Summary Of Smews For September.

a collier outside Dover Harbour , on the night of the 11 th of August , whereby the captain and some others were drowned . On the same day , a train ran over the body of a child , who had strayed upon the South Western line , near Guildford . On the 30 th , the Lords of the Admiralty , accompanied by the Home Secrefcarj ' , paid an official visit to Cork Harbour , and inspected the works at Haulbowline , and the convict establishment at Spike Island . The South London Floricultural Society closed the season with a magnificent flower show at Cremorne Gardens .

There was also on this day a formal meeting of the Convocation of the province of Canterbury . The Chambers only met for tho purpose of adjournment . An accident of a i r ery distressing character , occurred this day in Haversham Bay , resulting in the death of three young men , pupils of the scientific school there , who , while bathing , ivere carried by a ground swell , into deep waters , ancl drowned . On the 31 st , Isabella Mary Jolly , was committed from tho Westminster Police Court , charged with the murder of her mother at Brompton , of wliich mention was

made in our summary of last month . The same clay died Feargus O'Connor , late Member for Nottingham , ancl for a long time previously to his being afflicted with lunacy , a distinguished popular leader . The unfortunate man died in circumstances of great distress . The working classes in large numbers attended his remains to Kensal Green Cemetery , on the 10 th ult ., ancl by subscription among themselves , defrayed the expenses of his funeral . On the 1 st of September , the Rt . Hon . Sir J . Graham , Bart ., cut the first sod of a

branch of the Port Carlisle line to Silloth Bay . On the same day , Sir Charles Napier made public the correspondence which passed between himself while in command of the Baltic fleet , and the Rt . Hon . Baronet , Sir James Graham , as First Lord of the Admiralty . Several accidents took place on this day . By one , a gas explosion in his house , Chapel Street , Park Lane , Mr . Temple lost upwards of £ 40 , 000 ivorth of paintings and articles of verin . A fire the same evening , burnt down the extensive premises of Mr . Thacker , in Dame Street , Dublin . A gentleman was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Thames , near Putney .

A search was immediately made for the body , but without avail . Eight days afterwards it was found entangled in the piles for tbe erection of the new bridge , Westminster . Two brothers , named Lester , were also drowned this day , at Broad Pill , in Somersetshire . On the 2 nd , a painful discovery was made at Bath , aud a spendthrift of the name of Thomas Lutton , was happily detected in the parricidal attempt of slowly poisoning Mr . Charles Lutton , a respectable citizen of that city .

On the 3 rd , the Mayor of Worcester presided at a public meeting of the inhabitants of that city , at which resolutions condemnatory of capital punishment were agreed to . On the same clay , a meeting of the inhabitants of Derby , expressed themselves anxious to have the restoration of Poland , a condition of any treaty of peace with Russia . The return of the humane and benevolent Mrs . Bracebridge from the Military Hospitals in the East , was celebrated with great rejoicings at Atherston . There ivas a boiler losion at Prestonwherebone man lost his lifeA verdict

exp , y . of Manslaughter was returned by the Coroner ' s jury against the Engineer . On the 4 th , there appeared in the morning papers an account of the investiture of Omer Pacha , at Constantinople , by the English Ambassador , with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath . A coroner ' s jury , the same day , returned a verdict of Manslaughter , against a soldier named John Neal , who , in a quarrel , killed a fellow soldier , named Adriad Williams , in Cambridge BarracksPortsmouth .

, On the 5 th , the Canterbury Transport was lost off the Rock of Lisbon . The crew and passengers all escaped . The Early Closing Association commenced its winter campaign , with a public meeting at Exeter Hall .