... 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 ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, APRIL 11, SO! Their lordships met at five o'clock. ha Lord Stafford, of Harmsondsworth (Lord Enfoeld) took the oaths el and his seat. ag CANTERBURY ELECTION. The Earl of ABrERDEEN moved that the house should concur IV with thle cominons in an address to her majesty for the appoint- mu ment of a committee to inquire into the corrupt practices which mn prevailed at the ...

... Thomas William Walker, an insolvent, aged 95, and born in the reign of George II, was discharged from 1 Whitecross-street prison. London, last week. P John Speer was tried at Gloucester assizes, on Wednes- tL day, for the murder of his wife at Bristol, on the 19th of il October last. He was found guilty of manslaughter, and e sentenced to transportation for life. The estimate of the further ...

... SERt(oNS. -Oh Sunday last, after two sermons preached tl in St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. W. H. Wright, of Liver- it pool, £21 were collected to defray the current expenses W of the church and choir. Some donations towards the si same object are ?? same day, the Rev. G. it Alker, A.B., preached at St. Peter's Church, in aid of the hifant schools connected with that place of worship; and on ...

... BUorroWeo QrTffeb. A man who has no bills against him belongs to the order of no-bil-i-ty in more than one sense. What homne in after life is beloved like the walls that girt round the innocent days of our childhood ? The nuin who conemitted suicide by turning inside out, and hi orawling through his boot, is riot expected to live. fc In extra-iolitoe circles thbe nigh-stare is now termed the ...

... T - W The opponents of the Preston Water Bill have with- drawn their opposition to its enactment, an arrangement having been made for their claims being equitably dealt with. This important measure is now therefore in the list of unopposed bills before parliament, and only awaits the routine forms, prescribed for such matters, to be gone through for it to become law. We may therefore expect ...

... zaovzf4 ox the WTI e. -- ~ .-I -- ?? e .- .- I.-- -, , _ .. . Be silent before great men, or speak what will pleaso them. HLABIT.-Fix onl that state of life which is most excellent, and custoroa vill make it delightful. lie is most potent, who has him. salf in his Own powver. lie that is in gredt place, had need ha}V bas many oyes as Argus to watch, as many handws as liriarous to dispose and ...

... TUE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS. The Times publishes the following letter from William c Howitt :_ December ?? are now among the Ovens Ranges, Vs andare approaching the diggings. Hill after hill we have n to pass, down again through gullies, and again bouncing over rocky road. The bare granite begins to show itself r here and there; broad hare spaces of it glow in the sun; d and around us we see ...

... LONDoN, TnURSDA.o EVENING. The election committees have set to work again most vigorously, and familiar as their proceedings have now become, here and there a feature having the semblance of novelty causes a momentary ripple upon the surface of the dead sea of corruption and chicanery, through which these honourable committee-men are obliged to wade. It i is a fact, noticeable for what it is ...

... - - RNL ?? BUrRNLEY. PIIEFERMENT.-.The Rev. Samuel Bardsley, M.A., curate of Hepworth, has been preferred to the curacy of St. John's Church, Upperthong, Almondbury. The rev. gentleman is the brother of the Revds. James and Joseph Bardsley, formerly curates of the parochial church of Burnley. SCHOOL SEMoas._ On Sunday last, two sermons were preach. ed, onl behalf of the British and Foreign ...

... THE PARISH CHURCH. TO TRE EDITOR OF THIE PRE TON CHlRONICLE. SIR,-As the contemplated alterations of our Parish Church are now likely to be carried into effect, permit me, through the medium of your paper, to suggest the propri- ety of raising the clock a few yards higher, not only for the purpose of rendering it visible, at a somewhat greater distance, but also to prevent the sound from being ...

... LAMENTAB3LE ACCIDENT AT THE EXHIBITION BUILD- ING, DUBLIN.-An accident of a most distressing nature occurred in the Great Exhibition Building, on the grounds of the Royal Dublin Society. The following is an official account of this deplorable ?? 10 and 11 o'clock on Thursday morning week, a gang of painters, fifteen in number, were engaged in painting the arch of the machinery court of the ...