... The Gateshead Observer well says of the absurd ca- mours of some Protectionists for a reimpositiof (re-ir- pogticfl truly) of a duty on corn: Farmers and squires, having rejected all the sybil's books, whine and whimper for a ' moderate protection.' The smallest contribution- even a five-shilling duty-would be thankfully accepted. But the country has irrevocably 'cut them of with a shillinlg ...

... PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENC I HOUSE OF LORDS.-.TiUttSDAY, JANUARY 31. This day the third session of the present parliameont was opened by commission In the gorgeous chamber appropriated for the deliberations of the hereditary branch of the legislature, which has now received almost its finishing touch by the com.. Pletion of all the frescoes, for which compartments were prepared On the walls at ...

... I MIMStELLANEOUS NEWS, 2 The daughter of the Queen of Sweden, who, it is rn- moured, is about to marry Louis NapoieonDhas a dowry of £4,000,000. A letter from Rome of the 20th states that the return l of the Pope is indefinitely postponed The Etate is me- naced with extreme financial difficulties. A - E m The 'importations of potatoes from the continent into X London have lately been so ...

... The ordinary monthly meeting of the Improvement Commissioners, for the improvement of Blackburn, was held in the Sessions-room, Heaton Street, on Friday last. There were present amongst others, Mr. Hoole, chairman, Messrs. Swift, J. Johnson, W. Boyle, Walsh, T. H. Pickop, Miles Baron, J. Parkinson, J. Callis, W. B. Stones, Hart, Baynes, Mitchell, &c, The account of last meeting having been ...

... I1 I On Thursday the annrlersary of the Agriultural -Association, which has been established in Padinam, was commemmorated by an exhibition and a public dinner. The show ground, a field, kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. HI. W%.atson, miller, early in the forenoon, was crowded by a very numerous assemblage, comprising sownspeople and sons of the soil, all anxious to inspect the stock ...

... If _. I) The new revolution which has just occurred in France, has neither surprised, nor shocked anybody, except its victims. It may have happened a month or two earlier than was expected, but it has been foreseen to loom on the horizon for the last half year. The constitution, pre- pared two or three years ago, to meet the prejudices of faction rather than the wants of the country, was ...

... THE PUBLIC LAMPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. SiB,-Permit me to draw the attention of some mem- ber of the Local Board of Health to the fact, that the factory operatives have not the advantage of the public lamps to the extent they should have, in consequence of the lights being extinguished too early in the morning. If a lamp is worth anything at all, it is because it diffuses ...

... BUAs . - -2 I BURNTLEY. THE DisrEssARY.-On Sunday last, collections in aid of the Dispensary were made at the various churches and chapels in the town. PHRENOLOGICAL LECTUtRE.-Last Monday and Tuesday evenings, AL. S. Butterworth lectured on phrenology in the Parochial School Room, Sandy- gate. it LECTURES TO THE WORKING CLASSES.-On the after- noon of Sunday last, the first of a course of four ...

... I l THE QUEEN AND ROYAL FAMILY are in good health at Buckingham Palace. The Princess of Austria was vaccinated at Aranjuez on the 25th ult. The vaccine matter was brought from London a few days before, and tried upon the person of a plebeian little girl. The Cologne Gazutte states that the betrothment of the Emperor of Austria and the Princess Sidania of Saxony will shortly take place, and be ...

... REPRESENTTION OF PRtSTON.-Various 0001,iiluict- tions have passed between Henry Raikes, Esq ?? Chvstetf and the committee of the Preston Conservative A-'i tion and Registration Society, with a view to thle intt' ductioii of that gentleman to the electors of this Iwrou.tig as a conservative candidate at tile eosuitn t-leetidfl Mr. Raikes has expressed his willingness to offer hill'self It is ...

... TURN-OUT OF WEAVERS AT SIR W. FEILDEN, I1 SONS, AND CO.'S MILL. I On Wednesday last, before Thomas Dugdale and Wm. Ii Houle, Esqrs., six of the weavers of Messrs. W. Feilden, c Sons, and Co. were summoned to appear at the office of a Messrs. Hargreaves, Ainsworth, Bolton, and Co., for c leaving work without notice on the previous Friday. Mr. b Thomas Clough appeared for the complainants, and ...

... THE IION. C. LANGDALE AND LORD JOHN I - RUSSELL. auo~ntn. My Lord,-Your lordship is reported, in your speech on the address, to have said-'That, generally speaking, the lay Catholics of England neither wished for the esta- blishment of the Catholic hierarchy nor approved of it; that your lordship said this on the authority of Romao Catholic laymen and priests; and that you were ia a oo- ...