The Bee-Hive. — 1872-10-19 (London, England)

LATEST •DTTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. The Bank of England, in holding their weekly court, after but a taw mon:tents' consideration, resolved to maintain for the present . the minimum of 6 per oast, deoided upon Las week.  Mr. justice Denman was sworn into office yesterday, before the new Lord Chancellor, at his private residence. He was previously made a serjeant-at-law. The appointment was the last act of Lord liatherley, and the swearing-in was the first act of Lord Chancellor Palmer.  An intention to invite Mr. Childers to a banquet at Pontefract, in, celebration of his recent re-election for that borough, has been abandoned.  The pay of the eloucestershire and Bucks constabulary has been increased about 10 per cent.  A fresh outbreak of cattle plague is reported to the Privy Council from Skirpenbeck, a place live miles north of Pocklingtou. In this, as in a recent instance, a solitary cow was the victim of the disease. Nine other animals that had been in contact with it were slaughtered yesterday.  _ Several gentlemen have recently Wen placed in the commission of the peace for Wiltshire. The Bath Chronicle says that Dr. Lush, M.P., was to have been sworn in, but objected on legal grounds to pay for a. writ of dedimus and did not qualify. At a court-martial held on board the Duke of Wellington on Wednesday, Augustus Uriah Roberts, a seaman on board the Crocodile was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for violently assaulting the captain of the quarterdeck.  A young man, named Alfred Bracewell, has committed suicide at Hornsey. On Saturday he called to see a young lady whom he was courting, and was then told she was going out of town, as she was not well. lie took a cab and drove to Holborn, where he bought a pistol and a box of oartridges. The next morning he shot himself in the head. The coroner's jury on yesterday found that he was temporarily insane.  Yesterday's Manchester Examiner says : "We are able to state, upon unquestionable authority, that the current reports as to the ill health and intended resignation of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn are entirely destitute of any shadow of foundation. His lordship, who is at present yachting, is in the best health and spirits; and has, we are glad to learn, no idea of abandoning his seat on the bench which ha so much adorns."  At a large and influential meeting of ooal. masters held in Glasgow, on yesterday, it was agreed to make a reduction of 3s. ad. per ton on the price of coal; and it was resolved to resist any further demand on the part of the miners for an increase of wages.  A valuable brooch, which was picked up by a newsboy at Paddington Station in June last, and taken by his mother to a pawnbroker, remains ownerless, notwithstanding the most diligent inquiry. The magistrate at Marylebone had advised that it be held by the pawnbroker till twelve months from the time of discovery.  A lodging-house keeper in Bloomsbury, whose wife objected to his relations with a certain barmaid, invited her upstairs, to a bedroom on the first floor, and, having locked the door, pummelled her unmercifully. By, way of turning her out he pushed her through the window, and in the fall she got fearfully bruised. Mr. Flowers severely reprimanded the inventor of this stringent cure for jealousy, aud incarcerated him for six months.  Cuban budgets rival those of Madrid in the magnitude of their deficits, This year's is estimated at thirteen million dollars, and new taxation is an inevitable sequel. It is proposed to spare the Customs House, but to place extra pressure on fixed property, ineludiug blaves.  Nearly every contributory of the Industrial and. General Insurance Compauy—one of those amalgamated with the E uropeau—h as contested his liability. The plea chiefly used before Mr. Reilly was, that hareholders who had accepted European shares could not be held in respect of them to he on the lists of both companies. Typical eases were selected for argument before the arbitrator.  HottowAv's Pmts.—The slightest indisposition, so that it may not rapidly ran its disastrous course from bad to worse. should engage the iminedisto attention of the Aliened of all classes. A few doses of these thoroughly purifying and Btrengthening P will always be beneficial when the least di'sini;dcr reigns or when nervous fears Oppress. Two or three Pills at bedtime havo the li+ippiest effect in promoting perfect digestion, whereby the muscles are rendered more vigorous, the spirits more buoyant, and the entire frame more hardy. Holloway's medicine increases the quantity of nutriment derivable from a given quantity of food, and so the quality of the blood is improved, the tone of every lilac throughout the body is heightened, and the disposition to fall into diem* is reduced to a minimum.