The Bee-Hive. — 1870-07-09 (London, England)

SIISCELL &NEM:, S.  At the vespers in Rome on the eva of St. Peter's, 600 bishope were present.  "Paper shell" boats are now being built by a United States firm, and have taken tha prizes for spea at two regattas.  The Burney prize at Cambridge for the past year has been adjudged to Edward Carpenter, 8.A., Fellow of Trinity Hall. At Oldham dining the past week 29 stimmonses have been heard against patties refusing to comply with the Vaccination Act. A porter, a shunter, and an "eng,inc-driver at Newcastle. Were on Thursday week all snit to ga 61 for a month for tapping casks of beer in transit.  Intelligence from Culca announces that a large meeting held at Havanna't untni mously recoin. mended the abolition Of s'avery in Cuba.  The business of the Universal Private Telegraph Company is now under the management of the General Post-office.  Another death has resulted from the breaking down of the merry-go-round at Dundee. The cause of death was concussion of the brain.  The post vacatsd by Mr. George Otto Trevelyan, that of Junior Lord of the Admiralty, will not at present be filled up. The first of July anniversaries have passed off peaceably in Ireland, alhotuh the day was generally observed throughout Ulster. The mortality in Pads for the week ending July 2nd Was 1,206, including 210 deaths from smallF 9x.  Telegrams from Calcutta state that the press continue to condemn severely the mode in which the income tax is being assessed. The death is announced of Sir Richard Moun-teney Jephson, Bart. lb was born in 1800, and succeeded his father. , The revenue of Brazil has about doubled itself since the commencement of the war with Paraguay five years ago. The Seine, from the drought, has fallen to the lowest level to which it has descended for a huu. dred and twenty years.  Tarrant, the well known cricketer, died at Cambridge on Saturday, in the thirty-second year of his age.  The Government in Ilengal is considering the question of devising a scheme for levying an edutational cess.  A female patient at Han well has committed suicide by hanging herself to the top of the window by a piece of a counterpane.  The Governor-Genetal of Canada was on Saturday present at the unveiling of a memorial statue in honour of the volunteers who fell while resisting the Fenian raid. The remains of the late Josiah Forster, an eminent member of the Society of Friends, were interred at the Friends' Cemetery, Winehmore-hill, on Saturday afternoon.  The death of W. P. Thompson, the Fenian convict, has furnished a theme of indignant reproach against England to the " National " journals. The total quantity of sherry exported from Cadi2 for the half-year ended the 30th June amounted to 36,765 butts, against 39,538 for the correspond. ing six months of 1869. Thec oir Lord Justice, Sir W. M. James, was sworn in on Monday morning before the Lord Chancellor , in his private room at the House of Lords.  The Agricultural Society's meeting will con-it mence at Oxford on Monday next, and is likely to prove one of the most successful on record. The Southampton Town Council intend to hang in the Town-hall the letter of Napoleon in reply to their congratulations on his escape from the plot against his life. The reported "attack on British officers " at Gibralter turns out to have been a drunken freak of a Spaaish cobbler and a seller of crockery.  An open air demonstration will be held next Monday in Bermondsey-square, to protest against the threatened encroachments on Southwark Park.  Severe thnnderstorm s passed over the Yorkshire Wolds on Monday morning. Mr. Crisp, of Cliothorpe, had twenty-three ewes and eight lambs killed.  The Ottoman Government his not accepted the offer of the Relief Fund Committe to reimburse it for the 28,000 livres expended during the late fire.  T-he'annual meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland will be held at Leicester at the end of the present month. _ _ _  Anew clipper, named Lothair, bas been launched from Deptford-green Dockyard. This vessel combines all the latest embodiments of naVal science.  _ A NOVEL PULPlT.—Chicago has a new church —The First Congregational—which has just been finished at a cost of 180,000 dollars. A peculiarity of this church is that the reading desk, or pulpit, is provided withn copper speaking-trumpet, which is connected with eleven pews, where, with rubber hose and cap a ttuched, the deaf may enjoy a sermon as well as those not so unfortunate.  _