... RAILWAY INTELLIG'ENOE. RAILWAY TRAFFIC WREEKLY RETURN. This Same *116-r's Same miles Name of ilway. Week. 1854. Total. 1854. open. Aberdeen . - . 1626 1800 688 7256 7- BelfCatand Ballymena.. 698 786 6283 0347 731 B'head, L.., & Ceshire.. 1845 2028 1568 16748 33 Brietol and Exeter ?? 1079 4780 57230 87024 117 Calodonlan & E. & Glae. 9948 0714 40688 18406 189* Chester and Holyhead.. 4059 5880 ...

... The increase of expenditure in this department has in reality been far more considerable than appears on the surface; for though an augmentation of £1,821,380 is, indeed, shown in the accounts, as compared with the vote for the year preceding, this vote itself had already been expanded beyond its original dimensions. To give our readers a comprehensive view of the facts of the case we must ...

... ?? .: - - k - ?? - I - 7 ~ 5 31d. 31d FRANCE. - ad th nwr f terh0nesteae o r ~z Cofr ad VIONA,-WicDNESDAY, MARCHE 7.-.Intelligonce from he Constantinople has been received up to the Ist instanlt. ay Archbishop Halleras had died from cholera. Seven! shocks rod of -earthquake had been experienced since the 28th: Feb. Ily The town of Broussa was almost entirely destroyed. Two to thousand. ...

... I- ScoTLAieD W~AD.--wMr. Bighamk has resigned his seat Chi 31i at the dock committee, and it is understood that, in con- De ig sequence of eiroumstances over which he has no control, I the burgesses of Scotland ward will, for a time, be do- Pot prived of the services of one of their active representa- woi tives in the town council[. The period for which Mr. yes Dli ham wss elected will not ...

... .- - - ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? . .. .. . . . .L . . - - - - 7- - - - BY THE CONTINENTAL TELEGRAPIH. grt [RECEIVED THROUGH MO. JUUIUS REUTER, OF hLONDOx.] ?? GREAT BATTLE BEFORE 'rU SEBASTOPOL. bgeI THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER WOUNDED. V! A FORT TAKEN BY THE FRENCH. q VIENNk, MONDAY.-A report is circulated here woil that a battle had been fought before Sebastopol, an( but without restlt. General Osten ...

... Austin, goods deliverer P ait the Waterloo goods ?? of the London and North-western R allway Company, WAs charged with stealing a bar of soap, seve- o eral bottles of asteroil, and others ofwalnut ketchup, &e. Mir. RII Sale, an officer in the employ of the railway company, stated 01 Lthat, in consequence of having his suspicious aroused respeet. Di - ing the prisoner's conduct, he west to his ...

... ?? WARD RZLIEF FuNp.-This fund was ,closed on Friday evening last, when the gentlemen fowns-i ing the commsittee which superintended its distribution c dined together at the Bee Hotel, 4Queen-square. W SATURiDAY EvEnNoN COctORTS.-Instead of the ustivlt musical entertainment on Saturday evening last, the da Chinese artisites exhibited theirsaurprislingfeats, and drew ]st a crowded audience. On ...

... r. The death of Lord Ravensworth, and the eleva- Jr, tiou to the peerage of his eldest son, the Hon. Car B. Henry Thomas Liddell, have created a vacancy in cas e, the representation of this borough. Although n. of the years of the deceased nobleman far exceeded 01oi Bythose usually allotted to man, his death was GIS Y, sudden and unexpected. The friends of Mr. Lid- Yoi ce dell, to whom the ...

... The Paris correspondent of the T2nses, writing on Saturday, says- Tge date of the emperor's departure for the Crimea is not accurately knowno, uteeything is in sucii a state of forwardneig. that the shertest notice weill sufflice. ?? comininsiderc6f flud impeirial yachts, psassed n the 7th in psost baste through Ilyons, onl his wby toToelon, for the purpose.Of bringting up the Reine'lHortense ...

... .5 Mr. Smith, a chemist, of Auchterarder, is said to have Ls discovered a means of transferring the impression of If natural objects to glass with minute accuracy. a The court house at Downpatrick was destroyed by fire if on Friday night last, and next morninmI, vihen the judges it were about to open the awsizes, they discovered they had r no court house to preside in. The fire was accidental. ...

... The greatest excitemet 'wa's _m-ani~fested at Oxford, on C Mlonday, to hear the trial of the Rev. Joha Allen (liles, .q1 D.C. L., for marrying at uncanonlcal hoers, and making a fales entry in the register. The court was densely It crowded. The defendant was placed in the deck,'and II appeared calm and collected. S Mlr. Heating, Q.9., and Mr. Huddlestone were counsel U1 Ifor the prosecution ; ...

... o LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.-The half-yearly meet- O ing of this company was held on Wednesday, at the 0 Limne-street station, Mr. E. W. Hassell, chairman, o presiding. The statement of traffic account, including o the sum of £111 19s., brought forward from last half. 0 0 year, showed a balance of £89,341 18s. 10d. ; out 0 of which the directors recommended a dividend to is, be paid at the rate ...