... ?? TEWAR Pj R UECRIMEA. as THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. th A rumour was afloat in Paris, professing to have come from London, that an attack bad take n place on Balaglans; that the allies had been defeated, and that Generals Raglan, Canrobert, nd GouricZ had been killed. This was indus-ath triouely circulated, but deemed an ntter fabrication, which it has proved to be. It is trite, however, that ...

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... ~mpC~~I j~avY~ame~a. HOUSE OF LORDS. tic TUESDAY, MARCe 20. t The Lord Chancellor took his seat at five o'clock. THE CASE OF ME. CARDEN. a f Lord BROUGHAM, pursuant to notice, begged toaskthe til r Earl of St. Germaus on what ground that criminal, Mr. Car. - 9 den, was liberated before any great part of his sentence was completed ? p e Th'e Earl of ST, GE11MANS said that some time ago the P( ...

... Captain Maberley, of the Royal Artillery, is in Madrid, purchasing mules and horses for service in the East. He is last from Valencia, where be effected some purchases. Two batteries nf artillery have been embarked at Corfu for the East. Large purchases of hosses for the British govern- ment are being made near the Dardanelles. Aceounts front Malta describe the constant passage of troops ...

... The weekly meeting of this board was held on Wed- nesday last, at the Wirest Derby workhouse, the Rev. W. Badnall in the chair, and the other members present were Messrs. Wensley, Abrahamns, Jeffreys, Morris, Edlwards, Lust, Heycs, Shaw, Kirkus, J. Birch, Lodger, Mountfield, Smith, 'l hitby, Pitts, Medcalf, and G. lnarri- so .-Cheques for out-door relief were granted as follows: -Mr. Potts, ...

... CIvIC BANQUET.-On Tuesday evening, his worship the ol mayor gave the nisugl assize dinner at the Town Hall, at st which the judges, the high-sheriff, the leading members at of the bar, and the grand jury were present. R The bankrupts ariffiths, Kewcombe, and Co., late a' tshipowners, of Gracechurch-street, London, and of Liver- rs pool, passed their last examination in the London court w of ...

... ?? I ??l A thousand tons of gunpowder have been purchased for government at Antwerp, and will be shipped on the 25th instant, for Purfleet. The poor soldiers from the Crimea, who died in Liver- pool, are all burled in one grave in St. James's Cemetery, where a suitable monument is to be placed over their remains. It is said that the Russian prisoners confined in the gaol at Lewes are allowed ...

... THE CEMETERY, THE BURIAL BOARD, AND THE VESTRY. We may remind the ratepayers of Preston that an ad- journiud vestry meeting of the inhabitants will be held next Thursday, at the Town-hall, on which occasion matters of considerable importance will come under con- sideration. The committee appointed at the last meeting will report on the bills of the surveyors and the law- clerk, and those ...

... A meeting of apprentices and assistants in the employ of the drapers, grocers, and other shopkeepers in the town, was held in the Council Chamber, Town Hall, on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of forming an insti- tution for mutual improvement. The movement origi- nated with Mr. F. Myers, grocer, its object being prelimi- nary to an application for the earlier closing of the vari- ous ...

... effli RUSSIA & TURKEY.th SIZEGEOFSEB3ASTOPOL ho dra DESPATCHES Ft-oil TIE CRIM1EA, bee (Frorn a supptclement to thc Lo,,don Gazette of March 23) stre M~rar Departioelt, March 214.-Lord Panmure has this fret day received a despatcli and its enclosures, of which the No following are copies, addressed to his lordship by Field.. den Marshal the Lord Riaglan, G.C.B:3 Bril 1Before Sebastopol, March ...

... (For the Preston Chronicle.) Nicholas is dead I are sounds that have fallen upon the ears of millions within the last few hours, with as startling an effect as the sudden and unexpected crash of a thunder clap on a clear frosty day in winter; and the news is still flying over the wide-spread regions of the habitable globe like lightning, setting the old time-worn comparison Ad flying like ...

... THE PRUSSIAN KING AN.D PEOPLE. Though the characteristic speech of Lord LyvD- HURST last week has provoked increased criticism upon the present position of Prussia in Europe, we are glad to have observed an almost entire cessation of that hot-headed advice which previously recom- mended an attempt to compel that power to join actively the league against the Czar. The vica- rious acuteness and ...