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... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5120 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

Varieties

... . varfetim sort ' ?? Scotcha papers state tb at here is every reason to expect tea full average stock of grouse on the moors this season. a hey Handloom weaving in the village of OCieff is flourishing, ?? rer- an~d weavers are not to be had. Al the It is said thst the contiordat between Austria and the pope hi not is already signed. hi 'cry The Liverpool letter-clerriers are about. to be ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2469 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY

... TI{~ iV~~FOL MERIOURL . THBAIFATOti TUEpw'A, Ti l~ xq 9 Si. ; aLu, P.OPrLi I 9gL a ?? tI : M M AR BY , : In the House of Lords, on Thursday evening, the Earl of Shaftesbury moved that the Bill for limiting the Working Hours of Needlewomen be referred to a select committee. He eited the authority of Sir J. Clark, physician to the Queen, and that of other medical men of high standing' to show ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1855
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2726 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM

... (Front a London Correspondent.) e The second official paper of the Administrative Reform fi Association contains little more than the opinions at , various times expressed by different leading statesmen at and officials at the heads of departments. The evidene ee t however, is very conclusive, and affords strong proof of re the necessity of a change. It is a great pity that these SI Ftit ...

Published: Tuesday 19 June 1855
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1052 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

... - - - - - - - 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, ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4129 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Borrowed [ill]

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 928 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

District News

... :es - - ' * [SO N TO.A Spil dtions o1 The Examiner and re0 in- Timesareypublishedfor ROOHIDALu and OLvnuAc,aCold also In re- for STOCKPORT, AsHToe, anld STALYBLSIDGE, containing Vi wi the whole local news of the wceek of these towns and the pi to oh adjoining districts, any .Subscriber desirous of receiving ad either of i/tese Editions in Preference to the uisual general ~ on Edition, can ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3730 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... 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. ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1392 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

Railway Intelligence

... ulilwavp Eutdliavaa. ?? ?? lion LONDON & NORTH-WE STERN RIWY Lat n con~equece of the bill for enabling this company and tIon, the L Luahre and Yorkshire Railwvay company to enlarge fo the North Union Station, at Preston, and for other purposes, teen having been rejected by the committee of ltse House of a of Commonts, the meeting upon this subject was not held as advertised. yea, LANCASHIRE ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4741 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: News 

WAR MISCELLANY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1817 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1011 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

ELECTION OF DISPENSARY SURGEON TO THE INFIRMARY

... iELECTION OF DISPENSARY SURGEON TO'1 I . THE1E INFIRMARY. _ THIE ASr ty s I O Thursday, the trustees of the Manchester Royal Infir- sary elected a dispesriary surgeon to f1ll the vacancy causedi by the death Of Mr. Tomli[18O.3 T Myrh.C.HATEraH presided at the special general board which ci was . sumoned for this purpose. Having read the notice con- I vetingg the meeting, he remarked that less ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1855
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: News