Summary Of News For November.

evening in the company of a friend . On the following morning , the unfortunate gentleman precipitated himself from his bed-room window , and was immediately killed . The son was afterwards found apparently strangled in his bed , having a handkerchief round his neck ; but it is generally supposed that he died from natural causes , and that on tho father waking and rinding bis son dead , ho , in a moment of temporary insanity , threw himself from the window . The Rev . Dr . John Vaughan , incumbent of St . Matthew , Brixton , has been

committed for trial , on a charge of having defrauded the parish of burial fees . On the 3 rd , Robert Phillips , ex-provost of Leith , a man upwards of 60 years of age , was sentenced to 15 years' transportation , for indecent assaults on female children . A woman calling herself Alice Gray , who is supposed to have many aliases , was committed for trial at Wolverhampton , on the 7 th , for perjury , it being stated that she has secured the conviction of many persons in different parts of tho country , on false charges of robbery , in order to excite sympathy in favor of herself .

On the 10 th , Robert Martinson , cashier in the Newcastle District Bank , was committed for trial , on a charge of having absconded with between £ 4000 and £ 5000 , belonging to the Bank . He was arrested at Southampton , just as he was about to sail for America . A terrific explosion of a boiler of a steam engine , took place at Messrs . Hall and Boyd ' s , Sugar refiners , St . George Street , St . George ' s-in-the-East , on the 12 th , by which three persons lost their livesand several others were severely wounded .

, On the 18 th , the Military Bakehouses on the Q . uai de Billy , at Paris , in which were lartre stores of corn , flour , & c , for the Army in the Crimea , caught fire , and fears were entertained that the whole -would be destroyed . Luckily , however , only one storehouse of corn was destroyed , though the total value of Ihe stores and buildings destroyed are valued at 4 , 000 , 000 ft-.

PROVIDENT . A meeting of the Gresham Life Assurance Society was held on the Sth , when a report was read and adopted , which said that the proposals for assurance submitted during the past year have been 807 in number , of which 616 have been completed , representing policies for 428 , 249 ? . Is . 3 d ., upon which 9 , 118 / . 15 s . 3 d . has been received as new premiums for the year . The tofal claims paid during Ihe year in respect of deaths amounted to 5 , 998 ? . S * . and was only about half the sum to be

, expected . The total number of policies in existc-nre at the close of the year was 2 , 607 , assuring 1 , 155 , 538 / ., and yielding an income of 40 , 523 / - 10 * -. Id . The total funds amounted to 119 , 376 / . 17 s . id . The Solvency Mutual Guarantee Society held its second annual meeting on the same clay . The progress of the business of the Society will be seen from the following statement :

STATEMENT OF BUSINESS UP TO 31 DKCEMBER , 1854 . Guarantees . Six months ending Christmas , 1852 £ 42 , 528 13 11 Six months ending June , 1853 ' 2 , 874 , 384 9 8 Six months ending Christmas , 1853 1 , 040 , 197 13 7 Six months ending June 1854 3 , 720 , 406 S 10 Six months ending Christmas , 1854 2 , 009 , 926 1 7

Total £ 9 , 687 , 533 7 7 Period . No . Claims Admitted Six months ending June , 1853 6 £ 151 3 5 Six months ending Christmas , 1853 04 3 , 314 18 10 Six months ending June , 1854 143 11 , 775 18 2

Six months ending Christmas 1854 397 19 , 297 15 10 Total 610 £ 34 , 539 16 3