... I The annual soiree of the subscribers and friends of the Ragged School, Butler-street, Oldham Road, was held on Tuesday, under the presidency of Mr. Peter Spence. The gathering vas especially interesting, as showing how much real benevolent work can be carried out by the corn- bination of a few earnest minds, in spite of obstacles. In tke district of which Holland-street may be said to form ...

... I The consecration of the Suffragan Biahop ?? Dover is to take place on tbe 25th instant. At a meeting held in Bradford on Thuraslsy night, resolutions in support of the free breakfiwt table movement were adopted. Branches of the National Education Lveage were formed in Li.hfield and Salisbury on Tlinri. day night. A labourer namned Wood, living at Sutton, near Hereford, has been found frozen ...

... 51 The borough magistrates are in a dilemma. ,o An admitted evil exists in the town; its influence is pernicious to public morals; ,rand, although the magistrates are aware of e this, and many of them are anxious to suppress the ovil, yet they are powerless to act. The difficulty has arisen in regard . to dance houses and the objectionable characters who frequent these places. That in many of ...

... TO CORiREBPONDENTS. We oauuot undortake boreturn oommunoiatlcns othilsoh icC do nob avail ourselves. Oommonloatlona should alweya be legibly written In Ink, and on one sodo qfthei vxper onl'y; length Inoreass the di deulty of fluding wpaee for them. Whatever ls Intended for Insertion mout be authenticated by the name and address of Esa wrlalr, not necessarily for publiatilon, but as a ...

... The name of the Ausr.tan brig whioh wenO ashore ?? is the ., GiqV1uluift0mTri60t0 for Falnouth. During t he gale at Yarn.'Oath on Sunday night, the schooaer Favourita, of arbroath, was lost. The veesel has gone to plecC'5 The Duff lifeboat saved four men. One of th Cre wVF drowned. The gale still continued yesterday. SUPPOSED LOSS OF A VESSEL ANL) ALL ON BOARD. During the gale on Sunday night ...

... THE LATE ACTION FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT AGAINST THE VIOAR OF OXTON. It will be recollected that in the early part of last year an action for false imprisonment was brought by a person named Torokler against the Rev. W. A. Tattersall, vicar of Oxton uader circumstances which were fully reported at the time. The lawsuit unfortunatelyhas involved the reverend gentleman in pecuniary difficulties, ...

... CORRESPONDENCEI INCOME TAX. TO THE ?? Or tgg ltVURPOOL MNEOWRY. Gentlemen,-The letter in your yesterday' inapreeslon reminds me of a case which happened to myself some yeare ago,. when I appeatedsagatnst an aseaos ^tmeOn toshe ground of being ovoroharged. Thed facts are these;- When the amount of my salary first began to render me liable to thi tax I of course endeavonred to exempt myself by ...

... 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 ...

... IELOEON OF TFF BISHOP OF MANCHESTER. _ I On Monday moruing, the D'an and Chapter of the Man- chester Cathedmlelectedthelev. James Fraser, M.A., to the vacant see of a[ndhestbr, in pursuance of the cong6 d'6lire and letters missive received from the Crown, a few days ago. The proceedings, which were private, were conducted in the new Chapter House. This was, we understand, the first time it has ...

... CHAREGE AGAINST ASSURANCE SOCIETY OFFICIALS., , _ . On Tuesday, at the Altrinebam Police Court, William Ib Apton, agent, and William Mabbott, agent and director a the Lancashire and Cheshire Assurance Society of Man- S heater, wag charged with obtaining by false pretences the i mnn of 8s, Sd. from Mrs. Ann Cooke of Broadleath, near n Iltrinchsno, on the 18th of November. 1869. Mr. Bent a ...