The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

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Everton, 4th Nov., 1848.
REV. AND DEAR SIR,—T am quite willing, as I always
have been, on the supposition that it could be done fairly,
to refer the question cf right to some competent tribunal.
I stated, therefore, to our mutual friend, Mr, Inman, and
I conclude that he•communicated to you, that the resolu-
tions sanctioned by yourself, which, while they pronounce
no opinion on my right to speak, distinctly assert your
right to prevent me, placed us in unequal positions. I
am, therefore, to understand that, in the event of refer-
ence, those resolutions, against which I protest as most
unjust, are to be distinctly excluded from any case to be
submitted to referees. Such being the case I have much
pleasure in saying, that I am quite satisfied with the
latter portion of your note, and, dismissing from my mind
every painful feeling which late cvents may have caused,
I am quite ready to meet you on our former terms of
Christian intercourse.—l am, reverend and dear sir,
yours faithfully,

WM. WITHERS EWBANK.

Rev. Dr. MWeile.

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Everton, 4th Nov. 1848.
REV. AND DEAD. Stn.—Mr. Inman made no mention
to me of the resolutions of the committee, nor did I even
think of them, when I wrote you a hurried note last night.
I have 1,& v. p I ,rty idea that there could be a bona
fide
reference o: t .r.,; ter, because I do not see where a tri-
bunal, on all hands acknowledged to be final, is to be
found. When Mr. Inman and Mr. Barker told me that
you no longer required an acknowledgment of your right
to speak, as a preliminary to our reconciliation, but that
you were willing it should be referred, I wrote what I did,
not with any distinct notion that there could be an actual
reference, but simply to set the question of right in abey-
ance. You supposed that Mr. Inman had mentioned the
resolutions to me, and, 'therefore, you appeared to have
considered my note defective in making no allusion to
them ; but Mr. Inman appears to have thought that they
had nothing to do with the matter immediately in hand,
and, therefore, did not mention them to me.

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I never thought of them, nor do I think now that any
reference to them is called for as a preliminary. They are
the resolutions of the committee, not mine : though it is
true I gave my opinion at a meeting of gentlemen, (not a
committee,) that they ought not to be suppressed,—that
no unauthorised meeting ought to suppress what a com-
mittee had resolved.
As an expression of the deliberate judgment of a majo-
rity of our committee, I cannot agree with you in calling
them " most unjust." My feeling is that unless we yield
to a majority, we can have neither unity nor peace. I
wrote to say so to the secretaries, before I knew how the
committee would decide; and had the decision of the
committee been, that you had an " undoubted right" to
speak, I would long since have publicly acknowledged my
mistake in preventing you. They decided that I had a
right to prevent you, but you did not deem yourself bound
by that decision ; and now you require, that I should agree
with you in allowing them to go for nothing in a reference.
I am content to do so ; and, should this explanation of
how this matter stands be satisfactory to you, we may now
leave all matters of difference.—l am, reverend and dear
_sir, your's truly, HUGH M'NEILE.
Rev. W. Withers Ewbank.

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Everton, 4th Nov. 1848.
REV. AND DEAR SIR,—As you state, in your note of
this morning, that you are content to allow the resolutions
to go for nothing in a reference, should that reference be
made, I am quite satisfied, and shall• be most happy to
sumo our friendly and Christian intercourse.—l am,
reverend and dear sir, your's faithfully,
WM. WITHERS EWBANK.
Rev. Dr. M'Neile.

LoNnow UNIVERSITY.—At the examination for the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, our talented young townsman,
Robt. G. Williams, son of Mr. Williams, Basnett-street,
passed as first-class man.
ST. SAVIOUR'S SCHOOLS.—On Sunday last, after a
sermon by the Rev. W. G. Warre, the sum of 5.30 was
collected at St. Saviour's Church, on behalf of the schools
in connexion with the church.