This class of Christians have twenty-one annual conferences in as many states; nearly four hundred travelling, and a large number of unstationed ministers. They have a general conference, which meets once in four years, consisting of two delegates from every thousand communicants, one a minister, the other a layman: this is their legislative body. The number of communicants is about sixty-five thousand. PUBLICATIONS. The Protestant Methodists support four religious papers:—the _Olive Branch_, Boston, Mass.; the _New York Luminary_, New York, the _Methodist Protestant_, Baltimore, Md., and the _Western Recorder_, Zanesville, Ohio. Methodists. The population of all denominations of Methodists in the United States exceeds three millions. PUBLICATIONS.—The _Christian Advocate and Journal_, New York city; _Zion’s Herald and Wesleyan Journal_, Boston, Mass.; _Northern Advocate_, Auburn, N. Y.; _Christian Repository_, Philadelphia, Pa.; _Richmond Christian Advocate_, Richmond, Va.; _Southern Christian Advocate_, Charleston, S. C.; _South-Western Christian Advocate_, Nashville, Tenn.; _Pittsburg Christian Advocate_, Pittsburg, Pa.; _Western Christian Advocate_, and the _Christian Apologist_, a German paper, Cincinnati, Ohio. There is also published by this denomination, the _Methodist Quarterly Review_, New York city; _Ladies’ Repository_, (monthly,) Cincinnati, Ohio; _Guide to Christian Perfection_, (monthly,) Boston, Mass., _Sunday School Advocate_, (semi-monthly,) New York city; _Sabbath School Messenger_, (semi-monthly,) Boston, Mass. The Methodists have ten colleges, and thirty academies. In the Methodist church in Canada, are two weekly newspapers viz., _Christian Guardian_, Toronto, U. C.; _The Wesleyan_, Montreal, L. C. From the “Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the Year 1840,” we copy the following table:— Conferences, Ministers, &c.