... The Calcutta, with the 1st Royal Lancashire Militia, arrived at Corfu on the 16th inst. The regiment landed on the following morning, and the ship left Corfa for Malta on the 18th.-Daily News. THE Snrps of the advanced squadron of the Baltic Fleet have left Deal for the Baltic. GUN COTTON.-It appears finally decided that gun cotton is to be henceforth used in the Austrian artillery. Captain ...

... PARLIAMEMAIIY 1KTELLIGEKE.I PARLIAMENTARY -INTELLIGENCE.I Itt HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, MARCH 26. w TREATY WITH SARDINIA. pi The Earl of CLARENDON moved a resolution thanking bi Her Majesty for her communication respecting the treaty al with Sardinia, and assuring Her Majesty of the readiness it of the house to assist her in carrying out that engage- w ment. He enlogised the course which ...

... Two enormous blue-books have just been issued from the parliamentary printing-office, containing the report of the Maynooth Commissioners appointed in 1853, with voluminous appendices, and a portion of the minutes of evidence. The report itself, which is dated the Ist of March, occupies some sixty pages, and refers to the origin and history of the College of Maynooth, its government and ...

... ?? THE LIVERPOOL ELECTION, We feel much satisfaction in referring to the result of the Liverpool election. The constituency of that great tu( emporium of commerce have returned as their repre- Clil the asatative, Air. J. C. Ewart, a townsman, whose political ide principles and commercial experience eminently qualify Ile him for the discharge of the important duties devolving sbg Ing upon a ...

... I ? ;, ?? ?? -- ?? I I PREFEnMENT.-The Rev. Holland Lomas, B.A., has been col- lated to the perpetual curacy of Holy Trinity Church, Walton Breck, in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, near Liverpool, void by the death of bisfather, the Rev. John Lomas, by the Bishop of Chester, the patron for this turn, by lapse. Mr. H. Lomas was formerly curate of Trinity Church, llabergham Eaves. BU'NLEY ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... = and MR. THOMAS FAIXIBAIRN has been appointed a deputy- was lientenant of the county, gin Tun WATnitwoRKs.-LiUnd has been purchase~d for the is erection of filter beds and a covered reservoir, at Grim- to sargb, where, after the completion of the works for sup- me plying the town with pure water, the service reservoir is W( to be, and the plans are so far advanced that in the course in of a ...

... HOW THE BLACKBURN WORKHOUSE IS 1~ - - CONDUCTED. ly: ~ OFFICIAL INQUIRY. ld On Saturday last, Mr. Parnall, the poor law inspector no I-of this district, attended at the Blackburn Workhouse, ea 1Y frtepupsgfwkigafra inquiry as to the I ?? proceedings at the much..talkedof ~ball on the 22nd of ' ebruary last. The investigation ~~was opened at ten ne o'lcadlatdnal fu or.The first witness hu an ...

... 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 ...

... l 1txcssr, CONvxCYON.. On Thursday week, at the Bacup Petty Sessions, (before James Whittaker and John Ilaworth, Eeqrs.), Mr. James Holland, grocer, Tunstead.bottoms, In Rossendale who acts as agent to Mr. George Barker, wine and spirit mer ?? Manhe~tr, vas carged with selling on Rin to a man named Wilcock, beerseller, Bacup, on the 13th of Feb- ruary, and the case being proved, he was fined ...