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FOREIGN MISCELLANY

... 413 acres of crown i lands; 26,300 acres were located as free grants. Of clergy lands 62,522 acres were sold, and about 10,000 acres of school lands. There are still for sale surveyed crown lands amounting to 1,853,121; clergy lands to ] 198 ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1861
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4146 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

PARLIAMENT

... bht urging that the pro. froe coss must go on until the land could be dealt witli on Tom strictly commercial principles. Ger HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MONDAY. giv Colone1l STANLESY introduced the Army Estimates, and j- gave particulars and figures as to the ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1880
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1041 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LOCAL CHIT-CHAT

... of Solomon, the soppreasion of them would send everybody into fits or craps. A local Salvation Army Captain-told his auditors, the other night, that the army were going to fight the devil t on the sea, and then he sang a verse of the popular sea l song ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1885
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2625 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GENRAL NEWS

... administered. Ile regretted he that Ur. Codk would not obey the law of the land and the e Church. Mr. Cook, in announcing his resignation, says he 'e bows to the law of the land by resigning his living, and re- .o marks there is a law of much higher authority ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

STRAY NOTES

... the third we have heard of during 'the present General' Election -is reiported' by a- Stroud corres- ponuent, 'who says a woman named' alma Peaogco& voted ' for Mr.' Brynmor 'Jonles at, Whitehall district ia the Mid Division of Gloucesitersjiie. ;; Sbe ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1892
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1449 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SECOND LECTURE ON WAR

... at war with each other sh (God grant they never may again), and I am a soldjier in the kt French army, and Charles Wilson a soldier in the English th army. I desert and come over to the English. The English VI would reward me for the desertion, and the ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1843
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3329 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

RUSSIA AFTER THE WAR

... between the cruelties of the Austrian and Neopolitan governments and the suffering people of Italy. But not in the decimation of armies, the exhaustion of finance, or the dry rot amongst ships alone must we look for securities binding Russia over to the peace ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1920 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

CHORLEY

... deceased was a married woman, and it was thought was of weak intellect. On Friday night she went down -to supper in the-dining room, at-the usual-hour, and soon after she had partaken of the repast she fell on the floor. A woman named Smith took her up ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2125 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

[BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.] AMERICA

... Royal Mail steamer China, from New York 14th instant, arrived off the harbour. Sho brings 120 passengers and $602,207. She landed the mail, 62 sacks, 5 passengers, and latest tele- grams, and proceeded for Liverpool, all well. New York, 14th Dec.-lJncontirmed ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1864
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1694 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... may at once be erected if sufficient funds are now contributed. BRITISE ARMY IN 1868.-The army estimates for 1868- 69 provide for the following as the number of the regular .army:-British establishment, including depots in the United Kingdom of regiments ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1868
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2937 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN NEWS

... 'General Bragg's army, each bringing greater assurance of victory, arc read and commented on by the throngs of passers-by. FEELING IN NEW YORK. The New York correspondent of the ?? says:-Al- though General Lee at the head of an army, which may be superior ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1863
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3394 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE FENIANS

... is believed they formed part of the Liverpool contingent of the insurgent army, but that; get- ting disgusted with the liberation movement, or finding that the police and the army were crushing the rebels, they considered it judicitusi to return again to ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1867
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2052 | Page: 2 | Tags: News