The Bee-Hive. — 1872-02-10 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. Yesterday afternoon a deputation, formed under the auspices of the Aborigines Protection Society, waited upon Lord Kimberley, at the Colonial-office, for the purpose of Memorialising his lordship upon the above subject, their object being to urge upon the Government the necessity of adopting energetic measures for the suppression of kidnapping in the South Seas. The Archbishops and Bishops of the Province of Canterbury assembled at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the Royal answer on the subject of the Royal licence to consider the fourth report of the Ritual Commissioners. Mr. Soudamore reports that the number of messages forwarded from pOstal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom last week was 246,332, being an increase of 59,947 over the corresponding period last year. At a Congregation of the Cambridge University, held yesterday afternoon an address of congratulation for the recovery of the Prince of Wales was passed. .  Great activity. is shown at Woolwich Arsenal in the manufacture of heavy cannon, for naval service and coast defences, and other material of war. The colonies and out stations are being supplied With the newest designs of guns; and skilled workmen have for some time been engaged in making experiments during the night-time with torpedoes.  Two of the four mon charged with assaulting a police constable at Blacicrock, on Christmas night pleaded guilty at the Dublin Commission yesterday. One of them, Byrne,for cutting the policeman's head with a sword, and having a sword in his possession, NY4S sentenced to five years' penal servitude. M. Cabe who had a second sword, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The remaining two were acquitted.  Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., thinks that the election of a new. Speaker afford. a fitting .opportunity for reconsidering the propriety of compelling members of Parliament to appear in Court dresses,-or not'at all, at the Speaker's levees. He protests against the .custom. • „ To hasten the construction of the Rupert, irou-ola.d ram, building at Chatham dockyard, the authorities have directed that a large nuber of rriciii• are to be employed ettra hours' upon her until 'further directions.  At a Ineeting of the Court of Common Connell held at Guildhall yesterday, the Lord Mayor presiding, the Remembrancer said that, with regard to the address to the Prince and Princess of Wales, he had received a letter stating that , on leaving Sandringham the Prince will proceed to pay a visit to the Queen at Osborne, and that on his return to London he will acquaint the Common Council with tho day on which he will have the pleasure of receiving them.  Several New York journals mention a report to the erect that Mr. Secretary Fish, on the 3rd inst., in reply to an inquiry, telegraphed to General Schenck-affirming that in no event will the United States Government recede from the position taken up by them with regard to the Washington Treaty. No oonfirmation of the report has transpired, The Dublin Express believes that Mr. Plnnket,, M.P., will, at an early date, bring under the notice of Parliament the claims of the Irish Civil Servants for equality with their English brethen.  At the Royton. Police-court yesterday, a man named Oaks was charged with attempting to murder a child nine months old. The infant was crying, and the prisoner had almost succeeded in strangling it when the mother carae to the rescue. The magistrates considered six months' imprisonment a salt:dent punishment for the crime. In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday an action for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution was tried. The plaintiff, Mrs. Lawrence, was a widow who went to call on a Mrs. Ridge, a friend at Putney. As she was leaving her friend's house she was given into custody by the butler to the defendant, Mr. Chapman, agentleman residing at Roehatnpton, The defendant afterwards charged her with having obtained money under false pretences, and with having extracted a cheque for .£4 which had been obtained from him for the benefit of Mr. Ridge, but which she had converted to her own use. She was looked up, and her residence was searched by the police, but no materials were found for supporting the charge. The defence was that the defendant had acted bona ,fide under the circumstances of the case. The butler was of opiei.ea that the plaintiff was the person who brought abegging letter, and received an answer. The defendant's housekeeper was under the impression that she was the woman. The jury returned a verdiet for the plaintiff—Damages; £25.