WESLEYAN CONFERENCE

THE Annual Conference of the Irish Wesleyan-Methodist Ministers was held this year at Belfast, and commenced on Thursday, June 24th. Never, even in Ireland, that country of a mournful history, did the Wesleyan Conference assemble under such peculiar and most painful circumstances. Everywhere anxious and onerous, the ministry is so there to an extent of which elsewhere it is difficult to form a conception. The same opposing hinderances which are found in other countries, exist there in at least an equal degree; and combined with them is a state of things which makes them insurmountable by any power short of that by the possession of which the address was made applicable and proper: