... .11 GREAT HORSE FAIR AND THE SWELL MOB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,-It is feared we may have a greater number than usual of unwelcome visitors at the ensuing fair,.smart ladies and gents., with tickets of leave. Would it not be desirable to procure a detective from London to assist Air. Gibbons? The public should be cautioned against taking watches or purses to the poultry ...

... Six easy chairs have been sent to Fort Pitt General Hospital, by desire of the Queen, for the benefit of the ?? News. The Europa transport embarked 17 officers and 465 men of the Land Transport Corps, at Plymouth, on Wednesday afternoon, and sailed on Thursday morning for the Crimea. Each of the captains selected to command the gunboat and mortar-boat flotilla for the ensuing year's campaign ...

... I U I A ..D TE ST OW. ER i i . ?? I - . USI AN .THE WESTERN. POWERS. (From the Timeq.) No doubt, public opinion has its abuses, but if we want to 'see the consequence of its absence, they are' exhibited to the world in the present condition of Russia. A; more awful case neverbefel man ortempite.t Russia hasith one tp advise her. Wrapt i, bis dark and solitary despotisw, the. czar has none, ...

... The Rev. Mr. Tulhill, of Ballyhenry, Tipperary, has received a threatening Rockite notice. A scripture reader has been brutally treated in Derry by two men, who met him on a road, pursued him into a house, and beat him till he was insensible. A respectable farmer named Nolan, a tenant on the estate of the Earl of Besborough, near Garryhill, Carlow, has entered on the 11Mth year of his age. The ...

... - The dearth of new incidents from the seat of war throeq- our specials` on the expedient of amplifylng old ones.' Acaordiiigty, the London papers are filled with details of the terrible explosion in the camp of the allies and speculations as to the cause of the untoward event. Little light, however, ia throwfn on the transaction by these guesses, and the impression that the uassians were at ...

... (Froan the Examiner.) On the 24th of October, 1691, William Helme, of Kearsley, in the county of Lancaster, after providing for l his family and benefiting his friends, bequeathed the residue of his lands and beraditaments to trustees, to the intent and purpose that the clear and annual rents, issues, and profits thence arising and growing over and above all charges and reprises, shall be ...

... As yet, no euthentic details of the fall of Kars have come to hand, but the report comes from too many iode- pendent sources to leave any doubt as to the fact. As we anticipated in a former article, the whole political world is filled with crimination and recrimination on the subject. The Tories lay the fault on the government and the mioaiterialists (out of office) on Lord Panmure. The Times ...

... Here's merry hristmtas, and it seems To call back childhood to the breast, With kindly words and laughing screams, With leaping steps that shake the beams, With noisy games and happy dreams, And all of life that's bright and ?? Cook. If there by any possibility existed a doubt that the religion of the Messiah was one of love, and not of gloom, we should think the sunny side of the argument ...

... ?? The 5th Lancashire militia, under Lieutenant-colonel Towneley, now in Clonmel, numbers 32 officers and 650 rank and file. The deanery of Down, Ireland, has become vacant by the death of the Very Rev. Theophilus Blakeley, MA. It is in the gift of the crown. A Limerick paper states that one-third more of land in the south of Ireland is laid out for wheat this winter than this time ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8,1855. ~l We have now arrived at, and are passing through that dread season of the year when Englishmen, succumbing to the ponderosity of the atmosphere, are supposed to brood over their dyspeptic stomachs, rail at fortune for making them too rich, and become curious enquirers as to the price of morphia or prussic acid. How thankful ought we to be ...

... -- - - - I . - . Yesterday, an adjourned meeting of the Blackburn Town Coun- cil was held in the Assembly Room, Heaton-street; the Mayor in the chair. Present-Aldermen Cunningham, Thwaites, Ru- therford, Degdale, Parkinson, Folding, and Hopwood; Council- lors Roylance, Ainsworth, Baynes, TurnIbull, Boyle, T. Thwvaites, Parker, Forster, W. Johnson, P. Johostone, Beaty, Watson, Hirst, ...

... MR. TROMAS BAINES. Mr. Thomas Baines, who for upwards of twenty years has been proprietor and editor of the Liverpool Times, has announced his intention of resigning his conenxion with that journal, and of retiring from the responsibilities and ceaseless competition of newspaper life. This is a step which we cannot but regret, inasmuch as it removes. from the local press a gentleman who has ...