More than 2000 members of the Methodist Society have been expelled at Bristol, because they are in favor of a reform in the polity of their Society.
A sailors' home on a large scale is about to be established at Plymouth.
A great chess match, to be played by amateurs of all nations during the Exhibition of 1851, is being arranged for.
Five new whalers are to be added to the whaling fleet of Peterhead next season.
Large purchases of wine continue to be made in the Douro, at high prices.
Upwards of five hundred members have already joined the Liverpool Freehold Land Society.
A mummy brought from Thebes by Sir J.E. Tennent was unrolled in the Museum at Belfast.
Numerous bales of moss have lately been imported into London from Cork.
Meyerbeer is at present at Paris, and has attended several public as well as private concerts.
The library left by Dr. Neander is to be sold by auction. There are about 4000 volumes; among them some of the best editions of the old church Fathers, presented by the theological students to Neander on his birth-day. An attempt is making to purchase the library for the use of the theological students at the University. The total sum demanded is not more than $4000.