The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-25 00:00:00

Pemberton's retirement. A vary considerable, caving
will accrue to thy public by this arrangement. Mr.
Pemberton filled the very arduous post of S,7creta-y to
the Chancellor of tbExchcyu r during tie 1.1,-.lministra-
ton of Sir Robert PPeL,
THE GORHAM CASH. —T hc,. Gloucester Church
Unpin have adopted the following addres to the 13bhop
of Exeter on the late judgment
TO THE RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD, HENRY, LORD

BISLI )P OF EXETER.

" Right, v. Father the undersigned
clergy and lay members of the Church of Eegfand, de-
sire humbly to offer to your Lordship the expression f
our most grateful sympathy, iu relerence to the position
in which your Lordship would appear to be placed by
the recent judgment of the Judicial Committee of the
Privy Council.
" We shrink, indeed, from the use of language which
shall savour of passing an opinion upon the 'harmer in
which a bishop has exercised his apostolical authority.
But we de, under the unusual circumstances of the case,
crave permission to express to your Lordship our thauk-
fuluess that Almighty God has enabled you thus to vin-
dicate the doctrine of the Church cencerning the holy
sacrament of baptism, and to do what in you lay to pre-
serve the poor and unlearned of Chrisi's flock from false
teaching on a point concerning their everlasting sal-
vation.
" We pray your Lordship to permit us also humbly to
express our deep and grateful sense of the firm and con-
mistent manner in which your Lordship has acted
throughout these most painful and trying proceedings.
We feel that your Lordship has laid the members of the
Church of England under a debt of obligation which it
will not be in their power ever adequately to repay;
and we arnestly pray that the Great Head of the Church
may abundantly acknowledge this your witness for his
truth, and that He may graciously fulfil, in your Lord-
ship's person, Ills pr miss to give unto His apostle's a
mouth and wisdom which all' their • adversaries shell not
be able to gainsay or resist.' "
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.-The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examine
tions for the diploma were admitted members of the
College, at the meeting of the Court of Examiners, on
the 22e1 insists% r-Messre. John F. Brice, Pontefract,
Yorkshire; William Michell Clark, Bodmin, Cornwall;
John Thomas Grantham, Craytord, Kent; Thomas
Mudge, Bodmin, C rnwall; Robert Rayner, Bir.tel,
near Leeds. Yorkshire; Charles Robbins Maxwell,
Brompton, Middlesex; Henry Wilson Sharpie, Bed-
ford; William Vauehan Junta, Romney-terrace, West-
minster; William Tindal Robertson, Grantham, Lin-
colnshire; Alfred Collins, Hon. East India Company's
Service, Bengal; and Adam Rogers, Bentink-street,
Manchester-square.
EASTERN UNION R, XILvvAY.-On Friday the ad-
journed half-yearly meeting f the proprietors of this
company was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars; Mr. J. Chevallier Cobbold, M.P., chairman
cf the beard of dire ct aer in the chair. The chairman
proposed the adoption of the report. Mr. Lechmere
moved as an amendment the adjournment of the con-
sideratien of the report until the Government auditor
had made his report to the Board of Railways, and that
the directors be instructed to make an application for
such auditor. The amendment was seconded by Mr.
Watson. The report was ultimately adopted, only three
hands being held up for the proposed amendment. The
remuneration of the auditors was, after some discussion,
fixed at 50 guineas each, instead of 201., as heretofore.
The meeting was then made spacial, and it was resolved
that 125,0001., the residue of the 250,0001. authorised by
the Eastern Union Railway Amendment Act, 1849,
should be raised in 25,000 shares of 51. each. This re-
solution, and a series of others as to the mode in which
these shares were to be applied, were at last adopted,
and the meeting adjourned, having lasted nearly four
hours and been eery numerously attended.
ARRIVAL or SPECIE-The Maria has arrived at
Liverpool from Huanchaco (west coact of South Ame-
rica) with silver and other rich metals, valued at
92,000 dollars.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.-On Saturday the
Cowisnittee on this company's Bill for the ere ation of
additional capital and regularity of priority of dividends,
re-assembled at twelve o'clock, when the Chairman
(Lord Harry Vane), addressing the parties, said, " I
have to inform you that the Committee have come to
tte unanimous opinion that the preamble of the Bill is
not proved "
RAILWAY COMPANIES CLEARING ASSOCIATION.-
The Standing Orders Coo mittee have decided that
the promoters may be permitted to deposit a petition for
a Bill, and that the usual order may be dispensed with.
CADVERTIsEMENT.j-CONTENTS OF THE Observer
of March 24.-Two folio columns of the Banquet at the
Mansion-house-two columns of Marylebone and Pan-
cras Vestries, and other matters connected therewith-
nearly two columns of the Funds and City Article-one
column of extracts from the Report on the British Mu.
seum-three folio columns of the Banquet at the London
Tavern, given by the East India Company to honour
General Lord Gough-about two columns of the So-
ciety of British Artists in Suffolk street-one column of
the Society of Arts-nearly two columns of the Life of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, by the Rev.
Erskine Neale, and Lady E. Ponsonby's Discipline of
Life-one column of births, marriages, and deaths-six
columns of useful advertisements-and thirteen columns
of domestic and foreign news-in all forty folio columns
for 6d. The Observer is regularly published at four
o'clock on Sunday mornings, in time for all the early
Sunday morning railways; Monday's edition, for
the country and abroad, at four o'clock on Monday sif-
terniems.
Time is a file that wears, and makes no noise.-
Eliza Cook's Journal.
SPECIAL PLEADING.-It is stated to be the inten-
tion of the Government to put an end to " special plead-
ing" in the Superior Courts at Westminster, by bringing
forward a measure in the House of Commons to abolish
the form of pleading to actions, and thereby to diminish
the present great expenses in law proceedings.
THE FIRST LOCOMOTIVE IN ABERDEEN.-On
Saturday evening last, at seven o'clock, a locomotive
engine crossed the Dee from the South, and entered
Aberdeenshire amid the plaudits of an immense con-
course of spectators. The intentions of the directors to
bring in a locomotive on Saturday were not generally
known ; but some few being aware of them, the news
that the engine was coming soon spread, and long before
the hour at which it was expect-el, thousands were
hurrying to Ferryhill. The directors pissed over, with
an engine, the last six miles of tee line, which now
completes a railway, without break, from Aberdeen
to London. The Government inspector is to be on
the line on the 25th or 26th current, and it is intended
that the regular traffic to the Ferryhill Station shall
commence on the Ist proximo.-.North of Scotland
Gazette.
MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT. - SATURDAY,
MARCII 23.-The market for goods continues pretty
stationary and there is little visible change to note since
Thursday last, although the tendency is obviously to a
still further decline in prices. Hence buyers are cautious,
trusting that the producers may shortly meet their
views, and notwithstanding there has been to-day a con-
siderable amount of inquiry for various descriptions of
goods, the business transacted has been very limited.
Grey shirtings of superior quality still maintain their
late prices. The inferior qualities aro not so much in
demand. The transactions in yarns are still in favour
of the buyer. The declining prices have prevented
many extensive orders for the eastern market from being
put into the hands of the spinners; but it is hoped,
should a further recession not take place, that sufficient
orders will be given •out to keep the mills in a pretty
active state for some time; and the recent accounts from
India favour this supposition.
MURDER IN NEWCASTLE.-A. shocking murder
was committed in the town of Newcastle on Saturday
morning, the victim being a woman named Elizabeth
Forbes, and the supposed murderer her husband, Patrick
Forbes, an Irish labourer. The latter is stated to have
been a violent drunken character, and to have been in
the habit of maltreating his wife. The police wore at-
tracted to the spot-a top room ire Cloggers-entry, near
St. Nicholas's Churchyard-by cries of " Murder," and
on entering found the floor cevered with blood, nod the
woman dead in bed,' and shockingly wounded in the
lower part of the abdomen as well as on the face. The
husband was at the time sitting on a chair by the fire-
side. He professed total ignorance of the manner in
which his wife had come to her end, and offered no re-
sistance when taken into custody. Spots of blood were
found on his shirt, trousers, and hands, and he bad two
knives in his possession.
THE CONVICT UNDER SENTENCE, ANNE MERRITT.
The Sheriffs have received a communication from Sir
G. Grey, informing them that the execution of Anne
Merritt is to be respi'ed during her Majesty's pleasure.
We understand that a further investigation of this case
has been considered necessary by the Home Secretary,
after communication with the Lord Chief Baron, owing
to doubts which have been expressed by physicians and
surgeons of great eminence of the correctness of a very
important part of the evidence, depending entirely upon
the accuracy of a medical opinion.-Sunday Paper.
FOREIGN VESSELS IN BRITISH PORTS.-A return
has just been published of the sums paid in the year
1849 to corporations, companies, &c., for the difference
of rates due upon foreign vessels now admitted into our
ports at the same rates of charge as British vessels. The
whole amount so paid was 39,295/. 17e. 4d. The ports
which figure the most largely in the account are Liver-
pool, Newcastle, and Hull. In Liverpool, 5,355/. 7s. 6d.
was paid to the pilots, and 151. 17.. 6d. to the corpora-
tion. In Newcastle, 1931. 15e. lid. for lights, and
2,403/. 53. 9d. for pilotage was paid to the Trinity-house;
3,1201. 2s. for town dues, 1031. ss. for anchorage was
paid to the corporation, and 291. ss. for local duos to the
company of Free Hotsmen. In Hull the claims of the
Trinity-house for harbour dues and pilotage amounted
respectively to 14076/. ss. Bd., and 981. Is. 3d.; those
of the corporation for harbour dues and dues on mer-
chandise to 6,1431. 16s. 10d. and 48/. 13s. 8d ; and the
sum compounded for by the Dock Company in lieu of
dues was 4,7501. Bs. The total amount raid under the
reciprocity treaties up to the end of 1849 has been
741.5891 6s. sd.
The Marquis of Clanricarde, the Postmaster-
General, left London on Friday morning for Paris. We
understand that the object of the visit of his Lordship
to the French capital is, to negOtiate a modification of
the rates of postage upon letters passing between Great
Britain and France, with a view to the diminution of the
present charges on the correspondence passing between
the two countries. A rate of 10d. for a letter under a
quarter of an ounce is certainly too high, when a letter
may be sent from Calais to Paris for 2d., and from
Dover to the north of Scotland for one panny.-Sunday
Paper.
Commentators are folks that too often write on
books as men with diamonds write on glass, obscuring
light with scratches.-Eliza Cook's .lournal.
METROPOLITAN TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW AND

ORPHAN FUND.--A cheque fur 51., in aid of the funds
of this switty, has been forwarded by Mr. V. G.
Dowling.