The Bee-Hive. — 1872-10-26 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. The plain silk hands employed by Messrs. Morley and Co., of Heanor, Devonshire, are agitating for a considerable advance of wages, and unless their demand is conceded a strike  will probably nsue. The inquest on the bodies of Hewitt and Broadbent, who. were killed in the 'Woodhouse _  Junction collision' was resumed yesterday morning before the Deputy Coroner for  Sheffield.  It is rumoured that the Prince of Wales and Lord StraAhnairn are to be made field marshals, the list having been reduced by  recent deaths-.  Typhoid and gastric fever has increased alarmingly at Wesharn, a village ad.ioining Kirkham, near Preston. The disease is said  to be attiibutple to preventable causes, and vigorous action is about to be taken by the local authorities.  The man, Augustus Elliott, charged :with the wilful murder of Mary lane Aldington, alias Ellen Moore, on the 16th September, by shootino•° her, was again brought up yesterday, at the Worship-street Police-court, and the depositions having been completed, was committed for trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court.  Alfred , Louis Beauvier, a French notary, has been arrested nit Jersey on accusations of forgery and fraudulent bankruptcy, for which he had been condemned in France par contumace. He is charged with having committed 64 distinct cases of forgery for sums amounting to 216,000 fr., and will be handed over to the French authorities.  The remains of Dr. Francis Robinson were interred yesterday morning in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, when full choral service was performed. At the funeral of Count Brassier de Saint Limoy, the Mayor of Florence, the Prefect, Signor Cadorna, and General Menabrea were present; as also were the officers of the garrison and of the National Guard, the foreign consuls, and a large crowd of persons. A Government order has been published in New York prohibiting the importation of horses from Canada.  Advices from Mexico state that Congross has appointed a commission to investigate into the raids committed by the Mexicans on the American frontier. Many Inindreds of the rrish labourers who work in the Middlesborough district met on Wednesday night in that town, and. passed. resolutions in favour of a complete amnesty for the Fenian prisoners. Mr. Martin, M.P., was prevented by illness from attending, but wrote to say that English writers, in all departments of literature, as well as other writers in the English interest, with but few exceptions, seemed to be in a conspiracy against the truth concerning Ireland and Irishmen.  The Dublin Corporation, meet to-day (Saturday) to consider whether they should apply to Parliament for power to emstruot gas works of their own for the supply of, gas to the city. The railway service between Nice and Genoa is interrupted in oonsequence of two bridges at Savona having been broken down. Roussel has been sentenced to death in France for setting the Maine of the fourth arrondissement on fire for murder, wornpitnied by theft, and for participation in the Communist insurrection. Mr. Baron Martin was yesterday occupied at Chelmsford in trying a young woman, named Ellen Day Kettle, for. the wilful murder of a woman named. Sarah Kettle, the deceased being the former wife of the prisoner's husband. Mr. C. Pollook, Q.C., and Mr. Croorae were counsel for the prosecution. The prisoner was defended by Serjeant Parry and Mr. Pierce.  The movement amongst the London publicans and beer-sellers to increase the pride of porter from 3d. to 3id. a quart is extending. It is also intended in some places to raise the price of the hest ales and stout supplied in the consumers' own vessel, bid it is noticeable that the price of all liquors consumed on the pnblicatis' premises will remain the same all it was before "the exigency of the times" (as the landlord of the Earl of Lonsdale publichouse said on Wednesday night) induced the trade to take this step. The Bank of England Court separated yesterday without making any change in the rate of discount. The award of the Emperor William in the San Juan boundary question declares that the claims of the United States fully accord with , the true interpretation of the Treaty of 16th June 1846, and that the boundary line has, therefore, to run through the Hare Channel. Amongst the first acts of the new Lord Chancellor was a note to the Rev. Dr. Dyne,' Head laster of the High School, Highgate, demanding a half-holiday for the boys. Sir Roundel' Palmer is one of the governors of that nourishing school.