... literature. ♦ THE ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA. By James Pryde, F.E.I.S. Glasgow: JohnPryde; Edinburgh: Menzies London Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. WE welcome this treatise on elementary algebra a valuable contribution to our mathematical school books. The work contains a complete course of struction in the principles of algebra, with a copioU3 set of examples for practice, and the arrangement and method ...

... TOWN COUNCIL.—The quarterly meeting of the Town Council was held on Tuesday, at the Town-hall, the Mayor in the chair. A notice was ordered to be issued calling attention to the Petroleum Act, which came into operation on the 1st instant. The usual quarterly ac- counts were presented and ordered to be paid. A gen- eral district rate of 2s. in the pound was made. Mr. Graham called attention to ...

... DINNER AT THlE PLOUGH HOTEL, On Tuesday last a public dinner at the Plough Hotel, St. Asaph, was held, in honour of the marriage of Edw. Roberts, Esq., solicitor, St. Asaph, to Miss Kerfoot, daughter of James Kerfoot, Esq., Vaenol Park, St. Asaph. The marriage took place on Tuesday morning at Bodeiwyddan Church, near St. Aeaph, and the happy couple shortly afterwards took train en sroue for ...

... THE POOR OF ABERDARE.—A soiree and social meeting, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the relief of the poor of Aberdare, was held on Tuesday evening in the Cardiff Qastle. His Honour Judge Falconer presided in a very felicitous manner, and delivered a short address. Singing and dancing made up the amusement, and a large party spent a very pleasant evening. TERPSICHOREAN SOCIETY.-The ...

... .The Tieatre Royal, Hull, was on Friday night totally destroyed by fire. The audience had left the building before the fire broke out, and the only per- il ni on the p corses were the check takers and the gas-man. They were just leaving the theatre when they heard a shout, and on looking up perceived that the upper storey was illuminated. An alarm was given, but the flames made such rapid ...

... ALGERIA. PARIS, Friday.—The Minister of War has received the following despatch :— Algiers, Feb. 4.—Enemy has been completely routed, and is flying towards south. M. Colonieu, ofhcei in command at Geryville is in full pursuit. ...

... On the 8th inst. Mr. Bedford resumed the inquest in the Board-room of St. George's Vestry, on the body of Benjamin Hailey, aged twenty-seven, a bricklayer. It will be remembered that at half-past nine o'clock on the morning of the 7th ult. Police-constable Baylis found deceased insensible on his back in the Belgrave-road. He took him to the station, and charged him with being drunk and ...

... BEAUivAI(iS. ANNUAL AMAITesu THEATRICALS AT HENLLV8.-On the eveasogs uf Weduesday and Thursday in last week, the aunual theatrical performances took place at Hen- llya, the beautifal seat of Captain J. L. Ratupton-Lewis. Oa Weduesday evening, fully 150 persons, comprising the tradesmen of this aud the surruuodng neighb.ur- hood, with their faulilies, as well as of ?? who are a euployea on the ...

... COURSING MEETING. The Abergele Coursing Meeting took place on Thure- - day last. The meet was at the Cross Foxes, about a n mile and a half or two miles from Abergele. The cour- I sing was kept up throughout the day with much spirit, N and the numerous sportsmen seemed to thoroughly enjoy I themselves. Hares were in abundance. The ground was very wet, and ini consequence of being slippery, i ...

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... SATURDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq.) OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRETENCES. Ann Evans was charged with obtaining three woollen shawls, and three woollen turnovers, value £3 10s., the property of David Ross, and also with obtaining a silk um- brella, a pair of kid boots, a pair of leather boots, and four pairs of stockings, the property of William Hodges, both of Aberdare.—Mr. Ross said he was a ...

... The Law Tima says that Mr Gladstone's scheme for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Protestant Church in Ireland is completed in its outline, and only re- quires to be embodied in the shape of a Bill or Bills. At the Wolverhampton police-court, a middle-aged woman was called to give evidence. In reply to the sti- pendiary she said that she did not know what was the day of the month, ...