... | PumeouirE, Monday. All the sections of the British Association met this morning at the usual hour. .ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS SECTION, Is the Economic Science and Statistics Section Dr Fair read a paper on certain laws of' pcpulation. He said that the unity of the human family was an as- cepted scientific truth, and 'all races and nations were' alike endowed in structure, intellects, ...

... ABETRDEEN TOWN COUNCIL. POLICE, DEPARTMENT. The monthly meetin~g of the municipal Department IYes of the Aberdeen Town Council was held in the TonT Hall yesterday. There were present-Lord Provost T Th mnue o Fnnc Cmmteeweeread and ap- Jde !11 LIGHTIG OF STEER. JI 'Mr Paul calledl attens'iofl to the defective lighting of m street lamps in Eon-Accord Square, Eon-Accord Street, Bou.AcCOrd ...

... to 41 THE EDUCATION ACT, SECONDARY EDUCATION, AND THE ABERDEENSHIREf iled PARISH SCHOOLS. des- TO THE EDIOR OF THE ABERDEEN JOURNAL. SmP-As I have given much attention to the busi- ness of education, both primary and secondary, and va?- to the provisions of the recent Education A~ct for itsI Mis promotion in this country, I request you to publish i5Ofl the following observations upon this ...

... ET1PEE-AB RD1PEN-AND DISTRIOT TRAMWAY. I- i. i . -. . . . . . .. . 1 - . 1 P~tlet~t is o hoheldthis iifternoo o l led~ 0 oImts frost t ioStreet - CotnnIhtereeisendi . 0 te Aberdleen 'Tttuiwaysi, And thu Lie to Eoht end mid. tote.Tbo.equniuiit~cee ytijeL to tho cqristruction. Oftpc *Quay tt'ornwiy, btt1 at doilut; of thte tlia.rowncOss of tlici cutricigewi' of Brtidge ISticot. (3feet) , Manil ...

... (Rh UuuE'S A ND PRFSS ASSOCIA TION TEULEGRAMS.) ALLEGED EMBIEZZLEMENT yesterday, in Glasgow. Charles Crotopton was appre- heudedcitoiged with a, icjuning from Manllcihester ajith nearly £300 of his eitployer's snoiey. so: th STRIKE OF WEAVERS. pe Betweell 500 and 600 weavers and winders emplloyed fo at the Globe Cotton Mill, Mlacclesfield, have left their DC work, resisting a proposed ...

... rrtorsa II Lnd M1rs; The following paper was read in the Art Section of oy Miss the Social Science, Congress by Mr ,J. J1. Stevenson, et ; and architect, London. After premising that some previous addock, 'acqudaitance with Aberdeen and its granite, and the* tMary 'necessity at, times of designing in the material had assisted given him occasion to know something about it, the eshmenlt writer ...

... P i'l^TBBRIEAD. 'a;V unou BJ oUI0OOLIBOAU1D.-.A meeting of' thi Uurghl! b xn, Scahool!Bonrd was held yesterday-Mlr Ti J. Bremner I rs, presiding. A letter fron the East Churoh managers in .I W. referenco to the alleged encroachment on their feu by c Ur theo School Board wns read. The 'letter, which ehl- tl as, racterised the conduct of; the Sihool Boerd as a law- b ;the less act,'doenaniled ...

... - i th &bardt Nofrnrnlji ABERDEEN, TUESDAY, NOV. 6, 1877. THERE is now semi-official authority for the state- ment that the investment of Plevna is complete, and l__ _ _-- A_ ._1 -_ __|tCA ._ _Tn a Turkish paper publishes a report that Oscman Pacha ell is about to make an attempt to break through the h Russian lines. It is believed in Bucharest of that the Turkish commander has sufficient ...

... LONDON CORRESPONDEN CE. (.By Telegraph fioom our owtn Con espondent.) A NOVEL ACTION FOR LIBEL--TURKEY AND GREECE -ROYAL MARRIAGES-GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. LONDON, Tuesday Morning. An action at larw is to be brought against an Encliul member of Parliament by an ex-member or th ` Tur`kish Government for alleged defamation of cbaracter. It is said that the English legislator re-r Centad had an ...

... 1 MR STA-NLEY'S MISSION. v , s -: q I INTERESTINNAB-ARATIVE OF THE - :- ~- EXPEDITION. SLAVERY IN AFRICA. e te place before the English public this morning s (says the Daily Tel'egraph) the first dishes of a - geographical banquet the like of which in its entirety can hardly ever be enjoyed again. The earth is not large enough for an indefinite representation of these to cardinal discoveries, ...

... .APBEI' a'8RN, NVEDN.EDAY,: SEP., 5,. I877.. , 1 ; . I t , . N I., , S.1 r . - , f IIhm A] 1.9fr'r cdrrBpondeia piesent at en- ; gAgemetits Sn the Ljii and t P6lsa&t shos Shat in gagemnenis on tue Uosif ana at reInsat sio0w iit in both oases thie urks were th'e victoi. 1Both 'btles. were the results eioffer .sive. 'ovements' on thsep` t of'the :Otontaos'g The'ie is now no 'biui#,tha'0t O. J1 ...

... id'I The annual show of roots, vegetable';, and fruit in al iIconnection with the above flout ishing association was A to ihe1'1 at Inverurie on Saturday. Tue potatoes and other es Igarden oroduce were exhibited in the area of the old di gIFree Church, while the turnips were arranged with in great regularity on a field adjoining the church. The L Ir society during the fewv years of its ...