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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 28. Her Majesty's brig Cyg-
net, Commander David Robertson, from the coast of
Africa, last from Portsmouth, arrived yesterday morn-
ing, and anchored in‘ide the Breakwater. In the
afternoon the steam-frigate Vulture made a trial trip
round the Eddystone, to test her machinery, and on
returning took the brig in tow, and conveyed her up
Haninaze, preparatory to her being paid otf. To-day
390 oz. of gold was landed from the Cygnet, under
charge of Messrs. Collier and Sons, agents for Lloyd's,
and forwarded, per South Devon and Great Western
Railways to London, for Messrs. Foster and Smith,
merchants.

The Sans Pareil, 84, building on No. 5 slip, will
be launched about the middle of August.
The Exmouth, 90, will be ready by the end of the
year; extra hands have been placed on her.
The Vanguard, 80, was taken out of the basin-
dock to-day, and taken to the north-dock to have her
wales put on, the basin-dock not being wide enough
for the purpose.
Two fatal accidents have occurred recently at the
Keyham works. On Saturday, the 23d, James Med-
ian, a navigator, fell ever the shute between the sea-
wall and the dam, a height of 45 feet, and was killed
on the spot. On Monday, the 25th, Joseph Darby
fell a height of 35 feet from a stage, the spawl of
which while descending hung to the rivets of the new
caisson, surged, and three of the five men on it fell off.
Darby was conveyed to the Devon and Cornwall Hos-
pital, where he died shortly afterwards.
Wind southerly, light breeze.
CHATHAM, MARCH 29.—The Hon. R. Dundas,
Storekeeper-General, arrived at this dockyard on
Wednesday morning, the 27th inst., from London,
and was engaged the whole of that day and
Thursday examining the stores and store accounts
of the yard.
The Rochester naval lighter, Sedgwicks master,
has arrived with stores from Pembroke, and is along-
side the dockyard unloading.
On the 27th inst. arrived the barque Honour, of St.
Ives, Daniels master, with a superior cargo of oak
timber for the dockyard. Sailed, on the 28th, the Aid
naval lighter, Smallman master, with stores for
Portsmouth.

The Nankin, 50 guns, in dock.—The workmen are
busily employed in bringing this ship forward for sea ;
she is about half-way coppered, and it is ex-
pected that next week the riggers will commence
rigging her.
The Adder steam-vessel towed away this morning
the Rienard lighter to Greenhithe, laden with stores,
to be put on board the Hercilles store-ship, which is
to sail for Malta in the course of a few days.
The 17th Regiment (Royal Tigers).—Orders for
the route of this corps arrived this day at this garri-
son. The first division marches on the 3d of April,
the secon4 on the 4th, and the head-quarters on the
sth, for Weedon, to relieve the 12th, which regiment
will arrive to do garrison duty.
Woomvictr, MAacu 29.—The Megmra steam-ves-
sel returned to Woolwich yesterday afternoon from
her experimental trial, and the result was very satis-
factory, having made a speed on the average of
nearly 10+ knots per hour. Her engines are 350-
horse power, made by Messrs. George and Sir John
Rennie, under the superintendence of Mr. Humphreys,
now chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard. They
are auxiliary engines, the vessel being about 1,600
tons, and drawing 13 feet of water forward and 15
feet aft. The ballast on board will be taken out of
her, and she is expected to proceed to Sheerness on
Wednesday next, to be made ready at that port for
sea. Mr. George Rennie and Mr. Humphreys were
on board during the trial, and Mr. Trickett, assistant
to the chief engineer, went down in the Dasher steam-
vessel, to try her engines, and returned to Woolwich
in the Megsera.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.--The whole of the ship-
wrights working on the Pioneer and Intrepid screw
steam- vessels, fitting for the Arctic expedition, were
at work in the dockyard until ten o'clock A.M., and
the workmen in the factory department for the same
vessels were at work all day, and still take their turns
by relays night and day to expedite the works requi-
site for the Pioneer and Intrepid.
The workmen on the Agamemnon, 80-gun vessel,
to be fitted with a screw propeller, have been ordered
to work from six o'clock A.m. to six r.m., or as long
as they can see, and their breakfasts are to be taken
into the yard to them at eight A.M.

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,—l feel it my duty to an-
nounce publicly to your Grace an error of my inform-
ant, who stated to me (see my published 1 etter, 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 cf
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 c.f its own
merit. The book is stated to have been (as was, I
believe, very tpual at that time) cum gratia et privi-
legzo Regia Afajestatis, which was not in the edition
of 1577.

There is another matter on which I ay.til 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 thir Lordships
would probably never have heard of the present con-
troversy, and Mr. G- n.harn would at that moment have
been rector of Brantford Spehe."
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. He 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. Gurham's published account of the examination.
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 must continue the examination,
is this—that the matter is not sufficiently investigated to
enable me, in that case, to take the course which I may
be now prepared otherwise to take, without my seeming
to have forborne to plane 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 to 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 bo 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,
H. EXETER.
Bishopstowe, March 28.

EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCIL—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,C00 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
curio put on board.