SCOTLAND.
Sir Roderick Murchison, Director-General of the Geological Survey, has been actively employed up to the commencement of this week in examining the rocks between Dunnet Head and Strathy. He is now proceeding through the Orkney Islands and to Zetland, whence he will return in the Pharos steamer to the north and west coast of Sutherland.
Half a dozen ladies" intruded themselves at a sitting of the Scottish Episcopal Synod at Aberdeen. Some delicate question was to be discussed. Three several times the presiding bishop declared that he would not go on with business unless the ladies withdrew. "If the ladies are determined I aria equally determined, and I will adjourn the synod to another place. There was a pause of some minutes. Then the bishop aid—"The synod is adjourned till the ladies retire—for half an hour." At length the ladies were got rid of.
A gun accident has terminated the life of Archibald William Deuglaq. Marquis of Queensbury, better known as Lord Drnmlanrig, a member of the House of Commons, and of Lord Palmerston's Government. Ile acci- dentally shot himself while rabbit-shooting in the grounds of Kinmount House. No one was near at the time. It is supposed that while be was reloading the emptied barrel of a double barrelled gun, the loaded barrel went off. When found he was quite dead. The shot had entered his trout and passed through to his back. Two of his cousins discovered the holy. Lord Queensbury had only been two days at his country house.
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