The Bee-Hive. — 1873-05-03 (London, England)

WEEK'S NEW 3.  A Cabinet Council was held on Saturilay, at which all the Ministers were present with the exception of the Lord Chancellor.  The addresses of Mr. Jerom Mureh and Lord Chel4m, the candidates for Bath, were 'issued on Saturday, on which day the funeral of Sir William Tite, the late member, took place.  Mr. Macartney, it will be remembered, lately lost his election for the county of Tyrone by a very small majority. His supporters have resolved upon presenting a petition t ) the Irish court of Common Pleas, asking for a scrutiny of the votes rejected by the High Sheriff.  &liar Cast elar has requested' the Spanish Minister in London to thank Mr. Gladstone for his recent declarations in the House of Commons respecting the Carlists and the state of Spain.  St. Petersburg is gaily decorated in honour of the visit of tho Emperor of Germany, and the papers speak of his Majesty as the illustrious companion in arms and faithful allay of Russia ever since 1813.  Mr. Price, M.P. for Gloucester, is nominated a Commissioner under the Railway and Canal Traffic fill; if appointed, Mr. Robinson, Mayor of Gloucester, will be the Liberal candidate for the vacant scat.  In consequence of a heavy domestic calamity the Earl of Derby was prevented from taking the chair at the annual festival of University College Hospital. Sir Franeis IT. Goldsmid, Bart., M.P., presided in the noble Earl's absence.  From the official returns of the election in Paris, it appears that M. Barodet, the advanced Republican candidate, obtained 180,146 votes; M. de 116musat, tho moderate Republioan, 135,407 votes; and Colonel Stoffel, the Bonapartist, 27,088 votes.  . . Two important matches have been arranged , to come off on the Tyne. The ,first between Hurry Kelly and James Taylor, both of New: , oastle, on the 28th July, for £2OO a side: the other between Harry Kelly and Robert , Bagnall, on the 11th of A.ugust, also for .42200 , a side.  The lion. Beatrice Mary Catherino, third daughter of Lord Clifford, died on Sunday morning from being burned on the previatt4 night. She was retiring to rest when the Ham of the candle caught her night dress, and she was speedily enveloped in flames. The young lady was 20 years of age.  On Monday evening a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held at the University of London, Burlington-gardens; Sir fl. Rawlinson in the chair. There was a large audience of ladies and gentlemen, Lady Franklin being among the former.  On Monday a deputation of persons in favonr of the Permissive Bill waited on Lord Chelsea at York House, Bath. His lordship informed them that with every desire to lessen drunkenness he could not vote for the bill, beeeuse he believed it incapable of effecting the object for which it is intended.  A barrack-sergeant, named Robert Chester, doing duty, with the Control Department at Aldershot Camp, has been taken into custody on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of William Hatt, who had been a servant to Deputy Controller Robinson, C. 8., and whose body was recently found in the Basingstoke Canal.  The Adjutant-General of the Forces, Sir Richard Airey, has nearly recovered from the effects of the serious accident which happened to him at Dorking when about joining the Surrey bounds, The gallant general is at Brighton, mid it is hoped that in a few days he will be able to restmd his official dillies.  The Rev. John Barry, the Roman Catholic priest accused at Limerick of assaulting .Aliss Dyer in a railway carriage, has been libJrated on bail, and removed, under a physician's certificate, to a lunatic asylum.  Dr. Browne, chiming to he the invonter of , the medicine known as " Chloredyne," has brought an action against Mr. Freeman, for. an infringement of the title. The complainant had suffered too long a time to elapse before, taking proceedings, and the bill was dimuksed with costs.  The Earl of Rosebery, who is at present on the Continent, has been offered, and we believe has accepted the Lord Lieutenaney of Liclithgowshire, vacant by the death of the Hui of flopetoun.