... O OnTuesday evening last, a public meeting was heldin 1 the Corn Exchange Assombly-room to consder the desirability of establishing an I udustrial Institute for the Blind. There was only a very meagre attendance. The chair was occupied by the Mayor, and there were also present It. Towaley Parker, Esq., Revs. C. H. Woo] and -R. Slate; Messrs. Benson, Atibler, Catterall, Proffitt, aod D-. Ridley ...

... THE FYLD)E. ?? I rt.EoIcrCNs AT WRXIlEA MMag , NA MM iCIRITIAM, ON TILE COMII.NG Uo A. GI. 01'3 MlSS 111ILLY, TH'E ONLY CHILD OF THlE IRFV. JoIIN SIIEPIIERDII nxLEY, OP LYTIAM.-OD Tuesday last, all the day and Sunday scholars aid teachers of Wrea Green schools met together at tho bDys' school-rnoom, to celebrate the joyful occasion. At balf-past. three o'clock in the afternoon, about 150 ...

... I.. ?? - B,3,j-orrowu !Lriffeo. I plaesu wth its laiy-ep~leciallY the hen. ti 5 5letter S like a furnace on a battery l-Be- , it p I'5O deep in thought like a soldier in camp? |b li ,,se be is tentidea of himself, it is certain to be lIt; t Id , heever wvill have. b ,co1rt I young woman, and you are won, and she as ; i n .vlojn that is poorly lose much of his sense tI l ,oe b don't feel well. ...

... I (F2Sor the Garcdeners' Chroltede.i ) PLANT Housus.-Francisceas, which have done flower- ing, should have PAl did flower buds removed as soon as the plantz have ceased blossoming. This is beat effected by I taking off a leaf or two at the tips of the flowering shoots bodily with the old buds, an operation which will ?? aid the over-worked plants in their efforts to make fresh wood. In about ...

... CORRBESPONDENCE. I, - _ __ . , ?? CAPTAIN GERMIAN AND THE BOSTON ELECTION. TO THIE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,- Will you kindly allow mo to correct all error in your last Saturday's impression, as to what I said at Boston in reference to the ballot ? t did not state, as reported, that I had recently travelled in America, Le., &c., but that my remarks were founded on the obervation ...

... I . | Her Majesty and royal family wil vry probably visit Scotland seme time next month A bill to render policies of insurance assignable at law, and to enable assignees of such policies to sue thereon in their own name, has just been issued. At Bury St. Edmunds assizes, on Saturday, Edward Parmiter was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for shooting at James Mothersole, head gamekeeper ...

... I PAR{LIAMIENWARlY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY, FEB. 25. THE ABOAS CORPUS ACT IN IRLL&ND.-The Earl of !DERBY moved the second reading of-the Habeas Corpus Suspension (Iroland) Act Continuance Bill. Thecondition of the country was so well known that instead of apolo- gising for introducino- the bill, he ought rather to apolo- gise for having in the Royal Speech held out delusive hopes ...

... - THE CHRONICLE. PRIESTON, SATURDA Y, JUARCH 30, 1867. . - ?? ?? .- -. ?? ?? ?? I .'.1111 Il ?? v A. w is A ?? . . ?? The views which we have previously expressed as to the course that the Liberal party ought to adopt in reference to the government Reform Bill have been fully justified by events. In his speech last Tuesday night, Mr. Disraeli gave way on nearly every point where pressure ...

... HIORRORS OF AN EARTHQUAKE. 'TOWN;S AL D VILLAGES ALMOST ENTIRELY DEMOLISHED. TIIOUSAiSDS OY LIVES LOST. The altalfie Timnes of the 14th instant states that the recent eartl(liiake has been felt at Smnyrna, Magnesia, Adramidi, Aivali, the Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Constanti- nople, and tiie neighbonring country. At Adramiti the ground continued to shake on the morning of the 8tb. The terrified ...

... narrolval grfffm SoLttElrEri slrP. EN'.-Clerk in a loan-office. iVI. tt ot reemtbles a pretty girl bathingi-A diving Ly is a nevspayer like a wife ?-Because every man 1 to Lave one of his own. ItI1t ?? beauty's privilege to kill Time; and, :, rougot, Tilne kills beauity. Ts have of a lace-edged cambric handkerchief iS a ae Qa vhich triany a poor fellow has been carried away. thrifty wite ...

... A~~iI{1CUL~~u- R-eVIEW OF THE Cctnx TRADE.- T_ e Slav ahturto or, ?? -uu~e ficklene, o plunged us from a vernal temperature iat' of winter, aggravated by the cutting w int'le . has bc-n sharp enitugh here, but '-hap ' where they have had eight degrees of ?? blossoms, which were on the vcrgt0 I T I fail to feel this change, as well as every ot4 5: while the young wheat, whieh waS s r r i- way ...

... Ak 1.,GLER'4 ACCOUNT OF TH1 RIVFPWR IBBLE. Acr i- icntof Lald ,idil liwh -, who writes under I or 1t n-ier il-4shik Heron, gives the suiionjoed description tb : se llibbie, tsiweciaily ill reference to its capacities as a I i:.Driver -PC i -i Unly the memories and ti-ices of strange old Bi i- .. aiid ;; irl tich iln silmon aud treat, and busy al 1;,- ,1,, giveg crilslovilciit to hundreds and ...