The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

TIIE WESL'i..YAN REFORM CONFERENCE.
NEWCASTLE, TcrstitY Erststxw.
Thus_ ppular asbenibly, after bitting four days,
Concluded its proceedings this evening.
The follow iiez :ire the must important resolutions that
base Neil adopted br it :
•• The waircrenzelias ins again refused to meet the &le.
gates us the important matters in dispute, this meeting
reabnh it a. a sacred duty, and herthy pledges itself to
carry en tin- reform movement with inert WWII energy and
perms, ranee, with a view to obtain for the methodist people
those scriptural rights and privileges which are their indu-
bitable inh, Mime,

That *hi:meeting, having pleitzed itself to seek a
wriptnoil reform in the Wesleyan connexion, resolves to
pronc.l. that object by affording increased facilities for the
diffuscsn ..f information through the public press, and by
mean. of public lectures, to be e:,-livered throughout the
country by competent and duly qualified permits, espes:ially
enga.; 1 tot that 'miaow ; by the distribution, by loan or
otherwise, of Wesleyan Reform Tracts ; and by the tsta-
blisl rut of separate services wherever local circunattances
may o eider them necessary."
"'That a committee be appointed with special refer: nee to
the pneection of the trustees of Wesleyan chapel property,
eousisting of W. It. COKII llardy, E.,41., of Letheringsett
Hall; Juke Cutts, Esq. '
of Chesterfield ; A. (Mold, Esq.,
lreemt of.lkaa Mr. Liwea, Bristol • Mr. Forster Halifax ;
lb. Hay, London; Mr. Nicholls, London ;Mr Brsmwel,
Barham; Mr. Massingbant, Norwich; and Mr. U. W. liar-
tism, Wakefickl.

•• That the thanks of this meeting be presented to the mem-
bers of the corresponding and privileges committees for their
minces during the year.
'• That a general committee be appointed, to which shall be
entrusted the management of the movement during the twat
twi iv, months.

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That this meeting, reviewing the proceedings of the
seam nee during the last two years. are of opinion that
sonic in the thief evils of which the people complain, are
i• The assumption on tho part of the conference of legisla-
tive and executive authority over the connexion. 2. The
treatment of discussion as •erime, when applied to the state
ant conduit of methodist affairs. 3. The exercise by the
preachers alone of the power of admission into and expul-
kon irons the church.
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-That this meeting, reviewing the proceedings of the two
previous delegate meetings, held in March and August,
1840, solemnly affirms the resolutions then adopted, be-
lieving the principles contained therein to be based on the
sacred Scriptures, and therefore essential as the foundation
of the future peace and prosperity of the Wesleyan eon-
ussian. Those principles may be thus briefly stated
The total and entire abrogation of all unseriptural
law, and usages as unfriendly to the civil and re-
ligious interests of the Wesleyan eo:nmunity. 2. The
remosal of all obstructions which tend to pre-
vent member and olfice-bearers from bolding meet-
ins, or memorialising the conference on any subject what-
ever. which may be considered of general interest to the
connexion. 3. That all leaders and office-bearers 'hall be
chosen or removed by the vote of the church—thus teeming
to the people a representation in the quarterly and other
official meeting.. S. That all disciplinary acts—admission
into and expulsion from the church—shall be determined
b 7 the leaders' meeting, subject to an appeal to the church,
who", decision shall he final. 5. That in the event of a re-
conciliation being effected between the people and the eon-
&rem e. the laws whereby the connexion shall be governed,
shut settled by 'be mutual consent of the people through
thet delegates and the conference • and that no law, so
0tt1...1. shall be altered or rescinded, and no new law
enacted without the agreement of the two contracting
part:i..
" 1 hat this meeting does not deem it expedient to give
50) ii.d directions for the 'government of circuits, but
revonsinenils the societies to proceed as they have hitherto
lotte. in carrying on the movement in the spirit of the reso-
atnuns pawed at the former delegate meetings held in
Albion Chapel, Finsbury, London. 1859, and now re-
affirmed in the ',receding resolution.''
That the thanks of the meeting be given to Mews.
Everett, Bromley, Dunn,
4 and Griffiths, for their services
fur past year, and that they be requested to continue
theft the ensuing year, at salaries of 1501. which is 301.
Ins than last, and which has the concurrence, of the
lien themselves ; and as there is a strong pro-
t,hdity that some nor, ministers will come out from
f
erenec during the year, the committee be em-
Poured to I.llgage their services upon the same terms."
11l committee are also empowered to engage other paid