The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-15 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before the VIOE•CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
Very little business, and that of a totally unimportant
character, was done in this court to-day, in constluence
.1 the absence of Mr. Bethel!, who was engaged in the
Lord Chancellor's Court.

(Before the Vice• Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
His HONOUR having disposed of the bankrupt and
cause petitions in his paper, proceeded to hear the
arguments in

YETTS V. THE NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY.
This case came before his Honour upon motion and
demurrer, and the short facts of the case may be thus
stated :—The plaintiff was a shareholder of the Norfolk
Railway Company, and bad refused to pay the third call
advertised, on the ground that the money was not required,
and that if it was obtained it would be used contrary to
the direct wishes of the great body of the shareholders.
The plaintiff filed his bill to prevent the directors from
taking proceedings for the enforcement of the payment of
the call or the forfeiture of his shares. To this bill the
defendant demurred.

The arguments appear likely to occupy some consider-
able time.
(Before the Vice Chancellor WICRAM.)
LOADER V. CLARK.—JUDGMENT.

His HONOUR gave judgment in this case to-day, di-
recting an issue to try whether at the time of the transfer
of the stock mentioned in the cause to the defendants,
the father and brother-in-law of the plaintiff, there was
a trust declared in favour of the children of the marriage,
in consideration of which the transfer of the stock was
made.

CHANT V. BROWN.
The further arguments in this part-heard cause occu-
pied the Court the remainder of the morning.

QUEEN'S BEN uH.-(THIS DAY.)

THE QUEEN V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.

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The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved this morning for
writ to be directed by this Court to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, to inquire into the truth of certain matters
wherein issues had been joined. The case had been
brought against the Bishop of Exeter for refusing to
institute and induct the Rev. Mr. Gorham in a living
within the diocese of Exeter. The declaration was in
the usual form, and tho Bishop pleaded that he had exa-
mined Mr. Gorham, and found that he held, maintained,
and affirmed certain unsound doctrines and opinions con-
trary to the true Christian faith, viz., that spiritual re-
generation is not given or conferred by the sacrament of
baptism, and that infants are not, therefore, regenerated
by the performance of that ceremony; and the plea went
on to say that he considered him unfit to hold the living,
and therefore refused to induct him into it. The replica-
tion alleged that he was not unfit, and that he did not
hold unsound doctrines, and he (the Attorney-General)

apprehended that the issue between the parties was one
which could only be tried under the spiritual law, and
in one of the spiritual courts. The Attorney-General
referred to several authorities to show that the question
could only be settled by the law spiritual, and that al-
though the Bishop of the diocese was the judge of the
matter, it had bcen laid down that inasmuch as his
proceedings were not put upon record, the cause might
be referred to the Metropolitan Archbishop. The only
other matter for the decision of the Court was whether
the rule in this case should be absolute, or whether it
should be a rule to show cause. The writ would issue
to the Archbishop of Canterbury for the purpose of try-
ing, under the law spiritual, the matter in dispute—
whether the clerk holds sound or Unsound doctrines.

Mr. Justice WlGllTMAN—Generally, are the parti-
cular doctrines mentioned? _

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—The plea states that he
holds unsound doctrines, to wit, the two doctrines I have
mentioned. if your Lordships wish to determine the
doctrines, we will demur to the plea, but the Bishop has
not demurred to the replication.—(Laughter.) Tho
Archbishop will have to examine the clerk, and will have
to report npon his general fitness by reason of his hold-
ing sound or unsound doctrines. .

trir. Justice COLERIDGE—Then, supposing the clerk
held one doctrine before the Archbishop, and another be-
fore the Bishop ?

Lord DENMAN—The meaning is that he did hold them
at a cert•tin tirnp.

Mr. Justice PATTESON—The question to be deter-
mined is the exact point upon baptismal regeneration.
Lord DENMAN—We will wait and see whether the
Bishop consents to the writ going to the Archbishop, be-
fore consenting to the motion.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The second nisi prius sittings in term commenced this
day, but no case of public interest came before the Court
up to the hour of our going to press.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The January adjourned Quarter Sessions were held
this day at the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green. The
Court was occupied the whole morning in hearing ap-
peals, chiefly relating to the settlement and removal of
paupers.
The appeal of the Hammersmith Bridge Company
against the poor-rate of Hammersmith, that of the Vaux-
hall Bridge Company against the poor-rates of St. Mar-
garet's and St. John's, Westminster; and also that of
the Windsor, &dues, and South-Western Company
against the pour-rates of the four parishes of Staines,
Feltham, Ashford, and Twickenham, were postponed to
the next Quarter Sessions.

CABINET ARRANGEMENTS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—The. Ministerial arrangements consequent
upon the death of Lord Auckland are now completed
and Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, has accepted the office
of First Lord of the Admiralty. By this appointment
the Crown and the country recover the services of an
experienced Minister,—of a man perfectly conversant
with the details of public business, and peculiarly fitted
by his experience in a financial office, under a former
Government, to promote all such reductions in the ex-
penditure of the navy as are consistent with the efficiency
of that most important branch of the service. The nego-
tiations which have ended in this appointment have been
somewhat protracted by a laudable attempt on the part
of Lord John Russell to strengthen his Administration
by offering the department of the Admiralty to Sir
James Graham. The offer was made in a spirit of
frankness and good feeling, with a sincere desire to
bury in oblivion all past differences which may have
interrupted the harmony of men now holding the same
opinions, and which are prejudicial to the permanent
interests of the country. On the part of Sir James
Graham the offer was received with a perfect acknow-
ledgment of the public motives which had suggested the
proposal, although after some consideration he declined
to accept it. Had that offer been accepted it would
naturally have led to some further modifications of the
Cabinet, with a view to extend the basis of the Govern-
ment; but under the existing circumstances we believe
no further changes are likely to occur. It has been the
custom to throw a veil, which history itself has not
always removed, over those abortive combinations which
usually precede any important change in the distri-
bution of public offices ; but, in the present in-
stance, the transaction between the Government
and Sir James Graham is so creditable to both
parties, that we rejoice it has transpired. It is a
renewal on the part of Lord John Russell of those
liberal dispositions towards his former opponents which
led him to offer places in his Cabinet to Lord Lincoln
and Mr. Sidney Herbert on the formation of the Go-
vernment, and which subsequently conferred upon Lord
Dalhousie the most magnificent appointment which can
be held by a subject of any Crown. We record the fact
with the more pleasure, inasmuch as it rebuts the charge
of domestic influence and family connexion sometimes
urged to excess against the Whig Government. It is
the misfortune of the Whigs, as well as their strength
and their glory, that long adherence to the same
political traditions has gradually welded their leading
houses into near family connexion ; but Lord
John Russell has not neglected any opportu•
nity which has been afforded him, to show
that, in choosing his colleagues, he looked be-
yond his relations. We feel the more called uponito
make this observation, inasmuch as we were led to
protest with—what has turned out to have been—unne-
cessary promptitude against the return of Lord Minto to
the Admiralty. No such appointment was contem-
plated by the Government, and Lord Minto himself at once
declared not only that he put forward no claim what-
ever to the office which he had formerly filled at the
Admiralty, but that he held his present office of the '
Privy Seal entirely at the disposal of the Prime Mi-
nister, if it could be the means of facilitating the pro-
jected arrangements with the remnant of the moderate
Conservative party. We mention these circumstances
not because they are of any great weight or importance
in themselves, but because they convey correct impres-
sions of the share taken by several eminent persons in
these arrangements which are creditable to themselves
and to the country.
HERALD.—The new Cabinet appointment has at
length been decided upon. The Right Hon. Francis
Thornhill Baring, M.P. for the borough of Portsmouth,
and who held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer
in the late Lord Melbourne's Administration, is to be
the new First Lord of the Admiralty. We announced
on Saturday that there was some foundation for believing
that the Earl of Clarendon would succeed to the vacant
post. It would appear that difficulties have arisen, which
the transfer of the Earl of Clarendon from Ireland to
the Admiralty would have increased rather than have
removed, and that it has therefore been resolved, with
the Right Hon. Gentleman's assent, to introduce Mr.
Baring into the Ministry. In the House of Commons the
Board of Admiralty is held to be sufficiently represented,
but it being absolutely necessary that one of the Lords
should be in a position to answer for the department in
the Upper House, there is little doubt that a peerage
will accompany this appointment.

POST..2-Airtongst the club rumours which; are pre-
valent, by no means the least probable is the following:—
Sir James Graham is said to have been sent for by Lord
John Russell and to have been offered the Colonial
Office. Lord Grey to go to the Admiralty, and Lurd
Lincoln, with Mr. Cardwell, to receive important ap-
pointments. The motive of this arrangement is alleged
to have been the tear which the Ministry entertain of an
attack, tee powerful for their parliamentary strength,
against their present colonial policy, in the ensuing ses-
sion of Parliament. The conditions, however, which,
according to the statement, were exacted by Sir James
Graham, could not be agreed to by the Prime Minister,
and the proposal accordingly fell to the ground.

IRELAND.
MR. DUFFY'S TRIAL.

DUBLIN, JAN. 13.—At Green-street to•day, the
case of Gavan Duffy was renewed. Messrs. Napier,
Q C., and Butt, Q C., have concluded their argu-
ments, and the Attorney-General has just risen to
reply to them.
DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.-At the conclusion of
the Learned Attorney• General's address, the Court,
after some consideration, fixed on Thursday next for
the delivery of their judgment, the state of business
in the Queen's Bench rendering it impos:sible for them
to appoint an earlier (lay.
There have been further incendiary fires in Down.
The conflagrations have been effected by gun-cotton;
none of the incendiaries have been yet arrested.
In a poor-rate appeal case which came before the
Assistant Barrister fbr Cavan at the Bailieborough
Sessions, his Worship decided that the rate was il-
legally struck.
It is thought that this important decision will affect
every union in Ireland.
The stormy weather has again set in here, and the
arrivals of the London mails are much retarded.

A proclamation was issued last night, calling in all
arms in the possession of persons unauthorised in the
disturbed baronies before the 18th of January, under
penalty of imprisonment with hard labour for two
years.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
STOURTON STEEPLE CHASE.
The following are t he official acceptances for this race:—
The Doctor, Wolverhampton, Prince George, Vic-
tim, Knight of G wynne, Marengo, La Sylphide, Peter
Simple, and Khondooz.
HOOTON PARK STEEPLE CHASE.

Fanny Ellslrr, Lincoln, Dicky Misfortune, Carlow,
The Witch, Equinox, Rover, Pantaloon, and Royston
Gower.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE. —M. Dejean has, in
very handsome manner, insitt d the boys of the Green-
wich Hospital schools, 800 in number, to a juvenile
fete, to be given on Wednesday morning next at this
house, and has provided a bill of fare of the most at-
tractive char❑ctt-r for his youthful visitors. The invita•
tion has, with the permission of the authorities of the
schools, been accepted ; and the railway company have
kindly undertaken to furnish gratuitously a train to
convey the boys to and from London on that day. The
entertainment (an announcen.ent of which appears in
another column) will be something beyond the common
run, and such as the admirers of horsemanship, &c., will
find much to their taste. Upwards of 800 boys will sing
the choruses of the National Anthem, and perform seve-
ral pieces specially arranged for the occasion.

A paragraph appears in another part of our paper,
copied !rum the United Service Gazate, announcing. that
Captain Binstead, R.N., is likely to be appointed Liar-
tniur Master for London, which statement is totally
untrue.