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The Bee-Hive. — 1872-02-17 (London, England)

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.  FRIDAY. The French Government will probably present to the Assembly a Bill fixing New Caledonia as the place of transportation for the condemned Communist prisoners. The delegates of the Right have left for Antwerp to submit their programme of a Monarchical fusion to the Count de Clam-, bord. The Right Centre, though approving the programme, are not inclined to sign it. The Count de Chambord, it is reported, will also refuse to accept it.  In accordance with orders from the Chief Commander of the Russian Fleet, 25 vessels are being prepared and armed in the Black Sea to take part in the naval manosuvres next summer.  An inquest was opened Yesterday on Thomas Bradshaw, watchman at the Alexandra Theft. tre, Sheffield, who committed suicide by hanging himself amid the " cloud scenes,,' thirty feet above the stage. He had previously battoted his wife's head with a poker until she was unconscious, and probably left her for dead. It was stated that she could not survive, and the inquest was adjourned. , Mr. Partridge, at the Southwark Policecourt, yesterdaay, after hearing two representative oases outof the forty raised by the Lambeth Vestry against the oostermongers, said he must administer the law as he found it; and the defendants, having created an obstruction and a nuisance, must be fined in the mitigated penalty of ss. each and costs. Mr. Partridge said a good word for the vestry, which had offered a compromise in point of time; and a significant word for the shopkeepers in drawing the attention of the police to an IA of last session, enabling them to proceed against "the tradesmen who carried on their bustnese at the same time as the oostormongers." The late Huxley and Cromer Election Committee unanimously, resolved that Mr. Cremer be put forward as a candidate for the seat at the London School Board shortly to be vacant by the resignation of Professor Huxley.  His Royal Ilighness the Duke of Edinburgh left the Victoria Station yesterday morning for Portsmouth on his way to Osborne.  The Comte de Chambord has arrived nt Antwerp, where he intends residing. The Pain's states that the police arc searching Paris for concealed arms.  In yesterday's sitting of the National Assembly the committee presented their report •on the Government Bill according pensions to the widows of General Clement Thomas, and M. Chaudey. The committee propose that a pension should be given to the widow of the former only, and this amended proposal wan read a first time.  At Manchester, yesterday morning, Andrew Macbeth, late cashier at the Manchester and County Bank, was committed for trial, charged with embezzling £1,200, belonging to his employer. When apprehended he confessed that he had taken the money, and that his defalcations had extended over some years.
The Bee-Hive. — 1872-06-22 (London, England)

IZABETH CROSIER. 30, York-street, Commercial-road, E.  It was reported to the magistrate at the Southwark Police-court, that a hairdresser named Rogers, 38 years of age, had, in a fit of drunkenness, out his wife's throat, and then attempted to commit suicide. Both husband and wife are now in Guy's Hospital, and their children have been sent to the workhouse.  A man named Joseph do Otis, a member of a New York firm, has been charged before the Wrexham magistrates with embezzlement to the extent, it is said, of £40,000. lie was remanded to await the arrival of some of the New York police.  It is announced from Rome that on Sunday, the 26th anniversary of the Pope's accession, about 4,000 representatives from all parts of Europe met in the Vatican, and gave his Holiness a very enthusiastic welcome when he appeared among them. 'Some addresses were afterwards delivered, to which Pius IX. replied in brief terms.  Mr. Serjea.nt Cox had before him at the Middlesex Sessions, on Monday, the ease of a labourer who had committed a violent assault upon three police constables. Several former convictions were proved against him, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.  An inquest was on Monday held on the body of a Frenchman named Hippolyte Jonraud, who committed suicide in a police cell on Thursday last. He au allowed a dose of prussic acid, and death was instantaneous. A verdict attributing the act to a fit of temporary insanity was returned.  A few weeks ago three young men were sentenced to heavy terms of penal servitude for committing a criminal assault upon a girl named Kinnear, 15 years of age, upon Clerkenwell-green. Facts have since come to light which throw doubt upon the truth of the story told by the prosecutrix, and she is now under remand from the Guildhall Police-court on a charge of perjury.  EIGHTEEN CAIUT gotn.---Beriutifully imitated and defying detection, in the
The Bee-Hive. — 1872-05-04 (London, England)

THE LIBERATION SOCIETY.  The annual meeting of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control, was held on Wednesday night in the Surrey Tabernacle, Newington. Mr. Isaac Holden, of Bradford, occupied the chair. The attendance was very large. The Rev. Dr. Laudeis moved the first resolution :  That this meeting regards with the highest satisfaction the extent to which, at the present time, the question of disestablishment engages public attention throughout the kingdom—the character of the views now expressed by many influential members of the Establishment, and the tendency of numerous concurring events to hasten the approach of the time when the objects aimed at by this organisation—already partialy effected —will be completed and finally accomplished,  The Rev. J. G. Boers seconded the resolution, which was carried with acclamation. The second resolution ran as follows, and was moved by the Itev. It. W. Dale, of Birmingham, and seconded by Mr. Illingworth, M.P., and carried : That looking to the present position of the question of elementary education in England and in Scotland, and of University education in Ireland—looking also to the antagonism which has now to be encountered at the hands of the supporters of Church Establishments—this meeting feels it to be more than ever necessary that the Society's friends should adhere with firmness and with courage to their avowed principles, whatever may be the difticu,tios or the temporary disadvantages to which such a policy may expose them.  Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P., moved, and Mr. Neville Goodman of Cambridge, seconded the last resolution, which was also carried unani mouely : That recognising the value of the service rendered to tilt) cause of religious equality by the motion submitted to the House of Commons by  Mr. Miall last session, the meeting has pleasure in learning that he is about again to bring the subject of disestablishment before Parliament, and trusts that he will receive an increased degree of both public and Parliamentary support. A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceedings.  Sunday annoyances of different kinds have been dealt with at the Metropolitan Policecourts. At Bow-street there were some cases of riotous conduct, and of playing at pitch and toss and "tip eat" upon the Thames Embankwent; at Clerkenwell, disorderly proceedings in the high-street of Islington again occupied a portion of the charge-sheet; and at Worshipstreet more than twenty-five persons, chiefly boys, were brought up for gambling in the public thoroughfares.  Between £6OO and £760 has been collected for the widow Nicholls, whose husband lately committed suicide after having killed four of his children.  Good value for money is desired by all, but with articles that cannot be judged of by appearance; careful purchasers rely on the high standing of those with whotn they deal. For thirty years, Hornirnan's Pure Teas (in packets) has given general sat.afaction, being exceedingly strong, of uniforia g(1 gualitv, and truly clieap. Sul& by 2,538 A gentiCheatists, Confectioner; and Bookselleri.
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1877-12-15 (London, England)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—The Return of Accidents on Railways in the United Kingdom during the quarter ended 30th September last is not of a cheering nature. During the quarter no less than 272 people have been killed and 924 injured on railways—making a total for the first nine months of 1877 of 818 killed and 2,488 injured —a butcher's bill that will stand comparison with the result of a battle. Of the deaths in the three months under notice, 31 were passengers, 151 the servants of railway companies or of contractors, and 90 were trespassers, suicides, persons killed at level crossings, and "other persons not coming:in the above classification." Eight collisions between passenger trains have been reported to the Board of Trade during the quarter, and 52 persons have been injured from this cause; while the 23 collision which occurred beetween goods and passenger trains account for 118 wounded people; 23 passenger trains have run off the line; in foul cases trains have come to grief owing to the points; two engine boilers or boiler-tubes have burst; 13 trains have run through the gates at level crossings; and no less than 153 accidents have been caused by axles giving way. Twelve persons have been killed by falling between carriages and platforms; and these lives might have been saved had it been compulsory upon railway companies to provide a broad, continuous footboard. Ten suicides have occurred, and 16 lives have been lost at level crossings, which ought to be abolished. Fifty-six persons have been killed, and 37 injured, while trespassing on railways, and 5 have met their death by falling out of carriages. The ferocious manner in which railway officials bang carriage doors has injured 7 people, and 5 passengers were killed and • 102 injured while getting into or out of trains. This list is bad enough, but, in addition to the numbers above quoted, 2 passengers have been killed and 34 injured by falling down staircases, at stations, or from other causes not connected with the rolling stock of the railways, and the number of officials injured in this manner amounts to 9 killed and 440 wounded; making a total of 283 deaths and 1,398 cases of injury during the quarter. It was once said that railway accidents would never diminish until a Bishop had been killed. Is no occupant of the bench willing to offer himself as a scapegoat to prevent this fearful loss of life ?  JUDSON'S DYES are most useful and effectual. Ribbons, Silks, Feathers, Scarfs, Lace, Braid, Veils, Handkerchiefs, Clouds, Bernouses, Shetland Shawls, or any small article of dress can easily be dyed in a few minutes, without soiling the hands, Violet, Magenta, Crimson, Mauve, Purple, Pink, &c. Sold by Chemists and Oilmen. Price Sixpence per bottle. See that you get Judson's Dyes.
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1877-04-14 (London, England)

THE BURIALS BILL.  The Nonconformists arc phalanxing their forces in opposition to the obnoxious and defective clauses of the Lord President's Burials Bill. On Tuesday a strong muster of Liberal Members of Parliament met the united committees of the Liberation Society and the Protestant Dissenting Deputies of the Three Denominations, to concert measures against the second reading fixed for the 20th instant. According to Mr. Henry Richard, the Conservatives are themselves divided on the subject, not a few of them being indignant at the persistent withholding of claims which they think just and reasonable, a feeling which appears to be growing even among the clergy. The resolutions moved and carried unanimously went to an entire rejector of the Bill in its present form, as, besides other objections, evading the demands of Nonconformists, entertaining a vast and needless public expense, and, in short, as Mr. Osborne Morgan averred, without one redeeming feature, unless it were the clause discovered by Mr. Chamberlain which would enable local authorities to turn disused churchyards into places of public amusement. For a real grievance, it provides an imaginary remedy, and would bury Baptists like suicides. The Primate even would allow a hymn, though he too would prohibit prose. It is too late to suspect Dissenters of wanting to get in the thin edge of the wedge, when so many of the clergy arc themselves driving it in by the thick end. In the course of the discussion, Mr. Allanson Picton, of the London School Board, tm.  April 11, 1877.  dertook to say that the vast majority of the people regard consecration as a superstition; Sir Henry Havelock having prepreviously given a soldier's view of this matter. For years, he said, he had been accustomed to carry his life, as it wore, in his hand, not knowing any day that his bones would not be picked at night by animals who were the sole proprietors of the ground; and he did not suppose he would have rested any more quietly if the ground had been walked over by a bishop in lawn sleeves; though he fully sympathised in the desire, deeply planted in human nature, that the bones of the departed may rest close to the bones of those nearest and dearest in life. The working class, it may be observed, were not represented in person at this important conference.
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1877-03-03 (London, England)

HEARTS OF OAK SOCIETY.  I am a member of the above society of some nineteen years' standing; therefore I trust you will do me the favour of publishing these few lines in the hope it may be the means of leading the way of getting the society out of its present dead lock. It must now be patent to the committee, after their two abortive attempts, that they do not possess the confidence of the members generally; therefore, the first suggestion I make on behalf of the Guildford branch is that they should take the secretary, or any other delegate who may be appointed, from each of the provincial medical agencies, which I see numbers about eighty-eight, with an equal number from the Metropolitan District to revise the rules—or, secondly, that the metropolitan district stand as the parent lodge, and the rest of us divided into district lodges similar to the Oddfellows or Foresters, with our committees of management for the admission of members and payment of sick, but to be in affiliation with the parent lodge. By so doing they could lessen the staff at head quarters, and each branch would have a better supervision of candidates for admission, which is much needed, for it is not long since they refused admittance to one of the best behaved men, although he sent up a clean sheet. Somewhere about the same time they admitted a man, a drunken fellow, against whom there were nine convictions before our borough justices; but none of them being for felony he still is a member. The committee also proposed to debar house-painters, which this branch considers savours strongly of selfishness. I have always understood the backbone of a society was to keep admitting young healthy members. They also proposed to abolish the examining of candidates by the surgeon. Why, in the name of Heaven, do they not ask us, as a society, to commit suicide at once. I could say much more could you afford me space, but enough for the present. EDWARD WlLLlAmsorr, 12,841, Twelfth Division.  REcitirr's
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1878-09-21 (London, England)

DYSPEPSIA.—In dyspepsia the whole character of the individual gradually changes for the worse; the inost placid man grows petulant and irritable ; the loving heart becomes estranged by groundless suspicions; the cheery face wears an oppressive sadness; while all that was once joyous and hopeful and glad goes out at length into the night of settled melancholy, confirmed madness, or terrible suicide. Let it then be known that dyspepsia is nearly always the result of too short an interval between the times of eating; with a five hours' interval the disease would become a rarity in the next generation. If this rule of five hours between meals and nothing between were to be rigidly observed from the age of five years, dyspepsia would soon become an almost unknown malady. A writer on this malady has said that it can be uniformly cured and always avoided by the following rules : I. Eat thrice a day. 2. Not an atom between meals. 3. Nothing after a noon-day dinner, but some cold bread and butter and one cup of hot tea. 4. Spend at least half an hour at each meal. 5. Cut up all the food into pea-sized pieces. 6. Never eat so much as to cause the slightest uncomfortable sensation afterwards. 7. Never work or study hard within half an hour of eating.  MISKOLZ, a town in Hungary, has undergone some pluvial inundations, a visitation more mortal than the mine-explosion in Monmouthshire, and not much less so than the foundering of the holiday steamer in the Thames. This catastrophe occurred in the night time between the two last days of August. Nobody foresaw, as at all likely, such a swelling of the small stream that runs through the place, and has its source in low hills some ten miles above it. The raint torm was not of many hours' duration, yet so heavy that at midnight a great cry was heard, waking up the fastest sleepers and alarming the stoutest hearts. Before daylight the flood had in a great measure subsided, but not before six hundred dwellings had been destroyed, and it may be five hundred souls drowned, of whom three hundred were picked up dead, and two hundred were missing. A great heat made the stenches left behind by the subsiding waters perilous to the survivors, and it is  September 21, 1878.  estimated that three millions of florins would not replace what has been destroyed or lost.
The Industrial Review, Social and Political. — 1878-12-07 (London, England)

AND MAJOR 0' GORMAN.—The " Telegraph " says :—Sir Wilfrid Lawson has attained to the reputation of a prolific and occasionally good joker, but this is accompanied by one serious drawback. Like the wit who was constantly asked out on account of his ability to set the table in roar, and who was considerably embarrassed one day by hearing a little girl ask her mother when the gentleman would begin to be funny, Sir Wilfrid must go on joking to maintain his position as a public man. His popularity would vanish with his last jest, and he would be even like ordinary men—a dull declaimer on a not very inviting theme, the virtues of cold water. But this imperative necessity of being funny leads to the production of jokes that are sometimes far-fetched and occasionally in bad taste. The honourable baronet has more than once run the risk of being classed with mere buffoons by the use of extravagances which really would never have- been uttered but for the desperate necessity of giving an audience of water-drinkers something to laugh at. Moreover, there is always the risk of offending by personal allusions, and Sir 'Wilfrid Lawson has just incurred the penalty of eating his own words for that very reason. He has been bold enough to face the wrath of Major O'Gorman. We are not aware that any man ever did that with impunity, for if the gallant Member for Waterford presents a broad target for the shafts of assailants, he has also shown that he can. hit out with vigour whenever it has pleased any other gentleman to tread on the tail of his coat.. Sir Wilfrid, it appears, at a Sunday closing meeting in Dublin early last month, jocularly said that he looked every Monday morning with some anxiety for the reports from Waterford, fearing that he might read that the Major, overcome by distress of mind at seeing so many sober people about him, had committed suicide, and had departed from this scene of trouble. Major O'Gorman wrote, asking whether the report of this speech was correct, and, receiving an answer in the affirms ative, he promptly demanded a retractation of the language and a public apology. What could facetious Sir Wilfrid do? His jest had fallen flat; the Major "didn't see it " ; and so the luckless baronet, explaining that he really would not have used the words if he had thought the Major would have taken them SO seriously to heart, "very willingly" made the apology. This should be a lesson for the future. The joke was a poor one at the best, and looked as if the humorous vein were getting worked out. Lord Beaconsfield said a year or two ago that the honourable gentleman was once a nuisance, but had become an institution. Sir Wilfrid should take care that the epigram does not get reversed.
The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-04-23 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

TRADE.—Replying to a deputation of mat and matting makers the other afternoon, who complained of the unfair competition to which the trade was subjected in consequence of prison labour, the Home Secretary said he could not touch the Prison Act this Session, but he hoped to examine it frilly next Session. TH. Nave NAVAL Com,xon.—A deputation of the Mayor and Town Council waited on the first Lord of the Admiralty at Portsmouth last week, and urged the claims and advantages of the town in favour ef establishing a new naval college there. Mr. Ward Mint promised his earnest consideration before he finally decided on the site. A PPOINTHINT er Cowsuxs.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr. Theodore Canrisius, as Consul at Bristol for the Uni' sd State. of America; of Mr. Roderick Kanicke, as Consul of the German Empire at Belfast ; ef Mr. Jean Gerard Witch, ea the Belgian Consul in London.; and of Mr. Sigismund Cohen as the Austrian vice-Consul at Manchester.  On the 15th instant, an inquest was held at Lazenby. near Guisbro', by Mr. A. Buchanan, coroner, on the body of James Moore, aited forty, who was killed in the Eaton mines on the previous day. The deceased was working at a pillar when a fall of stone took place, and a large slab fell upon him, killing him almost instantaneously. Verdict, Acciden at death."  While boating, last week, the Hon. Edward Bateman Banbury, son of Lord Bateman, bad a narrow escape from drowning. He was rowing on one of the pools in the park at the family seat, Shobdon Court. Leominster, attended by the head keeper, when the boat capsized. Both the occupants sank, and only for the providential assistance rendered by the Hon. Spencer Bateman Banbury, who gallantly rescued them, they must have been drowned. THE CONDEMNED CONVICT IN BRISTOL GAOL:— During the past week a petition has been numerously signed in Bristol, praying for a reprieve to be granted to William Hole, sentenced M death for the murder of his wife, Alice Hole. The petition has received nearly 20,000 signatures, and was despatched on the 16th from Bristol for resenttion by Mr. Morley, M.P., who will be accompanied by Mr. Hodgson, M.P., and Mr. Plimsoll, M.P. Should the sentence be carried into effect, Hole is to be executed on the 26th of ApriL _  STRANGE SUICIDE Or A CLERGYMAN'S COON;A singular case of suicide was investigated a few days since, near Nuneaton. Mary Ann Pritchard, cook in the service of the Rev. R. H. Warner, vicar of Astley, was, at an early hour in the morning, found to be miming, and on a march being made, her body was found floating in an ancient moat surrounding Temple Houee, the residence of the above-named gentleman. A letter, written by deceased prior to her death, showed that she was suffering from mental aberration, and a verdict of "Suicide whilet in an wesound state of mind," was returned.