... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... n . irannW. Commisj i Letters from Paris.bxpreeahin belief thatltbe allies can hi a- fw time of I n weeks permanently blockade the whole of-tbo Crimean peninsula day. A by sea, and by. accompanying this act. with a land force sufficient dreds-2 to intercept the Perekop route close round the enemy on, all Bulganei sides. The points held, by the aies, probably, until peace is was tales concluded ...

... WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST i. In the the House of Lords, on Monday evening, a . number of private bills received the Royal assent by commission. Several measures having been advanced a stage, their Lordships adjourned at a little after seven o'clock. On Monday, at the morning sitting of the House of Commons, the Limited Liability Bill was further con- sidered in Committee. The clause which ...

... RY OFFICE, W33D~eESDAY, ELZVU14 O'Wl;3;C3. tI32 E WA152~.: THE CRIMEA. Gortschakoff reported on the 28 th July, that on the eveaiug of the 27th the enemy .opeued a heavy cannonade for two hours against Bastion No. 4. The fire was vigorously answered. There was nothing new from other parts of the Crimea. The Daily News says, under head of Vienna, Tues- (lay, that according to news from ...

... SIR JOIN BI'NEILL'S RPPORT ON THE ALLEGED I DESTITUTION IN THE HIGHLANDS. (Colltitincd from Herald ?? 25.) it ap There seems to be no doubt that every one in cilenle 1 ?? fully aware of the right of any person who is refused rolief by.I qiuen the parochial authorities to apply to the Sheriff, and there is tOn, reason to believe that the paupers generally, especially iii the'p Knoydart, are ...