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

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WESLEYAN METHODIST ASSOCIATIO.

I am, sir, yours respectfully,
R. SHARPE,
Secretary to the Quarterly Meet Tug
of the 'Wesleyan Methodist Associatio

In order that the minds of the members may be set at rest,
this meeting declares that the only riles they acknowledge
are those printed by Wm. Taylor, Temple-court, and think
it right also to declare that notwithstanding their utmost
diligence, they cannot ascertain that more than one person
was present at the Quarterly Meeting, which passed the rules
printed by Perry & Cu. unanhuously by more than
lOU members, being inure than usually i,ttend the Quarterly
Aleeting.

Resolved unanimously—'That a copy of the foregoing reso-
lution he sent to the Annual Assembly, in order to remove
anv erroneous impres ion respecting the matter referred to.
(Signed) R. Farrar, Chairman.
It.. Sharpe, Secretary.

70 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sia,—As an act of common justice to the Liverpool Wes-
leyan Association, as well as to myself, I beg you to insert
in your next number the following, as my final notice of
Ilosking's most. calumnious statement, contained in
your number of Friday last. The said communication is ❑ut
only a breach of private confidence, but a gross violation of
truth ihelj:
When I gave him my name, it was on an express condi-
tion that it should ❑ot be published.
I did not see the statement to which he has so unwarrant-
ably attached my name, or, as a Christian roan, I could not
have made myself a party to the publication of vsitive
untruth, particularly when he states that the whole society
is in a fearful state of agitation ; whet eas I am bound to
affirm, that the agitation is confined to himself, and, as far
as can he ascertained, to himself alone; and th-at because a
whole society would not allow him to force upon them rules
of his own concocting._

- Your obedient servant,
Wlll. SHIRLEY
Ranelagh-street, Liverpool, Oct. 22nd, 1838.

WESLEYAN ASSOCIATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE LIFERPOOL ,ST.IND.IIID.
Sin,— I shall esteem it a great favour if you will insert the
following letter, in defence of the Wesleyan Associatian
against the attacks of an obscure individual, who occupied
pert of your columns on Friday het.
To the Members of the Liverpool Wesleyan Ascocidtio».
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
atnongstthe mernLers 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 1 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 " Win.Hasking,"
whom I was giYen to understand was an officer of considee-
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 3 our society, and alter 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 no 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 ruleA for the
governinent of a Christian society. And now, if I have stated
a well known fact, which many of you can bear 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 tco 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. I have many more facts to develope,
intimately connected with the progress of this foolish, vet
not less dangerous character. I have proof that the
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
hint to an insulted community, and to the world, in his re-
volting and disgusting; character.—l am, Fellow Christians,
your very sincere friend,

A CHURCHMAN.

DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
I uesday,) respecting
observe by the Albion of this day, that the drapers'
assistants. are to have a general meeting to-morrow night,
(
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 atter 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, wherefore, 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% better plan to close the shop
at that hour, and let the assistants be engaged iu 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 being chiefly transacted in day light, there is but
a shallow pretence for keeping open later than seven 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 appeal 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 corn.
bination.
22d October, 1838

AN EMPLOYER.

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

TO THE EDITOR OP TDB LIVERPOOL ST.LVD:IRD.
Si c,—Lord John Russell, the Mayor of Liverpool, and
the Editor of the Albion ! in the weakly oracle of last Mon-
day, (i: is presumed by their united elilts,) bad 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, tnay
have: tried his skill at writing leaders ; this I am 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 he 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,
ONE OF THE DUBBED REPORTERS.

SCOTCH KIRK IN THE PARISH OF WINWICK,
LANCASHIRE.

We understand that the Rev. Alexander liennison, 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 olliciatedat divine service there on Sunday week. The
trusteeship was wholly unsolicited by the parties who now
hold it, consistingof certain clergymen and laymen, members
of the church of Scotland, resident in Liverpool and Man-
chester; but when it was offered them they could nut, from a
sense of ditty, 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 met 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 live 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
affeeted 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 possessmn by the unitarians;
but where is the zeal to emulate the achievement of the church-
men of Winwick.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.I.NDARD.
Liverpool, 32d October, 1838.
Stn,—As a series of charges have appeared in your columns
against the officers of the Wesleyan Methodist Association
by Mr. Wm. flocking, I have to request you will be •kind
enough to give a place in your next publication to the fol.
lowittg copy of an official document as a sufficient refutation
of those charges, and also as a final reply to the writer of the
same.

(COI' Y.)
Special Circuit Meeting held in the Music Hall, 80ld-street,
30th July, 1888.
Mr. Maar Farrar in the Chair.
This meeting was called for the purpose of taking into
consideration the conduct of Brother William lloskirg for
publishing rules, and holding meetings on his ow-n authority,
and posting inflammatory placards calculated to disturb the
peace of the society, and injure the cause of God in this
circuit; when the following resolution was unanimously
agreed to :
.liesolved,—That this meeting has seen with much dissa-
tisfaction au advertisement of rules for this society said to
have been passed at a Quarterly Meeting held the 28th June,
and printed by Perry & Co., South Castle-street. The
Quarterly Meeting of the circuit which should have been
held on that date was postponed, (in consequence of the
coronation of Queen Victoria) in the usual manner, by pub-
lic notice, to the 21 July, and then gave its final sanction to
the rules which had been long under discussion, and winch,
by its authority, have been printed by Wm. Ta)lor, Temple-
court.