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CORRESPONDENCE. SNOB

... S IN UNIFORM TO THlE EDITORt OF TUB PRESTON~ OURONIOLE. b SIR.-Your correspondent G. G. G. writes to defend tho Snobbish advertisement announcing the enrolment of gentlemen in the Fishwick Rifle Corps. It may be that Soldiers who do their duty are, in the highest sense of the word, gentlemen, but they are not conventionally termed such, nor will the spinners and piecers at the various ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3064 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

THE TREATY OF ZURICH

... The French and Austrian plenlipotentiarius have at length come to an understanding on the non-gin .f fair Zurich's waters, having respectively signed a treaty of peace without the slightest consultation with the re_- presentative of Sardinia. This fact, taken nll c0nhjilla tion with the sinister rumours of the past week, respect- ing exorbitant demands by France upon Piedmont, and the just ...

Published: Saturday 22 October 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... _ - . .. L. SPENCER, ESQ., of this town, ?? England, was admitted a member of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on Thursday last. THE GREENTELL TESTIrONIAL.-The amount of sub- scriptions to this object amounted, up to last evening, to the sum of £342. MILITARY CONsCERT.-An attractive entertainment has been arranged for Monday, the 24th inst., at the Institu- tion, Avenham. THE ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4588 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... I THE: CATHOIIC AND THE ELECTION. 0 TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON OEIONIOLE. Si 5ia,-FsvOur me with a corner in your next impression, t] t t I' may state that the resolutions passed at the meeting ii of Catholici last FridaBy were not agreed to unanimously, p as voc werO informed.-YOui-s, &~C, t April 20, 1859. A CATHOLIC. ti _ ft BEPRESENTATION OF PRESTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3155 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

Gems of Chought

... Gems of Qcbougbt. Every young man should remember that the world will always honour industry. The vulgar and useless idler, whose energies of body and mind are rusting for want of occupation, may look with scorn upon the labourer en- zaged at his toil; but his scorn is praise, his contempt foneur. Dean Swift says he never knew a man rise to eminence who lay in bed of a morning. Be not ashamed ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 865 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... _1 VOLUNTEER CORPS. TO TIE EDITOR OF THIE Rnl:STON CIIRONICLTE, Slit,-1 was somewhat amused to read in the Livcerpool 3lcirl~ *one day this wsouk, the following paragrapl, headed 'oho Volntcer loree, and referring to the pro- Posed corp:- in Liverpool :-We understand that Mr. Wrm. Brown has roccived a lettcr froun Major BIUMdell, Saying that, as a dCputy-liCutCnaInt, hle will suibscrlibe ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1773 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

REMOVAL OF PAUPERS

... e Elnglish journalists observe the wholesome rule of e not commenting upon the alleged offences of persons awaiting trial before a jury of their countrymen; we make, therefore, no observation upon the serious charge which Mr. John Seddon Scoweroft, an officer of the Bol- ton union, will have to meet at the Lext Lancaster assizes. a Most of our readers will by this time have perused in t our ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 784 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY

... ON THE 26TH OF MARCH, 1859. (Froma C0l82rM's Uabited Service 3Afyaaine.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last named Is that at which the depot of the regiment is stationed.] CAVALRY. 31st BOmbay-Pembroke Dock lst Life Guards. Hyde-park 32nd Bengal 2nd ditto, Windsor 33rd Bombay-Fermoy Royal Horse Guards, Regent's- 34th Bengal-Colchester park 35th Rengal-Chathamn let Dragoon Guards, Madras ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 596 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

UNITARIAN CHAPEL

... IN On Sunday last (Trinity Sunday) the Rev. W. C. Squier o lreached special sermons in illustration of the faith of c~ Ijuitarian Christians. In the morning the subject was IITho Unitarianiem of the Old Testament, and the text n was taken from Isaiah, c. 45, verses 22, 23.a The preacher began by saying tbat it mightlbe thought by many Unitarians to be an unnecessary task for him to attempt, ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1879 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

POULTON-LE-FYLDE

... PoULTOUNT-E-E ?? i COT STY C'O1 ITZtT ?? Atf flic n ?? . 'I COTY COURT. - At this ?? last, in the Court-house, Poulton.le.rv I1lon Addison, there were entered for ad ?? fine M- J ber of cases, out of which we ive the fol]0law. o ix Ye1. interestinig._j~l Wo21.for I ages: 70oha C. in aI, land JBradel.-Plaintiff is a farm-labonre, and *I recover from the defendant, who is a farnr d sog- under ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 847 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... ti THEWAR. I DESTRUCTION OF FRlENCH BOATS AND RAFTS. th A letter, written on the l8th, states that eight boats Vi and large rafts, pirocurcd by the Fronch to destry the w! Austrian bridge ai Cambio, were destroyed by the Austrian ell artillery. ?? nir THlE BATTLE OF MONTEBELLO.H 'rio following furthor particulars Of' this battle have an conic to hand since our last issue, being from the Truin ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1859
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6213 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News