The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-17 00:00:00

PROSPECTS OF THE NEW MINISTERS.

EXETER, SaTURDAY.—The friends of "good government" in
this division of the county, in anticipation of Lord John Russell's
return to office, which necessarily obliges him to be re-elected,.
haVe this day at a meeting determined to oppose him in the
most strenuous manner. For this purpose a requisitinn has
been addressed to Montague Edmund Newcombe Parker,
of Whitevrav, in this bounty, to come forward, to a Inch that
gentleman has signified his assent. The contest whieb will thus
ensue will be of a most desperate and determined character.
Mr. Parker, though rather a young man and young in public
life, stands deservedly high in the estimation of the respectable
yeomanry of, the county. His family is good, being indeed
'elated to Earl Morley. He is of must amiable temper, high
talents, and unsullied conduct; his principles are sate, sound,
and constitutional. The conduct of Lord John Russell, on the
contrary, particularly since his alliance with O'Connell, and
the glaringly factious course he has-pursued towards Sir Robert
Peel's administrations has very considerably alienated him
from his party; for though they are reformers they are no
papists, and are too much attached to the protestant established
church, even with all the abuses they impute to it, to consent to
raise catholicism onits ruins. Lord John Russell's partisans
also have been gathering here to-day. but their appea.rance is
by no means that of being at ease; they are evidently afraid of
what has been done.

Ray. W. J. Fox.--21 Specimen of the rauntasy System and
its results.—ln the New Monthly Magazine, for 1824, p. 191, oc-
curs this sentence. "There is a Mr. Fox, a Dissenting Minis-
ter, who is the darling of his congregation." This is the Rev.
William Johnson Fox, of Finsbury Chapel, formerly a pupil
of Dr. Pye Smith, but who has since embraced Unitarianism,
a change by no means unfrequent in Dissenting Colleges, as
Dr. Smith informs us. In the course of ten years, this darling
of his congregation has not only ceased to be their darling, but
their minister too. The precise cause has not transpired, al-
though Mr. Fox has recorded his griefs and wrongs in a letter
addressed to the Morning Chronicle of September 6th, 1834.
He there complains of unresponsible accusers, unspecific charges,
and imputations denied, and pronounces the whole matter to be
"a chaos of impertinence and distortions." lie inveighs bit-
terly against the conduct of his congregation, in ransacking his
correspondence, and even inspecting the accounts of his house-
hold expenditure. "The evils (he says) without the advantages,
if such there would be, of a domestic inquisition gathered
around me; while the evil was not confined to myself, but of
the proverbial delicacy of female reputation, advantage was ta-
ken the most unjust and base." This is a specimen of the vo-
luntary system and its results. Disgusting as the statement is,
it is rendered ten times worse by the effrontery with which the
advocates of that system prl claim its alleged superiority. But
why call it voluntary? The wyta system would be a far more
appropriate name.