Short And Sharp

Mr. Boker, United States Minister ai St. Petersbtirgj, retomen to liis homo in Philadelphia, in a reeent interview coufirms a statement wliich has been made many times, that the Turkish irmy íb in a demoralizeil eondition and cannot exeeed 300,000 men, while the liussinn anny is in perfect order, nml om muster 1,000,000 men, well drillel nnd disciplined, plentifullj supplied with uims ailcl material of war ; and thftt Rnssia, in ix weeks after tlie war is eommenced, can, if she is so disposed, be at the gate8 of Constantinople, nnd tliat, between the two (?rcat vrmifM, the Turku will be ttfr j torly Itimlnlfl1