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MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR PRESTON.

 1832.—Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, and the Hon. Henry Thos. Stanley.

 1835.—Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, and the Hon. Henry Thos. Stanley.

 1837.—Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, and Robert Townley Parker.

 1841.—Sir Peter Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart., and Sir Geo. Strickland, Bart.

The year 1840 was an auspicious one in the history of the Fylde. On the 25th of July, the Preston and Wyre Railway, running through the heart of this district, was completed and declared open for traffic. By its means the farmer became enabled to convey his produce to the extensive market of Preston; and Kirkham, Poulton, and Garstang were no longer the only towns accessible to our agriculturists for the sale of their crops. The early appreciation of the utility and benefit of the line is apparent from the rapid increase of its traffic, as shown by the annexed tables, in which the official returns of passengers and goods for the week ending Dec. 14th, 1842, and the corresponding weeks of the four succeeding years are stated:—