... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... CESSATION OF 1PLATIONS IN THE ?? : BALTIC. (Fioin' 'the TV': _ It is repor,(d, and seems to be believed, that Admiral Sir Charles Xapier may be shortly expected in this country on his ret:urn from the Baltic.' Hiss arrival Would, of course, imply that operations in that quarter-are atan end for the y'ear, and that our fleet will soon find ita way to England for the winter. We must needs ...

... SOW 30iMARSUND IWAS- TA1Xim. The following is a letter from the Baltic Thursday morning, Aug. 17, 6 am. ~-Victory! Aland is ours! At 94' a'w. yesterday the Leopard, eighteen, the Heels, six, and Obyte, French, four, steamed into within 1,600 yards of Presto fort, and about 800 yards behind this we bad'the 'mainfortof Boornar. This was a good dodgeas it tued out, for every shot that flew over ...

... 'uIkGserman paper states that on the 28th of August the expedition left Varna, consisting of 48,000 French, 23,000 English, and 9,000 Turks. We, however, believe this statement premature, and think the expedition of the allied forces was to leave Varna on the ist of September. Marshal St. Arnaud had issued an order of the day, dated Varna, August 25, acqnainting the troops that the destinea- ...

... A-T. H d E:. . ?? R k - ?? e . ANOfkER DRALT11. Another death-the third-is adcfid ?? already recorded to have resulted fromn the late nnhappy'and-fearvw' ful accident which took- place at the; Croyuon Station, in a the person of Mrs.' Caroline Harrison, thewife of. a plumber and glazier,, carrying on an- extensive- business in the High-street, 4dhford; who breathed her last at four o'clock on ...

... THS WAe: l: :. :, ITS WARNINGS. 1AND ITS PORTENTS' A glance' at the map of Asia .wilI-showv that the. north-eastern-portion of the Turkish territory in Asia Minor joins that portion of - Georgia-which Russia' had by conquest iucorporated with her own possessionsa Within a dozen miles of the Georgian. frontier stands- the city of. Kars, i Ithe viitinity of, hich a Turkish army has for some . ...