Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

Notes and News. THE Ancient Britons will re conquer London on Tuesday next. WELSH will be the only language that will be heard around Hyde Park during the coming week. THE Gorsedd invasion of London will be different from the German airship invasion." It is expected that the Germans will arrive stealthily at night, whereas the Gorsedd will be in the face of the sun, the eye of light." YE patriots don your Welsh armour for the coming week, and prove yourselves thorough Celts for once. "JOHN BULL'S poster last week read— An impudent impostor." One of the editor's open letters was addressed to Sir Marchant Williams. Of course the poster referred to another person named in that journal. IT is unfortunate that the Church Pageant has been extended over the Eisteddfod week. Surely, the organisers of the Welsh section of it could have avoided this. "OOMING events cast their shadows before them." The Rev. J. Crowle Ellis, vicar of St. Benet's Welsh Church, is the principal Welsh Bishop in the Church Pageant, and acts his part very successfully. LLEWELYN'S grave has at last been dis- covered, and that by an alien! But that was an easy task, compared to the discovery of what became of the money that was collected in London some years since towards a Llewelyn Memorial." LONDON milkmen are up in arms against John Burns's Pure Milk Bill. What with Mr Lloyd George and his sixpenny super tax, and Mr. Burns's demand for clean shops, the life of the wealthy milkman is becoming intolerable. They are all threatening to buy more farms in Wales, and retire to the wilds of Cambria! LAST Monday, a contingent of English ministers—representing all denominations, as well as Churchmen and Roman Catholics —sailed for Germany. The party is under the organisation of the Rev. W. Thomas, of the Free Church Federation, and includes among its numbers several eminent Welsh- men. Among the number we may mention the Rev. Benjamin Thomas, of Harlesden, and Rev. D. Bryant, D.C.L., of Walworth. THE many friends of the Rev. D. Bryant will be pleased to learn that the University of Durham has conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws. Mr. Bryant had already graduated M.A., B.C.L., at Cardiff and Durham, and his thesis for the Doctorate was an exhaustive composition on The Reformation and the Canon Law." IT is rumoured that a number of suffra- gettes will be present at the Albert Hall, in order to interrupt the Premier and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the days that those eminent persons preside. If by such tactics they should disturb or interfere with the chances of any of the competing choirs, we shall be surprised if they leave the edifice with smiling faces. The treatment of unfair referees at South Wales football matches will be nothing com- pared to it! EISTEDDFODIC and Gorsedd reforms appear to be as difficult to secure as the Disestablish- ment of the Church. Ever since 1860 we have had talk on reforms in connection with the ancient institution, but it appears we are as far off as ever. The charm of the Gorsedd, after all, is its primitive and unreformable rites, and it would be a pity to modernise it according to the opinions of some of our present day reform advocates. OUR contemporary, John Bull, in its last issue, contained an open letter to Sir Marchant Williams, in which it states I am informed that at an Occasional Court recently, during your absence from the bench, the justices heard a case of drunk and disorderly,' and fined the culprit five shillings and costs. This seems to have huffed you. When next you took your place in court you were cock-a-whoop at once. You were not going to have fines varied, you said. YOll were not going to have them fixed at lOa. and costs when you were sitting, and 5s. and cost when you were not. You had fixed a proper fine, the only proper fine, whatever the difference of the circumstances at any rate this is the true inference to be drawn from your remarks. 'If this kind of thing goes on,' you prattled, 'I won't have cases tried at all, except on days when I am here.' That is very high play, Sir Marchant, but you will permit me to say that I do not conceive it to be very good play. You are not the autocrat of law and justice even in Merthyr not quite." What will Sir Marchant have to say to this in his next Nationalise