Summary Of News For August.

On the 1 st ult ., being the anniversary of the advent of the House of Hanover to the throne of England , there was a sharp contest on the river between the watermen running for the Coat ancl Badge , annually given by the Fishmonger ' s Company , in compliance with the Will of the Irish actor , Doggett , in perpetual honour of that event . On the same clay , the East India Company entertained Lord Canning , the newlyappointed Governor-General of India at a magnificent banquetover which Mr .

, Elliott . Vlacnaghten as Chairman of the Board of Directors presided . In the evening , great excitement prevailed at the west end , in consequence of the sudden postponement of a meeting convened to consider the propriety of enrolling a Polish Legion .

An aeronaut fell from a balloon and smashed his head against one of the tombstones in the burial-ground of St . Giles ' s Parish , Old Pancras Road . On the 2 nd , Sir Peter Laurie , presiding as magistrate in the Guildhall police court , warned the public against having anything to do with the circulars of a person signing himself William Mark , an American Joseph Ady . On the 3 rd , the Bishop of London laid the corner-stone of a new parish church , in Church-street , Stoke Newington .

On the 4 th , a police inspector was killed in a riot at Haslemere , Surrey . On the 6 th , the police magistrate of the Southwark police , benefitted society by breaking up a low penny theatre within his jurisdiction , which hacl then for some time past been a hot bed of crime . On the 7 th , the Duke of Richmond presided at a meeting of the subscribers to the Lord Raglan Testimonial , by whom it was resolved that the purchase of an estate to be entailed on his heirs would be the most appropriate mode of testifing their

y regards for the deceased peer . A dangerous mutiny the same clay broke out on board an American ship in the Mersey . On the 8 th , Her Majesty , attended by the Court , reviewed the Foreign troops

encamped at Shorncliffe , near Dover . The same day the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland , held then- annual meeting in Carlow , which was honoured by the attendance of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant . In the evening , two important meetings were held in the metropolis . One was a meeting of the Administrative Reform Association for the purpose of reporting progress . Several of the speakers complained that the Association was rather

watching events to take advantage of them , than actually engaged in the objects of its mission . The second assembly alluded to was the adjourned meeting , held at St . Martin ' s Hall , with reference to the enrolment of a Polish Legion . At this assembly Lord Harrington presided , but finding that the meeting , as he thought , was being wrested from its legitimate objects by the friends of the Peace party , he relinquished the chair , and left the meeting in the hands of those who had disturbed it ; they passed a series of resolutions condemnatory of the policy of Lord Palmertton and of the manner in which the war with Russia was being conducted . His lordship ancl his colleagues , were , in the mean time , enjoying their White Bait

dinner at Greenwich- - On the 9 th , a private of the llth Hussars was killed by injuries which he received while in a fit of sonambulism in New Bridge barracks . On the 1 Oth , the Chipping Norton Branch of the Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverhampton Railway was opened for traffic . The llth was rife with fatal accidents . Three persons lost their lives at sea off the coast of Kentin of a collission between one of the Royal

, consequence Dover , Calais , and Ostend , Steam Packet Company ' s vessels and a merchant-ship . Three persons were also killed by the fall of a portion of the Railway bridge at Rochester . There was also a boiler explosion at Sheffield , attended with great loss , both of life and property . A similar accident took place at Bilston , on the Srd . The statue of Sir Robert Walpole was this day placed on its pedestal in Westminster Hall .