The Bee-Hive. — 1872-04-20 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. The Constitutionnel positively contradicts the assertions of the Daily Telegraph that complications exist between France and Germany.  The charge of murder against William and Ellen Kittle, for poisoning the male prisoner's wife, in October last, was brought to a close yesterday. The magistrates committed the female prisoner on the capital charge and discharged her husband. Bail refused. The Enchantress, with the remains of Lord Mayo, is expected to arrive at the North Wall, Dublin, on or about the 24th inst.  It is said that the police have at present no definite information as to the time at which  Marguerite -Diablano will arrive in this country. Any report to the contrary is unauthentic.  It is understood that Sir George Grey declines to accept the position of Chairman of the Committe on the Game Laws, principally on the grounds of health; and Arr. Ward Hunt, it is thought likely, will be chosen to fill the post. It is said that the O'Conor Don, M.P., in a letter to the Secretary of the Roscommon Home tiovernment Association, has expressed his determination to support the principles of Rome Rule.  The Birmingham operative bakers have threatened to strike unless they receive an advance of wages to an amount which would  be covered, it i stated, by raising the price of bread to the public one halfpenny per 41b. loaf. Last night 115 poor emigrants, assisted by the Clerkenwell Emigration Society, started for Canada. This philanthropic society has now aided 2,445 poor people, the majority of whom are doing well in Canada.  According to the Washington correspondence of several New York journals, it is reported that the Administration has decided to withdraw the claims for indirect damages. Western Australia has been visited by a severe cyclone; and the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, has been destroyed by tire. The o.lfitiel Gazette of Madrid publishes a decree granting a concession for laying two submarine telegraph cables, one from Englan d the other from Portugal, and terminating at a point yet to be determined on the coast of Galicia in Spain. The post of President of Coraus Christi College, is likely to be conferred upon the Rev. J. Matthias Wilson' M.A., dean of the College! and Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University. Henry_ Miller, a young man, was brought before Mr. Lushington, yesterday, charged with attempting to shoot Charlotte Stoboll, a young woman living at No. 43, Christianstreet, St. George's-in-the-East, and with attempting to commit suicide by shooting himself. The young woman had retailed to marry him, and in a fit of desperation he committed this rash act. He was remanded. At Westminster, on Thursday, Mr. William Haynes, greengrocer, of Churton-street; Pimlico, Mr. Joseph Haynes of Tachbrook-street, Mr. Haylook, of Vauxhall-road, and other tradesmen, were summoned by Inspector Turpin, of the B division, for unlawfully exposing vegetables, Sm., on barrows in the carriage-way and on the pavement. Several were fined, and others bound over. A violent storm burst over Leeds yesterday, accompanied by hail, rain, and a remarkable flash of lightning, followed by a tremendous peal of thunder. The mill chimney of Messrs. Rishworth Brothers, corn millers, Sykes-place, York-street: was struck by the lightning, and the main gas-pipe broken. The escaped gas ignited, and the woodwork was set on fire, but the flames were extinguished before much damage was done. I fire, which has destroyed from £15,000 to £20,000 worth of property, broke out yesterday in Edinburgh, and raged for severarhours, in the tanning and currying premises of Mr. Hugh Brown, St. Mary-street, who possessed one of the largest businesses of that kind in Scotland. The fire arose through an escape of gas. The man who presented himself at Scotland yard the other night, and stated that he WO an accomplice in the murder of Madame -Rid, said his name was Lewis, but refused to give his address. He persisted in his statement, and was sent in the custody of an officer to V butin e-ups t:ne ettii owdhievries itohneaolbsaurrggee NoNn, as e dx examining ne inntge rtei d, i 0 self-accused accomplice, he pronounced him a maniac, and ordered his removal to the insane ward of St. Luke's Madhouse. A. painful sensation was caused at London Bridge Railway Station on Wednesday morning on the arrival of the 9.30 train from Greenwich, by the removal from one of thaj thirdclass carriages of the body of an elderly man, who expired on the journey from Greenwich to Spa-road. It appears that shortly after the train started from Deptford, the deceased was seen to fall forward, and with a deep groan expired. The man was unknown to any of his fellow paseengero, ,