i ! Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library http://www.archive.org/details/minutesofseveral02wesl MINUTES SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS IN THE CONNEXION ESTABLISHED BY THE LATE REV. JOHN WESLEY, A.M., AT THEIR NINETY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE, BEGUN IN BIRMINGHAM, / ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1836. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY JOHN MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD; AND SOLD AT 66, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 183G. London : R. Needham, Printer, 1, Belle-Sauvage-Yard.-Ludgate-Hiil. MINUTES. Question I. What Preachers are this year admitted into full CONNEXION WITH THE CONFERENCE 1 A. 1. John Rossell, 1st, James Rowden, and William Satchel!, who have travelled five years. 2. William Appleby, Alfred Barrett, Henry Brown, William J. Bullivant, David Cargill, William Chambers, Henry H. Chettle, Thomas Dove, Robert Dugdale, John Gregory, William Griffith, jun., James Grose, William Henley, Peter C. Horton, Rowland Hughes, Robert Inglis, John Killick, John Knowles, jun., James Laycock, John C. Leppington, George Oyston, John Pearce, Thomas Pennington, Jesse Pilcher, Ptichard Prichard, John Randerson, John W. Roberts, William H. Sargent, Wright Shovelton, Samuel Simpson, Frederick Slight, William H. Taylor, Methuselah Thomas, John Tindall, John Whiteley, Robert Williams, John G. Wilson, John Yeates ; — And, in Ireland, Benjamin Bayly, Samuel Cowdy, Henry Gaddis, Abraham Kerr, Jeremiah Wilson. 2 3. Thomas Collins, and John Hodgson, jun., who have travelled four years, were not publicly admitted into full connexion, solely because they were unable to attend the Conference. Q. II. What Preachers remain on trial ? A. John G. Avery Francis Barker, Mark B. Bird, John Bissell, Edward Branston, Edward Brice, William A. Brooks, William Butters, John Cameron, John D. Carey. Hilton Cheesbrough, Paul Clark, James Cook, William Culcheth, John Dawson, William Drewett, John Hornby, Thomas Hughes, Thomas Jeffries, Thomas Jenkins, Lewis Jones, Martin Jubb, Joseph Lawton, William Lawton, Robert Macbrair, John Mann, James Mitchell, Joseph Moorhouse, Peter Parsons, Joseph Pascall, John M. Pearson, Stephen Rabone, George Ranyell, Henry Richardson, William Seccombe, James Sharracks, John Talbot, Charles B. Taylor, James Taylor, Thomas Thompson, jun., James Wallis, William T. Waymouth, John Weatherstone, John Williams, William Williams ; — Also, William Bannister, Robert Cooney, John Matthiez, Assistant Missionaries ; — And, in Ireland, Thomas Beamish, John Foster, James Murdoch ; — These have travelled three years James Aldis, John Allin, Nathaniel Alston. Thomas D. Baines, Philip Le Bas, Thomas Bedford, James K. Best, Joseph Binns, William Bond, Edmund Botterell, William Burnett, Thomas Capp, William T. Cardy, James Carr, Charles Clay, Donald M. R. Coghill, Robert Cooke, John Crawshaw, Benjamin Crosby, Nehemiah Curnock, Daniel J. Draper, Thomas Edwards, 2d, John Eggleston, Thomas M. Fitzgerald, Richard Giddy, James Godden, Henry Groves, Richard Harding, Samuel Healey, Thomas Heeley, William Hill, jun., George Hobill, John Hobkirk, James Hocart, Joseph Jackson, jun., Frederick J. Jobson, Hugh Jones, John Lambert, Frederick Lewis, Alexander Manzie, Joseph A. Marsden, Joseph Nicholson, John Rees, John Richards, Thomas Richardson, William Rigglesworth, These have John Rossell, 2d, Nathan Rouse, John Ryan, 1st, John Ryan, 2d, Henry Small wood, Edward J. Sturges, Edward Sweetman, Charles Taylor, Samuel Taylor, William B. Thorneloe, John Tupman, Benjamin B. Waddy, John Walters, 2d, Francis Ward, Samuel H. Wardley, Edmund B. Warters, George F. White, Henry Wilkinson, 2d, Joseph T. Wilkinson, Henry W. Williams, Thomas Wood ; — Also, Henry Dugmore, John Guest, Samuel S. Johnson, John M* Murray, John Rain, John L. Rostan, Peter Sleep, Thomas Smith, Assistant Missionaries ; — And, in Ireland, William P. Appelbe, Edward Banks, John B. Bennett, William A. Darby, Henry Giles, Armstrong Halliday, John Liddy ; — travelled two years : 6 John B. Alexander, James Alsop, William R. B. Arthy, William Baker, jun., William Bird, jun., John Blackweli, Daniel Blarney, John Booth, Samuel Brocksop, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, jun., Peter Budd, Thomas Buddie, Henry Castle, Philip Chapman, Samuel W. Christophers, John Conn on, Abraham Cooper, John Davies, 2d, John Drake, George Driver, James Eacott, Henry Foster, Kelsham Fullager, Thomas Furze, Matthew Gal lien ne, William H. Garner, Henry Gaud, David Gravel, Thomas Haswell, David Hay, Joseph Heaton, Henry Hine, William Hodgson, George Hole, Samuel Hooley, Benjamin Hurst, Richard Hutchinson, Jonathan Innes, William Jackson, 2d, Isaac Jenkins, John Jenkins, Benjamin John, Thomas Jones, 3d, John D. Julian, Wilson Lofthouse, Samuel Loxton, Peter Lucas, Matthew T. Male, George Maunder, John Morris, Ebenezer Moulton, John H. Norton, John Osborne, William Owens, Horatio Pearse, Thomas Pearson, jun., Thomas A. Rayner, Jabez Rought, William Sanders, George Sanger, James Scholes, John Sharman, Samuel Sherwell, Samuel Simons, James Smeeth, John Spinney, Samuel Stanton, William Stephenson, Daniel Stepney, Richard Stepney, John Sumner, 2d, James Sutch, William Trewin, J^evi Waterhouse, William Webb, 2d, Daniel West, William West, Charles Westlake, John Wiggin, Joseph Wilkinson, Matthew Wilson, 7 William Winterburn Also, L. A. Bartholomeuz, Wesley Beals, John Borland, Amadi Gum, William Hickey, Edmund S. Ingalls, John Johnston, William Juff, William N. Leggett, John Parys, Peter Pcoy, Matthew Smith, Thomas Wellard, Assistant Missionaries ; — And, in Ireland. John Farrell, George Grant, Robert Hamilton, 1st, Thomas Hickey, John Hughes, Hugh Moore, Robinson Scott, George Vance : These have travelled one year. Q. III. What Preachers are now received on trial A. John Addy, John Anderson, jun., Samuel Beard, John Bell, jun., Thomas H. Bewley, George Bingham, John Budden, Uriah Butters, W 7 illiam Cattle, James Clapham, Samuel Cooke, John G. Cox, Henry Dean, Thomas Denham, William G. Duncan, Jesse Edgoose, Benjamin Elvins, Henry Elvins, Thomas Garbutt, Hender Geach, Francis Gladwin, George Green, John Hanson, Isaac Harding, John Harland, James Harris, Peter Harrop, William Heath, Benjamin Hicks, William Holden, William Hopkins. George Hughes, John Hughes, Richard lies, John Imison, William Jessop, Zephaniah Job, John Jones, Thomas Jones, 3d, Timothy Jones, John M. Kirk, Aaron Langley, James Lees, William Limmex, Thomas Llewellyn, John Lockwood, 8 Samuel Lucas, Richard Burdsall Lyth, James Osborn, Reuben Partridge, .lames Pattison, Joseph Payne, Thomas Pearson, jun., Richard Petch, Charles Rawlings, Thomas Rodham, Joseph Sanger, John Shaw, Henry W. Smith, Thomas Standring, William Sugden, Joseph Sykes, Francis Taylor, Benjamin Tonkin, Benjamin Tregaskis, John Vanes, John Vine, John Warren, Joseph Watson, Robert Willcox, William R. Williams, George Wrigley ; — Also, Antoine Berrus, James Buckley, jun., Jesse Cheslock, John Crookes, Charles Franklin, Charles de Hoedt, Jeremiah Jost, Louis Martin, Humphrey Richard, Matthew Smith, Charles de Wolf, Assistant Missionaries ; — And, in Ireland, Robert Black, Robert Hamilton, 2d, Patrick Henley, James Kennedy, William M'Garvey, Simpson Morrison, Robert Wallace. Q. IV. What Preachers have died since the last Conference ? A. 1, In Great Britain, the seventeen following :- (1.) Thomas Pinder ; who was born at West- Stockwith, near Gainsborough, September 22d,1774; and was brought to the knowledge and enjoyment of God at Sheffield, where he then resided, in 1 1\)o. lie was an up- right, devout, and humble man, remarkable for his sim- plicity and godly sincerity. His preaching was sound, fervent, and practical. He was very zealous in the cause of Christ, and was instrumental in the conversion of many sinners. His state of mind during his last illness was most satisfactory. He fell asleep in Jesus, August 27th, 1835, in the sixty-first year of his age, 9 having faithfully laboured in the work of the ministry thirty-six years. (2.) James Sydserff; who was converted to God about the year 1796, and in the year 1803 entered upon the duties of our itinerant ministry. During the thirty-two years in which he was employed in this work, he was indefatigable and persevering ; and his labours were owned of God in the conversion of many souls. In the course of his last illness he said, " I shall soon be in glory. Of this I have every assurance that I could desire." He died in the Lord on Sunday, September 27th, 1835, aged fifty-five years. (3.) William Harrison, sen. He was effectually turned t9 God in his youth. For nearly forty years he was engaged in the work of the ministry, as am Itinerant Preacher ; and on becoming a Supernumerary, he deter- mined to devote his remaining strength to the advance- ment of the cause of his Redeemer. He was a vigilant, prayerful, and successful Pastor, visiting day by day, from house to house, with unwearied diligence. He died rejoicing in God his Saviour, Nov. 24th, 1835, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. Some of his last words were, " I stand upon the Rock. The Saviour whom I have preached to others is now my support." (4.) Thomas Rowe. He had the privilege of a religious education, and at an early period in life devoted himself to God. He was a man of deep piety, and of genuine simplicity ; and the word of Christ dwelt richly in him. His views of Christian doctrine were clear and sound, and his manner of explaining and enforcing them was impressive. As a Preacher he was highly acceptable and useful ; and in his walk and conversation a pattern of every good work. After having endured, with great patience and entire resignation to the divine will, a long and painful affliction, he died happy in God, Dec. 12th, 1835, aged fifty years. (5.) John Briddon ; who, at an early age, earnestly a 5 10 sought and obtained mercy through faith in Christ, and joined himself to the Methodist Society. In the year 1824 he was appointed to Kingstown, in the St. Vin- cent's District. After labouring in the West Indies, with great acceptance and usefulness', for ten years, he re- turned to England in a state of impaired health. As a Minister of Christ, he was " a workman that needed not to be ashamed ; " and was much respected both as a Christian and a Minister. When near his end, he said, " Welcome, death ! Come, Lord Jesus." He died January 20th, 1836, in the thirty-fifth year of his age. (6.) Joseph Hollingworth ; who was brought to a saving knowledge of God in the twenty-fourth year of his age. His religious character became strongly marked ; his experience was rich and clear ; and his path was that of the just, shining more and more to the perfect day. After labouring about nine months as a Local Preacher, he entered upon the itinerant work, and was afterwards stationed in some of the most important Circuits in our Connexion. It pleased the Lord to fa- vour him with much fruit ; and many were the souls brought to God by his ministry. His ministerial cha- racter was highly respectable. His views of divine truth were clear and comprehensive ; his language was perspicuous, copious, and frequently eloquent ; his man- ner was natural, solemn, and earnest ; and his mind and heart were fully engaged in bringing sinners to God. During his affliction he enjoyed great peace, and un- shaken confidence in his Saviour. He fell asleep in Jesus, on Monday, January 25th, 1836. (7.) Joseph Brougham ; who was converted to God in early life, and entered upon the work of the ministry as a Travelling Preacher in the year 1811. He laboured with acceptance for some years ; but, his constitution having been injured by sleeping in a damp bed, be became unequal to the regular service of a Circuit, and retired to Burslem, his native town, where he preached occasionally, as his health would permit. He was a man of sincere piety and strict integrity, but natural" II served and retiring. The Gospel which he had preached to others afforded him strong consolation during a pro- tracted course of affliction and debility ; and having served his generation according to the will of God, he died in peace, March 24th, 1836, in the forty-eighth year of his age. (8.) Richard Gower. He enjoyed the advantages of pious parental instruction, and was brought in early life under the influence of religion, while attending the services of the Established Church. Hearing the Rev. John Wesley preach, he united himself to the Methodist Society, gave satisfactory evidence of a scriptural con- version, and in the offices of Class-Leader and Local Preacher discovered ability for more extensive service in the cause of Christ. He was introduced into our itinerant work in the year 1792 ; and during the re- mainder of his life faithfully and successfully laboured to make full proof of his ministry. By diligent study and prayer, he acquired an accurate knowledge of evan- gelical truth; and his sermons were remarkable for variety of matter. He was a judicious and faithful friend, and exemplary in all the relations of domestic life. He mildly and firmly maintained our doctrines and discipline ; was punctual in observing his engage- ments ; constantly abstained from evil speaking, and discouraged it in others ; and uniformly endeavoured to " keep a conscience void of offence towards God and to- wards man." He was suddenly called away by a spas- modic affection of the heart. During his illness he gave satisfactory testimony of a due preparation, for his ap- proaching change. He said, with deep feeling, " I fear that I shall not be able to glorify God in my death ; " but immediately added, with aifecting emphasis, and many tears, " My God, my Saviour, my Intercessor, my Redeemer, has washed me from my sins in his own blood ! " He died April 22d, 1836, aged seventy- three years. (9.) John Willson Pipe, in the thirty-eighth year of his age, and the eighteenth of his itinerancy. He 12 was converted to God when a scholar at Kingswood- School, and subsequently established in his religious ex- perience and character under the ministry of the Rev. William E. Miller. His literary. attainments were con- siderable, and his mind was richly stored with general and theological knowledge. In the different Circuits where he travelled, he was highly acceptable ; and his faithful and zealous ministry was successful in the con- version of sinners and the edification of believers. He closed his days with an unblemished reputation, and his end was peace. His last words were, " I feel very sensibly that I am upon the Rock. Christ, only Christ !" He died April 29th, 1836. (10.) Thomas Rogerson, sen. When he was nine- teen years of age he was convinced of sin, and by faith in Christ obtained a sense of the pardoning love of God ; the Spirit witnessing with his spirit his adoption into the heavenly family. He entered upon our itinerant ministry in the year 1788; and during a period of thirty-five years discharged its duties with considerable zeal and success. In the year 1824 he completely lost his hearing ; and, feeling other infirmities press upon him, he consented to become a Supernumerary. He never recovered his hearing ; yet he exerted himself, both in public and private, to promote that cause to which he had devoted his best days. Towards the close of life his sufferings were great ; but the Lord whom he had long loved and served was with him in his final hour. " I feel," he said, " a good hope of enjoying a heavenly inheritance when my heart and my flesh fail ; and am waiting with patience until my change come. All is right; all is well." He died May 7th, 1836, in the seventy-second year of his age. (11.) Benjamin Millman ; who was converted to God in his youth, and entered upon the work of the ministry, as a Travelling Preacher, in 1S03. He la- boured in the vineyard of the Lord with general acceptance and usefulness, until he became a Supernumerary in 1830. When health permitted, he was always ready to 13 preach the Gospel, and otherwise promote the interests of true religion. The affliction which ended his life was protracted, and frequently severe, especially about two months before his death. He endured his sufferings with patience, and resignation to the will of God ; was favoured with divine consolations ; and died in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, May 11th, 1836. (12.) Aaron Floyd ; who was born about the year 1786, and appears to have been truly converted to God in early life. He entered upon the work of our itinerant ministry in the twentieth year of his age, and laboured upwards of thirty years as an approved servant of Jesus Christ, esteemed by his brethren, and justly respected in the various Circuits to which he was suc- cessively appointed. For some time past his health had visibly declined ; and although he continued to perform his regular duties, it was evident that dis- ease was gradually wasting his strength. His appoint- ment by the late Conference to the Superintendency of the Bradford East Circuit, found him in this state of growing weakness ; yet he entered upon his labours with cheerful promptitude, and continued with great firmness until the ensuing April, 1836. From this time his health still more rapidly declined ; but no im- mediate danger was apprehended until the day before his decease. It was pleasing to observe, that, while unconscious that his departure was so near at hand, his mind was " stayed upon his God," and consequently " kept in perfect peace." To a brother in the ministry, who called upon him on a morning which had been pre- ceded by a restless and painful night, he remarked that sleep indeed had been denied, "yet this," said he, — pointing to a psalm in the Bible, which lay open on the table before him, — " has been my support and com- fort through the otherwise tedious hours." When ap- prized by his medical attendant of his imminent danger, he received the tidings without fear or dismay ; and say- ing, " All is well," he calmly resigned his spirit, through Jesus our Mediator, to God who gave it. He died at 14 Bradford, in the fiftieth year of his age, and the thirty- second of his ministry, on the 12th of May, 1836. (13.) Thomas Gee. He was born at Hollins, near Mel- lor, Cheshire, in 1771. In early life he was deprived of his parents ; but, enjoying the pastoral attention and cate- chetical instructions of the Rev. Mr. Olerenshaw, a pious and indefatigable Clergyman of the Church of England, he was brought to a saving acquaintance with the truth as it is in Jesus. By perusing the writings of the Rev. Messrs. Wesley and Fletcher, he was led to acquiesce in those doctrines, and seek after the possession of that ex- perimental religion, which are there elucidated and en- forced. He shortly joined the Methodist Society, and was subsequently appointed to the offices of Class-Leader and Local Preacher. Being persuaded of his call to the Christian ministry, he commenced his itinerant course at the Conference of 1798 ; and with much simplicity, and considerable success, preached those truths of the Gospel, through which his own heart had been influenced and renewed. He adorned the doctrines which he preached by a blameless life ; his judgment was sound, and his integrity firm. After labouring in the Lord's vine- yard for thirty-one years, he was seized with paralysis, and compelled to desist from the service in which he so much delighted. He retired to Chester, where, by his amiable disposition, and truly Christian deportment, he much endeared himself to the Society. From repeated attacks of the malady, he was reduced to a state of great bodily infirmity, yet took a lively pleasure in con- versing on things pertaining to his eternal interests. He died in great peace, May 24th, 1836, in the sixty- fourth year of his age. (14.) Alfred Bourne. This excellent man com- menced his course as a Christian Minister in our Connexion in the year 1823; and in 1826, under the constraining influence of the love of Christ, and of a strong sense of duty to the perishing Heathen, he embarked as a Missionary for Continental India. In the Madras and Negapatam Circuits he spent about 15 eight years, distinguished by diligent and success- ful application to the acquirement of the language of the country, by uniform and exemplary piety, by an earnest devotedness to evangelical and pastoral labours, and by great usefulness. Under the pressure of his exhausting labours his health received a permanent in- jury ; yet for more than three years he continued to prosecute his Missionary toils, — often under severe pain and suffering. To him the interests of our Indian Mission appeared to require (on account of the paucity of labourers, as compared with the necessities of the people) that he should not count even his life dear to himself ; and he persevered in his work, till the repose, to which he at last submitted, came too late. He returned to England in June, 1835. For a while the hope of recovery was cherished by his friends ; but at length the malady assumed a more alarming form, and on the 27th of May, 1836, he resigned his spirit to God, in full dependence on the sacrifice of Christ, and in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. He was a man of God, and a valuable Missionary. He died in the thirty-seventh year of his age. (15.) John Gick ; who was a native of the Isle of Man, and was born in 1795. He was converted to God, and joined the Methodist Society, in 1812, and entered upon the itinerant work in 1821. He laboured for several years as a Missionary in the West Indies, where he suffered much from personal and family affliction, in consequence of which it was found necessary for him to return to his native land. His piety was sound, and characterized by great simplicity and affection. His talents as a Preacher were acceptable and useful ; and he was faithful and diligent. In his last affliction, he enjoyed great and uninterrupted peace with God through Christ ; and exchanged mortality for eternal life, May 28th, 1830. (16.) David M'Nicoll. When a child he was brought to the enjoyment of the grace of God in truth, chiefly through the prayers and exhortations of his mother. 16 His conversion was not marked by any extraordinary terror ; but in humble faith he was led to confide in the atonement of Christ, and thus obtained the full and clear testimony of the Holy Spirit to the fact of his adoption. When he was about twenty years of age, he received a divine call to the Christian ministry. He began to preach in his native town of Dundee with great acceptance, and gave indications of that future eminence which marked his subsequent course. Being called to Leeds for the purpose of admission into full Connexion, Dr. Adam Clarke heard him preach at one of the morning services, and was so impressed with his piety and talent that he requested his appointment with him- self for London. This event led to an affectionate at- tachment; and, no doubt, to Mr. M'Nicoll became highly beneficial, in the guidance of his studies, the enlargement of his views, and the establishment of his reputation and usefulness as a Minister of Christ. This eminent man possessed a mind of varied ability and extraordinary capacity. Reason, strength, acuteness, taste, and imagination, were signally united in his mental consti- tution. His attainments were in harmony with his powers ; and it is believed that few men in the Con- nexion were more entirely devoted to the acquisition of different branches of knowledge. His reading was im- mense ; and the stores of his mind, the vigour of his intellect, and the copiousness of his discourses, corre- sponded to the ardour and constancy of his industry. But though he allowed himself, occasionally, to range in the fields of general literature and science, his strength was devoted to the attainment of theological knowledge. In this department his scheme of study embraced the whole range of revealed truth. He could not content himself with a scanty and common-place view of di- vinity, but endeavoured to follow out the great doctrines of religion in their several bearings, evidences, and re- sults. To this end the course of his reading was sedu- lously directed ; and from the treasures of every age he drew to his aid the invaluable elucidations of divine truth, which have been so amply furnished by the piety and wisdom of the church. The public ministry of Mr. 17 M'Nicoll was uniformly experimental and practical ; and when he fully devoted himself to the task of prepar- ation, his preaching exemplified the highest qualities of sacred eloquence. In his discourses, copiousness, energy, and beauty of illustration, were happily combined with profound views of divine truth ; and while, in his ordinary ministry, he was an edifying Preacher, his occasional and extraordinary efforts raised him to the rank of a deserved and almost universal popularity in our Connexion. Whilst he cherished a most benevolent and catholic spirit, he also displayed through life a decided attachment to Wesleyan Methodism. In some very trying circum- stances, in the course of his itinerancy, he manifested great decision in support of the discipline of the Body. He held no compromise with faction, but firmly main- tained the whole economy of our Societies, — an economy which, in common with all other Methodist Preachers, he believed that we have providentially received as a sacred deposit from the Head of the church. He was persuaded that it rests on the great principles of the New Testa- ment, and is eminently useful in extending the triumphs of saving grace amongst men. He considered it as a sacrilege to disturb its order, or obstruct its course ; and he boldly stood forth to maintain its integrity in the hour of trial. The character of his personal piety was simplicity and happiness. He trusted exclusively in the atonement of Christ for acceptance with God, main- tained the divine life by seeking and cherishing the influences of the Holy Spirit, and lived in constant intercourse with the spiritual world. In the bosom of his family he exhibited, in an attractive manner, the qualities of a Christian husband and father ; whilst in the church and the pastoral relation he maintained the sanctity, the dignity, and the affection, which became a servant of Christ. Towards the close of life these prin- ciples and graces ripened into maturity. His intercourse with his friends, his general deportment and conver- sation, and his public ministry, partook largely of this hallowing spirit ; and the event shows that God was preparing him for the heaven of purity and love. His death was awfully sudden. He had spent a week in 18 advocating the cause of the perishing Heathen in a dis* tant part of the country, and returned home on Saturday evening, June 4th. He had the pleasure of meeting his family of eleven children ; he conversed with his accus- tomed ease and animation, prayed distinctly for their separate interests, then retired to rest, and in a few mo- ments expired ! Thus terminated, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, the life and ministerial course of another of the bright luminaries of our Connexion, under circumstances which show the sovereignty of the divine will in union with the riches of grace, and the necessity of prayer, that He who possesses " the residue of the Spirit," would exert his power and love in raising up a succession of faithful Ministers, to accomplish his merciful designs in the salvation of a ruined world. / (17.) Robert Roberts; anativeof North Wales. He was called into our itinerant work by the last Conference; and was faithful and diligent in the ministration of the word, until a few months previous to his death, when he was obliged by affliction to desist. He died of consumption, June 8th, 1836, in the twenty-eighth year of his age. He was a young man of promising talents. Some of his last words were, " I enjoy peace as a river. My body is weak, my affliction heavy ; but religion i« now the support of my body and soul." 2. In Ireland, two, viz., — (1.) Francis Armstrong, a native of the county of Fermanagh. He was awakened and brought to God, in his youth, by the ministry of the Methodists. A short time after his conversion, he began to call sinners to repentance in his native place, where his labours were owned of God. In the year 1787 he was called into the public ministry, in which he continued to labour, with short interruptions, until the year 1822. When he became a Supernumerary, he settled at Rathmullen, in the Rathmelton Mission, where he exerted himself, as far as his health permitted, in holding prayer-meetings, conducting Sunday-schools, and preaching occasiona: 19 by which means he rendered himself both beloved and useful. In him was united great sweetness of temper, with firmness and decision of character. He was re- gular in his attention to every part of his work ; his sermons were plain, experimental, and useful ; his piety was sincere and uniform ; his friendship discriminating and unshaken. In old age he exemplified the purity and power of that religion which he had so long professed ; and after a short but severe illness he died truly happy in God, June 3d, 1836, aged eighty years. (2.) Robert Cranston ; who was born in the county of Cavan, August 1st, 1785. He was deeply convinced of sin in very early life ; and in his fifteenth year received a sense of the pardoning mercy of God by the Spirit of adoption, which he happily retained until his death. He became a Class-Leader when he was eighteen years of age, and shortly afterwards a Local Preacher. In 1811 he commenced his itinerancy among us, and la- boriously and faithfully discharged its duties for sixteen years ; when, in consequence of bodily affliction, he was compelled to retire as a Supernumerary : still, however, he preached as often as his state of weakness permitted. He was a man of sound understanding and deep piety, and an acceptable and profitable Preacher. His last suffer- ings were so severe that he was prevented from speaking to his friends who visited him ; but he was evidently very happy, and before he breathed his last was able to pronounce a blessing on each member of his family. He then, in the full triumph of faith, resigned his spirit into the hands of his Redeemer. He died July 12th, 1830. 3. In our Foreign Missions, seven have died, viz., — (1.) Joseph R. Dun well ; a young man whose deep piety, amiable manners, and consistent conduct, secured for him the affection and esteem of those who knew him. He sailed for Cape- Coast Castle in the autumn of the year 1834, and finished his short but successful Mis- sionary career at that place, June 24th, 1835, after an 20 illness of a few days. In him were manifested, in an eminent degree, zeal for the cause of Christ, and a yearning pity for the souls of the Heathen. In a letter, addressed to a friend, which was. found in his room after his decease, he expressed his readiness to lay down his life in Africa ; and remarked, that it grieved him most of all that his utmost exertions were so inadequate to meet the spiritual wants of the multitudes to whom he had access. The last entries which he made in his journal show that he was graciously supported in his affliction, when in prospect of death. On the 14th of June, after observing that he had been attacked that day with the " seasoning " fever, which often proves fatal, he wrote, " I cannot describe the peace of mind that I feel. I am a most worthless sinner, and have no hope, no plea, but, ' Jesus died for me.' " On the following day he added, " I passed an exceedingly restless night, having great pain of body. Yet, O the composure of my mind ! I believe I can say, ' In life, or in death, I am the Lord's.' " (2.) John Price; who died at Nassau, New-Provi- dence, Bahamas, July 10th, 1835, after an illness of seven days. He was a young man of an amiable disposition, deep piety, and promising talents. During the whole course of his illness, he was happy in God, and free from the tormenting fear of dying. He said, with considerable emphasis, " I do not know what my heavenly Father is about to do with me; but I do not feel the smallest alarm or anxiety. To me, to live is Christ, to die is gain." A short time before he expired, he said, "O happy ! happy ! happy ! though I die, I shall live." (3.) John Walters ; who was a native of South Wales, and in early life, through the instrumentality of the Wesleyan Methodists, was converted to God. In 1830 he was recommended for the Mission work, and appointed to the island of Jamaica; which place he reached in January, 1831. Love to his brethren, com- passionate regard for the poor, diligence in visiting the sick, and fervent zeal for God, were his leading charac- 21 tcristics. He was attacked by fever, and after an illness of a few days sank beneath his disease. He was gra- ciously supported as he saw his end approaching ; his confidence in Christ was unshaken ; he was filled with holy triumph; and on July 11th, 1835, resigned his spirit into the hands of God. (4.) Daniel Barr ; who, having given satisfactory proof of a scriptural conversion, and of his call to the Christian ministry, was sent as a Missionary to the island of Jamaica, where he arrived in 1831. In the different Circuits in which he travelled, he laboured with acceptance and success. The nature of his last affliction, and the effect of the medicines taken, incapacitated him for saying much as to the state of his mind ; but his deep and habitual piety precludes all doubt of his final triumph. He died in peace at Morant-Bay, October 17th, 1835. As a man and a Christian, Mr. Barr was affec- tionate, upright, and consistent ; and as a Preacher, zeal- ous and faithful. (5.) Edmund Gordon ; who departed this life De- cember 23d, 1835, in the twenty-ninth year of his age. He was brought to a saving knowledge of God in the year 1830. Being persuaded that "he was moved by the Holy Ghost" to preach the Gospel in " the regions beyond," and having that persuasion confirmed by the call and appointment of the church, he left his native land as a Missionary to the West Indies in the latter end of the year 1833. He began and closed his Missionary course at St. Christopher's, within the brief space of twenty - one months. He was a Missionary of great promise. His piety was deep ; his zeal was ardent, and prompted him to such diligence in his sacred calling as is not often surpassed. His ministrations were owned of God ; and he greatly endeared himself to the Society among whom he laboured, by his affectionate pastoral superintendence and care. He was seized with a malignant fever, Decem- ber 17th, 1835, which, after six days, terminated in death. He gave satisfactory evidence that he was pre- pared for his change, and died in peace. 22 (6.) Thomas H. Osborne. In the days of his youth he devoted himself to the service of God ; and having given proof that the Great Head of the church had called him to preach the Gospel, he was appointed by the Conference of 1833 to a station in the West Indies. In that interesting field of Missionary labour he was successful in winning souls to Christ ; and by his amiable temper, unaffected piety, and ardent zeal, greatly endeared himself to his brethren in the ministry, and to the Societies over which he was placed in the Lord. His death was sudden ; but he was prepared for that solemn event. He arrived on the island of St. Christopher, to attend the District-Meeting, apparently in good health ; and on the evening of the second day of its sittings he was attacked by fever, which in less than thirty hours terminated his valuable life. He died on the 10th of February, 1836, in the twenty-fourth year of his age. (7.) Thomas Crosthwaite ; who, having obtained the knowledge of salvation through faith in Christ, was led deeply to feel on account of the perishing state of sinners, and offered himself as a Christian Missionary. "While he sustained this character, (a period of about six years, part of which was spent in Nova-Scotia, and part in the West Indies,) he gave full proof of his ministry. The lcve of Christ constrained him to devote all his powers to the service of his Divine Master; and he had the pleasure of knowing that his labour was not in vain, and that the Gospel which he preached was made to several the savour of life unto life. He died of consumption, May 1st, 1836, in the thirty- first year of his age, and the sixth of his itinerancy, assur- ing all around him, that he relied upon the atonement of Christ for acceptance and eternal life. Q. V. Are there any objections to any of our Preachers ? A. They were examined one by one. Q. VI. What Preachers have desisted erom tra- velling ? A. Robert Watkin and Daniel Shoebotham. 23 Q. VII. How are our Preachers stationed for the ensuing year ? A. As follows ; viz., — [N.B. Each of the Places mentioned in these Stations, and numbered consecutively from 1 to 380, is the head of a Circuit. The Preacher or Preachers stationed in, or appointed to, the several Circuits undermentioned, is and are appointed by the Conference to preach, and to perform all acts of religious worship and Methodist discipline, in each and every of the Wesleyan- Methodist chapels already erected, or to be erected, within each Circuit respectively, within the space of twelve calendar months, at such time or times, and in such manner, as to him or them shall seem proper ; subject nevertheless to the direction of the Superintendent Preachers.] GREAT BRITAIN. I.— THE LONDON DISTRICT. Jabez Bunting, D.D., President of the Conference. 1 First London, {City -road, fyc.,) Richard Treffry, sen., Jacob Stanley, sen., John Bowers, Peter M'Owan, William M. Bunting, William Illingworth, William L. Thornton ; Methuselah Thomas, Welsh Preacher; Henry Moore, Joshua Marsden, Super- numeraries. Thomas Jackson is our Editor ; George Cubitt is our Assistant- Editor ; John Mason, jun., is our Book-Steward ; John Beecham, Robert Alder, and Elijah Hoole, are the Resident Secretaries for our Missions ; Walter Oke Crog- gon is the Superintendent, under the direction of the Missionary Committee, of the Irish Missions and Schools. Jabez Bunting, D.D., is appointed the President of the Wesleyan Theological Institution ; Joseph Entwisle, sen., Governor of the 24 Institution-House ; John Han- nah, sen., the Theological Tutor; and Samuel Jones, A. M., the Classical and Mathematical Tutor ; William B. Arthy, Joseph Hea- ton, Matthew T. Male, Richard Hutchinson, John Jenkins, and Samuel Stanton, are continued as Students in the Institution, and re- garded as having travelled oneyear. 2 Second London, {Queen- street, fyc.,) John "Water- house, John Scott, George Osborn ; Joseph Sutcliffe, William Jenkins, Supernum eraries . 3 Third London, (Spitalfields, <$*c.,) Richard Reece, Abraham E. Farrar, John Far- Romford, rar, jun. Thomas S. Monkhouse, who shall change with the Preachers in the Third London Circuit on one Sabbath in every month. 4 Fourth London, (Southivark, <^c.,) Philip C. Turner, Josiah Hill, William Griffith, jun. 5 Fifth London, {Lambeth, §c.,) Samuel Jackson, Henry Davies ; John Stephens, Supernumerary. 6 Sixth London, (Hinde- street, tyc.,) William Ather- ton, William Beal, Joseph Beau- mont ; John Gaulter, Supernu- merary. 7 Dcptford, Maximilian Wilson, John Crofts. 8 Hammersmith, William Kelk, Ellis Hall. 1) Croydon and Horsham, Samuel Young, Martin Jubb. 10 Ley ton, Thomas R. Fisher, who shall change once in six weeks, on the Lord's day, with the Preachers of the First London Circuit. 11 Bishop- Stortford, Thomas Ludlam, James Scholes. 12 Windsor, James Allen, jun., Samuel Lucas. 13 Chelmsford, James Kendall, Charles B. Taylor. 14 Colchester, Henry Powis, William Williams. 25 15 Manningtree, Peter Wilkinson, John Hall. 16 Ipswich, William Wilson, 1st, William B. Thorneloe, John Warren. 1 7 Hastings, Joseph Hollis, Joseph Watson. 18 Sevenoaks, Joseph Lewis, James Golding, Rich- ard Brown. 19 Loves, John Stevens, William Hill, jun. 20 Brighthelmstone, John Morgan, Thomas P. Clark. 21 St. Alban's, Thomas Baker, John Killick. 22 Guildford, Joseph Crump. Jabez Bunting, D.D., President of the Con- ference, Chairman of the District. John Farhar, jun., Financial Secretary. II.— THE BEDFORD AND NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT. 23 Bedford and Ampthill, Thomas Staton, Robert Maxwell. 24 Leighton- Buzzard, William Brocklehurst, John Lambert. 25 Luton, Corbett Cooke, James Ray, Thomas Wood. N.B. Brother Wood shall reside at Dunstable. 26 St. NeoCs, Joseph Wilson, Isaac Harding. N.B. Brother Harding shall divide his labours between the St. Neot's and Huntingdon Circuits. 27 Biggleswade and Hitchin, Josiah Goodwin, James Taylor, John G. Cox. N.B. Brother Taylor shall reside at Hitchin. 28 Huntingdon, Joseph Floyd, Maurice Britton. 29 Northampton, John M'Owan, Jacob S. Smith. 30 Towcester, Samuel Tmeman, Henry Elvins. 3 1 Daventry, William Dalby, Thomas Buddie ; William Breedon, Supernumerary. 32 Newport-Pagnell, Thomas Twiddy, Benjamin Hurst. 33 Hig ham-Ferrers, William Piggott, Samuel H. Wardley ; Thomas Hewitt, Su- pernumerary. 31 Wellingborough, John Brown, jun.. James Lees. 26 3D 36 37 38 39 Cambridge, Chatteris, Stamford, Kettering, Richard Cooper, John Rossell,lst. Market- Harbor ought George Warren, Hender Geach ; John Wood, Supernumerary. James Cooke, sen., Hugh Jones. John Piggott, Nathan Rouse. Joseph Entwisle, jun., James Cooke, jun., Charles Rawlings. John Roberts, John M. Kirk, Wil- liam B. Hopkins ; Thomas Har- rison, Supernumerary. Corbett Cooke, Chairman of the District. Josiah Goodwin, Financial Secretary. 40 Peterborough, III.— THE KENT DISTRICT. 41 Canterbury, George Jackson, Richard Rymer. 42 Rochester, Thomas Rogers, William J. Shrews- bury, William Chambers. 43 Gravesend, John Bell, sen., John G. Avery. 44 Sheerness, Philip Jameson, who shall change on one Sunday in every six weeks with the Preachers of the Roches- ter and Maidstone Circuits. 45 Margate, James Gill, Henry Hickman. 46 Dover, Thomas Edwards, sen., Peter Cooper; Joseph Walker, James Jarratl, Supernumeraries. 47 Deal, Edward Oakes, John Tupman ; James Gartrell, Supernumerary. 48 Rye, William Wei borne, who shall change on one Sunday in every five weeks with the Preachers at Tenterden. 40 Tenterden, James Baker, Robert Gover, John F. England. 50 Sandhurst, Isaac Phenix, John Hanson. 51 Maidstone, John Brown, sen., John T. Barr. N.B. Brother Barr shall reside at Sittingbourne. James Gill, Chairman of the District. John Brown, sen., Financial Secretary. 27 58 59 60 61 62 Holt, Lynn, IV.— THE NORWICH AND LYNN DISTRICT. 52 Norwich, William Constable, Thomas Row- land ; Thomas Talboys, Super- numerary. 53 Bungay, Thomas Cutting, John Crawshaw. 54 North- IValsham, Edward Chapman, Henry Dean. 55 Yarmouth, William Fowler, John Burton. 56 Lowestojf, John Willis, William Cattle. 57 Framlingham, George North, Thomas Furze. Diss, Francis Derry, Wright Shovelton, James Osborne. New-Buckenham, James Dunbar, John Drake. Bury St. Edmund's, William Edwards, James Clap- ham. Thomas Brown, Francis Gladwin. John Kershaw, John D. Carey. William Griffiths, sen., William Heath. Henry Turner, William Culcheth. Thomas Ballingall, James Pilley. Samuel Hooley ; James Burley, Supernumerary. George Birley, John Wiggin. William Pollard, John Overton, William Burnett ; John Reynolds, sen., Supernumerary. Brother Overton resides at MilcienhalL James Lancaster, Thomas Jones, 3d. John Kershaw, Chairman of the District. William Fowler, Financial Secretary. V.— THE OXFORD DISTRICT. 69 Oxford, Samuel Hope, William Bird, jun. 70 High- JVy comb, John Simmons, Thomas Jones, 1st. 71 Witney, John Geden, Thomas Robinson. 72 Banbury, William Dixon, John Felvus ; An- thony Triffitt, Supernumerary. 73 Newbury, Samuel Webb, William Box. 74 Reading, John Newton, sen., James Alsop ; George Banwell, Supernumerary, i b 2 63 Swaffham, 64 Downham, 65 Walsingham, 66 Wisbeach 67 Thetford, N.B. 68 Ely, 28 75 Hungerford, John Coates, Moses Rayner. 76 Watlington, Isaac Aldom, John Sharman. 77 Braclcley, William Taylor, Joseph Wilkinson. 78 Chipping-Norton, James Etchells, Aaron Langley. 79 Swindon, John M. Joll, who shall change on one Sabbath in every six weeks with the Preachers at Hungerford. 80 Wantage, Henry Groves, Joseph Payne. N. B. The labours of the additional Preacher ap- pointed for Wantage are to be distributed in the AVantage and Suindon Circuits, and in opening new places, in connexion with those Circuits, under the direction of the President of the Con- ference. 8 J Aylesbury, William Homer, Reuben Partridge. Samuel Hope, Chairman of the District. John Geden, Financial Secretary. VI.— THE PORTSMOUTH DISTRICT. 82 Portsmouth, Robert Sherwell, John Fordred, Robert Wilcox, Zephaniah Job ; Jonathan Edmondson, sen., Su- pernumerary. N.B. Brother Job shall devote one half of his la- bours to the Gosport Circuit. 83 Gosport, Joseph Brookhouse, who shall change regularly, on the Lord's clay, with the Preachers at Portsmouth. 84 Salisbury, William Jewitt, Edward Usher, William Peterson. 85 Poole, William Sharpe, Charles Colwell, Paul Clarke. Ringwood, Peter Budd, who shall change re- gularly, on the Lord's day, with the Preachers at Poole. 86 Newport, Isle of Wight, Benjamin Carvosso, William Beckwith, John Vine. N.B. Brother Beckwith resides at Cowes ; and Brother Vine, at Hyde. 87 Southampton, Nicholas Sibly, Battinson Kay. N.B. Brother Kay resides at Roniscy. 29 88 Andover, Daniel Jackson, John Budden. N.B. Brother Budden resides at Whitchurch, Hants. 89 Chichester, John Langston, who shall change on one Sabbath in every six weeks with the Preachers at Portsmouth or Gosport. Josei'H Brookhouse, Chairman of the District. John Fordred, Financial Secretary. VII.— THE GUERNSEY DISTRICT. 90 Guernsey and Sark, John W. Button, Philip Tourgis ; William Fish, John de Queteville, Supernumeraries. 91 Alderney, Daniel Robin. 92 Jersey, Jonathan Williams, John de Putron, Amice Ollivier ; Nicholas Mau- ger, Supernumerary. N.B. The French Preachers in Guernsey and Jersey shall change with Brother Robin, under the di- rection of the Chairman. Jonathan Williams, Chairman of the District. VIII.— THE DEVONPORT DISTRICT. 93 Devonport, John Hobson, John Cullen, John Dawson. 94 Plymouth, William P. Burgess, Richard R. Mole ; Joseph Burgess, sen., Su- pernumerary. 95 Launceston, Robert Bentham, John W. Thomas. 96 Holdsworthy, William Hay man, Edward Nye, Samuel W. Christophers. 97 Liskeard, William Mowat, Charles Currelly. 98 Tavistock, Elias Thomas, Henry Daniels ; Joseph Armstrong, Supernu- merary. 99 Camelford, John Robinson, William R. Wil- liams. 100 Kingsbridge, Thomas W. Smith, who shall change once in six weeks, on the Lord's day, with the Preachers at Brix- ham. 30 101 Brixham, John Worden, John Ryan, 2d. 102 Ashburlon, William Hill, sen., Henry Brown. N.B. Brother Brown resides at Buckfastleigh. William P. Burgess, Chairman of the District. John Hobson, Financial Secretary. IX.— THE CORNWALL DISTRICT. 103 Redruth, Richard Moody, John G. Wilson. 1 04 Camborne, John Bustard, Charles Williams ; Joseph Womersley, Supernume- rary. 105 Falmouth, James J. Topham, John W. Ethe- ridge. 106 Truro, Joseph Wood, Samuel Timms ; Jo- seph Thomas, Supernumerary. 107 Gwennap, Thomas Payne, who shall change on one Sunday in six weeks with the Preachers at Redruth, and on one Sunday in six weeks with the Preachers at St. Agnes. 108 St. Agnes, Thomas Jewell, Samuel Cook. 109 St. Austle, Richard Ray, Henry Williams, Samuel Healey. 110 St. Mawes, John Saunders, who shall change once a month, on the Lord's day, with the Preachers at St. Austle. 111 Bodmin, William Rouch, John W. Roberts, Peter Parsons, Joseph Sanger. 112 Penzance, John Davis, sen., John Baker, Wil- kinson Stephenson ; John Rey- nolds, jun., Richard Treffry, jun., Supernumeraries. 113 St. Ives, James Mowat, John Bond. 114 Scilly Islands, Joseph Earnshaw. 115 Heist one, George Taylor, Thomas Williams, Henry Hicks. 116 Haylc, Joseph Pratten, Jacob Stanley, jun. John Davis, sen., Chairman of the District. Richard Ray, Financial Secretary. 31 X.— THE EXETER DISTRICT. 117 Exeter , John Bicknell, Walter Lawry ; Ed- ward Millward, James Odgers, Supernumeraries. IIS Tiverton, Thomas Bersey, Henry Castle. 119 Taunton, William Sleep, John W. Cotton. N.B. Brother Cotton shall reside at Bridgewater. Wellington, Henry Gaud, who shall be under the direction of brother Sleep. 120 South- Petherton, John W. Cloake, John B. Alex- ander. N.B. Brother Alexander shall reside at Crewkerne. 121 Axminster, Francis Collier, Samuel Sherwell: James Ash, Supernumerary. 122 Bridport, James Akerman, James Smeeth. 123 Barnstaple, Joseph Fletcher, Richard Shepherd, William Henley ; Alexander Weir, Supernumerary. 124 Bideford, John Smith, 2d, James Grose. N.B. Brother Grose shall reside at Great-Tor- rington. 125 Dunster, Oliver Henwood, George Southern. N.B. The. Superintendent resides at Williton. 126 Oakhampton, Josiah H. Walker, Daniel Blarney. 127 Teignmouth, Thomas Webb, John Osborne. N.B. Brother Oshorne shall reside at Torquay. John Bicknell, Chairman of the District, James Akerman, Financial Secretary. XI.— THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 128 Bristol, North, (King-street, fyc.J William Lord, Joseph Roberts, jun., William B. Stephenson, Charles Prest; James Wood, John Ogilvie, John Wood- row, Joseph Bowes, William Howarth, Robert James, William Gilpin, Thomas Warren, Thomas Osborne, Supernumeraries. 32 129 Bristol, South, ( Langton- street, fyc.,) Joseph Fowler, John Smith, 3d, Edward Ford ; William Radford, Super- numerary. 130 Kingswood, Thomas Dowty, John Brandreth ; Robert Smith, Governor of Kings- wood-School. 131 Banwell, William Baker, sen., Charles Vibert ; John Sydserff, Matthew Day, Supernumeraries. 132 Stroud, Robert Wheeler, James Bartholo- mew. 133 Dursley, Aquila Barber, Jarvis Cheesman, Thomas Heeley. 134 Downend, Daniel Osborne, Daniel Hateley, William Holden. 135 Gloucester, William Worth, John Wevill, Wil- liam Lindley. N. B. Brother Wevill and brother Lindley reside at Tewkesbury. 133 Cheltenham, Jonathan Turner, Alfred Barrett. N. B. Brother Barrett shall reside at Cheltenham. 137 Newport, (Monmouthshire,) James Catts, Benja- min Elvins. 138 Monmouth, David Cornforth, William Jackson, jun. 139 Abergavenny, Thomas Armett, Frederick Griffith. 140 Newent and Forest of Dean, Evan Parry, John Allin, Benjamin Tonkin. 141 Hereford, James Meadmore, William Baker, jun. William Lord, Chairman of the District. Joseph Fowler, Financial Secretary. XII.— THE BATH DISTRICT. 142 Bath, Thomas Martin, Robert L. Lusher, Joseph Jennings ; John Watson, Seth Morris, Supernumeraries. 143 Bradford, (Wilts,) Charles Haime, William Tarr. 33 144 Midsummer-Norton, John Evans, Paul Orchard, Joseph Lawton. 145 Frome, James Whitworth, Robert Colinan. 146 Melksham, Joseph Lowthian, Horatio Pearse. 147 Devizes, John Wilson, who shall change on one Sabbath in every six weeks with the Preachers at Melksham. 148 Shepton- Mallet, John Radford, James Stott, Henry W. Smith. 119 Warminster, Francis B. Potts, who shall change on one Sunday in every five weeks with the Preachers at Frome, 150 Sherborne, Humphrey B. Trethewey, George Driver. 151 Weymouth, Simeon Noall, Thomas Ashton. 152 Dorchester, William Harvey, Thomas Llewellyn. 153 Shaftesbury, Thomas Brothwood, Henry V. Olver, John Shaw. 154 Glastonbury, John Mason, sen. ; William Tram- pleasure, Supernumerary. N. B. Brother Mason shall change on one Sabbath in every six weeks with the Preachers at Shepton- Mallet. Thomas Martin, Chairman of the District. Robert L. Lusher, Financial Secretary. XIII.— THE FIRST SOUTH WALES DISTRICT. (ENGLISH PREACHING.) 155 Swansea, Edward Sumner, Henry B. Britten ; James Buckley, Benjamin Hiley, S upernumeraries. 156 Merthyr- Tydvill, Joshua Wade, George Sanger. 157 Brecon, John Nicklin, George F. White. 158 Cardiff, John Smith, 1st ; William Pearson, sen., Supernumerary. N. B. Brother Smith shall change on one Sabbath in every six weeks with one of the Preachers at Newport. B 5 34 159 Carmarthen, George Robinson. 160 Haverford-West, John Slater, John Boyd. 161 Pembroke, John Prior, John Rossell, 2d. Edward Sumner, Chairman of the District. John Slater, Financial Secretary. XIV.— THE SECOND SOUTH WALES DIS- TRICT. (welsh preaching.) 162 Merthyr-Tydvill, David Morgan, John Richards. 163 Crichhowell, William Evans, John Bartley. 164 Cardiff, William Hughes, Thomas Thomas, John Hughes, jun. 165 Brecon, William Davies, 1st. 166 Llandilo, Evan Edwards. N. B. The Brecon Preacher is to spend two Sun- days in every six weeks in the Llandilo Circuit ; and the Llandilo Preacher is to spend one week in six in the Brecon Circuit. 167 Carmarthen, John Davies, Robert Jones. 168 Swansea, Hugh Hughes, Isaac Jenkins. 169 Cardigan, Robert Owen, John Rees. 170 Aberystwith, John Lloyd. 171 Machynlleth, Edward Jones, 3d, who shall change on two Sundays in every quarter with the Preacher at Aberystwith. 1 72 Llanidloes, Morgan Griffith, Book-Steward ; Thomas Jones, Editor. Hugh Hughes, Chairman of the District. John Davies, Financial Secretary. XV.— THE NORTH WALES DISTRICT. (welsh preaching.) 173 Ruthin, David Jones; Owen Jones, Super- numerary. 174 Llangollen, Lot Hughes, Thomas Hughes. N. B. The Preachers of the two preceding Cir- cuits shall change on two Sundays in every six weeks. 35 175 Denbigh, Humphrey Jones, 2d, William Owens ; Edward Jones, 2d, Su- pernumerary. 176 Llanrwst, Evan Hughes. N. B. 1. The Superintendents of the two preceding Circuits shall change on two Sundays in every six weeks. 2. Brother Owens shall divide his labours be- tween the Denbigh and Llanrwst Circuits. 177 Holywell and Mold, David Evans, Griffith Hughes, Richard Bonner, John L. Rich- ards. 178 Beaumaris, John Jones, 2d, Samuel Davies, David Gravel. N. B. Brother Jones resides at Amlwch. 179 Carnarvon, Edward Anwyl, Richard Prichard. N. B. The Preachers of the Beaumaris and Carnar- von Circuits shall change quarterly. 180 Pwllheli, William Rowlands. 181 Dolgelly, William Batten, Lewis Jones. N.B. The Preachers of the two preceding Circuits shall change quarterly. 182 Llanfyllin and Llanfair, Humphrey Jones, 1st, Thomas Aubrey, William Powell. David Evans, Chairman of the District. John L. Richards, Financial Secretary, XVI.— THE BIRMINGHAM AND SHREWS- BURY DISTRICT. 183 Birmingham, West, {Cherry-street, fyc.,) W 7 illiam Naylor, John P. Haswell, John Lomas, Thomas Dickin ; Joseph Collier, Robert Mack, Super- numeraries. 184 Birmingham, East, {BelmonUrow, cjc.,) John Rigg, Thomas Squance, John H. Bumby ; Thomas Kelk, Super- numerary. 36 185 West-Bromwich, Timothy C. Ingle, Benjamin John. 186 Wednesburij, Richard Waddy, Joseph Hunt, James E. Moulton. 187 Walsall, Adam Fletcher, Thomas Capp ; Jo- seph Dunning, Supernumerary. 188 Wolverhampton, Thomas Moss, Thomas Hardy. 189 Dudley, 190 Stourbridge, 191 Stourport, 192 Worcester, 198 Bromsgrove, John H. Adams, John Smedley, John Henley. Robert Melson, William Ricketts. William Davies, 2d, William Bythe- way. Joseph Taylor ; Joseph Lysk, Su- pernumerary. William Dawson, who shall change on one Sabbath in every month with the Preacher at Worcester. 194 Evesham and Stratford-upon-Avon, John Crowe, William Appleby, Samuel Brown, jun. 195 Reddltch, Joseph Jackson, John Walters. 196 Coventry and Leamington, Christopher Newton, Nehemiah Curnock. Benjamin Wood, William Drewitt. Edward Batty, John Vanes. William Bird, sen., James Miller, Jabez Rought ; William Stones, Supernumerary. Elijah Morgan, Henry Cheverton. Thomas Pearson, sen. ; Humphrey Parsons, Edward Wilson, Super- numeraries. 197 Hinckley, 198 Shrewsbury, 199 Madeley, 200 Wellington, 201 Ludlow, N. B. Brother Pearson shall change on one Sahhath in every six weeks with the Preachers at Kington. 202 Kington, Thomas Graham, Samuel Taylor. 203 Newtown, William Stokes, Thomas J. Walker. Richard Waddy, Chairman of the District. T. C. Ingle, Financial Secretary. 37 XVII.— THE MACCLESFIELD DISTRICT. 204 Macclesfield, Barnard Slater, George H. Rowe, John Rattenbury ; John Hughes, Supernumerary. 205 Buxton, John 13. Whittingham, Samuel Brock- sop ; Thomas Hutton, Supernu- merary. 206 Congleton, Samuel Sewell, William Davies, 3d ; George Lowe, Supernumerary. 207 Nantwich, Thomas Thompson, sen., Richard Smetham. 208 Nortlnvich, Myles C. Dixon, John Hague. 209 Burslem, Ralph Scurrah, Samuel Fiddian, David Hay. 210 New castle-under -Line, James B. Holroyd, Charles Westlake. 211 Longton, John Edmonds, Henry Smallwood. 212 Stafford, John Smithson, Nathaniel Alstone ; Thomas Rought, Supernumerary. 213 Leek, Edward Jones, 1st, William Parker, William H. Taylor. 214 Uttoxeter, Thomas Fletcher, William Limmex ; Henry Tuck, Supernumerary. Barnard Slater, Chairman of the District. George H. Rowe, Financial Secretary. XVIII.— THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. 215 Liverpool, North, (Brunswick Chapel, fyc.,) The- ophilus Lessey, William Hurt, Edward Brice ; James Bogie, Calverley Riley, William O. Booth, Supernumeraries. 216 Liverpool, South, (Pitt-street, Qc.,) James Dixon v Thomas Stead, Robert Young ; James Anderson, Supernumerary. 217 Liverpool, Welsh, David Williams, Rowland Hughes. N. B. The Superintendent of the Liverpool South Circuit is directed to afford his counsel and as- sistance to the Welsh Superintendent in the general affairs of the Welsh Circuit. 38 218 Chester, John S. Stamp, John Straw, John Morris ; Isaac Lilly, Supernu- merary. 219 Holywell, (English,) John Knowles, jun., John Davis, 2d ; William Henshaw, Supernumerary. 220 Bangor, (English,) John E. Coulson, John Hodgson, jun. 221 Warrington, William W. Stamp, Edward Jen- nings ; William Jones, Supernu- merary. 222 St. Helen's and Prescot, Alexander Hume, Joseph Sykes. 223 Wig an, Joseph Meek, John D. Julian. 224 Ormskirk and Sonthport, John Newton, jun. 225 Preston and Chorley, John Fairbourne, John Han- nah, jun., Robert Dugdale. 226 Garstang, Thomas Kemshall, Richard Petch. 227 Lancaster, Thomas Savage, John Sumner, jun. 228 Wrexham, Hugh Carter, George Hughes ; James Fussell, Supernumerary. 229 Whitchurch, (Salop,) Thomas Slugg, Levi Water- house. James Dixon, Chairman of the District. J. S. Stamp, Financial Secretary. XIX.— THE MANCHESTER AND BOLTON DISTRICT. 230 First Manchester, (Oldham- street, §c.,) Alexander Bell, John Nelson, Edward Walker ; Richard Pattisson, John Thompson, Supernumeraries. 231 Second Manchester, (Irwell-street, tyc.,) Thomas H. Walker, William Wears, Wil- liam Wilson, 4th ; John Taylor, John Bacon, Supernumeraries. 232 Third Manchester, (Grosvenor-street, §c.,) Robert Wood, Joseph Roberts, sen., Jonathan Crowther, Frederick J. Jobson ; Edward Gibbons, Jona- than Barker, Supernumeraries. 39 233 Fourth Manchester, {Bridgewatcr -street, fyc.,) Frederick Calder, Israel Holgate, George Steward ; William Shel- merdine, Supernumerary. N. B. Brother Holgate resides at Altrincham. 234 Manchester, Welsh, Robert Williams, who shall change on two Sabbaths in every three months with the Welsh Preacher stationed at Liverpool. 235 Stockport, William Burt, Francis A. West, Henry Chettle. 236 New-Mills, William M'Kitrick, William Win- terburn. 237 Glossop, Thomas Armson, Thomas Denham. 238 Ashton-under-Line, Joshua Fearnside, James Lay- cock, William Webb. 239 Oldham, Thomas Dunn, Philip Hardcastle, jun. 240 Delphi ( Saddleworth,) John Aslin, who shall change on one Sunday in every five weeks with the Preachers at Oldham. 241 Bolton, James Heaton, Willson Brailsford; William Pemberton. 242 Rochdale, John Sumner, sen., Samuel Tindall, Joseph Mortimer, John C. Lep- pington. N. B. Brother Mortimer shall reside at Heywood. 243 Burnley, Robert Heys, Benjamin Slack ; John Phillips, Supernumerary. 244 Bury, John Walsh, John Bedford. 245 Blackburn, Luke Barlow, Charles Taylor. 246 Haslingden, Isaac Denison, William J. Bullivant, John Bell, jun. 247 Bacup, Samuel Sugden, William Ash. 248 Colne, Benjamin Frankland, John Raby ; John Barritt, Supernumerary. 249 Clitheroe, Benjamin Hudson, Samuel Merrill. 40 250 Leigh, Charles Janion, who shall change on one Sunday in every month with the Preachers at Bolton. Robert Wood, Chairman of the District. F. A. West, Financial Secretary. XX.— THE HALIFAX AND BRADFORD DIS- TRICT. 251 Halifax, William Hinson, Peter Duncan, George Turner. 252 Huddersfeld, Daniel Walton, Abraham Stead, Charles Haydon ; George High- field, Supernumerary. 253 Holmfirth, William Coultas, Samuel Simpson. 254 Sowerby -Bridge, Richard Heape, Jonathan J. Bates. 255 Todmorden, John Bumstead, Ambrose Freeman, Robert Day. 256 Denby-Dale, James Bumstead, Richard Stepney. 257 Bradford, West, {Kirkgate Chapel, #i# 1080 68 Circuits. Members i?i Society. r < Hnglish 320 Jersey, \ Vt ^ .... H07 Alderney 60 Devonport 937 Plymouth 680 Launceston. r , . . ■ 730 Holdsworthy .. , 1319 Liskeard 1100 Tavistock 575 Camelford 120 Kingsbridge 122 Brixham 194 Ashburton 503 Redruth 1432 Camborne 2316 Falmouth 1030 Truro 1569 Gwennap 922 St. Agnes 1273 St. Austle 1831 St. Mawes 280 Bodmin 1619 Penzance 2330 St. Ives 1142 Scilly Islands 118 Helstone 1203 Hayle 1831 Exeter 600 Tiverton 320 Taunton 472 Wellington 125 South-Petherton 490 Axminster 261 Bridport 1 70 Barnstaple 605 Biddeford 900 Dunster 205 Oakhampton 134 Teignmouth 275 Bristol, North 2333 Bristol, South 1265 Kingswood 948 Banwell 423 Stroud 500 Dursley 511 Downend 581 Gloucester 664 Cheltenham 548 Newport (Monmouth) . . 350 Monmouth 505 Abergavenny 658 Newent 290 Circuits. Members in Society. Hereford 303 Bath 1150 Bradford, Wilts 724 Midsummer-Norton .... 1538 Frome 1166 Melksham 482 Devizes 134 Shepton-Mallet 1044 Warminster 102 Sberborne 475 Weymouth 518 Dorchester 385 Shaftesbury 827 Glastonbury 218 Swansea 470 Merthyr-Tydvill , 507 Brecon 282 Cardiff 240 Carmarthen 131 Haverford-West 627 Pembroke 291 Merthyr-Tydvill ... 409 Crickhowell 383 Cardiff 445 Brecon 153 Llandilo 190 Carmarthen 272 Swansea 178 Cardigan 461 Aberystwith 409 Machynlleth 451 Llnnidloes 461 Ruthin 391 Llangollen 385 Denbigh 496 Llanrwst 563 Holywell & Mold 1430 Beaumaris 712 Carnarvon 503 Pwllheli 200 Dolgelly 772 Llanfyllin & Llanfair .. 791 Birmingham, West.. .. 1300 East.... 1118 West-Bromwich 560 Wednesbury 1945 Walsall 670 Wolverhampton 1052 Dudley 850 Stourbridge •• 360 Stourport 640 Worcester 540 69 Circuits. Members in Society. Bromsgrove 144 Evesham 390 Redditch 348 Coventry 547 Hinckley H00 Shrewsbury 285 Madeley 1310 Wellington 933 Ludlow 517 Kington 567 Newtown 756 Macclesfield 2000 Buxton 375 Congleton 1125 Nantwich 700 Northwich 725 Burslem 1447 Newcastle-under-Line . . 670 Longton 620 Stafford 267 Leek 1000 Uttoxeter 555 Liverpool, North 980 Liverpool, Soutli 1562 Liverpool, Welsh 558 Chester 960 Holywell 216 Bangor 84 Warrington 780 St. Helen's 247 Wigan 388 Ormskirk ., 178 Preston 1256 Garstang 331 Lancaster 445 Wrexham 265 Whitchurch 386 First Manchester ... . 814 Second Manchester .... 1548 Third Manchester .... 1582 Fourth Manchester 1134 Manchester, Welsh 176 Stockport 1518 New-Mills 450 Glossop 438 Ashton-under-Line .... 660 Oldham 586 Deiph 200 Bolton 1567 Rochdale . 745 Burnley 1110 Bury 541 Circuits. Members in Society. Blackburn 527 Haslingden 807 Bacup 690 Colne 1007 Clithero 332 Leigh 334 Halifax 1560 Huddersfield 2200 Holmfirth 680 Sowerby-Bridge 996 Todmorden 1260 Denby-Dale 560 Bradford, West 1827 Bradford, East 1266 Kei«hley 1419 Bingley 1280 Shipley 540 Skipton 802 Addingham 634 Grassington 347 Settle 380 Leeds, East 3566 L^eds, West 3388 Bramley 1880 Wakefield 1550 Birstal 1574 Dewsbury 1339 Otley 1083 Pateley-Bridge 706 Pontefract 1267 Cleckheaton 833 Yeadon 1087 Woodhouse-Gn.ve 538 Sheffield, West 2266 Sheffield, East 2313 Chesterfield 791 Bakewell 540 Bradwell 493 Rutherham 1513 Doncaster 1330 Barnsley 710 Retford 1300 Worksop 426 Nottingham 2724 Ilkestone 722 Mansfield 1142 Newark.... 1369 Leicester 976 Mel ton- Mowbray 695 Oakham 318 Loughborough 1252 Derby 1228 70 Circuits. Members in Society. Ashbourne 222 BeJper 1280 Asbby-de-la-Zouch 1200 Burton-on-Trent 470 Cromford 700 Lincoln 1810 Sleaford 879 Market-Raisen 8!>5 Louth 2161 Horncastle 1250 Alf.»rd H70 Spilsby 1100 Boston .- 1172 Spalding 7^-0 Grantham 1300 Hull 2573 Beverley 524 Howden 886 Driffield 700 Patrington 335 Hornsea 427 Grimsby 1018 Gainsborough 930 Epworth .. ., 717 Snaith 676 Brigg 726 Barton 797 Bridlington 940 York 2028 Tadcaster 794 Pocklington 913 Malton 985 Easingwold 954 Thirsk 900 Ripon 766 Selby 840 Knaresborougb 806 Bedale 638 Whitby 1 150 Scarborough 1266 Stokesley 810 Pickering 814 Darlington 702 Total Number of Members in G Last Year , Circuits. Members in Society. Stockton 616 Barnard-Castle 1000 M i ddleham 550 Richmond 780 New castle- upon- Tyne, West 1046 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, E. 1026 Morpeth 88 Gateshead 942 Shields, North and South 2160 Sunderland 1918 Durham 908 Wolsingham 638 Hexham 675 Wark 80 Alstone 1054 Alnwick 152 Berwick 68 Carlisle 380 Whitehaven 580 Appleby 425 Penrith 497 Wigton 199 Kendal 575 Ulverstone 132 Dumfries 80 Douglas 1/25 Ramsay & Peel 1528 Edinburgh 527 Dunbar 41 Glasgow 1140 Ayr , 313 Aberdeen 420 Dundee 32 Perth 64 Arbroath and Montrose . 102 Banff 62 Inverness 50 Orkney 146 Lerwick 485 Walls 317 Northmavin 143 I Yell 265 reat Britain this year 293,132 .'. .. 290,988 Increase 2,144 Number of Members in Ireland this year 26,434 Ditto last vear 26,037 Increase in Ireland 71 The Numbers in Society at the different Stations occu- pied by the Wesley an Missionaries are as fol- lows ; — not, however, including the Irish Missions, the Societies of which are reckoned with the Num- bers reported from Ireland : — EUROPE. Nos. Stockholm - - 11 Winnenden (Germany) - - 448 France, Paris - - -37 Calais, Lille, and Boulogne - - 83 Calvados, L'Orne, and La Manche - - 60 South of France - 325 Gibraltar - 101 Malta - - - - 38 Total in Europe (being an increase of 18) - 1103 ASIA. CONTINENTAL INDIA. The Madras District. Madras - 12G Bangalore - - - -76 Negapatam - - 85 CEYLON. The Cingalese, or South Ceylon District. Colombo - - - 122 Negombo - - - 181 Caltura - - - - 156 Galle - - - - 83 Matura - - - - 71 Moruwa-Corle - - 91 The Tamul, or North Ceylon District. Jaffna - - - - 60 Point-Pedro - - 11 Trincomalee - - 34 Batticaloa - - 30 Total in India and Ceylon (being an increase of 58) 1126 SOUTH SEA MISSIONS. The, New South- Wahs District. Sydney - - 128 Paramatta - - 36 Bathurst - - ( J Windsor - - - 33 Hobart-Town, Van Diemen's Land - - 229 72 Nos. Launceston, Van Diemen's Land - 93 Port-Arthur, ditto - - 4 The New-Zealand Disti ict. Hokianga, &c. - - 20 The Friendly Isles District. Tonga - 923 Vavou - - - 3028 Habai Islands - - - 3500 Fejee .... 576 Total in the South Sea Missions (being an increase of 650) 8579 AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICA. The Cape District. Cape-Town ") Simon's-Town i- - - 1 10 Little-Namacqualand ) Khamies-Berg - - - 115 The Albany District. Graham's Town and Salem - - 319 Bathurst and Port-Frances - - 4 1 Wesleyville, Caffreland ~ - 50 Mount-Coke, ditto - - - 5 Butterworth, ditto - - - 16 Clarkebury, ditto - - - 16 Morley, ditto - - - 24 Buntingville, ditto - - - 12 Plaat-berg, Becbuanas - - - 213 Thaba Uncha, ditto - - - 1 7 Umpukani and Mantatees - - 24 Total in South Africa (being a decrease of 17) 962 WEST AFRICA. Sierra-Leone - 788 St. Mary's, Gambia - 368 Macarthy's Island, Foulab Mission - - 167 Total in West Africa (being an increase of 321) 1323 AMERICA. WEST INDIES. The Antispia District. Antigua - 2970 Dominica - 1000 Montserrat - 33fi Nevis .... 13:43 St. Christopher's - 2593 73 St. Eustatius 354 St. Bartholomew's - - 275 St. Martin's - - - 436 Tortola - - - 1729 Anguilla - - - 332 Bermuda - 437 Total in the Antigua District - 11795 Last year ... 11453 Increase - 342 The St. Vincent's District. St. Vincent's, Kingston - - 1709 Ditto, Biabou - - - 1697 Grenada - - - 419 Trinidad - - - 443 Barbadoes 698 Tobago - - - 267 Demerara, George-Town - - 1162 Ditto, Mahaica - 789 Total in the St. Vincent's District - 7184 Last year - - - 6312 Increase - 872 The Jamaica District. Kingston - - - 4013 Spanish-Town - - - 1201 Morant-Bay - - - 1449 Grateful-Hill - - - 732 INlontego-Bay - - - 1452 Falmouth - - - 1955 St. Ann's-Bay, &c. - - 2343 Bath - - - 1718 Stoney-Hill - - - 672 Port-Antonio - - - 319 Lucea . - - 260 Oracabessa - - - 435 Black-River . - . 109 Clarendon - - - 465 Total Number in the Jamaica District „ 17123 Last Year - - 13365 Increase - - 3758 Honduras-Boy - - - 123 74 The Bahami District. Nos. New-Providence - 547 Eleuthera - - - 327 Harbour- Island - •- 494 Abaco 210 Total in the Bahama District - - 1 578 Last year (including Turk's Island) - - 1451 Increase - - - - 127 The Hayti District. Port-au-Prince - 92 Port-au-Plaat - 26 Turk's Island - - - - 104 Total in tbe Hayti District - - 222 Last year (not including Turk's Island) - 92 Increase - 130 Total Number in the West Indies - - 38025 Last year - 32796 Increase - ■ 5229 THE BRITISH DOMINIONS IN NORTH-AMERICA. Upper Canada District. Number of Members in the Indian and other settle- ments under the care of our Missionaries - 1517 Last year - 1050 Increase - 467 The Lower Canada District. Quebec 260 Montreal - 560 St. Armand's - - - - 364 Stanstead 336 Shefford - 174 Odell-Town 273 Three-Rivers - 26 Lennoxville - 50 New-Ireland - - - - 127 Wesley ville - - - - 127 Total in the Lower Canada District - 2297 Last year - - - 2109 Increase - - - - 18S 75 The Nova-Scotia District. No*. Halifax ... - 534 Lnnenburgh - - - -110 Lirerpool - - 228 Barrington - - 147 Yarmouth - - - 33 Horton - - 105 Windsor - - 102 Newport - - - - 115 Shubenacadic and Truro - 131 Parrsborough - - 186 Wallace - - 202 River -John - - 22 Guysborough - - - -195 Charlotte-Town, Prince Edward's Island - 213 Murray-Harbour, ditto - - 56 Bedequp, ditto - - - 198 Sydney, Cape-Breton ... \Q§ Ship- Harbour, ditto - - - 17 Total in the Nova- Scotia District - 27G2 Last year - 2562 Increase - 200 The New -Brunswick District. St. John's - - 515 Fredericton - - - 200 Sheffield and Gage-Town - - 155 St. Stephen's, St. David's, and St. Andrew's - 282 Westmoreland - 260 Petitcodiac - - 150 Annapolis and Digby - 134 Bridge-Town - - - 2f,'3 Miramichi - - - 1 10 Sussex- Vale - - 110 Woodstock and Wakefield - - 1 50 Bathurst - 33 Total in the New-Brunswick District - 2362 Last year - - -1916 Increase - - 446 The Newfoundland District. St. John's - - - 16fi Harbour-Grace - - 69 Carbonear - - - 226 Black-Head and Western-Bay - 415 Island-Cove and Ferlican - - 226 Port-de-iJiave - - - 57 d 2 76 Brigus and Cubitt's Trinity-Bay Bonavista and Cataiina - Grand -Bank Burin H ant's Harbour Total in the Newfoundland District Last year Increase Total number in British North-America Last year Nos. 93 73 240 31 80 1747 1730 17 L0685 9367 1318 Recapitulation of Members in the Foreign Mission*. In Stockholm, Germany, France, Gibraltar, and Malta In Continental India and Ceylon In New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, New-Zea- land, and the Friendly Isles In Africa - In the West Indies ... In British North-America - Total number of Members under the care of our Foreign Missionaries this year - Last year - Total increase 1103 1126 8579 2285 38025 10685 61803 54226 753 The Number of Members under the care of the Wes- leyan-Methodist Church in Upper Canada, not including the Indian Settlements, which are mentioned under the head of the Upper Canada District, page 74, was, in June, 1836, 14,575. The Number of Members under the care of the several Conferences of the United States of America, as reported in their Minutes for 1835, is, 652,528. Increase in the United States 3,744 77 GENERAL RECAPITULATION. Number of Members now in Great Britain - 293,132 Ditto in Ireland - - - 26,434 Ditto in our Foreign Stations - - 61,803 Under the care of the British and Irish Conferences 381,369 Under the care of the American Conferences 652,528 Under the care of the Wesleyan-Methodist Church in Upper Canada - - 16,092 Total number of Members in the Wesleyan-Metho- dist Societies throughout the world, exclusive of regular Travelling Preachers, who are sta- tedly employed in the work of the ministry 1 ,049,98! N.B. The number of regular Travelling Preach- ers, and of Supernumerary and Superannuated Preachers, is as follows, viz., — In Great Britain, Regular Preachers - 86S Supernumerary and Superannuated 130 In Ireland, Regular Preachers stationed in the Circuits 94 Missionaries - - 24 Supernumerary and Superannuated Preachers 40 In the Foreign Stations, Regular Preachers and Assistant Missionaries now actually on the List (besides the twenty-four Missionaries employed in Ire- land, and a considerable number who are to be appointed to the vacant Foreign Stations as soon as possible) - - 281 Supernumerary and Superannuated Preachers 4 In the American Connexion in 1835, Regular Preachers in Circuits, and Mission- aries to the Indians - 2,608 Supernumerary and Superannuated Preachers 1 50 998 I5fi 2S5 2,758 In the Upper Canada Connexion - 74 Total throughout the world - * 4.27:-> 78 Q. IX. Who is appointed the President of the next Conference in Ireland, to be held in Cork, on the last Friday in June, 1837 ? A. Our President, the Rev. Dr. Bunting ; who, if unavoidably prevented, has authority to nominate a substitute. N. B. 1. The Rev. Robert Newton, and one of the Missionary Secretaries, are appointed to accompany the President to the next Irish Conference. 2. The President is requested to visit Scotland, at whatever time of the year shall be most agreeable to him ; and as many of the Preachers stationed in Scot- land as conveniently can, are directed to meet him at such times and places as he shall appoint. 3. The President is requested to attend the next Annual Meeting of the Second South- Wales District, to be held at Carmarthen, in the spring of 1837, and the North -W T aIes District- Meeting, to be held at Barmouth, at the same period of the year. The Rev. William Lord is appointed to accompany the President to the Second South-Wales District-Meeting, and the Rev. Theophilus Lessey is appointed to accompany him to the North-Wales District-Meeting. If the President should be unable to attend the North- Wales District- Meeting, Mr. Lessey is authorized to preside at that Meeting in his place. Two of the English Preachers stationed in Wales shall attend the District-Meetings of the Welsh Preachers, and two of the Welsh brethren shall attend the District-Meeting of the English Preachers in Wales. Q. X. Who are the Committee for guarding our Privileges during the ensuing year ? A. The President and Secretary of the Confer- ence ; all the Preachers appointed for the six London Circuits ; the Superintendents of the Deptford and Ham- mersmith Circuits ; and all those Preachers, now living, who have filled the office of President of the Conflu- ence ; together with the following Gentlemen : — Thomas Allan, Esq., London ,• George Bowes, Esq., ('itto ; 79 James Brown, Esq., London; J. J. Buttress, Esq., ditto ; Isaac Day, Esq., ditto; John S. Elliott, Esq., ditto; Thomas Farmer, Esq., ditto ; James Hoby, Esq., ditto; James Hunter, Esq., ditto; William Judd, Esq., ditto; George Loddiges, Esq., ditto; Thomas Marriott, Esq., ditto; Richard Matthews, Esq., ditto; W. F. Pocock, Esq., ditto ; Thomas F. Rance, Esq., ditto ; Richard Marsden Reece, Esq., ditto; Humphry Sandwith, M. D., ditto; Joseph Agar, Esq., York; Thomas Allen, Esq., Macclesfield; William Allen, Esq , Manchester ; T. Percival Bunting, Esq., ditto : John Burton, Esq., Middleton; Robert Campion, Esq., Whitby; Joseph Carne, Esq., Penzance ; Isaac Crowther, Esq., Morley; Mr. John Daglish, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Robert Fawcett, Esq., Hunsley ; T. Gardner, Esq., Sto?iehozise ; Thomas Guest, Esq., Cardiff; Lancelot Haslope, Esq., Sel/y-Hall, near Birminghc George Heald, Esq., Liverpool ; James Heald, Esq., Stockport; James Henwood, Esq., Hull; Thomas B. Holy, Esq., Sheffield; John Irving, Esq., Bristol; G. \V. LoNGRlDGE, Esq., Sunderland ; Francis M arris, Esq., Leeds; John Marsden, Esq., Manchester ; James Meek, Esq., York; Robert Middleton, Esq., Cheltenham; Thomas Potter, Esq., Manchester ; Peter Rothwell, Esq., Bolton; Thomas Sands, Esq., Liverpool; W. G. Scarth, Esq., Leeds; David Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; William Skinner, jun., Esq., Stockton; Samuel Stocks, Esq., Wakefield ; JOHN Thornley, Esq , Dodworth, near Barusley ; Benjamin Thorold, Esq., Lincoln; James Treweek, Esq., Anglesea; Thomas Walker, Esq., Stockton; James Wood, Esq., Manchester; James Wood, Esq., B/istol. 80 N. B. The Rev. Abraham E. Farrar is appointed the Secretary of the Committee of Privileges for the en- suing year. Letters are to be addressed to him, (post- paid,) at No. 23, Bedford- Square, Commercial- Road, London. MISSIONS. Q,. XI. What are the Resolutions of the Conference in reference to our Missions ? A. 1. The thanks of the Conference are hereby pre- sented to the General Committee for their very faithful and able direction of the affairs of our Missions during the past year. 2. The Conference entirely concurs in the Resolution unanimously passed at the Annual Meeting of the Spe- cial Committee of Review, held in Birmingham, July 26 ? 1836; viz.,— " That this Meeting cordially approves of the Reso- lution adopted by the General Committee on the 23d of March last, on the necessity and duty of strengthen- ing and extending the Society's Missions in Continental India, a country which, on account of the degraded and wretched state of its population, and other circumstances, imperatively demands the sympathy and aid of British Christians." 3. The following persons are appointed the General Committee of Management for the ensuing year ; viz*, the President and Secretary of the Conference ; the General Treasurers; the Treasurer of the London District Auxiliary Society, J. J. Buttress, Esq. ; Six- teen of the Preachers appointed to the London Circuits, viz., — The Rev. Robert Alder, The Rev. Thomas Jackson, \\ iLLiAM Atherton, Samuel Jackson, John Beecham, John Mason, John Bovvers, Richard Reece, W. M. Bunting, Jacob Stanley, sen., Jos. Entwislf, sen., R. Tui.fi ry, sen., John Hannah, Philip C. Turner, Elijah IIoole, JuiiN Waterhouse; — 81 The Sixteen following Gentlemen of London, viz., James Ashley, Esq., James Hoby, Esq., Mk. James Brown, William Judd, Esq, Mr. Birt, Mr. Peter Kkuse, Mr. Charles Chubb, Richard Matthews, Esq., Mr. Isaac Day, W. F. Pocock, Esq., J.S. Elliott, Esq., Thomas F. Rance, Esq., Walter Griffith, Esq., Mr. R. Marsden Reece, Mk. Robert Heslop, Humphrey Sandwm h,M.D.; — And, for the Country, — The Rev. James Buckley, Swansea; John Davis, Penzance. ; Edmund Gkindrod, Sheffield ; Theophilus Lessey, Liverpool; WlILlAM Naylor, Birmingham ; Baknard Slater, Macclesfield ; Joseph Taylor, Worcester ; Robert Wood, Manchester ; Joseph Carne, E*q., Penzance ; John Forshaw, Esq., Liverpool; James Heald, Esq., Stockport; Lancelot Haslope, Esq., Selly- Hall, near Birmingham , John Irving, Esq., Bristol ; Thomas Sands, Esq., Liverpool ; William G. Scarth, Esq., Leeds; James Wood, Esq., Manchester. 4. In addition to the provision which is made, by the Laws and Regulations of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, that one Treasurer, Secretary, or other principal Member from every District Auxiliary Society, who may be in London occasionally, may meet and vote with the General Committee, it is now agreed, on the recom- mendation of the Committee, that the Treasurer of the London District Auxiliary Society shall always be, ex officio, a member of the said Committee. 5. As the intended removal from London of Lanceloi Haslope, Esq., one of the General Treasurers of tie Wesleyan Missionary Society, renders it necessary for him to decline a re-appointment to that office, the Con- ference cannot refer to his retirement without recording its deep and grateful sense of the obligations under which the Society has been placed to him, from its very commencement in 1817, for his constant attention to d 5 82 its business, and for his most able and highly-valued services in the important situation which he has so ac- ceptably filled for the last ten years. G. The cordial thanks of the Conference are also pre- sented to the Rev. Joseph Taylor, for his long and very useful services to the Wesleyan Missionary So- ciety, formerly as one of the General Secretaries, and subsequently as the colleague of Mr. llaslope, in the office of General Treasurer. 7. Thomas Farmer, Esq., and the IIev. John Scott, are respectfully requested to accept the office of General Treasurers of the Wesleyan Missionary Society for the ensuing year. 8. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the Rev. John Beecham, and the Rev. Robert Alder, the General Secretaries, and to the Rev. Elijah Hoole, the As- sistant Secretary, for their very acceptable and useful services to our Missions during the past year. 9. At the several Financial District-Meetings, which shall be held in September, arrangements shall be made for holding Missionary Meetings throughout the respec- tive Districts, especially those in the Circuit-Towns, during the ensuing year ; so that such Meetings may be held at the least possible expense : and the District Treasurers and Secretaries shall be invited to attend the said District-Meetings when such arrangements are under consideration. The Plan for each District, thus provisionally arranged, shall be immediately transmitted by the Chairman to the several Preachers who form the Deputation for that District, as appointed in the List of Deputations hereafter subjoined. The said Preachers are required to correspond with the Chairman on the subject forthwith ; — in order that such final arrange- ments may be adopted, by mutual consent, as to the exact time of holding the Missionary Meetings for the Circuits of each District, as will prevent in future the great inconvenience which has resulted from the absence, on any Missionary Deputation, of more than one Preacher from the same Circuit at the same time. It is also re- commended, that one of the usual Quarterly Meetings 83- of each District Auxiliary Missionary Committee be summoned during the sitting of the Annual District- Meeting, for the purpose of investigating the expenses incurred at Anniversaries, &c. 10. The following Preachers and other Friends are particularly invited to attend the Special Meeting of the Missionary Committee, which will be held in Leeds, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, July 25th, 1837, according to the Seventeenth Article of the " Laws and Regulations of the Wesleyan Missionary Society;" viz., the Rev. Messrs. George Marsden, John Burdsall, James Dixon, Alexander Bell, Richard Waddy, George Morley, Thomas Galland, John Anderson, sen,, and William Vevers ; — with James Musgrave and Francis Marris, Esquires, of Leeds, John SutclifFe, Esq., of Willow-Hall, Isaac Crowther, Esq., of Morley, Mr. William Dawson, of Barnbow, Samuel Stocks, Esq., of Wakefield, William Dyson, Esq., of Howden, Mr. T. P. Bunting, of Manchester, and James Henwood, Esq., of Hull. — N. B. This Meet- ing is open to the Treasurers and Secretaries of the dif- ferent Auxiliary and Branch Societies in the vicinity, and to such other leading country friends of the Metho- dist Missions as can conveniently attend ; and their presence is respectfully requested. MISSIONARY DEPUTATIONS FOR 1836-7. DISTRICTS. London, To be appointed by the District- Meeting in September, from the Preachers stationed in that Dis- trict. Bedford and Northampton, Joseph Cusworth, Samuel Jackson, William Box, Edward Walker. Kent, George Cubitt, John Farrar, jun. Norwich and Lynn, William Clegg, Robert Pilter, Wil- liam L. Thornton. Oxford, William Naylor, Charles Prest. 84 DISTRICTS. Portsmouth, Richard Reece, Edward Ford. Guernsey, William B. Stephenson. Devojipuri, William Lord, John P. Has well. Cornwall, Robert Newfon, A. E. Farrar, Sa- muel Young. Exeter, Thomas Squance, Timothy Ingle. Bristol, Joseph Taylor, Josiah Hill, Theo- philus Lessey. Bath, John Waterhouse, Henry B. Britten. First South Wales, Henry Davies, W. M. Bunting. North Wales, Edward Jones, 1st, William Davies, 1st, Thomas Aubrey. Birmingham and Shrewsbury, John Anderson, sen., James Dixon, Stephen Kaye, Samuel D. Waddy. Macclesfield, Joseph Fowler, James Methley. Liverpool, John Bowers, William Barton. Manchester and Bolton, John Bnrdsall, John Scott, John Lomas, John S. Stamp. Halifax and Bradford, Thomas H. Walker, John Nel- son, G. B. M'Donald, Thomas Dove. Leeds, Thomas Waugh, Jonathan Crow- ther. Sheffield, John Hannah, Francis A. West. Nottingham and Derby, Thomas Martin, Jolin H. Adams, John Smith, 3d, Henry Fish. Lincoln, Thomas Galland, John H. Bumby. Hull, Joseph Beaumont, Peter Duncan. York, George Marsden, John C. Pengelly. Whitby and Darlington, Isaac Keeling, James Everett. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Robert Wood, AVilliam Smith, Alexander Bell, George Steward. Carlisle, Thomas Murray, Israel Holgate. Scotland, William Atherton, Robert Alder. Ireland, North, Edmund Grindrod, Robert Young. Ireland, South, Philip C. Turner, Joseph Ro- berts, jun. 85 SCHOOLS. Q. XII. What are the Resolutions of the Conference respecting the affairs of our Schools ? A. 1. John Irving, Esq., of Bristol, and the Rev. Philip C. Turner, are appointed the General Trea- surers, and the Rev. George Osborn, the General Secretary, for the ensuing year. 2. The following persons are appointed as the Ge- neral Committee for the ensuing year : — The President and Secretary of the Conference, the General Treasurers and Secretary of the School-Fund, the Rev. Messrs. Atherton, Clegg, Grindrod, T. Jackson, Lessey, Mason, Pilter, Reece, Scott, Slater, Stanley, J. Taylor, Treffry, and Waterhouse ; Messrs. J. Sykes, W. Smith, W. Dove, and Spink, of Leeds ; Mr. J. Swallow, of Wake- field ; Mr. Agar, and Mr. Chadwick, of York ; Mr. Lofthouse, of Hull ; Mr. Nussey, of Birstal ; Messrs. Longden, S. H. Smith, and W. Staley, of Sheffield ; Mr. Wilton, of Doncaster ; Mr. T. Walker, and Mr. W. Skinner, of Stockton ; and such Gentlemen of the Local Committees as can make it convenient to attend on the Friday preceding the next Conference. 3. The following are the Local Committees for the ensuing year : — Kingswood School. — The Rev. Thomas Martin, Chairman; Rev. Robert Smith, Local Treasurer; Rev. William B. Stephenson, Secretary ; Rev. Messrs. J. Wood, Lord, Roberts, Prest, Fowler, J. Smith, 3d, Ford, Dowty, Brandreth, Lusher, and Jennings ; — with Messrs. Capel, Exley, John W. Hall, A. Harper, T. Harris, Irving, Westcott, and J. Wood, of Bristol ; and Messrs. Liddiard and Fort, of Bath. Woodhouse-Grove School. — The Rev. Robert Newton, Chairman; Rev. George Morley, Local Trea- surer; Rev. William Barton, Secretary ; Rev. Messrs. Vevers, William Smith, Anderson, Galland, Learoyd, Blackett, C. Radcliffe, Garrett, Leach, Hamer, Walton, Hinson, Prescott, S. Robinson, and J.Ward, jun. ; — with Messrs. Calvert, Beaumont, Cheeseborough, and Black- burn, of Bradford ; Messrs. Scarth, John Burton, Joshua 86 Burton, Marris, James Hargraves, C. Dove, B. Beverley, Musgrave, and Howard, of Leeds ; Messrs. Swale and Suter, of Halifax ; Mr. Stocks, of Wakefield ; Mr. Shaw, of Huddersfield ; and Mr.. Sutcliffe, of Willow- Hall. 4. The Private Subscriptions and Public Collections for the School- Fund are to be made in every Circuit in the month of October. The sums allowed to Preachers, stationed in Circuits, for the education of their daughters, and of such of their sons as cannot obtain admission into the Schools, may be paid out of the amount raised in the Circuits where they are stationed, if sufficient for that pur- pose. In other cases, we repeat our Minute made in 1820 : " The allowances for education do not become due until the next Conference, and are not to be paid in advance, except so for as the Collections and Subscriptions to the Fund in any Circuit will meet the claims of that Circuit. But when the Governors of the Schools have been fully enabled to provide for their current expenditure, if a surplus remain in the hands of the Treasurers, they may make such remittances in advance to Circuits in which the claims are large, and the contributions very small, as may suit their convenience." 5. The usual allowance for the education of the chil- dren of Deceased and of Supernumerary Preachers, in- stead of being claimed, as formerly, by the Treasurers of the School-Fund, and received by them in a gross amount from the Treasurer of the Auxiliary Fund, shall in future, when the claim has been sanctioned by the District-Meeting, be received directly from the Auxiliary Fund ; the Treasurers of the School-Fund, however, being still allowed to claim such a sum for each boy educated and supported at either of the Schools as he actually costs the Institution. G. The vacation at both the Schools, instead of com- mencing, as at present, in the beginning of May, shall hereafter commence in the last week of May, or the first week of June. 7. The Conference determines, that if any boy, having left either of our Schools at the time of the annual va- cation, be detained more than a week after the vacation 87 ends, unless a satisfactory reason be sent to the Gover- nor, such boy's place shall be immediately filled up by the Governor from the list of boys who are waiting for admission. 8. Every Superintendent is required to send to the General Treasurers a particular account of the sums contributed in his Circuit to the Fund, and of the claims made upon it ; stating distinctly the names of the chil- dren for whose education the usual allowance has been paid, and the exact number of years during which the allowance has been received : and it is further expressly required, that such accounts, with any balance then in hand due to the Fund, shall be sent not later than the 15th of November. All communications are to be ad- dressed to the Rev. Philip C. Turner, Methodist Chapel, Southwark. 9. The Accounts for the year shall be closed on the 24th of June, and audited before they are presented to the General Committee at the next Conference ; and, in order to this, every Superintendent is required, at the May District-Meeting, finally to correct his List of Contributions sent in November, and to pay at the same time all additional Subscriptions or Collections; and the Financial Secretary shall send to the Treasurers such corrections, with an extract from his District-Mi- nutes of every thing which relates to the School- Fund. This communication shall be made not later than the 31st of May. 10. At every District-Meeting, on the day on which the Circuit Stewards are in attendance during the trans- action of the financial business of the District, the Chairman is directed to inquire particularly into the amount of the Subscriptions and Collections raised for the School- Fund in each Circuit, and to compare them with the lists of the preceding year. Where any ma- terial deficiency, or want of due exertion, shall appear, the case shall be specially reported in the District-Mi- nutes, and be brought by the Chairman before the en- suing Conference. 11. The thanks of the Conference are hereby pre- sented to John Irving, Esq., and the Rev. John Scott, 88 the late General Treasurers, and to the Rev. John Smith, 3d, the late General Secretary, for their efficient discharge of the duties of their offices in the past year. 12. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the late Local Committees and Secretaries of the Schools, for their faithful and able attention to the affairs of the Schools during the year ; and also to the Governors and Governesses of the Schools, for their affectionate atten- tion to the children committed to their care, and for their able management of the concerns of the Schools. 13. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the following contributors of five pounds and upwards, for their liberal aid to the Fund : — £. s. d. Mrs. Brackenbury, Rakhbv 10 Mr. F. Riggall, Louth ...'. 10 Rev. Henry Moore, London 5 5 H. Goring, Esq., Oxfurd 5 Messrs. Wood and Westhead, Manchester 5 G. B. Browne, Esq., Halifax 5 Rev. T. Galland, A.M., Halifax 5 5 \V. Dy.-on, Esq., Howden 5 5 Joseph Agar, Esq., York 5 BOOK AFFAIRS. Q. XIII. What are the Resolutions of the Conference in reference to the affairs of our Book-Room ? A. 1. The Rev. John Farrar, jun., is appointed the Secretary to the London Book- Committee for the year ensuing. 2. The Rev. John Brown, sen., of Maidstone, is re-appointed the Editor of the Child's Magazine. Com- munications intended for this department should be ad- dressed to him, at No. 14, City-Road, London. 3. The Rev. William L. Thornton is appointed the Secretary to the Methodist Tract-Committee. Com- munications intended for this department should be addressed to him, at No. 14, City-Road, London. 4. The General Book-Committee, which is appointed to meet on the Thursday evening previous to the next m Conference, shall consist of our President and Secretary, and all the members of the London Book-Committee who shall be duly authorized to attend the Conference ; with the Rev. Messrs. John Anderson, sen., Leach, Burdsall, R. Wood, Waddy, Grindrod, J. Fowler, G. Marsden, Dixon, Lessey, B. Slater, Galland, Morley, H. Hughes, John Davis, Pilter, Rigg, F. A. West, R. Smith, C. Cooke, W. Smith, A. Bell, W. P. Burgess, I. Keeling, D. Evans, W. Naylor, J. Taylor, James Gill, Martin, Lord, J. Sumner, Haswell, W. Fowler, Cusworth, J. S. Stamp, Kershaw, Clegg, Lawry, Blackett, W. Vevers, Dr. Andrews, and the Representatives of the Irish Con- ference. 5. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby unanimously presented to the Rev. Thomas Jackson, for the very able and satisfactory manner in which he has performed the arduous and important duties of his office as our Editor during the past year. 6. The thanks of the Conference are cordially and unanimously tendered to the Rev. John Mason, our Book-Steward, for his vigilant, skilful, and efficient ma- nagement of the business of his office during the past year ; — to the Rev. John Brown, sen., for his accept- able and successful services as Editor of the Child's Ma- gazine ; — to the Rev. Peter M'Owan, for his services as Secretary to the London Book-Committee ; — to the Rev. Abraham E. Farrar, for his services as Secretary to the Methodist Tract- Committee ; — and to the London Book-Committee, for their judicious and faithful direc- tion of the affairs of the Book-Room during the past year. 7. The Rev. Thomas Jackson, having completed the second term of six years as our Editor, is unanimously re-appointed to that office ; and the Rev. George Cubitt is appointed Assistant Editor for the ensuing year, according to the plan and regulations recommended by the Book-Committee in their Minutes, now laid be- fore the Conference, and entered in our Journal. 8. The Book-Committee are directed, with as little delay as possible, to publish a new monthly periodical work, at a price not exceeding two-pence for each num- 90 ber, adapted to the use especially of Tract Societies and Sunday-schools. CHAPEL-FUND. Q. XIV. What are the Resolutions of the Conference, in regard to the General Chapel-Fund, and the Chapel Loan-Fund ? A. 1. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to Thomas Marriott, Esq., and the Rev. Samuel Jackson, the Treasurers of the General Chapel- Fund, for their diligent and faithful services during the past year ; and they are hereby appointed to that office during the next year. 2. The cordial thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to James Heald, Esq., and John Fernley, Esq., the Treasurers of the Loan- Fund, for their impor- tant and valuable services during the past year ; and they are respectfully requested to continue those services during the ensuing year. 3. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the Lay- Gentlemen of the Chapel Loan-Fund Sub- Committee, and especially to Mr. Thomas Crook, of Liverpool, and Mr. W. Robinson, of Manchester, for their kind and efficient services during the past year. 4. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the Rev. Robert Wood, the Rev. Jonathan Crow- ther, and the Rev. Francis A. "West, the Secretaries of the General Chapel-Fund, for their services during the past year ; and they are hereby re-appointed to the same office during the next year. 5. The Sub- Committee of the Loan-Fund, who shall meet in Manchester on the second Wednesday in Octo- ber, and the last Wednesday in May next, or oftener if necessary, shall be composed of the following persons ; viz. i the Treasurers of the Loan-Fund, the Secretaries of the Chapel-Fund, the Chairman and Secretary of the Chapel-Building Committee, the Rev. Messrs. T. II. Walker, Calder, Bell, Burt, J. Dixon, Heaton, Lessey, and J. Sumner, sen. ; — with Messrs. Chappell, 91 Henson, W. F. Johnson, John Lomas, Leadbeater, J. Marsden, May son, Potter, Read, W. Robinson, Robt. Townend, and James Wood, of Manchester; John Burton, of Middleton ; M. Ashton, T. Crook, Sands, and Sinclair, of Liverpool ; and P. Rothwell, of Bolton. 6. The Committee of Distribution of the General Chapel- Fund, which will meet in Leeds on the Monday- previous to the next Conference, shall consist of our President and Secretary, the Treasurers and Secretaries of the General Chapel- Fund, the Treasurers of the Chapel Loan-Fund, the Chairman and Secretary of the Chapel- Building Committee, and all the members of the Sub-Committee of the Loan-Fund ; with the Rev. Messrs. Reece, G. Marsden, J. Taylor, J. Stanley, sen., R. Waddy, R. Treffry, sen., Grindrod, J. Davis, Hugh Hughes, T. Martin, Scott, France, Naylor, T. Rogers, and C. Cooke ; — with fifteen Trustees (not being Tra- velling Preachers), to be chosen by the June Quarterly Meetings, of the under-named Circuits, viz., two at Leeds East, two at Leeds West, and one from each of the following places, — York, Halifax, Bradford East, Bradford West, Huddersfield, Birstal, Wakefield, Stock- ton, Hull, Sunderland, and Newcastle East. 7. To ensure greater punctuality in the transmission of the Collections and Subscriptions to the General Chapel-Fund, the Chairmen of Districts are hereby- directed to make inquiry, in their respective District- Meetings, whether the Rule requiring such Collections and Subscriptions to be transmitted to the Treasurers before the end of March has been observed, and to in- sert an answer to that inquiry in the District-Minutes. 8. The Conference directs that every application to the General Chapel-Fund Committee shall be accom- panied by a regular Chapel-Schedule, duly filled up, and signedby the Chairman of the District, in the District- Meeting ; and it further directs that the said Schedules shall be forwarded to the General Treasurers of the Chapel-Fund before July 1st ; and that all Cases in which this latter direction shall not have been complied with shall be postponed for one year. 9. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented 92 to Thomas Farmer, Esq., for his liberal donation of Fifty Pounds to the Chapel Loan-Fund. 10. The General Chapel-Fund Committee shall an- nually revise the Cases recorded in the Minute-Book of the Chapel-Building Committee, and call for proof of the fulfilment of the prescribed conditions. CHAPEL-BUILDING COMMITTEE. Q. XV. Who are the Chapel-Building Commit- tee, (without whose previous consent, obtained in writing, no chapel, whether large or small, is to be erected, purchased, or enlarged,)- for the ensuing year? A. 1. The Rev. Messrs. A. Bell, T. H. Walker, R. Wood, Crowther, and Calder, of Manchester ; Slater, of Macclesfield ; Walsh, of.Bury ; F. A. West, of Stockport ; and Dunn, of Oldham ; — with Messrs. J. Marsden, J. Wood, G. R. Chappell, John Fernley, W. Allen, and W. Robinson, of Manchester ; Messrs. Crook and Ashton, of Liverpool ; and James Heald, of Stockport. 2. This Committee, who have power to add to their number, if they deem it expedient, are requested to meet regularly on the first Monday in every month ; and no permission to erect, purchase, or enlarge any chapel shall be granted, unless at least seven members of the Committee be present. 3. The Rev. Robert Wood is appointed the Chairman, and the Rev. F. A. West the Secretary, of this Commit- tee. All letters on the subject of Chapels should be addressed to the Rev. F. A. West, Methodist Chapel, Stockport. It is particularly requested that such letters may be post paid. 4. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the Rev. G. Marsden, and to the Rev. Thomas Stead, the late Chairman and Secretary, and to the other Members of the Committee, for their diligent attention to the business brought before them during the past year. 5. The Preachers, and others whom it may concern, 93 are reminded, that, according to Rule, " no case shall be sanctioned by the Committee, unless it shall come before them as having received the previous approba- tion of the Quarterly Meeting of the Circuit, and shall be recommended either by the Financial District-Meet- ing in September, or by the Annual District-Meeting in May." 6. The Chapel-Building Committee are instructed, when their permission is given for the erection of any chapel, to accompany it with an earnest request that the Trustees will subscribe annually, according to their means, from their Trust-Funds, in aid of the Chapel- Fund. 7. A copy of the conditions on which the Chapel- Building Committee shall agree to sanction the erection, purchase, or enlargement of any chapel, shall be sent to the Trustees of the said chapel for insertion in their Trust-Book, — another to the Superintendent of the Circuit, to be entered in the Circuit-Book, — a third to the Chairman of the District, to be recorded in the District Minute-Book, — and a fourth to the Treasurers of the Chapel-Fund. 8. The Conference commits the following recommen- dation of the Committee of the Chapel-Fund to the early and careful consideration of the Chapel-Building Committee, and to their immediate adoption, if they find it necessary or expedient ; viz., — " That plans and estimates of all chapels proposed to be built, be laid before the Building Committee, and that they be directed to call in the aid of an architect to assist them in the ex- amination of such plans." %* Proper printed Forms of application to the Chapel Build- ing Committee, for permission to erect new chapels, &c, maybe had from Mr. Mason, the Book-Steward. CHILDREN'S FUND. Q. XVI. "What are the Resolutions of the Confer- ence in reference to the Children's Fund ? 94 A. 1. The thanks of the Conference are hereby pre- sented to the District Treasurers of the Children's Fund throughout the kingdom, for their kind services during the year ; and also to the'REV. Richard Waddy, and W. G. Scarth, Esq., the General Treasurers, and to the Rev. Wm. Toase, the General Secretary, of this Fund. 2. The Rev. Richard Waddy, and W. G. Scartii, Esq., are appointed the General Treasurers, and the Rev. S. D. Waddy, the General Secretary, for the ensuing year. 3. All letters on business relating to this Fund should be addressed (post paid) to the Rev. Richard Waddy, Methodist Chapel, Wednesbury. 4. From the reports of the District-Meetings, as to the probable number of Children's Allowances to be provided by this Fund in the ensuing year, it appears that the ratio of contribution, in proportion to numbers in Society, may for the present be as follows : One hundred and forty members are to provide the Allowance o£one child, and so onwards in regular proportion. On this principle, and in conformity with the Regulations passed at the Conference in 1820, in reference to frac- tional numbers, the following statement has been drawn up. It determines the number of Children's Allowances for which each District is responsible in the year 1836- 1837, and which must be divided by the September District-Meeting, according to rule, among the several Circuits included in it. Districts. No. of Members. No. of Children. London 18402 131 Bedford and Northampton 10132 72 Kent 6465 ......... 46 Norwich and Lynn 10616 76 Oxford 6184 44 Portsmouth 4328 31 Guernsey 3006 21 Devonport 6280 44 Cornwall 18896 1 35 Exeter 4557 33 95 Districts. No. of Members. No. of Children. Bristol 9879 71 Bath 8763 63 First South Wales 2548 18 Second South Wales 3812 27 North Wales 6243 45 Birmingham and Shrewsbury . . 15632 112 Macclesfield 9484 70 Liverpool 8686 62 Manchester and Bolton 16766 120 Halifax and Bradford 15751 113 Leeds 18811 134 Sheffield 11682 86 Nottingham and Derby 14298 102 Lincoln 12217 87 Hull 11249 80 York 9824 70 Whitby and Darlington 7688 55 Newcastle 10755 75 Carlisle 2868 20 Isle of Man 3253 . 23 Edinburgh 2021 16 Aberdeen 876 6 Shetland 1210 , 9 CHILDREN OF WORN-OUT AND DECEASED PREACHERS. Q. XVII. What is the opinion of the Conference on the Case of the Children of Worn-out or Deceased Preachers ? A. 1. It appears from documentary evidence, pre- sented to the Conference, that in One Hundred and Fourteen Circuits an earnest wish has been formally ex- pressed, that an allowance of Six Guineas per annum should be granted from the Children's Fund towards the maintenance of such children of Supernumerary and of Deceased Preachers as are " dependent on their parents for pecuniary support," on the same plan, and under the 96 same regulations, as to the term of years, &c, as those by which that allowance is now regularly made from the Fund to the children of Preachers actually stationed in Circuits. From verbal testimony, it also appears, that the same wish exists very extensively, and in fact very generally, in many other Circuits from which no written communication has yet been forwarded. 2. Upon a careful consideration of the subject, and after ascertaining the result of the deliberations of the Preachers and Lay-Gentlemen who have examined the proposal in several Committees, the Conference resolves as follows ; viz., — (1.) That the Conference is most gratefully sensible of the affectionate interest which such large bodies of our people have taken in the welfare of the children of our Worn-out and Deceased Preachers, — a class of per- sons among us who are, on every account, entitled to the sympathy and care of the Connexion ; and offers its best thanks to those who have so kindly and importunately urged the immediate adoption of this generous proposal for improving, in some degree, their pecuniary condition. (2.) That, while the Conference most thankfully ex- presses its entire concurrence in those principles of just- ice and kindness which have suggested this proposal, it is, however, of opinion that it ought not to be carried into effect, but in strict and scrupulous conformity to the Rule made in 1815 ; viz., " That, in future, no new proposal, which is designed to effect a general augmen- tation of the income of the Preachers in the Connexion at large, shall be definitively adopted as a Rule, until it shall have received the assent of a majority of the Dis- trict-Meetings throughout the kingdom, at the time when the financial affairs of the Districts are transacted ; during which time, according to an existing Rule, the Circuit Stewards of every Circuit in the District are to be invited to attend the District-Meeting, and shall have a right to vote on every such proposal respecting any general increase of allowances." 3. The Conference therefore refers and earnestly recommends the Proposal in question to the consider- ation of the various District-Meetings, to be held 97 in May, 1837 ; and requests the President to prepare, and send to those Meetings, a Circular, explaining more fully the equity and benevolence of the alteration now suggested by our friends, and also the regulations for securing the object in view, and for preventing any pos- sible abuse of it, which have been recommended by the several Committees, and approved by the Con- ference. 4. Immediately after the District-Meetings in May, each Chairman is required to signify to the President, by letter, the decision of his District on the question : and if it appear that the majority of the Districts have agreed to the proposal, the Committee of the Children's Fund shall be at liberty to act upon it, provisionally, at their Meeting preparatory to the next Conference. CONTINGENT FUND. Q. XVIII. Who are appointed to act for the ensuing year, as the General Treasurers and Secretaries, and also as the Committee, of the Contingent Fund? A. Michael Ashton, Esq., of Liverpool, and the Rev. Joseph Cusworth, are the Treasurers; and the Rev. W. France and the Rev. S. Hope are the Secretaries. The Committee are, the President and Secretary of the Conference ; the Treasurers of the Children's Fund, the Rev. Messrs. J. Taylor, Reece, Waterhouse, J. Fowler, Scott, Naylor, B. Slater, G. Marsden, Vevers, John Davis, Treffry, Rigg, Clegg, Burdsall, and T. Martin ; with five Gentlemen, members of our Society, to be chosen by the Circuit Stewards present at the next May Meeting of the Leeds District, and one Gentleman, a member of our Society, to be similarly elected for each of the following Districts, viz., — London, Liverpool, Manchester and Bolton, Halifax and Bradford, Sheffield, Nottingham and Derby, Lincoln, Hull, York, and Newcastle. N. B. All letters respecting this Fund should be ad- dressed to the Rev. Joseph Cusworth, Hockley Chapel, Nottingham, 68 2. The Committee appointed to determine the maxi- mum of Allowances to be made for Ordinaries to the sev- eral Districts, out of the Contingent Fund for 1336, after examining the probable income of that year, on the one hand, and the probable comparative necessities of each District, on the other hand, (taking into the account the increase or decrease of expense in the several Circuits of each District,) came to the following conclusions, which are now printed in conformity to the order of the Con- ference, for the information and direction of the Circuits, and of the September District-Meetings ; viz., — £. s. d. Yearly Collection of 1837 6100 July Collection 3400 Book-Room donation 1000 Surplus from last year's Estimates . . 2425 12925 To be reserved for the payment of Extraordinaries 3 192 There remains, as the maximum to be now provisionally granted for Ordinaries £9433 Regular Districts. Grant for Ordinaries. £. s. d. London 630 Bedford and Northampton 310 Kent 190 Norwich and Lynn 160 (> Oxford 370 Portsmouth 250 Guernsey 30 Devonport 345 Cornwall 100 Exeter 350 Bristol 370 () Bath 330 99 Regular Districts. Grant for Ordinaries. £. s. d. First South Wales 225 Second South Wales 460 North Wales 650 Birmingham and Shrewsbury 500 Macclesfield 158 Liverpool 290 Manchester and Bolton 480 Halifax and Bradford 180 Leeds 15 Sheffield 60 Nottingham and Derby 135 Lincoln 40 Hull 210 York , 100 Whitby and Darlington 110 Newcastle 170 Carlisle 345 Isle of Man 40 Edinburgh 310 o Aberdeen 390 Shetland 480 Ireland - 650 9433 PREACHERS' AUXILIARY FUND. Q. XIX. Who are the Committee of the Preach- ers' Auxiliary Fund, appointed to consider and decide upon such cases of Supernumerary and Superannuated Preachers, and of the Widows and Families of Deceased Preachers, as may be recommended by the District- Meetings, in the ensuing year, for relief from that Fund? A. The President and Secretary of the Conference, the Treasurer of the Seniors' Fund, the Rev. Messrs. e 2 100 J. Taylor, Reece, Robert Wood, Scott, G. Marsden, Treffry, Waddy, Grindrod, Slater, Atherton, and S. Jackson ;— with Messrs. Farmer, of London ; Heald, of Stockport; G. R. Chappell,-and William Allen, of Manchester ; Crook, of Liverpool ; Marris, Scarth, and Christopher Dove, of Leeds ; Riggall, of Louth ; Stocks, of Wakefield ; and Suter, of Halifax. N. B. Should any of the persons belonging to this Committee be unable to attend its meeting on the Saturday previous to the assembling of the next Con- ference, early notice must be sent to the President, who has authority to appoint substitutes. Q,. XX. Who are appointed the Treasurers and Se- cretary of the Auxiliary Fund for the ensuing year ? A. 1. James Wood, Esq., of Manchester, and the Rev. John Waterhouse, of London, are appointed the Treasurers ; and the Rev. Thomas Eastwood, of York, is the Secretary. 2. The cordial thanks of the Conference are presented to James Wood, Esq., and the Rev. William Naylor, for their services as Treasurers, and to the Rev. Thomas Eastwood, for his services as Secretary, during the past year. N. B. 1. The Chairmen of Districts are required to send to the Secretary of this Fund, (whose address is, Methodist Chapel, York,) such parts of the Minutes of the District-Meetings as relate to the Auxiliary Fund, im- mediately after the meeting of their Districts ; in order that he may have sufficient time, before he leaves his Circuit to attend the Conference, to arrange and pre- pare the Cases recommended to the consideration of the Committee. 2. The Chairmen of Districts shall inquire at the Annual District-Meetings, what children of . Super- numerary Preachers, and of Deceased Preachers, are entitled to the usual allowance for Education ; and the names of such children shall be immediately trans- mitted, together with any other claims which may be made upon the Auxiliary Fund, to Mr. Eastwood, that he may prepare an entire list of them, to be laid before the Committee, previously to the ensuing Conference. 101 3. The cordial thanks of the Conference are specially presented to the following friends, for their generous contributions to the Auxiliary Fund ; viz., — DONATIONS. £. s. d. Miss Burton, of Bramley 50 Mr. Mollard, of Exeter 50 A Lady, by Rev. VV. M. Bunting 50 (I George B. Chappell, Esq., Manchester 50 Francis Mai ris, Esq., Roundhay 50 James Wood, Esq., Manchester 50 Mrs. Bealey, Radcliffe 50 Richard Bealey. Esq., Radcliffe 50 Mrs. Scott, Pensfortl 30 Mr. Barlow, Birmingham 10 Miss Grainger, Bath 10 Mr. Hoyle, Manchester 5 5 Thomas Wilson, Esq., Liverpool 5 Joseph Agar, Esq., York 5 Mr. Spensley, London 5 Mr. VV. Pearse, Launceston 5 H. Goring, Esq., Oxford 5 SUBSCRIPTIONS OF FIVE POUNDS AND UPWARDS. Mr. Francis Riggall, Louth 20 Mrs. Brackenbury, Raithby-Hall 10 Mr. T. P. Bunting, Manchester 5 5 Rev. VV. M. Bunting, London 5 5 Mrs. W. M. Bunting, London 5 5 Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Crowther, Morley 5 Miss Holy, Sheffield '. . . 5 Kev.T. Galland, Halifax 5 5 G. B. Browne, Esq., Halifax 5 J. F. Sutcliffe, Esq., Willow-Hall 5 5 Mrs. J. Sutcliffe, ditto 5 5 VV. Dyson, Esq., Howden 5 5 Mrs. Routh, Goole 5 Rev. H. Moore, London 5 And also to the Executors of the following deceased Friends, for their -prompt remittance of the subjoined Legacies : — £. s. d. Late Mrs. Allan, Shiney-Row 50 Less by duty 5 45 Late Mrs. Nicolle, of Jersey 50 Less by duty 4 2 (> 45 17 (> 4. The cordial thanks of the Conference are presented to the following: friends of the Methodist Preachers' 102 Annuitant Society, (instituted for the benefit of our worn-out Preachers, and of Widows of Preachers,) for their benevolent and very seasonable Donations to that Institution : — £. s. d. A Friend, by Rev. R. Wood 100 A Friend, by Rev. R. Wood 10 G. R. Chapped, Esq., Manchester 50 Francis Marris, Esq., Roundhay, near Leeds 50 The Executors of the late Serjeant-Major Withers, of Dublin, for payment of a Legacy of 50 Rev. James Everett 10 Mrs. CM. Wilson, Edinburgh 5 John Nussey, Esq., Birstal, Leeds 3 WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. Q. XXI. What are the Resolutions of the Conference on the Report of the Committee of the W 7 esleyan Theological Institution ? A. 1. The Conference receives the Report of that Committee with satisfaction and gratitude, and cannot but rejoice in the undoubted signs of prosperity and usefulness with which the Institution continues to be favoured. 2. The thanks of the Confei*ence are hereby pre- sented to the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the President of the Institution, and to the Rev. Joseph Entwisle, sen., the Governor of the Institution-House, for their valuable counsels and services during the past year. 3. The thanks of the Conference are also presented to the Rev. John Hannah, sen., the Theological Tutor, and to the Rev. Samuel Jones, A.M., the Classical and Mathematical Tutor, for their very satisfactory attention to the duties of their respective offices. 4. The thanks of the Conference are gratefully ten- dered to Thomas Farmer, Esq., the Treasurer of the Institution ; to the Rev. John Bowers and the Rev. George Cubitt, the Secretaries ; and to the Members of the Committee of Management ; for their vigilant and unwearied care of the concerns of the Institution during the year. 103 5. Dr. Bunting, and Messrs. Entwisle, Han- nah, and Jones, are re-appointed to their several offices for the ensuing year ; Mr. Farmer is also respectfully •equested to continue in his office as Treasurer ; and Jessrs. Bowers and Cubitt are re-appointed Secre- taries. 6. The Preachers are directed to collect the Dona- tions and Subscriptions which have been promised in their respective Circuits, and any others which they may be able to procure, in aid of the Funds of the Institu- tion, during the first and second weeks of the month of January in each year; and to remit them to the Trea- surer, addressed, Wesley an Theological Institution, Hoxton, London, not later than the end of January. 7» It is agreed that the second year which each Student may spend at the Institution shall be reckoned to him, when he is received on trial as a Preacher, as the first of the four years of probation now required by our rule ; — provided that the Officers and the Com- mittee of the Institution recommend such Student as having conducted himself with Christian propriety and diligence. 8. Resolved, that the object of the preparatory exa- mination of Preachers on the List of Reserve by the Lon- don District-Meeting, as appointed in the Minutes of 1834, being, in the strictest sense, a connexional one, the expense which may be incurred by attending that examination shall be provided for by a connexional fund, at least in all those cases in which it cannot be defrayed by the Candidates themselves ; the Conference regarding it as an equitable principle, that the funds of the Institution should not be chargeable with any expense, excepting for that select class of Candidates for our ministry who are, after the examination, finally taken under its care, nor even for them, until they be- come actually resident, as Students, in the Institution- House. 9. The cordial thanks of the Conference are presented to the Rev. John Hannah, for his very able and use- ful pamphlet, entitled, " A Letter to a Junior Methodist Preacher, concerning the general Course and Prosecution 104 of his Studies in Christian Theology ;" and the Confer- ence recommends that Pamphlet to the diligent and careful attention of our Junior Preachers, and to the Candidates for our ministry in general. 10. It is recommended that a cheap and convenient edition of Mr. Wesley's " Christian Library " shall be published, as a valuable book of reference, for the espe- cial use of our Students and Ministers. 11. The Committee of Management for the ensuing year shall consist of the following persons ; viz., The President and Secretary of the Conference ; the Pre- sident, House-Governor, Tutors, Treasurer, and Secre- taries of the Institution ; the Rev. John Scott as one of the Treasurers of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and the Secretaries of that Society ; the Editor and Book- Steward ; — with the following Ministers and Gentle- men : — viz., Rev. William Atherton, London, Richard Bealey, Esq., Radcliffe, Rev. Joseph Beaumont, London, J. J. Buttress, Esq., London, Rev. William M. Bunting, London, Mr. T. Percival Bunting:, Man- chester, Thomas Crook , Esq . , Liverpool, Rev. Jon. Crovvther, Manches- ter, Rev. Jonathan Edmondson, A. M., Portsmouth, J. S. Elliott, Esq , London, Rev. A. E. Farrar, London, John Fertdey, Esq., Manchester, Mr. Thomas Frid, Loudon, Rev. Thomas Galland, A. M., Leeds, Rev. John Gaulter, London, Rev. E. Grindrod, Sheffield, James Heald, Esq., Stockport, Rev. Josiah Hill, London, James Hoby, Esq., London, Rev. Ehjah Hoole, London, James Hunter, Esq , London, John Irving, Esq., Bristol, Rev. Samuel Jackson, London, Mr. William Jenkins, London, William F.Johnson, Esq., Man- chester, William Judd, Esq., London, Mr. Peter Kruse, London, Rev. William Leach, Bradford, Rev. Peter MOvvan, London, Henry Longden, Esq., Sheffield, John Marsden, Esq., Manches- ter, Rev. George Marsden, Sheffield, W. F. Pocock, Esq., London, Thomas F. Ranee, Esq., Lon- don, Humphry Sandwith, M. D., London, Rev. B. Slater, Macclesfield, Mr. William Staley, .Sheffield, Rev. Jacob Stanley, London, Rev. Joseph Sutclitfe, A. M., London, Benj. Thorold, Esq., Lincoln, Rev. Richard Treffry, London, Rev. Richard Waddy, Wednts- bury, Rev. John Waterhouse, Lon- don, James Wood, Esq., Manchester, Rev. Robert Wood, Manches- ter. 105 APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS. Q. XXII. What is the Resolution of the Conference with respect to the Appointment of certain Offi- cers ? A. 1. The appointment of the Editor, the Assistant- Editor, the Book-Steward, the Missionary Secretaries, and the Governors of our Schools, shall ordinarily he for a term not exceeding six years ; at the close of which period, the office shall be, as a matter of course, con- sidered as vacant. 2. If, however, in the course of the fifth year of a Preacher's holding one of these offices, it shall appear to the Book- Committee for the time being, to the Mis- sionary Committee, or to one of the Local School- Com- mittees, as the case may be, that the re-appointment of any Preacher to one of the said offices is so desirable as to induce them to recommend such re-appointment, a spe- cial Committee shall be chosen by the Conference to consider the recommendation ; and if that Committee also shall agree to it, the Conference reserves the right of re-appointing him for another similar term, or for any shorter one. 3. Subject to the foregoing regulations, the Confer- ence is at liberty to renew the re-appointment to these several offices as often as it shall deem necessary. 4. These appointments shall, of course, be subject, like all other stations, to the annual confirmation or reversal of the Conference. WESLEYAN PROPRIETARY SCHOOL AT SHEFFIELD. Q. XXIII. What is the judgment of the Conference on the projected Wesleyan Proprietary School at Sheffield? A. The Conference has heard, with great pleasure, that some highly respected gentlemen in Sheffield have determined to establish, in that vicinity, a Proprietary School, uniting the advantages of a sound classical and e 5 106 literary education witli a religious and Wesleyan training. The Conference deeply feels the great value and import- ance of the object in view, and admires the spirit and zeal with which the gentlemen have pursued it ; and as they have been the first to propose a plan which, it is hoped, will be extensively beneficial to that impor- tant neighbourhood, and may possibly be followed in other parts of the Connexion, the Conference consents that they shall be at liberty to make an arrangement with any Preacher who now is, or may hereafter, by consent of the Conference, become a Supernumerary, if one, sustaining that relation to our body, can be found, who is suitable for the office of House-Gover- nor and Chaplain to this proposed Seminary, and willing to undertake it. ORDINATION BY IMPOSITION OF HANDS. Q. XXIV. What is the decision of the Conference on the Ordination of our Ministers by imposition of hands ? A. The Conference, after mature deliberation, resolves that the Preachers who are this year to be publicly ad- mitted into full connexion, shall be ordained by impo- sition of hands ; — that this shall be our standing rule and usage in future years ; — and that any rule of a contrary nature, which may be in existence, shall be, and is hereby, rescinded. N. B. The Conference agrees that Returned Mission- aries, who have travelled with acceptance four years and upwards, having been already, on their appointment to the foreign work, solemnly set apart to the office of the ministry by the imposition of hands, shall not be re-or- dained with the approved Candidates for the home work, who may be received into full connexion ; — but that there shall be a formal recognition of them, by the President and Secretary for the time being, acting on behalf of the Conference, in a separate public service appointed for that purpose ; when they shall be examined with respect to their continued attachment to the doc- 107 trines and discipline to which they are already solemnly pledged, and shall also be expected to give an account, if time will permit, of their present Christian experience, and of their labours in the foreign department of our work. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS OF LAST YEAR. Q. XXV. What is the judgment of the Conference on reviewing the " Official Documents " respecting various parts of our discipline, which were published in the Minutes of last year, and the Explanations and Improvements therein contained ? A. 1. We are thankful to find, as we fully expected, that the great body of our people, so far from desiring any change in the essential character of our Christian discipline, have evinced, by their almost universal appro- bation of the general principles maintained in those Documents, that they are utterly averse to such change, and are, with us, resolved that the system as received from Mr. Wesley, but adapted to the state of our So- cieties after his death, by the regulations of 1797, shall be faithfully preserved. 2. W T e learn with great pleasure that the several Documents, explaining some of our rules which were considered to be, in some degree, obscure and ambiguous in their phraseology, and improving other rules, with the arrangements for completing the union of Laymen with Ministers in the management of our several Funds, and the solemn determination of the Preachers steadfastly to adhere to those long-established principles of scriptural discipline, by which our Societies have been preserved in peace and prosperity, have given great and general satisfaction to our Societies, and served to confirm their confidence in the stability and efficiency of Wesley an Methodism. 3. We hereby express our great obligation to Dr. Bunting for the discriminating and able manner in which lie embodied the results of those deliberations, which so long and anxiously engaged the attention of a Committee 108 appointed by the last Conference to consider the subjects which had been brought into question, and afterwards of the Conference itself, in Documents, maintaining at once the scriptural integrity of the pastoral office, and the Christian liberties of our people ; and we now pre- sent to him our unanimous and cordial thanks. SOCIETY-MEETINGS AND PRAYER-MEET- INGS. Q. XXVI. Is it necessary again to enforce our exist- ing Regulations on the subject of Society-Meetings and Prayer-Meetings ? A. 1 . We think it is ; and as the frequent meeting of our Societies is of great importance to the establishment and perpetuation of the work of God among our people, the Conference again directs, that in every place where there is preaching on the Lord's day, the Preachers shall regularly meet the Societies according to our original practice ; and that, when they visit the country places on week-days only, they shall, as often as is con- sistent with their other duties, meet the Societies on those evenings. 2. Though the Conference approves of occasional meetings for prayer in our chapels, after the evening preaching on the Lord's day, as there are seasons when an extraordinary influence may render them proper, yet it advises that such meetings shall be only occasional, and that the Preachers' ordinary practice shall be to meet the Societies, and give suitable counsel to the various classes of our people. 3. It is also very desirable that Prayer-Meetings should be held in various parts of the Circuit and other large towns, at such times as will not interfere with our public worship ; meetings of that kind being calculated to promote extensive good among the poor, especially in the more dark and neglected parts of such towns. 4. In addition to the practice of meeting the Socie- ties weekly on the evening of the Lord's day, the Con- 109 ference recommends that the Preachers should appoint times, whether once in a month, or once in a quarter, for holding Special Society-Meetings, either on the after- noon of the Sabbath, or on some evening of the week, to be devoted exclusively to that purpose ; when, if practicable, all the Preachers of the Circuit should be present, and unite in endeavouring to make such Special Society-Meetings instructive and useful to our people. OCCASIONAL VISITS OF PREACHERS TO OTHER CIRCUITS. Q. XXVII. Is it necessary to give any direction to our Preachers respecting the due regulation of their occasional visits to other Circuits than their own, for the purpose of preaching Anniversary Sermons for Chapels, Schools, Missions, and other public objects ? A. The Conference feels it a solemn duty to express its conviction that the practice of obtaining Preachers from other Circuits for the purposes just mentioned, though it be, when restrained within reasonable limits, allowable and beneficial, and justified by the peculiarly connexional character which distinguishes our ministry, has, however, of late years, been carried, in various instances, to a most improper and injurious extent; — injurious especially to certain important Circuits, whose congregations and Societies are thus deprived, in an undue degree, of the pulpit labours and private pastoral services of their own appointed Ministers. The Con- ference, therefore, enjoins it as a sacred duty upon all the Preachers, and especially on those excellent brethren who are most frequently selected for such occasions, to restrict their engagements of that kind within such bounds as will consist with their paramount and indis- pensable obligations to their own Circuits. And, in reference to those Preachers who sustain the office of Superintendency, or who are at present stationed in any Circuit where agitation and division have recently oc- curred, the Conference especially inculcates and enjoins 110 the duty and necessity of such a restriction of their assistance to other Circuits, as has now been recom- mended. REVISION AND CLASSIFICATION OF RULES. Q. XXVIII. What is the result of the appointment by the last Conference of a Special Committee for the pro- posed Revision and Classification of our Rules ? A. 1. That Committee has presented the following Report ; viz., — 11 The Committee appointed by the Conference to con- sider the 'practicability and expediency' of ' preparing a New Edition of the Form of Discipline published in 1797, with Explanations and Enlargements,' are sorry to state that they have not been able to make any such progress in the important inquiry committed to them, as would justify them in presenting to the Conference, at present, a full Report of their views and opinions. That the object is very ' desirable,' they are fully con- vinced ; but they have also strongly felt that it is com- passed with considerable ' difficulty,' and ought not to be attempted at all, until sufficient time has been found to secure that it shall be well and deliberately effected. The Committee especially submit to the Conference, that it is obviously wise and expedient to postpone the ' proposed revision and classification of our Rules in general,' at least for another year ; in order that it may be ascertained whether the authority given by the last Conference to call certain Circuit Meetings, therein defined, for the purpose of ' memorializing the Conference respecting the repeal or alteration of any of our existing Laws, or the enactment of any additional rule,' has been acted upon in any considerable number of the Circuits ; and if so, what are the alterations and additions which any of our friends may deem to be desirable. Till time and opportunity have thus been afforded for the ex- pression of the feelings and wishes of our people, if it shall appear that they have generally felt it necessary to give any such expression, it appears to the Com- Ill mittee that it would be premature and injudicious to publish any new edition of the existing Form of Discipline, which, however defective, and capable undoubtedly of very great improvement in point, of classification and arrangement, is still sufficient, as heretofore, to answer most of the practical purposes proposed by such a digest. " The Committee are, however, of opinion that on a few of the minuter points of detail, connected with the 1 Explanations and Improvements' of our Rules and Usages, adopted and published by the Conference of 1835, some further explanation or modification may at once and without further deliberation, be advantageously adopted, while the great principles asserted in that docu- ment are still maintained as sacred and inviolable. They, therefore, propose, " 1. That the Conference do now explain that provision, respecting the constitution of 'Special Circuit Meetings,' which admits to such Meetings all Leaders and Local Preachers ' of ten years' continuous and uninterrupted standing in that office,' (Min. 1835, p. 167,) by declar- ing that the continuous and uninterrupted standing there required, was intended to comprehend any period of regular and authorized services in those offices, which a Leader or Local Preacher may have spent in any or all of the Circuits where he has resided ; and was by no means designed to imply ten years' continuous service in the same Circuit. It should also be understood, that a merely temporary, casual, and unavoidable interruption of such official service, occasioned solely by removal from one Circuit to another, is not to be regarded as destroying the required 'continuity,'' or as interfering with the claims of any Leader or Local Preacher, now actually accredited as such, to be admitted under the Rules in question, as a member of the aforesaid Meetings. " The Committee propose, "2. That the Conference declare, that the clause ad- mitting to Special Circuit Meetings, ' one of the Trustee- Treasurers, or Trustee-Stewards of every other regularly settled and secured chapel in the Circuit, being a Member of the Society,' (Min. 1835, p. 107,) should be now 112 further explained and amended, by adding the words, ' and being also himself a Trustee of the said chapel.' " On other points of mere detail, connected with the constitution of Special Circuit. Meetings, such as the limitation of the period of official service which qualifies for admission to Ten Years, the Committee are of opinion that it is not expedient at so early a period as the present, to make any change in a law so recently adopted ; and that it will be best to wait for the teach- ings of experience as to the practical working of the present limitation, and for the opinion of our people on the subject, if they shall generally deem it necessary or expedient to suggest any such opinion, before a shorter term shall be definitively adopted." 2. The Conference unanimously approves and adopts the preceding Report of its Special Committee ; and refers to its careful consideration the Memorials from regular Special Circuit Meetings, which have now been presented, from a very small number of the Circuits in the Connexion. MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTIONS AND RE- SOLUTIONS. 1. Resolved unanimously, That the President be respectfully requested to publish the Sermon which he delivered in Cherry-street chapel, on Sunday evening, July 31st ; and that the Ex-President be also respect- fully requested to publish the Sermon which he deli- vered in the same chapel, on Sunday morning, July 31st. 2. Breakfast- Meeting at Birmingham. The Con- ference presents its respectful and affectionate thanks to the Committee and other friends at Birmingham, for the arrangements which they made to accom- modate the Preachers, on Thursday the 4th of August, at a Public Breakfast-Meeting, and for the other tokens of attachment which they exhibited on that occasion to the principal officers of the body, and to the Connexion generally. Gratefully estimating the motives from which such expressions of regard proceeded, the Con- 113 ference meets them with correspondent sentiments, fer- vently praying that their beloved and honoured friends may plentifully partake of the blessings of Almighty God, both in this world and in that which is to come. 3. Key to the Conference-Catechism. The Confer- ence approves of the " Key to the Conference- Cate- chism " prepared by the Rev. Samuel Jackson, under the direction of the Book-Committee in London, for the use of our Sunday-schools and private families ; and cordially recommends its general adoption and use. 4. Sunday and other Schools. Messrs. Treffry. Atherton, and S. Jackson, are authorized to prepare a Schedule, which may contain an account of our Sunday and other Schools, to be sent to each Circuit, and filled up and signed by the Superintendent Preacher, for the purpose of ascertaining the actual state of education, in immediate connexion with Methodism throughout Great Britain. A report of their proceedings shall be presented to the next Conference. 5. Circuit- Schedules. It is directed that a Volume of Schedules be kept in every Circuit, in which an account of the numbers in Society, and on Trial, the amount of subscriptions and collections, and other simi- lar records, shall be regularly inserted. The Book- Committee shall prepare and forward to the Circuits blank Schedules for this purpose. 6. In order to bring the state and progress of the work of God in every Circuit distinctly and regularly under the examination of the District-Meetings, copies of the printed Circuit- Schedules, duly filled up, shall be annually produced, read, and considered. The Chairmen of Districts are made responsible for the execution of this order ; and shall bring such Circuit- Schedules with them to the Conference, that they may be forthcoming, if called for. (See also Minutes for 1831, Q. xxvi., p. 83.) 7. District- Minutes. The Chairmen of Districts are peremptorily required to procure three complete copies of the Minutes of the several annual and other meetings of the District- Committees, duly signed by the Chairman and Secretary. One of these copies shall be inserted in the 114 District records ; a second shall be reserved for the use of the Chairman and Secretaries at the Conference ; and a third shall be regularly presented to the President, during the first week of each Conference, and preserved, under his direction, as a document appertaining to the Connexion. The several copies of the last class shall be written on foolscap paper, that they may be annually bound toge- ther in one volume. 8. The Superintendents of those Circuits in which the Conference may from year to year assemble, shall, with the approbation of the President, (as already required by rule,) complete and print, not later than the loth day of June in each year, a Plan of the order of preach- ing in the principal chapels, during the session of the Conference ; and shall also, on or before the above date, inform every person M'hom they may have appointed to preach in those chapels, of the time and place of such appointment : and, in order that the Plan thus pre- pared may not be violated, to the disappointment of our friends, and to the great inconvenience of other parties concerned, no Preacher who attends the Conference shall be at liberty to make an engagement to preach in any other Circuit, either on the Sabbath, or on any other day, during the period appointed for the meeting of the Conference, or of its various Preparatory Committees, at the time for which his name shall be inserted on the Conference- Plan. 9. The Chairmen of Districts are enjoined to make particular inquiries at their Annual Meetings in refer- ence to all the points of Discipline specified in the first Article of the Answer to Q. xxviii., in our Minutes of 1825. 10. The Superintendents are directed gratuitously to furnish to every Local Preacher, Steward, and Class-Leader, in their respective Circuits, a copy of the Annual Pastoral Address of the Conference to the Methodist Societies, which has now been read and adopted. (See page 119 et seq. of these Minutes.) 115 CONFERENCE OF 1837. Q. XXIX. When and where shall our next Con- ference be held ? A. In Leeds ; commencing on the last Wednesday in July, 1837, at six o'clock in the morning. Signed, in behalf and by order of the Conference, JABEZ BUNTING, President, ROBERT NEWTON, Secretary. Birmingham, August 12th, 1836. N. B. It is particularly requested, that all Letters written to the President or Secretary, or other Preachers, whether during the sitting of the Conference, or in the course of the year, on public business of any kind, may be sent jjost-jmid. The President's address is, 30, My ddleton- Square , Pentonville, London; to which place it is requested that all communications to him, relating to the general business of the Connexion, may be directly forwarded. Letters on Missionary business should be addressed, " To the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary So- ciety, 77, Hatton-Garden, London." The Secretary's address is, Brunswick- Place, Leeds. COMMITTEES FOR 1837. The Committees preparatory to the next Conference are appointed to meet in Leeds, as follows, (subject, however, to any change of the particular days or hours here specified, which the President, giving due notice to the parties concerned, may find it expedient to make,) viz., — 1. The Stationing Committee, on Monday morn- ing, July 17th, at nine o'clock. 2. The Book Committee, (for a List of whom see A. 4, to Q. xiii., at pp. 88, 81), of these Mi- 116 nutes,) on Thursday evening, July 20th, at six o'clock, and on Friday morning, July 21st, at six o'clock. 3. The General School- Committee, (for a List of whom see A. 2, to Q,. xn., at p. 85 of these Minutes,) on Friday morning, July' 21st, at nine o'clock. 4. The Committee of the Contingent Fund and Children's Fund, (for a List of whom see the Answer to Q. xviii., at p. 97 of these Mi- nutes,) on Friday, July 21st, at three o'clock and at six, p. m. ; and also on Saturday, July 22d, at six o'clock, a. m. ; and on Tuesday, July 25th, at six o'clock, a. m. 5. The Committee of the Auxiliary Fund, (for a List of whom see the Answer to Q,. xix., at pp. 99, 100 of these Minutes,) on Saturday, July 22d, at nine o'clock, a. m., and at six p. M. 6. The Chapel- Fund Committee, (for a List of whom see Q. xiv., A. 6, at p. 91 of these Minutes,) on Monday, July 24th, at nine o'clock in the morning, at three in the after- noon, and at six in the evening ; and also on Tuesday evening, July 25th, at six o'clock. 7. The Special Missionary Committee, (for a List of whom see the 10th article of the answer to Q. xi., at p. 83 of these Minutes,) on Tues- day, July 25th, at nine o'clock in the morn- ing. 8- The Committee of the Theological Institution, or such Members of the Committee, and other friends of the Institution, as can conveniently be present, on Tuesday afternoon, July 25th, at three o'clock. N.B. 1. The Secretaries of our several Funds are directed to meet in Leeds, on Wednesday, July 19th, for the purpose of preparing for the several Committees the accounts of their respective departments. 2. The Rev. John Anderson, sen., and the Rev. John Hannah, sen., our Sub-Secretaries, with the Rev. Wil- 117 Ham Barton, the Journal-Secretary, are directed to attend at the same time, for the purpose of compiling from the District-Minutes various lists, &c, which will facilitate the business of the Committees, and of the subsequent Conference. 3. The Chairmen of Districts are required to bring, or send, in time for the meeting of the Secretaries of our Funds, on Wednesday, July 19th, perfect copies of the District-Minutes, and an account of the Numbers in Society in the several Circuits of their Districts, as taken at the Midsummer Visitation in 1837. •1. The amount of the July Collection in each Cir- cuit must be certified by the Superintendent to the Financial Secretary of the District, not later than the fifteenth day of July. The said Secretary must enter such amount in a General Schedule, and send that Schedule to the Secretaries of the Contingent Fund in Leeds, on the Wednesday before the Conference. LIST OF GENERAL COLLECTIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 1836-37. The following are the usual and regular Collections which are to be made in all our Circuits during the ensuing year ; viz., — 1. The Private Subscriptions and Public Collections for the Kingswood and Woodhouse-Grove Schools, &c, are to be made in the month of October, 1836 ; and the amount should be immediately remitted to the Rev. Philip C. Turner, (whose address is, Methodist Chapel, Southward,) one of the General Treasurers for the School-Fund, according to the directions given under Q,. xii., at pp. 86, 87 of these Minutes. 2. The Annual Subscriptions, due January 1st, and occasional Donations for the Wesleyan Theological In- stitution, are to be solicited in every Circuit in the first or second week of January, 1837 ; and forthwith re- mitted to the Treasurer, Thomas Farmer, Esq., at the Wesleyan Institution-House, Hoxton, London. 3. The Private Subscriptions and Public Collections 118 for the General Chapel-Fund are to be made in the month of February, 1837 ; and the money should be immediately remitted to Thomas Marriott, Esq., and the Rev. Samuel Jackson, the General Treasurers of that Fund, at No. 14, City-Road, London. 4. The Yearly Collection in all the Classes is to be made as usual at the March Visitation, and the money to be paid at the District-Meetings in May. 5. The Private Subscriptions for the Mission-Fund are to be received in all our Circuits, either weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually, as is most convenient to the Subscribers. The annual Public Collections for that Fund are to be made in all our chapels, and other preaching-places, at the time of the Anniversaries of the several Auxiliary or Branch Societies ; or, where no Public Meetings of that kind are held, in the month of May. The money so raised is to be remitted, through the hands of the District- Treasurers, to Thomas Farmer, Esq., and the Rev. John Scott, the General Treasurers, whose address is, No. 77, Hatton-Garden, London. 6. The Private Subscriptions for the Auxiliary Preachers' Fund are to be solicited in the month of June, 1837, and the money to be paid on or before the first day of the Conference, to the Financial Secretary of the District, and by him to James Wood, Esq., and the Rev. John Waterhouse, the Treasurers. 7. The Collection in aid of the Contingent Fund, for the support and spread of the Gospel in Great Britain and Ireland, is to be made in all our chapels and preaching-places, not later than the second Sunday in July, 1837 ; and the money is to be paid, on or before the first day of the Conference, to the Financial Secre- tary, and by him to the Rev. Joseph Cusworth, the Treasurer of the Contingent Fund. The amount col- lected in each Circuit is to be certified by the Superin- tendent to the Financial Secretary, not later than the third Tuesday in July. (See N. B. 4th, p. 89, in the Minutes of 1830.) THE ANNUAL ADDRESS CONFERENCE THE METHODIST SOCIETIES. Dearly beloved Brethren, Amidst the various duties which engage our attention, when assembled in our collective character as the Con- ference of the Wesleyan Methodists, that of addressing you in this way is very far from being the least interest- ing or important. We thankfully adopt this method of communication, as a memorial, and a practical exempli- fication, of the principle, that the entire body of the Preachers, and the Societies with which they are res- pectively entrusted from year to year, constitute but one Connexion, all having, over and above their individual and local interests, a community of purposes and opera- tions, by which, in being bound to the same objects, they are bound also to each other. If, on the one hand, we " all are yours," as your " servants for Jesus's sake," to live and to die with you, — on the other hand, ye all are ours, to be, as the people of our charge, " our glory and our joy." It is with unfeigned gratitude to Him who is " the author of peace and lover of concord," that we refer to the general state of the Connexion during the past year, and to the circumstances under which we have been per- mitted to assemble upon this occasion. At the close of the last Conference we thought ourselves warranted in the expression of a confident expectation that the God of love and peace would still be with us, and that we 120 should yet see our Zion a peaceable and quiet habitation, and a dwelling-place of the divine glory ; and we have not been disappointed in our expectation. The Resolu- tions then adopted on the subject of those matters which had agitated our Societies during the preceding year, have received, as we ventured to anticipate, the general approbation of our people ; so that in this case, as in others, we have been enabled, " by manifestation of the truth, to commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." The consequence has been, that the attempts which have since been made to propagate disturbance and division, beyond the extent to which they had been previously carried, have, with very few exceptions, absolutely failed ; and almost the only re- maining agitation has been as the swell, which for a short season continues to heave the surface of the water when the tempest has subsided. And, after a year of comparatively peaceful and prosperous labour in our Master's vineyard, whatever may have been wanting to perfect our confidence as to the future, has been given to us at this Conference. Whether we regard the spirit in which we have been received by the people of this place, the general unanimity and harmony of our proceedings, or the signs of the divine presence and favour in our re- ligious services, we find in our present circumstances an encouragement which the most aged and experienced amongst us declare to be beyond all precedent. These circumstances we most gratefully accept and acknow- ledge, as tokens of good to you not less than to our- selves ; and we invite you to join with us in ascribing praise therein to Him to whom alone the praise is due. " Thou, Lord, wilt ordain peace for us ; for thou hast wrought all our works in us." With this very brief allusion to those painful circum- stances which on a former occasion necessarily occupied so much of our attention, we now proceed to topics more directly, as we trust, connected with your present edification and comfort. The danger which once threat- ened you from those circumstances, we are thankful to perceive, has passed away ; but there are other dangers which, though not entirely new or very sudden, are yet 121 too formidable not to excite our earnest and affectionate solicitude on your behalf. We feel it especially neces- sary to renew to you the caution which we have given you in former Addresses against the danger of being car- ried away from the sobriety and purity of the Christian character by the turbulent excitement of political and party feeling. Important as may be many of those questions which divide and agitate the public mind, and whatever bearing some of them may seem to have on the religious character and interests of the country, they cannot, as to their real importance, be compared with the things immediately pertaining to your own salvation, and to the extension and support of the great cause of " God and of his Christ." The patriotism which so justly attaches us to our own country must be controlled and sanctified by a predominating reference to those higher claims which come upon us, as professing to be the subjects of One whose " kingdom ruleth over all ; " and we are taught by the faith we have received to regard all worldly movements and changes as being designed to be subservient, in the order of divine Provi- dence, to the advancement of those things which are " spiritual and eternal." Guard, therefore, against all associations which, by carrying you unnecessarily into the field of political emulation and strife, would tarnish your spiritual character, and, under the plausible pre- text of encouraging a virtuous patriotism, would prac- tically hinder your growth " in the knowledge and in the love of God." As those who " desire a better country, that is, an heavenly," " set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth ; " and in all things remember and acknowledge the paramount alle- giance which you owe to " the Lord Christ," the King whom " God hath set upon his holy hill of Zion." We would also most affectionately caution you to be upon your guard, lest any of you be involved, by too easy a compliance with the spirit of the times, in schemes and speculations which, if they do not outrun the extent of your probable resources, may yet have the injurious effect of overcharging you with *' cares of this life," and may divert to enterprises of a merely secular and com- F 122 paratively selfish character, much of that energy and of those resources which God our Saviour requires to be devoted to the service of his church, and to the extension of his kingdom. Let it be manifest to all that, in your case, the pursuit of worldly objects is marked by a spirit of moderation and sobriety, such as may forbid the indulgence of any just suspicion on the profession which you make, of having your treasure and your heart in heaven. Your earthly gain, if purchased at the ex- pense of that spiritual-mindedness in which alone is " life and peace," is purchased at too dear a rate, and with the fearful risk of repeated and aggravated loss of the same character. " Be sober," therefore, and " be vigilant," as those who act under the remembrance that " the end of all things is at hand," and that they only are truly rich who are " rich in faith " and " in good works," and who inherit the " durable riches and right- eousness " which are found in the kingdom of God. As a preservative against the contagion of these and all other evils, we entreat you to cultivate the habit of a more regular and devout attendance on those means of " instruction and edification in righteousness " with which you are so plentifully favoured. Cherish and maintain a deeper and more practical regard to the divinely-instituted ordinances of the ministry of the word, and the sacrament of the Lord's supper, as ordi- nances which God will specially own and bless, because he has specially appointed them. Let this increased reverence for the sanctuary and ordinances of God be connected with a renewed attention to the more private means of grace, and to the sacred duties and privileges of the closet. And let your earnestness in all those means which are statedly appointed, be manifest by your attendance at the proper time. The charge of negligence on this point has long, and too justly, been the reproach of some of our congregations ; and we are anxious that it should be for ever rolled away. The domestic arrangements which may be necessary to insure a more punctual attendance arc not of difficult accom- plishment, if they only be resolved upon with a due sense of the great evils resulting from the want of it ; and the 123 benefit which would accrue, both to yourselves and others, from the correction of an irregularity so unbe- coming and injurious, would amply repay you for any effort which might he necessary to secure it. In thus remembering more fully your own spiritual pri- vileges, we trust you will learn at the same time to cherish a more just and earnest concern for the spiritual welfare of your respective families : and that, for the purpose of leading them to salvation, you will add to the due exercise of family devotion, the frequent and assiduous practice of oral and catechetical instruction. Much of this work has of late years, we fear, been criminally attempted to be done by proxy. Upon the false and perilous assump- tion that this department of parental duty may, at the option of any parent, be entirely delegated to another, the instruction furnished at the school has been allowed in great part to supersede the practice of parental and domestic teaching ; and in the same degree one of the greatest practical benefits, intended to result from the mutual relationship of parents and their children, has been neglected and forgotten. Permit us to remind you also of the claims preferred upon your Christian sympathy and zeal by those of your own country and neighbourhood who " have not yet our Saviour known," and whose habits seem to place them beyond the pale of all the ordinary means of awakening and salvation. We beseech you to consider whether, by the more general encouragement of institutions, for the circulation of Bibles and religious tracts, and by other means of visitation and instruction, more especially those which are, or might be, supplied by our own system, something effectual may not be done to reach the case of these comparatively destitute and neglected ones, so that in every place God's "house may be filled," and the people of this country be more generally brought under the direct and saving power of the Gospel of Christ. It will be not less perilous to the true interests of our country, than it will be disgraceful to the Christian churches that are planted in it, should the charity which is ordained to be their badge be outstripped in its career by anything that wears the form either of science r 2 124 or of liberty. It is the truth of Scripture alone which, by its governing and sanctifying influence upon the intellect and heart, can render the improvements of art and science and political economy a real blessing to mankind ; and where its salutary influence is wanting, there is, instead of it, that which brands a curse upon our very blessings. Be on your guard against the fashionable and insidious idolatry which, under plausible and dazzling names, goes in fact to exalt the reason of man above " the wisdom of God," and which aims at merely intellectual improvement as a process for effecting the spiritual renovation of our race. And let all other means for the encouragement of morality and virtue, in any of their forms, be subordinate in your estimation to that Gospel which is ordained to be " the power of God unto salvation," and which its great Author will never suffer to be despoiled of this its peculiar and characteristic glory, by any instrumentality which men may seek to substitute instead of it. We cannot refrain from directing your attention to the affecting circumstance, that several of those, whose names have for many years been eminent amongst us, are now, under the weight of years and the labour they have un- dergone, retiring from the station which they have so honourably filled, to the rank of Supernumeraries. Whilst following them, with the expression of our respect and regret, into their comparative retirement, we who are still strong to labour are reminded of our own ap- proach to the period when we must exchange, in part at least, the duty of full and active service for that of patient submission to the incapacities and infirmities of age. We would avail ourselves of such admonitory circumstances, for the purpose of stirring ourselves up to aim more earnestly at the great objects of our ministerial calling, and to a faithful discharge of all that service of which we are still permitted to be capable. Whilst on this point it may not be unseasonable for us to suggest it to those of our friends who are connected with extensive and laborious Circuits, not to hasten prematurely the exhaus- tion of any Preacher's health and vigour, by subjectinghim to the oppressive toil which must necessarily be incurred, 125 where to frequent preaching are added frequent and long journeys on foot. The ancient and very reasonable practice of providing horses in such cases is one which cannot be dispensed with without an injury both to the Preacher and the Circuit, not to be compensated by any financial advantage which the change may be intended to secure. We are now about to separate, and to repair to our several appointments, more than ever resolved to dedicate ourselves to the service and glory of Him whose we are, and whom we serve in the Gospel of his Son. Dis- couragements we expect in the prosecution of our work ; but in Him who hath counted us faithful, putting us into the ministry, is all our trust. Hitherto he hath helped us ; therefore we thank God, and take courage. " Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified." Never were we more united in affection, or more fixed in our purpose to " walk by the same rule and to mind the same thing," than we are at present. May you also be " likeminded one towards another, according to Christ Jesus, that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." " And now, brethren, we commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance amongst them that are sanctified through faith w'hich is in Him." Signed, by order and in behalf of the Conference, JABEZ BUNTING, President, ROBERT NEWTON, Secretary. Birmingham, August \2th, 1836. THE ANNUAL ADDRESS IlilSH CONFERENCE BRITISH CONFERENCE. Very dear Fathers and Brethren, Being assembled in our annual Conference, we hail with much pleasure the opportunity thus afforded of re- newing the expression of our undiminished filial and fraternal love, and of recording our most grateful ac- knowledgments to our common Lord and Master for his continued goodness, and for the blessings with which he has prospered our humble labours during the lapse of an- other eventful year. The generally unsettled state of our country, occasioned both by political and religious agitation, opposes many hinderances tathe progress of our sacred work. Notwith- standing this difficulty, having kept ourselves from inter- meddling with such matters, the Lord has graciously en- abled us steadily to pursue our peaceful way ; and, on the review, we have the privilege of marking a gratifying im- provement in the state of our Societies. In several of our Circuits we have been favoured with a more than ordinary effusion of the Holy Spirit ; in consequence of which, a blessed revival of religion, and an increase of genuine con- verts from " darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God," have followed. The spirit of emigration, however, still prevails ; and, during the year, has deprived us of no fewer than five hundred and twenty-two of our members. In making up the numbers at the preceding Conference, there were added, through mistake, one hundred and 127 sixty-three more than should have been returned. Yet, after filling up the vacancies thus occasioned, and those resulting from other causes, we are enabled now to re- turn a net increase of three hundred and ninety- seven ; showing, upon the whole, that we have had an accession of one thousand and eighty-two members to our Con- nexion in Ireland in the course of the past year. Within that period, considerable local exertions have been made towards the erection of chapels. In some places there has been a laudable endeavour to provide more suitable accommodation for the families of our Preachers ; and we have an encouraging advance in all our Funds. With sentiments of no ordinary gratification, we have to record the discharge of the ponderous debt whereby we had been so long embarrassed and oppressed, a Re- port of which, by order of the Conference, has been re- cently published, with devout acknowledgments to Al- mighty God, and with our unanimous and grateful thanks to those kind and liberal friends both in England and Ire- land, who have generously assisted in the accomplish- ment of this important object. To you, beloved fathers and brethren, for your parental and brotherly sympathy and beneficence on this, as well as on every other trying occasion, we owe a debt of grateful attachment and affec- tion, which we shall be ever ready to acknowledge, although never able to discharge. On comparing the past with our present circumstances and prospects, although still pressed with opposition and difficulty, "we thank God, and take courage." The painful ordeal through which we and our people passed in former days, when attempts were made to di- vide and dissolve our Connexion, and when from among ourselves men arose " speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them," has taught us sensibly to feel and deeply to sympathise with you in your troubles. The efforts which have been and still are made to dis- member and destroy the unity of your body, and that by men who might be reasonably expected to pursue a di- rectly opposite course, have filled us with astonish- ment and grief. Nevertheless, we are persuaded that the things which have happened unto you shall issue far 128 differently from the designs of the troublers of your Is- rael, and, as in the case of Paul, turn out " rather unto the furtherance of the Gospel," through the prayers of your faithful people, " and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." Before you the great Head of the church hath opened a wide and an effectual door, which earth and hell may strive to shut, but shall strive in vain. The unexampled success with which the Lord has blessed the labours of your Missionaries in foreign and heathen lands, together with the prosperity attendant on your exertions at home, and the liberal supplies you have received for the support of the general work, as well as for the special objects and in- stitutions which engage your attention, have excited our admiration and joy. It is also gratifying to remark that, by the good providence of God, His Majesty's Govern- ment have placed at your disposal a Parliamentary Grant, which will assist in supplying the means of increased exertion in your endeavours to educate the children of the long neglected and oppressed, but now emancipated, ne- gro population in the West Indies. To the state of our Missions in this country we have devoted particular attention. The brethren engaged in this arduous service have been at their posts of duty ; and their labour has not been in vain in the Lord. From the old Mission ground we have formed a new Circuit, open- ing thereby new fields of labour both for the Mission- aries and the regular Preachers. This plan we hope to be enabled to follow up annually, until even the most be- nighted and morally destitute corners of our land shall be visited and blessed with the means of grace and sal- vation. Our highly interesting Mission Schools, which afford much promise of future good, we are anxious to bring under your special notice. Being fully persuaded of the great advantage they derived from the personal in- spection and supervision of your valuable Agent, the Rev. E. Hoole, and his worthy predecessors in that office, we cannot but regret the circumstances which unavoidably prevented his accustomed attention to that appointment; as we deem a vigilant superintendence in- 129 dispensably necessary to the full efficiency of that im- portant branch of our work. We have been seriously admonished to "work while it is day" by the death of two of our Supernumerary brethren, and the retirement through age and infirmity of three others ; one of whom is our venerable brother Samuel Wood, who had long and faithfully discharged the duties of the ministry among us. Five young Preachers, who have creditably fulfilled their probationary years, have been received into full con- nexion ; and seven others, well recommended by their respective District Committees, have been admitted on trial, and appointed to Circuits. These have proved a most seasonable and necessary supply. But we regret that not one is found on our List of Reserve, to enable us to avail ourselves of the desirable benefits of your Theological Institution. When we reflect on the demand for foreign Mission- aries, and look forward to the contingencies of the com- ing year, we are humbled before the Lord, and pray Him, with whom is the residue of the Spirit, to call, and qualify, and send forth more labourers into his harvest, even a plentiful supply to minister before him in our native land, and to join the ranks of those devoted Mission- aries whom you send forth to "preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." The beneficial results of the highly-esteemed labours of your excellent Deputation, the Rev. Messrs. Atherton and Haswell, at our Missionary Anniversaries in the North, and the Rev. Messrs. Lessey and W. Shaw, in the South, will be found in the respectable increase to our Missionary income for the year ; whilst their able ministrations of the words of eternal life have proved a general bless- ing to the congregations favoured with their labours ; and our social intercourse with them has greatly tended to cherish those hallowed feelings which flow from our unity in one faith, one Spirit, and one hope of our calling. Our venerable and much-loved President, the Rev. Richard Reece, came to us in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ. His private conversation, his pulpit labours, his superintendence of the business of our f 5 130 Conference, his animating speech at our general Mission- ary Anniversary, and the instructive and impressive manner in which he conducted the reception of our young men into full connexion, have commanded our ut- most respect and approbation, and greatly endeared him to the best feelings of our hearts. The presence of his beloved companion, the Rev. Robert Newton, — whose sudden and severe illness twelve months ago deprived us of the pleasure and advantage of his attendance at our Belfast Conference, awakened our deepest sympathies, and engaged our fervent prayers to Him in whose hands are the issues from death, — was to us on this occasion a subject of proportionable glad- ness and thanksgiving, even as life from the dead. The fidelity and efficiency with which our greatly es- teemed brother, the Rev. John Beecham, has attended to all our concerns, especially to those of the Missionary department, both in public and private, are highly com- mendable, and have endeared him still more to our affections. For a few days we were favoured with the presence of the Rev. Egerton Ryerson, Secretary of the Canadian Conference, whose ministry and communications, par- ticularly respecting the Irish emigrants to the Canadian provinces, w r ere to us truly interesting. The Rev. John Tackaberry also visited us from New- York, and gave us much gratifying information concern- ing the extensive labours of our trans-atlanticbrethren, and the astonishing increase and influence of Methodism in the United States ; from all which we were led greatly to rejoice in our identity with the Wesleyan Methodists throughout the world. And in oneness of Gospel faith and labours we trust to live and die. Towards the close of our deliberations, some hours were purposely devoted to the consideration of thebestandmost scriptural means of preserving and promoting the work of God in our Societies. Throughout the discussion, a deep sense of our dependence on God, and of our solemn obli- gations and awful responsibilities to him, seemed evi- dently to impress every mind. Many judicious and in- structive remarks were made on the subject by the more 131 aged and experienced brethren, the whole of which may- be resolved into the Apostle's admonitory and divinely in- spired counsel to his son Timothy, "Take heed unto thy- self, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee ;" and the never-to-be-forgotten charge of the venerable Founder of our Connexion to his sons and their successors in this ministry, "Remember you have nothing to do but to save souls." We have chosen as our Representatives to your Con- ference, our beloved and confidential brethren, the Rev, Messrs. William Stewart and Thomas Waugh, men who need not a commendatory epistle from us to you. In conclusion, we feel persuaded that Methodism has been raised up, and through much opposition singularly preserved, in Ireland, by the good providence of God, to accomplish some great purpose of his mercy in this our native land. And therefore, trusting in the Lord for his constant guidance and blessing, we hasten to our respec- tive appointments, fully resolved in his strength, to live and labour for his glory, and for the best interests of our fellow-countrymen. Signed, in behalf and by order of the Conference, THOMAS W. DOOLITTLE, Secretary. Whitefriar- Street, Dublin, July 9th, 183G. THE ANSWER BRITISH CONFERENCE ADDRESS OF THE IRISH CONFERENCE. Dear Brethren, We have been glad to receive the truly encouraging- statements which your Address for the present year conveys, and which have been further confirmed by the interesting personal communications of our esteemed brethren, your Representatives, the Rev. Messrs. William Stewart and Thomas Waugh. We view those commu- nications in this pleasing light, because they inform us of a numerical increase by no means inconsiderable under your peculiar circumstances, and also make known to us the more frequent occurrence of local exertions, very laudably directed to those objects, which at once exhibit the growing stability of your branch of our Con- nexion, and the solicitude felt by your people to pro- mote the comfort of those who labour amongst them in the word and doctrine. We reflect with no small satisfaction of mind upon the aid which we were enabled to afford you in your dark and cloudy day, — aid which, while called for in a time of pressing need, was still more valuable in its collateral circumstances and remote consequences, as leading to the adoption of those administrative mea- sures, which, by preventing the accumulation of financial embarrassments, leave you at liberty both to devise and to execute plans of spiritual usefulness. We are 133 well repaid by the fruits of those measures of which your present Address gives us so cheering a detail; and we rejoice in the well-grounded hope which it affords, that our Israel amongst you will cast forth " his roots as Lebanon, that his branches shall spread, and his beauty be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon." We know indeed that your position as a portion of the church of God, viewed in every light, presents many points of difficulty and delicacy. Your country, as you truly observe, is still the theatre both of political and religious agitations, — agitations which, in tracing their causes and devising means for their cure, furnish matter of serious thought and somewhat anxious discussion, both in the Imperial Legislature, and in the best-informed circles of general society. Truly glad are we therefore to learn that you have kept yourselves from all undue intermeddling with such matters ; and the counsel it is in our hearts to give you is this, — that while you are firm and open in the assertion of all the great principles which distinguish us as Protestant Christians, and Wesleyan Methodists, you should be careful that your unflinching assertion of these glorious truths is characterized by " meekness of wisdom," courtesy of deportment, and patient humble love. It is no business of ours, as " men of God," who have dedicated ourselves to the interests of a kingdom which " is not of this world," to be very eager or pro- minent in drawing out these great principles to what we may deem right political conclusions. Our chief concern as Ministers of the Gospel is, first, to turn men " from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God," and then to build them up in faith and holiness : and it may well content us to know that we thus im- plant in their bosoms those seeds of the kingdom, which, under the training of Christ's faithful servants in the church below, cannot fail to produce proper modes of action in the use of constitutional privileges, as well as all other fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. Pursuing such a course as this, dearly beloved brethren, we believe that you will be signally owned and blessed by the great Head of the church : in the midst of dangers, snares, 13t and deaths, you will be mercifully preserved, and God, even our God, will abundantly bless you. Of this, indeed, we have the firmest assurance, that the Lord will bless his own truth at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances, provided it be promulgated in his own way, and by those who are armed with the same mind which was likewise in Him : to such his standing declaration is, " Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world." You manifest a right apprehension of the state of our affairs, when you express your conviction that the things which have happened unto us are tending to widely different issues from those which were designed by the leading agitators of our Connexion. There are various circumstances in our Connexional annals for the last few years, which have shown us more clearly than ever, that the watchful eyes of the Keeper of Israel neither slumber nor sleep ; and which furnish striking illus- trations in our times of the accomplishment of the great promise given to the church of God, that no weapon formed against her shall prosper. How often, indeed, have we been called upon to observe, with admiring grati- tude, that " Hell, weaving snares a thousand ways, Finds mercy central in the maze !" — and that mercy is a wise and powerful mercy, which ever keeps and guards its own. " As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of Hosts, in the city of our God : God will establish it for ever." Even now, when we compare the present with the very recent past, we are strongly reminded of the promise, which, in the most agitating moments, ever sustained our humble confidence : " Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities : thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. — For the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King ; He will save us." Amongst the most remarkable of these unexpected 135 issues of the proceedings of the troublers of our Israel, is the delightful unity of sentiment and feeling which characterizes the first Birmingham Conference, and which reigns amongst us, in what may be soberly stated as an unprecedented manner. We are perfectly joined together in the same mind and judgment. Nor do we doubt that you will be glad to learn, that the present has appeared to us to be the proper time for completing a well-ordered system of ecclesiastical usages, by adopt- ing the scriptural and primitive rite of imposition of hands in instituting the probationers for our ministry tp the full character and dudes of the sacred office ; and it will interest you to learn that our first ordination in this manner was an occasion of very solemn and delightful feeling, and eminently " a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord." It gives us lively pleasure to maintain that constant intercourse with you which becomes so closely allied portions of the churches of Christ. We believe that the time will never arrive when we shall not " needful to each other prove ; " but that we shall always, by every practicable kind of Christian intercourse, and especially by the interchange of Representatives, " the mes- sengers of the churches," be stirred up, as was St. Paul in his journey to Rome, to " thank God and take courage." It has been our object to give such a reception to your esteemed Representatives, the Rev. Messrs. W. Stewart and T. Waugh, as is due to their long-tried worth. Nor can we doubt that you will have equal satisfaction in the presence of our highly-esteemed President, the Rev. Dr. Bunting, whom we have unanimously appointed to occupy your chair. In compliance with our earnest request, pressing in your behalf as we were, the Rev. Robert Newton has kindly consented to accompany the Presi- dent ; and we cannot doubt, that, in answer to our united prayers, their intercourse with you will be a means by which the great Head of the church will vouchsafe in a signal manner to comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. And now, dearly beloved brethren, "we commend you 136 to God, and to the word of his grace." We never more deeply felt than at present our need of divine direction, inspiring us with that spiritual wisdom and understand- ing, which our heavenly Master will own and bless as the means of avoiding every danger, and approving our- selves in all things as the Ministers of Christ. The tokens which we have received of the divine approbation during the past year, are numerous and undeniable ; they are indeed most cheering to our hearts : but yet we would " rejoice with trembling." We know where alone our strength lies ; and that we have such tokens of continued acceptance and blessing from our exalted Lord, we gladly ascribe to his special mercy and grace. We pray that our beloved people on both sides of the Channel, and wherever " scattered all o'er the earth they lie," may be favoured with showers of blessings ; and that thus they that be " planted in the courts of the Lord, may flourish in the house of our God." Signed, in behalf and by order of the Conference, JOHN ANDERSON,^ „ . D , . JOHN HANNAH, } Sub-Secretanes. Birmingham, August 12th, 1836. THE ADDRESS BRITISH CONFERENCE, FROM THE CONFERENCE OF THE WESLEYAN-METHO- D1ST CHURCH IN UPPER CANADA, HELD IN JUNE, 1836. to the president and members of the wesleyan- method1st conference. Reverend and dear Fathers and Brethren, " Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mer- cies, and the God of all comfort ; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God." We are led to believe, from the explicit reference made in your Address to the late persecutions under which you have been permitted to suffer, that they had a large share in your considerations during the last Conference ; and we desire to sympathize with you under those fiery trials which you have, in the all-wise providence of God, been called to endure. We, too, have had to contend with men of fiery temper, who have prosecuted, with no ordinary zeal, " plans of agitation and strife of a most unchristian and revolutionary cha- racter : " yet we give thanks to Almighty God, that he has been graciously pleased to check those excitements ; and that, notwithstanding the defection of some, our returns present an increase of about One Thousand members. 138 It affords us great pleasure to hear of the prosperity of the glorious work of God in which you are engaged ; and that, notwithstanding the unchristian efforts made to circumscribe your hitherto successful operations, the great Head of the church has honoured your persever- ing and benevolent labours with abundant increase in almost every part of the world. We are happy in expressing our warm attachment to genuine Wesleyan Methodism. We feel more than ever convinced of the efficiency of the system ; and hope, through divine grace, never to relax our efforts, until the thriving shoot which has been so providentially planted in this pro- vince, partaking of all the properties of the deeply-rooted British trunk, shall spread its luxuriant boughs over the length and breadth of the land, and scatter in rich abun- dance the soul-nourishing fruits of our holy religion, — ■ the knowledge, in theory and experience, of a free and a full salvation. Through the tender mercy of God, the past year has been one of gracious influence in many of our Circuits, as well as in our Missionary field among the Heathen, and in the new and remote settlements. The Spirit of God has attended the ministration of his word. This is manifest, not only from our numerical increase, but from what is, in our estimation, of more real importance, the increasing stability of our members, and the anxious desire evinced by our Local Preachers, Stewards, and Leaders, to co-operate with us in carrying into effect the long-tried usages of Wesleyan Methodism. Nor is it one of the least encouraging circumstances connected with the past year's prosperity, that the general state of our finances is more flattering than at any former period : and we believe that Wesleyan Methodism never stood higher in the estimation of the intelligent and worthy part of the community in this country than at present. — It is with unfeigned gratitude that we acknowledge the peculiar mercy and goodness of Almighty God, who has thrown over us the shield of his protecting power, and has permitted none of our number to be removed by death during the past year. Aware of the lively interest naturally felt by you for 139 those of your pastoral charge who emigrate to this coun- try, we are happy to assure you that they have a share in our Christian solicitude ; and we believe that few, if any, of them have reason to complain of the want of a Wesleyan ministry, " rightly dividing the word of truth." Our respected brother, the Rev. William Lord, being now about to return to his native land, we desire to record our strong sense of the obligations under which we are laid by the highly valuable services rendered .by him to this Connexion, during a period of peculiarly embarrass- ing difficulties. His ministrations, counsels, prudence, and personal sacrifices, imperatively demand this cordial expression of the high esteem in which he will be ever held by us ; and we shall not forget to pray that the Father of mercies, "who holdeth the winds in his fists, and the waters in the hollow of his hands," may preserve him and his family from the perils of the great deep, and restore them in health and safety to their friends, and to your Christian intercourse. Very beneficial effects having been realized from the active labours of our beloved President in travelling through every part of the pro- vince, we are induced respectfully to request that the person who shall be appointed as his successor may visit us as early as possible, in order that we may enjoy the benefit of his ministerial labours before the sitting of the next Conference. We still appreciate the labours and approve the zeal and prudence of our worthy brother, the Rev. Joseph Stinson, General Superintendent of Missions ; under whose charge that important department of our work continues to prosper, and a vast field of further useful- ness lies before us, already white unto the harvest. Knowing that with us you properly estimate the importance of education, when under the special direction of Christian principles, we recommend to your patronage and support, as far as may be justifiable under your existing circumstances, our rising Institution, the Upper Canada Academy. This Conference, and the friends of general education and Wesleyan Methodism in Canada, have, by their praiseworthy efforts, succeeded in prepar- 140 ing it for the reception of pupils ; and we expect in a few days to see it in operation. We have heard with great satisfaction the kind reception which our esteemed bro- ther, the Rev. Egerton Ryerson, has received in Eng- land ; and when we consider the important object of his mission, as connected with the spread of general know- ledge and religious truth, we venture to hope that his and our expectations will be realized. With most ardent desire for your increasing prosperity and usefulness, we close our Address, and "commend you to God, and to the word of his grace." " Peace be to you, brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — Amen." Signed, by order and in behalf of the Conference, in the Conference-Room, Belleville, tipper Canada, the 13th day of June, 1836, EPHRAIM EVANS, Sub- Secretary. THE ANSWER THE BRITISH CONFERENCE ADDRESS FROM THE CONFERENCE UPPER CANADA. Very dear Brethren, We have received your affectionate Address with much satisfaction ; and rejoice that it so distinctly recognises the great principles which we have so long deemed to be sound and scriptural in themselves, and important to the interests of our Connexion, Had we ever been inclined to look upon your troubles and difficulties with indifference, the peculiar circum- stances in which we have ourselves been placed during the last two years, would have compelled us to re- gard them with interest, and anxiously to observe their results. He who can make the wrath of man to praise him, has caused our recent agitations to terminate in a calm and settled peace, and in the acquisition of other consi- derable advantages to our Connexion ; — our discipline is better understood, and more ardently loved both by Preachers and people ; greater uniformity of adminis- tration is secured ; and we are freed from the influence of a few unquiet spirits, whose love of pre-eminence had made them the constant troublers of our Israel. Although these unhappy men have succeeded in drawing away from us a considerable number of mem- bers in some of the disturbed districts, yet it has pleased 142 God so to bless our labours, tbat, even in Great Britain, we have a gratifying increase of upwards of two thou- sand, which, together with an increase of three hundred and ninety-seven in Ireland, and of seven thousand five hundred and seventy-seven in the Foreign Mis- sions, make a total increase of ten thousand one hun- dred and eighteen. We have no doubt that the faithfulness which you have manifested in the maintenance of rule and order will be similarly rewarded ; and that the longer and more conscientiously you enforce, the less you will be inclined to change, that admirable form of Discipline, by which you are governed. We rejoice in the laudable zeal which you have mani- fested to preserve the great doctrines of Methodism in their uncorrupted purity and power. God has made them the means of reviving religion in these lands ; and similar effects will be produced wherever they are faithfully preached. Permit us, however, to remind you of the vast importance of forming Classes, wherever practicable, that your hearers may be brought under the direct influ- ence of your pastoral care. Your kind solicitude for the spiritual welfare of our fellow-countrymen has endeared you to our hearts. It is an interesting part of your great work to follow these sheep into the wilderness, and bring them into the fold of Christ. Our deep solicitude for your success in this labour of love will perhaps excuse our specially directing your attention to the necessity of enforcing the sanctity of the Christian Sabbath, which your remote and agri- cultural population are probably in great danger of forget- ting. It is of vast importance that the whole of this clay should be devoted to religious purposes. Catechetical instruction also, and the various duties of domestic piety, are important under any circumstances ; but it is impe- ratively necessary that they should be sedulously re- garded, where public means of grace are distant and irregular. We are not ignorant of your peculiar situation, or of the strong political excitements to which you are frequently exposed. While, however, we admire your anxiety to 143 promote the civil improvement of your new and interest- ing country, may we venture affectionately to guard you against the evils of violent partisanship ; and urge you, in imitation of the example of our great Founder, to re- commend, both by precept and example, loyalty to the King, and scriptural obedience to his Government. The strongest argument we can use on this subject is, that the very same authority by which we hold the ministerial office, has instituted the civil power, and entrusted it with the administration of the laws. The same spirit of insubor- dination which would abolish the wholesome restraints of the Magistrate, would banish from the world the in- stitutions of Christianity itself. The extensive circulation of our own standard works would imbue the minds of your people with correct prin- ciples, both civil and religious, and greatly assist you in the formation of character, and the accomplishment of the various and important objects of your ministry. Your anxiety to promote the religious education of your youth, and the noble efforts you have made for the accomplishment of your wishes, are highly honourable to you, and gratifying to us. We cannot, however, too strongly express our opinion of the absolute necessity of maintaining the strictly religious and Wesleyan charac- ter of all your literary Institutions. You are doubtless, with us, convinced that the real and permanent advan- tages of education depend in a great degree upon its association with sound moral and decidedly Christian principles ; and we trust that you will recognise this very necessary connexion in all your academical ar- rangements. The presence of your respected Representative, the Rev. Egerton Ryerson, has renewed and strengthened among us the very favourable impression produced by his former visit, and more closely attached us to him ; and to you, we trust, he will in due time return in safety, long to bless you by his example and labours. We are happy to learn that the labours of our be- loved brother, the Rev. William Lord, have been satisfactory and beneficial to you. God has kindly re- stored him to us, in answer to your prayers, in health 144 and vigour ; and we have received him with the affec- tion and thankfulness which his previous character and recent faithful services have so justly merited. We have appointed as his successor the Rev. W. M. Harvard, whose established piety; general knowledge, and acquaintance with Missionary work, eminently qualify him for the office. We have, according to your wish, re- quested him to proceed with all possible dispatch, and trust that he will come among you in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of peace. We now most affectionately commend you to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding j°y- Signed in behalf, and by order of the Conference, JABEZ BUNTING, President, ROBERT NEWTON, Secretary. Birmingham, August 12th, 1S36. THE ADDRESS BRITISH CONFERENCE, PROM THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE WESLEYAN- METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Honoured Fathers and Brethren, We have had the pleasure of receiving, by the hands of your worthy Representative, the Rev. William Lord, your kind and fraternal salutations, as expressed in the epistle with which he was charged, and which has been read in open Conference. This, together with the friendly intercourse of brother Lord among us on the present interesting occasion, has brought to our recollec- tion those hallowed associations by which we have been refreshed in former times, by similar tokens of brotherly love and Christian affection. Assembled as we are, in our General Conference, as the Representatives of the twenty-two Annual Conferences, into which our work, for greater convenience and facility in carrying forward the sacred cause in which we are engaged, is divided, we embrace this opportunity of expressing our unfeigned gratitude to God for what he hath wrought on this vast continent by our instrumentality ; and of our firm and unwavering attachment to those doctrines and usages, and to that discipline, by which we have ever been dis- tinguished, and which we have received in substance from the venerable Founder of Methodism. But in the midst of these recollections, so holy and consolatory, we have to lament the loss by death, since we last assembled, of our senior Superintendent, the Rev. o 146 William M'Kendree, the brightness of whose example, for the many years he went in and out amongst us, shone with a steady and cheering light, and whose setting sun reflects upon those of us who survive him the radiance of immortality ; — of our junior Superintendent, the Rev. John Emory, whose commanding talents and fervent piety gave us reason to hope that he would be rendered a great blessing to the Church and the world, but whose sudden and unexpected death, while it has deprived us of his services, has doubtless transferred him to the brighter regions of eternal day ; — and the loss of our excel- lent Book- Establishment by fire in the city of New-York, by which disastrous event we have lost about 250,000 dollars' worth of stock, including printing and binding- materials, building, &c. And to these losses, which we regard as the chastisements of our heavenly Father, we may add, a diminution in the number of our commu- nicants, for the last year, of between two and three thousand. But while these things call for mourning, for " search- ings of heart," for humiliation and prayer, we are by no means discouraged ; for though thus chastened, we are not in despair, — though cast down, not destroyed. We trust that the God of Providence and Grace will raise up others to fill the places of those who have gone to their reward ; and furnish means to resume our wonted prac- tice of diffusing abroad evangelical principles and holi- ness through the medium of the press ; and also pour out his Spirit upon our heritage, and so prosper the la- bour of our hands, that we shall hereafter witness an in- crease of piety and of numbers to our Zion. But while our domestic work has thus suffered from these and other causes, not necessary now to mention, we re- joice to witness the growing prosperity of our Missions, both in our own borders, among the aborigines of our wildernesses, in the rising colony of Liberia in Western Africa, and in some of the cities of South America. In the contemplation of these opening prospects for Mis- sionary enterprise, we rejoice in being able to record the encouraging fact, that our people are cheerfully and promptly pledging a portion of their substance to aid us 147 in this great and good work. During the past year our Missionary Fund has been replenished by about 22,000 dollars, over and above the amount collected in any one preceding year ; and on our several Missionary Stations we have had an accession of upwards of four thousand to the number of our Church-members. For these manifest tokens of divine approbation upon this depart- ment of our work, we desire to be thankful to Him from whom cometh every good and perfect gift, and to make them motives of renewed exertion and persevering efforts in the grand Missionary cause. In common with sister-denominations of Christians in our country, we have been less or more agitated with the perplexing question of Negro Slavery. And, although we receive with respectful deference what you, as our elder brethren, have said to us in relation to this ques- tion, yet we are assured, that, from the known prudence by which your body has ever been distinguished, had you been as well acquainted with this subject as we are, — could you have viewed it in all its aspects, as it pre- sents itself to us who are in the midst of it, interwoven as it is in many of the State-Constitutions, and left to their disposal by the Civil Compact which binds us toge- ther as a nation, and thus put beyond the power of legislation by the General Government, as well as the control of Ecclesiastical Bodies, — could you have critically- analyzed its various ramifications in our country, so as to have perceived all its delicate relations to the church, to the several States, and to the Goverment of the United States, — we cannot doubt, that, while expressing your decided disapprobation of the system of slavery itself, your tone of sympathy for us would have been deeper and more pathetic. While on this subject, it may be pertinent to remark, that of the coloured population in the southern and south-western States, there are not less than seventy thousand in our Church- membership ; and that, in addition to those who are min- gled with our white congregations, we have several pros- perous Missions exclusively for their spiritual benefit, which have been, and are still, owned of God, to the conversion of many precious souls. On the plantations g 2 148 of the south and south-west, our devoted Missionaries are labouring for the salvation of the slaves, catechising their children, and bringing all within their influence, as far as possible, to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ ; and we need hardly add, that we shall most gladly avail ourselves, as we have ever done, of all the means in our power to promote their best interests. Having thus given a brief outline of our present state and future prospects, permit us, dear brethren, to con- gratulate you on the continued prosperity of your growing Connexion. We have witnessed with mingled emotions of pleasure and gratitude the extension of your work, both at home and abroad, particularly on your Foreign Missions. In this grand work we hope to imitate your pious zeal ; and, though it may be at a respectful distance, to follow your steps until we shall meet on some favoured spot upqri our globe, and salute each other face to face, as the servants of Him who claims the Heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. Although we have no Institution, as you seem to have supposed we have, of the character you mention, as existing among yourselves, for the education of those of your junior Preachers who are not actively engaged in the field of labour, yet we are endeavouring, by such means as are at our command, to improve our young Ministers in the various branches of knowledge which are deemed requisite for a successful discharge of the functions of their office ; and we rejoice in being able to state, that the cause of general education, in its various branches, from the Sabbath and common schools up through the academic to the collegiate course, has been, and is now, gradually demanding more and more of our attention ; and hence we hope that our ministry, though none of them has been established for their exclusive benefit, will reap a proportionate share in the results of these Institutions of learning. We have availed ourselves of this early period of our session to return to you our Christian salutations, and to bear testimony to the prudent and conciliatory manner in which your Delegate has thus far discharged 149 the trust confided to him, that we might not miss the favourable opportunity of employing the agency of our highly respected and beloved brother, the Rev. Dr. Fisk, who enjoys our confidence, to present to you in person these expressions of our affection and esteem. We have therefore requested him to convey to you an assurance of our undiminished attachment to the Wesleyan-Methodist Connexion ; and to ask that, at our next General Conference, we may be favoured with a Representative from your body, whose visit, should it take place, will, we doubt not, be reciprocated with the same feelings of brotherly affection by which this intercourse has heretofore been characterized. Earnestly praying that He " whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting," may guide, sanctify, and ever be with both you and us, we subscribe our- selves, in behalf of the General Conference of the Me- thodist Episcopal Church, your brethren and servants in our common Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. R. R. ROBERTS, ") „. , -„ ,, JOSHUA SOULE, ( f "*?*' °i "; ELIJAH HEDDING, ( thodist Episcopal JAMES D. ANDREW, J ^'wrc/i. THOMAS L. DOUGLASS, Secretary. Cincinnati, Ohio, May 5th, 1836. THE ANSWER OP THE _ BRITISH CONFERENCE TO THE ADDRESS FROM THE AMERICAN GENERAL CONFERENCE. TO THE BISHOPS AND MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Dearly beloved Brethren, The primitive and truly Christian practice of an ex- change of fraternal salutations between the British and American Conferences, is always to us an occasion of satisfaction and delight. It has afforded us the highest gratification to welcome the Rev. Dr. Fisk as your Representative, and our " brother beloved." We knew indeed that his praise was in all your churches ; and we were therefore prepared to form a grateful estimate of his high character, talents, and usefulness ; but as the accredited Representative of a body of Ministers and Christians, so successfully em- ployed by God in the extension of the common salvation in the Western World, we cannot but regard him with additional esteem and honour. We have heard with in- terest his own communications, as well as those of our esteemed Representative, the Rev. William Lord, who has recently visited you, and who, as we rejoice to find by your letter, has commended himself to your favourable regard by that prudence and piety which induced us to appoint him to the office which he sustained. Allow us, dear brethren, to express our unfeigned con- dolence with you on the death of two of your highly 151 venerated Bishops. We also have had, within a short period, to mourn the loss of some of our most gifted, pious, and useful Ministers. Such bereavements not only teach us lessons of humility and diligence, but im- pressively remind us of our dependence upon God, who alone can repair the wastes of mortality, and continue to the church a succession of able and faithful Ministers of the New Testament. No people have been blessed with brighter examples of ministerial fidelity and zeal than our own churches. Our fathers " laboured, and we have entered into their labours." May He "with whom is the residue of the Spirit " be graciously pleased to pro- vide labourers who shall diligently cultivate the inherit- ance they left us, and fully carry out the noble objects they contemplated. We deeply sympathize with you in the loss sustained by the burning of your Book-Room in New- York. The effects of this calamity upon the financial resources of your Connexion must be seriously felt by you ; but this is a small evil compared with even the partial sus- pension of an agency, by which evangelical truth was so extensively diffused among your w r idely- scattered and increasing population, and the cause of religion and morality so powerfully aided. Your letter communicates intelligence of an unusual event, namely, that your societies during the last year have suffered a diminution of numbers. To a Church which has for so long a period annually counted its converts by thousands, this circumstance must be a severe exercise of faith. But allow us, beloved brethren, to remind you, that the church has to win all its triumphs in a world full of ignorance, rebellion, and sin, and over evils deeply rooted in our common nature, and more or less mingling with all the institutions of society. It cannot therefore surprise us, that its course should be occasion- ally interrupted. In the seasons, however, of temporary decay, or violent agitation, the church, like the individ- ual Christian, may retire upon first principles ; draw, by renewed exercises of prayer and faith, on her un- failing resources ; and, concentrating her energies, go forth with fresh vigour to accomplish the work of the 152 Lord. Our own Connexion, sixteen years ago, was in similar painful circumstances. The lovers of our Zion deeply felt the affliction. We were led to review our principles and conduct ; and with confessions of our un- profitableness, renewed determinations, and fervent sup- plications to God for a large effusion of His Spirit, our Mi- nisters devoted themselves afresh to their important duties. God was pleased to crown these exertions with remark- able success ; and for several years the result was a grad- ual, and, in many instances, a large and rapid increase. We doubt not, beloved brethren, that the evangelical doctrines which you preach, the scriptural discipline which you administer, the union and fellowship of your societies, and the indefatigable labours of your extended itinerancy, will, by the blessing of God, and the effusions of his Holy Spirit, soon produce a revival of the work, and that you will again be cheered by large additions to your ranks of such as shall be saved. We regret that the allusion in our epistle of last year to the subject of slavery, should have occasioned you either pain or embarrassment. We claimed no right to suggest any thing to you on this confessedly difficult question, be- yond what our fraternal relationship would warrant ; a pri- vilege of friendship which we should as freely concede to you as exercise ourselves ; and we utterly disclaim all re- sponsibility for any other kind of foreign interference with your views and feelings, which may have been exerted from any other quarter. We were aware, dear brethren, of the peculiar trials to which the evils of slavery have sub- jected you ; and our sympathy with you was most sincere. But being called upon to address you at a time when the blessings of emancipation had been secured to our own slave-population, and when the question, as we knew, occupied much public attention in America, especially amongst religious men, we considered it our duty to give our moral weight in support of those views which were held by our great Founder ; which have repeatedly been professed by the British Conference ; and which, indeed, have been for many years avowed in your own Book of Discipline and other public documents, and are, we be- lieve, in strict accordance with our merciful and righteous 153 Christianity.* Into the details of any measures of eman- cipation we did not enter, but, in conformity with our well-known sentiments, intended to affirm the principle, that slavery is a system of oppressive evil, and is in direct opposition to the spirit of our divine religion ; and we hoped that the time had arrived, when our beloved sister- Connexion in America would be prepared to act on these sentiments, and receive our suffrages with approving cordiality. Slavery, in itself, is so obviously opposed to the immutable principles of justice, to the inalienable rights of man of whatever colour or condition, to the so- cial and civil improvement and happiness of the human family, to the principles and precepts of Christianity, and to the full accomplishment of the merciful designs of the Gospel, that we cannot but consider it the duty of the Christian Church to bear an unequivocal testimony against a system which involves so much sin against God, and so much oppression and wrong, inflicted on an unoffending race of our fellow-men. In common with others, the Wesleyan Conference, and generally the people of their charge, took this course during the discussion of the question of emancipation in our own beloved country. The force of Christian principle, peace- ably but firmly maintained, and legitimately urged, has overcome every difficulty. The black and coloured po- pulation of our own colonies have entered into a state of * The following is an extract from the American "Book of Discipline : " — " Q- What shall be done for the extirpation of the evil of slavery ? "A. 1. We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of the. great evil of shivery : therefore no slave-holder shall be eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter, where the laws of the State in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and per- mit the liberated slave to enjoy freedom. " 2. When any Travelling Preacher becomes an owner of a slave or slaves, by any means, he shall forfeit his ministerial character in our Church, unless he execute, if it be practicable, a legal emancipation of such slaves, conformably to the laws of the State in which he lives. " 3. All our Preachers shall prudently enforce upon our mem- bers the necessity of teaching their slaves to read the word of God ; and to allow them time to attend upon the public worship of God on our regular days of divine service." G 5 154 freedom ; and the inestimable advantages of religious li- berty have been secured on the basis of an equal toler- ation. The Conference has the means of knowing that the blessing of God has been graciously vouchsafed to this act of national justice, in the extension of the Gospel, in the conversion of great numbers of the negroes, and in the improved state of society in the colonies. As it must always be the duty of Christian Ministers and churches, not only to embody the principles of their holy religion in their formularies of doctrine and codes of discipline, but also to act upon them, the Wesleyan Conference of this country trust that their American brethren may be enabled, by the constant avowal of the great principle of emancipation, to direct and urge for- ward their people to unite in the truly Christian enterprise of conferring on the slave-population of the United States the inestimable benefits of civil and religious freedom. In assuming the right of mildly, but firmly, pressing such sentiments on public attention, the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America cannot, any more than ourselves, be chargeable with an inconsistent zeal. Whilst the Methodist Connexion in England zealously concurred in adopting measures to secure the emancipation of the slaves in the West Indies, they at the same time supported one of the most extended and expensive Missions of modern times, in order to prepare them for the boon. We are aware that our brethren in America have, in like manner, by their Itinerant and Missionary labours, done much in conferring the bless- ings of religious instruction on the slave-population of their country ; and surely the men who have thus laid the foundation for a peaceful state of society, founded on freedom, cannot but have the right to recommend and support all proper and lawful measures for the con- summation of their own great work. But in addition to these inferior considerations, the Conference cannot but avow its conviction that in all cases it is most safe, and in the end most advantageous, that Christian churches should act on the principle of religious obligation and duty. And although it deeply 155 deplores that the Methodists of the United States should be exposed to inconvenience, obloquy, or danger, by the assertion of right sentiments on this subject ; yet as the evil of slavery does exist there, — as they are brought into immediate contact with it, — as they are called, in the order of divine Providence, to maintain their long-pub- lished and scriptural testimony against it, even in the midst of this state of things, — and as the progress of events renders it impossible, even if it were lawful, that they should be neutral, — the British Conference trusts that it will not be considered as in any way exceeding the privileges of the fraternal relation existing between the two parties, when it expresses its anxious and earn- est hope that our American brethren will feel it their duty, in union with other Christians, to adopt such measures as may lead to the safe and speedy emanci- pation of the whole slave-population of their great and interesting country. We turn now with unfeigned pleasure to other topics, on which no difference of sentiment can arise. We refer to the Missionary department of your work ; and greatly rejoice to be informed that your exertions have been crowned with so much success. It is to us a cause of thankfulness, that, in addition to the aborigines of your own country, and the descendants of your emancipated negro-population now settled in Liberia, you have turned your attention to South America, which presents so promising a field for Missionary zeal and enterprise. We feel assured that it will afford you the highest grati- fication to learn that our Missionary Institutions are supported with a steady, zealous, and increasing liber- ality ; and that the great Head of the church still furnishes us with a considerable supply of self-denying and devoted men for every part of the world, and in the riches of His grace continues to favour the stations with great and growing success. We trust that both Connexions will remain unalterably true to the Wesleyan and evangelical principle, — that it is the duty of the church not to relax in its exertions until the Christian faith shall be universally diffused. It will be to our American brethren cause of joy, as it 156 furnishes to us the ground of sincere thankfulness to God, that some recent agitations of our Connexion are now subsiding ; and that signs of prosperity, as well as of peace, present themselves to our view. Whilst we deplore the defection of some of our people through the misleading influence of factious men, we feel it to be a cause of much gratitude to God that all our Institutions are in a state of greater stability and vigour than they previously possessed ; and we hope that we shall now be permitted to prosecute without molestation the great work of saving souls from death, to which we are pledged. The rise and progress of Methodism in every part of the world remarkably illustrates the great principles of the New Testament. Called by the providence of God to revive and propagate the pure doctrines of Christianity, and to execute a scheme of discipline well adapted to advance and perpetuate practical godli- ness, this Conference cannot but feel its deep respon- sibility. Impressed with these considerations, we resolve, in humble dependence upon divine grace, to maintain Wesleyan Methodism in its integrity ; and we are confi- dent that our American brethren are animated by the same spirit, and will pursue the same great objects with our- selves. We trust that the bond which now unites us to you will be permanently maintained ; and that, after the interchanges of friendly and Christian communication on earth, a countless multitude from both countries and Connexions will meet in our Father's house above, as our joy and the crown of our rejoicing in the day of the Lord ; " to whom be glory in the church throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." Signed, in behalf and by order of the Conference, JABEZ BUNTING, President, ROBERT NEWTON, Secretary. Birmingham, August 12th, 183G. APPENDIX. I.— THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CONTINGENT FUND TO THE CONFERENCE IN 1836. Yearly July CIRCUITS. Nos. Collection. Grants Collection. £. s. d. £. s. d. £ s. d. London District. First London .... 2789 110 1 67 7 3 Welsh Society . . 62 2 30 Second London 1853 56 34 Third London . . 2146 48 10 34 17 e Fourth London. . 1420 31 5 6 27 17 7 Fifth London . . 1180 34 28 5 Sixth London . . 2090 52 10 6 33 Romford 287 3 12 4 4 Deptford 940 21 17 Hammersmith . . 572 11 60 10 15 Leyton 129 5 13 9 40 4 13 4 Bishop-Stortford 240 3 6 61 3 5 Windsor 235 6 6 69 6 18 Chelmsford .... 270 5 13 6 65 4 Colchester 650 12 13 10 Manningtree. . . . 755 13 5 7 10 Ipswich 560 9 6 25 5 10 Hastings 425 8 2 40 7 15 6 Sevenoaks 550 9 4 8 10 Lewes 340 7 5 55 6 10 Brighthelmstone 410 14 30 8 Horsham 55 I 10 40 1 St. Alban's 335 6 70 4 10 4 Guildford 109 18402 3 2 45 2 15 Totals 474 11 4 630 341 13 Bedford and Nnr- hampton Dist. Bedford 860 16 10 11 10 6 Lcighton-Buzzard 1000 17 5 8 1 Luton 1180 22 IS 158 CIRCUITS. St. Neot's Biggleswade Huntingdon .... Northampton . . Towcester Daventry Newport-Pagnell Higham-Ferrers. Wellingborough. Kettering Market- Harbo- rough Cambridge .... Chatteris. ...... Stamford Peterborough . . Totals Kent District. Canterbury . . Rochester Gravesend.. .. , Sheerness Margate Dover Deal Rye Tenterden Sandhurst Maidstone Totals Norwich and Lynn District. Norwich Bungay North -Walsham. Yarmouth Lowestoff Framlingham . . Diss New-Buckenham Nop. 350 675 490 920 410 600 305 612 410 282 220 370 310 580 558 10132 897 1165 353 268 496 635 180 347 545 929 650 6465 1211 400 660 600 420 470 994 575 Yearly Collection. £. *. d. 7 5 11 8 10 15 "0 6 8 5 6 6 9 1 6 6 2 4 14 3 10 8 8 4 8 10 15 6 9 13 6 174 13 6 Grants. £. s. d. 9 60 24 9 25 48 42 34 30 15 6 6 27 2 9 1 4 3 16 2 20 7 6 4 16 7 15 11 12 1 14 7 8 L41 18 11 20 10 6 10 7 10 12 10 11 6 13 8 319 40 45 45 25 155 July Collection. £. s. d. 5 6 12 15 7 5 9 15 3 8 8 4 16 6 13 9 4 5 4 15 4 9 2 5 3 6 7 8 7 12 132 16 3 12 2 14 2 11 18 3 10 12 1 6 18 2 13 4 8 10 2 6 9 4 9 9 3 10 107 5 7 8 10 26 5 28 6 10 6 17 6 5 10 1 8 5 6 4 5 1 159 CIRCUITS. BurySt.Edrnund's Holt Lynn Swaffham Downham Walsinghara .... Wisbeach Thetford Ely Nos. 348 590 790 693 418 805 456 808 378 Additional Contributions Totals 10616 Oxford District. Oxford High-Wycomb.. Witney Banbury Newbury Reading Hungerford .... Watlington Brackley Chipping-Norton Swindon Wantage Aylesbury Totals Portsmouth Dist. Portsmouth .... Gosport Salisbury Poole Ringvvood Newport Southampton . . Andover * Chichester Totals 630 423 517 813 563 300 732 424 700 323 HI 154 494 6184 742 213 913 700 78 802 464 276 140 4328 Yearly Collection. £. s. (I. 5 8 C 8 9 6 10 7 10 6 12 11 7 5 19 5 17 6 10 15 8 13 10 6 7 7 3 5 16 2 6 11 11 4 10 3 6 5 10 71 19 2 3 17 7 5 113 15 25 10 4 13 16 10 14 1 14 12 10 94 4 6 July Grant* . Collection. je. s. d. £. s. d. 46 4 10 4 5 10 5 8 4 2 6 5 5 15 6 2 12 7 14 30 5 4 170 95 3 1 10 12 7 3 36 7 17 3 10 11 16 25 9 6 55 8 20 10 11 45 4 18 5 42 5 8 52 2 16 25 2 7 7 30 6 340 91 12 1 9 5 6 43 2 6 15 5 8 12 6 t) 6 21 1 3 25 16 3 G 55 8 66 2 13 6 41 8 2 10 251 e 65 19 6 160 CIRCUITS. Guernsey District. Gurnsey, English Ditto, French . . Alderney Jersey, English. . Ditto, French . . Totals Devonport Dist. Devonport Plymouth Launceston .... Holdsworthy . . Liskeard Tavistock Camelford .... Kingsbridge .... Brixbam Ashburton Totals. . Cornwall District. Redruth Camborne Falmouth Truro Gwennap St. Agnes St. Austle .... St. Mawes . . Bodmin Penzance St. Ives Scilly Isles Helstone Hayle Totals Exeter District. Exeter Tiverton 3006 937 680 730 1319 1100 575 120 122 194 503 6280 1432 2316 1030 1569 922 1273 1831 260 1619 2330 1142 118 1203 1831 18896 600 320 Yearly- Collection. £. s. d. 14 16 13 1 ■o 10 10 13 52 6 20 18 2 6 20 12 10 15 9 10 6 4 4 4 10 12 119 13 16 28 20 9 9 25 2 5 11 11 13 8 23 6 11 6 18 10 70 35 2 17 18 28 316 5 1 15 7 10 Grants. £. s. d. 20 10 30 July Collection. £. s. d. 58 38 53 50 46 245 17 48 65 48 20 3 13 8 11 3 4 8 6 6 24 10 10 3 8 18 7 10 5 6 6 13 2 5 2 1 3 15 6 58 5 5 10 9 6 10 10 12 16 2 18 5 14 3 15 11 16 9 9 1 2 2 7 7 S 9 118 6 4 9 11 4 9 161 CIRCUITS. Taunton Wellington .... South-Petherton Axminster. . , . . Bridport ...... Barnstaple Bideford Dunster Oakhampton. . . . Teignmouth . . . Nos. 472 125 490 261 170 605 900 205 134 275 Additional Contributions Totals 4557 Bristol District. Bristol, North . . Bristol, South . . Kingswood Banwell Stroud Dursley Downend Gloucester Cheltenham Newport Monmouth Abergavenny . . . Newent, &c Hereford Totals Bath District. Bath Bradford Midsummer- Norton Frome Melksham Devizes Siiepton-Mallet , Warminster Sherborne Weymouth Dorchester 2333 1265 948 423 500 511 531 664 548 350 505 658 290 303 9879 1150 724 1538 1166 482 134 1044 102 475 518 385 Yearly Collection. £. s. d. 8 2 6 4 5 10 7 10 11 5 11 5 10 2 14 6 8 6 4 13 2 101 2 6 46 18 9 4 9 10 13 13 10 17 17 2 8 10 10 18 3 10 6 290 8 6 36 14 9 14 24 15 9 7 11 3 16 12 10 1 17 15 6 14 6 5 Grants £. s. d. 50 30 50 60 16 76 350 47 10 48 48 49 10 33 10 34 65 40 375 20 15 70 10 80 20 20 40 July Collectio i. £. s. d. 6 1 10 6 3 10 i) 3 3 14 8 9 5 9 3 12 2 15 o 4 10 6 60 17 10 27 7 20 7 6 6 15 8 1 5 8 10 7 11 6 12 4 6 10 6 6 6 7 10 10 5 a 3 10 4 15 138 3 6 20 9 16 6 14 1 8 10 3 5 10 2 17 8 14 7 8 2 12 162 CIRCUITS. Shaftesbury . . . Glastonbury . . . Totals 1st South Wales District. Swansea Merthyr-Tydvill. Brecon Cardiff Carmarthen .... Haverford-West. Pembroke Totals 2d South Wales District , Merthyr-Tydvill. Crickhowell .... Cardiff Brecon Llandilo Carmarthen .... Swansea Cardigan Aberystwith .... Machynlleth .... Llandiloes Totals North Wales Dist. Ruthin Llangollen Denbigh Llanrwst Holywell, &c. . . Beaumaris Carnarvon Pwllheli Nos. 827 218 8763 470 507 282 240 131 627 291 2548 409 383 445 153 190 272 178 461 409 451 461 3812 391 385 496 563 1430 712 503 200 Yearl r Collection. £. s. d. 12 15 6 12 -6 170 16 10 10 13 8 10 10 3 2 7 13 7 5 6 68 10 7 7 7 8 18 6 3 15 6 4 7 6 3 6 4 10 7 9 6 5 2 6 4 10 7 17 6 66 14 5 8 10 6 6 10 6 12 4 12 2 6 8 12 6 12 2 8 6 Grants £. s. i. 20 53 348 75 30 38 24 33 45 245 11 5 89 34 75 52 27 54 20 24 4 395 70 68 10 17 34 10 72 10 134 48 75 10 July Collection. £. s. d. 6 10 2 15 111 19 11 8 15 5 14 6 5 10 6 1 8 4 8 2 6 4 7 42 10 8 2 5 1 15 2 2 1 10 1 5 6 2 10 6 1 6 1 19 1 7 1 7 3 4 20 11 2 2 6 1 19 1 14 4 16 2 8 1 15 1 2 163 Yearly July CIRCUITS. Nos. Collection. Grant ). Collection. £. s. d. £. *. d. £. 8. d. Dolgelly 772 8 19 fi 55 10 3 2 6 Llanfyllin, &c. . . 791 6243 13 12 54 10 3 19 6 Totals 76 17 8 630 24 17 6 Birmingham and Shreivsbury Dist. Birmingham, West 1300 40 7 29 3 4 Birmingham, East 1118 31 3 9 20 13 West-Bromwich. 560 14 7 6 17 8 6 Wednesbury . . . 1945 31 25 11 6 Walsall . . 670 15 4 3 13 16 6 Wolverhampton. 1052 20 3 4 18 19 2 Dudley 850 24 4 22 Stourbridge .... 360 10 9 3 11 Stourport 640 10 15 29 9 Worcester .... 540 12 5 11 1 2 Bromsgrove .... 144 2 5 54 6 2 5 Evesham, &c. . . 390 7 14 60 6 16 Redd itch .... 348 9 5 10 4 18 Coventry 547 10 10 29 8 8 Hinckley 800 11 7 16 Shrewsbury .... 285 7 8 7 Madeley 1310 21 15 Wellington 933 13 1 y 12 11 8 Ludlow .... 517 9 10 10 4 1 2 Kington 567 8 12 44 4 12 Newtown 756 15632 7 10 30 6 17 Totals 316 19 2 266 6 257 1 11 Macclesfield Dist. Macclesfield .... 2000 50 10 18 2 6 Buxton . . 375 9 12 40 6 Congleton .... 1125 19 5 8 4 6 Nantwich 700 15 16 7 5 Northwich .... 725 15 12 7 11 6 Burslem 1447 37 10 10 3 Newcastle-under- Line 670 10 15 10 7 1 4 Longton 620 12 14 16 5 10 Stafford 267 9 46 7 10 Leek 1000 555 25 10 10 10 28 54 11 17 6 Uttoxeter 6 5 Additional Contrib utions 9484 2 7 Totals ! 1 218 5 210 95 10 4 164 CIRCUITS. Liverpool District. Liverpool, North Liverpool, South Liverpool, Welsh Chester Holy well, English Bangor, English . Warrington St. Helen's, &c. Wigan Ormskirk, &c . . Preston Garstang Lancaster Wrexham Whitchurch . . . Nos. 980 1562 558 960 216 84 780 247 38$ 178 1256 331 445 265 386 Additional Contributions Totals Manchester and Bolton Dist. 1st Manchester. . 2d Manchester . 3d Manchester . 4th Manchester . Welsh, ditto . . . Stockport New-Mills .... Glossop Ashton.under-Line Oldham Delph Bolton Rochdale Burnley Bury Blackburn Haslingden .... Bacup Colne Clithero Leigh Totals 8636 814 1548 1582 1134 176 1518 450 438 660 586 200 1567 745 1110 541 527 807 690 1007 332 334 Yearly Collection. £. s. d. 63 65 13 5 .0 20 5 2 16 20 10 9 2 6 8 2 6 23 1 8 7 10 5 8 5 16 3 6 280 15 45 10 41 77 37 13 1 15 44 11 7 11 5 14 3 5 11 35 13 10 23 10 6 15 17 9 14 7 14 4 2 5 3 436 19 6 Grants £. s. d. 3 40 19 23 30 29 34 50 20 288 95 35 24 26 45 225 July Collection. £. s, d. 26 12 1 19 15 4 15 10 9 4 2 5 4 7 4 115 4 IB 7 3 10 5 10 11 4 5 12 6 2 5 5 16 126 2 11 20 10 15 31 14 5 G 16 18 16 4 6 6 4 6 6 12 6 13 8 2 10 14 5 o 11 1 7 18 4 15 1 5 7 10 7 3 6 (t 6 16 3 15 4 2 192 18 10 165 CIRCUITS. Halifax and Bradford District. Halifax Huddersfield .... Holmfirth Sowerby-Bridge. Todmorden .... Denby-Dale .... Bradford, West. . Bradford, East . . Keighley Bingley Shipley Skipton Addingham .... Grassington .... Settle Totals Leeds District. Leeds, East .... Leeds, West. . . . Bramley Wakefield Birstal Dewsbury Otley Pateley- Bridge . Pontefract .... Cleckheaton .... Yeadon Woodhouse-Grove Totals Sheffield District. Sheffield, West.. Sheffield, East .. Chesterfield .... Bakewell Bradwell Rotherham Doncaster Nos. 1560 2200 680 996 1260 560 1827 1266 14i9 1280 540 802 634 347 380 15751 3566 3388 1880 1550 1574 1339 1083 706 1267 833 1087 538 18811 2266 2313 791 540 493 1513 1330 Yearly 1 Collection. £. s. d. 35 50 15 13 6 17 11 4 9 11 6 24 5 14 18 6 16 14 7 5 10 10 3 12 6 6 246 18 104 86 28 10 30 26 13 19 2 19 9 11 11 29 4 6 12 15 15 6 18 389 2 6 63 15 68 13 10 7 10 6 14 35 31 Grants. £. s. d. 25 10 31 3 51 13 10 28 145 16 1 33 8 14 55 45 5 Collection. £. s. rf. 17 10 27 4 7 13 6 18 6 7 13 o 3 15 16 9 4 12 7 8 11 2 3 15 5 4 5 1 18 3 10 133 2 60 8 6 36 15 6 19 11 10 19 6 11 16 8 14 6 6 10 14 14 4 2 6 5 12 4 18 198 12 26 16 1 37 13 9 4 4 4 3 10 20 16 11 166 CIRCUITS. Barnsley Retford Worksop Totals Nottingham and Derby District. Nottingham .... Ilkestone Mansfield Newark Leicester Melton-Mowbray Oakham Loughborough . . Derby Ashbourne .... Belper AshbydelaZouch Burton, &c Cromford Totals Lincoln District, Lincoln Sleaford Market-Raisen. . Louth Horncastle Alford Spilsby Boston Spalding Grantham, &c... Totals Hull District. Hull ... Beverley Nos. 710 1300 426 11682 2724 722 1142 1369 976 695 318 1252 1228 222 1280 1200 470 700 14298 1810 879 895 2161 1250 870 1100 1172 780 1300 12217 2573 524 Collectior £. s. d. 20 8 3 21 11 5 10 "3 272 18 44 12 8 13 10 27 3 14 3 13 10 7 13 15 32 14 5 14 17 9 6 27 3 6 10 10 10 10 247 12 38 18 5 6 15 16 6 42 21 5 22 9 6 27 16 26 10 13 10 23 248 12 6 73 17 Grants. £. s. d. . o 83 33 13 9 25 13 9 12 65 13 9 54 13 9 191 15 15 15 Jnly Collection. £. s. d. 9 9 6 12 17 3 18 8 143 19 7 22 5 6 10 It 4 6 16 3 K) 11 18 6 7 10 3 15 13 12 22 6 9 6 12 1 4 15 5 9 3 6 5 S 6 163 6 2 21 6 4 12 7 16 10 21 13 10 10 10 6 10 1.-) 6 25 4 10 14 14 46 17 2 28 4 6 11 5 167 CIRCUITS. Howden Driffield Patrington . . , Hornsea Grimsby Gainsborough Epworth Snaith Brigg Barton Bridlington . . Totals York District. Vork Tadcaster Pocklington . .. Malton Easine;wold . . . Thir&k Ripon Selby Knaresborcugh Bedale Totals Whitby and Darlington Dist. Whitby 1150 Scarborough ... 1266 Stokesley 810 Pickering 814 Darlington .... 702 Stockton 616 Barnard-Castle . 1000 Middleham .... 550 Richmond, &c. . 780 Additional Contributions Nos. 886 700 335 427 1018 930 717 676 726 797 940 11249 2028 794 913 985 954 900 766 840 806 838 9824 Totals 7688 Newcastle Dist. Newcastle, West Ditto, East .... 1046 1026 Yearly Collection. £. .v. d. 20 16 14 4 6 6 6 8 16 20 12 17 6 14 16 20 252 14 6 58 19 9 21 15 18 18 18 18 1 1 12 12 18 18 10 14 5 213 5 10 30 26 12 10 13 24 9 25 17 15 7 10 9 5 2 15 6 168 4 6 30 17 5 10 Grants. £. s. d. 34 11 35 27 16 8 20 18 10 40 200 19 8 10 15 45 39 25 132 10 45 10 23 .42 120 July Collection. £. s. rf. 15 12 10 8 16 c, 3 18 11 5 9 1 6 11 15 5 13 11 13 7 10 8 10 6 13 140 9 24 18 9 12 12 8 9 1 6 11 3 9 6 6 8 1 2 9 10 5 3 103 15 5 9 10 12 17 4 7 7 11 6 8 11 9 3 15 3 8 72 1 10 10 S 6 6 6 5 168 CIRCUITS. Morpeth Gateshead Shields Sunderland .. Durham VVolsingham. . Hexham Wark Alstone Alnwick .... Berwick Totals, Carlisle District. Carlisle Whitehaven Appleby Penrith Wigton Kendal Ulverstone Dumfries Totals Isle of Man Dist. Douglas Ramsey, &c Totah Nos. 942 I 2160 I 1918 I 908 ! 638 | 675 80 10.54 152 68 10755 Edinburgh District, Edinburgh Dunbar, &c Glasgow, &c. . . . Ayr Totals Aberdeen District, Aberdeen Dundee 380 580 425 497 199 575 132 80 2868 1725 1528 3253 527 41 1140 313 2021 Collection. £. *. d. 1 6 6 12 5 23 17 4 43 3 8 11 (J 7 10 10 12 3 8 1 6 6 171 6 10 10 7 13 7 12 9 3 6 3 11 10 2 2 3 2 1 52 15 6 21 14 13 1 Grants. £. s. d. 32 17 1 44 8 26 12 10 29 6 3 133 4 70 69 18 17 10 40 10 26 48 6 33 420 32 16 10 1 3 26 9 6 5 2 6 49 5 5 322 6 25 34 15 60 140 18 39 100 71 350 18 July Collection. £. s. d. 12 5 10 12 10 5 20 11 5 7 3 3 3 10 5 9 4 1 6 1 13 10 78 5 6 4 17 2 11 3 4 4 10 1 11 5 1 1 7 1 1 23 16 8 7 4 5 11 6 6 1 10 5 3 7 15 11 3 2 1 5 1C9 CIRCUITS. Perth Arbroath, &c. Banff, &c Inverness Orkney Isles. . . . Totals Shetla7id District. Lerwick Walls, &c Nortbmavin, &c. Veil, &c Totals Nos. 1210 Yearly July Collection. Grants. Collection. £. s. d. £. e. d. £. t. d. 3 4 8 62 9 5 1 3 47 17 1 1 1 32 7 11 19 1 9 6 63 14 3 1 1 10 143 3 5 18 9 2 3 15 10 10 5 16 349 11 8 152 64 109 155 480 8 12 15 8 4 7 1 14 170 GENERAL VIEW OF THE NUMBERS, YEARLY AND JULY COLLECTIONS, AND ORDINARY DEFICIENCIES, 1836. DISTRICTS. London Bedford & Nor- thampton . . Kent Norwich & Lynn Oxford Portsmouth. . .. Guernsey Devonport .... Cornwall Exeter Bristol Bath 1st South Wales 2d South Wales North Wales . . Birmingham and Shrewsbury . Macclesfield .. Liverpool .... Manchester and Bolton Halifax & Brad- ford Leeds Sheffield ...... Nottingham and Derby Lincoln Hull York Whitby & Dar- lington Newcastle Carlisle Isle of Man. . . . Edinburgh .... Aberdeen Shetland Total N©s. 18102 10132 6465 10616 6184 4328 3006 6280 18890 4557 9879 8763 2548 3812 6243 15632 9484 8636 16766 15751 18811 11682 14298 12217 11249 9824 768S 10755 2868 3253 202J 876 1210 Vearly Collection. £. s. d. 474 11 4 174 13 6 141 18 11 171 19 2 113 15 94 4 6 oz 119 13 316 5 91 16 290 8 170 16 Ju;y i Ordinary Collection. Deficiencies £. s. d. 341 13 68 10 66 14 76 17 7 8 316 19 218 5 280 15 2 436 19 6 246 18 389 2 272 18 6 6 3 247 12 248 12 252 14 213 5 6 6 10 168 4 171 6 52 15 34 15 49 S 18 9 5 16 6 8 6 2 049 4 io ; 132 16 107 5 95 3 91 12 65 19 24 10 59 19 118 6 60 17 10 138 3 6 111 19 42 10 20 11 24 17 11 257 1 11 95 10 4 126 2 11 192 18 10 133 2 198 12 143 19 7 163 6 2 146 17 2 140 9 103 15 5 72 J 10 78 5 6 23 16 8 11 5 15 11 I 8 12 1 11 630. 319 i 55 251 8 30 245 65 350 375 170 340 o 348 215 395 630 266 6 210 2 f ;8 225 145 16 10 55 83 1 191 15 15 200 19 132 10 120 133 4 2 322 (\ 60 350 18 349 11 8 1 480 8177 10 o 171 EXTRAORDINARIES. 1.— TRAVELLING EXPENSES. £. Brother C. B. Taylor, from Newent to Chelmsford . 1 England, from Lane-End to Sevenoaks 2 S'aton, from Tiverton to Bedford 12 J. Kay, from Swindon to Luton . 3 Dalby, from Castle- Donnington to Davcn'ry I Twiddy, fr.»m High-Wycomb to Newport-Prigoell . . 2 Annetts, from Manningr.ree to Rochester 3 Edwards, to and from last Conference 2 Ditto, from Dudley to Dover 8 J. Sydserff, from High-Wycomb to Deal 2 Stott, from Epworth to Deal 6 Sutch, from Harwich to Sandwich 1 Chapman, from Bury St. Edmund's toNorth-Walaham 2 Willis, from Swaffham to Lowestcff 2 Ballingall, from Holt to Framlingham 2 Turner, from Dunbar to Downham 10 Brown, from Downham to Holt 2 Etchells, from Brackley to High-Wycomb 2 Colwell, from Framlingham to High-Wycomb .... 6 doll, from Market-Hai borough to Swindon 1 Homer, from Burton-upon-Trent to Aylesbury.... 4 Carvosso, from Redruth to Newport, Isle of Wight 3 Beckwith, from Huntingdon to Cowes, Isle of Wight 3 Langs ton, from St. Alban's to Chichester 4 J. W. Thomas, from Komsey to Launceston 6 W. Blundell, from Warminster to Kingsbridge .... 5 Cheesman, from Horsham to Helstone 6' F. Collier, from Portland to Bridport 1 Mowat, from Newport- Pagncll to Barnstaple 10 W. Harvey, from 1 loldsworthy to Torquay I Barber, from Camelford to Dursley 8 Worth, from Newport, Isle of Wight, to Gloucester 8 W. Baker, from London to Melksham, and from Melksham to Hereford 3 E. Sumner, from Stourport to Swansea ' • 12 J. W;ide, from Pembroke to Tredegar 5 J. H. Walker, from Holdsworthy to Pembroke • • • 2 J. kossell, from Oakham to Pembroke 2 ii 2 J. d. 10 Q 10 10 10 I) Q 10 10 t) 172 TRA YELLING EXPENSES, Continued. £ s. (J- Brother D.Morgan, from Llanidloes to Merthjr-Tydvill 1 10 W. Evans, from Llandysil to Crickhowell 2 10 J. Hughes, from Llanfyllin to Cardiff 1 D. Williams, from Merthyr to Llandilo 2 J. Rees, from Crickhowell to Cardigan 1 M. Griffith, from Llandilo to Llanidloes 2 G. Hughes, from Conway to Holywell 1 J . Jones, from Pwllhely to Amlwch 2 5 W. Rowlands, from Amlwch to Pwllhely 110 Hunt, from Dursley to Wednesbury 2 Cheverton, from Chichester to Wellington 6 Scurrah, from Redruth to Burslem 12 Edmonds, from Wantage to Longton 5 T. Savage, from Sleaford to Lancaster. 4 Frankland, from Dudley to Barup 6' Lewis, from Thornhury to Bramley 10 J. Sugden, from Ulverstone to Pateley-Brids;e .... 6 H. Tuck, from Kington to Bradwell 8 J. Callaway, from Stafford to Doncaster 5 J. Ingham, from Clithero to Worksop 4 Burgess, from Market- Raisen to Leicester 2 Moulton, from Edinburgh to Castle- Donnington .. 5 Usher, from Launceston to Burton 4 W. Harrison, from Grassington to Sleaford 4 T. Fletcher, from Cromford to Market-Raisen .... 3 W. Dowson, from Brigg to Spalding 2 10 J. Heap, from Ripon to Bourne 5 Abraham, from Cromford to Snaith 2 10 Tabraham, from Nantwich to Northallerton 4 J. Hannah, jun.., from Morpeth to Pickering 2 10 J. Catton, from Conference to Darlington 4 J. Rawson, from Berwick to Middleton 3 J. Sykes, from Malton to Scarborough 1 Hyde, from Arbroath to Morpeth 3 G. Poole, from Lancaster to Alstone 5 J. Poole, from Dumfries to Berwick 3 Watmough, from Dundee to Whitehaven 5 Mainwaring, from Brampton to Ulverstone 4 Rought, from Bradwell to Dumfries 7 J. L. Coulson, from Romford to Dunbar 3 Totherick, from Richmond to Perth 10 J. Knowles, jun., to the Orkneys 8 Collins, to the Orkneys . .' " 8 Clarke, from the Isle of Man to Lerwick 16 16 Binns, from Northmavin to Walls 1 8 R. Allen, from Walls to Northmavin 3 £358 9 173 2.— AFFLICTIONS. Brother Gower's affliction 10 Gower's funeral expenses 12 Bourne's funeral expenses 12 SydserfFs affliction 5 Sydserff's funeral expenses 12 J. Hodgson's personal and family affliction 15 J. W. Hipe's affliction 12 Eacott's heavy affliction, owing to the overturning of a coach 15 J. W. Pipe's funeral expenses 12 Stones, for family affliction and funeral of his wife.. 12 Aldom, for long affliction and funeral expenses of his wife 15 VV. Beckwith, for affliction, including the death of his wife and child , 25 <> T. Hayes, for personal and family affliction 15 J. Whitworth, for repeated family affliction 10 W. Baker, for great family affliction 12 D. Jones, for personal and family affliction, in- cluding the death of one of his children 10 Pinder's funeral expenses 8 J Smetham's protracted family affliction 12 Wilkinson, for long affliction 5 The late Brother Gick's funeral expenses 12 Funeral expenses of two children of the late Brother Gick 8 Widow Gick, on account of the long affliction of her late hushand 15 Brother Thomas Newton's peculiar affliction 15 The late Brother W. Harrison's affliction and funeral expenses , 10 Brother Shields, for peculiar affliction 10 G. Thompson, on account of long-continued and se- vere family affliction 8 J. Sedgwick, on account of long-continued and se- vere family affliction 10 James Fowler, for severe and expensive affliction ..10 J. Dunning, for severe and expensive affliction .... 25 R. Allen, for affliction and funeral expenses of his wife 10 £362 3.— FURNITURE. £. >. d. Holdswonhy 20 U Cardiff 20 £10 (i O 174 4.— MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. £. s. d. Carriage of the late Brother Gower's.boxes 5 Supplying Brother Gower's place during his affliction .740 Carriage of Brother Stott's boxes g Supplying Brother Colwell's place during his affliction 12 Ditto "Brother Pipe's ditto 20 Ditto Brother Stones's ditto 25 Special Grant to the Camelford Circuit 110 6 Ditto to the Helstone Circuit 20 Supplying Brother D. Osborne's place during his af- fliction ~. 9 Carriage of the late Brother T. Rowe's boxes from Reading to Oxwich 5 Ditto of Brother O. Jones's boxes 1 Special Grant to the Stourbridge Circuit, including Law expenses 112 Ditto to the Shrewsbury Circuit 47 19 Ditto to the Dudley Circuit, including Law expenses. . 173 4 10 Supplying the late Brother Binder's place 50 Special Grant to the Manchester First Circuit, for last year 250 Ditto to the Rochdale Circuit 120 Ditto to the New-Mills Circuit 40 Ditto to the Glossop Circuit 30 Ditto to the Clithero Circuit 73 10 Expenses of a Minor District-Meeting at Keighley .. 4 17 Supplying the late Brother R. Roberts's place during 1iis affliction 5 Ditto Brother J. Browne's place in the Denby-Dale Circuit ,, '. 10 Ditio the late Brother A. Floyd's place in the Bradford Circuit 15 Ditto Brother J. Bacon's place in the Keighley Circuit 35 Brother Leigh, towards keeping a horse, for two years 14 Supplying Brother Gick's place during his affliction . . 15 15 Ditto Brother Thomas Newton's place during Lis af- fliction 25 (i Ditto Brother J. B. Moulton's ditto 10 o Expenses of a Minor District-Meeting at Bourne .... 8 4 Supplying Brother Webb's place during his affliction. . 15 o Expenses of a Minor District-Meeting at Ferry 3 3 The expenses of a Preacher appointed to assist Brother Burdsall ^ 70 Supplying Brother Wintle's place during his affliction 30 Supplying Brother Roadhouse's place during ditto ..10 Carriage of Brother Rawson's boxes from Renvick to Middleton 3 Supplying Brother Dunning's place during his affliction 30 175 MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, Continued. £ s. d. Expanses of a Minor District-Meeting at Whitehaven. 7 9 Special Grant to the Edinburgh Circuit 50 Ditto to the Dundee Circuit 59 18 Carriage of Brother Koowles's boxes to Orkney 3 5 Ditto Brother Collins's ditto .'"5 4 8 Ditto Brother Clarke's boxes to Shetland 4 4 Brother Clarke's expenses from Shetland to the Bir- mingham Conference 13 4 Printing Pastoral Address, and various other official Documents, Schedules, and Papers 96" 14 8 The President's Assistant 80 Mr. Edmondson's Assistant 5G Allowed Mrs. Sydserrf, on her giving up the house at Deal, and all claims on the Circuit 40 -Mr. Needham, for Printing 1 3 6 President's expenses to Scotland and Ireland 16 Ditto parcels and letters 11 Stationery, letters, travelling expenses, &c 14 11 5 Secretary's letters 2 10 Ditto expenses to Ireland 4 10 Brother S. Jackson's expenses to Burslem, by order of the Conference 1 4 Brother R. Wood's expenses to South Wales District- Meeting 8 Paid to the Mission-Fund one-third of Miss Harvey's Legacy, received by mistake last year 24 Brother Lord's travelling expenses for himself and family to Canada, and his own expenses, as Repre- sentative to the American General Conference at Cincinnati 140 2 1 ! Travelling expenses of Preachers on the List of Reserve, in order to attend their conditional exami- nation in London 32 15 Law expenses in the case of Rochdale chapel 115 Amount of Miscellaneous expenses 2233 6 Ditto of Travelling Expenses 353 9 Ditto of Afflictions 362 Ditto of Furniture 40 Total amount of Extraordinaries 2993 15 176 . -53 . -Jo • CO O TT O © ^ »o •** © o . in CTi ;y> O 'S CO o u 00 ^ K ^§ 5 "o +2 n 3 'C « O ■ - r. " ± t> = u. — 5; c o c-.i <" ,9 ** w xU a a " a cc (u 3 a 0000 H £ § ! 000' a •- .2 « :« C H a- - >> « > O .e cc ij « ~ Q co «e s « • .88 . o a c — .2 > •" ~ »*- CO : i a 3 c .2 : a £ I es S i Mc* * S..S 1? s a a> o a> S a *» 41 v2 a a 13 rt §Wg 0000^ r- H r- H <=> S .2 il| 177 (5 os*2 D O O o Ph < S3 - H CQ >^° Q 178 III.— ABSTRACT OF THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CHILDREN'S FUND FOR THE YEAR 1836. £. s. d. £ s. d. Balance in the Cash paid to the hands of the Trea- Treasurers of surer. . . . 1792 17 Kingswood and Interest on the Woodhouse-Grove above . . . 81 16 Schools, towards Cash received from the support of one the following Dis- hundred and sixty tricts ; viz., — boys, at £6 6s. per London . . 245 14 annum each . . 1008 Norwich & Lvnr 8! 2 3 Paid to the following Kent . . . 28 7 Districts ; viz., — Birmingham . 94 10 Devonport . .144 IS Nottingham anc 1 First South Wales 15 15 Derby . . 196 12 7 North Wales . 9 9 Halifax and Brad Liverpool ... 56 14 ford . . . . 100 16 Portsmouth , .102 7 6 Macclesfield . 92 3 Exeter .... 25 4 Carlisle . . . 12 12 Bristol .... 42 10 6 Hull . . . 146 9 6 Oxford ... 18 18 2d South Wales 11 6 Aberdeen ... 9 5 4 Whitby . . 88 4 Paid to Stourbridge Newcastle 176 8 Circuit .... 22 Manchester . 5 18 2 Printing, postages, York . . . 56 14 &c 2 4 Isle of Man . 31 10 Balance in the hands Lincoln . . 88 6 6 of the Ti easurers 27 7 1 ■•> Leeds . . . 314 10 Guernsey . . 81 18 Cornwall . . 322 17 6 Sheffield . . 163 16 Edinburgh . . 12 12 Returned from Nor- wich District . 1 11 6 i >4228 5 6 i"4228 5 6 AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE PREACHERS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, AND OF THE MISSIONARIES ON FOREIGN STATIONS. '** The figure, at the end of the line denotes the Preacher's first , second, 8fc> animal appointment to his present Circuit. Yrs. Abraham, Edward, Snaith 2 Adams, A., Rideau, Upper Canada 1 Adams, Ezra, Prescott and Au- gusta, Upper Canada 2 Adams, John H., Dudley 2 Addy, John, Visiting Miss., Grand Bank, Newfoundland 1 Adshead, Charles L., Super., Sunderland Akerman, James, Bridport 1 Alder, Robert, London Aldis, James, St. Vincent's, Kings- town 1 Aldom, Isaac, Watlington 3 Alexander, John B., South-Pe- therton 2 Allen, James, sen., Rotherhum 1 Allen, James, jun., Windsor 3 Allen, Richard, Northmuvin and Belting 2 Allen, Samuel, Shields, North 1 Allen, William, Barnsley 2 Allin, John, Newent and Forest of Dean 2 Alsop, James, Reading 1 Alstone, Nathaniel, Stafford 1 Ambrose, Abraham, Assist. Miss., Negapatam 1 Anderson, Henry, Super., Gains- borough Anderson, James, Super., Liver- pool, South Anderson, John, jun., Hornsea 1 Anderson, John, sen., Leeds, West 2 Andrews, Benjamin, Newark 2 Angwin, Thomas, Burin, New- foundland 1 Annetts, William W., Mansfield 1 Anthonlez, John, Assist. Miss., Colombo 3 Anwyl, Edward, Carnarvon 1 Appelbe, William P., Roacrea 1 Appleby, William, Evesham and Stratford-on-Avon 2 Yrs. Archbell, James, Thaba Unehu, Bechuanas 1 Armett, Thomas, Abergavenny I Armitage, John, Barton 1 Armson, Thomas, Glossop '1 Armstrong, John, Peterborough, Bay of Quint e 1 Armstrong, John, Portrush Armstrong, Joseph, Super., Tavistock Armstrong, William, sen., Super., Monughan Armstrong, William, jun., Lisburn 3 Arnett, William, Skip/on 2 Aroolappen, Christian, Assist. Miss., Madras 4 Ash, James, Super., Axminster Ash, William, Bacup 2 Ashton, Thomas, Weymouth ;-s Aslin, John, Delph (Saddleworth , * Atherton, William, 6' ixth London I Atkins, James, St. Aim's Bay, &c. Jamaica \ Aubrey, Thomas, Llanfyllin and L Ian fair 3 Avery, John G., Gravesend Aylih, John, Butterworth, Caff re- land ~ Bacon, John, Super., Second Mm - Chester Bacon, William, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, West 1 Baker, James, Tenterden \ Baker, John, Penzance Baker, Thomas, St. Allan's 1 Baker, William, jun., Hereford i Baker, William, sen., Banwell 1 Ballard, Thomas, You glial 2 Ballingall, Thomas, Walsingham 1 Bamford, Robert, Dungunnou '1 Bamford, Stephen, huper., St. John's, New Brunswick Bancroft, George, Houghton-lc- Spring 1 180 Yrs. Banks, Edward M., Sligo 1 Banks, Matthew, Banks, Robert, Super., Carlow Bannister, William, Petitcudiac, &e. 1 Banwell, George, Super., Reading Barber, Aquila, Dursley 2 Barker, Francis, Edinburgh 1 Barker, Jonathan, Super., Third Manchester Barlow, Luke, Blackburn 1 Barr, John T., Maidstone 1 Barr, Ninian, Whitby 3 Barr, William, Super., Louth Barrett, Alfred, Cheltenham \ Barrett, Benjamin, Tadcaster 1 Barriit, John, Super., Colne Barritt, John W., Stokesley 1 Barrowclough, Jonathan, Aln- wick 3 Barry, John, Bartholomeuz, L. A., Assistant- Miss., Galle 1 Bartholomew, James, Stroud 2 Bartley, John, Crickhowell 1 Barton, William, Leeds, East 3 Bas, Philip Le, South of France 3 Bate, James, Set by 1 Bates, Charles, Antigua 3 Bates, Jonathan J., Sowerby. Bridge 2 Batten, William, Dolgelly 1 Batty, Edward, Shrewsbury 1 Baynes, Thomas D., Retford 1 Bauduy, St. Denis, Assist. Miss., Port-au-Prince 9 Baxter, John, Waterloo, Bay of Hyde-Park, Quince Bayly, Benjamin Be/fast Beal, William, Sixth London Beals, Wesley, Sussex Vale, New Brunswick Beamish, Thomas, Dublin Beard, George, Trinidad Beard, Samuel, Yell, Unst.Scc. Beatty, John, Upper Canada Beauchamp, Robert, Wexford and Enniscorthy 1 Beaumont, Joseph, Six th London 1 Beckwith, James, Super., Hough- ton-le-Spring Beckwith, William, Neivport, Isle of 1 Fight 2 Bedford. John, Bury 2 Bedford, Thomas, Sleaford I Beech, Hugh, Birstnl 3 Beecham, John, London Bell, Alexander, First Man- chester 2 Bell, James, Super., Dublin Bell, John, jun., Haslingden 1 Bell, John, sen., Gruvesend 3 Bennet, John 11., Belfast 3 Yrs. New- Bennett, William. Super port, Nova-Scotia Bent, John F., Westmoreland, New Brunswick Bentham, Robert, Launceston Berney, Daniel, Richmond, Uppet Canada Bersey, Thomas, Tiverton Best, John K., Melnattum Bevitt, Thomas, St. Catherine's, Upper Canada 2 Bewley, Thomas H., Kingston, Jamaica 1 Bicknell, John, Exeter 2 Biggar, Hamilton, Yonge-street , City of Toronto 1 Biggs, Joseph, Mahaica,Demerara2 Bingham, George, Bat hurst, South A frica 1 Binning, William, Boston 2 Binns, Joseph, Walls and Sand- ness 2. Bird, Mark B., Falmouth, &c, Ja- Bird, William, jun., Oxford Bird, William, sen., Madeley Birley, George, Wisbeuch Bissell, John, Barbadoes Black, John, Bay of Quint e Black. Kobert, Strabane Blackett, James, Bramley Blackwell. John, Turk's Island Blarney, Daniel, Oakhampton Bleby, Henry, Lucea, &c, Jamaica Blundell, William, Bradwell Bogie, James, Super., Liverpool, North Bolam, John, Birstal Bond, John, St. Ives Bond, Robert, Wakefield Bond, William, Dunbar and Had- dington Bonner, Richard, Holywell and Mold Booth, James, St. Armand's, &c , Lower Canada Booth, John, Bakeici'll Booth, William O., Super., Liver- pool, North Borland, John, Assist. Miss., New Ireland Botterell, Edmund, Quebec Bowers, John, First London Bowes, Joseph, Super., Bristol, North Box, Wdliam, Newbury Boyce, William B., Mount- Coke, S:c. Boyd, John, Harerford-West Brailsford, Willson. Bolton Brandreth, John, Kingsuood Branstme, Edward, George Town, Demerara 181 Yrs. Breedon, William, Super., Da- vent ry Brice, Edward, Liverpool, North 1 Bridgnell, William, Negombo and Cornegalle 1 Britten, Henry B., Swansea 1 Britton, Maurice, Huntingdon 2 Broadbent, Samuel, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, East 1 Brock, James, Bytown, Upper Ca- nada 1 Brocklehurst, William, Leigh ton- Buzzard \ Brocksop, Samuel, Buxton 1 Bromley, James, Doncaster 2 Brooke, James, Belper 3 Brookhouse, Joseph, Gosport I Brooks, William A., Vavou 1 Brothwood, Thomas, Shaftesbury 3 Brown, Henry, Ashbwton 1 Brown, John, sen., Maidstone 1 Brown. John, jun., Wellingbo- rough 2 Brown, Richard, Sevenoaks 1 Brown, Samuel, jun., Evesham and Stratford-on- Avon 2 Brown, Thomas, Holt 2 Brown, Thomas, Super., Belfast Browne, John R., Scarborough 2 Browne, Samuel, Patrington 2 Brown ell, James, Derby 2 Brownell, John, Malta 4 Brownell, Stephen, Crosby, Up- per Canada \ Bruce, Robert, Carlow 1 Bryant, Robert, Spilsby 1 Buckley, James, Super., Swansea Buckley, James, Assist. Miss., Murray Harbour 1 Budd, Peter, Ringwood 1 Budden, John, Andover I Buddie, Thomas, Daventry 2 Bullivant, William J., Haslingden 2 Bumby, John H., Birmingham, E. 1 Bumstead, James, Denhy-Dale 1 Bumstead, John, Todmorden 2 Bunting, Jabez, London Bunting, William M., First Lon- don 2 Burdsall, John, York 2 Burgess, John, Leicester 2 Burgess, Joseph, sen., Super., Plymouth Burgess, Joseph, jun., Tadcaster 2 Burgess, William P., Plymouth i Burley, James, Super., JValsing- ham Burnett, William, Thetford 2 Burnside, William, H-'icklow I Burrows, George, Athlone and Ballinasloe 2 Burrows, Michael, Monaghan 'A Burrows, i homas, York 1 Burt, William, Stockport 3 Yrs. Rurton, John, Yarmouth I Busby, Samps"n, St. Stephen's, &c, New-Brunswick 3 Bustard, John, Camborne 1 Butcher, G., Pembroke, Upper Canada 1 Butters, Uriah, Patrington 1 Butters, William, Hubart Town 1 Button, John W., Guernsey and Sark 1 Byrne, Claudius, Lurgan 2 Bythevvay, William, Stourport 2 Cadman, Jonathan, Montserrat Calder, Frederick, Fourth Man- chester Callaway, John, Doncaster Cameron, James, Buntingville, South Africa Cameron, John, Anguilla Campbell, Archibald, Super., Dublin Campbell, John, Irvinestown Campbell, William G., Bailie- bo ro Capp, Thomas, Walsall Cardy, William T., Port-au- Plaat, 8ic. Carey, John, Newry Carey, John D., Lynn Cargill, David, Fejee Islands Carlton, William,* Malton Carr, James, Newark Carroll, John, Brockville, Upper Canad'i Carson, Robert, Super., Omagh Carter, Hugh, H'rexham Carter, James, Moira and Dromore Carver, Robert, Manargoody Carvosso, Benjamin, Newport, Isle of Wight Case, William, Rice Lake, fyc, Upper Canada Casson, Hodgson, Birstal Castle, Henry, Tiverton Cather, William, Tullamore Catterick, Thos., Ramsay and feel Cattle, William, Lowestoff Catton, James, Darlington Catts, James, Newport, Monmouth Chambers, William, Rochester Chapman, Daniel, Dewsbury Chapman, Edward, North-Wal- shum Chapman, Philip, Kingston, Ja- maica Cheesbrough, Hilton, St. Eus- tatius Cheesman, Jervas, Dursley Cheesewright, Joseph, Epworth Cheeswright, James, Grantham and Bourne 182 Yrs. Cheetham, Charles, Bradford, East, Yorkshire 2 Chettle, Henry, Stockport 1 Chettle, John, Pontefract 1 Cheverton, Henry, Wellington 2 Christophers, Samuel W., Holds- worthy 2 Clapham, James, Bury St. Ed- mund's 1 Clark, Paul, Poole 1 Clarke, George, Lerwick 2 Clarke, Thomas P., Brighthelm- stone 2 Clarkson,William H., Wakefield 1 Clay, Charles, Antigua 1 Clayton, Benjamin, Kendal 3 Clegg, William, Hull 3 Clements, Castor, Super., Strabane Clendinnen, John, Super.. New- townburry Cloake, John W., South- Pethert on I Clough, Benjamin, Colombo 1 Clough, William, Selby 3 Coates, John, Hungerford 1 Cobain, Edward, Newtownlima- vaddy, &c. 1 Cocking, Thomas, Retford 2 Coghhill, Donald M. R., Wigton 1 Collier, Francis, Axminster 1 Collier, John, Ramsey and Peel 1 Collier, Joseph, Super., Birming- ham, West Collins, Thomas, Orkney and Wick 2 Colman, Robert, Frome 1 Cohvell, Charles, Poole 1 Connon, John, Banff and Buckey 2 Constable, William, Norwich 1 Cook, Charles, South of France 5 Cook, Edward, Great Namacqua- land 4 Cook, Samuel, St. Agnes 1 Cooke, James, sen., Cambridge 1 Cooke, James, jun., Stamford 3 Cooke, Corbett, Luton " 2 Cooke, Robert, Gateshead 2 Cooney, Robert, Assist. Miss., Truro, Sec, Nova-Scotia 1 Cooper, Abraham, Grenada 1 Cooper, Peter, Dover 3 Cooper, Richard, Kettering 1 Corlett, John, Cornt'orth, David, Monmouth 2 Cornsvall, William, Letterkenny, Sec. ' 2 Corson, Robert, Whitby, Toronto 2 Cotton, John W., Taunton 1 Coulson, John E., Bangor 1 Coultas, William, Holmfirth li Cousin, Michael, Snaith 2 Cowdy, Samuel, Kiltaloe and Ennis 1 Cox, James, Antigua 2 Cox, John G., Biggleswade and Hitch in 1 Yrs. Crabtree, Abraham, Shields, South I Crane, Robert H., St. Vincent's, Kingstoicn 1 Cranswick, Matthew, Parrs- borough, Nova-Scotia 1 Crawshaw, Johr, Bungay 1 Croft, "George, Nevis 2 Crotts, John, Deptford 1 Croggon, W. O., London Crompton, Samuel, Thirsk 2 Crook, William, Tullumore 2 Crookes, John, Assist. Mis., Hobart Town 1 Crookes, William, Morant-Bay, &e. 1 Crosby, Benjamin, Sierra Leone 2 Croscombe, William, Quebec 3 Cross, William, Fejee hlands 1 Crowe, John, Evesham and Strat- fordon-Avon 2 Crowther, Jonathan, Third Man- chester 2 Crozier,Robert,Suppr.,.E?injsA-*7teM } Crump, Joseph, Guildford I Cryer, Thomas, Bangalore I Cubitt, George, London 1 Culcheth, William, Downham I Cullen, John, Devonport .'4 Cullingf/ord, John, St. Vincent's, Biabou 1 Cupidon, John, Assist. Miss., Macartla/s Island 5 Curnock, NVhemiah, Coventry, Sic. 1 Currelly, Charles, Liskeard I Currie, James, Elisabethtown, Upper Canada 1 Currie, W., Bytoicn, Upper Caiiada 1 Curtis, Timothy, Black River, &c. 1 Cusworth, Joseph, Nottingham \ Cutting, Thomas, Bungay 3 Dalby, William, Daventry 2 Daniel, Henry, Fredericton, New- Brunswick 1 Deniels, Henry, Tavistock I Darby, William A., Wexford 2 Davidson, J. C, Haltowell, Bay of Quinte I Davies, Henry, Fifth London 3 Davies, John, Carmarthen .** Davies, Samuel, Beaumaris I Davies, Thomas H., Bedeque 1 Davies, William, (ist,) Brecon 1 Davies, William, (2d,) Stourport I Davies, William, (3d.) Congleton 1 Davis, John, Penzance 3 Davis, John, (2d,) Holywell 2 Davis, William J., Clarkebury, Caffreland 4 Dawes, Mark, Newark 2 Diuvson, John, Devonport 2 Dawson, Samuel, Settle 1 Dawson, William, Bromsgrove 3 Day, Matthew, Super., Bunnell 183 Yrs. Day, Robert, Todmorden 1 Deakin, David, Super., Leicester Dean, Henry, North- fValaham 1 Dean, Horace, Newmarket, Upper Canada 2 Deery, Henry, Dundulk and Cas- tleblayney 3 Denham, Thomas, Glossop 1 Denison, Isaac, Huslingden 2 Denton, John, Super., Leicester Dernaley, Abel, Appleby 1 Derry, Francis, Diss 1 Desbrisay, Albert, at. Stephen's, &c, New- Brunswick 1 Deverell, W., Murray, Bay of Quint e 1 Dickin, Thomas*, Birmingham, West 1 Dinnen, John, Super., Colerain Dixon, James, Liverpool, South 3 Dixon, Myles C, Nurthwich 2 Dixon, Seth, Louth 3 Dixon, William, Banbury 1 DoolitUe, Thomas W., H'aterford 3 Douglass, George, Super., Aber- deen Douglas, William, Super., Irvines- town Douglass, Richardson, St. Ste- phens, &c, New-Brunsuick 1 Douse, John, St. Catherine's, Niagara I Dove, William Downing, Samuel, Ballina 3 Dowson, William, Spalding 2 Dowty, Thomas, Kingswood 3 Drake, John, New- Buckenham 2 Draper, Daniel, J., Sidney 1 Drewitt, William, Hinckley 1 Driver, George, Sherborne 1 Dugdale, Robert, t'reston and Chorley 1 Dugmore, Henry, Wesleyville (Islambie's Tribe) 1 Dunbar, James, Neiu-Buckenham 2 Duncan, Peter, Halifax 2 Duncan, William G., Barnurd- Cast/e 1 Dunn, Moses, Burton and Lich~ field 1 Dunn, Samuel, Edinburgh 1 Dunn, Thomas, Oldham 2 Dunning, Joseph, Super., Walsall Eacott, James, Eleuthera 1 Karnshaw, Joseph, Scilly Islands 3 Eastwood, Thomas, York 2 Eckersley. Thomas. Bingley 2 Edgoose, Jesse, Alnwick, &c. 1 I Edmonds, John. Long ton 2 Edmondson, Jonathan, sen., Super., Portsmouth Edmondson, Jonathan, jun., Kingston, Jamaica 1 Yrs. Edney, James, Bath and Man- chioneal ] Edwards, Edward, Khamies-Berg 1 1 Edwards, Evan, Llandilo 1 Edwards, John, Mantate.es 1 Edwards, Thomas, sen., Dover 2 Edwards, Thomas, jun., Nevis I Edwards, William, Bury St. Ed- vi u nd's 2 Eggleston, John, Sheffield, West 1 Eland, Richard, Oakham 2 Ell'dge, George, Bonavista, tkc, Newfoundland \ Elliott, Nathaniel, Super., Sun- derland Ellis, William, Trinity-Bay 2 Elton. "William, Be/per 2 Elvins, Benjamin, Newport, Mon- mouthshire I Elvins, Henry, Tnwcesfer ) England, John F., Tenterden 1 Entwisle, Joseph, sen., London Entwisle, Joseph, jun., Stam- ford j Etchells, James, Chipping-Norton 1 Etheridge, John W., Falmouth i Evans, David. Holywell and Mold \ Evans, Ephraim, City of Toronto 2 Evans, James, St. Clair 3 Evans, John, Midsummer-Norton 2 Evans, William, Crickhowell 2 Everett, James, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, East 1 Fairbourn, John, Preston, &c. 2 Farrar, Abraham E., Third Lon- don 1 Farrar, John, sen., Super., Leeds, West Farrar, John, jun., Third London 3 Farrell, John, Magherafelt 1 Faulkner, William, St. Joh?t , s. Newfoundland ] Faull. John H., Loughborough 1 Fawcett, Thomas, Yonge-Street. Toronto \ Fearnside, Joshua, Ashton-under- Line l Feely, John, Donegal 3 Felvus, John, Banbury I Felvus, Richard, Hull 2 Ferguson, George, Prescott, &c, Upper Canada \ Ferguson, William, Super., Dublin Fi'rench, Patrick, Super., Clough- jordan Fiddian, Samuel, Burslem 2 Fidler, William, Barbadoes \ Finley, William, Newtown- Lima- faddy, SfC. I Firth, Benjamin, Lincoln 1 Fish, Henry, Hull 2 184 Yrs. Fish, William, Super., Guernsey and Sark Fisher, Thomas R., Leyton 2 Fitzgerald, Thomas M., Newcastle- upon-Tyne, West 1 Flanagan, John, London, Upper Canada 1 Fletcher, Adam, Walsall 1 Fletcher, Joseph, Barnstaple 1 Fletcher, Thomas, Uttoxeter 1 Floyd, Joseph, Huntingdon 1 Foote, William, Clones 1 Ford, Edward, Bristol, South 2 Fordred, John, Portsmouth 1 Foster, Henry B., Montego-Bay 1 Foster, John, Carrickfergus 1 Fowler, James, Middleham 2 Fowler, Joseph, Bristol, South 2 Fowler, William, Yarmouth 3 Fox, William, Macarthy's Island, 1 France, William, Glasgow and Paisley 2 Frank, Joseph, Easingwcld 2 Frankland, Benjamin, Colne 2 Franklin, Charles, Assist. Miss., Bangalore 1 Fraser, Edward, Antigua 3 Freeman, Ambrose, Todmorden 1 Fullagar, Kelsham, St. Ann's Buy, &c, Jamaica 1 Furze, Thomas, Franilingham 1 Fussell, James, Super., Wrexham Gaddis, Henry, Athlone and Bal- linasloe 2 Galienne, Matthew, South of France 2 Galland, Thomas, Leeds, West 1 Garbutt, Thomas, jun., Grantham, &c. I Garbutt, Thomas, sen., Driffield 2 Garner, W. H., The Fingoos, South Africa 1 Garrett, John, Glasgow and Pais- ley 1 Garrett, Philip, Bradford, West 2 Gartrell, James, Super., Deal Gartside, Benjamin, Gaud, Henry, Wellington 1 Gaulter, John, Super., Sixth London Geach, Hender, 3Iarket-Har- borough 1 Geden, John, Witney 2 George, John, Point Pedro 1 Gibbons, Edward, Super., Third Manchester Gibson, Ralph, Mansfield 1 Giddy, Richard, Thaba Unchu, Beehuanas 1 Giles, Henry, Lisburn 1 Gill, James, Margate 1 Gill, John, Richmond and Reeth 2 Gillman, James B., Dublin 2 Yrs. Gilpin, W r illiam, Super., Bristol, North Gladwin, Francis, Holt 1 Gladwin, Jonathan, Amkerstburgh 1 Gloyne, Charles, Super., Wakefield Godden, James, Grenada 1 Got*erLy, Daniel J., Matura 3 Golding, James, Sevenoaks 1 Goodrich, C. B., Thames, Upper Canada \ Goodson, G., Matilda, Upper Canada 1 Goodwin, Josiah, Biggleswade and Hitchin i Gostick, Joseph, Sleaford 2 Gover, Robert, Tenterden I Goy, William D., Grantham, &c. 3 Graham, Thomas, Kington 2 Grant, G,, Skibbereen 2 Gravel, David, Beaumaris 1 Green, A., Bay of Quint e Green, George, Graham's Town and Salem 1 Greenwood, John, Belize, &c. 3 Greenwood, Richard, Epworth 2 Greer, John, Carrickfergus 2 Greeves, John, Boston 1 Gregory, Benjamin, Super., Belper Gregory, John, Bath and Man- chioneal 1 Griffis, William, Thames, Upper Canada 2 Griffith, Frederick, Abergavenny 1 Griffith, John, Homcastle 3 Griffith, Joseph, Bakewell 1 Griffith, Morgan, Llanidloes 2 Griffith, William, jun., Fourth London 1 Griffith, William, sen., Swaffhayn 1 Grindrod, Edmund, Sheffield, West Grose, James, Bideford 2 Groves, Henry, Wantage 2 Guard, William, Ballymena and Antrim 2 Guest, John, Assist. Miss., Ban- galore I Gum, Amadi, Assist. Miss., St. Mary's, Gambia 2 Hadden, John, Wicklow \ Haddy, Richard, Graham's Town and Salem 2 Hague, John, Northwich 2 Haigh, John, Neiv-Providence 1 Haime, Charles, Bradford, Wilts 2 Hales, William, Ashby-de-la- Zouch 3 Hall, Eliis, Hammersmith 1 Hall, John, Menmngtree 2 Hall, Thomas, Brigg \ Halliday, Armstrong, Colerain i Hamer, Thomas, llakejield 1 185 Yrs. | Hamilton, Andrew, sen., Super., Bandon Hamilton, Andrew, jun., Super , Bandon Hamilton. R., (Ut,) Clones 1 Hamilton, Robert, (2d,) Tandra- gee 1 ' Hamilton, William, Super., Clones Hannah, John, sen., London Hannah, John, jun., Preston, &c 1 j Hanson, John, Sandhurst 1 Hanwell, John, Whitby 2 J Hardcastle, Philip, Sup. ,Slokesley Hardcastle, Philip, jun., Oldham 2 Hardey, Samuel, Negapatam 1 Harding, Isaac, St. Neol's 1 Harding, Richard, Spauish-Toivn, Jamaica 1 Hardy, Robert S.. Kandy 1 Hardy, Thomas, Wolverhampton 2 Hargreaves, Joseph, Leeds, West 3 Harland, John, Whitby 1 Harman, Joshua, Super., Cork and Cove Harmon, Thomas, Perth, Upper Canada 1 Harpur, Edward, Newry 1 Harrington, John, Newtownbarry 1 Harris, James, Cromford 1 Harris, Thomas, Stockton 2 Harrison, Robert, Bedale I Harrison, Thomas, Super., Pe- terborough Harrison, William, Sleaford 2 Harrop. Peter, Cape Coast 1 Harvard, William M., Kingston, Upper Canada 1 Harvye, William, Dorchester 1 Haswell, John P., Birmingham, West 1 Haswell, Thomas, Madras 1 Hateley, Daniel, Downend 2 Haw. J., Haltowetl, Bay of Quinte 1 Hawkins, Robert, Tortola 3 Hawthorne, Charles, Mutton 2 Hay, David, Burslem 1 Haydon, Charles, Huddersfield 1 Hayes, Thomas, Alstone 1 Hayman, William, Holdsworthy 2 Hazleton, Edward, Omagh 3 Healy, Ezra, Augusta, Upper Canada 1 Healey, Samuel, St. Austle 1 Heap, John, Grantham and Bourne2 Heape, Richard, Sowerby- Bridge 1 Heath, William, Swaffham 1 Heaton, James, Bolton 2 Heeley, Thomas, Dursley 2 Henley, John, Dudley 2 Henley, Patrick, Mountrath, he. 1 Henley, William, Barnstaple 1 Hennigar, James G., Blackhead, fyc, Newfo u n dlu n d 1 Henry, James, Manorhamilton 1 Yrs. Henshaw, William, Sup , Holy- well Hen wood, Oliver, Dunster 3 Hetherington, John P., Halifax, Nova Scotia 2 Hewitt, Thomas, Super., Highum- Ferrers Heys, Robert, Burnley 1 Hey wood, Luke, Wig ton 1 Hickey, T., Dublin I Hickling, John, Super., Newark Hickman, Henry, Margate 1 Hicks, Henry, Helstone 1 Hickson, James, Lincoln 1 Hickson, Thomas, Ashby-de-la- Zouch 3 Higland, R., Dumfries, Upper Canada 1 Highiield, George, Super., Hud- dersfield Hiley, Benjamin, Super., Swan- sea Hill, John, Tandragee 1 Hill, Josiah, Fourth London 1 Hill, Thomas, Dewsbury 1 Hill. William, sen., Ashburton 1 Hill, William, jun., Lewes 1 Hindson, James C, Houghton-le- Spring 1 Hint*, Henry, Wolsingham 2 Hinson, William, Halifax 1 Hobai t, Nathaniel, Longford 1 Hobbs, John, Habai Islands 2 Hobill. George, Whitehaven 2 Hob kirk, John, Beverley 1 Hobson, John, Devonport 3 Hocart, James, Calais 2 Hockin, Joshua. Grimsby 1 Hodge, John, Torlola 2 Hodgson, John, sen., Super., Stockton Hodgson, John, jun., Bangor I Hodgson, Thomas L., Cape-Town and Somerset 2 Hodgson, William, Kingston, Ja- maica 2 Hodson, Thomas, Mysore and Courg Country 1 Hoedt, C. de, Assist. Miss., Ma- in ra 1 Hoey, William, Donaghadee 2 Holden, William, Downend 1 Holder, George, Super., Whitby Hole, George, Negapatam 1 Holgate, Israel, Fourth Manches- ter 3 Hollis, Joseph, Hastings a Holmes, John, Castlebar 3 Holroyd, James B., Newcastle- under-Line 1 Homer, William, Aylesbury 2 Hoole, Elijah, London Hooley, Samuel. Walsingham 1 Hope, Samuel, Oxford 2 183 Yrs. Hopewell, James, Super.. Grimsby Hopkins, William B., Peterbo- rough 1 Horuabrook, Richard, Arabian Coast, Demerara 1 Hornby, John, Fubnouth, &c , Ja- maica 1 Home, James, St. Christopher's 2 Horton, Peter C, Sheffield, East 2 Horton, William, Louth 3 Howard. V. B., Mississippi 1 Howarth, William, Sup., Bristol, North Howe, John, Limerick ] Huddlestone, William, Penrith 1 Hudson, Benjamin, Cliiheroe 1 Hudson, Josiah, Ayr 1 Hughes, Evan, Llanrwst 1 Hughes, George, Wrexham 1 Hughes, Griffith, Holywell and Mold 2 Hughes, Hugh, Sivansea 'A Hughes, James, Wexford and En- niscorihy 1 Hughes, John, Super., Macclesfield Hughes, John, jun., Cardiff 2 Hughes, John, Manorhamilton 2 Hughes, Lot, Llangollen 2 Hughes, Rowland, Live -pool 1 Hughes, Thomas, Llangollen 1 Hughes, William, Cardiff 3 Hull, Thomas N., Belfast 2 Hume, Alexander, St. Helen's, &c. 1 Hunt, Joseph, Wednesbury 2 Hunter, John, Assist. Miss., Bitticaloa 1 Huntington, Simon, Murray, Upper Canada 2 Hurlburt, Ashael, Ottawa, Upper Canada 2 Hurlburt, S., Rice-Lake, &c, Upper Canada. 1 Hurlburt, T.,Sahgeeng 1 Hurst, Benjamin, Neicport-Pag- nell 2 Hurt, William, Liverpool, North 1 Hussey, Walter, Ashbourne 2 Huston, Robert, Drog/ieda 2 Hutton, Joseph, Barnard-Castle 2 Hu'.ton, Thomas, Super., Buxton Hyde, James, Dumfries 1 lies, Richard, Spalding 1 Illing worth, William, First London 1 Imison, John, Yell, Unst, and Fetlar 1 Ingalls, Edmund Sleep, Assist. Miss., IVesleyville, Lower Ca- nada 1 Ingham, John, Worksop 2 Ingham, Thorn as, Super., Gateshead Ingle, Timothy C, WestBrom- wich 3 Inglis, Robert, Lucea, &c. 2 Yrs . Innes, Jonathan, Dunbar and Haddington 1 Irvine, John C, Super., Bally- shannon and Petti go Jackson, Daniel, Andover 1 Jackson, George, Canterbury '6 JackSon, John, Alstone 1 Jackson, Joseph D., Morant-Bay, &c. 1 Jackson, Joseph, jun., Great Na- rnacqnaland 2 Jackson, Joseph, sen , Redditch 2 Jackson, Bichard, Driffield 2 Jackson, Robert, Sunderland t Jackson, Samuel, Fifth Lo>idon 2 Jackson, Thomas, London Jacksot;, William, sen., Derby 1 Jackson, William, jun., Mon- mouth 1 James, Robert, Super., Bristol, North Jameson, Philip, Sheerncss 1 Janion, Charles, Leigh 1 Jarratt, James, Super., Dover Jebb, John, Omagh Jeff'ery, Thos , St. Christopher's 2 Jeffries, Thomas. Belize, &c. 3 Jenkins, Isaac, Swansea I Jenkins, Thomas, Plaatberg, Griqnas I Jenkins, William, Super., Second L.ondon Jennings, Edward, Warrington 1 Jennings Joseph, Bath 1 Jersey, Henry de, Lille and Rou- buix 1 Jessop, Robert, Armagh 2 Jessop, William, Louth 1 Jewell, Thomas, St Agnes 1 Jewitt, William, Salisbury I Job, Zephaniah, Portsmouth 1 Jobson, Frederick J-, Third Man- chester 2 John, Benjamin, West-Bromvuich '2 Johnson, George, Annapolis and Digby I Johnston, Edward, Downpatrick and Comber 2 Johnston, James, Mountrath 2 Johnstone, John, Assist. Miss., Stanstead, &c, Lower Canada 1 Johnstone, Samuel S.,Assist.Miss., Bermuda I Joll, John M., Swindon 2 Joll, Samuel, Super., Spihby Jones, David, Ruthin 2 Jones, Edward, (1st,) Leek 1 Jones, Edward, (2d,) Super., Den- bigh Jones, Edward, (3d,) Machynlleth ! Jones, Hugh, Cambridge 1 Jones, Humphrey, (1st,) Llun- fyllin and Llunfair i 1*7 Yrs. Jones, Humphrey, (2d,) Denbigh 3 Jones, James, Bur tun I Jones, John, (1-t,) Grimsby 1 Jones, John, (2d,) Beaumaris 2 Jones, Lewis, Do/gelly 1 Jones, Owen, Super., Ruthin Jones, Peter, Credit, Upper Canada 3 3 i Jones, Robert, Carmarthen Jones, It., Stamford, Niagara Jones, Samuel, London Jones, 1 nomas, (1st,) High Wy- comb I Jones, Thomas, (2d,) Llanidloes \ Jones, Thomas, (3d,) Ely 1 Jones, William, Super., JVar- rington Jubb, Martin, Croydon arid Hor- sham 1 Juff, William, Assist. Miss., Ma- carthy's Island 2 Juiian, John !>., Jf'igan I Kats, John, Assist. Miss., Jaffna Kay, Battinson, Southampton Kay, Stephen, Nottingham Keeling, Isaac, Sunderland Keeling, Jfhn, Otley Keeling, Ralph 11., Howden Keightley, John, St. Bartholo- mew's Kelk, Thomas, Super., Birming- ham, East Kelk, William, Hammersmith Kemp, John, Super., Barnard- Castle Kemshall, Thomas, Garstang Kendall, James, Chelmsford Kennedy, James, Enniskillen Ker, Peter, Simcoe, Niagara Kerr, Abraham, Portadown Kerr, David, Mont ego Bay Kerr, Thomas, Super., Mountrath and Maryborough Kershaw, John, Lynn 2 Key, Thomas, Richmond fy Reeth A Keys, William, Cavan 1 Kidd, William, Bailyshannon, &c 1 Killick, John, St. Alban's 1 Kilner, Thomas, Caltura 1 Kiplinff, Joseph, Pickering 1 Kirk, John, Sheffield, West 3 Kirk, John M., Peterborough 1 Knight, Richard, Charlotte-Town 1 Knowlan, James, Super., Barring- ton, Nora-Scotia Knowles, John, sen., Leicester 2 Knowles, John, jun., Holywell 1 Kyle, Samuel, Bandon 1 Lalmon, William A., Assist. Miss., Caltura 1 Lambert, John, Leighton-Buzzard 1 Lancaster, James, Ely 1 Lang, Matthew, City of Toronto 2 Yrs. Langley, Aaron, Chipping-Norton 1 Langridge, William, Super., Northmavin and Delting Langston, John, Chichester 2 Lanktree, Matthew, Super., D<>- naghadee Law, John, Brantford, Upper Canada 1 Lauiy, Walter, Exeter 2 Lawtun, Joseph, Midsummer Nor- ton 2 Laycock, James, Ashton-under- Line. 1 Leach, William, Bradford, East I Le^ike, Robert, Bridlington 2 Learoyd, Amos, Leeds, West 3 L"es, James, Wellingborough ) L'-ggett. William, N., Bathurat, New Brunswick 1 Leigh, Samuel, Spilshy 1 Lemaitre, Frederick, Limerick 3 Lemmon, James, Adding ham 1 Leppington, John C, Rochdale 1 Lessey, Theophilus, Liverpool, North 2 Levell, William, Addingham t Lever, John, Newmarket, Toronto 1 Lewis, Frederick, Baihurst, New South Wales J Lewis, John, Bramley 2 Lewis, Joseph, Seoenoaks \ Liddy, John, Carlo w I Lievre, John Le, Assist. Miss., Calvados, &c. 4 Lilly, Isaac, Super., Chester Limmex, William, Uttnaeter 1 Lindlry, William, Gloucester 2 Lindsey, Robert H., Galway 3 Llewellyn, Thomas, Dorchester 1 Lloyd, John, Aberystwith 1 Lockwood, John, Appleby 1 Lotthouse, Thomas, Harbour- Island 1 Lot'thous", Wilson, MontegQ Bay 1 Lomas, John, Birmingham, West 1 Longbottom, William, Cape-Town and Somerset 1 Lord, William, Bristol, North 1 Lougheed, Thomas, Super., Long- ford Loutit, James, Chesterfield 2 Lowe, George, Super., Cungleton Lowe, Henry D., Nottingham \ Lowthian, Joseph, Melksham 1 Loxton, Samuel, Leeds, East 1 Lucas, Peter, South of France 2 Lucas, Samuel, // indsor 1 Lucy, Henry, Brookborough 2 Ludiam, Thomas, Bishop-Stortford3 Lumb, Matthew, Super., Ottey Lupton, William, J.urgan 1 Lusher, Robert L., Bath 2 Lynch, James, Bailyshannon, ike. 1 LysK, Joseph, Super., Worcester 188 Lyth, , R. Burdsall, Ha/mi Islands 1 ; Black, Robert, Super., Birmingham M'Afee, Daniel, Tralee 2 I M'Arthur, John, .Super , Omagh Macbrair, Robert M., Macurlhi/s Island 2 M'Cord, Charles, Super., Strabane M'Cormick, Charles, Tarhert and Kilrush 4 M'Cutchan, James, Brookboroiigh 1 M'Uonald, George B., Sheffield, East 2 M'Dowell, Samuel, Donegal 1 M'Elwain, George, Super., Wick- low M'Fadden, William, Hull, Upper Canada 1 M'Garvey, William. Ballina 1 M'Kenny, John, Sidney 2 Mackintosh, Andrew, Durham 1 M'Intyre, John , Mississippi 2 ! M'Kitrick, William, New-Mills X M'Lean, John, Sheffield, East 3 M'Leod, Alexander W., Windsor, Nova-Scotia 1 M'Mullen, Thomas, Rideau, Upper Canada 1 M'Murray, John, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1 M'Nabb, Alexander, Stamford, Niagara 2 M'Nutt, Arthur, St. John's, New- Brunswick 3 M'Owan, John, Northampton 1 M'Owan, Peter, First London 2 Maer, Edward, Sierra-Leone 5 Mainwaring, Robert, Ulverstone 2 Mallinson, Matthew, Super., York Manly, J. G., Kingston, Bay of Quint e 1 Mann, John, Tobago 1 Mann, Joseph, Lincoln I Manton, John A., Windsor, New South Wales 1 Manzie, Alexander, Mahaica, De- merara 1 Marsden, George, Sheffield, East 1 Marsden, Joseph A., St. Vin- cent' s_ Biabou 1 Marsden, Joshua, Super., First London Marsh, Joseph; Crotnford 2 Marshall, John, Horton, Nova- Scotia 1 Marsland, George, Pontefract 3 Martin, Henry, South of France 4 Martin, Thomas, Ba/h 1 Masaroun. Robert, Dublin 3 Mason, John, sen., Glastonbury 2 Mason, John, jun., London Mathews, John P., Cork §- Core 2 Matthiez, J., Assist. Miss., Trin- comalee 1 Yrj. Mauger, Nicholas, Super . Jersey Maunder, George, Sheffield, East 1 Maxwell, Robert, Bedford and Amp t hit I ] Mayne, Charles, Super., Dublin Meadmore, James, Hereford 1 Meek, Joseph, Wigan 2 Mefson, Robert, Stourbridge 1 Mercer, John, Super., Birstal Meridith, Thomas, Enniskillen 3 Merrill, Samuel, Clitheroe 2 Messmore, Joseph, Simcoe, Nia- gara 1 Methley, James, Nottingham 1 Miles, S., Gosfield, Upper Canada 1 Miller, George, Frederickton 2 Miller, Gilbert, Coldwater, &c, Upper Canada 1 Miller, James, Madeley 1 Miller, William E., Super., Crom- ford Millward, Edward, Super., Exeter Milner, Joseph T., Super., Derby Mitchel, James, Hexham andU'ark2 Moister, William, St. Vincent's, Biabou 1 Mole, James, Calais 4 Mole, Richard R., Plymouth 3 Monkhouse, Thomas S., Romford 2 Montgomery, H., Peterboro\ Bay of Quinte 1 Moody, Richard, Redruth 1 Moore, Alexander, Super., Wick- low Moore, Henry, Super., First Lon- don Moore, Hugh, Killesandra 1 Moore, Roger, Loughborough 2 Moorhouse, Joseph, Penrith 2 Morgan, David, Merthyr-Tydvill 2 Morgan, Elijah, IVellington 1 Morgan, John, Brighthelmstone 1 Morley, George, Woodhouse-Grave d Morris, John, Chester 1 Morris, Seth, Super., Bath Morrison, Simpson, Monaghan 1 Marti er, John, Demerara 1 Mortimer, Joseph, Rochdale 1 Morton, Robert, Murket-Raisen 1 Moss, Thomas, Wolverhampton 3 Moulton, El:enezer, Boston 2 Moulton, John B., Super., Lin- coln Moulton, James E., Wednesbury I Mowat, James, St. Iocs 3 Mowat, William, Liskeard J Moxon, Thomas, Gateshead 1 Mulloy, William, Longford 1 Mulkins, H., Toronto 1 Murdoch, Archibald, Super., Longftrd Murdoch, James Armagh 1 Murphy, Michael, Super., Dublin Murray, Thomas, Barnard-Castle 3 189 Murray, William, Super,, St. John's. New- Brunswick Mltsgrove, James, Hamilton, Niagara 1 Nankeville, B , Dumfries, Toronto'! Nash, John, Donaghadee 1 Naylor, Willi am, Birmingham, West'2 Neal, Francis, Durham 1 Nelson, John, First Manchester 2 Nelson, John, Portadvwn 1 Nesbit, John, Magherafell 2 Newstead, Robert, Paris 4 Newton, Christopher, Coventry, &c. 1 Newton, John, sen., Reading 2 Newton, John, jun., Ormskirk and South i a) rt 1 Newton, Robert, Leeds, East 2 Newton, Thomas, Super., Belper Nicholson, John, Brigg 1 Nicholson, Joseph, Darlington 1 Nicklin, John, Biecon 1 Nightingale, Adam, Island-Cove, &c, Newfoundland 1 Noall, Simeon, Weymouth 2 Noble, Arthur, Fernwy and Mal- low 1 Nonis, James, Oxford, Upper Canada 1 North, George, Fiamlingham I Norton, John H., Sheffield, West ) Nother, William, Super., Ripon Nowell, John, Bridlington 1 Nye, Edward, Holdsworthy 1 Oakes, Edward, Deal 1 Odgers, James, Super., Exeter Ogilvie, John, Super., Bristol, North Olliffe, James, Lucan and Trim 1 Ollivier, Amice, Jersey 1 Olver, Henry V., Shaftesbury 2 Orchard, Paul, Midsummer Nor- ton 1 Orton, Joseph, Hobart-Town A Osborn, George, Second London 1 Osborne, Daniel, Downend 2 Osborne, James, Diss 1 Osborne, John, Teignmouth 1 Osborne, Thomas, Super., Bristol, North Ouseley, Gideon, Lucan and Trim 1 Overton, John, Thetford 3 Owen, Robert, Cardigan 2 Owens, William, Denbigh 1 Oyston, George, Shields, North 1 Padman, Thomas, Tlkesione 2 Palmer, Samuel, Morlcy, South Africa 5 Parker, William, Leek 1 Parkes, John, Dominica 1 i r rs. Parry, Evan, Newent and Forest of Dean 3 Parsons, Humphrey, Super., Ludluxu Parsons, Peter, Bodmin 1 Partridge, Reuben, Aylesbury 1 Parys, John, Assist. iMiss., Kandy 1 Pascall, Joseph, Orkney and Wick 1 Paterson, James, Colerain 1 Pattison, James, Montreal, &c. 1 Pattisson, Richard, Super., First Manchester Payne, Joseph, Wantage 1 Payne, Thomas, Gwennap 3 Pearce, Benjamin, Bradford, West 2 Pearce, John, Skipton 1 Pearse, Horatio, Melksham 1 Pearson, John M., Stokes.'ey 1 Pearson, Thos., sen., Ludlow 1 Pearson, Thos., jun , Nevis 1 Pearson, Thomas, (Ad,) Antigua 1 Pearson, William, sen., Super., Cardiff Pearson, William, jun., Hexham and Wark 1 Pedley, Harry, Bridlington 2 Pedlow, Daniel, Sup., Cork §- Cove; Pemberton, William, Bolton A Pengelly, John Carey, Stockton 2 Pennington, Thomas, York 2 Pennock, Thomas, Grateful- II 'ill, Sec. 1 Percival, Peter, Jaffna 3 Perera, Daniel D., Assist. Miss., Nego>n/io and Cortiegalle 1 Petch, Richard, Garstang 1 Peterson, William, Salisbury 1 Phelps, Richard, Grimsby, Ni- agara 1 Phenix, Isanc, Sandhurst 2 Phillips, John, Super., Burnley Phillips, Richard, Newtownbarry 1 Philp, John, Barbadoes 1 Pickard, Humphrey, Assist. Miss., Mirumichi 1 Pickavant, John, Carbonear I Pickles, Michael, Woodstock, &c, New-Brunswick 1 Piggott, John, Chatteris 1 Piggott, William, Highum-Ferrers 1 Pilcher, Jesse, Dumin/ca '1 Pilley, James, Walsingham I Pdter, Robert, Doncaster 2 Plavter, George. F, Gananoque, Bay of Qui ate I Pollard, William, Thetford 2 Pontefract, Jeremiah, Douglas 1 Poole, George, Cobourg, Bay of Quinte 1 Poole, George, Inverness i Poole, John, Sup-r., Leeds, East Pope, Henry, Guysborough, Nova- Scotia I Possnett, Leonard, Horncastle 2 Potts, Francis B., Warminster 2 190 Trs. Poulier, John A., Assist. Miss , Matura 1 Powell, Thomas, Derby 2 Powell, William, Llanfyllin and L Ian fair 2 Powis, Henry, Colchester 3 Pratt, James C, Boyle 3 Pratten, Joseph, Hayle 1 Preseott, Peter, Bingley 1 Presr, Charles, Bristol, North 1 Pretty, Joseph, Gainsborough 3 Price, Henry, Londonderry 1 Price, Richard, Super., Longford Prichard, Richard, Carnarvon 1 Prior, John, Pembroke 1 Pugh, Theophilus, Bermuda 1 Putron, John de, Jersey 2 Quetevills, John de, Super., Guernsey and Sark Rabone, Stephen, Vavou 2 R;ihy, John, Colne 1 RadePffe, Charl-s, Bramley 2 Radford, John, Shept on. Mallet 3 Radford, William, Super., Bristol, South Raine, John, Assist. Miss., Hatley- Compton, Lower-Canada 1 Ramin, Robert, Huudcn 1 Randerson, John, Kingston, Ja- maica 3 Ranson, Henry, Hull 1 Ranyell, Georg-e, Trinidad 2 Rathbone, James, Rattenhury, John, Macelcsfieljl 3 Rawlings, Charles, Stamford 1 Ravvson, John, Barnard-Castle 2 Ray, James, Luton 2 Ray, Richard, St. Austle 3 Rayner, Joseph, Gateshead 1 Rayner, Moses, Hungerford 2 Rayner, Thomas A., Oakham 2 Jseece, Richard, T/iird London 2 Ree=, John, Cardigan 2 Reil'.y, "William, Bandon 2 Remmington," John, Super., Mag. herafelt Reiiier, John, Assi-t. Miss., Paris I Rennison, William, Super., Stokesley Reynolds, John, sen., Super., Thetford Reynolds, John, jun., Super., Penzance Richards John, (1st,) Merthyr- Tydvill 2 ' Richards, John L.. Holywell 3 Richardson, Henry, Pontefract 2 Richardson, Thomas, Shubenecadie i Richey, Matthew, Cobourg 1 Richey, William, Skibbereen 2 Ricketts, Wm.. Stourbridge ] Ridgeway, Thomas, Sup., Be/fast Rigg, John. Birmingham, East 2 Rigglesworth, William, Tortola 2 Yrs. Riley, Calverley, Super., Liverpool, North Ritchie, William, Falmouth, See, Jamaica, 1 Roadhouse, John, Super. Leeds, East Roberts, John, sen., Peterborough 2 Roberts, John, W., Bodmin 1 Roberts, Joseph, sen., Third Man- chester 2 Roberts, Joseph, jun., Bristol, North 1 Robin, Daniel, Alderney 1 Robinson, George, Carmarthen 3 Robinson, John, Camelford 2 Robinson, Samuel, Yeadon 2 Robinson, Thomas, Witney 3 Robson, William, Retford 1 Rohson, "William H., Ken r7 al 1 Rodham., Thomas, Shields, South 1 Roehuck, George, Scarborough 2 Pogers, John, Hornsea 2 Rogers, John, Bosrr, a ] Rogers, Thomas. Ro<:h°ster 1 Rogerson, Thomas, Glasgow and Paisley I Rose, Samuel, Hamilton, Ningarn 2 Rossell, John, (1st,) Kettering .'-> Rossell, John. (2d,) Pembroke Rosser, James, Aberdeen 1 Rostan, John L-, Assist. Miss., South of France li Rouch, William, Bodmin 1 Rought, Jahez. Madeley 2 Rought, Thomas, Super., Stafford Rouse, Nathan, Chatteris I Rowden, James, Clarendon, &c , Jamaica 1 Rowe, Genre e H.. Macclesfield •> Rowe, John H., SpiLby ' 2 Rowe, Samuel, Ripon I Rowland. Thomas, Norwich 1 Rowlands, William, Pwllheli 2 Roy. Peter, Assist. Miss , Soaih of France Rule, William H., Gibraltar h Russell, Francis, Super., Roscrea Rutledge, James, Irvinestown i Ryan, John, (1st,) Edinburgh 2 Ryan, John, (.'el, Brixham 2 Rye: son, Edwy, Nelson, Toronto 1 Ryerson, Egerton, Kingston, Bay of Qui nle" 2 Ryerson, John, Toronto Ryerson, William, Hamilton, Nia- gara 2 Rymer, Richard, Canterbury I Sail ah, Pierre, Assist. Miss.. Macarthy's Island -4 Samuel, Peter, Port-Antonio, &c 2 Sanders, Wiliiam, Sierra-/., Sanger. George, Merthyr-Tydvill 1 Sanger, Joseph, Bodmin 1 191 Trs. Sunmuggam, John P., Assist. Miss , llatticalua 3 Sargent, Win. H ., Cleclcheaton 1 Satchell, Wm., Dominica 1 Saul, John, Clough Jordan 2 Saunders, John, St. Maine's 3 Savage, Thomas, Lancaster 2 Schofield, William, Paramatta I Scholeneld, William, Ripon 2 Scholes, Jam^s, B ishop-Stortford 2 Scott, George, Stockholm 7 Scott, John, Second London 1 Scott, Jonathan, Lake-Simcoe 2 Scott, Robinson, Londonderry I Scurrah, Ralph, Burslem 2 Seccombe, William. Oracahessa 1 Sedgwick, John, KnaresboromgA 3 Sewell, Samuel, Congleton 2 Shackleton, W., Super., Bedale Shaler, Henry, Matilda, Upper Can ad (i 2 Sharman, John, IFatlinglon i Sharpe, William, loole I Sharracks, James, Port-au-Prince I Shaw, Barnabas, Cape-Town and Somerset 1 1 Shaw, John, Shaftesbury 1 Shaw, William, Grahum's-Town and Salem 1 Shelmenline, William, Super., Fourth Manchester Shenstone, William E,, Lunen- burgh, Nova Scotia 1 Shepherd, Edaiund, Brantford, Niagara 1 Shepherd, Richard, sen., Barn- staple ] Shepherd, Richard, jun., St. John's, New-B/unswick ] Shepstone, William, Beka Station 1 Sheiwel), Robert, Portsmouth 8 Sherwell, Samuel, Axmin&ter I Shipnv.ui, John, Keighley 1 SI; our, James, Douglas 1 Short, Thomas, Stokesley I Sbovelton, Wright, Diss :-5 Shrewsbury, William J., Rochester 1 Sibly, Nicholas, Southampton 3 Si mmonite, Thomas, Super., IJorn- cabtle Simmons, John, High-Wycomb 1 Simmons, Samuel, Stoney Hills and Red Hills 1 Simon, John, Arbroath and Mon- trose 1 Simons, Samuel, Abacn \ Simpson, John, sen., Super., Newark Simpson, John, jun., Otlcy \ Simpson, Samuel, Jlolmjirth 1 Simpson, William, Launcestou, Van Diemen's Land 1 Skelton, i'homas, A If or d 1 Slack, Benjamin, Burnley 2 Trt. Slater, Barnard, Macclesfield 2 .slater, John, Haverford-West I Sleep. Peter, Bridgetown, New- Brunswick Sleep, William, Taunton Sleigh, William, Cleckheaton Slight, Benjamin, Credit, Upper Canada Slight, Frederick, Burton and Lichfield Slugg, Thomas, Wliitchurch, (Salop) Smallwood, Henry, Longton Smedley, John, Dudley Smeeth, James, Bridport Smetham, James, Whitehaven Smetham. Richard, Nantwich Smith, Henry W\, Shepton- Mallet Smith, Jacob S., Northampton Smith, John, 1st,) Cardiff Smith, John, (2d,) Bideford Smith, John, 3d,) Bristol, South Smith, Matthew, Assist. Miss. Ship Harbour, Cape Breton Smith, Robert, Kingswood Smith, Thomas, Halifax, Nova Scotia Smith, Thomas W., Kingsbridge vSinith, William, ;lst,) Super., Dublin Smith, William, (26.,) Leeds, East Smith, William, (3d,) Liverpool, Nova Scotia Smitlies, John, Brigus and Cu- bitus, Newfoundland Smithson, John, Stafford Smithson, William, Sheffield &c , New Brunswick Snider, Solomon, Waterloo, Bay of Quinte Snowball, John, Harbour Grace, Newfoundland Southern, George, Dunster Spinney, John, Fejee Islands Squance, Thomas H., Birmingham Ban 2 Squarebridge, John, Melton-Mow- b ray 2 Squire, William, Shefford., Lowe; Canada I Stamp, John S., Chester 2 Stamp, William W., Warrington I Standring, Thomas, Belper i Stanley, Jacob, sen., First London 1 Stanley, Jacob, jun., Hayle 1 Starkey, William, Kenmare 1 Staton, Thomas, Bedford a/id Am t t- lull 2 Stead, Abraham, Huddersfield 2 Stead, Thomas, Liverpool, South 2 Steer, William, Grimsby, Niagara 1 Stephens, Francis, Cavan 1 Stephens, John, Super., Fifth London Stephenson, George, Super., Rantim 192 Stephenson, John, Beverley 1 Stephenson, Thomas, Keighley 1 Stephenson, Wikinson, Penzance 1 Stephenson, William B., Bristol, North 3 Stepney, Daniel, .S7. Christopher's 1 Stepney, Richard, Denby Dale 1 Stevens, John, Leues 3 Stevenson, Humphrty, Wolsingham\ Stevinson, William, Yeadon 2 Steward, George, Fourth Man- chester 3 Stewart, William, Cork and Cove 3 Stinson, Joseph, Montreal, &c. 1 Stokes, William, Newtown 1 Stokoe, Thomas, Carlisle 2 Stones, William, Super., Madcley Stoney, Edmund, Toronto 2 Stott, James, Shepton-Mallett 1 Stott, Ralph, Trincomalee 4 Srachan, Alexander, Shields, North 3 Straw, John, Chester 2 Strong, John B., Miramichi 1 Sturgeon, Alex., Super., Armagh Sturges, Edwin J., Lerwick 1 Sugden, James, Pat el ey-B ridge 2 Sugden, Samuel, Bacvp 1 Sugden, William, Aberdeen 1 Sullivan, Jas., Kilkenny aud Tip- perary 1 Sumner, Edward, Swansea 2 Sumner, John, sen., Rochdale 2 Sumner, John, jun., Lancaster 2 Sunday, John, Grape-Island, &e. 2 Sutch, James, Melton- Mowbray 1 Sutcliffe, Ingham, Port-de-Grave, Newfoundland 1 Sutcliife, Joseph, Super., Second London Sweetman, Edward, Gibraltar 1 Sydserff, John, Super., Bunnell Sykes, James, Super., Malton Sykes, Joseph, Si. Helen's 1 Tabraham, Richard, Thirsk 2 Tackaberry, Fossey, Drogheda 2 Taft, Zechariah, Super., Ilkestone Talbot, John, Glasgow and Paisley 2 Talboys, Thomas, Super., Norwich Tarr, William, Bradford, Wilts 2 Tatham, Daniel S., Gainsborough 2 Taylor, Andrew, Super., Brockiille, Upper Canada Taylor, Charles, Blackburn . 1 Taylor, Charles B., Chelmsford 2 Taylor, Francis, Arbroath and Mon- trose 1 Taylor, George, Helstone 2 Taylor, James, Biggleswade and Hitchin 1 Taylor, John, Super., Manchester, Second Taylor, Joseph, Worcester 1 Taylor, Samuel, Kington 1 Yrs. Taylor, William, Brac.kley 2 Taylor, William H., Leek 1 Temple, William, Bridgetown, &c. 2 Thomas, Elias, Tavistock 1 Thomas, John, Fawn 2 Thomas, John W., Launceston 2 Thomas, Joseph, Sup., Truro Thomas, Methuselah, First London 1 Thomas, Thomas, Card if 1 Thompson, George, Pocklington 3 Thompson, John, Super., Man- chester, First Thompson, Robert, Dundee 1 Thompson, Samuel, Pocklington 2 Thompson, Thomas, sen., Nantwich2 Thompson, Thomas, jun., Aber- deen 2 Thorneloe, William B , Ipswich \ Thornton, William L., First Loudon* Tirams, Samuel, Truro 2 Timperley, William, Super-, Bake- well Tindall, John, Port-au-Plaat, &c. 3 Tindall, Samuel, Rochdale 1 Toase, William, Boulogne I Tobias, James, Waterford 2 Tobias, Matthew, Super., Belfast Tomkins, John, Odell Town 1 Tonkin, Benjamin, Newent, &e. 1 Topham, James J , Falmouth 1 Totherick, Robert, Perth 2 Tourgis, Philip, Guernsey and S ark 3 Towers, William, Rother'ham 2 Townley, Adam, Cobourg, Bay of Quinle 1 Toyne, Elijah, Galle 2 Tracy, Richard T., Sligo 3 Trampleasure, William, Super., Glastonbury Tranter, William, Barnsley 1 TrefTry, Richard, sen. ,First London 1 Treffry, Richard, jun., Super., Penzance Tregaskiss, B., Antigua ! Trethewey, Humphrey B., Sher- borne 1 Trewin, William, Pateley-Bridge 1 Triffitt, Anthony, Super., Banbury Trueman, Samuel, Towcester 1 Tuck, Henry, Super., Uttoxeter Tucker, Charles, Tonga 1 Tupman. John. Deal 1 Turner, George, Halifax 2 Turner, Henry, Downham 2 Turner, Jonathan, Cheltenham J Turner, Nathaniel, Hokianga, &c. 2 Turner, Peter, Hnboi Islands 1 Turner, Philip C, Fourth London ?, Turner, Thomas, Stanstead, Lower Canada 1 Turton, Isaac, Super., Wakefield Twiddy.Thoma* Xeuport-Pagnctl 2 Usher, Edward, Salisbury 1 193 Yrs. Valoopulle, Solomon, Assist. Miss , Jaffna 3 Vance, G., Casilebar 1 Vandusen, Conrad, St. Thomas, Upper Canada 1 Vanes, John, Shrewsbury 1 Vaughan, Martin, Super., Hull Vevers, William, Leeds, East 2 Vibert, Charles, Banwell 1 Vigis, Everett, Vine, John, Newport, Isle of Wight 1 Waddy, Benjamin B., Rotherham 2 Waddy, Richard, Wcdnesbury 3 Waddy, Samuel D., Sheffield, West 3 Wade, Joshua, Merthyr-Tydvill 2 Walker, Edward, First Manchester 2 Walker, John, Bradford, West 1 Walker, Joseph, Super., Dover Walker, Josiah H., Oakhampton 1 Walker, Thomas, (2d,) York 1 Walker, Thomas H., Second Manchester 2 Walker, Thomas, J., Newtown I Wallace, Robert, Downpatrick and Comber 1 Waller, James, Alford 2 Wallis, James, Hokianga 3 Walmsley, John, Super., Sheffield, West Walsh, John, Bury 2 Walters, John, Redditch 2 Walton, Daniel, Huddersfield 2 Walton. James, St. Martin's 1 Ward, Francis, Douglas 2 Ward, James, Howard, Upper Ca~ nada 1 Ward, John, sen., Super., Sheffield, West Ward, John, jun. ,Woodhouse-Grove2 Ward, Samuel, Super., Hull Wardley, Samuel H., Higham-Fer- rers 2 Warner, Lewis, Elizabeth Toiun, Up- per Canada 1 Warren, George, Market-Harboro' 2 Warren, John, Ipswich 1 Warren, Thos., Sup., Bristol, North Wai ters, Edmund B., Middleham 1 Waterhouse, John, Second London 2 Water house, Levi, Whitchurch, Salop 1 Waterhouse, William, Easing- wold 2 Watkin, James, Tonga 3 Watmough, Abraham, White- haven 2 Watson, John, sen., Super., Bath Watson, John, jun., Newcastle- upon-Tyne, West 1 Watson, Joseph, Hastings 1 Waugh, David, Moiraand Dromore2 Waugh, John, Dungannon 2 Yrs. Waugh, Thomas, Belfast 3 Waymouth, Wm. T., St. Christo- pher's 1 Wears, William, Second Manches- ter 2 Weatherstone, John, Port-Arthur, Van Diemen's Land Webb, Samuel, Newbury Webb, Thomas, Teignmoulh Webb, William (1st,) Sydney Webb, William, (2d,) Ashton-under- Line Wedlock, William, Spanish Town, Jamaica Weir, Alex., Super., Barnstaple Welborne, William, Rye Wellard, Thos., Assist. Miss., Habai Islands West, Daniel, Ayr West, Francis A., Stockport West, William, New Providence Westtake, Charles, Newcastle- under.Line Wevill. John, Gloucester Wheeler, Robert, Stroud Wheelhouse, John, Pickering White, George F., Brecon White, John, Super., Bradford, West White, William, Whitehouse, Isaac, Whiteley, John, Hokianga, &c. 2 Whiteside, Cuthbert, Sup., Retford Whiting, Matthew, Grand River, Upper Canada 1 Whittingham, John B., Buxton 2 Whitworth, James, Frome 1 Wiggin, John, Wisbeach 1 Wiggins, John, Killesandra 3 Wijesingha, Cornelius, Assist. Miss., Negombo and Kornegalle 2 Wilcox, Robert, Portsmouth 1 Wilde, Samuel, Carlisle 2 Wilkinson, Henry, (1st,) Bedale 3 Wilkinson, Henry, (2d,) St. Mary's, Gambia 2 Wilkinson, Henry, Belleville, Bay of Quint e 3 Wilkinson, Joseph, Brackley 1 Wilkinson, Joseph T., Ramsey and Peel 1 Wilkinson, Peter, Manning tree 2 Wilkinson, Samuel, Alnwick, &c. 1 Wilkinson, William, Market- Raisen2 Will, D. C, Whitby, Toronto 1 Williams, Charles, Camborne 1 Williams, David, Liverpool 1 Williams, Henry W., St. Austle 2 Williams, John, Strabane 3 Williams, John, St. Ann's Bay, tyc, Jamaica 2 Williams, Jonathan, Jersey 3 Williams, Richard, \l estmoreland, New-Brunswick J 194 Trs. Williams, Robert, Manchester 1 Williams, Thomas, Helstone 1 Williams, William, Colchester 1 Williams, William H., Sidney, Bay of Quinte 1 Williams, William R., Camelford 1 Willis, John, Lowes toff 2 Williston, John, St. Thomas, Upper Canada 1 WUloughby, W., Clarendon 1 Wilson, Edward, Super., Ludlow Wilson, George, Chesterfield 2 Wilson, James, Shipley 1 Wilson, Jeremiah, Dundalk and Castleblayney 1 Wilson, John, Devizes 2 Wilson, John, sen., Sup., Tandragee Wilson, John G., Redruth 1 Wilson, John S., Enniskillen 2 Wilson, Joseph, St. Neot's 3 Wilson, Robert, Super., Omagh Wilson, Matthew, Tonga 1 Wilson, Maximilian, Deptford 2 Wilson, Stephen, Super., Shipley Wilson, William, (1st,) Ipswich 1 Wilson, William, (2d,) Newport, Nova-Scotia 1 Wilson, William, (3d,) Louth 1 Wilson, William, (4th J Second Manchester 1 Winterburn, William, New-Mills 1 Wintl°, Richard, Super., Derby Womersley, Joseph, Super., Cam- borne Yrs. Wood, Benjamin, Hinckley 1 Wood, Enoch, St. John's, New- Brunswick 3 Wood, Jas., Sup., Bristol, North Wood, John, sen., Super., Market- Harborough Wood, John, jun., Tobago 1 Wood, Joseph, Intro 2 Wood, Robert, Third Manchester 2 Wood, Samuel, Super., Waterford Wood, Thomas, Luton 1 Woodcock, Isaac, Knaresborough 2 Woodrow, John, Sup., Bristol, North Woolsey, William, Darlington 2 Woon, William, Assist. Miss., Hokianga, &e. 1 Worden, John, Brixham 1 Worth, William, Gloucester 2 Wright, David, London, Upper Canada 2 Wright, John, Grassington 2 Wrigley, George, Cape Coast 1 Yeates, John, Sunderland Young, Robert, Liverpool, South 1 Young, Samuel, Croydon and Horsham 2 Young, W., Bay of Quinte I Zylva, P. G. de, Assist. Miss., Mormvay.Korle AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE CIRCUITS. The figures at the end of the lines refer to the order in which the Circuits are placed on the Stations. GREAT BRITAIN. Aberdeen, 370 Abergavenny, 139 Aberystwith, 170 Addingham, 263 Agnes, St., 108 Alban's, St., 21 Alderney, 91 Alford, 307 Alnwick, Berwick, and Morpeth, 365 Alstone, 354 Andover, 88 Appleby, 358 Arbroath and Montrose, 373 Ashbourne, 297 Ashburton, 102 Ashby-de-la-Zouch. 299 Ashtonunder-Line, 238 Austle, St., 109 Axminster, 121 Aylesbury, 81 Ayr, 369 Bacup, 247 Bakewell, :?81 Banbury, 72 Banff and Buckey, 374 Bangor, 2i0 Banwell, 131 Barnard-Castle, 341 Barnsley, 285 Barnstaple, 123 Barton, 323 Bath, 142 Beaumaris, \78 Bedale, 334 Bedford and Ampthill, 23 Belper, 298 Beverley, 313 Bideford, 124 Biggleswade and Hitchin, 27 Bingley, 260 Birmingham, East, 184 Birmingham, West, 183 15irst-.il, 270 Bishop. Stortford, 11 Blackburn, 245 Bodmin, 111 Bolton, 241 Boston, 309 Brackley, 77 Bradford, East, 258 Bradford, West, ib7 Bradford, Wilts, 143 Bradwell, 282 Bramley, 708 Brecon, 157 Brecon, Welsh, 165 Bridlington, 324 Bridport, 122 Brigg, 322 Brighthelmstone, 20 Bristol, North, 128 Bristol, South, 129 Brixham, 101 Bromsgrove, 193 Bungay, 63 Burnley, 243 Burslem, 209 Burton and Lichfield, 300 Bury, 244 Bury St. Edmund's, 60 Buxton, 205 Camborne, 104 Cambridge, 37 Camelford, 99 Canterbury, 41 Cardiff, 158 Cardiff, Welsh, lo4 Cardigan, 169 Carlisle, 356 Carmarthen, 159 Carmarthen, Welsh, 1C7 Carnarvon, 179 Chatteris, 38 Chelmsford, 13 Cheltenham, 136 Chester, 218 Chesterfield, 280 Chichester, 89 Chipping- Norton, 78 I 'J. 196 Cleckheaton, 2"5 Clitheroe, 249 Colchester, 14 Colne, 248 Congleton, 206 Coventry and Leamington, 196 Crickhowel), 163 Cromford, 301 Croydon and Horsham, 9 Darlington, 339 Daventry, 31 Deal. 47 Delph, Saddleworth, 240 Denbigh, 175 Denby-Dale, 256 Deptford, 7 Derby, 296 Devizes, 147 Devonport, 93 Dewsbury, 271 Diss, 58 Dolgelly, 181 Doncaster, 284 Dorchester, 152 Douglas, 364 Dover, 46 Downend, 134 Downham, 64 Driffield, 315 Dudley, 189 Dumfries, 363 Dunbar and Haddington, 367 Dundee, 371 Dnnster, 125 Durham, 351 Dursley, 133 Easingwold, 329 Edinburgh, 366 Ely, 68 Epworth, 320 Evesham and Stratford-upon-Avon, 194 Exeter, 117 Falmouth, 105 Framlingham, 57 Frome, 145 Gainsborough, 319 Garstang, 226 Gateshead, 346 Glasgow and Paisley, 368 Glastonbury, 154 Glossop, 237 Gloucester, 135 Gosport, 83 Grantham and Bourne, 311 Grassin«;ton, 264 Graveseod, 43 Grimsby, 318 Guernsey and Sark, 90 Guildford, 22 Qwennap, 117 Halifax, 251 Hammersmith, 8 Haslingden, 246 Hastings, 17 Haverford-West, 160 Hayle, 116 Helen's, St., and Prescot, 222 Helstone, 115 Hereford, 141 Hexham and Wark, 353 Higham-Ferrers, 33 High-Wycomb, 70 Hinckley, 197 Holdsworthy, 96 Holmnrth, 253 Holt, 61 Holywell and Mold, 177 Holywell, English, 219 Horncastle, 306 Hornsea, 317 Houghton-le-Spring, 350 Hovvden, 314 Huddersfield, 262 Hull, 312 Hungerford, 75 Huntingdon, 28 Ilkestone, 289 Inverness, 375 Ipswich, 16 Ive's, St., 113 Jersey, 92 Keighley, 259 Kendal, 66l Kettering, 35 Kingsbridge, 100 Kingswood, 130 Kington, 202 Knaresborough, 333 Lancaster, 227 Launceston, 95 ». Leeds, East, 266 Leeds, West, 267 Leek, 213 Leicester, 292 Leigh, 250 Leighton-Buzzard, 24 Lerwick, 377 Lewes, 19 Leyton, 10 Lincoln, 302 Liskeard, 97 Liverpool, North, 215 Liverpool, South, 216 Liverpool, Welsh, 217 Lhmdilo, 166 Llanfyhin and Llanfair, 182 Llangollen, 174 Llanidloes, 172 Llanrwst, 176 Loudon, First, 1 London, Second, 2 London, Third, 3 197 London, Fourth, 4 London, Fifth, 5 London, Sixth, 6 Longton, 21 1 Loughborough, 295 Louth, 305 Lowestoff, 56 Ludlow, 201 Luton, 25 Lynn, 62 Macclesfield, 204 Machynlleth, 171 Madeley, 199 Maidstone, 51 Malton, 328 Manchester, First, 230 Manchester, Second, 231 Manchester, Third, 232 Manchester, Fourth, 233 Manchester, Welsh, 234 Manningtree, 15 Mansfield, 290 Margate, 45 Market-Harborough, 36 Market- Raisen, 304 Mawes, St., 110 Melksham, 146 Melton-Mowbray, 293 Merthyr-Tydvill, 156 Merthyr-Tydvill, Welsh, 162 Middleham, 342 Midsummer-Norton, 144 Monmouth, 138 Nantwich, 207 Neot's, St., 26 Newark, 291 New-Buckenham, 59 Newbury, 73 Newcastle-under-Line, 210 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, East, 845 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West, 344 Newent and Forest of Dean, 140 New-Mills, 236 Newport, Isle of Wight, 86 Newport, Monmouthshire, 137 Newport-Pagnell, 32 Newtown, 203 Northampton, 29 Northmavin and Delting, 3/9 North- Walsham, 54 Nurthwich, 208 Norwich, 52 Nottingham, 238 Oakham, 294 Oakhampton, 126 Oldham, 23:) Orkuey and Wick, 376 OrmsKMrk and Southport, 224 Otley, 272 Oxford, 6 Woodstock and Wakeheid, 178 Yarmouth, 154 Youghal, 4 Bay of Quinte, 24 Belleville, 27 Brantford, 6 Brock, 20 Brockville, 32 REGULAR STATIONS IN UPPER CANADA. Bytown, 41 Clarendon, 45 Cobourg, 28 Crosby, 43 201 Dumfries, 18 Elizabethtown, 37 (iananoque, 23 Gostield, !* Grimsby, 4 Guelph, 21 Hallowell, 2ti Hamilton. 1 Howard. 10 Hull, 42 Kingston, 22 London, 7 Matilda, 34 Mississippi, 38 Murray, 31 Nelson 17 Newmarket, 15 Ottawa, 40 Oxford, 11 Pembroke, 44 Perth, 36 Peterborough, 2!> Prescott and Augusta, S3 Richmond, 3i> Itideau, 35 St. Catherine's, 3 St. Thomas. 8 Sidney, 30 Simcoe, 5 Stamford, 2 Thames, 12 Toronto, 16 Toronto City, 13 Waterloo, 25 Whitby ,19 Yonge-Street, 14 INDEX. Address, Pastoral, 119 — Address from the Irish Conference, 126 — Answer to ditto, 132 — Address trom the Canadian Conference, "l.S/ — Answer to ditto, 141 — Ad- dress from theGeneral Conference in the United States, 145 — An- swer to ditto, 150 Address of residence of President and Secretary, 115 — of officers of Committees, &c, 80, 87, 88, 94, 97,100, 103, 117, 118 Africa, 57, 72 America, 59, 72— United States of, 76, 145 Appointment of certain Officers, 105 Auxiliary Fund, 99 Breakfast-Meeting at Birmingham, 112 Book-Affairs, 88 Canada, Mission stations in, 61 — regular stations in, 65— number of members in, 74, 76 — number of Preachers in, 77 — President of the next Conference in, 144 Chairmen of Districts, duties of, 82, 87, 91, 93, 97, 100, 113, 114, 117 Chapel-Building Committee, 92 Chapel-Fund, 90 Children of worn-out and deceased Preachers, 95 Children'' s Fund, 93, 178 " Christian Library," republication of the, recommended, 104 Collections, he, for 1836-7, 117 Committees. Committee of Privileges, 78 — Missionary Committee, 80 — Kingswood and Woodhouse- Grove School Committees, 85 — Book-Committee, 89 — Chapel- Fund Committees, 90,91— Chapel- Building Committee, 92 — Con- tingent Fund Committee, 97 — Committee of the Auxiliary Fund, 99— Theological Institution Com- mittee, 104— Committees prepa- ratory to the next Conference, 83, 1 15 Conference of 1837, when and where to be held, 115 Contingent Fund, 97, 157 Deputations, Missionary, 83 District, number of children to be provided for by each, 94— grant to each, for Ordinaries, 98 District-Minutes, 113 Extraordinaries, 171 France, 54, 71 General statement of accounts, 176 General view of the numbers, &c, 1 -" Ireland, stations of the Preachers in, 49,53 — number of members in, 70— number of Preachers and Missionaries in, 77 — appoint- ments for the next Conference in, 78 — Missionary deputations to , 84 — Agent for Mission-Schools in, 23 Key to the Conference Catechism, 113 Members iD society, number of, in the several Circuits, and Mission Stations, 67, 71— total number of, 77 Missions, 80 Occasional visits of Preachers to other Circuits, 109 Official Documents of last year, 107 Ordination by imposition of hands, 106 Preachers admitted into full connex- ion, '6 — remaining on trial, 4 — who have died since the last Con- ference, 8— who have desisted from travelling, 22— total number of, 77 President and Ex- President, request of Conference to, 1 i 2 Proprietary School at Sheffield, 105 Revision and Classification of Rules, 110 Resolutions, miscellaneous, 112 Schedules, Circuit, 118 Schools, Kingswood andWoodhouse- Grove, 85 — Sunday and other Schools, 113 Scotland, President's visit to, 78 — Missionary deputation to. 84 Secretaries, Financial, duties of, 87. 118 Shetland, accounts of, 177 Society-meetings and prayer-meet- ings, 108 Stations of the Preachers in Great Britain, 23— in Ireland, 49— on the Foreign Missions, o.i— in Up- per Canada, 65 Superintendents, directions to, S6, 87, 93, 103, 10y, 113. 114, 117, ild Thanhs of the Conference, to Com- mittees, officers, &c , 81, 82, 87, 83, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 107 — to friends, for donations, b8, 1U1, 102 Theological Institution, 102 Wales, appointments for Di-trict- Meetings in, 78 West Didies, 59, 72 London : R. Needham, Printer, 1, Belle-Sauvage-Yard, Ludgate-HiU. ERRATUM. In the Estimate of the probable amount of the Contingent Fund for 1836-7, page 98, the surplus from last year is, in several copies of these Minutes, erroneously stated to be £2,437, instead of £2,425, The correction of this mistake will reduce the sum placed at the disposal of the Committee to £12,925 ; and the sum to be reserved for Extraordinaries to £3,492.