... | _ j On Sanlay, the anniversay of the Dedication, there was solemn Mass in St. Peter's Church, Lancaster, at half-past ten o'clock, and by the time appointed the church was completely filled in every part. The Mass selected for this festival was Haydn's No. I., and the offertory, Mozart' Sjilendento to Deus. Before the Credo, the Rev. G. Gillow, of Ladywell, near Preston, delivered an ...

... PRESTON BAND OF BOPE CONFERENOE. A conference of the workers and friends of the Band of Hope movement was held in the Temperance Hall, North- road, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of discussing the best means of promoting this movement- A tea mneeting was first held, to which about fifty persons sat down. After the tables had been cleared, the meeting was held under the presidency of Mr. ...

... Yaricttit. GEMS OF THOUGH ?? Oftentimes it is only by losing those whom we love, that we feel how much we loved them). Innoceuce is a flower which withors when touched; but blooms not again when watered by tears. The soul of man is transparent like the waters of a fountain, as lon as the troubles which are at the bottoin have uot been As soon as a true idea has entered into our iminds, it ...

... THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE APPROACH- ING GENERAL COUNCIL. SECOND LECTURE BY THE REV. G. GILLOW. On Sunday evening tbe Rev. Geo. Gillow delivered the second of two lectnres, in St. Augustine's Church, on The Catholic Church and the Approaching General Council, deeply interesting to earnest Protestants, especi- ally at the preeent time. For some time before the rev. lecturer bogan his ...

... THE LATE SiR ROBERT CLtFTpON, Mi.P.-The funeral of the late air Robert Clifton, which will take place on Monday, ?? be attended by 200 of the Robiu Hoods, and also by sev~eral of the public bodies of Nottingham. Twenty thousand strangers were, it is said, in Worms during the great Protestant Conference which has just been held there. The delegates came from all parts of Germany, inohlding ...

... L . IA _ _ _I. . Df ?? AND liU'SB IMAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF LOR{DS.-FRIDAY, Their lordabips met a five o 'lwek. THE IRISEI CHUR01i QUES91TiON. For some time before the hour the approaches to the galleries were densely crowded, whil-it the approaches to the stranger's gallery, the seats alloted to peeresses, ambassadors, and the House of Comnnons were filed to the utmost. A report was in ...

... The cotton report of the' Board of Trade for the wee, ending September 11th, shows the number of bales exported from ti United Kingdom to 19,13M, amd the ioports 5500(. he The steamthip Achilles., Captain Rassell1, left Foo-Chaw on She 16tb July, at tn p m.,. and took hor pilot at Duntgeieus at fivep m.n September15'th, hvingW made the run with tw, million pounds or tea, *rom Eo-Che~w in 61 ...

... OUR CffURCdFS AND CH 'PELS * THEIR PARSONS, PRIESTS, AND CONYGI'EGA-'Iu.Ns IRV ATrIr'C 1 elir [BY ATTICUS.1 LA~NCASTER-ROAD) CONGRIEGATIONAL CH-A PEL, Jie Preston Congregationalism isa OVey good, a ?? re. elsosectaole, and a ver~ iresm raue t IS btgingerly ; has a large regard for free o,, bit will I,. quarrel if crossed ;cat, achieve comineni-ihl, triualphs in el the regions of peace, but ...

... TUE RECTOR OF HOOLE ON CHURCH RATES. il _ The following circular letter has been published by the Rector of Houle, near Preston, for the enlightenment and benefit of his parishioners Tax CHAziao IN THE LAW Or CHURCH RATZS.-TO TwE INHABITANTS Or MUcO HOOLE AND LITTLK HOOLE.-My Dear PArishioners.-In a letter of mine to you, on Our Relationship and our Work, written afrera recovery from ...

... CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS l 11 IR m Av.^n ^a~uwzl r_.. - _. ?? ' .~ t5HED THRESHItNG.-Farmers who grow their own seed corn, grass seeds, and turnip seeds, thresh out as they require them-newly threshed seed of every kind being the best. Grass seeds and turnip seeds are generally threshed out about the ?? of the month. Ryegrass requires to be carefully sifted in order to remove the seeds of weeds. ...

... ?? enrus ?? EMIGRATION SOHEME. At the present time, in the weaving department the mills of Messrs. E. T. Gardner, 190 Ioms, B. Threlfall, 630 looms, and the executora of the late James Naylsr, 320 looms, are stopped. The establishments or Messrs. Hague and penny, D. Arkwright, Irvin, Ladoaster and Isherwood, Wilding's Newhall-lane, Paley'a Bank Top, Paley's flopwood-street, and Swainson, ...

... ST. IGNATIUS'S CHURCO, PRESTON.-TaE HON. AND REV. E. ARUNDEL ON THE SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. . On Sunday, two serm~ons were preache d in the above Plac of worship, that in the morning by the Rev. A. Vyan.o S.J., f St. Wilfrid's, and that in the evening by the tion. and Riev. Everard Arundel, S.J., of Stonyhurst Collegre, or. behalf of the poor aided by the Society of St. Viaceut de Paul ...