ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 238, 8 October 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

A correspondent, describing the entry of Lovatz, after its capture by the Russians, says: — " Up to the slope, whore the Russians had charged the redoubt, I was surprised to find so few dead bodies, tre Turkish fire having been too high. Inside the redoubt were corpses of Russians and Turks. thickly strewiug the ground. At the western end, where the Turks were jammed in their efforts to escape, a space 50 by 20 feet was covered with Turkish dead and wounded to a depth of five feet— the living aud dead lying on each other, the deuse mass steaming with heat and blood: and around this Moslem pile was a fringe of dead Russians, showing that there had been a fearful struggle in this small space. Russian soldiers were standing upon this mass of humanity, and I watched them . working, manfully to separate the living from the dead, but in half aa hour they had made scarcely any impression." The correspondent of the London Times at Bucharest writes that the Turkish forces number 50,000 at Rasgra<!, 40,000 at Osman Bazaar, 40000 with Sulieman Pasha, and 55000 at Plevna and Lovatz under Osman Pasha. They are opposed by 200,000 Russians. Another estimate places Mehemet Ali's army at J 60,0,00. The Russians are preparing barracks for 200,000 men in Bulgaria. Two thousand Montenegrins surrounded a Herzegovinian village. A fresh band arrived during the night, and the others, mistaking them for Turks, attacked them, fighting all nighfc. In the morning the mistake was discovered, but noj; before 700 had been killed. After the battle near Biela, there was an armistice for the burial of the dead, wlien j the Russians aud Turks fraternised heartily. Whenever they met during the armistice they shook hands, exchanged bread, aud bartered trinket3 . for tobacco, for the first time during the war. It is alleged that Mr Gladstone has written to Greek merchauts at Constantinople, urging the Greeks to unite with the Sclavs and attack the Turk3. An American corressays the statement causes much talk in England, and Russophilists assert that Mr Gladstone is insane and has been so several mouths. There is great excitement iu France on the death of M. Thiers. Feelings of grief and apprehension are universal. A bull ordering the mode of procedure on the death of the Pope has been issued. It empowers the summoning of a conclave straightway.