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 the parish churches, again, the right of appointing the clergymen is vested in various hands according to circumstances, which it would require too much time and space to explain at sufficient length to make them understood. The patronage is, in a great many cases, invested in the Crown; but the Bishop of London is also a large holder of metropolitan patronage. The Archbishop of Canterbury is patron in several cases, and, in some instances, holds his patronage conjointly with the Crown. In such cases, the right of appointment is exercised alternately. The Lord Chancellor is sole patron of four or five livings in London, and in six or seven