The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Governor-General of India, Sir 11. Ilardinge, em-
barked at Brighton, on Saturday evening, for Dieppe, en
route by land to ➢iarseilles, where he embarks for Alex-
andria.
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The Wells Diocesan Training Sehool 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 the 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 runner responsibility, nave, thertore, being
other re-
source than at once to abandon the undertaking.
A movement has commenced in the extensive and popu•
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. H. Pierrepont.
The statue of Goethe meets in Frankfort with a similar
fate as that of Byron in .London, which has lain in 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 5001. for it. .
At the meeting of the Fell9ws 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 were 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.P., G. F. Matheson, Esq., Robert
0. Walker, Esq., Thomas Douglasse, Esq., C. Speare 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, Bethnel-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 Hallway 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.