Summary Of News For August.

On the same day , an Essex magistrate called public attention to the circumstance of two brothers in his neighbourhood who had been committed for fourteen days imprisonment to Chelmsford gaol , for leaving hay-making to go ancl see a military review , and for a remission of whose sentence he had vainly applied for to the Secretary of State , Sir George Grey . On the 25 th , Lord Stanley , in a letter to the morning papers , proposed that the parliamentary session should commence in November and end in June each year , so

that the members might enjoy the country during the summer mouths . The 26 th , being Prince Albert's birthday , was ushered in by the ringing of bells ancl firing of cannon leading the sanguine , to imagine that Sebastopol had at last fallen into the hands of the besiegers . Lord Dundonald on the 27 th , again called public attention to the neglect of his plans of attack by Government , aud quoted Sir Charles Fox as an authority as to their efficiency .

AMUSEMENTS OF THE MONTH . On . the 30 th of July , Mr . Wright rejoined his old colleagues at the Adelphi , on which occasion he played the part of Paul Pry , with his usual drollery . The amateurs at Campden House , on the 2 nd ult ., performed the Loan of a Lover ,, with considerable eclat . The great star of the company seems to be the Hon . Mrs . Wrothesley , a daughter of that distinguished officer , Sir John Burgoyne .

On the 6 th , the comic piece " The Writing on the Wall , " was reproduced at the Adelphi , to give Mr . Wright an . opportunity of playing the part of Mr . Ferguson . Tootles . On the 13 th , Miss Blanche Fane made a very auspicious debut at the Haymarket as Lucy Morton in Mr . Blanche's comedy , The Covert Favour . A new comic piece , entitled " Olympus in a Muddle , " has been produced at the Haymarket .

The military spectacle of the Storming of Sebastopol , at Cremorne Gardens , has been the most popular object for the last three weeks with the sight-seeing public . On the evening of the 27 th , a new comic piece , bearing the title "Who is your Uncle ? " was brought out at the Adelphi , Mr . Wright and Mr . Paul Bedford sustaining the principal parts . The burlesque is spoken of as full of incident and double entendre , but poor in dialogue and void of wit .

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