... I l_ l R. C. W.-Dj~e~clined.eerdWthtak AN OLD lcADER.-~Recolved, with thanks. J. G.-At the election of 1852, Mr. Parker was at the bead of the poll. R. S., BLAcK BORN.-A petition to parliament, if open at the ends, can be sent to a member free of postage. A FRIEND.-Tbe next mail to Australia will be despatched from . Liverpool on the 5th of April. T. L.-We cannot tell when the new Temperance ...

... METROPOLITAN MEMIORANDA. Is . .. . . . X (From our own Correeporsdent.) London, Thursday Evening. A forced abstinence from legislative labour yesterday, and a voluntary ditto to-day. The few that managed to enter the house this evening in due time to be counted out again, will receive the double reward of honour for being punctually at their posts, and of a night's holiday without having ...

... | - ICOREy. CisoRLEY UsNoN.-The Chorley Bonrd of Guardians held their weekly meeting on Tuesday; Mr. Ilaydock in the chair. The following was the number of paupers in receipt of relief:- In-door-Chorley W'houss.. 4 l Out-door-Chorley district 607 ,, Brindle ,, 112 ,, Leyland ,, 857 Croston ,, 53 The masters' day books showed articles received into th1e work. houses as follow - Chorley ...

... Ii1; THE LATE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. (From ?? Chronicle) It is not yet the time to form an imparting jrdgmetD the character of the Emperor Nieholas This nation still resents the outrage on public heonhr of which the auto- crat has been guilty-still MOi1hns the loss of brave troops sacrificed in repelling his ambitio-. The onward marc of civilization has been arrested in its course, and al th ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRES TON, SATURDAY, MAR CH 24, 1855. -VVI Old governments may be turned out for laziness or .. misconduct, and new ones may get in on the strength of ni all sorts of fine promises of reform and retrenchment; but there is one reform with which none of them will meddle-one retrenchment which no minister will venture to adopt. Her Majesty styles her dominions The ft United ...

... | SECOND O Chronicle ?? Office, Ia,, [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPg1 London, Saturday morning. No later authentic news from the Crimea or Vienna. It is reported that Count Nesselrode will attend the Congress. London.-The French Minister for Foreign Affairs returned to Paris on Friday. The Post believes that he and the French Amnbassad,, held a conference at Lord Palmerston's residence with Lord ...

... THE WAR. (From yesterday's Times) We have received the following telegraphic despatch from our correspondent at Marseilles Marseilles, Thursday, March 15.-The Caire, which left Con- stantinople on the Ist of March, has arrived. Despatches for the government left at 6 p.m. The Ville de Bordeavux left to-day for Smyrna, with 40 English medical men on board. We have received the Mfoniteur of ...

... - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ = RUSSIA & TURKEY. te ?? W SIEGIE OF SEBASTOPOL A RECENT TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES rae (From tse Mrorning Chronicle of Wednesday) Paris, Tuesday, MSarch 20-The C'armel, which left al ConstaItinople on the 8th, has brought Intelligence from sri the Crimea up to the Oth inst. Nothing new had oc- tb curred since the late attack made by the French upon the works in advance of ...

... As this celebrated performer will be in Preston next, Ieek the following extract from an American paper, the ,2iing Echo avnd New Yorher, will be read with interest. ?? foreigner has visited the New-World, to cater to its ,0sder and love of amusement, whose name is more widely ;wOsa for his profession, or whose character is more of respect and admiration as a man, than liis whose 5ane heads ...

... Yesterday, the monthly meeting of the Blackturn Town Council was held In the Assembly Room, Heaton.street, the Mayor (Thomas Dugdale, Esq.), in the chair. Present-Aldermen Thwaites, Cunningham, Rutherford, Polding, Hopwood, and ioole; Counclllors Baynee, Johnston, J. Railton, R. Raliton, I Sparrow, Ainseworth, Boyle, Turnbull, Parker, Forster, Hiret,, l Beaty, Haydeck, Coddington, Watson, a. ...

... THE WAR. (From yeeterday's Times) We have received the following telegraphic despatch from our Paris correspondent:- hM. de Wedell, the Prusesian Envoy, left Paris last night for Berlin. He will return to Parls on Tuesday or Wednesday next. We have received the following despatch from our agent at Boulogne:- Boulogne, Thursday, 5 ?? Emperor of the French has this moment arrived at the ...

... (From Household Words.) If the directors of any great joint-stock commercial undertaking.say a railway company-were to get them- selves made directors, principally in virtue of some blind superstition declaring every man of the name of Bolter to be a man of business, every man of the name of Jolter to be a mathematician, and every man of the name of Polter to possess a minute acquaintance with ...