... . ?UO I . . I ?? OrMool Here Is aparadox: The British sailor, although the first to I: give a blow, is the last to strike I . 3 ThOe 'bank where the wild thyme grows has declared a divi. f' dend of ten acents. a Beauty is a rook on whieh''many a man makes shipwreck while b In search of the pearls which adorn it. A young physician askg of a lass to kiss her, she repled No, .sir, I never like ...

... .- THE PRl~GR~S. F 0 E, A.R. . Actual:fqat of aras terele save:been none durilg.the past week; bnt at e' I Ndte o- i'ieraratlon, come by every letter, public and private, .from 4ie Bflsgea, There seems to be little doubt but thatan expedition, OoD. sistingof 40,O00OFre oh, 20,OO'Englih, aud 10,000 Turki,; is at this, moment making Its way up.that *ater towardi Sebastopol,, or whatever other ...

... 11 T~HE OBRONICL1` I PRSTCM, SATURDAY, SEPTR. 2, 184. -iE SPANISH REVOLUTION. | The fire., which lately burned with such fierceness throgbh tbe length and breadth of Spain, has, within the last few .days, gone down considerably; but the embers still smoulder rather fiercely, and nobody knows how soon they Way burst out again into a fresh conflagration. Espartero is doing what he can with the ...

... 1l Trosnlafet2fvo the FJenc of Eiize SouMetre. POR THl PRESTON CHRONICLE. Anthony Lreex, farmer, of the Jonebhres, was standing before i botune, and gloomily examining its tbatched roof. I Look there, he muttered, the moss Is already growing on the Tldge; that green stuff grows everywhere and the garrets will 44n be as damp as caverns; but the towndfolks think it iL VUWtt good enough for ...

... I HISTORICAL SKETCHES' OITUIKEY. I (For the Prro Chronicle . -, No. XXv. ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT WAR. Those who have attentively read these sketches will be aware that, for 100 years, the Russians have beeb steadily encroaching upon the Turkish empire. They first elaimed the right of protecting certainilnterest in the Crimea and the regions of the Caucasus, and then, i' exercising that right, ...

... M. E TRi6OLITAN MRMORANDA. I - London, Thursday Evening. ?? ?? ,dlingy denlens Of drearq bury Lane were almost vovred witb a goie ad, in the shape of a spill from a lie, on MudaX List. I 'as, on the evening ID q-ea- oeiontunterju thronh- Jt # Lane, as Wt ellcl-kuwn xhovoughfare is,,emetleally designated by 'th eoster. _ngers 4 ehbmey, Ilying pienen and purveyos of 'possy's ts *ho tenant the ...

... II THE WATCH RATE AND PUBLIC IMPROVE- MENTS. TO TUE EDITOB OF TUE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SI8 -Tou have done the community a service by your remarls in last weeks number, shewing the loss the public sugsain by the pseudo-economical system which certain jembers of the corporation now pursue. The reduction of the watch rate by £800 was moved by Mr. Peter Cat- lerallswiththevleaw,ashestated, ...

... ?? - WAR MISCELLANY, Nine sergeant majors, five sergeants, three quarter- master sergeants, four colour sergeants, and one company sergeant have recently been appointed ensigns without purchase. : A private telegraphic despatch, received in Paris on Monday from Marseilles, announces from: Bombay, July 20, that the sing of Bokhara was menaced by 20,000 Persians, who-bad entered into an allance ...

... SAmE AT. XOUROOK DRRE1CH. I RETREAT op Ag, SIX THUSAND .UMANXS F&LRD;; TrUwSm LOSS. :- i2WOUSD. ?? . , -ii5lUmnt, .1Vdkol uaC * I bs t w;.. - B I haited before the Russian outpo stgat Kourook Derech. The Turks, counting that evening 30,000o strong, divided Into two divisions; the first commanded by Kemn Pacha, I and the second by Vely Pao1a, with General Guyon as chief of heb staff, and ...

... -BUREY. I BUSH Crionon Missoss.--On Sunday lat, two sermons were preached in behalf of these missions: in the maorning at Pickup. croft School, and In the evening at St. Paurs Church, Burnley, by the Rev. J. Birch, M.A., Incumbent of Brighouse, near Leeds. On Monday evertng, awmeeting was beld in St. Jarmne's ohoo; for the same object, when the chair was taken by tbh Ree. R. Stainer, who, as ...

... ILOCA INTELLIGENCE. - I . THE RIGHT How. S1 . GRaHAM, Emw., Iirst Loid of the Adfiralty, passed through Preston yesterdsy, on his way from the north to London - .he supI !i 8oeaN e FZPwo l The stupid 86KCraUuNo Nsw' iron Pmous author of a stupid sketch entitled Twenty Miles, in this days number of Dichens'. ienwihold Woar6, speaks of Prestoni4s the ugliest towni. Elngland ! Tv;2wft~a^-4) ...

... | | , . :-III FATHSR GAvAzzi.-TThiacelebrated Italian deliveredan oration in the Music Hell, on Friday evening, -the 25th ult. .The attend. auce was most numerous and respectable,' and the,lecturer was listened to throughout with the most miarked attezition. The subject of the Father's. lecture was 1The Enemj intbe lfleld'of English'Protestautism., The qration was, In the 'dat Instance, ...