... I l The adjourned meeting of this body took place on I Monday, in the council chamber, Town Hall. Present:- The Mayor (in the chair); aldermen Monk, Birehall, R. Pedder, J. Paley, jun.; coufcillors G. Smith, Goodair, Rlaw, J. Livesey, Carr, F. Armstrong, Threlfall (St. Peter's), Naylor, Spencer, J. HIumber, J. J. Myres, Threlfall (St. John's), J. Swainson, R. N. Livesey, Robinson, Parker, ...

... 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 ...

... AWLFUL HURRICANE AT MADRAS. The Madras Athenoum, of March 31st, savs :- The Madras shores have been visited by a storm, unusual in the time of its appearance, and terribly destructive in the nature of its ravages. The weather on Friday, the 28th i of March, was cloudy and unsettled, but on Saturday afternoon it began to show signs of an approaching term - pest. A great deal of rain fell ...

... STATIONS OF THE BRITfSH ARMY, On the 1st September, 1853. (Front the United Service Gazette) 0 1, [Where two places are mentioned, the last named is that in 3. which the depit of the regiment is stationed.] n Ist Life Guards, Hyde-park. 41st, Malta, Mullingar. n 2nd Do., Regent's-park. 42nd, Portsmouth. d Royal H-I. Guards, Windsor. 43d, C. of G. Hope, Chatbam. Ist Drag. Guards, Newbridge. ...

... 0 RM SKI R K.I THE REV. W. E. RAWSTORNE, M. A., vicar of Ormskirk, has 0 intimated to his parishioners his Intention of resigning his inctm. P bency in the course of a few months. b INeunsr.-An inquest was held in the Court-room, on the I th instant, before C. E. Driffield, Esq., on the body of John White. r side, aged six months, son of Mr. John Whiteside, innkeeper, t Ormskirk, who came by ...

... I i HOUSE OF LORDS.-MIONDAY, FEBRUARY 28. weI d The Earl of DERBY presented a number of petitions the if from members of the Scotch Church in Canada, praying to D their lordships not to interfere with the arrangement en- Ultl L tered into in ? 810 on the subject of the Clergy Reserves n in that province. The noble Earl then entered at length e, into the question, and concluded by protesting ...

... 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 ...

... PARLIAMIENTAr l',Y INT ELLIGENCE. t E HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. Their lordships resumed their sittings to-day, after the recess, at five o'clock, Lord Chancellor Cranworth pre- s siding. LAW RSEFORIM. The LOIto ?? gave notice, that on Monday next, lie would state to the house the intentions of her Majesty's government with respect to legal reform. Lord CAMPBELL made some ...

... TnE FLEET has arrived in the harbour of Cork. TIlE LOR1D-LIEOTENANT or IRELAND has accepted an invitation to visit Limerick on Wednesday next. Txiu MAY OOTI1 ColeMissroiv.-The commissioners held their first meeting yesterday at their offices in Dub- li' Castle. There were present the Earl of Harrowby, chairman; the Chief Baron, Dr. Longfield, Dr. Twiss, and Mr. James O'Ferrall, together with ...

... l3orrnlctl 0viffeq, Pedantry cramns our heads with learns'? lumber, and takes; out our brains~ to intik'' rein1 for it. What statte couldd fall, 'islit liberty decaty, If the zeal of mark's noisy patriotisma were tso purc as Lthe silent loyalty of woman's love ? A gentleman, it i.. announced, is one who promptly pays ' for hi', newspaper. Whatt truth and simplicity!I flow brief, yetJ h iw ...