... (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 ...

... UP In the conduct of their inquiry up to the pre- of sent time, Mr. Roebuck's Committee have dis- eff layeda degree of abstinence which must be sati r ?? James Graham himself. They have Lc meddled with no affair which is not exclusively to our own; and the details which they have elicited di( of the mismanagement of the Crimean Expedition, HJ while there can be nothing in their publication sti ...

... PQU9A 90oMITTE, I 'ise traoi weekly meetinig of this cotunsuitte was held yestetoy, Mr. Charles Turner in the tihair. The other members present wore Messrs. $hand, Palmer Gregeon, Chaloaer, Steele, Gladstone, Robinson, J. Holome, a1b- back, , Brocklebank, Rankin, Smith, Langadale, and :-tt ESINATION OP MR. RIGQIAM. Thberesigoatsoi of Mr. Bigiam having been cormouni- catedte the ommittee by the ...

... | - 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 ...

... I- ScoTLAieD W~AD.--wMr. Bighamk has resigned his seat Chi 31i at the dock committee, and it is understood that, in con- De ig sequence of eiroumstances over which he has no control, I the burgesses of Scotland ward will, for a time, be do- Pot prived of the services of one of their active representa- woi tives in the town council[. The period for which Mr. yes Dli ham wss elected will not ...

... THE EXAMINER AND TIMES. MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY, MARlCH 14, 1855. le The Tinies has taken the field to denounce, op- pose, and, if possible, to defeat the Bill introduced by Mr. GLADSTONE into the House of Commons, for repealing the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. The leading journal of Europe is galvanizing itself into the mock heroic style of a stage tragedian, to arouse the sympathetic ...

... .- - - ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? . .. .. . . . .L . . - - - - 7- - - - BY THE CONTINENTAL TELEGRAPIH. grt [RECEIVED THROUGH MO. JUUIUS REUTER, OF hLONDOx.] ?? GREAT BATTLE BEFORE 'rU SEBASTOPOL. bgeI THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER WOUNDED. V! A FORT TAKEN BY THE FRENCH. q VIENNk, MONDAY.-A report is circulated here woil that a battle had been fought before Sebastopol, an( but without restlt. General Osten ...

... Austin, goods deliverer P ait the Waterloo goods ?? of the London and North-western R allway Company, WAs charged with stealing a bar of soap, seve- o eral bottles of asteroil, and others ofwalnut ketchup, &e. Mir. RII Sale, an officer in the employ of the railway company, stated 01 Lthat, in consequence of having his suspicious aroused respeet. Di - ing the prisoner's conduct, he west to his ...

... ASHTON. METHODIsT NEW CONNEXION SABBATH-SeBOOLS..The I annual sermons connected with these schools was preached on Sunday last, in Stamford-street Chapel, by the Rev. P. J. Wright. STEALING JOINERS' TooLs.-At the borough sessions, on Monday last, Mr. Buckley, chief constable, charged Samuel Matley, with stealing two hammers, the property of two joiners, named Brierley and Plant, out of the ...

... - ing tea On Saturday evening, the Directors of the East India Com- the pany gave a sumptuous banquet in honour of General it5 Vivian and the English officers who have been appointed by ,en Her Majesty's government to the command of the contingent tre of Turkish troops about to be raised, under a convention an, with the Sultan, for service in the ensuing campaign in the en, Crimea. Tile dinner ...

... a As the pamphlet recently published at Brussels, entitled Memoir addressed to H.M. the Emperor Napoleon IllI by a General Officer, and ascribed fo i, to the pen of Prince Napoleon, is exciting consider- Ii able interest, we shall probably consult the wishes of our readers by giving a summary of its contents, T a extracting verbatim the more important passages. The writer first refers to the ...