The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-21 00:00:00

WESLE YAN REFORM.

very numerously attended, was
held last lapsutbleivu menintin
evening, at
tS,. Martin's-hall, Long-acre, for
the purpose of hearing the statements cf the delegates,
who have been assembled in consultation for the last few
days, from various parts of the country, on the subject
of reform in the Wesleyan body. The partial schism
which was created by till proceedings of the Conferenc,!
of 1842 appears to have blazed out with redoubled fury,
in consequence of further expulsions cf old and well-
known ministers by the Conference which has just
closed its • sittings in London. An intense public in;
tirest has been. excited In their favour; and, ss the
" martyrs" successively presented themaelves on the
platform last evening, they were greeted with the most
enthusiastic cheering.

M of Bristol, being called to the chair,
said rh.e W
was one
a et
o' sf,
the delegates appointed by the aut.-
Ia
frages of about 2,400 members of the Wesleyan Society.
He regretted that the Wesleyan Conference had thought
it necessary to refuse an interview with the delegates,
thereby shutting out all hopes of any arrangement.—
(Hear, hear.) Not only were the religious, but the
civil liberties of the Weeleyan people in danger. If any
large mass of persons were educated in implicit sub-
mission to a priesthood, there was great danger of
esteblidaing a spirituel despotism.—(llear, hear.). He
much depreceted the practice, now becoming common,
of religious bodies receiving the money of the state;
nothing was more detrimental to the epirit of true reli-
gious liberty.—(Hear; hear.)
The Roe. JAMES BROMLEY was loudly cheered on
rising. He pronounced the Conference an ecclesiastical
despotism, without law and without control. The entire
legislative funcion was vested in one house and in one
order—that of the ministers, who were self elected; they
both enacted and enforced the laws; and though tbe:o
was the appearance of n jury in the "leaders' meetings,"
unless the verdict was in accordance with the view of the
presiding minister, he could carry the case before a court
composed wholly of preachers, and gt t the sentence re-
versed. This had teen done in the case of Mr. Cousins
Hardy, in Norfolk, who was expelled, notwithstencling a
unanimous vote of the leariere' meeting in his favour.--
(Hear, hear.) The Conference had also grasped the
whole of the executive power. This had been pain.
fully exemplified a few days ego in the case of the
Rev. Mr. Budde.n, of Holt.—(Hear, hear.) They had
also grasped the entire of the patronage; for the lay
committees, with very few exceptions, were the nomi-
nees of the Conference. The management of the finance
was also engrtased by the Conference. Recently they
had ordered a special collection throughout the king-
dom in aid of the contingent fund; and whatever might
be the objtc:, of which no account could be found, this
was evidently a very arbitrary stretch of power.—
(Hear.) it had been reserved till his case for she Con-
ference to abrogate the right of an accused party to be
heard in bis own defence. He had been cbarged with
violating the solemn obligatious under which he had en-
tered the society; tte wished to meet that charge, and to
have it either proved or di,proved; but it was felt that
that would ba inconvenient.—(Hear, beer.) Had his
appeal from the sentence of the Bath district meeting
been heard, he should have put some very awkward
" brotherly queStion" to some members of the Confer-
ence.—(Laughter.) The last charge against the Con-
ference was that of adopting in their discipline the most
c
corrupt, outrageous, and anti-Christian principle that
ever be mingled in the jurisprudence of any body
Whatever—the queetion by penalty.—(Hear, hear.) His
principil objection to the proceedings c f the Cents rmce
was that they were directly contrary to scripture, which re -
quired all enarges, especially against elders, to be sup-
ported by two or three witnesses.—(Hear, hear.) The
Conference made the accused the witness against him-
self, and if he refused to answer, pronounced him guilty
and cut him off. They had not the thumb-screw or
pinching foot of the Inquisition; but they had a power as
despotic and arbitrary, and could cut off any minister,
after thirty or forty years' service,
Shame
his means of
support.—(Hear, hear, and Shame !) Though
deeply feeling his expulsion, he rejoiced in the freedom
it had given him; be felt ho could nom speak and act
like a man.—(Cheers.)
Meesre.Wild, .4 London, Martin, of Manchester, Mas-
Bingham, of Norwich, and several other gentlemen,
afterwards addressed the meeting, which was protracted
to a late hour.

No resolution was submitted, but the feeling of the
meeting was evidently unanimous in condemnation of
the Conference proceedings.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS•
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1850.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*256
Diseases of Uncertain Scat ... 53
Tubercular Diseases
••• 166
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 106
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... .22
Diseaseli of the Lungs, and other Organs of
• Respiration ... 69
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs

of Digestion... ••• ••• ..
...
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e.
•• •••
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and muscles..
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
..
...
...
•••
PAMrtaerlmolpoarhtmyu.
raet i °LI-h. .. .. .. :
..• :
.:
•••
•••
Old Age ••• ••• ...
...
•••
Sudden ... - ••• ••• ... ...
•••
Violence. Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified ...
...
••• •••

DEATHS FROH ALL CAUSES ... ... 874
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enuinerai_,m
1841. sponding week in the
ot 1849. Week.
West Districts... 301,189 . . 231 ... 129
North Districts.. 376,568 .. 272 ... 179
Central Districts 374,199 „, 307 ... 154
East Districts ... 393,067 ... 587 .„181
South Districts.. 503,346 ... 833 ... 231

Totals... ....• 1,948,369
Males ••• •••
Females ... •••

... 2,230

874
441
... 433

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males •••
Females •••

Total ...

... 1,363

*ln this number are included 24 by Scarlatina, 27
by Typhus Fever, 139 by Diarrhma, and 8 by Cholera.

RAILWAY. SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, AUG. 20.
• STocic EXCIIANOW—The share market was dull and in-
active to-day, and prices are rather depressed. The transac-
tions reported were -Bristol and Exeter, 63—Midland, 31%
—York and North Midland, 13%'
LI VEttPoot., AUG. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a good business clone to-
day, but prices were steady. The transactions were as fol-
low :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9 3-16 dis.—Ditto,
321. Shares, 9 dis.—London and North-Western, 111'a
Ditto, New Quarters, 1546 p. Midland, 3214 Ditto,
Halves, 25 15-16 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4),
Thirds, 5% -North British, 5 13-16—Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
andl,u r
ch Cheater,a
s e)6
6%—York, Newcastle. and Berwick (G. N. E.
per cent. till 1850, dis —York and North
Midland, 151 - Dutch Rhenish, 5 7-16 dis.
MANCH ESTER, Auo. 20.
STOCK Exonatroy,.—The shire market to-day was
exceedingly flat. Scarcely anything has been done, and
prices continued to droop. The transactions were as follow :
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9 3-16 dis.—South-Eastern
and Dover, Consolidated Stock (No. 4), 4 15-16.
BIRMINGHAM, 'Amt. 20.
STOCK Excnaztor..—We have little change to notice in
this share market. A small business has been done, and
prices generally remain rtationary. The only alteration
was—London and North-Western, 1104..
YORK, AUG. 19.
STOCK ExciLtstos.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick 1454—Ditto (G. N.
E. P u
6
chsse).
(guaranteed 4 —O r eaart
cent.
years, t 1 iaßn rdi iss hp,
per
Prefer-
encecent.
in perpetuity), 434 -York and North Midland,

•
DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. C. ARBUTHNOT.—.
We regret to announce the demise of the
.above venerable
gentleman, who expired at Apsley House, on Sunday, in his
83d year.
JUSTIFIABLE TiomfurnE.—On Saturday afternoon
an inquest was held at the Bee Hive public-house, Horwich,
by Mr: Rutter, county coroner, on the body of lon srael W
head, aged twenty years, a labourer, who died the 7th
inst., in consequence of being stabbed in the breast with the
prongs of a hayfork, on the 7th of July last. The deceased
and two men, named Richard Barlow and John Snape, went,
on the night in question. to a pond on the farm of Mr. John
Fletcher, Horwich, to take his fish with a net.w Mr. Fletcher,
being alarmed by the barking of his dog,, out, and saw
the three men attempting to take the fish. He armed him-
selfdeceased with a hayfork, the handle of which was several feet
was stabbed in the breast with
long, arid went to the pond to drive them away. Two of the
men went up to Mr. Fletcher, whilst the other was endea-
vouring to draw the net, and, in a scuffle which ensued, the
, Israel Westhead,
the fork. He was conveyed home by his companions, and
lingered until the 7th inst. The jury returned a verdict of
justifiable homicide.—Lierpoo/ Mercury.
—An Act to amend the laws
NEW CUSTOMS ACT.-
relating to customs hag just come into force.
Customs
dared to be valid. Henceforth all assignments of superan-
nuation allowances "shall be wholly void to all intents and
purposes, and shall not be enforced in an anya into
the nd
Kingdom of any extracts, essences, or other concentration of
coffee, chicory, tea, or tobacco, or any admixture of the same.
Witnesses refusing to attend or to give evid-nce may be fined
501. The export duty of 4s. per ton on coals is'
ow repealed.
All manufactured goods are to be deemed toanu be
facture. N the produce
(•1' the country of. which they are the mo
abatement of duties shall be made on account of any damage
received by any corn, grain, meal, or flour imported into the
United Kingdom.