The Bee-Hive. — 1872-11-09 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY.  The directors of the Bank of England yesterday morning decided on the maintenance of the present rate of discount of six per cent.  Yesterday morning a fire broke out in the King's Arms public-house in Sclater-street, Spitalfields ; several roonis at the back of the house were entirely destroyed.  The Chief Commissioner has informed the men, through the divisional superintendents, that an increased rate of pay would commence from Monday next; but it was not stated whether the present scale of pay would .be revised according to the late demands of the men,  Lady Auckland, second wife of Baron A.Ockland, andisecond daughter of the Earl of Winohelsea, died at Caer House, Doncaster, yesterday morning. Her ladyship was attacked by typhoid fever about three weeks ago, and on Wednesday last coma set in, which, with effusion on the brain, caused death. She was only married on the 6th of August last.  Mr. Horace Greeley has resumed the editorship of the New York Tribune on an independent basis.  A severe storm visited the North of England, Scotland, and Ireland on Wednesday night, and accounts continue to come in reporting the loss and damage occasioned thereby. In South Shields the most severe westerly gale experienced for some time oeourred in the locality. Persons with difficulty were able to walk in the streets. About nine o'clock several vessels in Shields harbour broke adrift from their moorings and were with difficulty brought up by dropping anchors. The screw steamer Marian, belonging to London, while entering the Tyne Dock, came into collision with the West Pier-bead, drove in her bow, and did considerable damage to the stonework. It is probable that the intended new Spanish loan will be issued about the middle of December, In the Senate at bladril, on Wednesday, the Navigation Treaty. between Spain and the Netherlands was read. On Friday next the discussion of the bill for the establishment of a Mortgage Bank will commence, and Congress Will remain in session until the vote on this bill has been taken.  An inquest was held at Leamington on Wednesday on the body. of Miss ,Ann Bate, aged 50, who on Monday was found dead in her bedroom, where there was an empty bottle which had, contained an ounce of laudanum. The jury, after much deliberation, returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from a poisonous dose of laudanum, but there was no evidence to prove whether it was taken with the intention of committing suicide, or for the purpose of inducing sleep, and alleviating pain. The Cologne Gazette has at, present a correspondent in Paris who is no other than the Abbe Michaud who lately seceded from the Church of Rome, and who describes himself as the Apostate of the Madeline." His letters are principally devoted to abuse of the Episcopal Bench in FrOce.  "A marriage, which Makes a great sensation at this moment," says the Paris Journal, "is that of the lady who was Princess de la Moskowa by her father, and Duchess de Persigny by her husband. In a few days she will only be the wife of a simple advocate at Cairo."  A house iti course of erection on the Stanford estate, at the top of the London-road, Brighton, fell about eleven o'clock yesterday morning, burying three men and a boy. The boy, when extricated, was found to be dead. The men, who are seriously injured, were removed to the hospital.  An appeal is made for funds to help the Orphan Working School, at Haverstock-hill, which now contains 370 boys and girls who are taught and trained for domestic and useful service ; 400 might be admitted but for want of funds. The secretary is Mr. Joseph Soul, and his office is at 73, Cheapside.  Mr. G. Cornwall Leigh, the member for Mid-Cheshire, is seriously ill.  The King of Italy leaves Rome on Saturday for Naples, and will return on the 20th inst.  Mr. de Conroy, manager of the National Bank in Tralee, was found dead in bed on Wednesday morning.  There appears every reason to believe that the trial of the Tiohborne Claimant will not take place dnaing the present term. The time at the disposal of the Court of Queen's Bench is limited, and it is currently reported at Westminster Hall that the prosecution is not ready.  Nov. 9,187  On Tuesday three miners, named John, Mißegan, John Allen, and John Macdonald, end a stoker, named Cunningham, were ex. amined on the charge of being concerned in death of a woman named Jack, in the hamlet of Loanfo3t, near Airdrie, which occurred on the previous night. A. party of men were seen entering her house in an intoxicated state, and next morning the woman wits found suffering from brutal injuries, from. which she never recovered.  Two attempts have been made to revive the extinct earliom of Stirling, and it would appear that there is going to be a third.  Mr. W. H. Hope was out hunting with the Duke of Ruland's hounds on Wednesday afternoou, when his horse fell at a fence in Buok, triinster Park, and his collar-bone was broken in the fall.  A meeting organised by the • Amnesty Assoeiation to agitate for the release of the imprisoned Fenians VII held On Wednesday night in the Mechanics' Institute, Dublin. A list of names of prisoners was produced, and, it was resolved to publish the list, together with a statement, translated into all the continental languages, of the treatment the prisoners had received. klubsoliptions to the amount of £lO were received. The meeting was less numerously attended and loss enthusiastio than any of its predecessors.  Dr. Neilson Hancock's return of criminal statistica just issued shows that the serious crimes committed in Ireland last year were fewer than in any previous twelve months since 1864. There was a decrease in indict. able Offences of 14 per cent., as oempared with the preceding year. Treasonable offenoefi, which exceeded 500 in 186% fell to 37 in 1870, and to 7 last year. In the same periods agrarian crimes numbered 7,017, 1,329, and 368 respectively. These crimes no longer arose out of ejectments, compensation claims, &e., but from disputes about rates, questions of title, and so forth. Litigation under the Land Act did not exceed for all Ireland one case per 1,000 holdings, the greater number being in Ulster.  The coal and iron maaters of South Still.. fordshire and East Worcestershire intend to apply for legislative sanction for the oompulsory drainage of mines.