... | 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 ...

... I- 1 . OL.T.AL ~~~, . . . . ?? ?? _ ?? SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.-Mr. Loscelles and Lord Courtenay are mentioned as probable successors to Sir Tho . ' mas Fremantle, in the oice of Secretary for Ireland, t MINISTERIAL CIIANUES.-SIR ROIEUT PEEL.-A gene- t rat impression obtains that Sir Robert Peel, in consequence of ., the numerous official resignations recently tendered to him, t lhas intimated ...

... i DEis'osT8.-A new method has lately been adopted by some of the railway companies in endeavouring to enforce payment on the allotment of shares as originally made, which is to give the names of all the heat allottees to pressing creditors to sue them for tho debts of the company. In several cases we know The threat habs been made, but we were hardly aware it had been put into execution, ...

... : The subjoined letter, relative to the mismanage- ment of the means -and appliances of the resources at. the command of the authorities at the general post-office, deserves the most serious attcntion from the inhabitants of this district. The complaint is not. a mere querulous one, arising from some solitary disappointment or vexation, but is one which is gene- s'iy. made, because the ...

... STILL THE CORN RILL! Tim Protectionists aro determined to die hard. They seem to have acquired new vigour during the Whitsun holidays, and to have drawn fresh courage from the uncertainties which have sprung up with respect to party taetics. Hence, on Thursday night, the protracted discussion upon carrying the Corn Bill into Committee. When the -question was preI . viously before them, the ...

... TFcE ?? the resignation of Lord Lyndhurst, which is likely soon to take place, Sir Robert Peel intends, it is said, dividing the political from the judicial functions, by which the office of Lord Chancellor will become free from the ups and downs of ministerial mishaps, SanIous INaunY CAUSED BY A GOAT. - On Monday afternoon, as some children were teasing a goat in Church- street, Oxford-street ...

... Iii** ; oti I 07 - i- .i ' - 7 |A . Mthe. gl. Grdhii .bnB, I Esq,, and Messrs. M. Satterthwaite, P. Dobson,:,Phn 'Nobile Jame ,{Carr, ?? n,1tichiar~d- lfbb rtey' Wv' Niclikqop wftrigh ?? !octrphl P~niberton; the &eeieraf ?? their Ebookg, when iper cd there had been expended; in Outdonr rliat'4 16s;. 6d. In-door relief £39 2s. 6d. ?? £11,a Consutied'6OQ' 1. ?? I'iAt4eA ?? 9ber of | p$T~NoQ1 ~ ...

... II THE WEST INDIAN AND MEXICAN MAILS. t The Royal Mnail Steam-shilp Tay, Capt. Sturdee,arrived I at Southampton on Tuesday cvening last. Site had on freight 600,000 dollars for mterehats' account, gold dust t and gold, value about £33,000; 7601b. of silver, 7 pack- c ages of platina, 53 bales of tobacco, 07 cases of cigars, c 1 cases of pine-apples, Rud a variety of other produco. c The ship ...

... MI8QU-LL..EOUS N l. Mt18OELLAMEOUS. NESWi.,h- iI I ?? I3ONAPARTE .-PriflcaO Loulis tenoipartt is nowv.1 sojournin at Sir J. Gerrard's, near Warrington. SPANIISH YUBTICrt-.Tho LUsbon mob trocbntly attacked the ouqitailor, no doubt for the bad mleasures of ministers. Flluiox Doas.-At the Dorehester asslizes, sr. Day, an attorney, recovered £5 damages for his son, a little boy, aged seven years, ...

... |' TEE CCHRR(O, THEN CITJeONI L.: PRSOSATURDAY, MARkCH 14, Il4. I OIKCOPYHIOLDS, AND PAUPERSg| The anti-eorn-law mensure- of the government ?? moreprdgreesnin Prliamen, dirler tho paet eek, thiinaa e previons faolions opposition of the ultra-protectionists had led the public to expect. Any prolongation of the struggle for ?? on trade, seesI, indeed, to. be aoos admilted, on all hands, to be ...

... POTATOES. To the Editor of the Preston Chronicle. SIR. I cannot see why the person who wrote to you last week should offer to sell potatoes to Mr. Taylor, to be deli. vered in March, at Bs. 6d. per load, when he might have for them now, 9s. in Preston, about the same in Manchester, and l5s. in Covent Garden market. The person must, s6rely,lhe a very patriotic sort of a body, to keep them to ...