The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-01 00:00:00

THE GORHAM CASE.

It is believed that the following Prelates have de-
clared their approval of the decision of the Judicial
Committee of Privy Council in the late Gorham ease:—
The Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Dublin.
The Bishops of Durham, Peterborough, Ely, Hereford,
Lichfield, Cheater, St. Asaph, Wit. David's, Worcester,
Norwich, and Manchester, as not affecting the doctrine
of the Church.

The Bishops of Salisbury, Gloucester, and Ripon, have
returned ambiguous replies to the Tractarian addresses.
The Bishop of Bangor dissents from the judgment.
The Bishils of Rochester claims fur it " legal re-
spect."
The Bishops of Exeter, Bath and Wells, London, and
Oxford, are hostile.
The Bishops of Lincoln, Carlisle, Winchester, Chi-
chester, Llandaff, and Sodor and Man, are not yet known
to have expressed themselves on the subject.
The two Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have
each declined entering into the controversy; but about
one-fourth of the members of convocation of the first-
mentioued have separately addressed the Archbishop of
Canterburylagainst the decision. This address is signed
by two only out of the twenty-four heads of colleges
and halls, and six professors only—all of the Tractarian
party—via., Professors Pusey, Hussey, Reay, Earle,
Kenyon, and Cooke; and inaludes the names of Judge
Coleridge and the well-known Archdeacons Thorp, Wil-
berforce, and two Scotch bishops, who, notwithstanding
their secession from the English Church, retain their
❑ames on the university register as members. The uni-
versity of Cambridge has not moved.
From a summary of the results of the agitation which
has reached us, it would appear that the total number
of clerical dissentients from the judgments through-
out England does not exceed 2,000 out of
15,000 ; and the number of laity who have come
forward is insignificant. Afier the failure of the
last efFort at St. Martin's Hall, which was remarkable
for the absence of Mr. Gladstone, M.P., and others whose
presence or absence on such occasions is regarded as in-
dicative of the probability of success or the reverse, ri e
may dismiss the agitation as something beyond a Denison
power to resuscitate.—Church and State Gazette.

CONFESSION OF BENNISON.
The man Bennison, who was found guilty at the
Lligh Court of Justiciary, on Friday last, of the
double crimes of bigamy and murder, and sentenced
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Iwife he %as innocent ;" and that if the witnesses
bad spoken the truth, '• he would not have been a guilty
man before their Lordships that day." Notwithstanding
of these solemn asseverations, he, in a cony, nation with
his pastor, the Rev. Mr. Hay, of the Methodist:Church,
Leith—who has beers most unremitting in his attention to
the culprit since his condemnation—confessed on Monday
that he had poisoned his wife on the Friday evening that
she was alleged to have become ill. The confession is not,
meantime, in such a complete state as would
justify
publication ; but we believe that a copy of
it has been transmitted to Sir G. Grey, the Secretary
otnifststifhtyelleitsto.r the Home Department. Bennison, ever
since the sentence was declared, has exhibited the
deepest contrition ; but although he ha unbosouted