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Cyfeirierpob Gohebiaeth a fwriedir t'n colofnau, The Editor"; pob Hysbysiad, "The Adver- tising Manager"; a phob Archeb, The Manager," a'r oil i'r Swyddfa, 45, 46, 47, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. Bydd yn hyfrydwch gan y Golygvdd dderbyn gohebiaethau ac erthyglau iw hystyried, ond nis gellir ymrwymo i ddychwelyd vsgrifau gwrthod. .edig. The Editor invites correspondence. All letters must be signed with the full name of the writer. and the address must also be given, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
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Notes of the Week. The Fourth Clause.-As we write the House 'of Commons is engaged with the difficulties of Clause 4 in the Education Bill-a rather trying work on such warm and sultry days. The Government has decided to alter that clause very considerably, but we do not find that the proposed official amendments have made it more satisfactory than before to any party. Those amendments certainly affect the principles upon which the Bill was drawn out very materially, and go very far to annul the declara- tion made by Mr. Birrell when introducing it that its object was to unify our system of educa- tion. As this famous clause first stood it gave authority to the Local Education authority in urban districts containing more than one school, upon the application of the parents of three fourths of the children attending any non-provided school, to allow religious teaching according to the wishes of those parents to be given in that school. But there was no power to compel the authority to give such facilities, nor did it provide any appeal. Now there is to be an appeal to the Board of Education, and in certain cases a right of "contracting out," that is, to go back to the state of things prior to 1902. But, on the other hand, the trustees of a school in which special facilities are given cannot claim any rent from the education authority for the use of the building. So that the clause in its new form is drawn out with an aim at pleasing the denomina- tionalists and undenominationalists. Such is the entanglement into which the Government has been led by the endeavour to effect a compromise between elements that won't amalgamate. We do not say that the Bill is not worth having in the form into which it has been moulded, but its complications must prove a source of constant annoyance and strife. It is becoming more of a marvel to us every day how sensible men cannot see that there is no solution of the difficulty possible, even temporarily, except upon the basis of purely secular instruc- tion as far as the State is concerned. We realise the difficulties of the Government, but they are difficulties inherent to the position and policy it has adopted. Wales and the Clause.—The Welsh Parliamen- tary Party decided first of all to support the Bill in its original form, now it has decided to support it with Clause 4 amended. The simple mind finds some difficulty in reconciling the two attitudes, for the Bill has, undoubtedly, been made very different in character. It may be a debatable point whether the changes are really concessions to the denominationalists. We suppose the answer of the Party would be that they are not. But it cannot be said either that they remove the objections which Welsh Nonconformists had to the clause as it originally stood. At an important Conference of North Wales Progressives, held in Bangor last week, it was decided to accept the clause as it then stood, but protesting against any further con- cessions, and particularly against allowing the school teachers to impart the religious instruc- tion under Clause 4, or any other clause. Two Members of the Welsh Party, Messrs. William Jones and William Brace attended, and endea- voured to persuade the delegates to adopt a moderate and conciliatory attitude, so as not to embarass the Government. On the question of secularising the schools their appeal was success- ful, but as far as getting the Conference to agree to any concessions in favour of the non-provided schools, other than those in the original Bill, their appeal was made to deaf ears. We take it that the Bangor resolution voices the opinion of Wales generally. But surely the position taken is most illogical and unsatisfactory. If two kinds of schools are to be recognised at all, then the teachers in each ought to be allowed equal liberty. If the teachers in the provided schools are to be trusted to give proper undenomina- tional instruction, then the teachers in the non- provided schools ought to be Isimilarly trusted with regard to denominational instruction. Or is the undenominational religious instruction to be religious only in name ? Is the Bible to be regarded in the provided schools as if it were a text book in history, or geography, or ethics ? And how is it that Welsh Nonconformists do not see that their attitude in this matter weakens terribly their claim to Disestablishment? We have always understood that their objection was not to the connection between the State and the Church of England, but to the connection of the State with any form of religion at all. Are we to understand that were the established religion in Wales that nondescript kind called undenominationalism, there would be no desire for disestablishment ? We cannot understand the present position on any other supposition. What would Henry Richards, and John Thomas, and Thomas Gee think of the situation ? Stupid Blunders.- Wben will the heads of Government departments learn wisdom in the matter of appointments to official positions in Wales ? It is only a few weeks ago since the Postmaster-General appointed a monoglot Englishman as postmaster at Holyhead, an appointment that he had to cancel immediately. And now the Home Secretary has committed a similar blunder. He has appointed an officer from Durham, to whom the Welsh language is a foreign tongue, to the post of chief inspector of mines for the Swansea district. Such stupidity is altogether inexcusable. Section 39 of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, provides that in Wales and Monmouthshire preference should be given to Welsh-speaking applicants, and in the present instance there were nearly fifty Welsh candidates who possessed the necessary qualifications. We hope the Welsh Parlia- mentary Party will make such an effectual protest as will compel Mr. Herbert Gladstone to follow the example of Mr. Sydney Buxton in its entirety. We do not raise the cry of "Wales for the Welsh," but in a case like this, where questions affecting the safety of the life and limbs of thousands of our nation who speak no English are concerned, we think English statesmen should be found at least to carry out the letter of their own Acts of Parliament.
Am Gymry Llundain.
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Am Gymry Llundain. YR YSTORM.—Yr oedd yr ystorm 0 fellt a tharanau fu ar ymweliad a'r ddinas yn gynar foreu Sul diweddaf yn eithriadol o chwyrn. Pistyllai'r gwlaw a rhuai'r daran yn unol a desgrifiad goreu'r bardd. YN Y WLAD.—Yr un modd trwy Ddeheudir Cymru yr oedd enbydrwydd yr ystorm yn creu braw yn mhob man, ac o ganolbarth Ceredigion daw'r hanes oddiwrth un o wyr y ddinas fod canol nos wedi ei droi yn ganol dydd yno gan oleuni llachar y mellt gwibiog. POETHDER HAF.—Does eisieu i neb gwyno bellach nad yw'r haf wedi d'od yn ei ogoniant. Y mae'r pythefnos diweddaf hyn wedi rhoddi prawf ar amynedd holl gritics y tywydd. YMBLESERU.—Daw'r hanes o amryw gyfeir- iadau fod y garddwyliau Cymreig wedi bod yn hynod o lwyddianus y Sadwrn diweddaf, a chynulliadau mawr ynddynt oil. Y CVMDEITHAsAu.-Parhau mewn bri mae'r "ramblo" gan y gwahanol gymdeithasau b 9 diwylliadol, a dydd Iau diweddaf bu pobl ieuainc y Tabernacl ar ymweliad ag Elstree, o dan arweiniad Miss Sallie Hughes a Miss Laura Roberts, a chyda dwy arweinyddes mor ddeniadol nid rhyfedd i'r cwmni fwynhau eu hunain yn rhagorol nes bron anghofio amser y trens olaf yn ol i'r ddinas. Caed tywydd hafaidd a phob hwyl i loni calonau "plant caeth y ddinas." YR UNDEB.—Bu pwyllgor o'r Undeb, o dan lywyddiaeth y Cynghorwr H. J. Williams, Y.H., yn trefnu rhaglen y tymhor yr wythnos hon, a phenderfynwyd cynal cyfarfodydd arbenig ynglyn a'r holl gymdeithasau yn ystod y gauaf dyfodol. Mae'r cynulliadau hyn yn lliosogi bob blwyddyn, ac mae'r Undeb wedi bod yn ffodus eleni eto i gael arweinydd gweithgar a medrus i ofalu am bobl ieuainc y ddinas. CASTLE STREET.-Dydd Sul diweddaf oedd gwyl canol haf yr eglwys hon, a chaed cyfres hynod boblogaidd o gyfarfodydd o'r boreu hyd yr hwyr. Dechreuwyd trwy gynhal cyfarfod gweddi am wyth, yna caed brecwast" am naw o'r gloch, ac eisteddodd rhyw gant wrth y bwrdd i'r wledd foreuol hon. Y GWEINIDOG NEWYDD.—Y Parch. Herbert Morgan oedd yn llanw'r pwlpud drwy'r dydd, a chaed pregeth Saesneg ganddo yn y boreu, a phregeth arbenig i'r bobl ieuainc yn yr hwyr, dau draddodiad rhagorol i gapel llawn bob tro- Y mae'r eglwys wedi bod yn ffodus yn ei dewis. iad o weinidog, ac mae Mr. Morgan yn sicr o wneud enw iddo ei hun ar y llwyfan cyhoeddus yn ein cynulliadau. YR YSGOL SUL.- Yn y prydnawn caed cyfarfod arbenig o dan nawdd yr Ysgol Sul. Llywyddid gan y Gwir Anrhydeddus D. Lloyd- George, A.S., a chaed anerchiad rhagorol ganddo ar waith yr Ysgol a'r gwerth o gadw'r Cymraeg yn fyw yn ein haddoldai. Yr oedd Mr. Llewelyn Williams, A.S., yno hefyd gyda Mr. George, a chaed araeth ragorol gan y Cymro