... The traffic roturno of railways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week ending November 24 to £380,300, and for the correo4ponding period of last year to £343,000,I ohowiug an increase of £37,3 .0. RAILWAY TRAFFIC WJOEKLY UIFTURN. Name f IWway. This Se:no 1110-yr's Bases M~ileb Nameof l~l~oy. Week. 1:014. Total. 1014. open. Aberdeen & Scot. Mid. 8000 20,33 54717 401537 110 Bolfasitand ...

... THE BANK OF ENGLAND. It is gencrally riamoured that Government is about to permit, or perhaps we should rather say invite, the Bank of England to issue an additional five hundred thousand pounds worth of notes beyond the value of the bullion in its cellars. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. We have received a number of communications from different parts of the country inquirieg %whether there would ...

... A NI\W PLEA FOR SPA.\UNO RUSSE.1 te Thou h we do not, with the Times, think. it is the duty gu a journalist to couiiulnt fieqllultly Iupon Mr. Henry Drommind's exhibitious of the e ridiculous in his ovin person, ar long as it is the id pleasure of the ooustituouicy of West Slliey to return hiun to Parliament, still he is such a queer 3t public characier that it woald not be fair to oiw . ...

... A. ., . ?? . :: - i, 0i-e 'nal f6 iniglt, 11ecoting of tho ielect Vostryto Wasi It yetedyte Rev Mr. Campbell in the' Phar l te ism espee,,eet were Messes9- WodrEV iarto ?? Is .t. tlohei, %V. jees; Dintee oven, BradleOY, Bold. Melter. Luff,' Ntt ailey,SIbkil, Clarkte, Gada~ l ty Btawlc, Chesney M TT ADDING A MEMBFPS havML Taon A ed AOirTf. Dno The minutes of the hsoitiestitghv,,. en ed r.Dao ...

... MULTUM IN PARYO. _ The new church at Formby was consecrated on Friday, His i ate by the Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester. Allel ies John Johnson East, a miller at Lincoln, has been tend, fined in heavy penalties for having rice and plaster of A [alParis on his premises. The Rev. James Pedder, M.A., vicar of Churcltown, purp CkC near Garstong, committed suicide on Thursday morning Irels OF last, ...

... A RUSSIAN DEFEAT. Mo) (From the Specaca Coreepoedoent of the Times.) Swa CAIP rEFoRM SIIS&STOPOL, Drc. 11.-The monotony do of life in this huge military colony has been broken onld slightly by the appearance of the Russlian onk the heights sold of Ourkounta, and by some demeonstratis' of an iutehtiog1 roa( on their part to try the strength of the F'rench positions thIo! in the Baidar Valley. ...

... .11 GREAT HORSE FAIR AND THE SWELL MOB. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESTON CHRONICLE. Sin,-It is feared we may have a greater number than usual of unwelcome visitors at the ensuing fair,.smart ladies and gents., with tickets of leave. Would it not be desirable to procure a detective from London to assist Air. Gibbons? The public should be cautioned against taking watches or purses to the poultry ...

... Six easy chairs have been sent to Fort Pitt General Hospital, by desire of the Queen, for the benefit of the ?? News. The Europa transport embarked 17 officers and 465 men of the Land Transport Corps, at Plymouth, on Wednesday afternoon, and sailed on Thursday morning for the Crimea. Each of the captains selected to command the gunboat and mortar-boat flotilla for the ensuing year's campaign ...

... t I I- - . - .- I ?? I I 1 ly h.Uhi ?? .lecd k Telegraph.) hai d, FRANCE. agu D- The Moniteeer publishes the returns of the corn aim 't trade in the different French markets during last o'cI to week of October, and first fortnight in November, int ig from which it appears that the lowest price was at an as Hennebon,. 28 francs 40 centimes; and the highest car' to at Bergues, 42 francs 40 ...

... ?,,Dtnj S; faimilancoug P;swo. ?J ECCL SIASTICAl NTLTLLIGENCE.- The LT El Bish p o Idanche'Ster, On Tuesday, tit the ])iocesan ltiegiatry, St. James's Squlare, licensed the. Rev. John Mashcdcr-, B.A. to thle stipen- dicarycurar'y of St. John's, Bury; that :ev. Charles Richard riifling, BA.,. to the stipienditiry cur-soy of St. James's, Roch dale; and the Rev. Joh n Price tO: tile stipendisry ...

... SOLDIERS' REMITANCES TO THEIR . FAMILIES. ad . I'.1,1M II at Major Powys has forwarded to the Times a letter from be Lieutenant-Colonel Warre, Lommanding the 57th Regiment, n corroborating the statements made, that most of the married ] 9 soldiers do remit money to their wives, while th~e are stilli some who positively refitse t'J do so, knowing, as they do, that they cannot be compelled. to ...

... THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1855. UALUS POPULI LNX SUPRIEMA- On Monday, the boy John Hamilton was tried at the Dublin Commission Court on a charge of having torn and burned copies of the New Testa- inent at the auto da fs of condemned books cele- brated by the Redemptorist Fathers at Kings- town, on the 5th of November, but he was ac- quitted, and the verdict was received ...