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

Pernberten's retirement. A very considerable saving
will accrue to the public by this arrangement. Mr.
Pemberton filled the very arduous post of'Secretary to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Administra-
tion of Sir Robert Peel.
THE GORHAM CAS E.-T he Gloucester Church
'Union hare adopted the following address to the Bishop
of liiceter on the late judgment :
"TO THE RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD, HENRY, LORD
OF EXETER. _ _

" Right Rev. Father in God,—We, the undersigned
Clergy and lay members of the Church of Engtand, de-
sire humbly to offer to your Lordship the expression of
. our most grateful sympathy, in reference 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 scanner in
which a bishop has exercised his apostolical authority.
But we do, under the unusual circumstances of the case,
crave permission to express to your Lordship our thank-
fulness that Almighty God hat enabled you thus to vin-
dicate the doctrine of the Church concerning the holy
nrirsmerit of baptism, and to do what in you lay to pre-
serve the poor and unlearned of Christ'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-
si.tent manner in which your Lordship has acted
throughout these most painful and trying proceedings.
We feel that your Lord,hip has laid the na, tubers of the
Church of England under a debt of obligarion which it
will not be in their power ever adt quidely to repay;
and we arnestly pray that the Gnat 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, His pr miss to give unto His apostle's ' a
mouth and wisdom which all' their adversaries shall 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, ou
the 223 instant.:—Mesias. John F. Brice, Pontefract,
Yorkshire; William Michell Clark, Bodrnin, Cornwall;
John Thomas Grantham, Craytord, Kent; Thomas
Mudge, Bodmin, Cornwall; Robert Rayner. 13irstal,
near Leeds, Yorkshire; Charles Robbins Maxwell,
Brompton, Middlesex; Henry Wilson Sharpin, Bed-
ford; William Vaue.hars Jonra, 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 RAILWAY.—On Friday the ad-
journed half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street,
Blackfriars; Mr. J. Chevallier Cobbold, M.P., chairman
of the board of dire et as in the chair. The chairman
proposed the adoption of the report. Mr. Lschmare
moved as an amendment the adjournment of the con-
sideration 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 20/., as heretofore.
The meeting was then made special, 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 very numerously attended.
ARRIVAL OF: SPECIE.—The Maria has arrived at
Liverpool from Huanchaco (west coast of South Ame-
rica) with silver .and other rich metals, valued at
92,000 dollars.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—On Saturday the
Committee on this company's Bill for the creation 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
Dave to inform you that the Committee have come to
the unanimous opinion that the preamble of the Bill is
sot proved."
RAILWAY COMPANIES CLEARING ASSOCIATION.—
The Standing Orders Committee have decided that
the promoters may be permitted to deposit a petition for
a Bill, and that the usual order may be dispensed with.
V.DVERTISEMENT.i-CONTENTS OF THE Observer
of arch 24.—Two folio columns of the Banquet at the
Mansion-house—two columns of Marylebone and Pan.
cram Vestries' and other matters connected therewith—
tearly 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 61 The Observer is regularly published at four
O'clock on Sunday mornings, in time for all the early
Sunday morning raiiways; Monday's edition, for
the country and abroad, at four o'clock on Monday af-

turnoons. -
Time is a file that wearP, and makes no noise.—
Eliza Cook's Journal.
SPECIAL PLEADING.—It is stated to be the inten-
tion of the Goverlialt nt to put an end to " special plead-
ice in the Superior Courti 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.
TUB FIRST LOCOMOTIVE IN ABERDEEN.-0a
Saturday evening last, at seven o'clock, a locomotive
engine crossed the Pee 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 expected, thousands were
hurrying to Ferryhill. The directors passed over, with
an engine, the last six miles of the line, which now
completes a railway, without break, from Aberdeen
to Loudon. The Government inspector is to be on
the line on the 25ih 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.
IVIANCRE3THR TRAM, RHYORT. SATURDAY,
MARC% 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 cautions,
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 tranbacted has been very limited.
Grey abirtings of superior quality still maintain their
late prices. The inferior qualities are 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.-1 shocking murder
Was committed in the town of Newcast!e 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 were at-
tracted to the spot—a top room io Cloggers-entry, near
St. Nicholas's Churchyard—by cries of "Murder," and
on entering found the floor covered with blood, and
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 had two

knives in his possession.
• THE CONVICT UNDER SENTENCE, ANNE MERRITT.
Th• Sheriffs have received a communication from Sir
G. Grey, informing them that the execution of Anne
Merritt is to be respi.ed during her lisjest)'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 vessel.. The
whole amount so paid was 39,2951. 17s. 4d. The ports
which figure the most largely in the account are Liver-
pool, Newcastle, and Hull. In Liverpool, 5,355/. 7s. 6d.
was pail to the pilots, and 15/. 17s. 6d. to the corpora-
tion. In Newcastle, 1931. 15s. Ild. for lights, and
2,4031. ss. 9d. for pilotage was paid to the Trinity-home;
3,1201. 2s. for town dues, 1031. ss. for anchorage was
paid to the corporation, and 29/. ss. for local dues to the
company of Free Hotsmen. In Hull the claims of the
Trinity-house for harbour dues and pilotage amounted
respectively to 1441764 ss. Bd., and 981. is. 3d.; those
of the corporation for harbour dues and dues on mer-
chandise to 6,143/. 161. 10d. and 48/. 13s. 8d ; and the
sum compounded for by the Dock Company in lieu of
dues was 4,750/. Bs. The total amount laid under the
reciprocity treaties up to the end of 1849 has been
741.5891 6s. 50.
The Marquis of Clanricarde, the Postmaster-
General, kft Loudon 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 Grsat
Britain and France, with a view to the diminution of the
present charges on the correspondence passing between
the two countries. A rate of 101. 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 pansy.--Sunday

Paper.
Commentators are folks that too often write on
books as men with diamonds write on gla's, obscuring
light with scratches.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

METROPOLITAN TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW AND
ORPHAN FUND.--A cheque for 51, in aid of the funds
of this 'witty, /us been forwarded by Mr. V.
Dowling.