The Bee-Hive. — 1872-08-31 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. In the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, before Mr. Registrar /Italia, a meeting was held in the matter of Algernon Samuel Tomking, who is described as a clerk in holy orders, of 16, St. Mary's-road, Westbourne Park, late curate of St. Peter's. No statement of no counts has been filed. The debts are estimated at about £750. The petition in bank_ ruptey was filed' the 30th of July last, adjudication following on the 12th August. Creditors to the amount of £240 attended and proved their debts. Resolutions were come to by which it was agreed to appoint a trustee and committee of inspection. His Honour confirmed the appointment. The explosion which took place in the drying room at a dyeworks in Manchester, on Tuesday, has terminated fatally in the cases of two boys.  Demonstrations in France on the anniversaryof the downfall of the Empire have been officially prohibited. A collision took place at Preston Railway Station on Wednesday between two goods trains, by which several men were injured. A fire took place on Wednesday night at a house in Temperley-road, Balham-hill, the residence of Mr. J. Eastlake, in consequence of an escape of gas. The front of the house and its contents were severely Niamaged by the explosion and by fire, and three persons were slightly burnt on the hands and face. The crew of the fishing lugger York, who it was feared had been lost by the collision on Tuesday between their vessel and the sloop Bottle Imp, have been picked up by a Lowestoft boat and taken into that port. The York was lost.  John Cox, the collector of the Kentish' and Camden-towns Volunteer Fire Brigade, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt at Marylebone Police Court yesterday with being drunk and violently assaulting Mr. Edmund Reanay, the superintendent of the brigade. The defendant said he was very sorry, but would leave if Mr. Reanay would pay what was due to him. Mr. D'Eynoourt said the defendant's conduct was very bad, and ordered him to pay a fine of 405., or to be imprisoned for one month. Cholera has broken out in a severe form at Meeanmeer, Lahore, Kassowlio, and elsewhere. At Meeanmeer 70 men of the 37th Regiment died. At Lahore there were 200 cases, more than half of them fatal. The attacks were sudden and alarming. Dengue fever has abated in Calcutta, but is still severe in the other Presidencies. In Madras the 'disease is intense, and prayers for its abatement are offered in the churches.  Frances Charlotte Field, of Norbiton, was charged at the Kingston Petty Sessions on Wednesday with wilfully neglecting to provide adequate support for her child, about four months old. The child was found up. parently in a starving state, and had been wasting away from want of nutrition, bad treatment, and neglect for a considerable time. Its life was still in danger. The prisoner was remanded.  Jonathan Hawley, a valet, on Wednesday *as fined 10s. and costs at Hampstead for having, whilst suffering from small-pox, entered a hackney carriage without previously telling the driver that he was so suffering. A girl named Margaret Kelly was committed for trial at Worship-street for the man. slaughter of Ann Sullivan. There had been a quarrel between the prisoner and the deceased, and on the 16th inst. the prisoner caught the deceased by the hair, threw her down, and struck her in the head, inflicting a wound which resulted in her death.  Two girls called at the police-office, Dewsbury, on Tuesday afternoon, and reported that a few hours previously they had seen a man commit suicide. The story they tell is that the individual was under the influence of liquor, and they saw him leave a public-house in Ravensthoree and walk down to the river aide and jump in In the evening the river was dragged, but no trace of the man could be discovered.  Senor Olozaga, the Spanish Minister, intends to pay a visit to the President of the Republic at Trouville, and to thank him in the name of the King of Spain for the friendly assurances ,which the President conveyed to the King upon the occasion of his journey to San Sebastian,  The Empress Charlotte of Mexico is now lying in delirious agony, during which she sometimes is heard to whisper the words, " Mother," " Victor," " Parts," " The Archbishop of Malines does not leave her bedside, in hopes of cheering the last moments of the victim of the Mexican tragedy. The King of the Belgians will probably ho .prevented from taking his usual autumn trip to England through tho impending death of his sister.  The eminent historian of the Reformation, Dr. Merle d'Aubigne, has addressed a letter of sympathy to Mr. Downton, English chaplain at Geneva, from his summer retreat in the highlands of Vaud.