The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-30 00:00:00

MR. GORHAM AND THE BISHOP

OF EXETER.
The following letter has been forwarded to us for
publication :
TO HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
My Lord Archbishop,--I feel it my duty to an-
nounce publicly to your Grace an error of my inform-
ant, who stated to me (see my published letter, p. 41)
that there was no edition of Bullinger's Decades sub-
sequent to that of 1577, in the 16th century. I have
had an ' opportunity this day of in,pecting a copy of
an edition in. 1587, and I see, in Watts's Bibliotheca
Britannica, that there had been an edition in 1584.
Whatever deduction ought to be made on this ac-
count from my argument against the probability of
the " order," &c., of 1586 having issued, I hereby
request your Grace and my readers to make. But,
in order that your and their Judgment may be formed
satisfactorily, I think it right to state that neither in
the title-page nor in the preface, nor in any part of
the book, so far as I can discover, is there the
slightest notice of any such "order." The preface,
which is a reprint of that of 1577, merely recom-
mends the book on the general ground of its own
merit. The book is stated to have beau (as was, I
believe, very watal at that time) cunt gratia et privi-
legio Regis 1114estatis, which was not in the edition
of 1577.
There is another matter on which I avail myself of
this opportunity to correct a great misapprehension.
I understand it has been said that one of my coun-
sel, in addressing the Judicial Committee, stated that
" the Bishop told Mr. Gorham that if he would state
he had no intention to publish the questions, answers,
and correspondence, then the examination might cease
at the point where they had arrived. If Mr. Gorham
had said that he would plainly answer the questions
and let the matter rest there, then their Lordships
would probably never have heard of the present con-
troversy, and Mr. G vham would at that moment have
been rector of Bramford Speke."
On the very day on which the learned counsel was
reported to have said this, or something to the same
effect, I remonstrated with him as having said it with-
out my instructions or authority, and contrary to my
wish, as well as to what had really been intended by
me. lie assured me that what he had said had been
greatly misapprehended, and very incorrectly reported
to me.
What was really said to me by Mr. Gorham on
this matter will be found in the following passages
of
Mr. Goham's published account of the examiation.
At p. 114, immediately before question 61, is what
follows :
" The Bishop—l have no hesitation in saying that my
reason for asking whether Mr. Gorham intends to pub-
lish what has passed in this examination, and for my
stating that if there be such intention, or if the inten-
tion be not disclaimed, I mast continue the examination,
is this,-that the mater is not sufficiently investigated to
enable me, in that case, to take the course which I may
be now prepared other*lse to WEE), without my seeming
to have forborne to pima before Mr. Gorham several
considerations, which ought in my judgment to be
weighed and answered by him."
At p. 145, is the following passage, in a letter of
mine to Mr. Gorham :
" To what you say of my avowed reason for continu-
ing the examination on the fourth and subsequent days,
namely, that I had the impression of your intention to
publish what had passed, or might pass, I
answer, that
I hoped to bring the examination t_) a close in a manner
favourable to you, on your making (as I expected that
you would make) some general qualification of your
statements; but that I felt it to be impossible to take
this course on your declining to disclaim the purpose of
publication." _ _

I now solemnly aver to your Grace that I had no
intention whatever of instituting Mr. Gorham, unless
on a fully satisfactory qualification of his statements.
I am, my Lord Archbishop, with great respect,
your Grace's most dutiful and faithful servant,
11. EXETER.
Bishopstowe, March 28.

EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—The New York
packet-ship Fidelia, Captain F. W. Abeel, 969 tons, was
discharged in the Waterloo-dock, Liverpool, in twenty-eight
hours! Her cargo, which was all passed by the landing-
waiter and delivered, consisted of 19,CC0 bushels corn, 2,000
packages lard and tallow, 620 bales cotton, 700 packages
provisions, 500 barrels flour, and 10,000 staves. Within the
twenty-eight hours she had also 100 tons of her outward
cargo put on board.