The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-03 00:00:00

EXPELLED WESLEYAN MINISTERS.

A puble mortinn et methodists of the First London
Circuit was held in the British School-room, Cowper•street,
City-road, yestesday evestiag, to bear statements from Messrs.
Everett, Munn, and Griffith,, relating to their expulsion
fri m the Wesleyan Conference.
Joust Wicuans, Esq., of West Smithfield, took the
chair. He expressed his entire disapprobation of the man-
ner In which the rev. gentlemen had been expelled, and
stated that, although previously unacquainted with them, he
bad, on hearing of the conduct pursued towards them, ad-
dressed a remonstrance, on the 10th August last, to the
president of the Conference in which he denounced their
expulsion as illegal, unchrisilaalike, and tyrannical. (Hem.)
Messes. livestarr, Dowse, and GRIFFITHS then severally
repeated their statements to the meeting, in much the
MIN testae in whlchtheve statements have already several
times appeared before the public.
Mr. VOLCKYAN moved and Mr. BravaNs seconded, a
resolution to the I Nett, that the meeting entirely disap-
proved of the conduct of the Conference towards the expelled
minister,. . _ _ _

The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr. UOODYEAU next moved, that inennueh as it Is
highly injurious to the interest% of spiritual religion in our
saciettes and must u:timately prove fatal to our existence as
a church,to have a continuance of these constantly-marring
periods of excitement and agitation, provoked by the undue
nerds., of mid/Atrial authority, and the continued and
eystematic encroachment of Conference upon the liberties
of the people, this meeting declares that, to its opiniin, these
evils can only be removed by a revision of the settee
methodistic churoh polity sad by the introduction into it of
elements more popular in their character and more ix no-
cordanco with the principles of the New Testament.
Mr. BOULTOS sews:tied the resolution, which was
unanimously adopted.
A vote it! thanks to•the chairman and to the advocates of
the expelled ministers in the press was also agreed to, and
the meeting, which was a very large one, separated.

WRECK UPON TUE' ESSEX COAST.—The strong
wind with frequent heavy rains early on the morning of
Saturday last, and late the same night, occasioned the wreck
of two or more vessels on the Gunfire; and Sunk Sande, along
' this coast ; end although, happily, no lives were sacrificed,
It was attended in one instance at least with the total lees
of vessel and cargo. About half-past two cm, on the above
day, the Margaret end Emily, master, Wattley, of Sunder-
land, bound from Sethi= to London, with 260 tons burden
of coals, came ashore off the Ounfieet Sands. The exertion*
of the crew to save her we're unavailing, and she remained
in the same situation during part of the day, when the fol-
lowing smacks, all belonging to the port of Colchester, came
to her assistance:—the Orwell, Cook (muter); Flambe,
Taylor ; Friends' Good-will, Howland; Joseph, Cook. The
Gae-mentioutil ,musk rescued the crew, consisting of eight,
and landed them palely at Wircnhoe between six and seven
o'clock the same evening. Meanwhile the remaining smacks
were actively engaged on board the wreck, and having cut
away one of the ship's masts, and secured a large quantity
of her rigging and chains (nearly new), they repaired to
WMenhoe with their salvage. No part of the cargo wee
recovered, and i: is believed the ship had sines become a
total and complete wreck, Laving sunk a considerable 'depth
into the sand.—A second vessel, the Commence, a Norwegitn
barque, Capt. T. Lawson, was bound front Norway to Havre
sima la passeneers beside her crew, whose intention it was
on arriving at Havre to depart on board en emigrant ship for
America. From the set of the tide And a strong N.B. wind,
she struck on the Sank Sand at about half-put eleven o'clock
On Saturday night, and, while in this•peakion, was seen on
the following morning by the smack Elizabeth, belonging
to Mr. Charles Heath which succeeded in rescuing the
passenger+, including eight women, and the rest men and
boys. They were with the crew, consisting of ten or twelve
men, conveyed to Wivenhoe, and landed about five o'clock
in the afternoon, where the hospitable doors of J. G. Cham-
berlain, Esq., were at once opened for the reception of the
passengers. They were comfortably lodged in that gentle-
man's warchousea, and under his kind and prompt dine-
dons a hot supper wee quickly provided on the spot for the
necessitous visitor,, who were truly in • wretched condition,
having saved nothing from the wreck beyond the clothes
they wore. They were all natives of Norway, and unable
to utter a syllable of English. It is unnecessary to describe
the rapacity with which the poor creatures welcomed the
good fare so bountifully and generouey *applied ; and, after
a hearty repast, the whole party, with grateful
=allittg their benefactor, retired to rest on the same pre-
' 134.4.• In the morning the same liberal hand bestowed
another ample meal; after which the passengrn, having
been joined by their crew and the captain and craw of the
collier Weather &,out 4.5 individuals) nocompseied by Mr.
Coamber:in, deputed for London by train. The bet men-
tioncd vessel had also on board a quint, •cf timber, whets
‘. all been lost, ass: t,te vessel 134.11 Is, t.;G;C L.C.aCC
j t_tat wreck.—lisewarh Express.