Summary Of News For August.

another for the payment of funeral expenses . The sum of £ 129 8 * . was paid in annuities , in addition to the amount expended in temporary relief to distressed members themselves . On the 9 th ult . a meeting of the subscribers to the fund for raising a memorial to the memory of the late Lord Dudley Stuart , M . P . and P . G . W ., decided on handing over £ 1 , 200 , the sum collected for that purpose , to the managers of the Nightly Refuge , Paddington , an institution in which our lamented brother took a deep interest , and one which , indeed , he had been mainly instrumental in founding .

PROVIDENT . The United Mutual Life Assurance Association met on the 28 th of July , when the directors reported to the members that the new business of last year had been larger than that of any previous year since the formation of the Association ; and that the premium income at present amounted to about £ 10 , 000 per annum . The shareholders of the St . George Life Assurance Company held their fourth

annual meeting on the 31 st of July , on which occasion a report was presented and adopted , which stated that the directors had received 548 proposals for assurance , of which they had accepted and completed 339 , covering assurances to the amount of £ 67 , 535 , and yielding a premium income to the extent of £ 2 , 095 14 * . id . per annum . On the 10 th ult ., the Eagle Insurance Company held their annual meeting , to whicli the directors presented a very able reportdrawn up btheir actuaryMr .

, y , Jellicoe , from whicli it appeared that their total income for the past year , including new business to the extent of £ 9 , 284 12 s . M . amounted to £ 139 , 713 19 * . 3 d ., and that their expenditure , of which the sum of £ 57 , 311 had been paid in the liquidation of claims , and that of £ 3 , 943 lis . lid ., in reversionary bonuses thereon , hacl been £ 90 , 551 14 * . 5 f / ., leaving a balance of £ 49 , 162 4 s . lOfZ . to be carried to the surplus fund , making it £ 265 , 661 4 * . Ad .

MISCELLANEOUS . On the 27 th of July , Sir William Molesworth was re-elected for Southwark , after a hustings opposition on the part of Sir Charles Napier , who complained of the manner in which he had been treated by the Admiralty in reference to the Baltic fleet . On his re-election , Sir William , in returning his thanks to the elector for the honour they hacl done him , stated that the proposition of the Turkish Loan had been jeopardised

by a " nefarious combination . " On the same day , Sir George Brown , in replying to an address presented to him by the inhabitants of Leamington on his return from the Crimea , stated that he was unfavourable to any alteration in the present system of officering the troops , alleging that it was his opinion that the rank and file followed any young gentleman who might be an officer , with greater alacrity than they would any one in commission who had formerly been in the ranks with themselves .

A succession of hurricanes , accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning , commencing on this day and lasting during the week , visited Cheltenham and the surrounding districts . On the 28 th , Sir Benjamin Hall was re-elected for Marylebone , without opposition . On the 30 th , Captain Disney , on the grounds belonging to the mansion of Lord Ranelagh , at Fulham Bridge , displayed with success the power and efficiency of his new projectile .

On the same day , a most extraordinary inquiry commenced at Darlington , relative to the death of a Mr . sWodler , who , it was alleged , had fallen a victim to slow poison , administered by her husband . On the 31 st , a new Leviathan steam-ship , 800 feet in the keel , being twenty feet more in length than the Duke of Wellington , was launched at Portsmouth in the presence of Her Majesty , and of a large concourse of people , but with indifferent success , and attended by an accident which threatened the safety of the noble vessel .