The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,IXDARD.

Six,—As an act of common justice to the Liverpool Wes-
leyan Association, as well as to myself, 1 beg you to insert
in your next number the following, as my final notice of
Wm. Hosking's most calumnious statement, contained in
your number of Friday last. The said c9nununication is not
only a breach of private confidence, but a gross violation of
truth itself
When 1 gave him my name, it was on an express condi-
tion that it should not be published.
1 did not see the statement to which he has so unwarrant-
ably attached my name, or, as a Christian man, 1 could not
have made myself a party to the publication of p.sitive
untruth, particularly when he states that the whole society
is iu a fearful state of agitation ; whereas I am bound to
affirm, that the agitation is confined to himself, and, as far
as can be ascertained, to himself alone; and that because a
whole society would not allow him to force upon them rules
of his own concocting.
Your obedient servant,
WM. SHIRLEY.
Ranslayk-street, Liverpool, Oct. 22nd, 1838.

WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST,IND✓IRD.

shall esteem it a great favour if you will insert the
following letter, in defence of the Wesleyan Association
against the attacks of an obscure individual, who occupied
part of your columns on Friday

To the Members of the Liverpool Wesleyan Association.
FELLOW CHRISTIANS,—AIthough I differ materially from
many of you in regard to the discipline observed in your sec-
tion of the Christian church, I still feel a deep interest in
your prosperity, from a persuasion that any schism or dispute
amongstthe members of any particular church has a tendency
to bring reproach upon the Christian name and character,
and prevents that union which gives zeal to enterprise. It
was, therefore, with deep regret that I perused some letters
which have appeared in the Liverpool Standard, relative to
some differences which are said to have taken place in your
society. These letters bear the signature of " W rn. Hocking,"
whom 1 was given to understand was an officer of consider-
able standing and influence among you. Having had a to-
lerable share of experience in such matters as divisions in
Christian societies, and having generally found that the prime
movers in these unholy strifes were men of suspicious cha-
racter, if not of decidedly immoral life, I at once determined
to judge of the matter for myself, and taking the documents
as they appeared in the public journals to be matters of fact,
I set out upon my inquiry. After having conversed with se-
veral influential members of your society, and after having
received assurances that the members generally were at peace
and flourishing, even beyond expectation, I resolved to make
inquiry into the character, station, and respectability of the
writer of the letters to which I have alluded. To my grief,
but not astonishment, I found him a coarse illiterate buffoon,
of most consummate impudence, and full of self-confidence,
fretful and waspish to a degree I never even witnessed. I
ascertained that his boasted quarterly meeting was on meet-
ing at all; that he was the only member present, both judge
and jury in his own case; and thus were these angry letters
sent forth to the world, because the more respectable mem-
bers of your society had refused to have the illiterate effusions
of this stupid blockhead foisted upon you as the rules for the
government of a Christian society. And now, if I have stated
a well known fact, which many of you can hear witness to,
let me at once suggest the propriety of excluding this mis-
chievous and wicked babbler from your society and fellow-
ship. Your system, however liberal in design, Has a natural
tendency to encourage the interference of the more illiterate
and designing part of the community, and bringing both rea-
son and religion into contempt. It is like all other systems
which partake too much of a democratic character. " Let
the wise reproach me," is the spirit of a well known proverb;
" but let not fools triumph, lest the wicked rejoice." Be firm
and united, and neither the influence of Satan, nor the trea-
chery of wicked men will prevent the spread of truth through
your instrumentality. 1 have many more facts to develope,
intimately connected with the progress of this foolish, yet
not less dangerous character. I have proof that the Roch-
dale correspondence, so loudly boasted of, was, if not a for-
gery, very nearly allied to it, and that the whole scheme is a
refuge of lies, to deceive the ignorant and unwary. But let
the writer beware. If he provokes the majesty of truth, the
touch of Ithuriel's spear will unmask the traitor, and exhibit
him to an insulted community, and to the world, in his re-
volting and disgusting character.—l am, Fellow Christians,
your very sincere friend,

A CRURCHNIAN

DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.; RD.

SIR,—I observe by the Albion of this day, that the drapers'
assistants are to have a general meeting to-morrow night,
(Tuesday,) respecting the hours of closing. As an employer,
I conceive it my duty to declare the undisguised truth,
that the hours of business are too protracted, indeed. they
are unnecessary, and I might almost say, vexatiously pro-
tracted. What, for instance, can be more galling to the
feelings of a young man, than to be confined behind the
counter after seven or eight o'clock on a winter's night, and,
after a day spent in the incessant drudgery of a draper's
shop ? At that late hour, the business of the day may very
properly said to have concluded, and, wherefor,, should the

young men be detained in the shop, staring at each other, or
wasting their time in stale jokes, or unprofitable conversa-
tion ? It would certainly be a better plan to dose the shop
at that hour, and let the assistants be engaged in arranging
the goods for the following day. Every employer who can,
for a moment, dispossess his mind of that prejudice which is
common to us all, will be convinced, that the present hours
must have originated in a spirit of opposition, and that the
business beini, chiefly transacted in day light, there is but
a shallow pretence for keeping open later than seve❑ o'clock.
Indeed, I question whether the profit on the articles sold
after that hour, is more than sufficient to cover the expense
of the gas that is consumed.
I would advise every employer to peruse attentively, the
respectful memorial that has been adopted by the assistants,
and to say if such an anpeal does not demand the immediate
attention of the principals. Something must be done, and
very soon. Long resistance to a reasonable request can
only engender a spirit of animosity, and ultimately a com-
bination.
22d October, 1838.

AN EMPLOYER.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL. THE MAYOR, AND
THE BEAN STALK.

TO THE EDITOR op THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Lord John Russell, the Mayor of Liverpool, and
the Editor of the Albion ! in the weakly oracle of last Mon-
day, (it is presumed by their united effoits,) had a fling at
the reporters connected with the London papers resident in
this town. It appears, they were much chagrined at a para-
graph which appeared in the Times of Wednesday week, re-
flecting on the conduct of the Mayor in excluding the press
from the dinner given to Lord John Russell. The yelp of
the mongrel politician is evidently caused by a kick from the
Mayor, or a bray from the home office. Probably, however,
his worship, who is a dab hand at amateur reporting, may
have! tried his skill at writing leaders this lam inclined to
suspect in consequence of the doggrel in question exhibiting
exhibiting more imbecility of mind, low cunning, and jesui-
tical cant, than would appear from a professional pen. The
Bean Stalk, Lord John Russell, the Mayor, or whoever may
claim the honour of being the author of the reporter-hating
article in question, has made the notable discovery that,
resident in this town of Liverpool, are reporters to the Lon-
don press ! Aye, and dubbed reporters too.—Singular fact!
Mysterious Providence !
I marvel, Mr. Editor, whether the perceptive genius who
discovered the dubbed reporters resident in Liverpool ever
heard that there was a drubbed editor also resident here
" Oh, no, we never mention it,
The case shall not be heard."
I may, however, en passant, say from information received,
that on the interesting occasion to which I allude—" The
face of Albion was as white as it.. cliffs."—Yours, &c.,
ONE OF TILE DUBBED REPORTERS.

SCOTCH KIRK IN THE PARISH. OF WENWICK,
LANCASH IRE.

We understand that the Rev. Alexander Rennison, A.M.,
a student of the University of Edinburgh has been appointed
minister of the Scotch Kirk, better known as Risley Chapel,
near Kenyon, in the parish of Winwick, by the new trustees,
and officiated at divine service there on Sunday week. The
trusteeship was wholly unsolicited by the parties who now
hold it, consisting of certain clergymen and laymen, members
of the church of Scotland, resident in Liverpool and Man-
chester; but when it was offered them they could not, from a
sense of duty, decline accepting it.
The clergy and laity of Winwick are too well acquainted
with the circumstances which have brought among them a
clergyman of the church of Scotland, to regard him as an
intruder in the parish. On the contrary, there is reason to
expect that in his humble sphere he will be net by the for-
mer as a fellow-labourer in the service of a common Master,
and by the latter with the consideration due to his office.
This is the chapel which, with its endowment of ten statute
acres of arable land, a farm-house, and five cottages and gar-
dens, was lately wrested from the unitarians by a few church-
men of Winwick, who felt the usurpation as a scandal and a
reproach on themselves and on the parish. The unitarian
trustees denied their guilt with impotent invective, and even
affected offended sensibility because their distinguished
" teacher and preacher" was charged as an accomplice with
a long life of dishonesty; but when copies of the original deed
of settlement, and of documents connected with the endow-
ment, which had been discovered in the possession of a family
in the neighbourhood, were produced by the attorney-general,
in the Court of Chancery, they could not make an answer,
legally convicted, as they were, of the deep iniquity of having
violated a sacred trust.

In the countities of Lancaster and Chester there are more
than sixty chapels, some of them with rich endowments, un-
justly and unlawfully held in possession by the unitarians;
but where is the zeal to emulate the achievement of the church.
men of Winwick.