The Bee-Hive. — 1871-11-25 (London, England)

TEE 12E.first E. .   Two hundred and ninety-seven patients werci relieved at the British IlospitAil for Diseases of the Skin during The week ending November 18.  • • • •  -Sir T. Fowcll Buxton, in aeknowledging the resolution of the Aborigines' Protection Society, says :---" Mrs.' . Buxton desires me to :say -ho* deeply, she. is touched by their sense of the greatness of the loss they have:sustained ; and that she knows • well how deep was the interest Mr. Buxton ever felt in all that related ,to the .interesta of the., coloured. races." Sir rtoWellodds :—" Ilis (IF. Buxton's) sympathy with men suffering from injustice or affliction. ..of any ~kind never failed; but he was .especially ready to attend to the condition or those races who have, in every quarter of the world, been made to foul the weight f;. our power and influence." ,  :- • -----~., , , • Sir Joshua ,Waltusloy, who formerly represented Bolton and Leicester in the Liberal interest, has just died ,at oyquay, at thu ego of 77. ..... .  Professor 'Duncan delivered the ;first of a series of lectures on the '‘ Elements of Physical Science," at the South' Kensington Museum, on paturday .afternoon., Thq Audio= pollsisted., mainly of ladles, for whou these addresses are especially intended. Lectures by Professor Guthrie and. Professor Huxley are included in the course of instruotion, and will be continued untll. the middle of May next.  _ • A correspondent of the ,Ar.qu) York, ?biles, wri,t44F from Salt 'Lake City on October 20, says :The most singular 'and unnatural marringos bert arb those of .men with their wives' mothers. These are ,not unfrequent. It strikes Me this is a seditious plot against imMemorial dMiickitio authority, the most ancient court of feminine appeal—that it is an attempt .to .do away with:. p?other„s7.4oaw: 'When young wivuts aro talin, the three, or four or five do not alwaysrbe,ooine one :11,94h ; there is sometimes rebellion And.iinven on the part, of the old", iiiie:f,'Opeasiorially. husbanmi objects to having even, a second wife imposed on him. I .heard of one the other day who, though ho finally submitted to the command of, the imporial; prigh.L.9 . that he should. tql:e aud provide for 'a ecilain poor womar.---' a lone, lora eretur'':—ilealitred that he to ,' alit-ar her,' and at once titit her ftway on a riineli forty mites' from town— pensioned and pastured her out."  On Tuesday evening, ..IqOveinber 21st, a -kroat gathering of the friends of the United Kingdom' Allianea*asheldin the Town Hall, Birmingham,' preiiidod over 14 Mr. Councillor Chamberlain, and; addressed by a deputation from the 'Alliance, including Sir Wilfrid .Lawson, Bart., M.P., ' Mr. Gee. 0 Trevelyan, M.P., and Mr. Samuel repel QM.' ' with • a number of leading local ministers, and others. Resolutions in support , of .the 'Permissive i'rehibitery T.igiter Bill, nd thanking tho 136 indinbers who Voted fof it on the second reading, were adopted. : - A shocking suicide ,has taken place at Dublin. Mr. Clibborn, a I)tnk managin., much respected, and moving in good society, went øn 'Monday to Mount Jerome' Cemetery in the above city,' and blew out his brains. In his hat was found a statement that ho had speculated largely in shares, under the advitte of a friend, who now pressed foe immediate payment of liabilities the deceased could not -meet. In another 'raper asked to. be buried in the -grave of his -Child.' -The sad affair has created an imnienite 'sanitation in Dublin. At the inquest tfitijnry .returned verdict of temporary insanity. The Queen hrteseitt to Mr. T. Hughes, for [transmission to Chiciti,,n, a on py of :what are 'known as " the s Books." Her Majesty has added to the personal interest of the gift. by inserting her .autograph i in the volumes. Sir Charles and Lady Trevelyan have presented a complete eopy of Lord Maeaulty's *arks ; and Mr.. -W. Evelyn a rare edition of his ancestor's well-known memoirs: •  • The Middlesex sessions for November commenced on Monday with a ealender of 76 • prisonors. ,Tho arrangements talked of some .time ago by which the sittings of this and the Central Criminal CoUrt wore not to clash, do not appear to have been carried out, and Sir W. Bodkin suggested that the bail cases •should be postponed until next'session.  A Gothic cross fifty fest high, under which is placed a statue by Noble of the late Lord Foversham has been unveiled 0-iielinsley. q'he cross is built of Sicilian saWone, the statue being of hereto sise) The Earl of evexsbam, bolero unveiling the statue, alluded to his father's political career, and dwelt upon the deep interest and the active part which the late lord tout; in advocating tho, interests of the waking .elassesia conjunetion with such men as the present ,Lord. Shaftesbury and 'the la.to 11 Oustler, and in promoting the -education and improying tho thy9,llinga of the people.