The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-01 00:00:00

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and robbery of 31. 7s. 63. from Matthew Ryan, near
Annacoqy ; Denis Flynn, assaulting the habitation
of M,;try Bouvanizer ; Th..nnas Newmzn, attacking
the dwtlEng cf Richard Bennis, at Glenacurra.
Total under rub, of transportation, 18.

TO be Imprisoned.—For fwo vears—Daniel Nunan,
Michael Collins, and William Dugan, burglariously
entering into the dwelling of Thomas Mitchell, of
Ballinahinch ; Thomas Hinchey, firing into the
dwelling of Michael M`Carthy, at Kilonihan ; John
and Laurence M Donnell and William Slattery, rob-
bery of money from the house of John Slattery, at
Ballynanty. For twelve months—Michael Looney,
assisting the abduction of Catherine Molony ; John
Frewen, harbouring a felon ; Patrick and Ambrose
Cummins, stealing a gun from the house of Mr. 'l',
P. \Yokes, Roxborough-road. For nine months—
James Healy, Thomas Walsh, John Walsh, Thomas
Mo.)re' John Rourke, Michael Falvy, Michael Glee-
son, David Connell, Connor Daly, Conner Tracy,
Patrick Ahern, and Thomas Guerin, riotous a:,.sembly
at Bruree. For six months—Thomas Frewer., har-
bouring a felon Total to be imprisoned, 9.4.
Total number of prisoners tried, convicted, and
sentenced, 38.

CLA

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To be Hanged—On the 15th of February, Patrick
Ryan (" Small ") and Thomas Hayes, for the mur-
der of Mr. James Watson, of Ballycorney 'Lines
Crowe, conspiring to murder the same gentleman, on
the 19th of February; Michael Butler and Matthew
Hourigan, for the murder of Patrick Cleary, at
Broadford, on the 17th of February.
Sentence of d(-atli was recorded against John
M•lnerlieny, Patrick and John Guerin, and Cliares
Healy, for the murder of Thady M'Mahon, at Caber-
hatnore ; also agnirst Michael M'Mahon, for con,pir-
[ng murder Matthew Boland, at Claremont.
To be Transported for Fourteen years—John
Lyddy, Patrick Canny, Michael Hickey, and Michael
Skehan, for attacking and robbing the house of Mr.
William Walsh, of Trough ; John Slattt rt., Michael
Murphy, and Daniel M‘Namara, for attacking the
house of Thomas Hennessy, of Ba]lahov. For Ten
years—Owen Lyddy and Timothy O'Brien, for at-
tacking the house of John Hogan, of Knockbrack.
To be Imprisoned for Two years—Patrick Cusack,
appearing in arms, and firing at a house, the property
of Mr. J. P. Molony. For Eighteen .Months—John
M‘Namara, John and Patrick Connors, and Michael
M'Corinack, assaulting the care-taker of William
Griffin, at Broadford, and stealing a gun; James
Hurse, James Duggan, Laurence Shanahan, and
John M'Mahon, posting a threatening notice on the
gate of Mr. C: ofton M. Vantieleur ; Pia Cunning-
ham, Martin Molony, and Thomas King, attacking
the house of Patrick Bourke, at Barnagh.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER. AND

His vicTim.
(From the Western Times.)
Mr. Gorham, the cletgyman whom tla. Ei• hop of
Exeter refuses to institute to the living of Brampronf
Speke, on the presentation of the Crown (and whom
he has harassed by an examination of several days,
one day continuing it eleven hours and a half), is a
clergyman of thirty- seven years' standing in the
ministry, and graduated with high honours at
Cambridge. He obtained all the prizes in his col-
lege whilst an under-graduate. In 1808 he gained
the University medal for " The Morrisian Divinity
Essay," before he had taken his degrees; and a divinity
prize in his college soon after. In 1809 he was the
third wrangler, and divided the Smith's prize (the
highest mathematical honour the University has to
bestow on her Alumni) with the senior wrangler,
the present Judge Alderson. He W S immediately
selected by the late -Mr. Wilberforce and the
Dean of Carlisle as tutor to a distinguished
nobleman. In 1810 he was elected Fellow of Queen's
College, and he retained that preferment seventeen
years. In 1820 he was offered the senior tutorship, but
declined it, being engaged in ministerial wof k. He
was the only competitor with Professos Sedgwick for
the geological chair. His literary, scientific, and theo-
logical attainments, induced the late Lord Chancellor
Lyndhurst to give him the valuable living of St. Just,
in Cornwall, worth more than 5001. a year; but the
situation in some respects not being congenial, Mr. Got.-
' ham gladly accepted, on the presentation of the Crown,
the living of Brampford Spoke, although the income is
nearly3ool.per annum less. Mr:Gorham has al ways been
respected by, and on the most friendly terms with, the
four bishops in whose dioceses he has at different times
had ministerial duty—and this is the man whom the
Bishop of Exeter scruples to admit on the presenta-
tion of the Crown to the vicarage of Brampford
Speke. When the presentation was tendered to the
Bishop he said nothing about examination, allowed
Mr. Gorham to return into Cornwall, pack up his
furniture, and make all necessary arrangements
for the removal of his family, and when insti-
tution was demanded it was refused, until the
Bishop had examined Mr. Gorham. Mr. Gorham went
to Exeter for the purpose of being examined, but
the Bishop declined doing so, until after his return
from London, and appointed Mr. Gorham to wait on
him at Bishopstowe. The Bishop kept Mr. Gorham
waiting a whole month at Torquay for his threatened
examination, whilst he was " lingering in London," -
and endeavouring to check the Queen and her Minis-
ters in another diocese, neglecting this urgent
business in his own. The Bishop first tried to
poison the ear of the Lord Chancellor by inscrib-
ing on Mr. Gorham's testimonials an insinuation
of his doctrine not being pure, but Lord Cot-
tenham was too honourable a man to listen to
such aspersions, and presented the living to
Mr. Gorham, notwithstanding the Bishop's remon-
strance. Now the real offence committed by Mr.
Gorham was, that he successfully opposed the Bishop's
attempt to prevent his appointing a curate who did
not hold the Bishop's favourite dogma of baptismal
regeneration, and Mr. Gorham, then in correspond-
ence with the Bishop, declared, in respectful but firm
language, he would oppose Tractarian error in every
form and by every means in his power. The
Bishop denounced this independent Presbyter, who
dared to uphold the doctrines of the Reformation,
as a man of broken vows, and seized on the
earliest opportunity of reprisal, by summoning Mr.
Gorham to Bishopstowe for examination, which,
under protest, Mr. Gorham submitted to, and replied
at great length to seventy-eight questions, on the
alone subject of baptismal regeneration. The Bishop
was little aware of the firm Christian spirit, and the
intellectual superiority of the man whom he had
forced into conflict with him, and on the
third day of the examination the Bishop inti-
mated that if Mr. Gorham would not publish—the
examination should terminate favourably. But Mr.
Gorham felt that the interests of the Church were too
deeply involved in this proceeding to think of his
own welfare primarily, and, nothing daunted by the
Bishop, he declined making such a stipulation, and
the examination was continued with increased acri-
mony, until Mr. Gorham's physical strength failed,
and he was obliged to suspend examination at Bishop-
stowe, although it was continued in Torquay, for
the Bishop sent him eight questions of enormous length,
and " Cardall's Conferences" to read, and give his
opinion in writing. On Friday, the 7th, Mr.. Gorham
again applied for institution, which was refused until
further examination had taken place, and Mr. Gorham
was summoned to Bishopstowe on onday, the 10th,
and peremptorily ordered to reply categorically to the
questions that might be proposed. Having already
been detained three months from his parish and
family on this business, and being convinced the
Bishop did not mean to institute, but to harass
him still further, Mr. Gorham departed to London
on Monday, the 10th, to seek legal redress, and the
whole correspondence and examination will soon
be before the public, and it is hoped that the Noble
Lord at the head of affairs will interpose some check
on this prelate, who relying on his own infallibility,
sets up his standard of doctrine in opposition to the
Thirty-nine Articles, and who would fain excommu-
nicate all the clergy from his diocese who do not view
the doctrine in the same light as he does himself.
Constant reader ! you recollect the gentle admoni-
tions which Bishop Phillpotts passed on that con-
victed and notorious drunkard, the Rev. Thomas
Jones Laden—contrast the mild sentence on the
drunkard, with the harassing and offensive conduct
towards the gentleman and the scholar—and, thank
Heaven, if you be not in holy orders, and bearing the
yoke of this diocese.