The Bee-Hive. — 1871-12-30 (London, England)

JENNE; M.D., W. GULL, M.D." The Bank of England directors met together yesterday and dispersed without notifying any further alteratior in the official minimum. The general expectation out of deers was in harmony with the result. Renewed firmness is apparent in the tendency of quotations for Public Securities throughout the Stock Exchange markets. However, there is only an extremely moderate amount of fresh business in progress, owint, to a disinclination manifested to increase owing range of commitments until the half-monthy settlement shall have been completed, and to which operation attention is chiefly directed. Several fires which wore attended by the metropolitan brigade appeared in Captain Shaw's report yesterday morning. The most serious one is the destruction of the eightroomed house occupied by Mr. Humwick, bootniaker, 6, Crescent-street, Thorhillsquare, Bloomsbury. Numerous arrests have been made in Poland of persons charged with being implicated in Communistic agitations, and it has been ascertained that the French Government has furnished the Russian Government with a list of all Poles and Russians known to have taken part in ,Curnmiinist riots in France and still residing there, also of such as have returned to Poland, or arc known to have corresponded with Communists in Paris. The aggregate mortality in Loiidoit and 19 other 'towns last week was at the rate of 32 deaths annually to every 1,000 persons estimated to be living. While the rate was 17 in Portsmouth, it was as high as 61 in Wolverhampton. In the metropolis, 2,614 births and 1,913 death's were regirtered, the former having been 62 below and the latter 370 above the average.  The extensive cattle market which has just been erected on the site of Deptford Dockyard, for the reception and slaughter of foreign animals on their arrival in this country, with a view to prevent the spread of contagion, was opened yesterday morning.  The Manchester Guardian says :—" It is calculated from trustw6rthy data that the -amount of the cliiims made by American citizens against the -English Government on account of the vessels seized and deAtroyed by the Alabama and other Southern cruisers will exceed that of the indemnity (200 millions sterling) exacted from the French by the Germans."  Octavius Clements, a young man, was charged at the Thames Police-eourt yesterday with stealing two watches from 130, Bromley street, Poplar, the property of Agnes Hewes. On the previous evening the prosecutrix was sitting in her parlour and saw the prisoner taking down the two watches from a mantelshelf. She gave an alarm but he sprang through the window. He had not gone far when he was captured. The watches had not been recovered. The prisoner, who said ho knew nothing about it, was committed for trial. William Barrett, an Irish labourer, was yesterday committed for trial, on a charge of stabbing another Irishman, named John Kelly, with intent to murder him. The men had quarrelled in a public-house, and afterwards, meeting in the streets, Barrett said, "rll have my revenge," and stabbed in the hip, left side, and shoulder. The wounds are not. fatal.  A young man was cut to pieces yesterday Morning on the railway near Brightside. It is supposed that he had been lying on the line; the life-preserver of the engine lifted him up, and actually impaled him, carrying his body a considerable distance, and soattering his clothes all along the line. Windsor has resolved to invite the Hants and Berks Agricultural SOciety to hold their annual show of stock, implements, tte., for 1812, in that town, the show to take place the first week in June.  The expenses incurred in the late Plymouth election by Mr. Booker, the Liberal candidate, amounting to nearly £l,OOO, having been raised by private subscriptions, have been tendered to AIN Rooker, but declined by him,. Mr. Scudamore reports that the total number of messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom last week was 248,215, being an increase over the corresponding period of last year of 68,763 messages.  A public meeting of burgesses of Birmingham on Wednesday passed a resolution approving of the application to Parliament by the corporation for an Act authorising the construction of tramways within the borough at a cost of £150,000.  A Times telegram states that the French Ambassador at the Court of the King of Italy will go Rome, where the French Ambassador to the Holy See will also reiitle.  Dec. 30, 1871.