The Bee-Hive. — 1871-06-03 (London, England)

THE WEEK'S NEWS.  Sir Minto Farquhar, Bart., who was adjudicated a bankrupt in November last, passed his public examination on l'uesday.  The preliminary investigation into the charge of murder against Edmund Walter Poolt was brought to a close on Tuesday, and the prisoner was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.  At ITambleton, on Monday midnight, a man named Robert Hodgson illegitimate, aged 42 years, murdered his mhther, Jane Gardner, 63 years of age, by striking her twice on the bead with an axe.  A young man namod Alfred Johnson is in charge at Hanley for having murdered, his stepmother, Lydia Johnson. The primer was courting a respectable young girl, and Into on Monday night there was a quarrel between him and the girl, the result being a struggle and the death of the stepniother.  On Tuesday afternoon his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales inspected. tho Civil Service Rifle Volunteers, of which corps he is honorary colonel. The &splay was held. on Wimbledongreen, whore at the time fixe d for the move. manta a large and. fashionable company was assembled.  On Monday morning Sir John Gray M.P., Mr. Alexander M. Sullivan, of the :Dublin National, and Father Lanny arrived at Timm en route to Oughterard, where they will hold a court of arbitration botween Captain Nolan, of the Royal Engineers, and his tonautry. The object of the sitting is to award compensation to the tenants who wore evicted from the property. of Captain Nolan when a young man. The determination of Captain Nolan to compensate his evicted tenantry has given general satisfaction.  The Bishop of London has appointed Friday, July 7th, for the consecration of Christ Church, South Hackney, the foundation-stone of which was laid last summer by Lord G. Hamilton, M.P. The distriot assigned to the church will comprise a poor portion of Bethnal-green.  On Tuesday, shortly before eleven o'clock, a horrible accident happened at the Leyland Station, near Preston, on the Imndon and North-Western Railway. A. man and hi wife, power-loom weavers, from Farington, but whose name we have not ascertained, rushed forward with many other persons as a train for Bollevue-gardens, Manchester, came up from Preston, and endeavoured to enter 4 carriage before the train had stopped. The man stumbled, and fell between the platform and the carriages, many of which passed over and horribly mutilated him in sight ;wf his wife. The poor Woman had left three or four children at home in care of a neighbota for the day.  On Tuesday afternoon a numb..r of young men and lads were bathing in the ()rand Surrey Canal, •-n ear the Deptford Baw Mills, when. .one of them, named Morden Wright, aged 14 years, got out of his depth, and was drowned.  Princess Christian, who was for sonic tirno confined to Frogmore House by congestion of the lungs, is now convalescent.  Last week the aggregate mortality in London and nineteen other large towns a the, United Kingdom was at the rate of 25 deaths annually to every. 1,000 of the present population. While in Nottingham the rate was 17, In Sunderland it was as high as 3.1, In the metropolis 1,920 births and 1,401 deaths wore registered, the former having been 241 below, and the latter 15 above the average. Zymetic diseases caused 426 deaths, including 257 from small-pox, 23 from measles, 28 from scarlet fever, 2 from diphtheria, 48 from whoopingcough, 23 from different forms of fever (of which 7 were certified as typhus, 8 as enteric or typhoid, and 8 as simale continued fever), and 12 from diarrhom. To different forms of violence 42 deaths were referred, fOur persons having been killed, by horses or vehicles in the streets.  The Diplomatic and Consular Services Committee reported on Monday. The Committee approve of the admission of members upon a test examination rather than by way of open oompetition, and believe that it is undesirable in the interests of the public that the promotion, especially in the higher anti more responsible posts, should be by seniority. The Secretary of State ought to make his appointments to such positions, on his own responsibility, and by way of seleotion and, while paying proper regard to the due claims of those in the service, he should not be oontined to it in his Held of choice,  Dr. Letheby reported that during the past iortnight 733 houses in the City had been inspected, of which 35 required sanitary improvement in various particulars. 71 vessels