... During the last week the weather has been very un- favourable in this part of the country for the drying of the grain, and the greater part of it still remains in the fields, cut, but not in a fit state to be housed. It has several times been almost ready for stacking, but in each case rain has come before it was throughly dry, and has rendered a further delay necessary. On several days the ...

... Ad ff ?? THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1846 . . - Parliament; it wasunderstood, wasto be prorogued ' yesterday. On Thursday,' Lord John Russell, Lord Grey, Lord Lansdowne, Sir G. .Grey and other mom-; bers of the cabinet left London,' to. proceed to: Osborne House, in the Isle' of Wight, where the Queen is at present staying,yfor the puriose of hold- ing a Privy Council, to ...

... 11 ?? LOCAL INTELLIGE I TInE PLANET SATURN is now in its best position, o for the present year, for being viewed through a to telescope, being in its nearest position to the earth. p About ten or eleven o'clock at night is a good time b for seeing it. It is in the South-east, not high in the 1 heavens, and appears to the naked eye a conspicuous , star of a red colour. Its ring is a beautiful ...

... MISCELL&NEOUS NEWS. | | INrii.-It is rumourea that Lord Normanby is to eue- ceed Lord Hardinge in India. CuEAP BREAD.-At Dmifflies the 41b. loaf, which has been seling at 8d. has been redruced to 5d, Three cart loads of breadwere shld at this price in a few hours. HLAVEST WAoss.-Rleapors' wages about Carlisle are 3s..8d. a day, which is higher than they were ever known to be before.- - ...

... ( -~ zo roser ?? . ?? ?? - I (From o117 Londoa Cforr CSpodct.) F The long session is ended; the doors of Parliament are w locked; members are gone to the moors and the mountains, di up the Rhine, down the Danube, or else are looking after D neglected private affairs, and coquettiug with constituents. Mr. BROTHIERTON hanS moved for a return of the days and hours during which the House of ...

... I 'e do not hold ourselves responsiblefor the sentimsents ex- pressedby our Correspondents.- but Motto is SImprtialiity to (IZ. COUNTY ACCOUNTS. To the Editor of the Preston Chronicle. Bil, The statement of the county accounts, undertaken by Willian Garnett, Esquire, of Quernmore Park, near Lan- caster, is by this time in the hands of every magistrate of this county, having been sent by ...

... VARIE TIE S. as The Ateqsbury Gazette contradicts the statemecet that the the Duke of Nassaui is about to marry his SIS~-l- ,the Gn Ile., Duchess Catherine. liow~t.aw a On Monday 750 tons Of ice accived at Liverpool ?? ree Bostoni, in the Sablcatlis, being tile largest cargo ever ume thel ported into this country. t WEDD)INGS EXECUTED ON THlE SHORTEST NJOTICE.-Tie thle Spanish ministers have ...

... D)ODUST1C. J ' SUPPLY OF FOOD.- If the system of corn-laws re- 'pealed by Sir Robert Peel had still remained in force, the country would at the present time have been in a most alarming position. , The article of food on which five or. six millions of the people have hitherto subsisted exclu- sively, and which is consumed to a considerable extent-by. all classes of persons, is perishing in the ...

... OPENING 'OF THE PUBLIC PARKS. I - I I v Oin Satie pnas -leIbl ic parks were formally thrown 7 1s 1 (1OCIIt the iceopie cif Manchester asid Salford, tutd the dlay, at, cliii fortunately, was it iost beuctifuil one. Tue streets were COn- T' ~odly equently throngel ait anl early hour with holiday people, ?? moOTE of 'them in their best appalrel, cocil consideraible ?? pi bM ers of p'rsons ecitine ...

... SIlR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS ACCUSERS. e When the late Prime Minister, at the opening of Pl the session of Parliament which has but just termi- ft e nated, defended his flee-trade measures on the ground, ti not only of their abstract justice, but also of the dan- T r ger to which the people were exposed through the Y' failure of the potato crop , it was asserted that a tern- e porary evil did not ...

... THE NEW;rOOR LAW. I The favourite sehere of the philosophical econo- .. mistsbas, aftertwelve years' trial, exploded . Its very; x authors are ashamed of the Newv Poor-law; and c those appointed to administer it, and to regulate its' in worldngs, have praetically confessed that the machine will not answer its purposc; that it is too unwieldy to be effectively guided; that it is incapable of t, ...

... i ?? . HOUSE OF ORS Priday, August 21. DEATi By, A6011JENTS C014PENSATION Bift.-Lord Campbel movedthat the Commions' mendu ments to this huh e aree to.Thebil orginaly rovdedthat the compnsaiongratedby uris soul got~ithenext of kin, ut th othr houe hadmadean ametndmlent by, which the compensation was to be apportioned anmepg.the. members of the family. He regarded' this bill ast the most ...