GENERAL SOCIETIES.

Orphan Working School.

Founded 1760.

OBJECT:-"To provide food, clothes, lodging, and education for orphans and such other necessitous children as shall be elected by the subscribers."

Number of children in the institution, 146.

INCOME for the year ending Dec. 31, 1848

EXPENDITURE

BALANCE in hand

STOCK and estates yielding annually about

President, JonN REMINGTON MILLS, Esq.

Treasurer, THOMAS MERRIMAN COOMBS, Esq.

£6,038 3
6,968 0 8

5

20 29 2,000 0 0

Secretary, Mr. JOSEPH SOUL, 9, Boxworth Grove, Richmond Grove, Islington.
Collector, Mr. J. HARRISON, 21, Doris Street, Kennington Cross.
Matron, Mrs. BAIRD.

Principal Master, Mr. W. F. TARLTON.
Principal Mistress, MISS SALIER.
Office, 19, Gresham Street.

New Asylum for Infant Orphans.

STAMFORD HILL.

Founded 1844.

OBJECT:-"To board, clothe, nurse, and educate the infant orphan under eight years of age; and until he shall be eligible to enjoy the aid of those institutions which provide for the fatherless above that age." "It being the design of this charity to receive and bless the fatherless infant, without distinction of sex, place, or religious connexion, it shall be a rule absolute, beyond the control of any future general meeting, or any act of incorporation, that, while the education of the infant family shall be strictly religious and scriptural, no denominational catechism whatever shall be introduced, and that no particular forms whatever shall be imposed on any child, contrary to the religious convictions of the surviving parent or guardian of such child."

INCOME, year ending May 31, 1849
EXPENDITURE

BALANCE in hand

STOCK, 3 per cent, stock

Number of orphans

80

Treasurer, Baron L. DE ROTHSCHILD, M.P.
Sub-Treasurer, ANDREW REED, D.D.

£1,691 17 6 1,666 11 11

148 18 1 1,300 0 0

Honorary Secretaries, DAVID D. WIRE, Esq., Rev. T. AVELING.

OBJECT:-" Educating and annually clothing one hundred poor children.”

£254 9 9

218 4 11

106 9 10

104 9 2

To which is united,

The Female Orphan Institution.

Founded 1830.

OBJECT :-" Maintaining and educating the daughters of gospel ministers."

Treasurer, THOMAS CHALLIS, Esq., Alderman.

Secretary, EBENEZER TAYLOR, Esq., 25, Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn.

Apprenticeship Society.

Formed 1829.

OBJECT:-"That this society shall be designated the Society for Assisting to Apprentice the Children of Dissenting Ministers of Evangelical Sentiments."'

Treasurer, T. CHALLIS, Esq., Alderman.

Secretaries, C. J. METCALFE, Esq., Roxton House, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. Rev. J. SPONG, Mortimer House, Mortimer Road, Kingsland.

In the year, 8 premiums have been granted, amounting to £130.

A Donation of Ten Guineas, or Annual Subscription of One Guinea, gives 16 votes. A Donation of Five Guineas, or Annual Subscription of Half a Guinea, gives 8 votes. An Annual Subscription of Five Shillings gives 4 votes.

The Elections are half-yearly.

Walthamstow Girls' School.

Established 1808.

OBJECT:-"The education of the daughters of missionaries."

"That there be provided a comfortable residence, education, board, washing, ordinary medicines, and books; and that the total charge to the parents or guardians shall not exceed £12 per annum for each child under ten years old, and £15 for all above that age; if clothing be included, £5 per annum extra. The education to be liberal and respectable; attention to domestic affairs to be taught at a suitable age. The whole to be conducted with a strict regard to utility, habits of economy, and comfort."

Treasurer, JOSEPH TRUEMAN, jun., Esq.

Secretaries, Mrs. E. CAREY; Mrs. FOULGER, Walthamstow.
Collector, Mr. IINE, 22, Montpellier Square, Brompton.

London Missionary Society.

INCOME, 1848-49, including £12,129 18s. Id. from the stations

EXPENDITURE

BALANCE in hand

STOCK possessed for general and special purposes,

£64,508 3 8 67,238 12 9 314 10 11

24,209 7 0

Treasurer, Sir CULLING EARDLEY EARDLEY, Bart.
Secretaries, Rev. ÁRTHUR TIDMAN; Rev. JOSEPH JOHN FREEMAN.
Mission House, Blomfield Street, Finsbury.

European missionaries
Native agents

. 171 700

Wesleyan Missionary Society.

BALANCE against the Society from the year 1847
INCOME, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1848
EXPENDITURE

BALANCE due to the treasurers

The Treasurers are also under acceptances amounting to

£5,993 6 5 104,126 19 7

111,492 9 3

13,358 16 1

9,843 11 6

Treasurers, THOMAS FARMER, Esq., and the Rev. JOHN SCOTT. Secretaries, Rev. Dr. BUNTING, Rev. Dr. BEECHAM, Rev. Dr. ALDER, and

Rev. ELIJAH HOOLE.

President, the Right Hon. the EARL of CHICHESTER.

Treasurer, JOHN THORNTON, Esq.

Secretaries, Rev. HENRY VENN, B.D., Rev. JOHN TUCKER, B.D.,

Major HECTOR STRAITH.

Acting Secretary, Rev. JOSEPH RIDGEWAY, M.A.

and

104

118

7

7

32

12

4

21

11

1,140

13,352

Scripture readers

Stations and out-stations

Regular hearers

Church members

Sabbath, daily, and infant schools

Children under instruction

Treasurer, T. M. COOMBS, Esq., Ludgate Street.

Secretary, Rev. THOMAS JAMES, Blomfield Street, Finsbury.

COLONIAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

INCOME, year ending March 31, 1849

EXPENDITURE

BALANCE in favour of the society

£3,701 2 9 3,991 7 10

718 15 5

27

27

144

7,000

800

36

1,710

Treasurer, JOHN REMINGTON MILLS, Esq.

Secretary, Rev. ALGERNON WELLS.

Congregational Union.

Treasurer, BENJAMIN HANBURY, Esq.

Secretaries, Rev. W. STERN PALMER, and Rev. ALGERNON WELLS.
Secretary of the Congregational Board of Education, Rev. R. AINSLIE.
The Offices of these Societies are in Blomfield Street, Finsbury,

Wesleyan Methodist Statistics.

President, Rev. THOMAS JACKSON, Richmond, Surrey.
Secretary, Rev. JOHN HANNAH, D.D., Didsbury, near Manchester.
President of the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Rev. JABEZ BUNTING, D.D.
Treasurers of the Wesleyan Schools, J. IRVING, Esq., and Rev. CHARLES PREST,
11, Storey Street, Hull.

Secretary of the Wesleyan Schools, Rev. PETER M'OWAN.
Book Steward, Rev. JOHN MASON, 14, City Road, London.
Editor, Rev. G. CUBITT.

Secretary to the London Book Committee, Rev. ISRAEL HOLGATE, 24, City Road,
London.

Secretary to the Methodist Tract Committee, Rev. WILLIAM DAVenport, 14, City Road, London.

Treasurers of the General Chapel Fund, T. MARRIOTT, Esq., and the Rev. ROBERT WOOD.

Secretary to the General Chapel Fund, Rev. F. A. WEST, Buxton Road,

Huddersfield.

DISTRICTS AND CIRCUITS.

DISTRICTS..................... Great Britain 32.........................................................Ireland 11 .....................Foreign Parts 25 53 ....................................... 324

CIRCUITS

443

MINISTERS.

IN GREAT BRITAIN............ 918 Supernumerary and superannuated 184 ...On Trial 105 .... Total 1207 In IRELAND ..................... 105

In FOREIGN STATIONS........ 324

Ministers admitted into full connexion in 1849

Died, in the year ending July, 1849.......

Ceased to be recognized as ministers .......................................

36

22

163

NUMBER OF MEMBERS.
1847.

1848.

339,379
24,633
1,809
1,718

1,714 1,734 15,933

8,840 13,419 13,852 22,824 3,313 322

18,132 ...... 15,500

261 18,592

1849.

348,274 22,221

1,829

1,873

16,469

9,660

12,820 14,001 21,636

3,291 333

15,829

459,454

The next Conference is to be held in London, commencing on Wednesday, July 31st, 1850, at 9 o'clock, A.M.

Wesleyan Conference Office, 14, City Road, London.