The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1877-04-20 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

THE TURKISH ARMY: ITS STRENGTH AND ITS WHEREABOUTS. Bemis' April 16.—The official Russian Inialide says that a short time ago, after the conclusion of pencils with Sortie, the Turks had 19,000 men, with 30 guise, in Bosnia ; 24,000 men, with 24 guns, in Herzegovina ; 24,000 men, with 18 guns, at Novi Bazar; 15,000 men, with 30 gime, in Albania; 3000 men, with six guns, in Macedonia; 13,000 men, with 18 guns, in Epirus dnd Thessaly; 45,000 men, with 102 guns, on the Eastern frontier of Berrie; 16,000 men with -18 guns, on the southern frontiers of Servia ; 4000 men, with six guns, in the Dobrudscha ; 30,000 men with 144 guns, at Varna, Rust chuk, and Silistriat 7004 men between Sitovo. Timor°, and Berkovatz ; 25,000 in Southern Bulgaria; 22,000 men, with IS guns, at Constantinople; 90/0 men, with '24 guns, in the Archipelago; 57,000 men, with 162 nuns, on the Russo Trans-Oaueasian frontier; 19,000 men, with six guns, on the Persian frontier: 8000 men in Kurdistan; 22,000 men, with 105 guns, in Syria; and 14,000 men, with 36 guns, in Arabia. Total in Europe, 367 battalions, 83 squadrons; 468 guns, or about 250,000 men. Total in Asia, 105 battalions, 64 squadrons, 372 guns, or about 120,000 men. Grand total, 370,000 men. To the above must be added 3000 sappers, 20,000 garrison troops. 45,000 redifs recently levied, and a fresh reserve in course of formation. The Russian Int-elide, 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. &nee the conclusion of peace the troops on the &mien 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 Hercegovinian forces were strengthened by a portion of the Bosnian battalions to make up for other Horsegovinian regiments conveyed by water to Varna. The utmost number available against Montenegro at this moment is computed at 39,000 men. According to the same official authority, the latest intelligence reports about 00,000 Turks at Widdin' 20,000 at Rustachuk and Silistria, and 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-Shunila line its occupied by 25,000 men. The latest ascertained total north of the Balkan. is &bent 100,000 men ; south of the Balkans. about 50,000. The latest estimated total on the Russo-Turkish frontier in Asia between Batoutin Kars, and Erzeroutm, about 80,000.  Cardinal Manning presided, last week, at a met. int In London, on behalf of St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary College. His eminence, in the course of his address, emarked that England now held sway over 200,000,. 01 of people in the East, and was largely responsible for the'. enlightenment. He trusted the great Eastern schism would never obtain footing in British Hindoetan.  The Mayor of Belfast was examined before the Irish Sunday Closing Committee last week. He expreseed himself as in favour of M. Bmyth's bill being applied to the whole of Ireland, Ile was satisfied that the general feeling in Belfast wss in favour of total closing. He ridiculed the notion that rioting would result if the bill were passed. Many licensed victuallers, he said, supported the movement. ATTEMPTED MURDER Or • WlFE.—George JEW:IONa labourer, of Hemel Hempstead, Herta, 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 man threatened to drown himself, and the woman in distress was going to her mother's on the following morning, when James stabbed her in the neck, she is expected to recover. Mn,'.