... I A 1ERRY CHRIS. - ]re the publication of the next number of the ,,,onide, the day which, more than al others is .earrted to kind thoughts, wi have come and el To every one of our readers we 'wish a merry '°s As, week after week, we speak to friends, n khown, some unknown, we feel increasingly in. in their welfare, increasingly hopeful for their ve If we have succeeded in furnishing ...

... CORRESPONDENCE,. I THE RIBBLE SCHEME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SIR,--The result of your correspondent ' Observer's node of calculating the value of the Ribble stock is so widely different from mine that I shall leave the public to judge for themselves. I hope that if the shareholders should be persuaded to part with their Property by public auction, after the depreciatory ...

... l3orrame' ariffue. Capital weather, Mr. Jones. Capital weather. Myt wife's got such a cold she can't speak. I like such weather.' -Neu- rZ Idverttser. old Green says he has heard of ships' barnacles, and sup- noses they are worn in order that the vessels may be able to go see all ri7gt.-Judy. A CAUTION.-Don't be too anxious to solve a conundrum.- Judy knows a man who got two black eyes in ...

... DEPARTURES FOR DrCsQo From Presz, . To BLACKBuRN, AoamroN, Bret 4 Dmix, 8-15 8-5090 e lR4 8rr.15 11.25 ared 4-0 4-4 5-15 6-40 7-0 mix, *9.2o z 09-30 iL 2-15 6-15 *7-30) A, all .Only.) 4 -i To BLAcBUiN, BuRNLzy, COLN, 8 Fosup & LZEDS.-6-30 mix, 8.50 9-G1?o0X To CzHoBLzY, BOLTON, AD AC 4 mixed, 8-10 *9 10-5 11- 25 K. 12. d4mix, 11-0 A.-Oii Sundays ?-30 H, * 4> mix, A._(5 Stopping at Boltnol. lo0 ...

... orI _- - - -1 Miss WILSON, of Blackpool, on Tuesday last laid the foundation stone of a Temperance Hall at Blackpool. A tea party in celebration of the event was held the same evening., BLACKPOOL VOLUNTEER FIRE BRiGADE.-Blackpool having put on its wintery-looking aspect, and, in the absence of visitors, life is evidently kept up by tea parties, dinner parties, and balls, and one of the ...

... I O--I I f1 T-Hn CrTy OF FLOuENCE. - Few, town-S possess So ex- ~celiwt a paveneut as F~lorrence, which 'onsiststof large 6qiised sounei -fitted tothaer like - with..elese - joik a.ch a pavemen Wat v oul'be incliied to ?? dangetrous tro hcirses, butt their' abpre~sions would be- enteiy -dispe'rsed after a ew daA o'bservatioa of th'^e'eedwsititE ~cheamags- whirl thiough the streets, ...

... I THE LAMENTATIONS OF AN OLD COCK- SPARROW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SIR,-A few years ago, my partner and I whiled away our time in flying from chimney to chimney, or from roof to roof, and in warbling in that melodious strain for which my family is noted, in the busy and pleasant town of Pres- ton, and a rattling nice time we had of it, too.; but, even. tually, there arose a ...

... 11 . X=ORMSKRK. .ir As ORMSHIRK PRlOVISION DEALER `SHcoW`VV OFF.' In the Court of QuscA's Bench, on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a common jury, the case of Stoner v. PhiWi s of came on for hearing-an action fo r an. assault against the son Yf of a late Lorl Mdayor.Mr Shaw was counsel for the plaintiff. Y- -Mr. Sergeant h allantine appeared for the ?? Ld PlaIntiff was a grocer and ...

... MISCELLANEOUS :NEWS. , I i ~. . . The Mornitn Post states that the agencies in the Foreign Office are to be iminediatelya bolished. A farmer named 'Poynton, residing between Ballymahon and Keenagh,' county Longforde was shot on Friday, week while ploughing, by a man disguised., The out- rage is believed to be agrarian. Hopes are enitertained of his recovery., A mau named Dunne has beon; ...

... 15 I BLOWING UP TaE FENIANS.-On Monday, a man named Richard Wood was charged, before J. Rigby, Esq., with being drunk and disorderly at midnight on Saturday, on Church-brow.-P.C. Jones heard a disturbance in that direction, and on going towards the place hefoundprisoner swearing that he would blow up all the Feniaus with gunpowder. There were a number of excited Irishmen near, so the ...

... || .. .I-; FOUEIGN MSCELLANY. . - Snow has fallen of late in such abundance i some, pro- vinces of Spain that the railroads have been quite blosed up. Wolves and wild boars are exceedingly humerous this winter in the. Ardennes. Two days back a battue was organised in the forest of St. Leger, and six of the former animals were destroyed. The small village of Cadrinn, NeufebatelinStwitZe0land, ...

... DEPARTURES FOR DECEMBE Frao Preston TO BLACKBURN, AOCRINGToN, BURY, &; 84 mix, 8-15 8-50 9-10 le,54,*11.15 11.-25 01S0T, +04-15 5.15 6-40 7-30 inm, -9-2D 1. 4-0 2.g -30 M. 2 15 6-15 *748 0., a.1 Di.-(u*o ;4 QUIT.). *T & 170 BLACKBURN, BURmLZY, COLNE, SHI~joN 3 yoiut & LEEDS. - 6-30 mix, 8&50 9-10 1(I.50 i 1-30 riix; 1-40 mix 4-0 *J-15 *7-30 A.- 2 2-15 6-15 A. all ?? Coane only.) Y7i 0 It. TO ...