THE WESLEYANS AND THE DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 263, 6 December 1848, Page 4

THE WESLEYANS AND THE DISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.

An address to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has been presented to bis Excellency by the Wesleyan ministers assembled in the late Irish Conference. The follosving answer has been received by the President of the Conference:— " Viceregal Lodge, July 6, 1848. " Reverend Sir, — I am directed by the Lord Lieut, to thank you for the transmission of a loyal address from the ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist connex ion, assembled in their animal conference, expressive ot their dutiful attachment to our gracious Sovereign and the institutions of the realm, and their anxiety to assist Her Government in the maiateuance of peace law and order. "The period of excitement and agitation through which we may hope the country has nearly pa«ed, must naturally have excited ttie alarm and reprobation of all tuie Christians and loyal subjects. "Perverse efforts have been made to stimulate the people, reudered susceptible by severe privation, to deeds of violence and outrage, which could hive no other result that) the aggravation and prolongation of their misery. Thesa efforts have signally failed, chiefly because the preventive policy adopted by the Govern, ment received warm sympathy and unsolicited assurances of support from the loyal and weiUdispoied of alt creeds, classes, »nd parties in Ireland. '< Du'ing the century that has elapsed since the establishment of your community as a distinct body, by the Rer- John Wesley, all the statesmen who have hid share in the administration of the BritUh Empire, h,ive uniformly found that body distinguished for the steadiness of its loyalty, and for its unvarying main* tenauce of the principles of constitutional law and bocial order- " His Excellency trua s that the continued abate* nje»t ot the present excitement will enable the ministers of religion to impress upon their several congregations those divine precepts of the Gospel, alluded to in your address, and which constitute tue true and only foundation on which the tranquility and the prosperity ot society can be established. " I hare the honour to be, fir, " Your obedient servant, "CoilßY CoNNELLAK. ' "To the Rat. Samuel Jackson, President of the Wesleyan Conference, &c."