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1-At the suggestion of a number of friends, the undersigned proposes to establish in this city the first of November next, CoMmERcIAL and GEN ERAL READING Room, should sufficient encourage ment to the project be given by the business of the city. The want of place of general resort and rsurion, for gentlemen engaged in commercial and professional business, has been fully supplied in Mobile-the post office corner the bar-rooms of the Hotels being the only place approaching to the character of a business [" Exch,nge.'' To supply this deficiency in a messure-to open a convenient, comfortable 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 quiet and profitable leisure hour or two every day., will be the object to be accomplished, TERMs-Ten dollars per annum, payable half yearly in advance. One subscription by business House, or Firm. to entle all the partners in the concern to the privle ges of the Room The same rule to apply to all the young men acting as clerks in one counting room.

 The room selected for the purpose is on Cont st.. next below the Merchants and Planters Bank, and

 

 Bank. It is s'capacious, being 57 feet in length. and in all respects we'll adapted to the purpose. It will be well warmed, furnished and ghted-the entrance will be private, through the Commercial Register office, next door; and the object of the propret f will be to make it useful and comfortable resort for visitors and reading men of the city, and for the respondents of busness men and other strangers who may be iptr oduced by subscribers. A well ordered establishment of this kind can on- y be maintained by systematic enforcement of good rules; and il will be the duty of the proprietor to ahlish 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. m |. ' '.! -.. .l..H Besides the principal newspapers of the Union, the Room will be supplied with the best Commercial Periodicals, and a few of the standard British and American Literary Magazines.

 Mobile, Sent. 8, lS41. '-Yl r -.