... I About the same period of time, there arose, in the Episcopalian and Presbyterian Established Churches of Great Britain, a movement, directed to apparently . similar objects, and originating in apparently a simi- lar cause. In each church there grew up a party, anxious for the spiritual resuscitation of faith and doctrine, and impatient of the temporal control of the civil authority. Both ...

... EARLY CLOSING. To the Editor of the Preston Chronicle. SIR, In your Chronicle of last week I observe:some remarks made by W. A. Spencer for the Promotion of the Early Closing system among linen drapers,bhosiers, silk mercers, &c. The writer has stated several facts, the truth of which I can fully corroborate. But I fear nothing can be done unless some influential party-say the MayorI were to ...

... V - l UNITED STATES. By the packet-ship Mary Ann, Captain H. Patten, arrived in the Medsey on Monday morning, we have ac- counts fromaNew, Yorkto thep 4th, and from Boston to a the 6th nit. - She brings no specie on freight. El Republlicane, published at Mexico on the 4th, says I That-a sufflicient number of members had arrived at Queretaro on the ist of November for the transaction of ...

... Btail(uan KMcIlRynce. 1-1-11-1111 --------- -11-1 -------- Tue railkoway calls fir, thle present mouth, as ativilinced. ill the Almoichester 'Sloet, L'.hungeiq C'ircular, arL 4£4,-V1,$b'2. -2 AUDIT OF flAlTMAY AccousTs.-Atoongst thle pitrliarnien- 9 tary papers issmed oii 'i'iccsilay was Lord Mionteagle's bill to Ili pri'omde for it mo~ re cihitiiwt~ ii tdit of rail way accoiunts in 18: ...

... Tl'ABLE TALK. A !'emllo ?? ?? anecdote is told of the Due Io Cielwesl, nmo the King of the French, which can ?? ?? been publiehed without the warranty of that hlr. ' eerswnige Smeie business having brought him Ir I -lI1oui.-iLsI armnY to Paris soon after the massacres Pte!ber, Dantonl sent for him, and informed him Jlob l heand that hie ventwred in conversation to t.'li' ho treelv on that ...

... THE NEW YEA±5. 2There Is something very m elancholy Sn the liast day,-. thithree hundred anid sixty-ifta' beatf: an expiring tlx and no one has liit this chord tof feelingmlore truly jiasa a Spanishpoet, of thc naaam ol Lbl: Baylon, thus 5'AuEWaolI. vo Ti5Ex ThIi. Hark, friends ! it strikes-tb year's last hour- A& solomu sovund to hear: Come, fill the cup, sad let Us pour Our blessing on the ...

... dioretin r etlelIeure. Peil P TUA.-CHANGE OF Mtaetsray.-The Iberia, which qi arrived at Soflthampton on the 300h ult, fromn the Peninsula, brings intelligence thatt the Portuguese cabinet resignad on Ca tbe 16ith ult. The queen signed on the samne (lay thle Uo', mc imination of the following ministry :-Paesidcnt of thle rft council, the Duke of Saldanbha; minister of the interior, wil Senhor ...

... | COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF IMPORTS I AND STOCKS OF COTTON. . l i;tAX-.-U~ Us'n UVIJ1.j.N. . jj (From 21essrs.. Cunatueqhanr,4 Hinshiaw's Circuslar.) as la ot of Liverpool, 9sletDecember, 1847, 1840, and.18495. 0t X.1 St~aT vo cc 1847. 1840. 1848. 1847 1840. 1849. III 50 tb a--- - -- - -- C 'ir Sea Island . 09 470 88 re or Stained dlitto . 272901 240949 491284 680 690 040 a. B~owelds . ...

... i, BARBAROUS MURDERt tN LrITrII.-On Wednesday it night last, an armed party attacked the house of a quiet, inoffensive man, a pensioner from the band of the Long- ford militia, named Levy, residing about five 'miles from Longford, in the county of Leitrim, near Drumilish, and h shot him dead, sitting at his' own fire. On receiving the r shot, his body tumbled into the fire, where it was found ...

... BA|h WAY IEPABT I1S.. Fro po*ar~t5 ?? iaean rn 7 40 A.4 ?? IIId C14Ol. 9 10 4.55., et & 2d CliS. 10 P-M., Mixed, 145 j~m.~1ss.t&2d'CI5. . 83v -s. Mao,. 1 0pj.;,Ist &IdClae QSt StTPDAYSD8 S A.5., Shred; a 5is. Mixtj. ItSS jetM oItO to anO5 Zd Preelons. 745 A.M.3mX .1, 45 P~.M.,ls~t&r.daso 9 15A13.M.,15 2 11. 325 P.M.,lst&2dCIs, 10 40 A.M.,lejt&2dO1s; 7 -15 PA.,9t.o~xd* Ox SuAls -8 0 A.m., ...

... CL MANeulasTER, FanDAY EVEXINxI, 1)EC. 31.-Tloere has is £0 beets decidedly an improved demiland in tile market (luring the sil present week. OLers bare been made more freely for cloth, particularly the lowrer descriptions of 40-inch; and wye are giad PT to mention that some of these offers have beea from India P, houses, and with a view to shipments to that quarter. T'ie to Greel buyers still ...

... ATTEMPT AT ITIboWAY ROBBERY NEAR UPrrPE PAR- LIAMENrT STREET.-O1 Tuesday evening last, about six o'clock, Mr. John B. Neilson, stock and share broker, of this town, left the residence of his aunt, in the Park, to return to his own house in Falkner-square. After pro- ceeding some distance along Lord Sefton's new street, he turned up a narrow laue, leading to Parliament-street, and, when near ...