Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

Notes and News. A MERRY CHRISTMAS to all our readers. POLITICS must have a rest for a fortnight. Peace and goodwill will reign instead. IN the New Year's list of honours it is expected that one or two well-known Welsh- men will figure prominently. THE Welsh Church Commission will not re-assemble until after the 29th of January. ACCORDING to the latest rumour, it is not intended to issue the Welsh Church Com- mission Report until late in the autumn of next year. WHEN the Freedom of Cardiff is conferred upon the Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George, M.P., it is expected that the President of the Board of Trade will stay for three days in the Welsh Metropolis. ACCORDING to a plebiscite of the British Weekly readers, the five best Welsh preachers are: Rev. John Williams (Brynsiencyn), Rev. E. T. Jones, Llanelly, Rev. T. C. Williams, Rev. Principal Edwards, and Rev. H. Elvet Lewis WHEN Parliament re-assembles, it is ru- moured that several Cabinet changes will be made. Some prophets are naming Mr. Lloyd-George as the Secretary of State, while others are inclined to place him in the Colonial Office. In either department he would do well. WHAT is to become of Ireland during the next Session ? It is admitted that Mr. Birrell is not the man for the land of St. Patrick, and the sooner the better another post is found for this clever literary man. No minister has been attacked so much in Wales during the present vacation as Mr. McKenna. His educational policy has not been acceptable to either Churchmen or Non- conformists but that is the fault of the Balfourian Act, and not that of Mr. Mc- Kenna's correct administration. Now that Mr. Lloyd-George is being hailed by the Conservative Party as a Pro- tectionist, we may hear of other prominent political and other converts before Parlia- ment re-assembles. We suggest some half- a-dozen announcements :—That Mr. S, T. Evans has been converted to Women's Suffrage that Mr. J. D. Rees has realised that he is a Welsh member; that Mr. Ellis J. Griffith is intent on becoming a Welsh Nationalist; that Mr. Vaughan Davies is busily learning Welsh in order to speak to Cardiganshire policemen that Sir Marchant Williams is a claimant for the Poet Lauret- ship; that Sir Alfred Thomas will join the Independent Labour Party. MERIONETHSHIRE County Council have decided to print their by-laws in Welsh for circulation in the county. MR. HARRY WESTON, a South Wales Con- servative agent, told a West of England Conservative meeting the other day that a child could have settled the recent railway dispute." Dyna chwi! OUR Welsh Intermediate Schools are getting very anglicised. At the recent annual distribution of prizes and entertain- ments the Welsh National Anthem was only sung at one or two of them, and the concert programmes embraced practically no Cymric music. A CORRESPONDENT writes It looks as if Mr. Haldane, with his right-about-face action in reference to the Welsh Army Division, and Mr. McKenna with his treatment of the Welsh Secondary School Grants, are doing all they can to alienate patriotic Welshmen from the Liberal Party." MONDAY'S Daily News contained an interest- ing biographical sketch of the Rev. Stephens Roose, B.A., the new pastor of Tooting Pres- byterian Church, a very handsome place of worship. Mr. Roose is a native of North Wales, and was educated at Aberystwyth University College and Oxford. Prior to removing to London Mr. Roose occupied pastorates at Ponypridd and Whalley Range, Lancashire. MR. CLEMENT EDWARD DAVIES, of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has been appointed lecturer in Constitutional and Comparative Law at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth. Mr. Davies, who is a native of Llanfyllin, was educated at the county school there, and afterwards proceeded to Cambridge. He was first in First Class Honours in the first part of the Law Tripos, and obtained a first division in the first class of the second part. He has also gained some important college prizes and scholarships. He will take up at Aberystwyth the work vacated by Professor Jethro Brown.