Qtieensicoud School (Clapham Park) is near London. The executive committee consists of ten members.
Trinity Hall School (Southport) is near Liverpool. The executive committee consists of ten members.
(IL) Othtr Institutions. — \. The Wesleijan Chapel Committee was instituted in 1818, and reconstituted in 1854. The committee, consisting of an equal number of ministers and laymen^ usually meets on the first Wednesday of each month to dispose of loans and grants; to determine on erections, alterations, purchases, and sales of Wesleyan trust propertj^, including organs; and to afford advice on difficult cases. The income from all sources in 1879 was £9148 9s. Id. The total number of applications for permission to erect or enlarge chapels, schools, and organs, which have re- ceived the conditional sanction of the committee in 1879-80, including 97 modifications of cases previoush' sanctioned, is 341. The estimated outlay is £253,655. Two hundred and ninety-seven erections and enlarge- ments have been completed during the year at a cost of £318,175. The entire temporary debt left on this large outlay is £75,807, most of which will be paid off in a few years. The entire amount of debts which have been discharged or provided for during the last twenty-six years is £1,482,359.
2. Metropolitan Chapel Buildinff Fund (instituted in 1862). — This fund originated from the generous gift of the late Sir Francis Lycett of £50,000 towards the erec- tion of fifty Methodist churches in London during twenty years. Sir Francis in 1880 gave £5000 more towards the erection of ten additional chapels. Shortly afterwards he died, after only ten days'^ illness. The secretary of the fund is the Kev. Gervase Smith, D.D.
3. Itinerant Methodist Preachers' Annuitant Society. — This institution was formed at Bristol in 1798, re- vised in Leeds in 1837, and revised again in London in 1860, and is the same which is often called among the Methodists " The Preachers' Fund." It was formed by some of the preachers for the relief of supernumerary and superannuated preachers among themselves and of their widows, and is supported by donations and lega- cies, but chietJy by the pa\'ments of the members them- selves. The annual paynjent is now by preachers on trial, £5 5s. ; by ministers in the home work, £6 ; and by ministers on foreign stations, £10 4s.
4. Besides these ag^encies, there exists also a separate mission to seamen in London, chapkins to portions of the army and navy, and a lay mission, each under dis- tinct management, for London, Manchester, and Liver- pool. Since 1875 the temperance movement has been recognised hy the Conference, and circuit societies and bands of hope are rapidly forming throughout England. There are also committees of privilege and exigency, and those for the promotion of the religious observance
" of the Sabbath.
5. A Sunday-school Union was established in 1874, and the total number of schools in union in 1880 was 2629 out of 6370 belonging to the Connection, The secretary is the Kev. Charles II. Kelly. The ofiice and depository for the present is situated at Ludgate Circus, in the city of London.
6. The Children s ITome — Orphanarje, Refuge, and Training Institute — originated at Lambeth in 1869, has now four branches, and a fifth is in preparation.
London Branch.— Uamier Road, Victoria Park, E. Lancashire Brnjicft.— Wheatsheaf Farm, Edgworth, near Bolton, Canadian Branch — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Certified Industrial Branch. — Mikon, Kent. Orphanage BrancJi. — Birmingham. Preparing.
This institution exists for the nurture and education of orphans and destitute children. It has been sanctioned and commended to the Christian public by several res-
olutions of the Conference, to which body the commit- tee of management is annually submitted for approval. At present five hundred children are in the Home, and nearly as many have been sent forth into the world, and the reports received concerning tlie great majority of them are highly satisfactory. The Home is also a training institute for Christian workers, especially with the view of preparing godly men and women for work in orphanages, industrial schools, children's hospitals, and similar institutions.
7. Conference Office and Book-room (2 Castle Street, City Road, London ) was instituted by the Kev. John Wesle}'. It was formed by him for the publication and sale of his works. On his death he vested his property in the book-room, consisting of books, copy- rights, etc., in trustees "for carrying on the work of God in connection with the Conference." The whole of the proceeds of this institution is devoted to the sup- port and extension of Wesleyan Methodism in Great Britain and Ireland.
8. Wesleyan Methodist Missiormry Society (Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate Street Within, London). — Missions were commenced in 1786, and the society organized in 1816. The committee of management consists of the president and the secretary of the Conference, the gen- eral treasurers, the general secretaries, the honorary secretary, the governor and tutors of Kichmond College, the Connectional editor, the lay treasurers of the Kich- mond institution, the London district treasurer, and of fifty-two other members, viz., sixteen from the country circuits and thirty-six resident in London : four of the latter go out annually by rotation, and four of the for- mer are also changed each year. Every person sub- scribing annually one guinea or upwards, and every benefactor of £10 and upwards, is deemed a member. The Wesleyan missions were commenced in 1786, and were, until 1813, confined chiefly to British North Amer- ica and the West Indies. In the December of that year, however. Dr. Coke, accompanied by a band of young missionaries, embarked for India. Up to this period, Dr. Coke had mainly raised the funds needed to carry on tlie Methodist missionary operations. The addi- tional evangelistic enterprise now entered upon made new arrangements and exertions necessarj\ Various plans were suggested; but that which originated with the late Rev. George Morley and the late Kev. Dr. Bun- ting, then stationed at Leeds, and sanctioned by several of the ministers in that town and neighborhood, was adopted by the ensuing Conference. ' That scheme has been greatly owned of God. In 1814 the income of the Missionary Fund was below £7000; there were 70 mis- sionaries, and the number of members under their care was 18,747. Now there are, according to the last re- turns in 1880, 92,527 accredited Church members, be- sides 10,885 on trial for membership, under the care of 519 missionaries; and the income is £165.498 12s. 8(7., inclusive of £37,622 4s. 11(7. received from the Thanks- giving Fund. The expenditure in 1879 was £148,107 &s. 10(7. The legacies for 1879-80 amounted to £4966 16s. 3(7. The Ladies' Committee for Female Education in Heathen Countries expended £2296 Is. 6(7., besides supplying clothes, etc., for charitable purposes.