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[ H ECHOES FROM LONDON. TlCAi-SOCIAL—LITERARY, :Om our Special Correspondent.) THE PURPOSE OF HISTORY. uatigural of the Cymmrodorion *0"J:9 session, 1388 89, was well attended. was represented by Mr Lewia Morris (who ^-Upied the chair) and Mr Kinnersley Lewis, **h! aD':>r of-A Hymn to the Eternal "and 'vni-kaown poems V official politics by Mr ^fthar J. Williams, &*>■> and Mr Thomas E. .pll*i ac'p,. the **»y by General R. Owen --Bes, <3.5^ and (^knael Ridgway; art by Mr '.rhomas,S.S.. and Mr Milo Griffith; Qajc by Mr Jo Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia); .luaria*research by Mr Al £ re/i Nufct and r j *ard Qwoa. Judge Brynmor Jones's ad- i 'i; Welsh History in the Light of Walsh j ^as interesting in its detail ami valaable in I' ^l^smeness. The uncritical method and E 1)0 ktcifcfli r< 2ope <» £ the Welsh historians of the ,J-a\ ar!' bf!comin more painfully apparent day Since their time, as Mr Brynmor Janes narked, history has ceased to be a more • "P»Haient of the belles lettres, and has ruent e tC )ak; a science; it has ceased to be a pageant, f J beooojg a philosophy. It is no longer ^It^ely concerned with the fortunes 0f mdi- 1^-or of familiesf court, or political intrigue, I fWd the Vicissitudes of war. It affects to deal I ,tJl l'te changes in the social, legal, and f ?*°tlorn'c condition of all classes in a community, rn; c conditiop of all classes in a community, tc !î:;it the intellectual evolution of a people in f 0 Philosophy, literature, and culture in a [ to,Kivo a rational interpretation of the of a natiopA-1 organism. WILsH DISTORT AND WELSH tAW. POT the treatment of Welsh history in the above described, Mr Brynmor 4 pointed out that we have fortu- 1Daterial of considerable extent and great i\ v T in the Ancient Laws and Institutes of a" edited by Mr Aneurin Owen, and ltJbliabed in 1841 by the Record Commissioners. Tn these—especially in the Venedotian, the rile,an, and the Gwentian Codes, ascribed to Dda—the student of Welsh history ^ag •>ir.9 i means of getting a true explanation of is perplexing: and obscure m regard to •, "^gin and development of the Welsb- inhabitants of the principality an(} it laws that the historian must resort to i>f <*5rm footing for dealing with difficulties C history. Douhts bave ^deed been 0Wa "n the authenticity of these collections, without much reason. Even if the preamble yif e ordinance of Rbuddlan did not state that 4*7 caU8e'^ the le9es et conauetudines up to ?' in force to be recited before him, i !ro5^h'ijg We iearn about the earlier history of > [ & Nations leads to the conclusion that the | 'tribes rrnst hare had a system of law, 1 W.Ti-j':i c'veloped, in operation before « i Hhsfc :nql4e;¡t. It has been often stated 1 4. f*nn;lationS show marlro^ 1 fjn?** ^>t Eijgijsh f^adal iriflijences. OFV °.PIE!R ■ 3 DOUBT' F0UUDED on the points ujj be • • • n the institutions disclosed by iaW>J &nd 1 036 ° £ SaXon Exg'and. The Ijjj *rity exists, but the infeience a» usually put It is based on an incorrect idea ot th° eariy legislat'oi* and an ignoring of e tbat tllttre are just as many Points of f11- between the leading principles of the PhrZ!0 ana Bl'r ;n or IriBh laws- Terms and r.l0ft f »y have been borrowed from Teutonic but the PrinCipaI 'nstitutions and disclosed are too fundamental to have n borrLwod from any other nation. 4. AT:O*AI MUSICAL ASSOCIATION FOR WALES. olle tht Soci°t f ^uties 1mposed on the Cymmrodorion held \i'n« of ths aist&ddvod wction meetings *txbum m September last was that of CQQenitJ a ii,eet;i-.g of Welsh mUsIcians for the i:Shjn°8e of ^cussing the desirability 0f estab- f? a National Musical Association for coiw:' t0 take 8teP3 f^m a tion Io "LCordanC0 Wlth the r«jS0lu- s-mi to meet the wishes of the con*" niUsical fraternity, a meeting was afc ^e Haven Hotel, Shrewsbury, for Ry» 27;.h ultimo, when the following *we present:—Mr John Thomas )t Jr Joseph Parry, Mr Henry XL. j°' Nankins, M*r Bac.; Eos *{■» Tin. I'r'TP, Merthyr Xydvii; Alaw • 'r .7_ues. Ir&Mdifcero, T.Btmuei, Swansea;Mr Alald^yn JSom* fi ty. i" H. 'PencerEUd ^laeior),ilr W. [tow ,8U>8 ^ei,cercld Berwyn), Mr G-ittens, New- rjj J. Williams, organist, Carnarvon iow ^°De8, Coedpoeth Mr J. T. Rees, tij and Air Rees Jones, Land ore. On j Proposal of Dr Parry, seconded by Mr Rees chair was taken by Mr John Thomas oi tkCSt<^ Mr Vincent Evans, secretary Hri 9 9^ln,0rodorion S >ciety, read the resolntion tito Circol*r convening the meeting, and *cUon of the society in relation thereto. W proposed, Mr l>avid Jenkins ,^°nded, at)(j lt was unanimously resolved, r v a society of Welsh musicians, entitled the Clonal Musical Association of Wales, be ^blijhed^ The meeting was not very definite d* to objects of the new society, but after xj^aaion H was resolved, on the proposal of Mr yS" °- Jon%8 seconded by Alaw Ddu, to define .The development of music in general, f J* e8P«ci*liv orchestral and instrumental music .?• "«.>«,/„[ tbo „f mwicl P»»» '» W,]M.» ,V association -SB>»"■* to ™- *«— !^ai*lec| ;» i„ed on proposal of Dr "Couded by 'Idr lieury Lesbe, That the of Wales be requested to become president «Zr» It wis farther resolved that the S^pe^ftfae Welsh bishops, the members of foment tot Wales, the princpale of theeduca- "^insti/f ,ind representatives of all the k6,C J?*10™' Ins should be invited to ^C, nom,nf°! „f the association. A f^lco^JoTermetnbers, with power to add 'Wte L a then nonunated. On the ^0tW^ber'fT is seconded by Dr Parxy, it hmai S aful executive committee be mbera chosen equally from 30 S For South Wales the l°C^S°Uth Wa a;0d -M^srs Dr Parry, |Cl7r °z' e^w.D J™ki"s- ^«,^(Pea v Morl^,M. O. Jones, D. Ak EYaaS'. Hagrh Edwards, Landon 'bercarne |)aJ, D^vies, Dowlais R. Aberdarer Bow-^reen; W. IS' ^lMeW; Id D. w. Levis. For ^"nh to fcw^sea John RobwK Portmadoc; ^•^illi es:—less .Q O. Roberta, Dolgelly; !S» >• l W. LZ. ^bert »F. C. W pritcbard, Wrexham; X ^.Tauy.ris.au;^ W. WiIliajDS ■t^W«(PWCeJ » Pa"y» Birk" • j Tybrose I"loyd' Chester; G. s Jot»*<w- F Gittins, Newtown ttxr T were nominated honorary T T I>- LlewelyD» of Penller- *«, ag Mr treasurer; and Mr Joseph ^HrHenTy Leslie, and Mr A. Rutson, ^'f^on of services rendered by them to sh rnj^. odded to the list of vice- of meotoolup it «. th»^, 8Ul0ea per annum. •L'AI „ for bis services in the Cha.r, and on Dr C^'8 Motion vote of thanks was accorded to Society for the disinterested Whjch they had taken up the question of a tjj Musical Association, and arranged for the 'late 1 of the representatives of Welshinusic. A thanks was also passed to Mr Rutson, *albM*ided a nomber of Welsh vocalists, &c v"^>>>tit>ft- th musical studies. It was arranged raeof the executivo should be ^00faster Tuesday at Shrewsbury. ^RKIHAM BISTEDDVOP AND ITS HESULT. C,» local committee of the Wrexham .'l^^Vod have brought tb9ir wor^ '° a close. ^•>1 surplus >.»U.bie « »"•' t of the arrangement entered .nfco 18 « it. an At the request of Marchant Williams committee, Wir at Wrexham on behalf of •t>i»tioa, .and earned its object. Mr j IV- The Mayor (Mr Evan Mow.) and itn'ritchapd, the ex-mayor, expressed the hoi of the committee at being able to th^ ^^substantial snm to the assocxatron for Cp .tnce of the interests of the eisteddvod. aa, ° I ajn informed that the association f Reived as surplus funds from the ea Bisteddvodau of the last bye or seven • :.s 4 friflfe over £ 200, whilst hy the generosity p ars it has been able to give away in • aUdi expend in the publication of ^»ld Transactions," „ something over THE BOXING-DAT COMPETITION. The annual competition meeting of tha London 'Welsh Sunday-school Union was held on Boxing Day at Shoreditcb Town-ball, when Professor Rbye. of Oxford, presided over a; orowded meeting. Professor Rbys is never more at home than when discussing, antiquarian lore on eisteddvod platforms, and his Coxuig Day address on Welsh Christmas-customs was interesting in the highest degree. Miscel- laneous gatherings of the Boxing Day kind, however, are not the best fitted for appreciating such pleasant discourses, and therefore it is the more satisfactory to know that Professor Rhys's address has been secured by my energetic confrere, Adfyfyr, for tha columns of" Cymru Fydd." A large number of competitions took place, and the meeting was prolonged to a very late boor. The first choral prize fell to the New Jewin Choir, the second to the Barrett's Grove Choir, and the third to the Chelsea Glee Party. A WELSH PROFESSOR ON "MACBETH." Possibly the revival of Macbeth, at the Lyceum had nothing to do with the ethical exposition of Macbeth at Wilton-square Chapel on Tuesday night. It was, however, from my point of view, a happy coincidence. Prof. Ellis Edwards, of Bala, a deep thinker and a sturdy moralist, gave a thoroughly interesting address on Shakespeare's great play from the ethical standpoint. The character he thus evolved from the play would admirably suit the conception of Macbeth as now pourtrayed on the staga of the Lyceum by Mr Henry Irving. Professor Edwards's view of the Thane's guilty wife, however, differs very materially fuom that embodied by Mws Ellen Terry. The address was listened to with the greatest attention by the audience, many of whom mostprobably bad not outgrown the Methodistical objection to theatre going." One of the speakers, in some subsequent remarks, opined that if we bad more Shakespeare the theatres might be less unholy, but, alas, all dramatists are not Shakespeares, and theatres must therefore be still-forbidden I A WELSH STATESMAN IN VANITY FAIR." ii Spy," in the last number of Vanity Fair, gives a fairly good-natured presentment of the member for the Denbigh Boroughs, and Jehu Junior" classes Mr Kenyon amongst his Statesmen eminent—and otherwise. We are informed that the honourable member—twice elected and twice defeated at Denbigh—was born eight and forty years ago, and that he was educated at Harrow, and polished at Oxford. He qualified for the bar, and was called by the Middle Temple in 1869. Unable to accredit him with forensic fame, "Jehu Junior" generously accords Mr Kenyon" enough law to make him the very excellent county magistrate he now is" He praises our member whom be dubs "an elderly young man with the appearance and manners of the Rtudent," for his "Life of Lord Chief Justice Kenyon," and marks his statesmanship by saying that he is a great deal that a Tory member of Parliament should be." Mr Kenyon's Welsh record,according to "Jehu Junior,"isa meagre one, being confined to somewhat inactively sharing in the government of the North Wales College, and showing his Cymric proclivities by owning « a house near Abergele, which is somewhat unpronounceably named Llanerch PanDa" Mr Ktmyon is a better Welshman than Vanity Fair gives him credit for but Llanerch Panna is near Eliesmeret which, to say the least of it, is some considerable distance from Abererele, THE APPOINTMENT QF WELSH WHIPS. The full report I was able to give of the meeting of Welsh parliamentary members at which the above appointment was discussed has proved use- ful in more ways than one. In the first place it has proved serviceable to several contemporaries who have vary kindly reproduced it. Now I have no objection whatsoever, apart frofc editorial wishes, to this particular form of flattery. Lack of proper acknowledgment may perhaps involve a question of journalistic ethics, but I am more concerned that the truth should be generally known than tbat it should shine solely from my ownparticular beacon I have, therefore,nothing to urge against my friends of the North Wales press for their appropriation of my report. But I think it is only fair that they should appropriate with discretion and with correctness. Mr J. Bryn Roberts, the parliamentary member for the Eivion Division of Carnarvonshire, in a letter to a contemporary, says that the statement imputed to him that Mr DUlwyn and Mr Alfred Thomas were desirous of driving the coach too fast is absolutely untrue. In the original report no euch statement was imputed to him; the expression is simply a plain inference from what he said and what he did. Except on this special IiobertH haw oat traversed the report, which I absolutely vouch for in every narticuiar, The difference between bis amend- ment aud'the original resolution was by no means a nominal one, so far as the views of the meeting of parliamentary members were concerned; we will possibly find, notwithstanding bis somewhat over-confident boasting, that it is by no means a nominal one in the eyes of Welsh Liberalism.

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