... THE WATCH RATE. TO TIS EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICIE. SB,-It is only this day that I have seen, in the leading article of your paper of the 26th ult., the following re- marks:- indeed, one worthy counnillor, whom the bur- gesses of Fishwick Ward at a period of popular excite- ment sent to illumine the darkness of the council chamber, after approving of and supporting the recommendation of ...

... 11 SUNDAY SCHOOL TEA PARTY.-On 'Tuesday last, (Chorley fair day,) the children of the Sunday and week-day schools at the retired and romantic hamlet of White Coppice, in the chapelry of Heapey, were bountifully regaled with coffee and buns. After- wards they walked in procession, with appopriate flags and ban- ners, accompanied by many of the respectable inhabitants of th district, who had ...

... . ?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 ...

... I|~ Ofg3 no from Dioetnef%. Tucs RA. GsnvAvcs. -Several of the organs of the Spanish government are attempting to prove that the present constitution s amere collection of shams. Wepcarcelythinkthepoint worth disputing. One fact, however, we believe to be pretty satislae- torily established, and that is, that they are sadly In want of a collection ofreals I AN. AnSUaRAaBL ADMIRAL.-To show ...

... .- 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 ...

... RORECAMBE. sO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTO' CHRONICLE. ?? am sorry to hear that a report is in circulation that the cholera is raging dreadfully at Morecambe. I have jtst waited upon a medical gentleman here to ascer- tain the truth of the report, who has testified to me of there being three cases of English cholera, inadvertently promoted by drinkling too much sea water, and eating too much fruit ...

... MISCELLXIEOUS NEWS. I eke of journeymen tailors at Newcastle, | owing to the ?? have been imported. in I paid Urilebrart is intensifying his views; he now I Mr. C3Vldaabinet with a deliberate intention to kill off 3s. charges thethe wrmy sent to the East. 4 lt 0holeraaris thrre ondent of the Cambridge Independent bol kiln French sauces just now the chief element is I snail JellYdian paper ...

... The total number of qualified borrowers of books at the Manchester Public Free Library is now nearly 7000. The anniversary of the LiverpoolJournalwas celebrated, on Monday last, by a dinner at Mr. Bulmer's, Sefton Arms Hotel, West Derby. The London papers state that a small sandy insect, not larger than a mite, has been introduced into the metro- polis, it is supposed in some foreign fruit ...

... I CCRIGTON, HASLINGDEN ?? ROSSENDALE. NARROW ESCAPE.-As Thomas Hindle, gameekeeper to Hoyle, Esq., of Haslingden, was 'recently going his rounds at Ramsclougb, one of the dogs which was accompang t leaped on to the lock of his double-barrelled g ga btualn discharged one barrel, the contents of vwbiclh Pansd Cttoaiy Hindle's face, took away tbe hair of one of his e-otbrooad passed through the ...

... | THE CHRONICLE. _ IPRESTON, SATURDAY, SEPTR. 9, 1854. As the general approval which we have given to the general ministry has never partaken in the slightest degree of a partizan character, our hands are perfectly free at the present moment to take them impartially to task, and to examine their position with reference to its permanency in the management of the affairs of this country. No ...

... I Ton Nsw Victuu-l)r Rtushton, our newly-appointed vicar, has been in Blasckburnl durinig the week,, inspccting the different Churche~sin thetown. To-iuiorrowvthe rev. gentleman will read himself in at the Parish Church. WVEN5LEY FOLD SlCueOe.-Oll Monday evening, thle Rev. Gil- mour Robinson, incumbent of Tockhoies, delivered an able and Interesting lecture at Wernsley Fold School, on - The ...

... REPORTED BOMBARDMENT OF ODESSA. BY THE ALLIED FLEETS. The bombardment of Odessa, originally announced from Vienna as a descredited rumour, is rc-afflrmed in telegraphic despatches from that capital. A despatch received there from Czernowitz states that on the 13th the town was en fire in three places. A later despatch,in the Frdmfen BlatS, states thatit was the strand batteries, and not the ...