... .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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ == NEW MASAISTBATc.-The name of Mr. William HUM. ber, of Myerscough Hall, late Mayor of this borough, ba been placed in the commission of the peace for this county. AIBITRATION..The hearing of the case between the Local Board and Mr. Welsby as to the value of his water rights on a tributary of Cowley brook was concluded yes- tevday week at Manchester, to which place it was ...

... - I Mr. Thackeray's lectures have been go acceptable at New York, that he has been obliged to repeat them. An iron shot tower has been erected in New York, 174 feet high. The Algiers journals announce the death of Ahmed B~ache Zoruadji, aged 107, formerly a musician of the last bey. Three members of the Hutchiuson familybhave selected claims near Glencoe settlement, in Minnesota, U.S., where ...

... /LISAM ;L I t I- (Prom the Morning Chronicle.) The junction of new adherents to the great league formed by civilized Europe against the Czar is now a topic of almost daily announcement. On Monday last Baron Seihach, Saxon Envoy in France, left Dresden for St. Petersburg, on a mission which is officially stated to be connected with the negotiations for peace. The Baron, it is understood, will ...

... The following particulars of a voyage from Auckland to Nengone, one of the Loyalty Islands, have been col- lated from the journal of Captain Puliam, which was obligingly placed at our disposal. The voyage was per- formed in the Auckland schooner Exert, of 41 tons, the property of Messrs. Lawrie Brothers, and of which Mr. Robert Lawrie is the master. The Exert was chartered with the view of ...

... - l! I.-1 I FIRE AT A COTTON MILL..-About half-past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening last, the cotton mill of Messrs. Clayton and Brothers, Heywood, was observed to be on fire. Strenuous efforts were immediately put forth for its extinction, which were happily successful. The amount of damage, considering the circurnstances, was not large, and was covered by insurance. The fire was ...

... | D,~. I . A ! - - - -- - - - - - - - - E The Berlin correspondent of the Times writes, under date Dec. 23rd:This morning I telegraphed to you that the Dresdener Journal has published a statement that the Russian government has already expressed its willingness to accept the principle of the neutralisation of the Black Sea, under certain conditions compatible with the interests of Europe. If ...

... 1| PATRIOTIC BALL-The proposed Patriotic Ball has met with every success In high quarters, and the afflir will consequently come off on Wednesday, the 10th of January. The military decorations have been gratuitously undertaken by Messrs. Bell and Coupland, whose excellent taste In the management of these matters is well known. PIGcoEN SUOoTING.-A match will take place at the Dalton's Arms, on ...

... I| - (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) Camp before Sebastopol, Dec. II.-The monotony of life in this huge military colony has been broken slightly by the appearance of the Rnssians on the heights of Urkesta, and by some demonstrations of an intention on their part to try the strength of the French positions on the Bazldar Valley. It would be of great consequence to them and of ...

... I TEA-PARTY. -On Tuesday last, the amnual tea.party for teachers and scholars belonging to the Sunday school connected with St. George's Church, Chorley, was held in the National School-room, when about 660 persons sat down to tea. After tea addresses were delivered by the Rev. John Stock, M.A., in- cumbent of St. George's, and the Rev. Everard Everet, B.A., curate. Several hymns and anthems ...