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... [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 ...
... (From the Morning Chronicle.) The cause of administrative reform is, apparently, not to be exempted from the vicissitudes ordinarily incidental to all great political questions, which are finally carried with the acclamations of the people. We remember no policy that has been ultimately incorporated with our political system, which ever underwent so many changes of fortune as the question of ...
... i REPORT OF THE SEBASTOPOL Co _. - I bhraa The report of the Select Committee appointed to Inquire Drs, into the State of the Army before Sebastopol was pre- s i sented to the House of Commons, on Monday evening. Aed s it occupies nearly a page and a half of the morning Papers of Tuesday, it is far too long to publish entire. ent The following is a summary of its main features:_ The report is ...
... 'I HI FROM PRESTON. To Blackburn, Accrington, Buryt, and Afancaester-6-35 mir. 9. .10-55morn.; 1.454.05.107-30 mix,4'.0Qaftn. OnSundays: 7.30 morn., 2.15 6.10 09.30 aftn., all mix. (_To Accrington To Blookburn, Burnley, Calne, Skipton, Bradford, 4 Leeds.- 6'.35 mix, 9-0 10-55 morn.; *1-45 4-0 *5.10 *7-30 mix' aftn. On Sundays: 07-30 morn., 2-15 06-10 aftn., all mix. (To Cole Ionly.) To ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 11 11 - THE ANNiVERSAnY TEA PARTY OF THE CnUtRCI SCHOOL was held at the Assembly Room, Clifton Arnt Hotel, on Monday last. There was a large attendance; twenty ladies had kindly undertaken to preside at the trays, and also to supply them gratuitously. Tea being concluded, the Rev. A. Jenour, incumbent of St. John's, rose to address the meeting, remarking that he had only attended one of this ...
... .11 GREAT HORSE FAIR AND THE SWELL MOB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,-It is feared we may have a greater number than usual of unwelcome visitors at the ensuing fair,.smart ladies and gents., with tickets of leave. Would it not be desirable to procure a detective from London to assist Air. Gibbons? The public should be cautioned against taking watches or purses to the poultry ...
... mI _ - - ?? Prulic LmRaAnY.-The interest first manifested In this institu. tlon still keeps up, the number of books tajcen out far exceeding the expectations of its most sanguine promoters. During January 859 volumes were Issued; February, 794; March, 1,023: making a total of 2,676 volumes during the first three months of the year. The number of subscribers at present is 200. CONCERT AT THE ...
... -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 ...