The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-10 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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4)ubitt Optnton

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

Lady Williams has arrived in Grosvenor-square, from Paris.
Sir John B. Pechell is still suffering from severe illness.
Sir George and Lady Napier have arrived at Warren's
Hetel, from the Cape of Good Hope.
On Saturday last Sir Loftus and Lady Otway entertained
at dinner, at their house in Grosvenor-square, Lord and Lady
and Miss Camoys, the Earl of Belfast, Lord William Lennox,
Lord and Lady Trimleston, Sir Winston and Lady Barron,
Sir John and Lady Paul, Sir W. Clayton, Colonel and Mrs,
Ashworth, Hon. Craven Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, and
Mr. J. Clayton.

IViVICZLZAWMOUS.
The Governor-General of India, Sir H. llardinge, em-
barked at Brighton, on Saturday evening, for Dieppe, en
route by land to Marseilles, where he embarks for Alex-
andria.

The Wells Diocesan Training School from which so much
was anticipated on its establishment, about five years ago, is
to be finally broken up at the Midsummer quarter. Not-
withstanding the great sacrifices made by th• promoters and
superintendents, it has been found impossible to meet the un-
avoidably large expenses in the absence of assistance from
the Committee of Education. The directors, being unwilling
to incur further responsibility, have, therfore, no other re-
source than at once to abandon the undertaking.
A movement has commenced in the extensive and pope•
lous parish of Islington, and in some few other places, to
carry out the late decision in the Court of Common Pleas on
an appeal from the Revising. Barrister's Court, viz., that all
lodgers and occupiers of small tenements, although not pay-
ing the parochial rates, are entitled to the franchise, if they
pay a rent of not less than 101. a year, or 4s. per week.
A matrimonial alliances is said to be on the tapis between
Lord Charles Wellesley, youngest son of the Duke of Welling-
ton, and the daughter of the Right Hon. 11. Pierrepont.
The statue of Goethe meets in Frankfort with a similar
fate as that of Byron in London, which has lain iu the Cus-
' tom-house for several years. The magistrates of Frankfort
did not appoint any place within the town to erect Goethe's
statue; it will be placed in a lonely alley, without the gates
of the city of his birth.
The invitations annually circulated by the Duke of Wel.
lington, to those general and other officers who took part in
the memorable battle of Waterloo, for the Duke's banquet
on the anniversary of that sanguinary struggle, have been
issued.

It was very generally stated on Saturday, that the Empe-
ror of Russia had sent for a ticket for the Polish ball, and
paid 500/. for it.

- At the meeting of the Fellows of the Royal Botanical
Society, held on Saturday, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., in the
chair, a ballot took place, and the following ladies and gentle-
men wore added to the Society :—The Marquis of Westmin-
ster, the Earl of Auckland, the Rev. Christopher Erle, Sir
Henry Oxenden, Bart., Sir Thomas Rokewood Gage, Bart.,
James Matheson, Esq., M. 1., G. F. Matheson, Esq., Robert
0. Walker, Esq., Thomas Douglasse, Esq., C. Spears Toswill,
Esq., the Hon. J. C. Talbot, the Hon. Lady Cockerell, Lady
Hume Campbell, Lady Buxton, J. Smith Wright, Esq.,
J. E. Boulcott, Esq., Mrs. G. B. Carr, Mrs. Cartwright,
and Mrs. Elliot.

On Saturday, the Lord Bishop of London consecrated
another of the new churches of St. Matthew, Betlinel-green,
this being the sixth that has been erected in this parish.
It is called the Church of St. Bortholomew, and is situated
in the Cambridge Heath-road, near the Mile-end turnpike.
It is a plan brick building, capable of containing nearly 1,200
persons, the sittings being almost all free.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway Company, on
Thursday last, the cup day at Ascot, which greatly exceeded
those upon any former occasion since the line has been
opened, amounted to more than 4,100/. The passengers
amounted to the extraordinary number of 16,766, in addition
to 229 gentlemen's private carriages, and 551 horses.

FINE ARTS.
BRITISH INSTITUTION.

We attended on Saturday a private view of this
Exhibition, which is opened to the public to-day.
The pictures are, for the most part, the pro-
ductions of the old masters of the Spanish,
Flemish, Dutch, and French schools, and though
not quite so numerous as usual, are remarkably
well selected, making up in quality for what they
want in quantity. There are some fine specimens of
Canaletti, and one or two first-rate Ruysdaels, to say no-
thing of some landscapes by Wouvermans, executed in
the most carefully finished manner of that great artist.
Hawking -Party in a Landscape, in particular, is the

est _striking.production of his pencil we have ever
seen, and the colouring is in excellent preservation,
being as fresh as if it had been painted only a few
years since. The spacious foreground, which is
covered with gracefully disposed groupes of sports-
men, displays infinite skill of management, and
nothing can surpass the ease and propriety with which
a very difficult perspective is handled. The
picture is full of life and bustle, and of the most
cheerful character possible. Head of a Rabbi ex-
hibits much of that impressive expression and depth
of shadow for which Rembrandt is so remarkable•
The Discovery of Calisto is one of Titian's splendid
pieces of colouring ; the flesh tints of the female
figures are exquisitely true to life, and the atti-
tudes full of grace and ease. Cleopatra is by
Sebastian del Piombo. The countenance of the
Egyptian Queen realises all one's conceptions of her
voluptuous beauty, but there i 3 rather more of
the blonde than the brunette about it. Return
from the Chase is another of Wouvermans'
lively and spirited productions; the canvass is well
filled, without being crowded. Landscape by Ruys-
dael is painted with matchless truth and vigour. The
still sheet of water in front, overhung by tall, umbra-
geous trees, shows aome wonderful effects of light and
shade ; and the rough, knotted bark of the beeches to
the right of the spectator prove with what singular
minuteness and fidelity this observant artist copied
nature. Head of our Saviour possesses all that
divine repose and
.beauty of expression which
Guido knew so well how to impart to his
sacred portraits. The Sybir s Temple, Tivoli,
is one of Salvator Rosa's picturesque and ro•
mantic productions. The entire foreground is very
finely executed. The Marriage of the Doge of Venice
is a very gorgeous picture, painted in Canaletti's
most careful style. The Last Supper is by no means
a first-rate work of art. The best portion of it—at
least the most expressive—is the face and figure of the
traitor, Judas. Portrait of the Cardinal Übaldini,
by Guido is richly, but chastely, coloured, and is full

The King of the French on Thursday, accompanied by
Generals Athalin and De Rumigny, went to Versailles, after
stopping about an hour at the Palace of Saint Cloud. His
Majesty did not return to Neuilly till eight o'clock. In the
evening their Majesties received the Austrian and Belgian
Ambassadors, the Wurtemberg Minister, Marshal Valle,
Counts De Breteuil, De Mornay, and De Montesquiou, Baron
d'Effaudis, Generals Hecquet and De Mornay, and M. Terme,
Deputy.
General Prim (Count de Reuss) arrived at Bordeaux from
Spain on Tuesday last, on his way to Paris and London. He
is said to have received leave of absence for four months.
The Frankfort Journal states that, according to letters
from Constantinople of the 15th ult., the Porte has adopted
the preliminaries of a new convention with Persia, through
the mediation of England and France.
Several artists are reported to have quitted Paris on a mis-
sion to Africa, for the removal of the Roman triumphal arch
of Djonisah. It is said that it is to be placed in the middle
of the Place du Carrousel.
M. Cuvier, engineer of the Ponts et Chausales, in the
department of the Allier, the nephew of the great naturalist,
has just put an end to hie life, by means of lighted charcoal.
A letter from Montlucon, of the 3d inst., which narrates this
melancholy event, states that he had intended to effect his
death a week before, but had been prevented by various cir-
cumstances. He was a well conducted young man, and fond
of his profession. He had left the Polytechnic School the
12th, and entered the Ponts et Chaussees in consequence, with
great eclat. The cause of his suicide is supposed to he an
insurmountable disgust of life.
The French dramatic critics of the classic school have just
had a signal triumph, in the complete success of Sophocles'
tragedy of Antigone, or, rather, of a literal translation, re-
presented at the theatre of the Odeon ; the celebrated actor,
Bocage, played the part of Creon.
The preliminary examinations into the revolting affair of
the association in the rue du Pot-de-I'er Saint Marcel, which
has been marked with the name of the Affaire de la Tour de
Nesle, have at length been gone through. Eight of the par.
ties are to be tried before the Court of Assizes, and seven be-
fore the Tribunal of Correctional Police, which last will be
brought up on Wednesday next. The rest of the persons ar-
rested have been discharged for want of sufficient evidence
against them.
_

—A
letter from Rome, of the 25th ult., says :—" The court-
martial called on the 26th of August last, to sit at Bologna,
has passed judgment on the persons engaged in the revolt of
the Bth September last, against their Sovereign and their
Government. Three are condemned to the galleys for life;
fire to the same punishment for twenty years; twenty-nine
for fifteen years ; one for ten years ; and three to imprison-
ment for three years. The property of the whole forty-one
was confiscated, but the Pope has been pleased to remit this
part of the sentence.
The Reforme states, that all the Parisian citadels are at
present guarded by military, and their entrance forbidden t•
any person not furnished with a ticket of admission. Towards
the close of the present summer all the detached forts will
have been completed with the exception of some barracks in-
tended
for the military.
Baroness Pasquier, wife of the Chancellor of France, died
at Paris, on Wednesday, in the 83d year of her age.
Mr. Billie, the composer, received, by order of the King of
the French, on Thursday last, the great gold medal, bearing
his Majesty's effigy, accompanied by a highly complimentary
letter from Baron Pain, the King's private secretary.

COTTIZT-rAsszoNA.a
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburglie leave Thomas's
Hotel, where they have resided during the season, at the
close of this or early in the ensuing month, for Fleury Castle,
near Kelso.

The Archbishop of Armagh entertained at dinner, in
Charles-street, on Friday, the Archbishop of Canterbury and
Mrs. Howley, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Lady A.
Poulett, Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, Lord Heytes-
bury, Hon. Miss A'Court, Mr. George and Mrs. Dawson, Mr.
O'Brien, Mr. Holford, Captain Jones, &c.
The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained on Satur-
day at dinner the Swedish Minister, Count and Countess
Bjornstjerna, and other foreigners of distinction ; also the
Earl and Countess of Antrim, the Countess of Charleville,
&c. In the evening the guests were much gratified by the
distinguished vocal talents of Madame Castellan Giampietro,
lately arrived in this country.
The Marquis of Salisbury entertained the Earl and Countess
of Rosebery, Earl and Countess Cowper, Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, Lord and Lady R.Grosvenor, and a distinguished
circle at dinner on Friday last, at his mansion in Arlington-
street.

of calm dignity. Of the remaining pictures the most
striking are those by Berghern, Vanderveld, Teniers,
and Wouvermans.

THIS DAY'S NEW

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers preSBlll
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell,
and the Earl of Beauchamp.
THE IRONMONGERS COMPANY V. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL,
In this appeal their Lordships have affirmed the judgment
of Lord Cottenham with costs.

BOURNE V. GATLIFF.
The further arguments in this writ of error were then pro-
ceeded with and occupied their Lordships the whole morning.

TILE SUSSEX DUKEDOM.
It was generally supposed that their Lordships would have
sat to.day in a Committee for privileges, for the purpose of
proceeding with the claim of Sir Augustus de Este to the
Dukedom of Sussex; but on a previous day it had been ar-
ranged that the matter should be adjourned to Thursday
next. A rumour prevails that it is likely the subject will
not come again before their Lordships, as it is said to be the
intention of her Majesty to confer on the claimant a Scotch
title. We give this merely as the rumour of the day.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took causes to-day,
none of which possessed any points of the least importance.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF MIL MICHAEL SCALES
V. THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SEWERS FOR THE TOWER