The Bee-Hive. — 1872-01-06 (London, England)

THE BIRKBECK SOCIETY.  From the nineteenth annual report the directors have to record the steady and progressive increase in the Society's business. The total receipts have amounted.to £80,217 Os. 4d., or .C 20,801 7s, 10d. more than that of the previous year, and £29,052 :16s. id. in eXCQSS of the year 1869, and -being the largest in. crease in any year since the establishment of the Society. It is also satisfactory to note that the profit or reserve fund now stands at £18,388, 11s. Bd. Negotiations for the purchase of four additional estates have been brought to a successful issue, the surveya of which with a view to allotment are now in progress. The first, the Woodford Estate, is situate in the County of Essex, and in the ' vicinity of the pleasant town of Woodford. The second, the Colney. Hatch Estate, is in a very , picturesque ,locality, within a few minutes walk of the Colney Hatch Station of the Great Nerthern Railway, in close proximity to Alexandra Park, and to the Society's Muswell Hill Estate, ,which has recently been allotted ~to the members. The • third is at Strealloam, called the Streatham Estate, in a very desirable locality, situate on the main road, facing the Common, and about three minutes walk from both the .Streatham and Streatham Common Railway Stations; and the fourth is at New Southgate, and ,is named the New Southgate Estate, being within two minutes walk of the Railway Station. These four Estates, owing to their easy access from London, must prove most desirable and profitable investments for the members. No time will be. lost in forming the reads and sewers, and otherwise laying out these Estates. It is satisfactory to note that the increase in value of all the Society's Estates has been considerable, and the directors again offer their congratulations to the Members on the prosperous positron of the Society generally; in proof of which they would direct attention to the tables appended to the report, a glance at 'which will afford ample evidence of the 'progress which the Birkbeek Freehold Land Society has made in' the past, and the . grounds upon, which the directors look forward, to still greater prosperity in the future.  At Goole, a barge, with the master, named, Whately, his wife and two children, and a seaman on board, came in collisiqn with a bridge, and went down on her beam ends. Whitely was saved from falling overboard by his wife, who citught him by the leg. She then ran into the cabin for her children, but. the vessel Ivont down so rapidly that all three were drowned.  Amelia Stone, twenty years old, in service at Clifton, but under notice to leave, has committed suicide. She left a note for her sister containing these wprds --" I know you will hardly believe me, but I am going to jump over the bridge to-night after I have given you this. I did not suit my place, so I thought .1. would kill myself."  At Iroxton Catberine WAllister, a married woman, agdtwenty-four, destroyed herself by jumping out of window. She waS dying of consumption at the time.  Writing from Rome on the 28th ult., tho Post , correspondent remarks that midnight masses have gone out of fashion there, but Christmas :Eve was celebrated at the French Church of St. Louis with the usual illuminations and splendid music, and Christmas dawn at Santa Maria Maggiore with similar festivities, while at St. Peter's the Pastorale, or Shepherds' Hymn, was sung at day-break in the canon's chapel.  An, extended report .has reached England of the Inaugural Address delivered: by Dr. Dotlinger on the 23rd ult., as Rector of the University of Munich. The tone of the address was anti-French as well as anti-Roman. Lamartino, Louia'Blanc, Miehelet, and M. niers were accused, in common with thoßoman hierarchy, of the crime of falsifying history.  An inquest has been held on George Estall, whose death was alleged to have been accelerated by the ,cold damp of a newly-built ward, in Bethnal Green Workhouse. The jury returned a verdict" that death was accelerated by and nose from the coldness" of the ward.  Women are moving in Itussia. At St. Petersburg, Professor Gruben, of the Imperial Academy of Medicine, held a public examination of eight female pupils, in the presence of a multitude of the sterner sex. The ladies answered all the questions (by no means easy ones) quite correctly; and the "horrid men: went away considerably ehapfallen.  The following extraordinary notice appears in the New York Tinea a the 80th of November Lawyers Who are acquainted with facts tending to bring home charges of misconduct to any of the Judges are requested to communicate at once with the Judiciary Committee of the Bar Association. it is to be as hoped that no one will hesitate to sit this committee in their investigation.