Summary Of News For July.

benefit of various institutions . Thus , on the 9 th the Marquis of Westminster generously gave the use of the Picture Gallery of Grosvenor House , for the performance of a new play by Mr . Tom Taylor , in aid of the Funds of the Hospital for Women , Soho Square . The sum of , £ 800 was collected on the occasion On the 10 th , there were private theatricals in which the most efficient amateurs of the day took part at Campden House , for the benefit of the Sanitorium , at Bournemouth , for consumptive patients . On the 17 that Breadalbane HousePark Lanethe Princess Czartoryski

, , , assisted by some of the most distinguished artistes of the day , gave a grand musical entertainment on behalf of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland ; and on the I 9 th there was a concert at Ellesmere House , the proceeds of which went to the fund of the Convalescent Institution , Walton-on-Thames . The quarterly court of the Naval Benevolent Institution , was held on the 16 th , at which it was stated that during the previous three months a sum of £ 457 was granted to relieve distressed members and their families .

PROVIDENT . On the 2 nd of July , the London Mutual Life Association Society , held its sixth annual meeting , at which it was stated that during the first quinquennial period they issued 3020 policies , assuring £ 541 , 504 and yielding a premium income of £ 17 , 320 per annum . In the division of profits 27 per cent , was allowed in reduction of premiums , or 29 | per cent , reversionary bonus , at the option of the members . At the meeting of the United Kingdom Assurance Association it was reported that the

assets amounted to £ 511 , 254 18 s . 3 d ., and the liabilities to £ 344 , 116 Is . Id . A reversionary bonus of 30 per cent , equivalent to £ l 18 s . id . per cent ., per annum ., was granted on all policies 3 years in existence . On the 18 th , the Alfred Asssrance Company met , and reported that the new business of the year amounted to £ 3352 7 s . 3 d ., and that their annual income from all sources was £ 33 , 058 Is . 6 d ., and that they had as a surplus fund the sum of £ 85 , 805 Is . 5 c / . During the year they paid £ 11019 14 s 9 d . in claims on ten policieswhich had fallen in and had been

, , , benefitted by the death of four annuitants to the extent of £ 886 per annum . The Mutual Assurance Society met the same day , when a statement of the proceedings of the office for the last six months was presented to the members , from which it appeared that within that period they had issued 84 policies , yielding to the Society an income of £ 15 , 015 13 s . 8 c / ., per annum , and had paid £ 1990 in reversionary bonuses , to addition to £ 6800 , the amount of the policies which had become claimssince the last meeting of the Society .

MISCELLANEOUS . Sir William Maule , after 15 years' service , has retired from the bench , and Mr . J . S . Willes , of the Common Law Bar , has been appointed to succeed him . The ex-judge has been made a privy-councillor . Sir John Dean Paul , Strahan , & Co ., have presented in the Court of Bankruptcy a balance sheet of their affairs for the last five years , shewing liabilities to the extent of £ 237 , 183 15 s . 4 c / ., to meet which there was only the sum of £ 6285 Ss . 10

Secretary of the Deposit Life Assurance Company , named C . W . W . Bevan , having been found guilty of stealing orders for various sums of money , the property of his employers , has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment . Jeremiah Foley who was mentioned in our last as having been committed for the murder of Hannah Bell , at Limehouse , has been sentenced to 14 years' transportation . A fiendish case of child murder , lately tried at the Old Bailey has resulted , in a sentence of twelve months ' imprisonment on the unnatural mother , Sarah Sturgess , who starved the infant ,

although she bad an abundant supply of its natural food . A gang of burglars , for some months past the terror of the county of Essex , has been effectually broken up by the conviction of several of its ring leaders , at the Chelmsford assizes . At Phillipstown depot , there has been a dangerous entente of the convicts . A monster nugget , weighing 851 bs ., was landed at Liverpool on the 28 th of June , from the Lightning , one of the Black Ball line of clipper ships , trading to Australia . ' The quarterly return of the revenue shows an increase of £ 1 , 005 , 575 on the quarter as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year , and an increase of £ 7 , 741 , 588 ,