NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE war, except on the side of Montenegro, has produced little result this week, and that little at great cost. At Plevna, on Tuesday, after four days of bombardment, came a whole day of unsuccessful assaults on the Turkish positions, crowned with some material success late in the evening, when three redoubts were taken by General Skobeleff on the south of Plevna, and the great Gravitza redoubt was captured by the united efforts of the Roumanians and Russians, under General Rodionoff, on the west, the Russians taking two standards and five guns from the Turks. The Russian losses on this day were, in wounded alone, 5,000 men ; but the capture of these positions will greatly facilitate the capture of Plevna, if Mehemet Ali or Suleiman Pasha cannot make his way up to its relief before the critical moment arrives. Both Turkish and Russian movements are very slow. The line of the Lom is in the hands of Mehemet Ali, but he had not advanced on Biela at the last adviees. Suleiman Pasha had, it was said, taken the ridge at the foot of the Balkans, between the head waters of the Jantra and the defiles leading to Travna and Gabreva, so that he appears to be still working away at his old task, and not attempting to co-operate with Mehemet Al
