velopments; but the principal
denominations may be stated as follows:

PROTESTANT CHURCHES.

BRITISH:

Church of England and Ireland.
Scottish Presbyterians:
_Church of Scotland_.
_United Presbyterian Synod_.
_Presbyterian Church in England_.
Independents or Congregationalists.
Baptists:
_General_.
_Particular_.
_Seventh Day_.
_Scotch_.
_New Connexion_, _General_.
Society of Friends.
Unitarians.
Moravians, or United Brethren.
Wesleyan Methodists:
_Original Connexion_.
_New Connexion_.
_Primitive Methodists_.
_Wesleyan Association_.
_Independent Methodists_.
_Wesleyan Reformers_.
_Bible Christians_.
Calvinistic Methodists:
_Welsh Calvinistic Methodists_.
_Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion_.
Sandemanians, or Glassites.
New Church.
Brethren (Plymouth).

FOREIGN:

Lutherans.
German Protestant Reformers.
Reformed Church of the Netherlands.
French Protestants.

OTHER CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.

Roman Catholics.
Greek Church.
German Catholics.
Italian Reformers.
Catholic and Apostolic Church.
Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons.

JEWS.

In all, 35; of these 27 are native, and 8 foreign. These are all, or
nearly all, the bodies which have assumed any formal organization. There
are, in addition, many isolated congregations of religious worshippers,
adopting various appellations, but none of them sufficiently numerous to
deserve the name of a sect.

Of course, the chief of these various denominations is the Church of
England. In the Handbook to Places of Worship, published in 1851, by
Low, there is a list of 371 churches and chapels in connexion with the
Establishment. Some of them have very small congregations, and every one
confesses it is a perfect farce to keep them open. In some of the city
churches, thirty persons form an unusually large audience. But most of
them are well attended. To these churches and chapels belong, in round
numbers, 700 clergymen. The appointments of ministers to the parish
churches are, in most cases, under the control of the vicars or rectors
of their respective parishes. In the case of private chapels, the party
to whom the property belongs has, of course, nominally the right of
appointing the minister; but, eventually, that appointment rests with the
congregation, for to thrust in an unpopular preacher against their wishes
would be to destroy his own property. For