Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

Notes and News. Carnarvon is now preparing to give a Welsh greeting to its new Prince. According to the report of the Special Committee appointed to inquire into the Investiture of the Prince in Wales, it has been decided to recommend that the cere- mony takes place at Carnarvon. Cardiff has been advocating its Welsh claims during the past few weeks; but its chief draw-back, it seems, is the fact that its Lord Mayor cannot speak Welsh The Committee of the Colwyn Bay Eis- teddfod have secured a very varied lot of presidents for the forthcoming gathering. Every shade of political opinion will be represented on the Eisteddfod platform. Thus the opinion of a Carnarvon man of the claims of Cardiff as the chief city of Wales Away with the bombastic claims and tawdry pretensions of Cardiff, which was only a paltry, almost unknown, fishing village for centuries after Carmarthen in the South, and Carnarvon in the North, had risen to national eminence as the great com- mercial marts, the centres of intellectual activity, and the strongholds of Nationalism in the Principality." The Rev. R. Peris Williams, of Wrexham, the hon. secretary of the Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd Memorial Fund, has just received a contribution (towards the fund which is being raised for erecting a memorial column over the grave of Morgan Llwyd, the great mystic), from one of the decendants of Morgan Llwyd, namely, Major F. Bradford M'Crea, a veteran of the Indian Mutiny. He was the founder of the Army and Navy Stores, and until recently its managing director. There are other descendants of Morgan Llwyd in Russia, whose surname is Medhurst, another in the north of Spain, and another in Sicily. Sir Marchant Williams, in his capacity of stipendiary magistrate of Merthyr, adminis- tered a very much needed lesson in the Court Room, the other day, as to the correct pro- nounciation of Welsh names. There are some people who think that anything will do when Welsh names are concerned, but if there is a French or an Italian name, they will take special pains to pronounce it correctly. Sir Marchant's lesson will go home. Only one Welsh choir has entered for the Chief Choral Competition at the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Colwyn Bay! This is the Rhymney Choir. So that North Wales is absolutely unrepresented in the chief com- petition of the gathering Curious, is it not ? Lady Reid, wife of the High Commissioner for the Australian Commonwealth, named the Holt liner iEneas, a vessel of 19,500 tons, intended for the Australian service, which was launched at Belfast. This fine steamer will call regularly at Fishguard after the Australian service has been in- augurated. In Cardiff, those of the Corporation em- ployees who wear uniform, have the City Arms on their caps with the Welsh motto, Deffro, mae'n Ddydd the Welsh National Flag (y Ddraig Goch) flies from the City Hall on public holidays there is a large depot for the sale of Welsh Industries Welsh is taught in the elementary schools, and the local Cymmrodorion Society has the biggest membership of any Welsh Society in the world. These are striking facts. The weekly paper issued by the Shop Assistants Union, edited in London, recently contained a violent attack on the Welsh pulpit because of the action of the Welsh National Free Church Council in appointing a deputation to wait upon the Home Secre- tary in order to urge that the Shop Hours Bill (unless amended) will lead to Sunday breaking. The Welsh National Free Church Council have the greatest sympathy with the movement for the betterment of shop assistants' conditions of labour, and all the council did was to criticise those sections of the Bill which will encourage Sunday trading. Lord and Lady Llangattock have for- warded a letter to a London journalist, saying how deeply touched they both have been at the expressions of sympathy with them upon the death of their son, the Hon. C. S. Rolls. They desire it to be known that a Life of their son, in volume form, is in course of preparation. Lady Llangattock adds that she would be obliged if those of the late Mr. Rolls's motoring or aviating friends having knowledge of the existence of original photo- graphs or data suitable for inclusion in such a work would communicate with her at South Lodge, Knightsbridge, S.W.