Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN MRS

Sir.,—Permit me, through your columns, to correct the
mis statements of your ;rrespondent, Mr. John Bennett,
in regard to the Latter Day Saints' meeting, in Gnat
George's-street Royal Assembly Rooms, on last Sunday
evening. Bamg the speaker alladel ti, I necessarily feel
aggrieved to find my addreas so misrepresented, and consi-
der that you cannot refuse me space to correct one of the
most shamefully garbled reports ever made. I did not
utter a word of abuse against the American Government ;
nor did I admit, as Mr. Bennett would hive your readers
suppose, the existence of a "Danite band." Neither lid
I charge the English press with being immoral " in !Got
repudiating the crime.; attributed to Mormonism by
the Amerkan Government." I am not aware, indeed, of
the American Goner .men€ having attributed any crimes to
" Mormonism."

This I said—Twat the editor who would pub'ish all man-
ner of false charges against a peopb, and, because they
differed from him in religious Mief, afford them no oppor-
tunity to refute those false'toods, was himielf an immoral
(or dishonese) marl. An i I submit to you- judgment, and
that of your readers, if such is not the truth.

The Other statements of 3 our correspondent are equally
erronecus, as the great number of parsons who were pre-
sent, who were not ' Mormons," will bear me witness, as
*.vell as the Saints. lam convinced that, with the excep-
tion of Mr. Bennett and his three associates, there was no
one present who would not deny that there was any thing
either blasphemous, disgusting, or dernoraltzing uttered oa
the occasion. And I defy either of those four to correctly
report one statement, and make it appear so.
There is no announcement by us in Islington, or else-
where, that questions may be put in writing to the speaker.
Such is not allowed. Neither are parties allowed to speak,
make noises, distribute their tracts in our chapels, (all of
which Mr. Bennett, or his associates, did on Sunday night
until stoppei. by the deacon), or otherwise interrupt the
services, any more than they are allowed to do so in any
other room licensed for public worship. Persons thus
persisting will be made answerable to the law respecting
the interruption of public worship. If Mr. Bennett and
his companions, who are well-known as having made it
their special business during the summer to interrupt our
open-air meetings, think they can carry their persecuting
spirit into our own chapel, they may find themselves
mistaken. Would any religious, or irreligious, community
in Liverpool submit to it ? Are the laws to be respected ?
Your correspondent is eager, on the strength of hie false
statements, to prevent the Mormons exercising the p ivi
legs of their neighbours to preach in the open-air ; and
to drive them far from the abode of Christian civileation.
It would be well for him to take his Bible and endeavour
to learn from it true clarity —" to do unto others as ye
would that others should do unto you."—l am, &e.
Liverpool, Sept 29. G-seitoll TURNBULL.

[We ilsert the above letter in reply to Mr. Bonnet's
communication of yesterday. merely for the purpose of
giving the opdortouity of refuting any iniit,,ke that miy
have cc-carrel; but we certainly can it subscribe to the
doctrine endeavoured to be " pinned" to us by Mr.
Turnbull.—En. N. T.]

MU3PRA.Tr'S DICrIONARY OF CHEMBTRY

TO THE EDIT)R OF TILE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—ln answer to numerous enquiries, I beg to say,
through the medium of your valuable columns, that if my
Dictionary is to be fiiishel with articles as complete and
full as those which already have appsa-ed, that POUR
YEARS more will be required for the purpose, and that,
necessarily, it will extend to swum instead of FORTY-FIVE
PARTS, as stat3d on the c)ver. Should subscribs:s [objec ]
to thin, they will please notify it to the publisher. I can
finish it in forty-five if required.—Yours respectfully.

SHERIDA., MUSPRATT, "YR
P.S.—My remuneration for the work being nil, I wish it
was finished with all my heart.
Liverpool, Sept. 28, 1857.