5. The Leys School (Cambridge).— This school has recently been established in the belief that a school in the immediate neighborhood of one of our great uni- versities would enjoy special educational advantages. While the general teaching and discipline are in the hands of resident Wesleyan masters, classes in various subjects are committed to the care of able visiting mas- ters. The Rev. Dr. Moulton, 6ne of the New-Test, re- visers, is the head-master and principal.
6. Primary Education. — It was not until about the year 1846 that the Wesleyan Conference would take ac- tion in promoting the establishment of elementary day- schools. In 1851 the first Normal College and Prac- ticing School was opened in the city of Westminster. It has been a great success, and is now divided into two branches for male and female teachers.
7. Westminster Training College was opened Oct. 7, 1851, and adapted for male students only in January, 1872. During the year 1879 120 students were in train- ing, all of whom passed the certificate examinations at Christmas, 1879. Tlie college accommodates 131 stu- dents, and 117 are now (1880) in training. The expen-
diture of the college for the year ending Dec. 31, 1879, was £7984 0*-. 3(/., and of the practicing schools £2233 56-. 2(/.
8. Southlands Ti-aining College (Battersea, near Lon- don), for female students, was opened Feb. 26, 1872. During the year 1879 106 students were in training, all of whom passed the certificate examinations at Ciirist- mas, 1879. The college will accommodate 109 students, and 109 students are now in training. The cost of the college for the year ending Dec. 31, 1879, was £4271 18s. lOf/., and of the practicing schools £654 5s. 6d. The number of Wesleyan day-schools in England in 1880 was 851 ; the number of day scholars, 179.966.
9. Wesley College (Sheffield) was ojjened in 1838. In 1844 it was constituted, by her majesty's warrant, a col- lege of the University of London, and empowered to is- sue certificates to candidates for examination for the de- grees of bachelor of arts, master of arts, bachelor of laws, and doctor of laws. The directors award a schol- arship of the annual value of £40 (tenable for one year) to thej'outh who shall be certified as the best pupil of his year at Woodhouse Grove School. The Holden scholarship, also of £40 per annum, is usually given to Kingswood School. Two others of £20 a year each, given by the late P. Spooner, are open to boys resident in Sheffield. The late Sir Francis Lycett also estab- lished two scholarships (tenable for two years) of the annual value respectively of £50 and £30. These are held by the two students from Wesley College who stand highest in the honors' list of the London Univer- sity at the matriculation examinations coinciding with the time when the scholarships fall due. The college is examined and reported on biennially by the syndicate of Cambridge, which is appointed by the University for the examination of schools.
10. Wesleyan Collegiate Institution (Taunton). — This institution was founded thirty-eight years ago, in 1842, the object of its founders being to secure a sound litera- rj^ and commercial education, combined with religious instruction in harmony with the principles of the late Rev. John Wesley. In 1846 it was also made, by royal charter, one of the colleges of the University of London, and degrees in arts and laws are open to all its students.
11. Schools for Ministers' Children. — The Schools' Fund was instituted by Mr. Wesley, in order to provide for the education of the children of Wesleyan ministers, and he commended it to the liberal support of his peo- ple in the most forcible terms. The collections and subscriptions for the Schools' Fund are made in the early part of November. Out of it the four schools for the education of ministers' children are supported, and an allowance is made for the education of those for whom there may not be room in the schools. These allowances are only made for children between the ages of nine and fifteen.
Tiie general committee consists of the governing body of the New Kingswood and Woodhouse Grove School, the governing body of the School for Girls, and seventeen other ministers and laymen.
(1.) For Boys. — The governing body of the New Kingswood and W^oodhouse Grove School consists of the president and secretary of the Conference, the ex- presidents, the general treasurers and secretaries of the Schools' Fund, the chairman of the Bristol, Bath, Hali- fax and Bradford, and Leeds Districts; the governoi's and the head-master of the school ; and ten ministers and thirteen laymen named by the Conference.
New Kingswood School is situated at Landsdown, Bath, and was opened in 1851. Old Kingswood School, near Bristol, was founded by the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., in 1748. It is now a Reformatory School for young criminals in connection with the nation.
Woodhouse Grove School was established in 1811.
(2.) For Girls. — The governing body of the Schools for Girls consists of the president and secretary of the Conference, the ex-president, the general treasurers and secretaries of the Schools' Fund, the general treasurers
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and secretary of the Children's Fund, the chairman of the Second London and Liverpool districts, the local treasurers and secretaries, and tifteen other ministers and laymen,