account of the sum subscribed, with a list of Subscribers, to the Secretary, not later than the 24th of the same month. 4. The cordial thanks of the Conference are specially presented to the following Friends, for their generous contributions to the Auxiliary Fund; viz., A Friend, Newport-Pagnell 20 A Friend at Darlington, per letter to Rev. J. Farrar, London... A Friend, by Rev. M. Wilson, Deptford Messrs. J. E. Corderoy, London S. B., a Thank-Offering, 4th London A Friend, Burslem The Burslem Quarterly Meeting Mrs. Scott, of Pensford 5 5 5 0 3500000K 8. d. James Wood, Esq., Manchester Friend of the Worn-out Methodist Preachers Mr. John Molland, of Exeter Donation from a London Clergyman, by Dr. Bunting Late Mrs. Storr, of Bassingham, by Rev. J. Hanwell Samuel Stocks, Esq., Wakefield Rev. R. Newstead Thomas Gurney, Esq., London, by Rev. R. Newstead 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 50 0 50 0 5. The cordial thanks of the Conference are presented to the following friends of the Methodist Preachers' 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 :: Miss Susanna Robinson, on annuity of 5 per cent. per annum, during her life £. s. d. 400 0 .......... T. Roberts, Esq., Bristol Rev. Robert Wood 100 0 100 0 The Widow of a Preacher, by Rev. Dr. Bunting 100 0 The late Miss Rooksby, by her sister Miss M. A. Rooksby And also to the Executors of the following deceased Friends, for their prompt remittance of the subjoined Legacies : 20 0 15 15 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 6 5 4. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 In order to show our benevolent Friends the pressing necessities of the Methodist Preachers' Annuitant Society, and to apprize them of the importance of bestowing a larger portion of their liberality in aid of its resources, it may not be improper to add that, as the Society's Fund is unable to meet the claims which are made upon it, by Supernumerary Preachers and Widows of deceased Preachers, the Members have agreed, not only to augment their Subscriptions severally from £5 5s. to £6 6s. per annum, but also to reduce the amount of annuities in the first or lowest class, from £19 19s. to £10 each, and on the other classes in just proportion. WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. Q. XX. What does the Conference resolve on the Report of the Committee of the WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION? A. 1. That Report is received this year, as in past years, with both satisfaction and thankfulness; and the Conference approves of the conduct of the Committee of Management in the steps taken by them, in the course of the last year, to extend the benefits of the Institution to a larger number of Students. 2. The thanks of the Conference are hereby presented to the REV. DR. BUNTING, the President of the Institution, for his very valuable counsels and services during the past year. 3. The thanks of the Conference are presented to the REV. JOSEPH ENTWISLE, SEN., the House-Governor, for his valuable services. The Conference, likewise, receives with sincere regret Mr. Entwisle's announcement of his intention to retire, on account of his increasing infirmities, not only from the House-Governorship, but also from those active duties connected with the Itinerancy, which he has now discharged so usefully and honourably for fifty-one years. The Conference expresses its hope that by the blessing of God on this relief from the onerous and exciting duties to the performance of which his office in the Institution has called him, his days may be lengthened; and that he may be long per mitted to render important service both to the Institution, and the Connexion at large. 4. The thanks of the Conference are 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 efficient and satisfactory performance of the duties of their respective offices. 5. The thanks of the Conference are presented 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 past year. 6. The REV. DR. BUNTING is re-appointed to the office of President; the REV. RICHARD TREFFRY is appointed to the office of House-Governor; MR. FARMER is also respectfully requested to continue in his office as Treasurer; and MESSRS. BOWERS and CUBITT are re-appointed Secretaries. 7. The Conference declares that the appointment of the HouseGovernor, like that of a Preacher to a Circuit, is from year to year, and is not, as in the case of our regular Itinerancy, to extend beyond three successive years. 8. The Preachers are directed to collect the Donations and Subscriptions which may have been promised in their respective Circuits, and any others which they may be able to procure, in aid of the Funds of the Institution, during the first and second weeks of the month of January in each year; and to remit them to the Treasurer, addressed, Wesleyan Theological Institution, Hoxton, London, not later than the end of January. 9. 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 Committee of the Institution recommend such Student as having conducted himself with Christian propriety and diligence. 10. The object of the preparatory examination of Preachers on the List of Reserve, by the London 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 become actually resident, as Students, in the Institution-House. 11. The Committee of Management for the ensuing year shall consist of the following persons; viz., The President and Secretary of the Conference; the President, House-Governor, Tutors, Treasurer, and Secretaries of the Institution; the Rev. John Scott, as one of the Treasurers of the Wesleyan Missionary Society; the Secretaries of that Society; the Book-Steward; the Rev. Messrs. W. Stewart and T. Waugh, on behalf of the Irish Connexion ;-with the following Ministers and Gentlemen, viz., Rev. William Atherton, London, Rev. William M. Bunting, Man- T.P. Bunting, Esq., Manchester, J. S. Elliott, Esq., London, Rev. Samuel Jackson, London, William Judd, Esq., London, Rev. Joseph Entwisle, sen., Tad- Humphry Sandwith, M.D., Lon caster, Rev. A. E. Farrar, London, Rev. John Farrar, London, don, Rev. William Vevers, Bramley, REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. Q. XXI. What is the opinion of the Conference on the Report now presented by the Wesleyan EDUCATION COMMITTEE, appointed last year, and on the general subject of the duties which we owe to the children and young people of our community? A. 1. The Conference has received that Report with much satisfaction; and, deeply impressed by a sense of the magnitude and urgency of the subject, as affecting the obligations and privileges of the Wesleyan body, agrees to appoint such a Committee for the ensuing year, whose duty it shall be to apply themselves with earnestness and assiduity to the task of collecting informa tion; of exciting in our Connexion, to the utmost extent of their power, an increased attention to the utility and necessity of Wesleyan Infant and Day Schools, conducted on those principles which, as Wesleyan Methodists, our people are bound to prefer wherever practicable; of watching over the rights and interests of our Societies, as they may be involved in any legislative or other proceedings on the question of National Education; and of preparing, as soon as they shall find themselves able to do so with confidence and advantage, some general plan for the promotion Religious Education in connexion with the Wesleyan body, which of |