The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

TO THE REV. WILLIAM P. BURN.

We the undersigned, being parishioners of Great Crosby, beg
to express our regret that you have been compelled to resign
the curacy you have held in this place for a period of four
months. The good which you accomplished during that period
manifested itaelf in many ways. Your active exertions is
visiting the poly and the sick, and the several members of your
congregation, have gained for you the esteem of all classes of
the community, whilst your strict performance and observance
of the appointed services of the Chureb, and your un wearied
efforts to induce the people to join in them, has produced a
great increase in the number of the congregation and of the
communicants, which increase, we feel sure, would have been
considerably enlarged had you remained amongst us. In
bidding you farewell we wish you much happiness and success;
and we think it will not bo unpleasing to you to know that,
whilst holding the office of curate here, you have fulfilled the
offices and duties devolving upon you to our greatest satisfaction
and comfort.

Mr. Sharman handed the Rev. Mr. Burn the purse, the
chairman at the same time inviting the Rev. gentleman's
special attention to an inseriptson worked on it.
The Rev. Mr. Burn having received the purse and ad-
dress said: I have been requested not to forget Crosby

and the chairman has observed that I should find something

worked upon the gift which has been made to me.

I see

lereon worked the words " Forget not Crosby." We

have walked in the house of God, my friends—as friends
therefore, I address you all, I am not likely to forget

so tinny who have been kind to me and mine ;
for many months I have lived among you, I hope as a

friend to rich and poor. (Hear, hear.) I know no differ-

ence between high and low. The God whom I serve, and
whom ye serve, is no respecter of persons, and I shall
follow (or the future, as I trust I have folloived, my friends,

since I have been here, the teaching of the Bible, and of
the church which makes me care for the poor as well as the

rich, I shall never forget, so long as I live, the kindness
which I have received from yon all. Enough of . allusion

has been made to the unhappy circumstance which
separates me, as a pastor at least, from this place. But no
circumstance whatever, nothing which has occurred,
nothing on earth shall separate me from my friends in
Crosby. (Hear, hear, and applause.) It is true that I

shall no more officiate here as a priest of the English
church, but as I shall be placed among a population num-
bering 20,000 souls. Not having exactly the strength of
an elephant, I shall be glad to take a little recreation at
times ; and that time, or part of it, at least, shall find me
at Crosby. (Applause.) I can scarcely exr.resa to ye
what I feel. I am at present in a 'position. which I
have not occupied for six years, but the last time I stood
up to offer thanks to the members of the Church of God,
for their kindness, was in Lancashire, and not very many
miles from here. In Lancashire. there again I am
received with kindness unspeakable. I cannot express to
you what I feel for the kindness I have received from the
parishioners of this place. I can only feel it, and so
long as I live I shall remember it. I would beg a favour
at your hands—one favour, and I know you grant it—
that you will remember me in your prayers, and not only
yourselves, but that you will teach your children, when
they lift up their innocent hands and kneel before the
throne of grace, at their cot-side, that they will remember
one who has ever prayed for them, the lambs of the fold
of Christ—and I hope and I trust that this my request will
not be forgotten, for as the prayer of the righteous man
availeth much, so most truly must the prayer of the inno-
cent babes avail with the merciful and gracious God, for
they are as angels who behold the face of our Father
who is in Heaven. I deeply regret that I am forced
to leave this place, but the best friends must'.

part, and time is long, end I hope and trust I only
part from you for a time. God only knows what in iy take
place. Life is uncertain—life is short. But amid alls•its
trials and all its troubles there is One who walks. although
unseen by us, along our path, and watches by our bed,
supporting us in our trials, and giving us streng'h,in our
weakest moments. And if it should please Gori that we
should never meet again here on earth, there will he a time,
my friends, when we shall meet before the judgrumt seat of
God, and then it will be known, if it is not known now,
whether I have ever taught you aught which, is not found
in the Bible and taught by the church. (Applause.)
am aware that I have been misunderstood and misrepre-
sented by some persons. God knows that from my heart
I freely forgive all the unkind expressions which have been
used towards me. I may say that I- look upon two or
three things which have been said ty curtain parties pbout
me as rather complimentary than. otherwise. It has been
said, I believe, that I do not belong to the Church of
England. But, I think, the address which 1 have just
receivod proves that at least a majority of the people of
Crosby understood me, and, feel, that I have tried to do myt
best as a teacher and a minister o that church. (Applause.)
The proceedings then terminated.

MALT AND Hops.—ln the year ending 31st March last,
38,000,000 bushels of malt were " brought to charge ;"
the average price of barley was 43s 21 ; and the amount
of old duty charged on English hops was £267,705. In
the same period 11,261 cwt. of foreign hops were imported.:
It shows the violent fluctuations in the hop culture and
duty, that in the year ended 31st March, 1855, it
reached the sum of only £47,327, while in the follow-
ing year it rose to .£398,768, more than eight times ;ilk
much. The hops failed in 1854-5, and large itltpo►tatlO
took place.