... NORTH UNION. From Preston to Liverpool and Manchester. Arrives at ilanchester. Liverporl. , St . St. I St. tH Al. 8 20 Morning, Mixed ?? 10 20 ?? 10 30 9 45 Morning, First Class ?? 12 0 2 20 Afternoon, Mixed ?? 4 30 .. 4 45 4 20 Afternoon, Mixed ?? 6 20 6.. t 30 6 27 Evening, First Class ?? 8 45 ?? 8 45 ON SUNDAYS. 6 45 Morning, Mixed ?? 45 ?? 9 0 4 20 Afternoon, Mixed ?? 30 ?? 6 45 From ...

... [I W Ire do neot hold ovrseloes responsible for the 8entiiments exrpressed liy our correspotdentto.-Our mnotte is Initi I. tiatity to all.C RURAL POLICE. p To the Editor of thle Preston Chronicle. e SIR, C In your Chrronicle of last Saturday is a paragraph, headed h) Inefficiency of Rural Police, Signed 11A Churchman.' a Ile asks-can you inform him if there are any police sta- v tioned at ...

... University and Clerioa Intelligence.j| OXroRD, Sept 4.-Tho Bodleian Library has been re- opened, A legacy of 10001. has been recently bequeathed to the Church Pastoral Aid Society by the, lite Thomas Moyrick, of Lesaut, Cornwall, 'for the special benefit of the princi- pality of Wnlea. It is with deep regret that we announce the death of the Rev. George Preston, who with so much credit filled ...

... SPECIAL COUNCIL WE G..NG. A special meeting of the Council was yesterday held in the Council Chamber, Town-hall, for the purpose of transacting the foilowing business, namely,- I. To elect an alderman in the room of the late S. Hor. rocks, Esq., deceased. II. To take into Consideration a motion relative to the appiiroen of the £12,000 to be raised by mortgage of part of the corporate properly. ...

... NE`VsrArxn3.-A child beginning to read becomes de. lighted with a newspaper, because he reads of names and thuings which are very fasniliar, and he will make a progress accordin6'ly. A newspaper in one year, (says Mr. Weeks), is worth a quarter's schooling to a child, and every father inui.t Consider that substantial infoimation is connected with this advancement. Tfle mother of the family ...

... ll: , That immediate and extensive change in the MaONEY MAlucrt which was anticipated from the time of thl nueet- ing of parliament has not yet occurred, and capitalists ap. pouredl to be generally waiting for tho developeinent of tlhe plans of the government on the subject of tho corn laws, which was to he known on Wednesday night. The proposed chliiges, and tile opiieon becomes more ...

... LATEST NEWS FROM AMERIlC at nine 1l The Great Western, which reactned Lnverlru a -- o'clock on Wednesday evening, brings intelligence from Now York to tile 24th April. The report of the important debate on the Oregon ques. tion in the British Parl;,ment had been received by the ,Caledonia on the 21st, and at first elicited sundry ebullitions Of splenetic wrath from the newspapers, which ...

... I LONGRIDGE. LOeanGnoD GUILD,-(FrOOO a Correspondent.)-This annual festival, which was held on Monday last, outrlvolied any of its predecessors in spirit and gaiety. The weather was most unfavourable; yet the ardour of the villagers, visitants, and others, who arrived from Pres- ton, Chipping, Ribehester, and other places, ewas sinbounded. The members of the several societies held at ...

... GUARDIAN MEBzTrNl. On Tuesday last, the Board of Guardians held their weekly meet. h g at the Overseers! Office, Lord Street, Preuton, when the following Guardians vere present:- Thomas ilatty Addison, Esq., Chairman. Col. Itawstorne, Sr. Gornaill, Brougiton The Itev. J. Owen Parr, , J. Alston, Goosunrgh Mr. W. Ainsworth, Preston ,, J. Sefton, Rlbehester P. Dobson, Preston ,, E. Bridge, ...

... | A meeting of the Town Council of this borough was held on Tuesday last, hi the Town Hall. Present:-T. German, Esq., mayor, In the chair; T. B. Addison, Esq., recorder; Aldermen, J. fforrocks, Haydock, Monk, G. Gradwell, and W. Taylor; Councillors, J. J. Myres, J. Addison, t. Waterworth, F. Armstrong, sen., Carr, R. Threlfall, Stevenson, Humber, R, Pedder, W. Alnsworth, J. Hum. ber, and ...

... BLACKBURN. AND PRESTON RAILWAY. HALF-YEARLY MEETING. The half-yeariy meeting of ?? was held at Blaek- burn, on Thursday rfternoon last ; R. Dugdalo,. Esq., in the chair. There was a full attendance of share-holders. The Chairman called on the Secretary to read the following :EIOlIT. 'In eompliance with t~le Rcsolut0on of the last General Meeting, the New Shares then created were offered to ...

... N CIlORLEY, h CHILD KILeu.-Osn Wednesday last, an inquest was taken, at the a, Joiner's Arms, before R. Palmer, Esq., coroner, on view of the body & of Thomas Riatcliffe, a child, seventeen months old, who was killed ce on the morning previous, by being run over by a cart, that was passing e through Market-street. A little girl was also run over, at the same y time, but ele eseaped unhurt. ...