... e- )n THE OPENING OF THE TowN HALL.-The various committees have held meetings this week, and much pro- id gress has been made in the arrangements with reference y, to the coming festivities. In addition to the list of festi- he vities published in last week's Chronicle, it has been de. Ig termined to have a balloon ascent at three o'clock on Fri- day afternoon, the 4th of October. Mr. Coxwell, ...

... AMERICA. (By Atlantic Telegraph.) New York, 6th Sept.-The democratic party have arried the elections in California. COMMERCIAL.-CLOSING PRICES. Gold, 140k; sterling exchange on London. 1091 ; 5-20's United States bonds, 114_; Illinois, 120A, ErdeS, 69k. Cotton: Middling upland, 27. Philadelphia, 6th Sept. -Petroleum, standard white, 32. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ANT WERP. The Liverpool, New ...

... ThI1e MILITARY STATION AT FLEETWOaD.-It is reported that it is in contemplation to extend the military station at Fleetwood, by adding thereto buildings to accommodate 5ODmen. Detachments for rifle practice will occupy them. It is also said that when the School of Musketry is closed at F'leetwood, in about a fort;Cght, the Euston Barracks there will probably be occupied regularly as a ...

... RIFLE SHOOTING MATCH Ar LYTEiAX.-On Saturday b last the members of the 29th L.R.V. had their annual I company shooting match for prizes. to which was added 0 a splendid silver challenge cup,. value £10, the gift of S Lieutenant S. Wartenberg. The cup to be won twice in f succession, or three times in all,, before it becomes the f, bondfide property of the, winner. A few years ago Jacob o Fair, ...

... RESCUE OF TWO FENAN HEAD CENTRES. ~eat live THREE PERSONS SHOT. rictI The Fenians in Manchester, on Wednesday, made a desperate attack on a body of the city police, and suc. of ceeded in rescuing the notorious Colonel Kelly and Cap- tain Deasey, the two head centres of the movement, who gin were recently apprehended there. Kelly and Deasey, en were on Wednesday remanded by the magistrates to ...

... Thursday last was quite a festive day at the beautifti little village of Leyland, the occasion being the annual show of flowers, fruit, vegetables, &c, in connection with the above society, The exhibition was held in the National School, Union-street; the magnificent plants, wbich were numerous, were admirably placed, and the interior of the neat little school-room presented quite a ...

... i3orroxonB Grftez. A rbetorical schoolmaster calls his pupils buds of prouise en the) branches of education. What is It that people wish to have, and then wish to get rid of7-A good appetite. What is the difference between a spendthrift and a feather bed ?-One is bard up, and the ether is soft down. a ?? did Adamn bi te the apple ? said a schoolmaster to a couutry lad.- Because he had no ...

... FoRGiNG A PROMigSonY NOTE.-At the Blackburn police court, yesterday, two young men, named Benjamin Hacking and James Dobson, were committed to take their trial at the Liverpool Assizes on the charge of feloniously forging a promissory note in writing, for the payment of £9 in money, with intent to defraud the British Loan and Discount Company (Limited), on the 26th of July, ]867. Mr. R. G. ...

... The son of the poet Casimer Dolavigne, godson of the Emperor Napoleon, is in custody in Paris on a triple charge de of swindling. The sister-in-law of Prince Lucien Murat, and widow of in his elder brother, has just died in the United States. She to was born at Dudley, and was neice, or rather grand- neice to General Washington. She became a widow 20 an years since, and died on the estate ...

... AM BRI CA. ARRIVAL OF THE C11IrY OF BOSTON. The Innian screw steamer City of Boston, Captain Leitch, which sailed from New York on the 7th instant, reached the Mersey at an early hour on Thursday mornaing. The Washington correspondentof the Stew York Herald ?? is no rupture between the President and General Grant. The latter acts somewhat independently of the President in some of his orders; ...

... . .. .@ . , , - _ _ ?? A meeting of Idelegates from different trade societies e in the United Kingdom was commenced on Tuesday, in the Spinners and Minders'Institute Clark-yard, offChurch- wr street; the chair was occupied by ir. George Austin, of g Sheffield, who was supported by Mr. Dronfield, also of Sheffield. On the previous day the executive and part of Ie the judicial committee had a ...

... MISCELLiANEOUS NEWS. l rlte e-chancellor of Ireland, remains abI5 Yr pearius estate. eval la To reitof railways in the United Kingdom fave l' he trsk ending August 1Slt, show an increase of 289 whi ?? £f 41,498 over the corresponding week of last altop ncileg, 0 ?? ,eer. 1,4ewun states that the Queen's book will shortly goa Thl G bed Her Majesty describes a series of journeys beP I adI and ...