... The New York Courier says that the Government have received very late advices from the Gold Region of such a glowing and glittering character as even to justify with- holding particulars from the public. The United States revenue cutter Ewing was to sail immediately for Cali- fornia. The precise nature of her errand was unknown. The last advices (received by way of Mexico and New Orleans) ...

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... 1P Ill . _ _ _ II TOiutixTHI HA;LL.-AO exhibition of drawings by the scholars of. Messrs. Satte'rthwalte and Thiktlethwraite, took place at Tulketh Hall on Wednesday, which wast attended by the parents of the pupils and other friends. So[uonr EXA:MXsAT6S.osSeveral Of the sehools of this town havO, during the past week, undergone their usual 'Christmas examination, sad.the' p#pii have in ...

... LzOEwSiNa A 'CUqnTE.-On Tuesday last, at the Dio- cesan registry, the Right Rev. the lord Bishop of Man- chester, licensed the Rev. Ralph .Wilde, B.A., to the cnracy of Tarleton, near this town. s i CHURaC AND STATE.-Dissenting ministers in variobs parts of thle kingdom, are, by way of lectures, giving readings, with appropriate comments and confirmatory iladstrate.ons frmn;Mr.Baptist Noel's ...

... On Wednesday evening a meeting of operatives con- nected with the iron trade, viz.,-Engineers, moulders, millwrights, rmiths and mechanics, was held in the large room of Mr. Forrest, Masons' Arms, Salford, to meet a deputation from the Central Committee of the Iron Trade of London, specially sent to lay before the body the evils suffered through the systemmatic reduction of wages. Mr. John ...

... (From Colbuins United Service Mayazine) [Where two places are mentioned, the last named Is that In which the depot of the regiment is stationed.3 Ist Life Guards, Hyde.park. 43d, Kilkenny. 2d Do., WIndsor. 44th, Malta, Idle of Wight. Royal H. Guards, Regent'e-park. Reserve batt. Malta. I st Drag. Guards, Cahir. 45th, Cape G. Hope,Islo of Wight 2d1, Pierehill. Reserve batt., Cape G. Hope 3d, ...

... 1 ad THP RnsToRATioN.-Tuesday last being the anniversary of the restoration of the merry monarch, Charles the Be- Stcond, the bells of the Parish Church rang a merry peal tle on the occasion. e- PREFEUMUEST. -The R1ev. John Thompson, B.A., of on Trinity College, Dublin, and late curate of Walton-le-dale, has been presented by the Lord Chancellor, to the vicar- age of Easby, near Richmond. id ...

... ;FLEETWOOD, PRESTON, &i WEST I* RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. t On Wednesday last, an extraordinary general meeting i of the shareholders of the Fleetwood, Preston, and West I Riding Junction Railway Company was held at the Town l Hall. The meeting was called in pursuance of a requisi-l tion, signed by twenty shareholders, desiring that a ime.t. v ing should be ...

... The election of members of the Board of Guardians for the next year is concluded, and the result, in this town, fully bears out what we have stated on more than one occasion, that a very great re-action has taken place in the minds rf the ratepayers, since the time when the Cock-pit clique carried all before them. Last year they returned, by large majorities, ten out of the twelve Guardians ...

... BLACKBURN PHILANTHROPJCj BURIAL SOCIETY. i- On Tuesday night lamo, the quarterly meeting of this rfe society was hid 'in ?? Sehool-room, Bent-street; the Richard Townley, ;sq., the president of the society, in the the chair. The wieeting was numerously attended. Ur. The CHAIUMAN briefly opened the business of the 3liO meeting, and called upon the secretary to lay before the ick meeting the ...

... CALAMITOUS FIRE AND LOSS O( TWO LIVES AT CHORLEY. On Thursday morning between three and four o'clock a fire broke out on thle premises of Mr. Thos. Banks, ironmonger, Market-street, Chorley, which was attended with most disastrous consequences and loss of life, two of Mr. Banks's children having perished through suffocation. About three o'clock, Mr. Craven, tea dealer, who occupies premises ...

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