4 MARCH 1854, Page 8

SCOTLAND. _ The Lord Provost of Edinburgh has returned from

London, where he has been urging Ministers to grant money for the establishment of a Scot- tish National Museum. The Scotsmen says that the Highland Society were about to send a deputation to London on the same subject.

• Colonel Sykes was elected on Wednesday Lord Rector of the Univer- sity of Aberdeen. He has placed at the disposal of the Senate an ap- pointment in the medical department of the East India Company's 5C vice, which is under his patronage.