... I A 1ERRY CHRIS. - ]re the publication of the next number of the ,,,onide, the day which, more than al others is .earrted to kind thoughts, wi have come and el To every one of our readers we 'wish a merry '°s As, week after week, we speak to friends, n khown, some unknown, we feel increasingly in. in their welfare, increasingly hopeful for their ve If we have succeeded in furnishing ...

... CORRESPONDENCE,. I THE RIBBLE SCHEME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SIR,--The result of your correspondent ' Observer's node of calculating the value of the Ribble stock is so widely different from mine that I shall leave the public to judge for themselves. I hope that if the shareholders should be persuaded to part with their Property by public auction, after the depreciatory ...

... I . Il 1 - - - CANDLEMAS SPORTTS.-PIGEON AND SPARROW SHOOT- ING FOR AMATEURS, As MR. HENRY KIRKEAM'S. WREA GREEN, NEAR Kxm&si.-Caudlemas, from time imme- morial, has been a holiday time for servant men and maids in country places. In consequence of this Mr. Kirkham decided to give his friends a treat in the shooting oe He therefore sent out posters stating that a match for amateurs would takep ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PEWSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1867. ?? ?? ?? ?? -l. ?? ?? - ?? ?? I THE REFORM BILL IN THE HOUSE OF I x~LORDS. I The measure which, for five mnouths, has been, Ein one shape or another, before the House of Commons, and has been so keenly debated by both Conservatives anad Liberals, is safely out of the bands of the repre- sentatives of the ,people. It will be pushed through the ...

... SPENCER AND THE EAST LANCASjRDAL~,- (Fromr the Gent'lemen's Maogefor Felnozrn., lk The biographers of Edmund Spencer state that at ha .A had taken his degree at Cambridge he retired fu ?? time into the North of Englaud and re-ided t : friends. Duringthissojournhecomposedhis Sbepye5:. W Calendar; and tradition says' thatthis was done ate r. ; now a farm honise, near Hurstwood, once ths ...

... 1 PRESENTATION: or0F- PLATE I H. BLACMORE.I A. On Wednesday evening lat, Mr. H. Blackmore received hor from a number of friends at Blackpool some elegant arti. the dles of silver plate, as an acknowledgment of the services pol he has rendered to that fashionable watering place in his - capacity~ of traffic manager for the western section oE the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The ...

... | _4 .i IBY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] London, Friday Evening. MONETARY. I City, Friday.-The funds to-day are firmer, and a re- eovery of i per cent. has taken place, although there is no revival of business. In the share markets languor pre- vails. The large increase in the Bank of France does not seem to have attracted much attention. Very little busi- ness is doing in British ...

... THE REv. THOMAS Cox, of this town, has been ap- pointed head-master of the Grammar School, Halifax. Mr. T. H. CLIFTON, son and heir of Colonel Clifton, of Lytham Hall, will to-day cut the first sod of the Black. pool and Lytham railway at Lytham. AarEuIOAN SLAVEEY.-Last evening, the Rev. J. R. Balme, an American Baptist clergyman, delivered a lecture on American Churches and Slavery, in the ...

... Principal Cunnnglhalm, of the how College, Edinburgh, died I on Saturday morning, in his 56th year. It is stated that a puisne judgeship in India has been offered ing] ?? M'Mhon M.P. for Woxford, and declined. man A vordict of feb-dc-se has been returned against Thomas T | Townsend, at Sheffield, the seducer and murderer of his own Pal 1stop-daughter-. be At the Wffarwick assizes, on Tuesday, ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE DEFAULTERS.-On Wednesday morning last, the pre- siding justices at the Borough Police Court, in compliance with an application from Mr. Hoyle, colector to the Local Board of Health, granted summonses against eighty eight persons for the non-payment of the Local Board rates. THE Tows HALL-The block plan for the new Town Hall was received from Mr. Scott on Thursday. He pro- ...

... 33orrolme'a ;trlrifeg- . ,, iie The busybody labours; with' t th'iiiks, talks Wttfoutl credit, lives without love, and dies ?? tears. ch RUNNING MiN.-Two men crth would run the fastest. One a oktable and to e o rI a thief.~~ER , ~ ~ Smo o fool, what makes you steal ?? that rabbit when your U I Ad1 hush !~h dar d}ttbote rbt~ gun as no lock on it ?'--fls hushidar dlto hra don't know datyo ...

... MEETINGS OF MR, WARE'S FRIENDS. On Wednesday evening, a numerous meeting of the supporters of Mr. Ware was held at the Cross Keys Inn, Adelphi-street. Mr. Edmundson presided. He referred toMr. Lancaster's retirement, which he considered some- what mysterious, and expressed his opinionthat Mr. Ware was a suitable person to represent the ward. His can- vass had been most satisfactory, and ...