... THE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' - ADVOCATE. n THE FRIENDLY *SOCIEiTIES ACT-ITS ADVAN- - TAGES AND -DISADVANTAGES. * SIR.-Previous to entering oan a series of articles on the 2nd report of Mr.' Finlaison, 'relative to his analyses of the Friendly Society returns, I again refer to ir. W. Tidd Pratt's work on The Law relating to Friendly Sccieties, eases, Zrom which I gave last week. Allusion was then ...

... );AVALN -- TE BALTIC. rFrom: the Timns.] __ - The allied powers had two objects to accomplish in the Baltic. The !first was to shut up the whole naval power of Russia, to prevent every vessel of war'from leaving her -:ports, or to give battle to the Russian fleet with success. if her 18 line-of-battle ships ventured: beyond the shelter of her land batteries. The second was to blockade and. ...

... 3IO0RE MlL1TARf- BLACHGUARDIsm Am i ~. . . - - . - . ?? _ :>'Th4 Rbchester magistrates were occupied on Monday sorlug ine investigating a charge of a violent and uapro- Voked assault, preferred by Louisa Peiree against Ensign Strover, an officer attached to the Royal Eugineers'estab- lishment at Brompton. ' ?? M. Stephetson; solicitor, appeared for the defendant, who-wa's attended to the court ...

... I FNGLISH LETTRES DE C'AC(E M A tyransnylong denounced in France is still in force in England. It seems that the Eng- lish law provides unscrupulous gentlemen with the means of throwing their enemies into prison without a moment's notice. The case of Madame Caradori may make us all tremble in our beds. We are liable, it seems, at any moment, without receiving any preliminary notice, to, be ...

... OUR CONTE[PORARIES. l RUSSIAN AMNITION IN TEE Normal(gides)- From the plans found at Bomarsaund it is proved that. these works were not more than the fifth part of the vast marine fortification ?? of Russia had be- gun to erect on these islands. Immense expense had aready been incurred; the works were carried on with activity until the commencement of the present war; and they would in a few ...

... PICTURES OF THEE WA R. I THE, DESTRUCTION OF BOMARSUI.90- IixDSaIJ, Sept. S.-Sinec I (Times' correspon°JstR last wrote all the fortifications of Bomarsund have bet U destroyed, and the worlds, which are said to have cost nearly Pi; million and upwards of twenty-five years in eonstructiou, have been reduced to shapeless masses of smonidering bricks and stone in almost as many hours. The work of ...

... ITO C0JRRESPONDENTS.- 'h Correspoidente Awo do not find their toioiniceatio3s no. diced, nlay inter 'ihat we cannot answer themu. decline - todo so. We further cannot, tusi Lwy ?? GULSELVEES WITrH A RETURNe 0 MSS, T. T. B. J. S.-By summons to the county court d ar A Six YEITSt' SUfSSCR1tE5.-No; you have not serve yo time, and cannot claim your indenteres. J. C. (13irminglharn).-The edition or ...

... TEI INGRAHAMD TESTIMONIAL r FUND. The committee to the above Fund, having unaniionsly decided that the small amount of IL 15s. Ild.-the balance remaining in hand after paying allexpenses in relation thereto-should be placed in the hands of Al. Kossuth, to be appropriated as he might deem advisable, the gecre- tary, a few days since, wrote to the noble-minded patriot, soliciting information as ...

... ?? GOSSIP OF THE WeX. The cholera increases in virtilence,ad it ravages occupy' snore of the public mind than the projetdepe'int the Crimea, or the long-expected attack upon Helsingfors. Among the higher ranks, despite of their advantages, a silent panic prevails; for though the pestilence reaps its largest harvest from the ranks of the poor, it has shown iteif at times (as in the case of Lord ...

... CRIMEAN EXPEDITION; .-LANDING OF TE>ARIiES . Advices from Constantinople of the 16th announce that 25,000 French, 25,000 English, and 8X000 Turks landed safely at Eupatoria (about forty miles from- Sebastopol) on the 14th, without meeting any resistancee They im- mediately commencod marching on Sebastopol. The transports returned to -Varna for the reserve. On the 6th the embarkation ot the ...

... FRIENDLY. ADVI*CE.: : To the Emperor of all the Russias, greeting, Psnch would say That for cruel and despotic Czars full long has set the day: The world with years has wiser grown, and now will tolerate No government but that which in its laws is moderate. That tyranny is suicidal'history will show: A nation's vengeance, once aroused, is sure, however slow, From furthest age the darkest page ...

... A We find the following instructive and im- portant record in the ,2forminq Herald Sir Jobn -olt, of Sion-row, bad a narrow escape from accident lasb week. He was driving in his car- riage over Bristol-bridge, when police constable No. 39, when was on duty there, observed that one of the wheels was nearly off Hecalledtotkecoszchmaa, who stopped the vehicle, and on Sir John alighting And ...