... w i A D IsiI SCIENTIFII IC EXPEDITION TO ICELAND sailed from Leith iast week. The muemibers of the Expedition intendI to explore the site of the recent volcanic eruption. Two GUNs iIFLONINTG '0 TrlE SPANISii ARMAA) have been recovered off the Scotch c'ast by a divei' party employed by the Countess of Erroll. The guns have been under water for 288 years. TItE LATEST AMEIRICAN WONDER is al ...

... From the Registrar-General's return we learn that during the week ending June 10, 5,317 births and 3,253 deaths were registered in London and 22 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The natural increase of population was %2064. The mor- tality from all causes was at theaveragerate of 21 deaths annually in every 1,000 personsliving. The annual death-rate was 20 per 1,000 in Edinburgh, 28 in ...

... A -PERPLEXING PARALLEL TO T:Il EDITOR OF REYNOLIDS'S XEWSPAPER.. SIR,-The late Sultana was deposed for several reasons; three of a pecuniary nature. First he was aecused of increasing the expenditure of the country at the time when great distress prevailed amougst the people. Secondly, it was iisisted that the expense of sopporting the Court-amounting to about a mihlion per annum-.its ...

... That . WAINWRZaGH PUND. On Friday a petition was pi eseated to Vice-Chaneellor Mains to settle a scheme for the investment of the residue of the Wainwright Fund, now standing in the London and County Bank. Mr. Glasse, ?? stated that the petitioner was the RIev. A. Conder, rector of Middletonm Sussex. Henry Wainwright, who was -executed, le't a wife and five children, aged. respectively twelve, ...

... THEi PEOPLE TAXED FOR LAND. TO THE EDITOR OF REYNOLDS'S NE&VaPAPER. SIB,-The people who have to pay the-greater purt of the seventy-eight millions may now ;tirn their attention to the question of the dis- tribution of taxation. We are supposed to live under a free trade, but in spite of that, the Chancellor of the Exchequer draws the bulk of his receipts from revenue and excise duties. We have ...

... ?? Spelling Bee, by Mr Reece, is not unknown in Liverpool, and some of the fun introduced into it by Mr Toole-who has filled it out with humorous additions, as is his way when he gets hold ot a good farce-has also been made familiar to the Liverpool public by a rather unprincipled appropriation of it in other forms of entertainment. This is a practice which cannot be too severely reprobated, ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. IN the House of Commons yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Raikes, a Select Committee of five members was appointed to join with a committee of five lords, to consider the expediency of making further regulations concerning the admission and practice of parliamentary agents, and to report their opinion thereon. Mr. Potter moved the second reading of the Real Estate Intestacy ...

... FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF RAILWAY CONSTR UCTION. IN a late number of the New York Fi2ancial Chronicle we find a series of tables which suggest thoughts on some of the financial effects of railway construction that are not sufficiently attended to. As nearly as can be ascertained, our New York contemporary tells us that at the end of last year there were open to traffic in the several countries of ...

... PARIS, AfM9.zaY THE assertion that Abdul Aziz committed suicide encounters a great deal of incredulity here. The Royalists declare that all those interested in the fall of the late Sultan will maintain the purity of the movement which cost him first his throne and then his life. There was very little business done on the Bourse to-day, but what transactions there were showed a down- ward ...

... ALL that part of the reading public which is familiar with the fascinating and veracious tales from time to time issued from the press by Captain Mayne Reid know that the modern land of poetry and romance is to be found neither in the dreamy East nor on the shores of the Mediter- ranean. It lies, on the contrary, somewhere-it is difficult without more accurate geographical knowledge than we ...

... BRITISH POLICY IN THE EAST. The Spec/alfor contends that, in its recent policy in the East, her Majesty's Government has exhibited considerable skill and some courage in support- ing the wrong cause. Every step in their policy has tended to make the Turks of Constantinople more vigorous, less fettered, more convinced that, do what they will, let them desolate provinces, or destroy communities, ...

... PARIS, Thursday. THE anxiety felt here with regard to the Eastern Question is decidedly on the increase, although there is no positive news to justify so much alarm. Most of the Paris newspapers, while acknowledging that diplomacy may be outstripped by events, and that passion may get the better of reason, profess to believe in peace. To a great extent the French are favourable to the policy ...