... [FOR THE PRESTON CHRONICLE.] No. 1. COMPONENT PARTS. In this and the few following sketches I propose to offer a few brief remarks on the British army and navy, en- deavouring to bring before the reader a few facts which may be interesting to such of the readers of this paper as may not have seen a tabular and comprehensive view of our military system. The army of great Britain is very small ...

... i REPORT OF THE SEBASTOPOL Co _. - I bhraa The report of the Select Committee appointed to Inquire Drs, into the State of the Army before Sebastopol was pre- s i sented to the House of Commons, on Monday evening. Aed s it occupies nearly a page and a half of the morning Papers of Tuesday, it is far too long to publish entire. ent The following is a summary of its main features:_ The report is ...

... 'I HI FROM PRESTON. To Blackburn, Accrington, Buryt, and Afancaester-6-35 mir. 9. .10-55morn.; 1.454.05.107-30 mix,4'.0Qaftn. OnSundays: 7.30 morn., 2.15 6.10 09.30 aftn., all mix. (_To Accrington To Blookburn, Burnley, Calne, Skipton, Bradford, 4 Leeds.- 6'.35 mix, 9-0 10-55 morn.; *1-45 4-0 *5.10 *7-30 mix' aftn. On Sundays: 07-30 morn., 2-15 06-10 aftn., all mix. (To Cole Ionly.) To ...

... METROPOLITAN MEMORANDA, (From our own Correspondent.) London, Thursday Evening. A new excitement is something. Thanks to Lords EbrlogtOll and Robert Grosvenor for a gift so acceptable !-acceptable, that is, to a hard.up scribe on the look-out for what so seldom turns up hereabouts, namely, a topic not worn thoroughly threadbarew Upon the infelicltousness of this most recent attempt at Agnev ...

... A descendant of Oliver Cromwell iB now a clergyman of the Church of England in Canada. Time was when France and Scotland were almost one. Yet, strange to say, not a single animal is exhibited at the Paris cattle show by a Soot. Mr. W. Grant, glass-stainer, has introduced in London lamps the names of streets burnt in on glass, which may readily be read at night. Letters from Berlin report that ...

... I f I THE OPERATIONS IN THE SEA OF AZOFF. ?? The (From the Times of Monday) Theoperations of the allied fleets in the Sea of Azoff continue with unabated energy and success. Iutelligence was received yesterday by the Admiralty, dated the 31st of May, from Rertch, that the squadron in the Sea of Azoff had appeared before Genitchi, landed a body of seamen and marines, which drove back the ...

... - - - - - - - en .i ad (From yesterdays London papers.) i Id, T1HE BALTIC. be Nyborg, June 13.-Her Majesty's steam frigate Retri- ag bution, 28, Carrying the flag of Rear-Admiral Baynes, has ty arrived in the Belt, with the 60-gun screw blookships i ii Hawhe, Cornwaliis, Hastings, Pembroke, Russell, and nine I he heavily armed gun-boats. The squadron is at anchor at on, Knudshead. of Kiel, ...

... 33orrobelt Uirfreo, In fashionable life the game is to play hearts against diamonde. A Parisian young lady Is seo fascinated with the upper circles of existence, that she bag ascended in a balloon forty.one times. There are now 267,09I milliners in England. Dickens very ungallantly calls them the army of vanity. Off she goes, esld Mrs. Smith to her spouse, as they started by the ...

... I - - ?? - ? I - - I POST-OFPICE ALTERATIONS.-On and from the first of June the letter box will be closed for the frst despateb to London and all parts at 7.15 p.m., in place of 5.15 p.m. ; and on and from the second of June, the night mail down will. be doe at Burnley at 0.45 a.m., in place of 7.25 a,m. On and from the second of June, the first delivery should commence at about 7.45 a.m. On ...

... I . - - - - . * DAWVNING SUCCESS. (From the Times of Wednesday) We trust that the last intelligence-'from the seat of war will satisfy that Portion of the public which allowed its appvehensinas to get the better of its judgment that the expedition to the Crimea was not, after all, such a mis- take or misfortune as some of our opponents made it out to be. That grevious mistakes have been ...

... We have received a letter from Mr. WVithers, o:1, of Blackburn, commenting upon the recent report by Mr. ?? upon the plans for the draining and sewering of Blackburn. Were the length oftheletter (about two columns) noobjectlonthe fact of its having been published In our Blackburn contemporary would precludeourgivingItsinsertion, aswe cannotat any time Insert letters addressed to the editor, ...

... On Tuesday evening the theatre was again crowded almostto suffocation. It had been announced thatMr. Skipson, of Foxhill-bank, Accrington, would take the chair, but as that gentleman was prevented from attend- ing by indisposition, Mr. Livesey, of this town, was called upon to preside in his stead. After a temperance melody had been sung by the choir, who were stationed in the orchestra, the ...