The Sun.
London, England, 1808-07-19 00:00:00

AMERICAN METHODISTS.

The General Conference of the Methodist Church'
met in this City on the 6th inst. Aisent 128,ment-
bers. After transacting a variety of business, they
eleeied a Bishop to supply the vacancy-occasioned
by the death of the late pious and much-respeCted
Mr. WHATCO,AT, and yesterday morning Mr.
APKENTREE was ordained, in the presence of one
of the largest congregations that ever was collected
in this City. The Meeting-house. in Light-street
was tilled nearly two hours previous to the hour
of meeting, and as large a number returned home,
not being able" to enter, as those who were col-
lected.

Last year the Methodist Society consisted of
144,5g0 Amembers. The returns of this year are
121,687 whites, and 30,308 coloured, making a to-
tal of 15 ,995 members, and the increase during
that period 7405 members. The number of itinerant
Ministers in the Methodist Connetlion, at present,
amounts to 542, all aaively engaged in disseminat-
ing the knoAkdge,of the dove' truth.
The General Convention of the Protestant p;pis-
copal Church is also now assembled in B.,ltirnore,
and, it is probable that, between these two bodies,
nearly 200 Ministers of the Gospel are at present
engaged in devising the best means, according to
their own views, to diffuse throughout the tinned
States that sa%ing information which is the most
•po-weiful stimulus to the perfiirmance of all that is
excellent, and -vhich alone can render men truly vir-
tuous and eSkimable.—(l)la/t. pap. June 7, 1808.)

usoyety riistovßßY.—l'lle tbllowing fa&,
hoWe‘er kucliaroosi may be relied ou as having oc-
curred at ills house of a Gentleman of s..tne repute,
not far fratti •Portinan-square. Toe Gentleman in
spentia few weeks at Southampton in Aug.
last, and having occasion fOr a maid servant, he

brought one to London from a neighbouring vilage.
She had a brother of the name 01 Jonathan, whom
s'ie invited during her short servitude, then in Mar-
garet-street, to pay her a visit in London: It hap-
pened that her master became enamoured of her et e
she had been three months in his service, and he
married her, and retno. 0.l to the vicinity of Portman-
square. On the 28th of June the Lady had an
accouchement, and in a few days Jonathan unexpect-
edly made his visit to London, and atter enquiring
for his sisterin Margaret-street, he was .:eletred to
her new residence. Jonathan • knockqd at the
door, and desired to speak to Margery Cole, his sis-
ter; but on being informed that no such person
lived there, he insisted on the contrary, in rather a
blustering manner, Which brotlght the master of the
house to the door. Jonathan made known his
business, and the Gentleman informed him that he
hid married his sister, who had- lain-in but a few
d'ays with her first child. Jonathan, with a know-,
ing grit), replied, " No, 'leant the first of my
tiepheWs, for though Margery is but twenty, she has
I‘..tt:tv.7o little ones at our village, as the parish pretty
well knows:"

THE WEATHER.—Dr. POLE, of Bath, has given
the following at-count of the state of the thermome-
ter, during three of the extremest hot days in the
last week :—On the 12th instant, the temperature
of the atmosphere rose to an height almost incre-
dible; at eight in the morning the mercury was at
75° ; and about the tn,dille of the day it stood at the
extraordinary height of 91' ;' at nine in the evening
it was at 770. —ln this country we rarely have seen
the mercury above the 80th degree; it has several
times been at 669 in the course of the last‘six years,
but never exceeded that height till the present period.
On the 13th instant, the thermometer, at eight
o'clock in the morning, was not higher than 7 1 o,.at
mid-day nos above 83e ; and about ten in the even-
mg fell to 7Cia ; which, though unusually high, was
considerably lower.than the prec'eding day.—On the
I.4th the thermometer, at eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, was at 72° ;at mid-day 830 ; and at nine in
the evening fieo.—The 15th instant, the thermo-
meter at eight o'clock was up to 760.—The baro-
meter has tor the last nine days stood at JO inches
3-20ths, without any variation worth notice.
Cooee has been performing with considera-
ble success at Manchester, where, indeed, he was
always a favourite. He proceeds to Newcastle, an-
other
.place in which his talents were in high re-
pute, before he ventured upon the London Boards.
Mrs. H. JOHNSTON is to join the Liverpool Com-
pany this season, and was to make her (Abut there
last night.
! An unfortunate accident happened at an orchard
at the back of the butt against which the targets
are placed, at the Montpelier groutid at Walworth,
on Saturday morning. It appears that trees had
been not only robbed of the fruit to a great degree,
but that they were torn down and destroyed, and
therefore the Proprietor found himself under the
necessity of putting down man-traps in the ground,
of which he gave due notice by boards placed round
the grouods.—Two fine young lads who were
plundering the cherry trees, bring alarmed that
they ,hotthi be caught, dropt down and fell plump
on the table of the trip, which closing, cut bulb
their legs so dreadfully that amputation
,was deemed
necessary.