... 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 ...

... - - - - - - - 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 ...

... I1 WAR MISCELLANY7 Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge, of the 7,ti toyal Fu- siliers, has been appointed director-general of the army clothing under the new organization of the war depart- ments. Years must elapse before the vicinity of Balaclava or of Kamniesch will be covered again with vineyards and orchards, and before the ruined and abandoned farm- houses between those naval stations and ...

... The beat reading on the subject of the war just noW is to be fotund In he despatches from the Sea of Avoff of I tbo Yarh)u officers jn) pomnmnd, Sir George browq is brief, but satisfactory; General D'Autemarre eommunl- cative and literary; and the admirals, sailor-like, write as if they deemed brevity to be the soul of wit. From all the same assuring result may be gathered, namely, that the ...

... Chronicle Office, Twvelve o'clock. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] THE WAR. No later telegraphic news from the Crimea. General De la Marmora, the younger, has died of cholera. THE BALTIC. Dantzic, Friday.-The Vulture has arrived with mails. On the 9th, the Merlin and Firefly, whilst reconnoitring Cronstadt, ran against some infernal machines, which ex- ploded, but only damaged their copper sheathing. ...

... I FRAUDULENT ENLISTMENT. At the Judge'sLodglggs on Satur day last, before J. Thomson, Esq., James Eadle was charged by Sergeant William Mo. Calls, of the lot Royal Lancashire Mii. tId, with having, on the 21st ult., fraudulently enlisted into that corps, and receiving £2 bounty, being at the time a private of the Edinburgh City Artillery Militia. The case was clearly prOved, and a fine of £2 ...

... lV R I DAMAGINo STAIoWERY.-At the petty sessions, on Tuesday lest, William Gardner, a dealer In stationery, charged Mrs. Guy, the lessee of the market tolls, with damaging a quantity of books and stationery. It appeared that Gardner Is in the Practice of visiting the Chorley market for the sale of his wares, and that on Tuesday last he had placed them us usual upon the fish-stones for sale, ...

... FROM PRESTON. To _Bckburn, eington Bury d * r- 6.35 mix. . 00 1055 morn.; 1-45 4.0 5.10 7.30 mix, '9.0 atn. On Sundays: 7.30 morn., 2 -5 6.10 *9.10 aitn., all mix. ( Togt only.) (~ crigo To Blaekburn, Burnley, Coins SEkWpo, Bradford, 93 Lsd1.17 m6.35 mix, 9.0 10-55 morn.; 51.45 4.0 25.10 7.30 maix, 6.;n. On Sundays: '7.30 morn., 2-15 06.10 aftn., all mix. (* To Coins only.) To Lythant, ...

... OPINIONS OF PRINCE ALBERT, ON. PUBLIC I! I . ., IEA.S At the annual dinner of the Trinity Corporation, on Saturday evening last, at the Trinity House, his Royal Highness Prince Albert proposed the health of her Ma- jesty's Ministers in the following terms Gentlemen,--The toast which I have now to propose to you is that of Her Majeety's Ministers.-(Cheers.) If there ever was a time at which her ...

... || shj CONSECRATION BY THE BISHOP OP eal MANCHESTER. an- The cemetery for the township of Preston being nearly 9l completed, the portion set apart for the interment of members of the Church of England was consecrated by la. the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Manchester on en Monday last. The interest attached to the ceremony, 1st and the fineness of the day, for it was one of the most ses ...

... TUE CHRONICLE, PRESTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1855. The second bell has rung, and although its tinkle may be insignificant in volume, its prophetic character is so intelligible, that those who run may listen and be fore. warned. On Monday night, or rather on Tuesday morn- ing-for the clock hand had got amongst the small hours -the House of Commons was occupied with a discussion of which the ...