... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... i- - D. James Clifford, who had been remanded from Thurs- of day, on a charge of imposing on the credulity of several n parties, by representing himself as a messenger from the id other world, so thereby obtaining money from them, was at brought up for farther examination at the Cork police '0 office, on saturday. is A comfortable-looking farmer, named Michael Cash. w man, and residing near ...

... RESTORIATION OF POLAND. PUBtLIC IIEFTI5NG IN LIVEROPOOL LAST UETNIN6. A pobhic ?? III favour of the too taration itt P1'ral-d WM AtteoIdan e wase large, the bhall twing nearly tiled i~iat, Ove PRO. The pracoeesiog, were spreloited to co latice ?? , 41loJr .ud shortly .1fter shar IIatte it tao yrr t'ed t-y Mr. ih.: IerJ., tbrickecler, of Scotland-roadi, vcenetul by 31'r. lFobi'- I-otteili ...

... A noble gathoring of the brethren of the abovo loyal and benevolent Institutlon took place at the Sc. George Inn, Grange. lano, Birkonhead, on Wednesday evenoog lost, when about eo of the members and their friends emembled to celebrate the anmdversary of the Perseverance Lodge, No. 1511, in the Mao. chestor Unity. The worthy host, Mr. Wingfield, had provided a most eumptuoos dinner for their ...

... ST. AsDAN'S THEOLOGICAL COLLEO, BllKENHEAD. I MICHIAELMAS TERM EXAMINATION, B55. W P PRINCIPAL'S PR .OTIONs.-Pirsc Trta: First class e Phillips, Guest, Firth, Connell ?? Fcatherston, o s,(Equ.) Second cla, David Rtchards, Vale, Tentiell ii n- Thomas 1-I. Davico, Hartley, Ford. Thirdoelas,Jua., d it Thlorrlry, Lsmh Irt, Fox, Seweli.-Second Term: Fir.t n n- olass, Foster. Seeond cl8, Pashley, ...

... - Yesterdlay forenoon. the R0ev. J. Kelly Preached a sermon at o he Creocent Chaepel, Irsving reference to the ?? ot tire la, Mdr. Teoman Blackburn. Ibe chapel Wms well titol aln many e porons were preseut from other disseenting pfaoos'ior wurolip. trhe rev. gentlenmon aelected for his tent AetO xiii, 36-- For Vavid, after he hod served his own georeratkill iry lire will of Uod. fail on aleep, ...