The Bee-Hive. — 1872-05-25 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY.  It is stated in New York that the United States Government has instructed General Eehenck to communicate to Earl Granville a aisavowal of the statement of Sir Stafford ;Corthcote that the British Commissioners were promised by the American representatives that the Indirect Claims would not be put forward.  The preparations for• decorating and illuminating Great Yarmouth on the occasion of the Prince of Wales's visit on the 6th June are going rapidly forward.  Two more bodies of the unfortunate young men who lost their lives at Twickenham on Wikit Monday have been discovered. The eorener.has been communicated with, but the inquest has been delayed for the recovery of the other bodies.  The German Lloyd steamer Baltimore came into collision with a screw steamer 'last night off' Hastings. The Baltimore, being badly hurt, ran ashore at once, off Hastings Castle, and the crew and passengers were saved. A convict at Spike Island, named Mahoney, aied yesterday, from injuries received a few days *ego from another convict, named O'Niell, who struck him on the head with a stone. Thei coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against O'Neill. _  It is r-eportycd in Oldham that Mr. J. M. Cobbett, after being invited to come forward in the Conservative interest for the seat in rarliament, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. John Platt, has declined to do so on eecount of the state of his health. Mr. Serjeant Spinks, it is said, will therefore come forward.  The death was announced yesterday morning of Mr. Frederio Poulton, for some years one of the members for the borough of Lambeth. He was 50 years of age.  The malady of the Archduchess Sophie, mother of the Emperor of Austria, which gives much disquietude to her friends, is Vphoid fever. Prince Leopold is recovering satisfactorily from tiro effects of his sprain. End Brownlow denies the statement that them has been an alteration in the wages of the labourers employed by him. The ground within theenelosure in Leicesterqu aro is about,to be sold by auction. The reserved price is said to be £30,000. What was left of the horse in the centre was sold yesterday by auction, realising the sum sof £l6.  At thp Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, Edwin They, bookbinder, and his wife Elizabeth, who were convicted of obtaining, by false pretences, from Mr. Burr, four several sums of 45., the moneys of the, poor of the Holborn Union, in the county of Middlesex, with intent to defraud, were sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months each.  The annual meeting of the friends of the Sailors' Home and Destitute Sailors' Asylum was held yesterday at the Home, Wellsstreet, London Docks, under the presidency of the most noble Marquis of Cholmondeley.  Yesterday morning the marriage of the Hon. Hugh Augustus Bosoawen, son of Viseount.Falmouth, with the Lady liaryFitzwilliam; daughter of Earl Fitzwilliam, took place at Wentworth, near Sheffield, the seat of Earl Fitzwilliam.  A Lombard telegram from Liverpool says : The steam pumps have been Withdrawn from the Cunard. steamer Tripoli. The divers are discharging the cargo.  The annual meeting of the governors and supporters of the Alexandra Orphanage was beld yesterday at the City Terminus Hotel, Mr. Basil W. Smith in the chair. The report presented stated that large donations had been received during the year: The sanitary condition of the youthful inmates, 110 in number, had, with a few exceptions, been very good. The total receipts for the last year were £8,261195. 3d., andthe disbursements £8,222. The report was adopted.  The new Minister of Finance in Turkey is Enim Effendi. his predecessor has been relegated to Trebizonde. The annual gathering of the Four-in-Hand Club took place on Wednesday. The turn-out is described as having been a numerous and successful one.  Monte Video has been visited with a disease resembling yellow fever. Prompt measures were taken by the authorities. A military cordon was established around the affected districts, and the inhabitants forcibly removed in two Government steamers to Flores Island, in order that they might perform quarantine.  The manner in which the intelligence was originally conveyed to Zanzibar that Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley had met and were safe at Ujiji is explained by a message, from which it appears that an Arab of distinction at the first-named place carried the news to the sheik Ben Nazib at Unyanyembe, by Whom it was sent to the coast through a trusty servant.