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REPORT OF THE SEBASTOPOL COMMITTEE

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1959 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY DEPARTURES FOR JUNE

... '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 ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1679 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

RE-OPENING OF THE PAIRISH CHURCH

... flE-OPENING OF THE PAIRISH CHURCH. I Onr Parish Church is again open for divine service. After a suspension of more than two years, its ministra- tions are resumed. The completion of the edifice was I Celebrated on Monday last by the performance of Handel's oratorio of the Messiah, and on Thursday, for the first time since the 10th of April, 1853, full service was per- formed therein. i Tho ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5098 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... 1 The Liverpool letter-carriers are about to be clothed in uniform. A sea eagle, weighing 61b 20z. was killed by a game- keeper, on Berwyn mountain, in Wales, a few days ago. The Emperor of the French has recovered from his in- dispositiOn. On Friday week and Saturday, his Highness Mustapha 1ey, one of the heirs presumptive to the Viceroy of Egypt, visited Birmingham, for the purpose of ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9145 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MORMONISM.—DEPLORABLE STATE OF UTAH

... IMORMONISA.-DEPLORABLE STATE OF UTAH. The following is an extract from a private letter in the Cambridge Independent Press:-Mormonism here and Mormonism so called in the Old Countries are two separate systems. Your straightforward honest opinion is not dared to be tuttered. You are surrounded by spies: you know not whom to trust. Human life is of no value here; cutting throats from the Stand ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

... S~PIRIT OF THlE PRESS. I= STATE OF THINGS AT SEBASTOPOL. (From the Morning Post.) I For the third time the allies have opened fire upon Sebastopol, and now with greater advantages and chances of success than ever. The whole of the Russian outworks are in our possession. The guns of the enemy are, in some cases, turned against their masters, and a direct attack is being made upon the actual ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 788 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND EDITION

... Chronicle Office, Eleven o'clock. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH9.] THE WAR. No later official news from the Crimea. The list of officers killed will probably not be known until their relatives have been written to by the War Office. A Russian despatch of the 19th, received at St. Peters- burgh, says that after twenty-four hours of a murderous bombardment, the French, on the morning of the 18th, made ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 849 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CLUB

... This institution was inaugurated on Wednesday evening last, at the rooms in Fishergate, which were beautifully decorated for the occasion, by the committee, with ever- greens and flowers gratuitously presented by Mr. Lawe and Mons. Le Brasseor, and with coloured drapery and hangings supplied by Messrs. Brewster and Burrows. The suite of rooms comprises, on the ground floor, a gymnasium and ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5486 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, POLE-STREET

... OPENING OF THE BAPTIST CHAPEL, POLE.,STREET. The chapel in Pole-street, erected by and for the body of Christians, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's con- nection, having been purchased, as we recently announced, by the church and congregation under the care of the Rev. Alexander Birnie, who have worshiped for the last fifteen months in the lecture-room of the old Mechanics' Institution, ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1766 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THIRD EDITION

... PRESTON MARKET.-TIUS DAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There was a very mneagre supply of wheat, and prices were about 3d. to 6d. higher than last week. Meal and beans were each about Gd. dearer. Oats Id. per bushel lower. In other produce no change. WHEAT, white per windle of 2201bs ?? 36s Od to 38s 9d Do., red ?? .. 35 0 ,, 36 6 FLOUR, superfine, per pack of 240lbs. 55 0 ,, 58 0 Do. common fine, do ?? 48 ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

CHORLEY

... HI APEV SUN DAY ! HEAEY SNDAYScon-,. - n,- ?? I 1APEEy SUNDAY SCHOOL. - On Sunday last, three excellent sermons were preached in Heapey uhapes, by the Rev. J. P. Shepherd, after which collections were made in behalf of the Sunday shools at Heapey, Wheelton, and White Coppice, which, we are happy to say, amounted to the handsome sum of £41. ALLEGED ASSAULr.-Thomas Winder, acollier, of ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 860 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE WAR

... THE. WAR. The telegraph from the Crimea has continued moat I mysteriously silent for an unusually long period, and, re- versing the proverb which tells us that No news is good news, it is to be feared that such taciturnity is rather indicative of a check than otherwise. The gossip-mongers, both in London and Paris, have evidently thought so, for their inventive powers have been in more than ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1855
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1852 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News