The sixteen following gentlemen of London, viz.,— 3. THOMAS FARMER, ESQ., and the REV. JOHN SCOTT, are very respectfully requested to continue their acceptable services as General Treasurers of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. 4. At the several Financial District-Meetings, which shall be held in September, arrangements shall be made for holding Missionary Meetings throughout the respective 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 earnestly 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 arrangements 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 requested that a copy of each arrangement thus formed be forwarded to the General Secretaries in London. It is also recommended, that one of the usual Quarterly Meetings of each District Auxiliary Committee be summoned during the sitting of the Annual District-Meeting, for the purpose of investigating the expenses incurred at Anniversaries, &c. 5. The following Preachers and other Friends are particularly invited to attend the Special Meeting of the Missionary Committee, which will be held in Liverpool, at nine o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, July 23d, 1839, according to the Seventeenth Article of the "Laws and Regulations of the Wesleyan Missionary Society;" viz., the Rev. Messrs. George Morley, Theophilus Lessey, James Dixon, William M. Bunting, John Rigg, Thomas P. Haswell, Thomas Galland, Alexander Bell, John Anderson, Isaac Keeling;-with Joseph Agar, Esq., of York, John Sutcliffe, Esq., of Willow-Hall, James Heald, Esq., of Parr's-Wood, Peter Rothwell, Esq., of Bolton, John Marsden, Esq., T. P. Bunting, Esq., and John Fernley, Esq., of Manchester, Isaac Crowther, Esq., of Morley, Francis Riggall, Esq., and Mr. J. B. Sharpley, of Louth, Michael Ashton, Esq., of Liverpool, Thomas Allen, Esq., and Mr. Joshua Thorley, of Macclesfield, John Burton, Esq., and Mr. Christopher Dove, of Leeds, and Adam Bealey, Esq., of Ratcliffe-Wood.-N.B. This Meeting is open to the Treasurers and Secretaries of the different Auxiliary and Branch Societies in the vicinity, and to such other leading country friends of the Methodist Missions as can conveniently attend; and their presence is hereby respectfully requested. MISSIONARY DEPUTATIONS FOR 1838-9. Districts. Bedford and Northampton, William Naylor, Samuel Young, Frederick J. Jobson. Kent, Abraham Stead, William Illingworth. Norwich and Lynn, Richard Reece, William Smith, Everitt Oxford, Portsmouth, Guernsey, Devonport, Cornwall, Exeter, Vigis, Joseph Cusworth. Thomas Martin, George Osborn. George B. M'Donald, William Barton. Theophilus Lessey, Benjamin Clough (Mission House). Joseph Roberts, jun., Henry Fish. Districts. Bristol, Bath, Thomas Waugh, W. M. Bunting. First South Wales, John P. Haswell, William Box (Mission House). Second South Wales, P. C. Turner. North Wales, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Macclesfield, Arrangements to be made under the direction James Dixon, Robert Newstead. George Morley, John Rattenbury. Thomas Galland, John Lomas, William Manchester and Bolton, The President and Secretary of the Halifax and Bradford, James Everett, William Horton, George Leeds, Steward. John Scott, Dr. Beaumont. William Atherton, Samuel Broadbent. Nottingham and Derby, Barnard Slater, J. S. Stamp, Peter Lincoln, Hull, York, Duncan, Robert Young. George Marsden, Robert Jackson. Whitby and Darlington, James Methley, Philip Hardcastle. Carlisle, Ireland, North, Ireland, South, Joseph Taylor, John C. Leppington. 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 re-appointed the General Treasurers, and the REV. WILLIAM P. BURGESS is re-appointed the General Secretary, for the ensuing year. 2. The following persons are appointed as the General Committee for the ensuing year :-The President and Secretary of the Conference, the General Treasurers and the Secretary of the School-Fund, the Rev. Messrs. Anderson, Dr. Bunting, James Y Dixon, J. Entwisle, sen., Joseph Fowler, E. Grindrod, J. Hannah, sen., Samuel Jackson, R. Pilter, R. Reece, J. Scott, B. Slater, R. Treffry, and D. Walton ;-with Messrs. Ashton, T. Crook, R. Crook, J. Deane, Forshaw, Kaye, Sands, and Sinclair, of Liverpool; T. P. Bunting, John Marsden, and James Wood, of Manchester; Heald, of Stockport; Bowers, of Chester; and G. W. Longridge, of Sunderland; and such members of the Local Committees as can conveniently attend on the Friday preceding the next Conference. 3. The following are the Local Committees for the ensuing year:KINGSWOOD SCHOOL.-The Rev. Theophilus Lessey, Chairman; Rev. Robert Smith, Local Treasurer; Rev. Henry Fish, Secretary; Rev. Messrs. J. Wood, Lord, Clegg, Roberts, J. Brown, sen., Shoar, Brandreth, Prest, and Thornton ;-with Messrs. Capel, Exley, John W. Hall, A. Harper, T. Harris, Irving, Westcott, and J. Wood, of Bristol; and Messrs. Liddiard, Foort, and Palmer, of Bath. WOODHOUSE-GROVE SCHOOL.-The Rev. Robert Newton, Chairman; Rev. George Morley, Local Treasurer; Rev. Edward Walker, Secretary; Rev. Messrs. A. Bell, William Smith, Galland, Kirk, J. Sedgwick, Vevers, Pilter, Leach, Hamer, R. Wood, J. Roberts, sen., Walsh, Hinson, Murray, and J. Walker ;-with Messrs. Calvert, Beaumont, Cheesborough, and Walker, of Bradford; Messrs. Scarth, John Burton, Joshua Burton, W. Smith, W. Dove, James Hargraves, C. Dove, 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; and the Conference repeats and urges its recommendation to our Lay-Friends to render assistance to the Preachers in procuring the Private Subscriptions. 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 purpose. 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 far 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 children of Deceased and Supernumerary Preachers shall, when the claim has been sanctioned by the District Committee, be received from the Treasurers of the Auxiliary Fund; but the charge for educating those sons of Deceased or Supernumerary Preachers, who are placed at either of our Schools, shall be borne entirely by the School-Fund. 6. The names of the boys and girls to whom the Education Allowance is granted shall no longer be printed in the Annual Report; but the General Treasurers and Secretary shall furnish every Superintendent with an accurate List of them. 7. 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 children 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 addressed to the REV. PHILIP C. TURNER, Methodist Chapel, Devonport. 8. 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-Minutes of every thing which relates to the School-Fund. This communication shall be made not later than the 31st of May. 9. At every District-Meeting, on the day on which the Circuit Stewards are in attendance during the transaction 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 material deficiency, or want of due exertion, shall appear, the case shall be specially reported in the District-Minutes, and be brought by the Chairman before the ensuing Conference. 10. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to JOHN IRVING, Esq., and the REV. PHILIP C. TURNER, the late General Treasurers, and to the REV. WILLIAM P. BURGESS, the General Secretary, for their efficient discharge of the duties of their offices in the past year. 11. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the late |