The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. I - Enter His Rest

arising out of the introduction of an organ into Brunswick Chapel. 2. The
Wesleyan Methodist Association, which sprung out of the controversy in
1834, concerning the then proposed Theological Institution. 3. The
Reformers, who were expelled, or who seceded, during the terrible
agitation which occurred in 1849. These amalgamated bodies have, in
1869, ministers, 312; lay preachers, 3445; chapels, 1228; Sundayscholars,
152,315; church members, 68,062.
The Wesleyan Reform Union consists of those Reformers of 1849 who
refused to amalgamate with the United Methodist Free Churches. In 1868,
the Union had 20 ministers, 608 lay preachers, 276 chapels and preaching
places, 580 class-leaders, 18,475 Sunday-scholars, and 9393 church
members.
The above comprise all the Methodist bodies now existing in the
United Kingdom. Some others have occasionally sprung up, such as the
Tent Methodists, the Independent Methodists, etc.; but they are now either
extinct or incorporated with other churches. Not reckoning the Band
Room Methodists, nor the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and
making a moderate estimate of the Sunday-school scholars belonging to
the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists and to the Primitive Methodists in
Ireland, we arrive at the following results.