Summary Of News For July.

on the year . The principal increase was on the items of property tax , customs , excise , stamps , and post office . Several people have been lately killed by hghtning , and a poor man named John Hurd , on the second of July , lost his life by a boiler explosion on the South Yorkshire line , near Bamsley . On the 12 th , a Mr . Wilson put an end to his existence at Eastey's Hotel , and on the 14 th , an officer of the Dublin Militia , at present encamped on the Curragh of Kildare , on being rebuked by his superior officer , for some breach of discipline , was guilty of the same rash act . Several public

meetings were held in the course of the month , the most important of which were the educational conference held on the 2 nd , under the auspices of the Society of Aits ; and a meeting of the friends of the Freedom of Religious Worship , at the Freemasons ' Tavern , on the 12 th . The Administrative Reformers met at the same place on the 11 th , and again upon the 25 th , the annual meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society , took place at Carlisle , on the 23 rd . The statue raised by the city to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peelhas been placed upon its pedestalat the end of Cheapside

, , , nearest to St . Paul ' s . The commission appointed to inquire into the conduct of the police , on the 1 st of July , sat , for the first time , on the 17 th , and was employed in hearing the complaints against them on the ] 8 th , 19 th , 20 th , 21 st and 23 rd . On the 24 th , Mr . Ellis commenced their defence , which has been continued , each succeeding day , to the hour of our going to press . On the 18 th , two married couples claimed the Dunmow flitch , and for the first time in the annals of the place , there was a double cavalcade , in honour of nuptial happiness . News too arrived from the coast

of Africa respecting the destruction of Malaghea , and the death of 150 officers and men , of her Majesty ' s ship Teazer , in the Malakolo river . In connection with this loss to the Naval service , may be mentioned the death of Rear-Admiral Sir Edwd . Parry , this distinguished Artie voyager , at Urns , on the 8 th June , three other , flag officers died in the course of the month , and on the 10 th of the month , died Mr . Philip Pusey , the great patron of improved farming . On the 26 th , tho remains of Lord Raglan arrived at Bristol , and were honoured with a public funeral , by the corporation of that city .

AMUSEMENTS OF THE MONTH . On the 10 th of July , Open Sesame was revived at the Adelphi , Mr . and Mrs . Keeley and Miss Woolgar sustaining their original parts . On the 16 th , Mr . Wm . Farren took leave of the public in the character of Lord Ogleby , in the " Clandestine Marriage . " The performances were patronised by royalty . A new farce was , on the same evening , brought out at the Princess ' s entitled " How stout you ' re getting , " the wei

ght of which falls on Mr . D . Fisher , who plays the character of Mr . Plummer , the gentleman thus reminded of his growing corpulence . On the 20 th , "L'Eloile du Nord , " was brought out with a powerful cast , at the Italian Opera House . The rehearsals were superintended by the composer himself , Br . Meyerbeer . An English Operatic company at present occupies the stage at Drury Lane . The entertainments at the Royal Polytechnic Institution have lately received an additional attraction in the exhibition of an interesting varietof Arctic curiositieskindl

y , y furnished by J . Barrow , of the Admiralty , to whom it appears many of them have been handed clown from his ancestors . The collection embraces various relics of the Franklin expedition , together with costumes of the Esquimaux , and specimens of the domestic utensils in use amongst them . All these , as may be imagined , are of the most primitive description , and their undoubted genuineness constitutes their principal attraction . There are knives which , so far as their apparent utility is concernedmiht well be without blades

, gas , for they do not seem made to cut ; tobacco pipes , which arc constructed upon a principle presenting many difficulties to the smoker , that the Esquimaux , in using them , must exercise an amount of patience almost unknown amongst the more civilised people ; dresses which one could think were intended to be sewn to the bodies of the wearers , and not made to be put on and taken offand numerous other Polar curiositieswhich clearly indicate that the

, , races who dwell in those parts are as backward in the works of practical civilization as we are in our knowledge of their habits and characteristics . Striking and peculiar as these relics are , they are only subservient to the general purpose for which they are exhibited , viz ., as illustrations of what our enterprising navigators saw and did in