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

LORD RAGLAN'S ADDRESS TO THE ARMY.

Lord Raglan has issued the following order, addressed
from head quarters at Scutari, to the British troops :
The Queen having been graciously pleased to appoint
General Lord Raglan to be Commander of the Forces to
be employed in Turkey in support of her ally, His Impe-
rial Majesty the Sultan, and his Lordship having arrived.
all reports, &c., will be made to him through the channels
prescribed by her Majesty's regulations.
The Commander of the Forces avails himself of the-ear-
liest opportunity to impress upon the army the necessity
of maintaining the strictest discipline, of respecting per-
sons and property, and the laws and usages of the country
they have been sent to aid and defend, and particularly
of avoiding to enter mosques, churches, and the private
dwellings of a people whose habits are peculiar, and unlike
those of the other nations of Europe.
Lord Raglan fully relies upon the general and other
officers of the army to afford him their support in
the repression of disorder ; and he confidently hopes that
the troops themselves, anxious to obtain the character they
have acquired elsewhere, will endeavour to become the ex-
ample of obedience to order and of attention to discipline,
without which success is impossible, and their presence
would be an evil instead of an advantage to those whose
cause their Sovereign had deemed it proper to espouse.
The army will be for the first time with an ally to whom
it has been the lot of the British nation to be opposed in
the field for many centuries. The gallantry and high
military quality of the French army are matters of his-
tory, and the alliance which has now been formed will,
the Commander of the Forces trusts, be of long duration,
as well as productive of the most important consequences.
Lord Raglan is aware, from personal communication
with the distinguished officer who is appointed to com-
mand the French army, Marshal St. Arnaud, and many
of the superior officers, that every disposition exists
throughout their ranks to cultivate the best understanding
with the British army, and to co-operate most warmly
with it ; and he entertains no doubt that her Majesty's
troops are actuated by the same spirit, and that the first
ambition of each army will be to acquire the confidence
and good opinion of the other.
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,
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 95th 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.8.-28th, 44th, and 60th Regiments.—
Light -Division, Sir G. Brown K.C.8., K.H.,—lst 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.

OU 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 50 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-quarters 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