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... MIETROP'OLITAN TAiEMOPIANDA. .Font our own. Corrcespodent.) London, Thursday Evening. ?? who should attempt to chain down his usually indulgent readers to the ordinary prose of 'ordinary times, under circu. tances so exciting as those of the present moment, must not feel surprised if his paragraphs remain unperused in the presence of events of such overwhelming significance as those of which ...
... METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA, (From our own Correspondent.) London, Thursday Evening. A new excitement is something. Thanks to Lords EbrlogtOll and Robert Grosvenor for a gift so acceptable !-acceptable, that is, to a hard.up scribe on the look-out for what so seldom turns up hereabouts, namely, a topic not worn thoroughly threadbarew Upon the infelicltousness of this most recent attempt at Agnev ...
... BUJRNLEY. I R.nw - r- nO. A - T t o -- A ?? .1 BARN SET ON FIRE BY TALOnTSINo.-A severe thunder storm passed over the town and neighbourhood, between three and four o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday last. The lightning struck a barn, belonging to widow Proctor, Burnley Lane Head, and set the hay within It on fire. The town's fire-engine was immedi. ately sent for, but It was impossible to ...
... -f MISCELLANEOUS. NEWS. At Barcelona 3,000 mules have been purchased for the Crimea, and 800 of them have been sent off. ADULTERATION or FooD..The committee beard fur- tber evidence last Wednesday. It bore out the statement ale of previous witnesses. on FATHER MATHEWf is noW in Liverpool, the guest of ns eMtabliseW. Rathb His hearth is yet far from being re- he Mr. Hodgson, ship carver, ...
... IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS. In a letter to the papers, Mr. Tidd Pratt, the registrar of friendly societies, draws the attention of the members of those societies to the more important of the provisions of the now act, which is to come into operation on the 1st of August. I By the 18 and 19 Vic. c. 63, all the previous acts re- lating to these societies are repealed, except as to subsist- ing ...
... Six easy chairs have been sent to Fort Pitt General Hospital, by desire of the Queen, for the benefit of the ?? News. The Europa transport embarked 17 officers and 465 men of the Land Transport Corps, at Plymouth, on Wednesday afternoon, and sailed on Thursday morning for the Crimea. Each of the captains selected to command the gunboat and mortar-boat flotilla for the ensuing year's campaign ...
... [FOR THE PRESTON CHRONICLE.] No. 1. COMPONENT PARTS. In this and the few following sketches I propose to offer a few brief remarks on the British army and navy, en- deavouring to bring before the reader a few facts which may be interesting to such of the readers of this paper as may not have seen a tabular and comprehensive view of our military system. The army of great Britain is very small ...
... In noticing a fortnight ago the provisions of the Public Health Bill now before Parliament, we adverted to what we considered an omission in that measure, inasmuch as it contained no enactment for the establishment of ceme- teries by the local governing body. We made the sug- gestion from a conviction that the business attendant upon such an undertaking would be as efficiently and certainly ...
... 1. 11 (From our own Correspondent.) London, Thursday Evening. The frost has disappeared, to the great joy of every- body except the skate sellers. Imminent indeed had the state of affairs become. The bread riots attempted in two or three instances in the Metropolis were no doubt the work of scoundrels to whom the art of living on the fat of the land is no secret even in the worst of seasons; ...
... FuNERAL SEnRMon.-On Thursday evening week, the Rev. Dr. Beard, of Manchester, preached a most interesting sermon to a crowded audience in the Unitarian chapel, Padiham, on the death of the Rev. Henry Dean, late resident minister. His text was the 4th verse of the 11th chapter of Hebrews,- He being dead, yet speaketh. The discourse was listened to with tire most pro- found attention. Mr. Dean ...
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... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1855. I IIOW-NOWNTHINGISM. Our transatlantic kinsmen have for some time been P making such a clatter about a mysterious political party f that has sprung up in the union nobody knows how, why, e or wherefore, that at last we are forced to take notice of it, ri inasmuch as it is beginning to have some importanteffects v on the actions of our own ...