The wife of Mr. Maclean, late M.P. for Oxford, has been killed, by being thrown from her carriage at Castellamare, near Naples.
In many of the provincial towns a strong feeling prevails in favor of making the Peel monument assume the shape of useful institutions, such as libraries.
A new monthly magazine, adapted to meet the wants of the advanced section of the Nonconformists, has been announced.
The inmates of St. Luke's Hospital were treated to the entertainments of music and dancing at a lunatics' ball. The success of the experiment will lead to its repetition.
A new dock, called the Victoria Tidal Harbor, has been opened at Greenock.
Highway robbery is becoming very prevalent in the neighborhood of Liverpool.
A movement is in progress for the erection of a monument at Newcastle to the late George Stephenson, "the father of railways."
The great water-works for the supply of Manchester are rapidly approaching completion.
The Manchester Guardian notices the arrival at Manchester of a consignment of 250 bales of saw-ginned cotton from India.
The trade of Paisley continues in a satisfactory state, and weavers are in great demand.