... MR. FAIRBAIRN'S LECTURES ON STEAM/ BOILERS. i On Wednesday Week, Mr. Fairbairn delivered his 'second ah I ecture before the members of the Manchester MeetojEis.; pro Institution; a numerous audience, includirig seeral ladies, WO the Lord Bishop of Manchester, Mr. Thoeýas Bazley ,And the Othir gentlemen,, being present. Mr. £rifver Heywood pro. val aided, and briefly introduced the lecturer -Mr ...

... * OES.EONDKICIE. ti THE BIP.XBNHEAD DOOXS. 0o Tal liDNrOES OF 'iHE LIVERPOOLU BROURY. . Gi sMoMRs,-I wasgreatly pleased by reading your tolented il correspondent's letter on the purchase of the Birkenbead doclsr 0 and I certainly agkee withim6 It his vidws of the impossibility e of qiterlig the currents of trade; and no treater proof of this can be glven tpauni th'e6 inatasce of Fite~w'od; ...

... , ir John Ioreholl has resigned the office of master of 1 the mint. ?? was currently reported on Wednesday evening, in Isome of the west-end clubs, that the Emperor of the French is expected to arrive in London on Friday. , Sir John Young, the late Irish secretary, who has been appointed lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, will take his departure for Corfu about the end of the month. ...

... I The 1 war goes on in the most pacific and agreeable pre manner possible. At Sebastopol,.tbe French now and wit then make an attack on the Russian works; the Russians Lo come out to meet them; the two parties fire at each'other the for an hour or so, and then respectively retire in obedience anW to their respective bugles. Flags of truce are sent out; me Frecnh and Russian officers meet on ...

... THE CEMETERY AND ITS APPORTIONMENT. TO TilE EDITOR OP THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,-It required much argument and persuasion to induce the Vicar and his friends at the vestry meeting last week to consent to Mir. ,%yres's data being placed iiponi the minutes, but at last they were willing that acertain absitract should be copied. Is itnot strange that in that abstract (which I understand is'the ...

... t St _ a .. . . (For the Preston Chronicle.) No. V.-WAR VESSELS. There are few who know not what ships and steamers are, but there are many who have little knowledge of their distinguishing characteristics; and, ere I conclude my sketches of implements of war, I may add a few de- tails respecting vessels of war, which may be interesting to a few who have not seen much of our navy, and have not ...

... MR. FAIRBAIRN'S LEOIVAES. On Monday evening, Mr. William Fairbaýrh, C.E. F.R.S. delivered, at the Manchester Mechanics' Institution, the ?? it, of two lectures, the subject being Steam; its'properties and application to the useful and industrial artsm There was a numerous audience. The Lord Bishop of Manchester pre- sided, and in taking the chair said he could hardly think of anything more ...

... -EKLY .> UMMARY. F RIGN. socounts from Sebastopol continue to be more trb le dthto they had previously been. The prepara- 1 fov1ro e the bombardment and siege continue with ItioS ted gu and at Eupatoria, a Turkish army of U11batcd 40000 men, under the command of Omer t 3 tOO * prnly establisbed in the rear of the Russians. ?? of the Turks at Eupatoria renders it 8 Ibe pr ~for the Russians to ...

... I-T MIUITARY HOSPITALS. The following is a nominal return of deaths at Scutari Isitels &c. as reported to the commandant's office by the Rol authorities, from the 26th to the 28th Feb. 1851:- Sergeans C..Dunbar, 1. H. Artillery, febris; Thomas Leahey, ,57th regiment, anasarGa; rge Wars, Royal Artil- lery, lIs.Ws:W. Hardy, Sappers and Miners, febris; Jas. Breve, 39th regiment, dysentery; Samuel ...

... DISOILACEFU' ASSAULT AND MlOT BY TWi: =: . :: :BIPKENHEAD COALHEAVIRS. - - ?? . !- QUA Iv V T . . I ?? i \, DIa 1 1a - -- Al W. Laird, of the''firm of Messrs. IV. and EH Laird. coal merchants, of this town, appeared at the Birienh62 i police court, yesterday, and applied 'rot tha protoetiop of ir the beach against the violence ofisnumberol coalheavers ti in that township, who had forcibly ...

... ?? ~ ~ . ,-XC*r A e ?? ?? RODIITA1TO'-OF THE R Cw M- - MNI.sTER OF ?? p3, ELH MtLLSThEET. Lot I On.Tueeday evening last, the 18th instant, one of thei h-I most interesting services which baie been held for sone, time in connexiori with the congregational body of Chris-1 Of tians in this town took place ih the babov clihoe IOn, 0te occasion of the ordination of the Rei. John Wiewsnap to ..the ...

... THE ARMY B.,FO'RE SEBASTOPOL. se MEL ROEiBUCIVSCOIMfITUfE. The revelations inado before the Crimean Committee xc- become from day to day more appalling. Bsarce!y had irr the statements of Mr. Stafford thrown a somewhat .ve broader light upon the pesthouses in which the bravest ta- and noblest of our countrymexi had breathed their last, ted than Mr. Sidney Godoiphin Osborne, an eye-witneis of ...