... 'J.1 !f ?? if the3 r- Reading-room and Library for RailwaY ~srvmnts.-Tlhe ten, w Is directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire and E ast Lancashire cept o: Vs Railways bare subscribed 1007. towarids the formation of a naE ig reading-rooma and library for the servants employed at their o o, joint station at Salor.Cremc a, A Good Example.-The Soanth-Eastern Railway Company Court ig have, on ...

... ocurrat )I utelliflence. Upwards of 700 tons of fl-ecy hosiery, consisting of under- waistcoats, drawers, &c., have been shipped on board the screw steamer Prince, for conveyance to the troops in the Crimes. A complete telegraphic apparatus, with several hundred miles of wire, tobe laid ?? in the Crimea, and also several sets of diving apparatus, to remiove under Nwster obstractions, will be ...

... wit club RalOur. SELECTIONS FROm PUNCI. t THEATRE OF WAR. Prussia is waiting until Half-price begins. I A STRICT VEGETARIAN. I He won't take a p11 unless he is firmly convinced it is a - vegetable one. I A 6% CE RACE. 9 Muscovite has won the Cesarewitch this year. THe could he help it, with the example of the splendid runoie:.o ?? les e namesakes on the Alma race-ground, before him ? t NOT ...

... -- - I ?? TRAFFIC RETURNS. The following table shows the comparative returns of the week's treftc of the railway companies included in our list:- Number of Gross Average receipt miles open. amount received. per mile. 1854 on 6,951 ?? 412,222 ?? 6 0 1853 onl 6,748 ?? 391,847 ?? 58 1 4 1852 on 6,499 ?? 332,723 ?? 51 3 8 From the above it will be seen that this week's receipts show an increase of ...

... 411-grellogrollo M. Mr. Hastings having opposed Mr. Gordon for the represen- a, tation of Bevorloy, the polling took place on Monday. The X, following is the final state of the poll:-Gordon, 493: Hastings, 192. at Government has resolved to erect a capacious building at ?? for the Normal School, now attached to Chelsea Mi- m litary Asylum. The Board of Works have already prepared 0,the plans ...

... I ?? 1 ?41? 1110JI TDIIIN 9jimaidt. I BANGOR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1854. Qo.y ?? this THE POST OFFICE. 4d. D. The Post Office was, under the old Tory 6 reyinme, the best managed of all the public 0 departmients. Now-al th ough in the Londo n offices thiere are innumierable new desks for Othle working departmnenot, wliilst in the mann- 8 gerial class two additional offices have been 0 created ...

... The following are a few extracts feom a letter, dated August 18, recently received at Llandudno, from a sergeant in the 3rd Battalion of Grenadier Guards, now on service in Turkey:- *'Thanks be to God, the sickness is abating. We have left 9qrreeblec and are now encamped on the heightsion the6 Adrianople Roads, close to the sea, where we..have a beautiful view and enjoy the sea breeze. WVe ...

... :?Flvrmy oub lavy. Deatb of General Lord Beresford. -We have to announce the decease of General Viscount Beresford, ?? which took place on Sunday evening at his seat, Redgebmy Park, Kent. William Carr Beresford, son of the first Marquis of W~aterford, commenced his distinguished military career in 1785, when lie was appointed an Ensign of the 6th Foot. His first active service was in 1793, ...

... l jreilh& (folol't Agru 4llany. TRAVELLING IN TURKEY. f The following extracts from the special correspondence of e the Clhronsicle, dated Schumla, December 7, will be read with t interst- s To plungef wi scedlias -es, the travellers (as Mr. Albert c Smith would say), we would suppose, are on the road to- anywhere. They are two in number; they are enveloped in e frer; their legs look like ...

... I D . -IRJS'SIA AtND TUI'IWIY' The dl 1iloteh~s 11010 Conlstantinople brought by the ICaradoc sere of the 1 h They miiolor the intelil- gence already ree'eived hy thle te Ic raph with ruference Bt io theile Vcep tan c by' th P0110 to 01hI i Vial 101, [otnkll2 thle ?? calrea s9~ctihcd, mid the most inlpoi-1 tanot of whielh cocr It oec - n'flt Darltultan sel Priiicisei lkiei all 11the argiohi ...

... THE WVARl IN THE EAST. As yet nothing' decisive has been the result of the operations in the East. In the Do- brudscha,-the Russians have not advanced beyond Trajan's WVall; whilst on the other side of the Danube, they have retreated from before Kalafat, and evacuated Little Wal- lachia, which has been occupied by the Turks, who have been received with enthisiasmn by the inhabitants. This step ...

... .4? I 'I , v u 1 o.,? I?v- ?? t? - - ( , . r- , , ? e. ?? ,tr -1 .. , - I 4 0 % ? V, , THE WAAR. F-Inpero. of Rus'sia seems resolved, to put a btold face ,tW ?? smil perilous game he is about to play ?? fli, n nited forces of the maost powverful1 Suates in Ell- Asc- iii O thle lust. information received from Vaussta * e oil Gunardz. which fori, a cot2ps cl nte of upwrards, turn hae ...