15 DECEMBER 1849, Page 6

SCOTLAN i

Though things generally do not seem to b ".

future is still more hopeful, there are at pre

very bad at Paisley, and the

the weaving line. The make of shawls "in 13ent a good many men idle in improving, and a marked increase in the d, the Indian style" is steadily

goods " is expected. emend for these "beautiful Mr. G. T. Page, an engineer, who superintendal

Leith under Mr. Sendai], has met with a fatal accidi', the Dock improvements at at four o'clock in the afternoon to inspect the inner d mt. Mr. Page left his ofi5ce from the frost, had been recently covered with a coping 'k-walli which, to protect it little over the wall. Here Mr. Page incautiously put h • of straw, that projected a nearly twenty feet, striking his head upon a cross-bt 4,1 foot, and fell a height of skull was fractured, and he died soon after midnight. am in hisdescent. His

esteemed. Mr. Page was much