... CORRIESPONDENCE . jy We do Hot hold ouraclees rsopoasitOldkO ?? s55Ohilicnt5 .V- plessedtby oar ?? ,t10 is1 Implpartialty Io ate. HINTS FOR THE POLICE. To thc BEditer of the Preston Chrosicte. Sil, I wish, through tile medium of your valuable journal, to call the ?? tt Otil o polit to tilo dangerous practice of throwinig stones, whih I rt-gret to say is carried out in this town to a very ...

... TUE CHRONICLE. ' PRESTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1846. The season has returned when the customary. anniversaries of the various local agricultural asso- ciations throughout the kingdom are usually cele-, brated by an exhibition of stock, and a friendly dinner. These meetings, we have Always thought, might be turned to better account than they gene- rally are. Mostly, the speeches delivered by ...

... lociff KlittIliaturt. WORDS AND ExPEI'NIEsNTS.-Mr. Sinith's hand-book till of leesons onl these subjects, though areadIV in extensive he~ iose, is still findng its way into newcircles of the rising in generation, giving clear ideas of words andby suggest thE NEWTON AGrICULTURAL SocIsrT.-The annual meet- me ing announced for yesterday has been postponed till in mext Thunrsday, in conscquience ...

... - ?? The banquet given to Mr. Cobden by the Libre-En- u changistes of Bordeaux, took place on the 1st inst., in the £ Salle Francklin, which was fitted up for the occasion with bi great taste and elegance. At seven o'clock upwards of St 300 guests took their seats at the tables. The chair was 0n taken by M. Duffour Dubergier, having on his right hand gi the guest of the evening, Mr. Cobden. At ...

... THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. . Poverty is a crime. Our readers will find this assertion e amply proved if they judge by the treatment of the co children in the Industrial School, as recorded in the O report read at the Select Vestry, and inserted in our last to paper. 'Itappearsfrom that report, thata certain dietary was appointed for the children, and that the written in n instructions of the ...

... BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANWE- IMENT OF SCIENCE. '~The sectional sittings commnenc~ed on Thursday. In at the division for Zoology and Botany, Professor Edward I Forbes read a paper on 3elley fishes. By means of the Of dredge and the labours of Mr. M'Andrew, of Liverpool, ~e the Professor had been enabled to study this family, and rs he proceeded to classify above fifty species, thirty ...

... hourE COMIttNED RAIILWAY STATIOXs.-We have the pleasure to night say that the Leeds and Thirsk, tile London and York, the in evr Manchester and Leeds, with the West-Ridiug Union Com- SP, pain', and the Leeds and Dewsbury companies, have given the ( instructions to their engineers to form a plan or plans for good the construction of railway stations on the land between Wel- 10,00, .ligton'rosd ...

... MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS, - - ?? ?? . . I-- -- - - - - - - - -. . AAA ?? Tii' xtMOW'RTiERS IN SCHOOT. IOOmS.-A thermormeter si shoiind be kept in every school-room, aid hing ol theI oolest 1 side of it. The proper temperature should be deterinied by vc unchangeable laws, not by the variable feelings or caprice of ri- any individnal. Without a thernnometer-if the tencher be habituated to live in ...

... thil On Thursdlay evening, at half-past seven o'clock, there was M: a public meeting of the rate-payers of the borough of Man- U -cheater, in the Meal house, Nicholas Croft, for tlod purpose -of laying before the rate-payers the counsel's opinion reltiv to the legality of the 5s. rate; and, also, for' ?? h obet3f thle Rate-payers' Association. Mr. Bwtnws ( called to thle chair. At this time ...

... I . I ;_WM RON ESQ., M.P. FOR!E rugs~I SoTHtT LANCASHIRE. 1 . na_ no A .. dinner .. a given to Wm. Brown Esq. yes- pubic. wek a te ag's Head doftel, War- fen,~ .of~ hi hreturn as the representative g0d3fe celebhation d of the triuima h of free trade j~ti~j,0cahir. asoccupied by *. Altcar, Esq., ?? Thn~e chair ~t'phe dHoyn. .iember, about ~ ~a o comerialfredo. Among T~ ?? to e df~~ends of ...

... PUBLIC B&rE§FAST OF THE iEVAN. G&EUCAL ALLIANCE. I- . ?? 'a On Mondayii'morninig, the American )ministers and Ur[ e, brethren who -had come over to this country to take part grot gin ite'receat proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance, ini appl London, wese~entertained at a public breakfast, by the Liverpool members and friends of tile alliawce, at the V ir Maoic-liall, Bold-street. Thlitrepast ...

... - - WEDNESDAY, Eepkrsbcr & 5 The usual monthly meeting of the Council was held this day. to ?? wais wonty tenty minutea after eleven o'clock before the **iOktlhe chair. there not ?? that time a sufficifent r4 s niit~t~rofnt~~ber present to conitlote a Council. h e~ 2 A41 FINANORC0 cO6 TTrER. - Thficonmlittee reported, en the o~Posed embellishment ?? - e Georgese-hall, thal4It1 'would cost o ...