... I LOCAL INTELLIGTSENCE. _ 1 DEFAULTING RATEFATERS.-At the borough police court on Thursday le-a, a number of ratepayers were sum- moned for non-payment of Local Board rates. All the cases, except two, were settled out of court. Orders for immediate payment were made by the magistrates in the two cases. LANCASHIRE PATENTS.-John M'Vitie, of Preston, for certain improvements in mules for spinning ...

... FOREIGN MISCELLAN Y. ?? - - . .. . I . I -. Wild boar bunting is being carried on with great suc- cess in the forest of Orleans and in other parts of France. Servia is moro warlike than ever in her popular tone and outward seeming. Troops are being reviewed, commis- sions granted in hundreds, and drilling carried on without remission all over the country. The Vienna Gazepte calculates that as ...

... 539mTalu£ Criffe . . . e - 1 . L - - - When are wives not wvives ?-When they are masters When is a blow from a lady welcome ?-When she strikes you agreeably. What kind of office does a doctor's door-plate resemble -A siqn o' csm'e (sinecure). Lady Montague said, aM My health is like old lace; I patch it in one place, and it breaks out in another. Whence did the autho- of Whittington end hid ...

... The proposed reduction of five pet cent. upon the wages of cotton operatives of this localit~y meets with great opposition, and those who will be affected by it say that it will not meet the commercial difficulty, and that the best course open is to work short time until the markets have recovered from their present state of depression. On Wednesday evening, the Preston Branch of the North of ...

... AMERICA. PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND CONGRESS. Tho Times has received from its correspondent at Wash- ington the following ?? assel resolution directing committee inquire into offences president hundred eight ayes, thirty-eight noes. First Pt impeachment. Radicals determined press it. Presi- nt vetoed Negro Suffrage Bill. We read it thus:- = The House has passed a resolution directing a committee ...

... A A REVOLT IN A FRENOH PENITENTIARY. || On the 3rd of October last, the Penitentiary of the Le- vant, the largest of the group of isles known as the islands of Hvyres, a reformatory where young boys are trained to husbandry, rose in open revolt, and fourteen boys were literally roasted alive by the ringleaders. On the 24th of September sixty-five Corsicans who had been confined at St. Antoine, ...

... (Fronm the Odd-fellois' Maqazine.) From MIr. John Tidd Pratt's annual report we learn I that during the year 1865, he has examined and certified the rules of 1,076 Friendly Societies not previously en- rolled. In addition to these, alterations in, or, additions I to, thb rules of 1,248 other societies have been pronounced by him to be in accordance with the Friendly Societies Act. This result ...

... (Fromn the Oa6deners' Uhroeiwe. )!l PLANT 4OUSES.-Me-ny Orchid(s, such, as Cnttleyac, Ccelogynes,: Ml tonias, Deadriobeumsg, and- similar plants! which dQ, not reouiro. so much heat as vandas, sacco.| labiuzus,. &c., will now show the breaks at the base of the pseudohculbs somewhat prominently. R1eep all such in as even and moderate a temperature as possible, in order to delay their starting ...

... WESLEYAN MISSIONS& Sermons in connectionrsith these missions were preached on Sunday, at the two chapels (Wesley and Moor Park) belonging the new or tsue-l circuit in Preston, by the Revds. T. A. Rayner, J. Adams, and J. Lamfie. The sum realised by the collections after the services amounted to £16 18s. 10.ld. TRE ANNUAL MISSIONARY MEETING- was held in Wesley Chapel, on Monday evening last, ...

... I It is reported in Paris that Lord Lyons will succeed Earl Cowley as British Ambassador at the Court of. the Tuileries. THE TYNE.-The revenue of the river Tyne Comia- sioners in 1866 exceeded by £6,000 that of 1865. Last year the commissioners dredged live millions and a half tons of sand and rubbish out' of the river, being a million tons more than in 1865, and a million and a half tons ...

... ' THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND has caused notice to be given to his tenantry on the Trentham estate, Staffordahire, that such of them as sufered loss by the cattle plague before the compensation clauses of the Cattle Plague Act came into operation will have the half of such losses made good at the expense of his grace. - THE ABSUtBDIT of some of the cattle plague regulations was prominently brought ...

... ?? AAi . - d ?? -f ^^1,1 I-AV AA^A ?? a nne ricr ?? ox golq brive been discoverod in the county of IHastings, Calnada \Vest. Of course the dis- covery lias deligihted the Canadians. Thle Kinc o ?? left Florence on the 24th Deeemb.er, to splicl the Cblistmnas fctes at Turin. Prince Amadteus, Siconi ston of Hlis Majesty, bad previously arrived at V~enice. President Johnson having issued a decree ...