... RUSSIA ON THE BLACK SEA AND THE SEA OF i ?? (Concluded from the Times.) The general form of the Crimea, the arena on which the gigantic contest now waging is to be decided, is 'familiar to every one. It is the southern portion of rthe Steppes of Russia, with the important distinction I that its southern portion is raised by volcanic action to a great height, sometimes reaching to more than ...

... THROUGHOUT our comments on the war, both before and a g since its commnenceinent, we have spoken fronr our ion- -v n 3 victions of what must be, not from our opinions of what. Cl was desirable. We have regardedt it, throughout, i. its ij relation to historical principles, instead of tempor'iary tl politics, not because we wished the crisis to assume the fn judicial solemnity of a great epoch,, ...

... STRATHDOGIE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Sut a The summer competition and show of this Society took place Sat aT- in the 11ev. J. AI'1onald's School-roomn, Gordon Schools, oiln o; Friday last, 27th ult. There woes both a fine day and a H563 Ens splendid exiiibition-thse number of stcinds presented far ont- Esq numbering those of soy previous shw wil h lass of sn. flowers brought forward was ...

... TO TUE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS. SIB,-The new French loan bids fair to rival its predecessor in popularity, notwithstanding its in- creased 'amount. One establishment, the Credit Mobilier, in addition to its original subscription of ten millions sterling, and to the amount subscribed in London through AMessrs. Baring, has been compelled to forward a supplementary list to meet the requisi- ...

... i I PUBLIC MEN AND TIHE PEOPLE-TURKISH LOAN. I .i5^ ~ ^ -~ ~^'(From the Times.) ' Exhibitions of weakness and inconstancy in the many, and criminal and selfish combination in the few, like that which recently occurred on the Turkish Loan, tend, no doubt, not Se only to shake the public confidence in individual statesmen, but m in representative government itself. Foreign newspapers de- n- ...

... le We were enabled list wee' euclusively to anticipate. in agreat ie measure, the report of the Select Committee on the Arctic Ex- d pedition which was presented to the House on Friday, and t. verifies all that we then foreshadowed. The claims of Captain n Maclure are fully acknowledged; and, as the discoverer of the north-west passage, one of the most interesting geographical s. problems of ...

... 13ELIELVIE lIORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Tlir fiiSt Compotitinit, for the scnsen, of the above Society, the 1 ViS holId in the Plarishi Schoolroom, oil Saturday the 21st July way whell, notwsithstanding the backwardness of the eally part of vot: the season, soIe splendid specimens Ivere brought forward for Bai competition, especially in the vgoetable depaltnllte On the nd flow er table were to be ...

... IMISCELLA2NEOUS; -1 ?? I , - i r Tit for Tat-A Yankcee Dodgd.-One day, a client o being anxious to be informed on one or two subjects, e and not wishing to go to the expenseof sundry 6s. 8d. a fees, just asked his lawyer in a friendly manner t to drop in and dine with him. His kind s offer was accepted. At dessert, while discussing ;, various subjects over their wine, he managed 1 artfully ...

... SiL CllAULESS N.teica liavhtg received an invitation to attlend a meeting, to be held to-day, in Edinburgh, in favour of Lord Dnndoiaild's plans, has sent the followilg letter to the writers:- Merecistoun, Hornrdean,,Hants, July 17, 1855. 1GcNTLnErUN-I have to acknowledge tbe receipt of your letter of the 14th oF July, informingl mc tb,,t a roquisitbill is ill course of signature to call a ...

... ROYAL SOCIETY FOR TIH EPROMOTION AND lIMPROVEMIENT OF THE GROWTH OF FLAX IN IRELAND. Tna monthly meeting of committee was held in Belfast, on 25thl ult., John Birney, Esq., Lisburn, in the Chair. LETTERS FISOM THE SOCIETY'S INSTUOUTORS. Letters were read from some of tile Society's In- structors, with reports of the appearance of the flax crop in their districts, which were generally of a ...

... SCSO 5LRNO SiAIAzxS Or PAISOCRIAL SCIIOOLMASTERiB.-IlMT E. Lock. hart lies given no0tic) ill thle House of Coalitions, of a bill to continue the aft for rsgsalating tbe ealaries of Parochial School. .~essin Scotland. ITaoE ORDNANCE SURVET .-Ill tile House8 of Commons onl Monday week, Lord Seymour called attention to tile conduct of thle Governluent With respect to thep Ordnance Surrey of Scot. ...

... A smimary of the following report, by the French Minister of Finance, appeared in our late edition of yesterday. TO THE EMPEROR. Sire,-I proceed to render to your Majesty a report of the known results of the loan, the subscription to whic closed at five o'elock yesterday afternoon. The e information yet to come in is not of a nature to affect it in an important degree, but will be embodied in ...