Summary Of Smews For September.

On the 6 th , the assessors appointed by the Crown , commenced their labours in laying out the wards of the Metropolis agreeably with the provisions of the Metropolitan Local Management Bill , The ticket-of-leave man , supposed to be the miscreant who committed the frightful murder at Cudham , near Bromley , ivas this day apprehended near the Forest of Dean . At the Cutlers' feast at Sheffield , it was resolved to get up a testimonial of the pubtic services of Mr . Roebuck , M . P .

A young man , named Payne , committed suicide by suspending himself by a cord , from the ] ventilator in one of the first class carriages , on the line between Nottingham and Derby . On the 8 th , a passenger on board a steamer from Jersey to Southampton , fell down the hold ivhile in a state of intoxication , and was killed . An attempt was made by a man named Bellemare to assassinate the Emperor Napoleonbut happily failed .

, News was also this day received of the re-commencement of the bombarding of Sebastopol , and the retreat of the enemy from Petropaulorski . On the 9 th , it was telegraphed from the Crimea that the French had bravely stormed the Malakoff , and that the English had been repelled from the Redan . On the 10 th , a library , for the use of Compositors , was opened in Racquet Court , Fleet Street .

On the 11 th , Prince Napoleon visited the dockyards at Portsmouth . The same day , Sir George Brown was entertained at a public dinner by the inhabitants of Elgin , on his return from the Crimea . The extensive building premises of Mr . Baker , Bishop ' s Walk , Lambeth , were entirely consumed . On the 12 th , Sir John Dean Paul , Strahan , and Co ., were fully committed for embezzlement . Bail was however taken for then- appearance at the Old Bailey . The Duke of Argyle , in an eloquent speech , opened , at Glasgow , the session of the British Association for the advancement of Snienne .

In the evening of the same day , there occurred a fearful collision on the Reading branch of the South Eastern Railway , resulting in the death of 5 persons , and in the serious injury of a great many others . A pilot engine travelling on the wrong rails , rail into a passenger train . One of the killed ivas tbe engine driver of the pilot ¦ engine , against whom the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter . On the 13 th , Lord Palmerston in reply to an address presented to him by the inhabitants of Melbourne , Derbyshire , triumphantly pointed to the success of his

ministry in the vigorous conduct of the war . The same day , Pulling , the man accused of the Bromley murder , was committed to Maidstone gaol , on the charge . And a brewer , of the name of Payne , resident at Chelsea , and their clerk , John Waller , ivere also committed to prison , charged with gross conspiracy and fraud . On the 14 th , the Lord Mayor was entertained at a banquet , by the corporation and inhabitants of Congleton

. ' ~ Groat disgust was excited in Camden-town , by the closing of St . Martin's Cemetery , Pratt-street , for building purposes . On the 15 th , the Lord Lieutenant visited the camp at the Curragh of Kildare . On the 16 th , the Rev . Dr . Vaughan , nephew of the late Cardinal Weld , was consecrated bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Clifton , by His Eminence Cardinal ¦ Wiseman .

On the 17 th , the coroner's inquest , to inquire into the death of the little girl , whose murder , at Bristol , was mentioned in our last number , closed without having come to any satisfactory solution of the mystery in which the affair is enveloped . On the 18 th , Mr . H . Coe Coape was acquitted , at the Old Bailey , of the charge of obtaining 4 , 000 / . on false pretences . On the 19 th , Sir John Dean Paul , and Messrs . Strahan and Bates , surrendered to their bail . Their trial ivas , on the application of counsel , postponed until next sessions . Lord Carlisle turned the first sod of the Killarney Railway . The 20 th , the anniversary of the battle of Alma was kept with great rejoicing .