade, Brigadier
W. Eyre, C.B. —2Bth, 44th, and 50th Regiments.—
Light Division, Sir G. Brown K.C.8., K.H.,-Ist Brigade,
Brigadier D. Airey.-7th, 23rd, and 33rd Regiments. 2nd
Brigade, G. Buller, C.8.-12th, 77th, and 88th Regiments.
The 2nd battalion of the Rifle Brigade will act as a regi-
ment (under the 2nd brigade of the Light Division) as
may be ordered.—Accounts from Scutari announce the
health of the troops these to be excellent. The barracks
appointed for the contingent are spacious and airy, though
filthy and overrun with vermin. The Guards, in conse-
quence of their state, preferred camping out. The Rifle
Brigade, and the 93rd Regiment of Highlanders, had ar-
rived at Scutari from Gallipoli.

POSITION AND STRENGTH OF THE BELLIGE-
RENT ARMIES.

On the extreme right, along the left bank of the
Aluta, is stationed the Russian corps of army coming
from Pojana and the neighbourhood of Kalafat, which
has been reinforced by a second corps, lately arrived from
Moldavia. The reserve is at Pilesti, an important town
of Great Wallachia, 20 leagues to the N.W. of Bucharest.
The right of the Russians communicates with the centre
through Giurgevo, where a,third corps is encamped. The
centre extends from Giurgevo, opposite to Rutschuk, to
Kalarasch and Rassova, along the left bank of the Danube,
having its reserve at Bucharest, 13 leagues from the
river. The left wing begins at Rassova, and occupies the
Dobrudscha, communicating, by Odessa, with the troops
of Osten-Sacken. Its reserve occupies Matschin and its
vicinity. The line of operations of the Russian army
stretches over a distance of at least 60 leagues, from the
Aluta to the mouths of the Danube. Its real force may
be calculated at between 150,000 and 180,000 men. The
second reserve are still on the banks of the Dnieper, their
effective force being unknown. The Turks, who have
likewise effected a movement of concentration since their
adversaries abandoned the environs of Kalafat, occupy the
following positions :—Their left wing is on the right bank
of the Aluta, with its head-qnarters near Slatina, and its
reserve at Krajova, communicating with the centre by
the Danube, towards the confluence of the Aluta. This
wing is formed of the troops which lately garrisoned
Widdin and Kalafat, and of a portion of the reserve,
ordered to join from Sophia. The centre faces that of the
Russian army, between Nicopolis and Silistria, occupying
the fortified points of Rutschuk, Turtukai, and Silistria,
the garrisons of which have been lately reinforced from