The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

LOCAL NEWS,

LANCASTER ASSIZES commence this day, (Tuesday,) and
Liverpool Assizes next Saturday. Lord Denman will preside
in the Crown Court, and Mr. Justice Wightman in the
Nisi Prius.

Fhe Manchester Town Council have fixed the salary of
the Town Clerk at £lOOO per annum.
The next annual meeting of the British Association will
be held in Manchester, Lord F. Egerton, M. P., President.
PENN'S BATHS.-ViSiterS to Liverpool should, by all
means, avail themselves of the opportunity of bathing at
this very-well-ordered and excellently-conducted establish-
ment. If not for the purposes of health, the baths ought
to be inspected as a matter of curiosity. Nothing can be
more pleasant than the mode in which bathers are accom-
modated.

THE REV. HUGH MINEILE.—This eminent Minister
delivered a most instructive and powerful discourse on
Thursday, the 29th ult , to a large congregation, in the new
Church of Crosshane, which was consecrated a few weeks
ago for the worship of the one living and true God, and
wich is situated but a few miles from his native place. His
text was taken from the book of the prophet Zachariah, 4th
chap. Gth and 7th verses. It would be utterly impossible,
with the greatest advantage of language, to convey even a
faint idea of the capabilities of Mr. M`Neile as a pulpit
orator. The most sacred devotion is embodied in every
sentiment that flows from his lips; the most searching pene-
tration and the most extended range of thought are exibited
in the developMent of each part of his discourse ; and in
elucidating his views, his similes, though taken perhaps
from the very commonest objects, are made, by the beauty
of his diction, and his powers of explanation, subservient to
the working out of results in argument, at once the most
commanding and truthful to the judgment. And still our
ideas of the greatness, both of the depth and expansion of
his intellect, are increased in enduring splendour when, with
the precision of an artist, he embodies in one beautiful whole
those distant but perfect members that his mighty mind had
created : but transcending his other talents, and beaming
like a sun amid his other perfections, is the wisdom where-
with he adapts his views to the capacities of his hearers ;
with the tender care of a Christian pastor he metes out the
word of life to all as their strength requires it; while over
the wise he exercises a judgment able to subdue their preju-
dices or meet their expectations of knowledge, he causes the
waters of life to distil over the minds of the simple as the
dew-drops upon the tender herbs; sedulous to convey in-
struction in the most pleasing manner, he is careful to guard
against any expression likely to wear the most distant sem-
blance of trifling ; as a good physician, he weighs the depth
of moral depravity with the infinite potency of the healing
balm of Gilead ; and dissecting every feeling that would seek
for a remedy more likely to palliate the evil affections of
man's heart, he preaches alone Christ Jesus and him cru-
cified. Aided by the wisdom that cometh from above, may
he long stand forward as the champion of Bible truth, which
is our common Protestantism ! After the discourse, a col-
lection amounting to near £l5 was taken up, to assist in en-
closing with a wall the new erection.—Londonderry Sentinel.
THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.—OH Wednesday morn-
ing a letter from.the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, a clergyman of the
established church, recommending a union of the Wesleyan
Methodists with the church, was brought before the notice
of the Conference, and gave rise to a long and interesting
discussion. Among the speakers was Dr. Bunting, who
took occasion to observe—in reference to one portion of the
letter stating that those of the Wesleyan ministers who had
passed the presidential chair should be made bishops—that
no power whatever should ever induce or compel him to be
made a bishop. He .had received a great number of com-
munications on the subject of the union of the Methodists
with the church ; and he was induced to believe, that many
persons attributed to him a power and an influence which he
did not possess. Why those communications were addressed
so pre-eminently to him he could not conceive ; but the fact
was, that he had received two letters from members of par-
liament, thanking him for their elections, though he did not
know those gentlemen, had had no previous communication
with them, and was totally ignorant, before they themselves
informed him, that they had been elected at all. One of the
members in question was a tory, and the other was a whig.
He mentioned that to show what a mistaken notion some
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it people had of his intlueicerdtheimcpoourrtsaencoef
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with the Wesleyan body.i—l
was stated, that no official correspondence could be entered
into with Mr. Hodgson, as he could have no power or
authority to make any proposition that would be regarded by
the church at large as authoritative. It was, however, re-
solved, that a reply be sent to him, thanking him for his
kind motives in writing the letter, and expressing a desire
that g may obtain among all
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is discussion occupied the
greater portion of the forenoon. At five in the afternoon
the Conference re-assembled for the ordination of the young
men who were admitted to the ministry, of whom there are
between 30 and 40. The public were admitted, and the
chapel was filled to overflowing. On Thursday afternoon,
in consequence of the stationing committee being required
to commence its deliberations, the general body did not sit
more than about an hour. In the evening, the Rev. Robert
Newton, the ex-president, delivered a charge to the newly-
ordained ministers, hi Oldham-street Chapel. The service
was open to the public, and the congregation was very nu-
merous. On the question of the silk gown, the Conference
has decided, that no preacher shall wear it without express
permission from the Conference; and Dr. Bunting, by the
direction of the committee, administered a reproof to the
Rev. W. Bunting, and the Rev. Mr. Waddy, of Hull, for
having appeared in the gown in the pulpit. Yesterday the.
Conference was occupied in fixing the stations of the various
ministers for the ensuing year. We may mention, for the
amusement of our readers, that a Mrs. Martin, a lecturer on
socialism, sent a challenge to the Conference to discuss cer-
tain topics in connection with her views ; but we hardly need
state, that the Conference did not accept the invitation.
We believe that the Conference has not returned any answer
to the letter from the committee of arrangement for the
proposed conference of ministers on the corn-laws.—Man-
Chester Guardian.