The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-08 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Four o'Clock,

THE GORHAM CASE.

JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE
PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)

GORHAAI v. THE BISHOP OF EXETER

JUDGMENT.

The MASTER of the ROLLS has just pronounced
the judgment of the Privy Council in this important
case. After stating the circumstances attending
the presentation of the Reverend Mr. Gorham
to the living of Bampford Speke, and the refusal of
the Bishop of Exeter to institute him on the ground
of unsound doctrine ; and also the proceedings of the
Court below, from whence this appeal to the Privy
Council came, his Lordship said the question they
had to decide was not whether Mr. Gorham held
sound or unsound doctrines, but whether his opinions
were contrary or repugnant to the doctrines of the
Church of England, as expressed in her articles and
formularies. The Committee of the Privy Council,
with the exception of his Honour the 'Vice-Chan-
cellor Knight Bruce, were unanimously of
opinion that the opinions of Mr. Gorham were not
contrary or repugnant to the doctrines of the
Church of England, and that the Bishop of Exeter
was not justified in refusing to institute him to the
living of Bampford Speke. They therefore reversed
the decision in the Court of Arches.

A full report will be given in our next edition.

ROYAL VISIT TO THE HAYMARKET
THEATRE THIS EVENING.
We understand that official notice has been conveyed
to the Management of the Haymarket Theatre of the
intention of her Majesty to honour the theatre with her
presence this evening, to witness the performance of
Hamlet, and ofßuckstone's farce of the Rough Diamond.
We are rejoiced to find that " the little theatre in the
Haymarket," which through evil report and good
report, at all times and under all circumstances, has
remained true to the cause of the legitimate drama,
and has afforded a home to Shakspere and our
dramatists, when every other theatre in London was
shut against them, is thus repeatedly honoured with
the Royal patronage.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--News has arrived
from St. Petersburgh that Signora Frezzolini has at last
consented to sign her engagement. Amelia Ferraris and
Marie Taglioli reached London yesterday. The season
is announced to open on Tuesday next, the 12th inst.,
with Medea (sustained by Parodi, sCalzolati, Belletti,
Giuliani, and Signor Michelli), and a new original ballet,
by M. Paul Taglioni (entitled Les Metamorphoses), in
which the principal character will be sustained by C ar-
lotta Grisi.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The benefit of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Kean is announced to take place on Mon-
day next, under the patronage of her Majesty and Prince
Albert. On this occasion Much Ado about Nothing will
be played, the two principal characters by Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Kean. This will be the first time of Mr. Charles
Kean's appearance in London in the character of Bene-
dick, The comedy is otherwise powerfully cast—em-
bracing, in faa, the strength of the comf any, with
Iteeley as Dogberry, Buckstone us Verges. The after-
piece is Mr. Oxberry's admirable farce, Twice Killed.
ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Although the season of
the French comic opera at this theatre is so near its
close, novelties are still announced. This evening a one
act opera L'Esclave du Carnoens, the words by M, St.
Georges, and the music by M. E. Van der Does, will be
produced, fur the first time in this country ; and on
Wednesday next Auber's opera comique, Le Macon, will
be played (also for the first time here) for the benefit of
Charton.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly
general meeting held yesterday at the Society's house in
Hanover-square, Mr. P. Sclater and Mr. T. Day were
proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The Roy. J.
L. Petit, Mr. T. Tooke, jun., and Miss Sullivan were
elected fellows, and Dr. Schlegel, of Leyden, a corre-
sponding member of the society.
" A LETTER," &C., &c.—A very able and perspicu-
ous address on the necessity of reform in Common Law
Procedure, suggesting clear, simple, and concise forms
of action in lieu of the antiquated ones now in use. As
Mr. Smith has displayed both knowledge and power in
dealing with his subject, we shall hope to find this letter
followed up with others from his pen, and, peradventure,
one or two in the same strain on Real Property Law.
Tua COAL TRADE.—The collectors and comp-
trollers of the Customs department, at the several ports
and places throughout the United Kingdom, have re-
ceived directions from the Commissioners to prepare and
transmit to the inspector-,general of imports and exports,
sith the least possible delay, the following accounts, so
far as the same relates to their respective ports, viz., an
account of the number of tons of coal?, culen, and
cinders, respectively, shipped at the several ports ofEng-
land, Scotland, and Ireland, to other ports in the United
Kingdom, in the par 1849, in continuation of a similar
account rendered for the preceding year.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The usual monthly
meeting of this society took place last Monday, G. It
Waterhouse, Esq., president, in the chair. Messrs. J.

S. Baly and James Shepherd were elected subscribers to
the society. Mr. Bond exhibited a piece of the stem et
an ash tree, found near Whittlesferd, Cambridgeshire,
covered with pupa cases of a galernea, and also sol
web formed by the lets m of yalleria colonella, which
le
had found between two planks of wood. Mr. S. ST.;
vers exhibited from Venezuela specimens of 09'4!
saucia and suffuse, identical with the British
Mr. Staintcn exhibited some Micro-Lepidortera he
.2.
hi°
recently bred, and six new species of British Titieu).'.
Mr. Westwood exhibited a British spocimen of °P
undulatume identical with an Albanian species. His
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM CHArEL*
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury most condeseriesee
ingly received, on Tuesday morning last, at his P!taa
at Lambeth, a deputation from the chapel cornroltor
consisting of Mr Larby, rev Clifford,:and Mr. Andfrs, b;
when his Grace was kind ough to say he shouluoa
most happy to preach in aid of the subscription.,..;
being made for providing a chapel on the seettlY..,
grounds, and for the raising of a fund
ruunerate the clergyman, on Sunday, the 2d of Junel3o.
SOCIETY FOR THE AID OF FOREIGNERS IN DWrit
—Yesterday afternoon the annual general meeting
this society was held at the London Tavern, surf:ou
Labouchere in the chair. The usual forms havleg uoia.
whereby t 0
St.
gone through, the secretary read the report. T,11,' °mai-
rnittee had reason to rejoice that the unfavournwea-pats
iention entertained by them in regard to the Post the
cf the society had not been realised. The friends ot
the
society had exerted themselves to the utmost, and,so
to
anniversary dinner on the 28th of May, subscriptoi
the amount of 1,895/. were realised, independent las
donations from her Majesty the late Queen I)°eZtee'
and his Grace the Duke of Cambridge. The eni,l33„,- the
acknowledged the receipt of legacies-100/, tra-a, els
late Mr. L. A. Doesat, and of a similar sum from to
late Mr. Peacock. With these sums, aided Vow
liberality of other friends of the institution, iheao ef
mittee had been enabled to replace the funded Pr're :he
of which they had been obliged to make use clarion, of
last year, and also to recommend that the nal:lib:od.
pensioners upon the society's funds should be iner'aaer
The committee had also to announce that aignlaariog
persons had received relief from the society b test
the year, and that their present condition was suf etiota
they were likely to fulfil all the objects of the tee
The financial statement returned the it:icon:o4 se,
society as 3,6411. Es. 4d., and the expenses as 3, received
leaving a balance of 3111. ss. This report was '-aaJoe'
and adopted, 14 pensioners were elected, and ti,"„ciastinr.
ing persons were elected vice-presidents of
tiont—His Excellency M. Van de Wey ,-er, his 'le: W.'
Mahomed Pacha, the Marquis of Westminster, : the
of Harrowby, the Earl of Arundel and Slirarealcaere.
Bishop of Worcester, and the Right Hon. Lav°-sra
The meeting separated after thanking the Ch9lorCell
DEATH OF SIR JAMES GIBSON CRA.IG.--CjiCll3°
is the grave well closed on Lord Jeffrey, whin aeol-
much to promote the cause of the Whig portY.bo,
land, ere we have to announce the death of ono who,
ec'
though possessing none of the talents for which totoo'
cornplished writer and critic was distinguished, , elf
trived, in his own peculiar way to render baa actor
scarcely less effective ally of that' party, ern°l3ga e°°:
even up to the period of his death, he exercise, Aarou'
siderable influence in all matters relating to
Tee gentleman to whom we
,allude is Sir Jellies MP
Graig, leadieg partner of the firm of Meealtnati re;
Dalziel, and Brodie, writers to the signet in x4nl,:tte e'
Ho had been for a long time in a very indrin
health, and died somewhat suddenly a'; bi
house of Riccarton, about four miles from .E4u-aora,
on Wednesday. Sir James Gibson Craig Was,:a-yeera'
1765, and was consequently upwards of eighre's, ea"
of age. He passed as a writer to the signet in ed re-
is among the oldest on the list of that numerenagia
epectable body cf legal praetioners. The deeess' atioal
net took a prominent part in all the great pc', 00
struggles of this country from 1792 downwards, sledded
on terms of intimacy with Fox and most of the, f
of the old Whig school. As an acknowledgnlea"coestg"
services which he rendered to that party, he e115,--ereGelr
a baronet of the United Kingdom, in 1831, bYaaaa
vernment of Earl Grey. Sir James Gibson 111%-oltbe
p„litiC9 the
ways took a sleep interest in the localip
Scottish metropolis, and he figures prorairautelleAlert
sarcastic ballad against the Whigs, written by W-
ander Boswell in 1822, and which pave rigs teeth
between the writer of it and Mr. Stuart, rof Dc,,lsedea„
which the former was shot. Sir James will be sii`&iliss"
in his title and estates by his son, Mr. Willia,aiharab'
Craig, one of the Members for the city of VII:1"-erif
A man named James Boag, who was fortunvicte,'
clerk in the Bank of England, was yesterday c,,,„%rrior
at Chelmsford of having feloniously altered the
register of the parish of St. Runwald, Colcile!"-Ol °-
Joseph Lee, a private in the 90th Regigne-tl4o3Pii
yesterday sentenced by Mr. Baron Parke, at 14°r,e0301
ton, to seven years' transportation, for baring a"-
to set fire to the military prison at Weeder]. afacrihew
A man, named James Edmunds, who- Direr
himself as a gentleman, residing in Dale-streetionoi
pool, was, yesterday, remanded from the Cierbteieee
Police•court, charged with having fraudulently Flat a hs."
901. from a jeweller, in Old. street, by selling 13.1:silfe';
of electro-plated zinc, under pretence that it
ster odds
At the fiiarylebone Police-court, Ye
journeyman tailor, named Joseph Stretch, was re•tlintenS
on a charge of having stabbed his wife, with lar a ei°'
murder her. Before stabbing her he had given lje-
lent!beating. He was drunk at the time b 43-8
IIEARTLESS ROBBERT.—Yesterday„ lice •
.P4l;' re'
of the summoning officers of the Lambeth -LVaie'f
id
turned to town, after a lengthened chase inalfsi
man named William Eger, who had absconde",r°eleria
wife, to whom he had been married only tbrhaes
and taking with him 4001., the produce of
industry for many years. It appeared that tbaaaolle'fa
who had been shopkeepers, the one in the cir",loo°.:d
and the other in the tobacco line, had been 'fa-001'd
each other for many 3 ears, and ultimately 00,--at
Three weeks after the " happy day," Blgarar g (Pglct
in notes from his wife, under pretence of tat{ 6,70
numbers and putting his name on them, onu"iv'eerP'",
he should deposit them in the bank, as the Pl-aaiog"°;
of security, till they wanted them. Instead of
isoa
fi
he engaged a passage to New York for bln:lsslf age;
children, leaving his wife penniless, so that she lief. t°
pelled to apply to the parish of Newington forre 000
parish officers of Newington having setne.r:olloo%;
think that Elgar intended to sail from Sontbalrat ca"„-
at all events, that the vessel he e t vv°Llear hiqbr'
Plymouth or Falmouth, rocuredwaewnarrant
prehension, and placed it in the hands of BEig oire`iy
efforts of that officer to capture the faithiessai; fatala
proved fruitless. It seems that Eiger and ""- that
had sailed from the Loudon Docks, in a vessel tbot ale
not touch at any of our out port, and therefore gs,
off. Toe poor wife is inconsolable and peunr,ileasaelea
TIM EARL OF CHESTER'S YEOMANS/ 1111'.-1 (I"Ci
We understand that their late lieutenant•ccdgietaandet
braham Egerton, Esq., of Tatton Park, lA° cl:el° of
the regiment so many years to the great. at° f
tbe p,ir '94
all who served under him) has pres lit 'd
Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cav iry
kettledrums and a splendid pair of gild sl
adei banners.—Macclesfield Courier,
ado r'
SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on W h'.140
the Grosvenor Arms public-house, Westiaa "-ea' -
0
Bedford, on the body of a person named v-elOl cif
committed suicide by shooting himself wtth
Monday last. The particulars of the case bake as
appeared in this paper. Several witnesses 511° eiwa
the deceased having been in a desponding siidecatinahea
for some time past, iu consequence of „Ili,s,acainga,:a
ill health, which prevented him from 1""E """
occupation. The jury returned a verdict 0
Alf Ted
porary insanity."
HANDSOME BEQUEST.—We understand --%„:13o un'-e
Glen, a citizn of Glasgow for half a century's fortli,;e;
last week, has left the greater part of bent of ",
amounting to nearly 20,000 a, for the endeeva3Vall Padre
schools in Glasgow. We have not heard the :41-001s
culars of the bequest, but we understand thea2,3a, ieb°a°e
to be free of all sectarian trammels. One ci
is fdor 50 boys, who are to receive clothes, '" 61a59'
the other is an industrial school for girb• a
(woe Examiner.
AT,, ere •A
ll Al3'
M. BENTLEY'S NEW NOVELS.--1 ' r -
to state that Mr. Bentley has this clay Pa,ll,llo•ecte:rsa
toning; or, the Fall of Rome, by :63
j;vl,l:.k:
cab'
3 vols. Also, 1. White Jacket; or, the ""aaa of 00
a Man-of-War, by Herman Melville, atit'a"ta--2'fiv,st.
pee," " Omoe," &c. &c., 2 vols. post Broa of theaarab,
New Romance of Canada, The Nomadefe. °aka ands
3 vols.-3. The Martyrs cf Carthage, °a' --4. 3
author of " Naomi," 2 vols. foolscap, 1-Wilhianfileo'o,
not Hearts, a Story of the Day, by Miciss rriet author
vole.-5. The Marriage Contract, by the e"; or.
2 vols. poat Bvo., 215.-6. King's Colic,: t Leger
of " Mr. Warrenne," 3 vols.-7.
The Threads of Life, one vol. post svo. Last
EXTRAORDINARY GORMANDISES. rai!,
person ate, for a trifling wager, at Stlag-ate vesaa'a-n'rti
bage just cut out of the garder, and n "re-le. "---e tip
washing them down with half a. gallon n` omit, 'el al
ro
title we'
three-quarters brute
completed this extraordinary o.l'
of an hour, and 'levered grans• aale
the close of the performance.— Chester ()cut' ahYsic.a
Dr. Marjolin, one of the most en3inenwhio4
ofi Paris, died a few days ago, utter an illness aa; bops
e
him to
'r more than twelve months confined