READING ROOM.
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{65- At the suggestion of number of friends, the undersigned proposes to establish in this city the first of November next, Commercial and General Reading Room, should sufficient encouragement to the project be given by the business men of the city The want of place of general resort, and union for gentlemen engaged in commercial aRd profess ional business has been fully supplied in Mo- ble-the Post Office corner or the bar-roons of the Hotels bemg the only places approaching to the char acter of business Exchange" To supply this deficiency in a measure-to open a convenient, com fortabe and respectable place where merchants may introduce their foreign correspondents and friends when in the city, and where the citizens who are fond of reading may pass quie and profitable leisure hour or two every day, will be the objects to be ac- complished.

 The following is copy of the subscription list in the hands of his friends, to which the names of gea tlemen favorable to the project solicited.

 JOHN FORSYTH, JR WE, the undersigned, agree to become subscribers

 to a COMMERCIAL AND GENERAL READING

 RooM, to be established under the direction of

 JOHN FORSYH, JR., and to pay hali-y yearly in

 advance for the number of subscriptions opposite

 to our name, at the rate of Ten Dollars per annum

 for each.

 One subscription by business House or Firm to entitle all the partners of the to the prive ges of the Room. The same rule to apply all the young men acting as clerks in one Counting Room.

 The Room selected for the purpose is on Cont-si. next below the Merchants and Planters Bank, and the ground floor of the building belonging to the Bank. It is capacous, being 57 feet in length, and all respects well adapted to the purpose It will be well warmed, furnished and lighted-the entrance will be private, through the Commercial Register Office, next door, and the object of the proprietor will be to make it useful and comfortable resort for visitors and reading of the city, and for the respondents of business men and other strangers who may be introduced to it by subscribers.

 4 we'll ordered establishment of this kind can only be maintained by systematic enforcement of good rules, and it will be the duty of the proprietor to tablish certain fixed regulations for the protection of the comfort and privileges of the visitors.

 The Reading Room will be opened on the first of November.

 Besides the principal newspapers of the Union, the Room will be supplied with the best Commercial, Periodicals, and few of the standard British and American Literary Magazines.