... A shocting match for £20, between Mr. J. Bromilaw, of Lostock, and Mr. T. Moore, of Aspull, came off last Mon- day, at Newton Heath; 15 pigeons each, with IA oz. shot, 21 yards rise, and 80 boundary. Bromilaw won the mateh; ihe killed thirteen out of fourteen of his birds, whilst Moore brought down only 11 out of fourteen. It is now stated that, should Colonel Auson decline to join the present ...

... LANCASTER. I kftn ; & P.( -r , . _ I lRn. R. A. CRoss ON CL1IME AND EDUCATION.-In his cbarg to thc grood jury at t he Lancaster quarter sessioes, ?? Monday, Mr. R. Assheton Cross, the newly-elected crairma, s aid that the calender told the same sad story as it ever had done, and most likely would continue to tell- oat of vicealone, but ofvicalmost invartiably accompanied by ignorance, wichir ...

... ' About the year 1796-7, when the expedition to Holland under the command of the Dake of York had returned to England, the 20th-regiment of foot came to Preston. It l was a mere skeleton of what it was before it took part in that disastrous campaign, and Preston was assigned as its depOt, at which to fill up its former complement of rank and file. The veteran colonel, (David Clepbane,) having ...

... 'TIS SEVENTY YEARS SINCE. TO TilE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SIR,-The officer mentioned in Octogenarian's letter was Brooke, not Brooks; his second -son, Charles Augustus, may be remembered by younger generations in Preston, a captain in the 6th Royal Rogiment in 1843-4. Your obedient servant, January 24th, 1867. E. S. N. FROZEN BOILERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON -CHRONICLE. SIR, ...

... FOR',EIGN NEWS. I AME RICA. ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN. Tho Canadian maiI steamer Xloraviam arrived at Liver- 1)110, on Tuesciay evening. New York, 2jii,1 December, Morning.-Presitlent John- son had revoked the military order, prohibiting corporal punishment in the department of the South, on the ground that it was an utnwarrantable interference with the civil laws. The Lower House of the ...

... | . ~ ~ - . 1 _ _ , On New Year's Day, the reformers of Blackburn and the neighbourhood assembled in the town of Blackburn to show-to the government and the people of this country that any impression that may be entertained as to an in- difference on the subject of parliamentary reform by 6t6e working classes is unlounded, so far at least as that part of the country is concerned. The ...

... Naples has recently been visited with a sulccessio of 'p gales. Writing on the 16tH instant, the corsespondent of l te ies says:- T Ghe of the grandest and most afflicting spectacles -I h have ever seen I witnessed yesterday. A storm-nay, a t hurricane, raged from the south-east, such as no one rei- members to have seen in Naples, and such as has not oc. curred during the long interval. that I ...

... 11 l 'Yhe Irish paper announce the death of Mr. John -Dal- ton, the eminent Irish antiquary, in his,78th year. Mr. Edward Mercer, of Durrow, in Queen's County, was the other day watching some of his~men clearing ice from a water-wheel at one of hie mills, when he was killed by one of the buckets striking him on the head. The railway bridge spanning over the river Tame has been discovered to ...

... I 84&LNCASTER.at !I ?? ?? BRUTAL ATTACK UPON A WOMaN.-On Wednesdav, John CarrutheLs, of Manchester, was brought up at the judges' lodgings, under the following circumstances:- Defendaut has recently gone to live at Bolton-le-Sands, in a house belonging to Mlr. Fryers, farmer, On Tuesdav a dispute arose between them, and defendant comnlenced an attack upon Mr. Fryers. His wife ran tc his ...

... On the night of the 24th November, the British barque Coya, of London, from Sydney, bound to San Francisco, was totally wrecked near Point Ano Nhevo, about 60 miles to the southward of San Francisco, and of the 29 souls on board-but three succeeded in reaching the shore alive.-Mr. George Byrnes, the sole survivor of the pas- sengers on board the ill-fated vessel, says that on the 23rd of ...

... THE CHRONICLE. PRESTON, SATURDAY, JANUAR Y 19, 1867. _ _- .. . . .. . _. _. One of the very first acts which His Holiness has committed now that he has lost his French protectors recall the days of persecution which some people hoped had passed away for ever. It may appear strange that the venerable head of the Roman Catholic Church should offend a great portion of the religious world just ...

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