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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 248, 17 February 1875, Page 2

An Eloquent Preacher in New Zealand. —The Hon. and Rev. A. E. Stanley (son of Lord Stanley of Alderley), is on a tour through New Zealand. He lately officiated at St. Paul’s Dunedin, and the Otago Daily Times remarks: — He read the lessons at the morning service, and preached an eloquent sermon, from St. Matthew viii., 24. The gentleman has a very rapid though pleasing style of delivery, but the celerity with which he repeated the invocation after his discourse was anything but appreciable. He intoned the principal part of the evening service. A very disgraceful scene was witnessed on November 15, at Zion Chapel, Nottingham. The appointment of Mr. Langford as minister is disputed by a section of the congregation, and at a meeting some days ago a -scene of great disorder occurred. In the morning Mr. Langford got into the pulpit in spite of a request that he would not do so, and conducted the service ; but in the evening the opposing body obtained possession, Mr. Langford being stopped at the pulpit steps. He then gave out a hymn, in which part of t-he congregation joined, the opposition party at the same time starting another hymn, thus producing great discord. Mr. Langford began to preach, and the minister appointed by the opposition party commenced reading a Psalm. Air. Langford preached his sermon while his opponents were singing, led by the harmonium. Some police officers were in attendance, but no violence occurred. One of the committee of management remarked that Mr. Langford was opposed under legal advice, and to further the cause of Christ. The whole seene was most extraordinary and unseemly.

Dr. Kexealy. —Dr. Kenealy has issued an address to the people of England, Wales, and Scotland, calling upon them to form a Alagna Charta Association of Great Britain for the restoration of the clauses of that charter, every one of which he declares has been repealed. Every person who subscribes a penny a week shall be entitled to membership. He wishes to raise funds enough to return 100 members of the middle and operative classes to parliament, with whose aid he will destroy the existing despotism. Ho asks why he should not in two years have a sum sufficient to return 250 members to the House of Commons, with which wonders may be achieved 1 He soon to be iu parliament, but is not guine, as Gladstone and Disraeli will join in railing at him, and write to keep him out. He will make the house ring with his denunciation of the system of selecting judges. It will hear truths that have not been hoard for years. He assures the people that if he can get in he will manage the House of Commons with as much ease as he kept the judges in hand, and, he hopes, without once losing equanimity. He has only to point out that we are drifting into civil war and the house will listen. He concludes by assuring the people that the Magna Charta Association is national and universal, having nothing to do with Arthur Orton or the Kenealy wrong. Its objects are to bring back Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights, to establish a free and honest press, to return 250 people’s representatives, to make bribery at an election an act of felony, to abolish the Income-tax Act, to secure a a free breakfast table, to have triennial parliaments, to restore her crown to the Queen, to support the House of Lords, and to exclude lawyers from parliament, His address commences “ Dear fellow country people, men and women,” and concludes with “ I am, men and women, with the greatest respect aud love to all of you.”