... BY ONE WHO HAS HAD EXPERIENCE OF IT. (Written specially for Uae chroaicie.) [Continued from January29tb.] Fresh provisions are unknown in the steerage of a sail- ing ship, as is also soft bread; salt beef, pork, and hard biscuit forming the principal items in the dietary scale. In vessels of this class, as the passengers cook for them- selves, each individual is at liberty to prepare his ...

... DR BARBER, THE PRESTON SIC K -, CLUBS, AND THE bANCET. The following correspondence has appeared in the Lantcet :- .UB. BARBER AND THE PRESTON ?? CLUBS. To the Editor of the Lcanget, Ste,-I have been pressed to take the office of pbysi- cian or consulting medical officer to the Preston Provi- dent Dispensary. It has been founded on the principles of eighteen similar institutions at present ...

... MORE GUARDIN\s FOR PRESTON, SUPER- ANNUATION or, OFFICERS, &c. There was mxilh +BALL Thr was _ r %.r1xUr'r..5, azc. Guardie was (a ch talk at the weekly meeting of our Guan d ians on Tuesday; but, taken in the aggregate, it ended welk. Ts isd s o Bmething new in the region of much talk,) and yet it is as true as new. The pcro- chiel Board of this Union came to a couple of wise con- clusious ...

... Agricultre. I CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS. Early sown beans and peas generally corn better than the later sown, and they have a better chance to escape K fly (aphis). In favourable situations many sow about the close of this month, or beginning of Februaty. In such places there is ample time after harvest to autumn fallow the land either on the flat or stetch system, the manure in the former being ...

... Covrtpontbruc. I By . . ?? F u15 51o tttiv hold OUrsteese npepnsibze for the opinions of evo S We o'fer a fair fd to all, end shall never ?? to teleers, fromt sehotnoever theyetoe, un- 415 thieyj are tottly irrecalont, s~nreosonably long, or per- *onsa'ly cbu-sire.-Eei. i. C. COMPULSORY VACCINATION. TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE PHESTON CHRONICLE. STIM,_I was much pleased to find from the Ckronicle of ...

... a (Fromn the Manchester 'SpkUX.) Fifteen thousand pounds have this year been cheerfully voted by the British parliament to provide the elaborate scientific apparatus required for the dire observation of a transit of Venus which will not occur until the December t of 1874. The Astronomer Royal has completed his pro- gramme for theexpenditure of the money, and sciencehopes for important results ...

... I ?? I-M AltX.ERi I?5-- 1?7 - ? , ?; ,,I ta g o Life Teetotallers and Total Abstainers of n.ding, took place in the Temperance Halai gn peina. Thare were 286 persons present. After -* nl3 ^>otal tea had beon partaken of, a meeting -1 X . ttivesov, Esq., occupied the chair. Amongst xose 1 nt, Ot the platform wero-Dr. Bowen, Dr. i '*slosars. Johnl Bruckhaw, T- SwinldleburstS. - m w.st (from ...

... ~av~e1~ Oj~evatio~z~. ~~l -- 6arbru OperatimW. | (roo m tthe Gardener' Clrronicle.) PLANT HOUSES.-Practical attention as to potting and watering will now be necessary in cases of berbaceous calceolarias, if they are required to grow into good large showy specimens. If late flowering specimens are in request, the small plants from the last sowing should now be pricked into shallow pans. The ...

... D . At As . n . .. 9 1 RIDTr;G ON A RAILWAY WITHOUT TICKETS.-At the Town Hall, on Monday, Thomas Cl .rk, German barm dealer, and James Hlodgson, late mail-cart driver, were chargel with travelling on the raiiwav from Carnforth to Lancaster, on the 25th January, without having previously paid the fare, and with intent to defraud the London and North-western CoMpany.-The defence was that thoY ...

... An adjourned general meeting of the members of this society was held in the Red Lion Hotel, on Saturday. The chair was occupied by Thos. Townley Parker, Esq-, and there were also ?? Rev. L. C. Wood, Messrs. Willaoy, Rantaden, Radcliffe, Birkett, Rigby, Harrison, Elodgsoa, Jones, Porter (Stanzacre), Bee, Bar- 'ton, -W. Porter, Melling Hartley, Singleton, Rawes, Scott, Hamilton, Stuart, Rd. ...

... BLACKEURN AND EAST LANoASudIK' 11 THE -T-W. 'T l. IH 'lOWN's EXPFNDITURa-Tho statement of ac- counts passedi by the Finance Committee at a monthly meeting, held on the 27th ult., sbowthat the total receipts daring the month amounted to £3,180 18s. led.. and the expenaditure to £3,965 14s. 5.jd. For adjusting weights an measures, deductions from constables' pay. &c., and Free Library, £117 13s. ...

... , Local _Nzm. PRESTON AGEtRicLTURAL SOCIETY.-At a quarterly no meeting of the Council, on Thursday next, a motion will to be submitted to the effect that every facility be given to in the Preston Agricultural Society to hold its meeting this tl year Preston, and that the Marsh be placed gratuitously v at its disposal for the exhibition. n~e~d CONCERT IN LARK-HILL SCto0L ROOM.-Some time ago a ...