The Bee-Hive : — 1869-03-20 (London, England)

WRECK IN THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN.—The Pacific Steam Navagati ,n Company at Liverpool have received a telegram f.om Lisbon stating that the steamer Santiago, from Valparaiso for Liverpool, has struck on a rock in the Straits of Magellan and has been totally lost; all lives wN-e saved exceiying one sailor, a steward, and a child. The Santiago was a comparatively new steamer of 2,000 tous, and was nearly lully mum).  Le Figaro says that a "scandal at Pau" has been created by a well known lord hiving left his wife, en route for America, with a young !Ay of New York for his guide.  ON SATVRDAY a rumour prevailed in the neighbourhood of Lancaster to the effect that a confession as to the Scotfoith murder had been mad. It will be recollected that a few years ago a young woman named Elizabeth Nelson was brutally murdthed in a lane near &otforth, a village south of Lancaster. A young man residing in the neighbourhood of Scotforth was suspected, and apprehended afterwards. A magisterial Inquiry ensued, but as the evidence was inconclusive, he was discharged. The report now current is, that a young man who has for some time been engatzed !•orsebreaking near Lancastar, was recently kicked by an animal he was training; that the injuiy he received has given signs of a fatal termination, and that, having been told he would not recov r, he has confessed to having murdered the woman Nelson. It is alsc said that he has implicated another young man and a policeman. On Saturday evening no information as to the confession had been received at the central county constabulary office in Preston. FROM the forty-third report of the Commissioners of the Metropolis Roads north of the Thames, just pubhailed, it appears that the receipts from tolls on the metropolis roads to 31st of December last were £23,643 6s. Bd., and the receips from all sources £28,212 125.; while the expenditure (which has been considerably increased by the large cost for watering the roads during the past dry summer) amounting to £28,723 Is. The outstanding liabilities of the Commissioners on the SAM?, day are estimated at £3,500, and the Exchequer Bills held by them £4,000. The use of granite paving instead ot flints or gravel has been much extended.  HENRY COOPER, a member of the 18th Sussex Rifle Volunteers, was taken before the mag4trates at flurfield on Saturday afternoon, on a charge of having shot his father, William Cooper, machinist and implement manufacture. The evidence taken, most of which has already been reported, showed that some days before Mr. Cooper, ten., was shot, the prisoner asked many people about how it was best to use firearms; that he was seen in an excited state near the house immediately after the report of his rifle had been heard ; and that he alleged he bad been knocked down by some onee who had taken his rifle out of his hand. It was also shown b 3 the police that marks in the loose soil at the back of ly with peculiar the h3use, and where it is probable the would-be murdmeariekrshoand the trodden,hoot s whichcor re prisoner was wearing at t the time. As the elder Mr. Cooper is still in a dangerous condition, the prisoner was remanded. thnede pd ri  AT the Manchester Assizes, the three Italians, Dernadotti, Reston, and Galgani. WerC tried for the murder of John Oldham in this city on the lst of February. Then were found guilty of manslaughter, awere severally sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. night Porennln Pearse was en duty in D n cavyhen four well-known tnieves whom he had '.On Monday neo requested to move on, set upon him, knocked hi.n down, owl kicked his head. They also seized his truncheon and beat him so severely with it that he is dangerously .njured. The culprits have for the present escaped.  On Saturday the body of an inquest was held at Broadstairs on James Smoothey, a builder, of liamsgate, who was found dead at the bottom of the cliff between B.road-tairs and Stonstairs. lie had been for some time past in very low spit its, and was supposed to have committed suicide by jumping over the cliff. The jury, atter a long consultation, returned the following verdict : —" That the deceased, James Smootbey, who had been for some time in a desponding state of mind, was fond dead at the bottom of the cliff near Broadstairs ; and that he died from injuries received from the fall, but there is no evidence to show how be came there." Tho deceased leaves a wife, and son and daughter.  An account of all receipts and disbursements by the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty. during the year ending on the 31st day of December 1867, was published on Monday. The total receipts were £332,644, and the cash balance from the pre" us year was £9,271. The total disbursements were £330,020. and the cash taiswea mrrted to January, 1868, was I