1834, to May 26, 1855, in connection with the schools, which were
either entirely or in part supported by the funds of this Institution,
amounted to L7,204, 12s. 81/4d.

The number of Bibles, New Testaments, and portions of the Holy
Scriptures, which were circulated from May 26, 1854, to May 26, 1855, is
as follows:--

Bibles sold, 693. Bibles given away, 890. Testaments sold, 950.
Testaments given away, 748. Copies of the Psalms sold, 82. Other small
portions of the Holy Scriptures sold, 136.

There were circulated from March 5, 1834, to May 26, 1855, through the
medium of this Institution, 13,949 Bibles, 9,047 New Testaments, 188
copies of the Psalms, and 789 other small portions of the Holy
Scriptures.

The total amount of the funds of this Institution spent on the
circulation of the Holy Scriptures, from March 5, 1834, to May 26, 1855,
is L3,389, 10s. 1d. The amount spent during this year, L476, 12s. 3d.

During this year there was spent of the funds of the Institution, for
missionary objects, the sum of L2,081, 3s. 2d. By this sum fifty-seven
laborers in the word and doctrine, in various parts of the world, were
to a greater or less degree assisted.

The total amount of the funds of the Institution spent on missionary
operations, from March 5, 1834, to May 26, 1855, was L16,115, 0s. 51/2d.

There was laid out for tracts, from May 26, 1854, to May 26, 1855, the
sum of L624, 8s. 4d.; and there were circulated within this year 895,034
tracts and books.

The total number of all the tracts and books which were circulated from
the beginning up to May 26, 1855, was 3,584,710.

The total amount of means expended on this object, from Nov. 19, 1840,
to May 26, 1855, was L2,868, 15s. 63/4d.

At the commencement of this period there were 298 orphans in the new
Orphan House on Ashley Down, Bristol. During the year there were
admitted into it 39 orphans.

The expenses for the orphans during this year were L4,304, 4s. 71/2d.

_Without any one having been personally applied to for anything_ by me,
the sum of L74,132, 6s. 103/4d. was given to me for the orphans, _as
the result of prayer to God_, from the commencement of the work up to
May 26, 1855, which sum includes the L15,055, 3s. 21/4d., which was the
cost of the building, fitting up and furnishing of the present new
Orphan House, and the L23,059, 17s. 81/4d., which was in hand on the
26th May, 1855, for the building fund, and the L116, 17s. 81/2d., the
balance