... GARSTANG & KNQTT END RAiLWAY. cor UPROARIOUS MEETING. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this to company was held yesterday afternoon, at the Royal Oak if Hotel, Garstang. There was a moderate attendance. The ] chair was occupied bylH. Gardner. Esq., and there were also present-- Dr. Chapman, Dr. Bell, Messrs. Addie, Moun- soy, Taylor, Robinson, Rooking, Thornton, Kelsall, Thomas, ...

... lB A meeting of the Ribble Committee of the Corporation was held on Thursday last, at the Local Board offices. Mr. Alderman Goodair presided, and there were also present Mr. Alderman Myres, and Councillors Myres, Dewhurst, Dobson, G. Smith, Gerrard, and Furness. After considerable deliberation, the following report was unanimously adopted. It will come before the Council for consideration at ...

... TEMPERANCE PIC.NIC AT POULTON-LE-FYLDE. || TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Srn,-In giving a report of the recent temperance pic- nic at Poulton-le-Pylde, I find that I have unfortunately incurred the hot displeasure of an individual who signs himself A Lover of Truth, and who charges me with ignorance, a love of puffery, and an attempt to hoax the public, although for obvious ...

... jjt - THE TAILORS' STRYK'. I l It would vastly improve the morality of society if things were called by their right names. Unfortunately, however, men are so accustomed to the use of elegant language whenever any fault has to be spoken of or any vice has to be referred to, that they come at length to persuade themselves that the world is much better than it really is. Obstinacy is known as ...

... MIVLLLOR.-On Monday last, the members of the Flower of the Mountain Lodge, No. 6'96. of the G. U. 0. of Oddfellows, Blackburn district, met, to celebrate their first anniversary, at the Millstone Inn, Mellor. In the morning they formed in procession to the Wesleyan Chapel, where an eloquent and impressive sermon wvas preached by the Rev. W. Faulkner, superintendent minis- ter of the ...

... 11 ou. AMERICA. ing [jBY ATLANTIOIELEGRAFsI.1ad s President Johnson baa rem~ved Ganeral Sheridn a I Zpeited Genoral Thomas in his place. tw l~wYork, August l6th, 6 ?? CitY Of IVet an Yo.'k ant the Sain David arrived out to-day. an, Closing Prices Gold, 140j; sterling exchange Of thE London, 109. ; 5-20's United States Bonds, 1134 ; rel, Illinois, 120; Eries, 70A. Cotton: Middling Upland, 29. ...

... TO THE EDITORt OF THE PRESTONr OHROMOEM. SiR,-We shall esteem it a great favour if you will insert a few lines in your next impression, in reply to what appeared in your last Saturday's paper from the pen of T. V. That gentleman makes a violent attack upon us for proceedings which we are thoroughly convinced be is very ignorant about, or he could not have had the audacity to make the gross ...

... SIARn TRANSACTIONS. -We recur to the maxim of an experienced stockbroker, of which we spoke a week or two since: I buy when everybody is selling. and sell when everybody is buying. We are aware that this maxim runs counter to the common tendencies and pre- judicies of mankind; but it is not the less sound on that account. A couple of years ago, there was a rush to purchase shares in all ...

... CONTEMPORARYP THE MONETARY DIOFFICULTY-tiiiI~o0wwt, that, the present stagnation should sto and ;, depression of good. securities should ces th re quisite is that prices should begint TLOt shrewd people-especially peoplewhi bc>.e thought to have peculiar skill in mnymte mence buying, and in a wonderfully hr rise, and the crowd of buyers willfelrmlro,01 Experience shows that in such ?? ~- firet ...

... GAS LIGHTING AT PADIHAM. -There appears to be a general complaint at Padiham that the Gas Company do not provide a sufficient number of persons to light thb lamps. There is only one individual so employed, and it takes him about two hours from commencing to light them before he can have them all lighted. BLACKBURN BnRavSTER. SESSIONS. - The general annual licensing meeting for the borough of ...

... I I l TO THE EDITOR OF THE PREBSTON 0ONICOLE. SIR,-Will you allow me to correct some errors which appeared in your last week's impression, headed Tem- perance pie-nm at Poiton-le-Fylde. 'The writer must either have been very ignorant of the subject he wrote about, or his love of puffery has led him away from the real facts of the case. To all who are acquainted wich the history of the ...

... II The King of Italy has sanctioned the bill concerning the sale of the church property. I A letter from Alexandria states that the prospects of c the harvest in Italy are magnificent.i On the occasion of the Emperor Napoleon's Jfte the a sentences passed upon 887 military prisoners were miti- gated, and in the case of 488 the remainder of their t punishment was remitted. f t England uses ...