Dragoons, two of regular Cossacks, some Bashi-Bazouks
of Shirvan, and Armenian militiamen, and 80 pieces of
artillery—the whole commanded by 10 generals, and
forming a total of from 35,000 to 40,000 men, posted
around the town at a distance of three leagues, in four
bodies; it is independent of the division which occupies
Saghanli Dagh, and is fortifying itself at Unkiar-
Douzi. The Turkish forces are divided into two corps,
under the general command of the Mushir Vassif
Pasha. The first corps, that of Kars, is formed of four
divisions, namely:—1, the division of General Kmetty
Ismail Pasha, 4,500 strong; 2, that of Ismail Bey, of
3,000 men; 3, one of 4,000 men; and 4, another of
3,500 men. The second corps, commanded by Mehemet
Pasha, Governor-General of Erzeroum, is composed
of three divisions; that of Erzeroum, composed of
1,500 irregular troops, commanded by Tahir Pasha;
that of Kupru-Keni, consisting of 10,000 irregulars,
commanded by Veli Pasha; and that of Alti, 3,000
strong, under Ali Pasha."

Omer Pasha has been invested with the Order of the
Bath. The ceremony took place at the British Embassy
at Pera, on the 11th inst. Shortly after 1 o'clock, the
outer gates of the palace were thrown open, and double
lines of English and Turkish troops formed from that
point to the principal entrance to the building. An
hour later the celebrities invited to witness the ceremony
began to arrive, amongst the first of whom were
the high functionaries of the Porte, attended by a
brilliant retinue of attendants. Then came the Sardinian
and French ambassadors, with the members of
their respective legations, and a few minutes later Omer
Pasha himself, accompanied by a staff as gorgeous as
military decorations and gold lace could make it. The
ceremony began by an address to the illustrious soldier,
signifying the distinguished sense entertained by our
sovereign of his high merits and important services, to
which Omer Pasha replied in a speech expressive of
his obligation for the brilliant honour he was about
to receive, and of the profound feelings of gratitude
and admiration with which he was filled towards her
Majesty. A secretary of the legation read aloud the
royal command, which conferred on the Sirdar-Ekrem
the Grand Cordon of the British Order of the Bath;
after which Lord Stratford invested the Ottoman chief
with the red ribbon and its brilliant appendages, and
dubbed him with all set ceremony a true and proper
knight. A grand dinner in the evening wound up the
proceedings of the day.

Colonel Henry Cobbe, commanding the 4th King's
Own Regiment, has died from the effects of wounds
received on the 18th of June. He commanded in the
trenches of the left attack while the assault was made
against the Redan on the one side, and by the second
brigade of the third division, under Major-General Eyre,
against the works to the left of the south harbour on
the other side. Colonel Cobbe's regiment belonged to
the first brigade of the third division, and was in reserve.
He received two wounds—one in the right arm, the
other in the back of the neck, and both from musket
balls. The wound in the arm he received while giving
some directions in one of the advanced approaches. He
subsequently, to avoid the impediment of a number of
men who were in the trench along which he was
passing, went on the open ground far enough to expose
himself to view above the parapet, and thus received
the second shot at the back of the neck. Neither
wound was in itself dangerous, but Colonel Cobbe's
constitution had suffered severely from long service in
the 2nd West India Regiment, and he had not strength
enough to resist the effects of the fever which followed
the injuries. He was highly respected in his regiment,
and was well known as an active officer and a man of
daring courage.

The death of Captain Arthur Layard, of the 38th
regiment, a very intelligent and active officer, and
brother to the celebrated Assyrian explorer and politician,
has been announced. He had been attacked by
dysentery, and early in the present month was
recommended by a medical board to leave for England, but
was too weak to bear the journey. His loss will be
deeply felt in his regiment, where he has long been
conspicuous on account of his talents, and a general
favourite from his many social qualities. For some
time past he has been acting in the Quarter-master
General's department, and attached to the Second
Division. He was selected for the appointment without
solicitation. Captain Layard was nearly at the head of
the list of captains in his regiment at the time of his
decease.

The correspondent of the Daily News, writing on
the 11th instant, gives a most unfavourable report of
the Turkish troops before Sebastopol. These troops,
he says, "are under the command of Osman Pasha,
the illustrious old warrior who commanded the Ottoman
contingent at Balaklava last winter. This officer not
only has not the smallest idea of making any known
earthly use of any body of men, great or small, but is
as finished a specimen of the ignorant and brutal old
Pasha as I have yet met with. His darling weakness,
which forms so prominent a feature in his character as
to excite the remarks even of his brother officers, would
in England bring him under the operation of some such
penalty as transportation for life." As a specimen of
the conduct of these Turkish soldiers, the writer relates
the following incident:—"Close to the seashore, in
a secluded glen, about three miles from where I write,
there is a farm-house, which until lately was occupied
by a French family named Michel. It consisted of the
father, the intendant of Count Pironski, who has a
country-house beyond Baidar, his two grown-up
daughters, one of them married, and his wife, an old and
feeble woman. Relying upon their nationality as a
protection, they remained quietly here after the
Russians had retired, and the French outposts had
occupied the neighbouring valley. At last the Turks
marched down from Tchioulion, and being afraid to go
down towards Baidar, their outposts, under the command
of Ali Pasha, remained on the heights overlooking
the valley; Omer Pasha being farther back towards
Miskomia. Some of the Turkish soldiers, in their
rambles in the neighbourhood, went down to Laspi,
entered the farm-house, seated themselves, and
demanded food and drink, which were at once supplied.
Having finished their repast, one of them extended his
hand towards M. Michel, and signified that he wanted
'magyars'—which being the Turkish name for
Austrian ducats, they take to be likewise a correct
denomination of all French coin of any kind whatsoever.
The Frenchman, thinking they took him for a
Hungarian, endeavoured to explain that he was French,
and I have no doubt he succeeded; but a stop
was soon put to all parley, by their getting up, tearing
his watch from his pocket, wrenching the earrings
from his daughter's ears, and then making a minute
search with the grossest brutality of the persons of the
three women, having previously knocked the father
down with the stock of a musket. It is further alleged
that they committed the last of outrages upon the
females; but this does not appear in the report
addressed by M. Michel to General Pelissier, as it is
naturally one of those things which no family would
care to publish, even if true. General Pelissier
forwarded the complaint to Omer Pasha, who not only
took no measures to detect the delinquents, which could,
have been effected in five minutes, by drawing up Ali
Pasha's brigade in line, but pretended to look upon it
as an insult to his army devised by the French, and
declared that the crime must have been committed by
Frenchmen disguised as Turks. All comment on this
would be absurd."

The Overland Mail has brought advices from
Calcutta to the 4th, and from Bombay to the 10th of
July. Tranquillity prevails in every part of India. The
most important intelligence relates to the mission which
Major Phayre was about to undertake to Ava. It
seems that the story about the revolution at Ava was
totally incorrect. The king remains on the throne, and
as friendly as ever to Europeans. Major Phayre
proceeds as our envoy, with Captain Yule, a very
eminent engineer officer, as his secretary. Captain
Rennie, of the Indian navy, who accompanies the
mission, with Lieutenant Heathcote as his assistant,
will survey the Irrawaddy, and report on its navigation.