... AGL{ICUI1'URE & GARDENING. SOLDIERS' GARDENS.-In the late encampment at ft Chalons, which has been broken up during the past week, ti we learn that the soldiers have been encouraged to rear al and cultivate vegetable gardens all around the camp, on a i w plan tried experimentally on a limited scale s'mo two r( years back. So successful have the preseut arrangements proved that they are to be ...

... New Brighton College was destroyed by fire on Monday evening. Prince Napoleon and the Princoss Clotilde arrived at Southampton on Saturday. The death of Mir. J. G. Stapylton Smith, judge of the Lincolnshire county courts, is announced. The colonelcy of a battalion of the 60th Rifles is ren- dered vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General Sir Wm. G. Monre. A lady from Odessa, finding, it is ...

... PUBLIC DAY AT THE GRAMMAR 11 SCH4OOL,. On Thursday last, the annual distribution of prizes took place at the Grammuar School. As usual, the Mayor, accom- panied by a number of members of the Corporation, and other entlemen, woent in proossion tothscolpreddbte 'orporat e officials, besringtl aphmlao dignity. On arriving at tho school, thle yanh greedii Worship with a round of hertcheig ...

... The weekly yieeting of the guardians was held yester- day, in the offices of the union, Lancaster.road. There were present-Mr. Ascroft, chairman; Messrs. Newsham, Jacson, J. Catterall, Addison, Oliverson, and Goodair, ex-ofjicio guardians; and the following elected guardians: Messrs. Howitt, Tait, Abraham, . ancaster, Bennett, Taberner, T. Dewvhurat, Hayes, HI. Holding, Fowler, Stock, Howarth, ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY. Inv UYMPTARR AWfl TRET O -- LBY B~cITIsH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TLGp~ The Lord Chancellor took his seat at five O'clock. Viscount DURGANNON gave notice that, on Fridgy he should ca.11 attention to the case of I5saaeTayilor, d'toote man, convicted at York nassizes of freboniousl pantwo gther powder in a house at Rtoth~erham 25yplcnggn Numerous petitions were ...

... COR iRESPONDEINCE. THlE TRADES' PROCESSION. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. S~ic-Looiugoverthe uil Recrdsof 1822, 1 find each trece pblihedthe ame ofthoe wh dieh1~edthe duties of he lile o waden bt dd nt d soin .hope they wil in 1812,for it is ineresting to on vr ol hoiles, and Aug. 28, 18I2~ A CARPE NTER. SHOP ASSISTANTS AND THE GUILD. TO TiII; EDITOR OF THlE PRESTON CHRONIOLE. Sia,-I ...

... I So great has been the interest excited by the Guild in other parts of the country that, in addition to the repre- sentatives of almost every Lancashire newspaper, the leading London papers have had their special correspon- dents on the spot; and there have been two or three artists down, sketching for the Itlmtrated Loadoa News. POST-OFFICE. We feel pleasure in being able to etate that the ...

... CONTEMPORARYPRESS.__ THE DREAM OF TRANSPORTATION. (Froma the Econaeniwt.) The prevalent outcry for the revival of transportation as a mode of punishing and disposing of our dangerous criminals will not, we are convinced, survive many weeks' consideration and discussion of the subject. It could scarcely have arisen, had the guides and instructors of the public mind, either official or amateur, ...

... _ 1100 eals are prepared forfdistributionto. the exhibitors wil at the Great Exhibition. chi John and William Griffiths, colliersI, were recently killed by yei falling down the shaft of the Great Oak Collfery, near Mold. Me The Viceroy of E~gypt is expected ?? Marichster a visit glbi on Tuesday or Wednesday next.I The anniual contest of the Ngtional Iil Association comn- soT xnenced on Tuesday ...

... PRESTON TOWN COUNCIL A meeting of the members of the Preston Town Council was held on Wednesday, in the Assembly-room of the Bull Hotel. There were ?? Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Pedder, Parker, Goodair, E. Birley, W. Birley, -Myree, Miller, and Hunmber; Counnillors Benson, Dawson, Ridiags, Hiumber, Wilcockson, T. Goodair, R. Goodair, Seed, Williamson, Arkwright, Woods, Myres, -Noblett, ...

... IMplRTAN' RAILWAY CAsSE.-On Tuesday at the Ormnskirk Cntv CourtJ Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes, of Hyde, Cheshire, sued ohn esii, out-door porter at the Southport railway station, fr Xo the value of a box containing dresses, jewellery, ic., wbi clb lad been lost while in his charge. From the evidence it peared that in July last Mrs. Barnes visited Southport, and 2aterher address had been written on ...

... ANoTEaR STRTIE.-The men employed by the Norley Coal Company are now on strike. They received notice of the intended reduction of their wages a fortnight before the intimation was received by the men employed at the other collieries, and accepted their wages at the reduced rate for two weeks. Their employers, refnsing to be bound by the action of the other proprietors, persist in the reduction, ...