The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-04-20 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE TURKISH ARMY: ITS STRENGTH AND ITS -WHEREABOUTS. Beetle April 16.—The official Russian Insalide says that a short time ago, after the conclusion of peace with Serxia, tLe Turks had 19,000 men, with 30 guns, in Bosnia; 24,000 men, with 24 guns, in Herzegovina; 24,000 men, with 18 guns, at Novi Bazar; 15,000 men, with 311 guns, in Albania; 3000 men, with sin guns, in Macedonia; 13,000 men, with 18 guns, in Epirus end Thesealy ; 45,000 men with 102 guns, on the Eastern frontier of Berrie ; 16,060 men with 48 guns, on the southern frontiers of Sereia 4000 men, with six guns, in the Dobrudscha ; $OOOO men, with 144 guns, at Varna. Row chuk, and Silistria: 7000 men between Sitovo, Tirnovo, and BerkovaM; 25,000 in Southern Bulgaria, 22,000 men, with 18 guns, at Constantinople ; 9600 men, with 24 guns, in the Archipelago; 57,000 men, with 162 guns, on the Russo Trans-eauciudan frontier; 19,000 men, with six guns, on the Persian frontier; 8000 men in Kurdistau ; 22,000 men, with 108 guns, in Syria; and 14,000 men, with 30 gun., in Arabia. Total in Europe, 367 battalions, 83 squadrons; 468 guns. or about 2:0,000 men. Total in Asia, 11;5 battalions, 04 squadrons, 372 gime, or about 120,000 men. Grand total, 3711,000 men. To the above must be added 3000 sappere, 20,000 garrison troops. 45,000 redifs recently levied, and a fresh reserve in course of formation. The Russian Inralido holds that the Turkish regulars will in no case exceed 443,000 men, and that the irregulars in excess of this number, though there is plenty of arms for them, will have to shift without officers and proper regimental organisation. Since the conclusion of peace the troops on the Servian frontier have been sent to Northern Bulgaria, while those farther to the west are nailed to the spot by the Montenegrin and Albanian movements. The Her,egovinian forces were strengthened by a portion of the Bosnian battalions to make up for other Her,egoviniau regiments conveyed by water to Varna. The utmotit number available ageinst Montenegro at this moment is computed at 39,000 men. Accordlng to the swine official authority, the latest intelligeuce reports about I 0,000 Turks at Widdin' 20,000 at Rusterhuk and Sllistria, sect about 7000 further west on the Danube. A little further south and in immediate connection with the troops on the Danube, there are some 42,000 men, while the Varna-Shumla line is occupied by 25,000 men. The latest ascertained total north of the Balkans is stout 100,000 men; south of the Balkans, about 50,000. The latest estimated total on the Russo-Turkish frontier in Asia between Batoum. Kars, and Erzeroum, about 90,000.  . Cardinal Henning presided, lait week, at a met. in in London. on behalf of St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary College. His eminence, in the course of his address, remarked that England now held sway over •200,000,i !I HI of people in the East, and was argylel responsible for their enlightenment. He trusted the great Eastern schism would never obtain footing in British Hindostan.  The Mayor of Belfast was examined before the Irish Sunday Closing Committee last week. He expressed himself as in favour of Mr. Smyth's bill being applied to the whole of Ireland. He was satisfied that the general feeling in Belfast was in favour of total closing. He ridiculed the notion that rioting would result if the bill were passed. Many licensed vie. Wailers, he said, supported the movement. ATTEMPTED MPIMEIt Or a Wire—George James, a labourer, of Hemel Hempstead, forts, is in custody on a charge of attempting to murder his wife. The parties had only been married a year, but have lived very unhappily. On the 11th instant the mart threatened to drown himself, and the woman in distress was going to her mother's on the following morning, when Jame, stabbed her in the neck. She it expected to recover. M.,. Brunono 00.1 M—The statements which have been published relative to the health of Mrs. Cobden, the widow of the illustrious Richard Cobden, are, we regret to learn, correct. Mrs. Cobden is suffering from serious organic disease, and her condition is a source of the deepest anxiety to her family and friends. In the course of the past week Dr. Richardson has visited Mrs. Cobden in consultation with Dr. Atwood, of Notting hill, who Min regular attendsneu—Lancet.