The Bee-Hive. — 1874-08-08 (London, England)

LONDON -SCHOOL BOARD.  The wyekly general meeting was held .on Wednesday at the Guildhall, Mr. E. H. Currie (vice-chairman) presiding.. Mr. Freeman (chairman of the Finance Committee) brought up his report recommending payment of cheques for salaries of teachers and pupil teachers to the amount of L 82,000. He stated that the Board resolved to borrow a further sum 0f..£132,000 from the Public Works Loan Commissioners, who had agreed to. advance the money,- the first instalment of £72,000 to be drawn immediately. Mr. Lucraft postponed his former motion, and gave notice that he should move, " That systematised lessons in drawing be tgiven to all children above five years of age, and that geometry be added to the list of general subjects." A discussion arose on the motion of Mr. Tabrum to build some additional schools in the Fitzroy Market district. The proposition was carried unanimously.  AT the meeting of the Brentford sanitary authorities on Wednesday, the inspector of nuisances reported a fatal ease of cholera in Pumpsquare, Hanwell. The name of the person is Mrs. Clamp, 34 years of age, who, was 'attacked on Saturday, And died within twenty-four hours. On making an examination of the premises he found there were two overflowing cesspools, from one of which filth had flowed into the cellar of the house were the deceased resided, and there remained stagnant. One of the guardians having expressed a doubt whether the case was one of cholera, the inspector produced the certificate of the medical °facer, which stated that the cause of death was European cholera. Mr. C. Abbott, one of the guardians of Hanwell, said another serious case of cholera had occurred in the same locality, but not fatal. Fnom Paris it is stated that passports are about to be re-established between France and Spain, and that orders have been given to the troops on the frontier to use the utmost vigilance with regard to the transport of arms and ammunition.  ON Wednesday evening the inquest respecting the death of Julia Murphy, aged 21, who was alleged to have died frlm injuries inflicted upon her by John Greenwood, a fish porter, was concluded at lloxton. It appeared that on the night of the 18th ult. the accused was at a beerhouse at the corner of Dorsetshire-street, when the deceased, who was under the influence of drink, came in and insulted him. He put her out and struck her in the face, and she fell down and fractured her skull. She died on the 200. The , jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against John Greenwood, who was committed to Newgate.  • -- ACCORDING to the recent returns the nonGerman inhabitants of the , Empire number 3,240,000, or 8 per cent. They consist of 220,000 French-speaking people in Alsace-Loraine and 10,000 French and Walloons in the Rhine Pro vinces, 2,450,000 Poles, 150,000 Lithuanians.. 150,000 Danes in North Schleswig, 88,000 Wends in Brandenburg and Silesia, and 52,000 in Saxony, 50,000 Moravians and Czechs in Silesia, and 80,000 foreigners. The Protestant clergy number 16,000, while the Roman Catholic have 20,000 priests, 800 monasteries and convents, 20 bishoprics, five archbishoprics, and three vicars apostolic. Of the 21 universities, Berlin heads the list with 3,573 students, Leipsic standing next with 2,032, Rostock, with 135, tieing the smallest. -- AT the Norfolk Assizes on Wednesday, Frederick Wales was charged with the murder of Thomas Pettingell, at Raveningbam, on the 15th of July, by drowning him. The jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. FROM a parliamentary return issued on Wednesday it appears that no less than 39 coalladen vessels bound. to the eastwari of the Cape of Good Hope have been reported as burnt or missing during the last six .years. Of these 24 were burnt and 15 reported "missing," and their total tonnage was 40,501 tons. The number of lives lest, in these vessels was 375. This return was ordered by the House of Commons on the motion of Mr. Bates, one of the members, for Plymouth, and it specifies the,shipper's name in each case, and the description,of cosi-shipped, as Well as the ports to and from which bound.  •