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AT a meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday evening, Sir Bartle Frere, who was in the chair, intimated that the Queen had been graciously pleased to grant a pension of 300l. a year to Dr. Livingstone. We are glad to see that the daily press is becoming alive to the scandal of putting off with such a paltry gift a man who has spent his life in the disinterested service of his country and of humanity: he has surely earned something more handsome. Sir Bartle Frere read a letter from Dr. Kirk, which stated that the East Coast Expedition was getting on well, and that its members were in good health. Dr. Dillon arid Lieutenant Cameron had succeerled in traversing the wet country, and were now engaged in collecting porters on the inland side of the river. Lieutenant Murphy and Mr. Moffat were understood to be following. His arrival had done much for the assistance of the expedition. No further news had of late been received of the expelitton, a circumstance reartled by Dr. Kirk in a favourable sense. A letter fron Lieutenant Grandy, from the Western Expedition, was then read. In this communication the writer, in giving an account of th progress of the expedition, stated that the men were all well, and that the climate was deliciously cool.