... CORBRESPONDENCE. THE RIBBLE COMPANY. C TO THE EDITOR OF THlE PRESTON CHRONICLE. i SIR,-For some years back I have seen nothing in the I f newspapers respecting the Ribble, except an occasional d note stating the progress of the improvements. How- .. ever, on reading the Chronicle of tile 9th instant, I was l greatly surprised to find that the Queen claimed 5 per c cent. of the reclaimed lands, ...

... II OPENING OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH, YEALAND CONYEIUS. (From a Correspondent) This beautiful little church, erected in honour of, and dedicatedto, the Virgin Mlary,by Rd. Gillow, Esq.,of Leigh- ton Hall,at a cost of from 1,100 to £1,200, was solemnly openedon Thursday week, ?? the Dedicationof St. Nfaryad Nives. In the absence of Bishop Brown, of Liver- pool, the Right Rev. Bishop Briggs, of ...

... (From a Correspondent of the London Times) The order and quietude of the working classes in the wide and populous manufacturing districts of Lancashire, Cheshire, and Yorkshire, are manifest proofs of the regu- larity and constancy of their employment, and of the comforts which free trade has bestowed upon them. At no period within my remembrance (and 1 have been inti- mately acquainted with ...

... ALLEGED MISREPORTING or THE CLITHECIQE NO.MINATION PROCEEDINGS. TO THE EDITOR 0F THlE PRESTON CHRONICLE. tlh SIR,-The dilemmas in which my communication of the c ...

... AMENDED PRO II1IB1TORY OR DE R OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD. A nMeetiiig- Of ?? fron boards of guardians, Nvitli rate_ payers Haol otliirs, wats ielil it, the music sailooin of thle Alb ion Hotel, 'Manlchester, oil Moniday afternoon, for the purpose of re- ceiving a re port from the commnittee appointedl at a meetilig on thle 2;5tl October last, to hav,, ain Interview with thle poor-law board, wcith ...

... The sixth anniversary of the Blackburn Mechanics' Institution was commemorated on Thursday evening last, t by a tea party and ball, which took place in a spacious t room belonging to the Bolton Railway Company. The i attendance was tolerably numerous. Tea over, a meeting for the passing of a series of reso- lutions was holden, the Mayor (wearing the badge re- cently presented to him) in the ...

... F OREIGN. I RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The following is contained in La Presse (Paris paper), al of Thursday:- tt W We have received news from Constantinople of the eE 30th May. On the 2Sth of that month the Minister of Foreign A Affairs handed to the Ambassadors of the four Powers that signed the treaty of the 13th or June, 1840, a note, in which he explains the measures talon by Turkey to ...

... (From the United Service Gazette) [Where two places are mentioned, the last named is that is wvich the depot of the regiment is stationed.] let Life Guards, Windsor. 42nd, Gosport. 2nd Do., Regent's-park. C43,C. of G. Hope, Chatham. Royal H. Guards, Chobham. 44th, Gibraltar, Cisatham. let Drag. Guards, Newbridge. 45th, C. of Goodiope, Chatham. 2d, Dublin. 46th, Dublin. 3d, Longford. 47th, ...

... .TIE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMAOY.-According to the authority of the Fermanagh. Reporter, the Rev. Dr. Boylen, s the parish priest of Enniskillen, is to be created Bishop of Clogher, in succession to the Right Rev. Dr. M'Nally, h who, it is asserted, is to be elevated to the primacy, vice I Cullen, who descends to the archiepiscopal chair of c D ublin. g TnE POTATO CRoP.-The Balina Herald states ...

... THE CHRONICLE. I PRESTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1853. AIR. GLADSTONE IN MANCHESTER. The inauguration of the Peel statue in Manchester, a monument raised by the busy men of commerce in that town to the memory of England's greatest statesman, in acknowledgment of the services rendered by him to his country, at the sacrifice of his power and his official posi- tion, was appropriately honoured ...

... TrE MAYORALTT.-It is said that Joseph Acton, Esq., is to be the mayor for the ensuing year. TOKEN or REsPECT.-On Monday evening last the Rev. P. Jones, incumbent of nindley, was presented with a gown and cassock by the teachers belonging to St. Catherine's church schools, Scbolfield-lane, as a token of l * their respect for the kindness and urbanity with which he had attended to their ...

... I MEtROPOLIlAN AIEIIOR A NT D I I (Frome our own Correspondent.) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. Never, within the memory of that ubiquitous and immor- tal personage the oldest inhabitant, have the various metropolitan places of out-door merry-making, to which, in holiday times, the sons and daughters of toil, with their multifarious progeny, resort, been so inundated with bois- terous pleasure ...