• The news from the seat of war this week
is important, but not distinct. The Russians are strengthening their force below the Balkans, and are reported to have defeated Suleiman Pasha, the invader of Montenegro, at Karabunar, so that
he has fallen back on Adrianople. North of the Bal- kans, again, it is evident that some great movement is going on, Mehemet All on one side and Osman Pasha on the other endeavouring to crush the Russians between them. The correspondents have, however, been so completely silenced, that up to Friday evening it was impossible to form a definite opinion as to the results obtained. The balance of evidence, and it is only a balance, indicates that the Russians are not prosper- ing here, that they have sustained a defeat at Plevna, and that the army at Tirnova has been recalled. None of these statements, however, as yet rest upon Western authority, and the most im- portant of them come from Vienna, where there is great readiness to believe in Russian defeats. The Grand Duke may be only waiting for news from the South.
