... I = = = ?? AMERICA. I The Asia arrived on Saturday, from New York on the I 26th. Grant has agained an important victor~yover Bragg,, t and driven the Confederates from M~%issijonary Ride which the Federals occupy. They report the capture- of 5,000 prisoners, and 40 cananon. Nothing important from Charleston. The firing still continues. P General Burnside still holds Isis position at X1noxville ...

... FORETIN N EWS. I AMERICA. * ARRIVAL OF THE ADRIATIC. The A driatic arrived on Sunday afternoon last. New York, 24th September, Noon.-Further details of the battle fought on the 20th inst. between Generals Rosecrans and iragg have been received. General Rose- crane's right and cen'tre were driven from the field. Gene- ral Thomas, though temporarily repulsed, maintained his position until ...

... GARDENING OPERATIONS. (1'rom the Gcardewnts' Jironicle.) CONSERVATORY, &C.-Plants getting past their best should-be-replaced at onco by something of a more showy character. When the principal collection of chrvsanthe- mums comes Into bloom a selection should be made of the best and most useful sorts, for there are many worthless varieties in-cultivation, and it is better to grow duplicates of ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SIR,-I hasten to communicate the following:- As I lay awake in bed,-which is frequently my wont toward the morning hours-this (Tuesday) morning, some strange phenomena occurred. I had been wakesome for about an hour, all being calm and still, when, suddenly, the bedroom window rattled so audibly that-my attention was instantaneously arrested, and I ...

... I * ?? ARRIAL OATMNERICA t O THE ClY OF CORK. a The extr Iuou',li steamship Citb of Co;ik, with advices from New 'vYork to the 13th inst., gas arrived. The war news is unimportalnt. No movemeuts of a eneral character have occurred for some time past in the, .hSotiY Of the Potomac The weather-coutir ues intensely s o, and retards oporations. Arrivals from Charleston b State that the ...

... B>LACKBURN. CLAYTON-LE-DALM-On Monday, a meeting of the inhabitants of Clayton-le-dale unanimously resolved not to odopt the Local Government Act. DEPRAUDING THE RELIEF COMMITTERt-Yesterday, before Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Parkinson, Martha O'Con- nor was summoned for defrauding the Trinity Ward Relief Committee. It was proved that the prisoner bad ropre- sented to Mr. Beaty and others that her ...

... , I, . . .. . . (f'rorn the Gardeners' Cronicle. ) FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. -.Watch 1)se buds inserted last August; rub off those on the stock ina progressive way, and let all roses, whether staudard or dwarf, be well top-dressed with good rotten manure if not already done. The moss and provence kinds intended for forcing next winter should have a rich mulching fairly covering the pots. ...

... XORTT LANCASHIRE ELECTION. The election of a knight of the shire Tor the norlbern division of this county was held on Tuesday last, .at the Shire Hall, Lancaster, the election being Tendered neces- Fary through the Marquis of Hartington having aecepted office under the Crown. The noble marquis was met at the Wing's Arms Hotel, Lancaster, by a numerous *atid influential body of freeholderwfromc ...

... 11~ ?? _ ?? A garotter was shot at Nottingham on Wednesday. Lord Palmerston has been elected honorary president an of the Glasgow Athenseum. - d The Queen has forwarded £300 for the relief of the di. di, tress in North Warwickshire and Coventry, to be divided laI between the two existing funds. Rt On Wednesday night, a destructive fire broke out on St the premises of. Messrs. Lees and Beau, ...

... Another line has been added to the now extensive system of Lancashire railways. The Preston and Wyre Railway was planned and formed in the comparative infancy Of railway travelling, and taking a nearly direct route between its termini, the ancient borough of Preston and the new port of Fleetwood, it Skirted the old towns of Kirham and Poulton, but altogether ignored, as the modern phrase ...

... It would appear ?? government is an absolute monarchy limited by amsas- sination. The last advices from Madagascar disclose the particulars of the removal from his throne and his life of the late king of that island, under circumstances of a sad character. For the information respecting this catastrophe we are indebted to two sources ; the Rev. William Ellis, a well known missionary in ...

... TEIE PRISON MlNISTERS BILL. isa class ( forror the Times.) Thferet of te O sayings in all mother tongues to the effet thatsthe worse leads and the better follows. in the mixed teams one sees abroad, while the rshaft horse i% a. colossus,A heleader is a mule or anss. Aordingly, those therrbe isfor ionsistden r farn ss. Acoevenglyim thos teribe qustins nde which acute politicians see the point ...