Of the many methods of warring with the ocean and conquering the obstacles it offers to the inquisitive or adventurous spirit of mankind, diving, carried on by professional divers with diving apparatus, it ib not the least hazardous and interesting. Our specialists m, this profession have just acchieved a triumph. They have brought up treasure to the amount of £90,00 J from a depth of -one hundred and fifty-three feet below the surface. Two years, ago a Spanish steamer, the Alphonso XII., sank about a mile from •.the. Southernmost limit of the Island of Grand Canary. The vessel settled on the edge of a reef. , A£ the bottom of the ship '• -ware the boxes containing the treasure. This 1 was insured at Lloyd's, which paid the insurers' and then set to work to Bee if the five dollar pieces which made up the Bpecie. could not be. recovered. The vessel was on the ridge of rock already mentioned, from twenty to thirty fathoms down, and close ■ beside, her yawned the abyss'of water reach! ing thousands of feet down to the ocean floor. For nine months the divers' labours lasted, and' they made the perilous descent whenever "thff"we'attier~ rendered impracticable into the hold of the ship*-.. Hhe preisure of the water ; at the great depth at which the vessel lay inconvenienced them not a little, and one man, Lambert, having remained too long below the Bnrface on one occasion, was found to be paralysed in -both legs, Of the total amount £100,000, which j was buried m the Atlantic, £90,000- was recovered m the unbroken boxes. The remaining £10,000 is abandoned • for ever to the treasury of Nep une. This; is the first occasion on which divers have carried on their operations under such extraordinary circumstances, and pro bably their experiences may not be without their value to scientific men. 'Jheir pluck cannot be exaggerated. For nine months they. literally" carried their lives m their hands. jA lurch of the ship, any one of a thousand possible : and probable accidents, mightjf have precipitated them headlong into ■the fathomless abyss on ther verge of which they- were toiling. Such work is of course remunerated heavily, but it requires nerve and skill of a rare - kind, which can scarcely be too handsamely rewarded. 