... CONSECBATION OF WHITEOHAPEL I I CHURCH AND cMUCHYAIMD. Ancient little Wh~lilebspel on the pretty uplands1-O11 o. Gi the haighlti.aboveold Inglawbite-renote And cobsusre oinly Armi when enveloped in mist or bshoudled by cloud. assumed Case. the ?? majestic brightness, sod mmoveyed Oierh tihe Fylde Country, far sudwidexubltantly, on Thursday. j3 P Onl the affternoon of that day, In this moot ...

... ZIA. JOSEPH TURtNAR A* TdYd N~Uuh bIUALW SHIRE CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. TO THE EDITOR O THW 'If PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,-My attention has been drawn to the speech of Mr. Turner, made at the conference of the co-operative societies of the northern districts, at the Crughrootn of the Public Hall, on Saturday afternoon. Mr. Turner paid at the ontset tbat -a long discussion had been carried on ...

... OUT OF THE PRYrNG-PAN INTO THE ?? -A SA I wvanabout to ?? GeneralFH daughter, I. and as lf rs. F. had not been a widow two years, she ir desired the wedding to be veiy private. Y Mrs. F. was inconsolable at the thought of losing o her daughter, g ?? little journey was taken quite alone; my d mothor'e pat ting blesshig had been: 'I hope you . may never ropoent it, mny boy. it My Emma's mother ...

... JOUR LADIES' COLUMN?. BY ONE OF THEMSELVES. PITrURE GALLERIES.-FOUR PRlTVATE VIEWS.- Mns. ALLINGnAM.-THE OLD WATER-COLOUR SOCIn'TY.-GRosvESNOt GALTJIRY.-NNW GAL. LERY. - NOTICEABLE PEOPLE. - BEAUTIFUL WOMiEN.-DDInTANDSOKE.-SMOKLR CONSUMING INVENTIONS.-A SMOKELESS VOYAGE ACROSS TRE ATLANTIC.-MiRS. HODGSON BUitNETT.-TnEE JEWISH IDEA OF WOMEN.-COUxTY COUN- CILLORS. As picture galleries multiply, ...

... |)UR LADIES' .C,.C XTTMN.I BY ONE OF TKEMSE6LVE;n. & TRIBLE FOG.-MAY WEDDINGS.-A REAL HELPMATE.-A SCROOLMASTER S BRIDI.-TRUE PHILANTHROPY.-MEDTCAL CIRCLES.-AFTEr- NOON WEDDINGS.-A NEW COOKING STOVE.- OLD FASHIONED PREJUDICE.-PICTURI SHOWS. -PERMANENT PHOTOGRAPHS.-MRIS. CAMERON. -PICTURES BY G. F. WATTS.-LATEST FAS1-I IONs.-NEW GOWNS.-LAcEYARR.SN(IIMwNTS.- PRETTY WHITE NxcK TIES.-EVILS OF ...

... - ters w~ith. 1Agree with Ubne adversary quiekly.1 Very :a Tory old but most salutary advice is this-; and we if we had suppose the Corporation of Preston will now-in o to the conneotion with itibble matters-have a pretty bd of definite consciousness of its significance. In bd their efforts to get a new money-borrowing Bill, ations8, fit they have been again defeated, and the per. Vill take ...

... DI-CENTENARY OF AN OLD LANCAM I I . SHIRE REGIMENT. THE FEGLIL' AT PRh;STON IN 1715, ?? On Wedneaday, at Morecambe, a famoun Lancashire regiment, whose depot is at the neighbouring and county town of Lancattor, celebrates an exietence of two huiardred voars. Merged in a regiment of the line as the thirl an, foarth battalions of JIbcT XuiogB Own (Royal Liniaster Regiment), the cid county ...

... LONDON JNIVERS1TY JUBILEE MEMORBIAE., The, Prince of Wales, the other ait rnoon, un- 'reied & stiatue of the Queenx at the University of London, Barlington Gardens. The statue is in- tended to commemorate. the Jubilee oa the Queen, as well as of the University, whioh received its eharter in the year that ber Majesty succeeded to the throne. The memorial is the work of Mr. J. E. Boehm. The ...

... I UNIQUE PROCE8SION boigRSzs, &o. 'Ye merry month of may was certainly punctual, aceording to the calendar, ii, making ber appearance, but undoubtedly, so lirei atipophbiet conditions were conceried, Annongenial, uncharoatefleli, and unpoeti, avnersaly speaking. as could ill have vyisted as. The fickle month of April seemed hardly to have Stepped aside for May, and of the disappolntment tbere ...

... In the supplementary application for addi- tional money which was made to the Committee of the House of Lords, on behalf of the Corpora. tion of Preston, for Ribble work, the quay requirements, alongside ,the new diversion, ought to have been specially emphasised. The Committee, if they had been told how very badly mechanical appliances, for hoisting, &e,, are required-how work is delayed, ...

... I .OUR FREE PUBLIO LIBRARY. The committee of the Free Library have now acquired for the lending department, a Complete cot of the International Scientifdi Series, comprising 66 works, as. enumerated below ?? Forms of Waier, In Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers, by Professor Tyndall; Physics and Polities, by Walter Bieehot; Treatise on Foods, by Dr. S. Smith; Mind and Body, by Bain; Study of ...

... I QUARTERLY RETURN OF BIRTHS AND ) DEATHS IN PRESTON AND DISTRICT. The Begistrar-General points out that there were 220,936 births regisitred in England and Wales in hbe three months that ended on the Slit March last, the rate arising therefrom being 8009, against a mean oa S339 for the corresponding quarters in the 10 years 1879-88. The j birth-rate is thus low, indeed. It is reported %hst it ...