... APPEAL DAYs.-The magistrates have fixed Thursday, the 21st of July, and Thursday, the 28th of July, for hearing appeals against assessments to the poor rate. LICENSING SESSeOm.-The annual licensing session for the borough will be held on the 24th day of August. E. C. GOI1ST, EsQ., of this town, has this week liberally presented to the Rev.- T. Clark, incumbent of Christ Church, a cheque for ...

... CORRESPON DENCE. THE REGATTA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE, to y Sin,-Being a member of the committee of the intended you regatta, I wish to draw the attention of the innkeepers jreaN and publicans to the following facts. In doing so, it is inl jour consequence of having only received a promise of sub- kicin scriptions from two or-three of that large and influential body. In all ...

... 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 ...

... 'I - jSECOND EDIT1ION. I _- Chronicle Office, Saturday nnorniny, 3 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, LAST Evr,.iNXG.-Conntinued. Sir C. Wool COntnuedl:- tll was far, bowever, from saying there bad. not been sins of omission anid of connhizsion, but he mentioned a variety of facts to show that a great denl had bcen done in the way of improve- msnot. lie believed that by the legal code of India justice ...

... ARRIVAL OF TWVENTY-THREE OF HER PASSENGERS AND FOUR ,SEAMEN IN LIVERPOOL. On Monday, twenty-three passengers and four seamen, who escaped in the longboat from the wreck of the William and Mary, arrived in this town. The following joint statement, signed by one of the passengers on behalf of the rest, has been handed to us for publication:- Liverpool, 6th June, 1853. A brief account of the ...

... PETTY SESSIONS.-MONDAY LAST. (Before the Rev. R. Moore, and Ed. Birley, James Eden, Giles Thornber, and Wmn. Efletson, Esqs.) PoACuING.-Lawrence Porter was summoned for poach- ing on the preserves of W. H. Horoby, Esq., at Weeton- with-Preese, on the 28th February last. He had a walk- ing stick, a gun, and a hare in his possession. Richard Kirkham, the keeper, proved the case, and it ...

... CRURCOWARDENS' VISITATION. ?? On Wednesday last, the Rev. J. Owen Parr, Rural Dean, and Hon. Canon of Manchester, held a visitation of the churchwardens of the rural-deanery of Preston, which took place in St. George's Chapel, in consequence of the alterations now in progress at the Parish Church, which is being rebuilt. The Rev. S. Hastiugs read prayers; after which the Rev. the Rural Dean ...

... I i I FROM PRESTON1. == To Blackburn, Accringtons, Bury, and 3fandeter--4 g 9.0 11-Omorn.; 1.453.2i 5-0 7-10mixed,69.Oaftn. 055040. ! 7.40 morn., 2.10 6.20 *9-0 aftn., all mix. (9 To Ac ): only.) rangt a To Blackburn, Burnley, Colne, Skipton, Bradford, L.ds 6.45 mix., 9-0 11-0 morn.; 01-45 3.25 5.0 *7-10 mix, a Sundays: *7V40 morn., 2-10 *6-20 aftn., atlmiL. ( To On i only.) To Lythans, ...

... INSTALLATION OF THE EARL OF DERBY | AS CHANCELLOR OF TR UNIVERSITY or OXFORD. The ceremony of the installation of the Earl of H1 a :I ltol Derby as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, has Irwaco this week taken place, and passed off with great suc- cited cess. On Monday the noble earl visited Cullam, where a senisil new training school has been established by the Bishop of ligist Oxford, ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTONT, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1S53. I. - - - -- -- -- - - - - - - - -- ?? -- ?? - ?? ?? _ The measure which has been introduced to the House of Commons for the future government of India, has already been extensively commented upon both in and out of parliament. By the East India Company, and by those who have had a longing eye to the patronage of that body, with the most remote ...

... The House of Commons was engaged on Tuesday evening in discussing Mr. Berkeley's proposition for the adoption of the ballot at elections for members of parlia- ment. The disclosures before the various election com- -mittees during the present session furnished him with the opportunity of making a more than usually effective ad- dress. He called upon the house to correct an admitted evil; he ...

... A. - At an early hour on Tuesday morning the roads to the Camp from all points were alive with every description of vehicle ' At five o'clock in the morning a train, nearly half-a-mile in length, left the Waterloo Station of the South-western Railway, under the superintendence of Mr. Godson, the traffic-manager, all being devoted to the con- veyance of horses and carriages belonging to the ...