... - -- -- - 1 - - - - I- U LA\NTCASTlER 1, QUAY COwliISsio.NEns.-At a meeting held on Wednesday, the retiring ?? were re-elected, and Nlr NV. Satter- ?? a e;i appoin ted in the roon) of it gentleman dleceased, Fliitr LANCASHIiRE MILitiA.-We havO again a favottrablo report to miake of the vonduct of this regienout during the past I week, The training swill ba brought to a ehse on c Saturday next ...

... T H E W A R. The Times says the war has now begun in earnest. Prussia has not hesitated to treat the vote of the Frank- fort diet, as a declaration of ho tilities on tho part of the States which supported the Austrian proposal, and yester- day the Prussians entered baxony onl the one side, and Hanover on thle other. The crossing of tle Saxon frontior brings the largest military levies that ...

... Earl Spencer has been gazetted a Knight of the Garter. The Duchess of Roxburghe has been appointed one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Queen. At Marlborough-street rolice court, on Tuesday, a notorious pugilist, named Joe Goss, was sent to prison for six weeks for having brutally kicked an unfortunate. The hearing of the noted case of Codrington v. Cod- rington, which has so long ...

... CLUY{'JIT E. as P~ETTYSEIO , Tuo-sDnvY-(Bjefoi-, G. FI-Q~- or' A.-shoton, Rud J. Gar-rt:rrrg, Esojr-s.) Ihle 01nly ?? ill Sandy Airey, beerscller-, Long--ro.-, wa;r fined -I ~fcst-' and for Faiding and abretting uoctor Whrlj1, in and costs;, aoll Jameso Dewehaist and Illobcrt, T'ahie le ~eah anit costs. . le sQUrrrsT, -An ?? was held at tire 0C'tusewav i- Clithoroc, on Saturday last, on the ...

... I -v l.}vllT . NIVPRAT. Ir ?? math._ I. BY LIEUT.-GENERAL T. PERROhET THOMrpso T'h1e state and condition of what gocs by the name of I tho Reforim qucstion, does not appear to be at this mo. ment the most inviting. Perhaps the title of Proress )U3-stion would be in some views the more appropriate because it gives the idea of a process which will be conti- Udally going on so long as the ...

... il At a public meeting held on Tuesday evening ait fnLuin- fi eld, at petition t parlialment was adopted qgainL nLI; inequality of rating bc-tneen that ajid large towns to which the Cattle Plague Act gives tice. During the past week 265 animials Were Slaugliterd under thle Cattle Dliseases Act in tho West Ridilig. as compared with 348 in the week preceding, and 3636 in) the week prior. Of tine ...

... RIDGWAY UOURSING CLUB: MEETING. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. NORTH LANCASHIRE STAKES, for dog puppies. FeaST TIES. MrJohnslton's Fearunaught beat Mr Bartholomew's Bit of Mettle Mr Borron's Banner Bearer beat Mr Hall's High Jack Mr Clark's Nimorod beat Mr Ainsuough's Perfection Mr Brundrit's Brackley beat Mr Johnston's Jannock Mr Borron's Blemished Blue beat Lord Sefton's Sceptic Mr Blanshard's Bair ...

... ?? - l- - SlUet lae l blacblll Ii Bolo.9 ui ' 6;C WR Trie.5. i NATJICIL~I~NIN52,. -See-weeds. A NEW XVWAY PAXy OLD DEBrs.-Settle them. What iS that whIC.I ra ; mnay Lave never pos1essed,| Jendet lev 'Ieo ?? ?? will. ?? nts to knv tihotiher th )liberty of the press 1 proved hi Lavin- yo.uy rocket picked in a crowd. Ste.,(I nn u!l; o v appearctl, headed 'iron bed- .tad 1 1.uete ie must be sheet ...

... [FOR THE PRESTON CHRONICLE.] No. 1. COMPONENT PARTS. In this and the few following sketches I propose to offer a few brief remarks on the British army and navy, en- deavouring to bring before the reader a few facts which may be interesting to such of the readers of this paper as may not have seen a tabular and comprehensive view of our military system. The army of great Britain is very small ...

... (From the Morning Chronicle.) The cause of administrative reform is, apparently, not to be exempted from the vicissitudes ordinarily incidental to all great political questions, which are finally carried with the acclamations of the people. We remember no policy that has been ultimately incorporated with our political system, which ever underwent so many changes of fortune as the question of ...

... i REPORT OF THE SEBASTOPOL Co _. - I bhraa The report of the Select Committee appointed to Inquire Drs, into the State of the Army before Sebastopol was pre- s i sented to the House of Commons, on Monday evening. Aed s it occupies nearly a page and a half of the morning Papers of Tuesday, it is far too long to publish entire. ent The following is a summary of its main features:_ The report is ...

... 'I HI FROM PRESTON. To Blackburn, Accrington, Buryt, and Afancaester-6-35 mir. 9. .10-55morn.; 1.454.05.107-30 mix,4'.0Qaftn. OnSundays: 7.30 morn., 2.15 6.10 09.30 aftn., all mix. (_To Accrington To Blookburn, Burnley, Calne, Skipton, Bradford, 4 Leeds.- 6'.35 mix, 9-0 10-55 morn.; *1-45 4-0 *5.10 *7-30 mix' aftn. On Sundays: 07-30 morn., 2-15 06-10 aftn., all mix. (To Cole Ionly.) To ...