The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

The following is the statement of our correspondent :

"As the versions which have been pubilshed respecting the
disgraceful affair in St. Michael's Church contain many
important errors, I will trouble you with the following
particulars :
" It appears that a meeting was summoned by Mr.
Carpenter in the Cornwallis-street School-room,some month s
back, to which Mr. Morrall was not invited. In conse-
quence, sundry propositions, many of a most preposterous
and humiliating nature, were made to Mr. Morrall, to
which, however, he promised to give due deliberation ; and
certainly at the last meeting, when the churchwardens
were present, Mr. Morrall heard all they had to say, and
was requested to return an answer at his earliest conveni-
ence. In fact, the very object of the meeting was to try
to come to an arrangement. One proposition was, that
Mr. Morrall should leave the church entirely, and receive
his stipend at a distance, still retaining his preferment ;
another was, that he should give up the morning and
evening services to Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Bardsley,
contenting himself with the afternoon duty only, which
was virtually excluding him from the chureh. To none
of these propositions did Mr. Morrall feel himself justified
in acceding. Notwithstanding this, one Sunday morn-
ing, on Mr. Morrall coining 'to church, he found a large
placard posted, on which it was intimated that Mr.
Morrall's next turn in the evening would be taken by
Mr. Bardsley, and the morning • and afternoon ser-
vices (an afternoon service not having been hitherto
in use) would be taken by Mr. Carpenter and Mr.
Morrall. To this Mr. Morrall very naturally ob-
jected, and the Bishop was appealed to, who confirmed
Ir.
Morrall's view of the case, and ordered the services to
return to their former state, which was done. Mr. Car-
penter then suggested an extra afternoon service, which
morning
for the Phe was suddenly apprizedurpose of introducing
Mr. Morrall assented to, on condition of his not being ex-
cluded from it. A long interval of several weeks elapsed
without any further communication from Mr. Carpenter,
until
that notice was to be given on the next day for the Sun-
day n
following,on a Saturday
Mr. Bardsley
iand
was
into the church. This additional service
having thus been forced upon Mr. Morrall, he was de-
u
sirous of additional help, and secured the services of his
friend Mr. Pughe, and hence arose the present state of
things. Mr. Bardsley has preached two or three times,
and always controversially. Mr. Pughe has been merely
going through the articles in the Prayer Book, proving that
Baptismal Regeneration is the plain doctrine of the
Church, and those who hold it are true, sincere Church-
men, and ought not to be stigmatized as Romanizers,
Tractarians, &c., epithets which have been most offensively
and unmistakeably applied to Mr. Morrall from the pulpit.
It may be as well to add, that a great part of the congre-
gation on Sunday morning were strangers, brought to
the church for the express purpose of insulting Mr. Mor-
rall, and thoo of the permanent congregation had nova