The Bee-Hive. — 1872-02-03 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. At a special meeting of the Court of Common Council held yesterday, addresses of con.. gratulation to her Majesty and the Prince and Princess of Wales, on the recovery of his Royal Highness; Were unanimously adopted, and a ward committee was appointed to con- , sidef what arrangements should be made for the forthcoming Royal visit to St. Paul's. The Church Tesaporalitieg Commissioner to Dublin put up to auction on Wednezday 3.90 acres of demesne lands of the See of Kilmore, county Cavan. There were four lots, and the competition was very brisk. The Lord Primate beearnd the purchaser of the whole for .£13,000, being 30 years' purchase of the tenement valuation. Lord lqonek presided. This was the first sale under the Irish Church j Act.  The Swiss Times says that the verdict against Eggimann formerly treasurer of the Confederation, arid, . through contumacy, against Muralt, late director of the Commera cial Thnk, for embezzlement, has been given. It declares them both guilty, without extenuating circumstances. The court sentenced Eggictiann to four years of hard labour at tile House of Correction (Zuchthaus), deducting six months for the. previous incarceration, and Muralt to lire years of hard labour. The latter has also been condemned to pay art indemnity of 100,000 fr, to the Commercial Bank.  The License Amendment Conference, Man' cheater, is adjourned sine die, in consequence of only a few persons attending. The Liverpool Town Council yesterday' resolved to appoint a deputation to wait upon the Premier to oppose the railway amalgamation.  An articled clerk at Wakefield purchased an ounce of laudanum yesterday, retired earlyr and drank nearly the whole at intervals during the night to relieve pain. He died in a few hours.  The Manchester Courier says I—`( We are authorised to announce that the previous statements published with respect to the iu tended visit of Mr. Disraeli to Lancashire are more or less incorrect. There is no doubt that Mr. Disraeli will visit Lancashire inEaster-week in responSe to the invitation which :was presented to him through a eommittee, of which Mr. William Hesketb, of Bolton, was the hon. secretary, last year. The details, however, will have to be regulated to su4 Mr. Disraeli's convenience: As soon as his wishes on this point are ascertained, a general meeting representing the various Conservative associations in the county will be immediately convened and a programme decided upon." It is reported by telegraph that a fanner named Lowry, from Thurles, has been WOY laid on his road home, at a place called Grebarthtown, and his skull broken in with a stone. The police arrived while the man waS living, and he was able. to name a man called Leahy as the person who maltreated him. Leahy was arrested, brought before the dying man, and identified. Mr. Lowry is not expected to live.  An action for libel was brought in the Court, of Exchequer yesterday by Edmund Waiter Pook against Mr. Newton Crossland, a wino merchant in the City, the libellous matter being contained in two letters which appeared in the Ke ntish Mercury last July. The proceedings grew out of the dreadful murder . committed on a young woman ih Kidbrook.. lane, near Greenwich, better known by thc, name of the Eltham murder "—all the circumstances connected with which are 1,10 doubt still fresh in the memory of the pubhe. Mr. Mackay opened the pleadings; Ur; Huddlestone, Q.C.; stated the ease. Serje"' Parry and Mr. Chambers Were counsel for the, defendant.  The Pope has sent a donation of 1,0001. 1° the sufferers by the late fire at Florence. Th° small-pox is 'rapidly diminishing in Rome. Yesterday the dead body of Mr. John Scot., Cattle Commissioner for the Caledonian wity, was discovered fearfully mutilated on tho Great Northern of Scotland Railway, al3011t" live miles from Aberdeen. Yesterday Richard Lowson and Septino Newton were charged on remand with stealing' bank notes value £1,700 from the Beverler Bank. Lowson confessed his guilt, and e" pressed his sorrow. He stathd that the robbery was not planned, and that Newton knew,. nothing of it after it was committed, but th,3? they afterwards divided, the proceeds of tut) notes, and acted in concert in. changing tbol3' Newteu said LOWSOU'S statement was nittru°,', and reserved his defence. Both prisouer" were committed for trial, bail being refused. The Marquis of Hartington, in reply i°,.o deputation which waited upon him at D. on Wednesday, asking for certain moditici.l: tions in what are known as Bright's elauses d. the Land Act, said the Government won't endeavour to hying in a Local Governiut Bill next session, and, their proposals 51°L1 s receive consideration.