Y Tyst Cymreig

Ir ytJtuoø. F Ooden.—Gwnaeth Gladstone fwy na neb o'i flaen nac ar ei ol er dwyn cyllid y deyrnas hon i sefvllfa drefnus a iachus. Gwnaeth wasanaeth uchel drwy drethu y wlad yn y modd goreu i gael llawer o arian, heb ddrygu masnach a lle- fetheirio diwydrwydd; a gwnaeth wasanaeth werthfawr drwy esbonio ei gynlluniau mor eglur. Yr oedd ganddo ef ddigon o ddawn i wneud ar- eithiau blasus ar beth mor sych a budget, Mae figures yn gyffredin yn sychion iawn; ond yr oedd Gladstone yn trefnu ei figures mor fedrus, nes yr oeddynt yn darllen fel barddoniaeth. Mwy na'r cwbl, yr oedd ef yn trefnu yn ddiogol i gael dau pen y llinyn i gyfarfod. Ond yr oedd y Canghellydd presenol, y noson o'r blaen, yn gorfod gwneud yr hysbysiad diflas yn Nhy y Cy- ffredin, fod derbyniadau y llywodraeth am y liwyddyn yn fyr o gyfarfod a'r treuliau. Bydd yr income tax yn drymacli, a'r dretli ar y te yn uwch. Mae y treuliau yn arutlirol, ac y mae yn hen bryd i'r holl wlad ddyrehafu ei llais fel taran yn eu herbyn. Ein Tilicysog.-Byr iawn, ond boddhaol dros ben, oedd ymweliad Tywysog a Thywysoges Cymru a thref henafol Caernarfon. Gwnaeth yr awdurdodau yn y dref eu rhan yn deilwng o gyn- nrycliiolwyr un o genliedloedd henaf Ewrop. Prin y gallesid adnabod y dref gan mor addurn- ol yr ymddangosai; a phrin y gallesid gweled yr aneddau gan eu bod yn cael eu cysgodi gan dor- aeth diderfyn o goed bytholrwydd. Yr oedd swn a golwg y torfeydd yn dangos eu bod yn deyrn- garol, waelod calon. Ymddangosai y Tywysog a'r Dywysoges yn liollol wrth eu bodd. A wgrym- odd ei uchelder y bydd yn hyfrydwcli ganddo eto ymweled a'r wlad, enw yr hon a elwir arno. Gladstone a'i athrodwyr.—Hwyrfrydig iawn ydyw y byd i adnabod ei gymwynaswyr, a hwyr- frydig yw yr eglwys-yr eglwys wladol beth bynag-i adnabod ei nherth. Er pan ddatgan- odd Gladstone ei olygiadauar yr eglwys Wyddel- ig, y mae uchel Doriaid ac eglwyswyr rhagfarn- 0 llyd wedi dywedyd pob drygair am dano,—ei fod yn babydd, ei fod yn ddefodwr, ei fod wedi cytuno a'r Pab i ddistrywio Eglwys Brotestanaidd yr Iwerddon, a'i fod wedi derbyn dioleligarweli y Pab am yr hyn y mae ef eisioes wedi ei wneud Nid yw hyn oil yn ddim arngen na spite at y Di- n wygiwr gonest. Na thwyller neb o'r Cymry gan y fatli athrod disail. Y Tywysog Alfred,—Ymledodd y newydcl dydd Sadwrn, fel tan gwyllt, trwy Lundain a'r wlad, fod y Tywysog Alfred, yr hwn sydd yn ymdeith- io yn Awstralia, wedi cael ei saethu gian gudd- lofrudd. Yr oedd sail i'r son. Ond y mae yn llawen genym gael ar ddeall, nad yw yr archoll yn un angeuol. Iihodiwyd ar ddeall i ni ar y cyntaf mai Ffeniad oedd y cudd-lofrudd, eithr nid yw yn ymddangos fod sail i'r dybiaeth hon. Mae y Ilofradd wedi ei ddedfrydu i ddyoddef cosb marwolaeth. Mae y Tywysog hwn-y Duke of Edinburgh, fel ei gelwir, yn awr yn nodedig o 0 boblogaidd gan bob dosbarth a gradd, gartref ac I oddicartref. Abyssinia.—Buom am fisoedd lawer yn pryd- erus wylio symudiadau y fyddin yn Abyssinia. Ond bellach y mae amcanion y rhyfelgyrch wedi eu diogelu.—Mae y rhyfel wedi ei derfynu, y Brenin wedi ei ladd, neu wedi ei ladd ei hun, y carcharorion wedi eu rhyddhau, a'r milwyr yn parotoi i ddychwelyd. 0 hyn allan bydded ein man swyddogion mewn gwledydd haner barbar- aidd, a'n cydwladwyr ar eu teithiau, yn fwy gwagelog, rhag dygwydd iddynt hwy a ninau beth a fyddo gwaeth. Anffawd dost ar lawer cyfrif, oedd y rhyfel rhyngom ni ag Abyssinia.— Mae y wlad bono, mewn enw yn wlad Gristion- ogol. Ofnir fod Rhaglaw yr Aipht yn gwylied ei gyfleusdra i ddarostwng y wlad dan awdurdod yr Aipht. Y canlyniad fyddai, gwthio Mahome- taniaeth i Abyssinia, trwy y cleddyf. Ac y mae achos i ofni hefyd, fod Jesuitiaid Ffrainc yn llygadu ar y wlad hono. 'DYl'nu a swn Dyrnu.Ail ddechreuwyd nos Lun, ar y gwaith o ddyrnu yr Eglwys Wyddelig. Gan fod y gwaith mor fawr, a'r dyrnwyr yn wyr diegwan, dyrnu yn benaf fydd yn myned yn mlaen yn Nhy y Cyffredin am y senedd-dymor presenol, ac adsain y dyrnu fydd y swn uchaf yn nghlustiau y wlad. F Sefyll allan.-Mae y strikes diweddar yn y gweithydd liaiarn a glo wedi achosi colledion dirfawr i'r rneistri, a thlodi truenus yn nheulu- oedd y gweithwyr. Da genym wybod fod pethau yn debyg o ddyfod i derfyniad heddychol yn Wigan a'r amgylclioedd. Y Ffeniaid.—Nid rhyw lawer o oleuni ydym wedi gael hyd yn hyn, ar y bwriad, fel y tybid i chwythu i fyny y Buckingham Palace. Mae y dynion a ddaliwyd, yn meddiant y rhai yr oedd Greek Fire, yn aros prawf manylach. Pris y Bai-a.-Wrth ystyried yn fanot yr ad- roddiadau sydd wedi dyfod i law owahanol wled- ydd, ac wrth gymharu yr angen a'r cyflenwad, prin y gellir disgwyl gostyngiad yn mhris y bara, cyn amser y cynhauaf.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING STAB. SIB,—In your paper for the 14th inst., you commented in the following terms on a letter I took the liberty to address to the Right Hon. W. E, Gladstone:—" JIoUJ long, asks Mr Bees, is this monstrous state of thintlS to continue ?■ (i. e. the anomoly of the State Church in Wales). Just so long, we reply, as the TVelsh like to let it. As soon as it becomes a great grievance with them, a grievance not of writers ancllhetoricians merely, but one that visibly affects the prosperity and con- tentment of the nation, they will be entitled to ask foi, its removal, and they may be sure it will be removed." I confess to have been somewhat surprised in reacling the above paragraph and what follows after it, in the Star, a journal deservedly es- teemed for its healthy tone, its candid and con- sistent advocacy of all that is just and liberal in principle, in relation to all men, irrespective of nation or kindred. The fact is, that most Englishmen who undertake to write anything about Wales and the Welsh, seem to labour under some strange hallucination, so that either they cannot or will not see things as they really are. English writers and rhetoricians," male and female, and their name is legion, who have honoured us from time to time with their lucubrations under the title of A Tour in Wales," have betrayed such an amount of igno- rance and stupidity as appears to us truly astonishing. They seem to have had no con- ception whatever of the manners, the customs, and the character of the people whom they had undertaken to describe. They affect to treat us, and our language and literature, (Mathew Arnold excepted) as objects worthy only of their supreme contempt, which causes us, as a natural consequence, to regard them with the same feel- ing in return. The present state of things in Wales is to continue "just so long as the Welsh like to let it;" so says the Star. Well, the Welsh do not like to let it; therefore it is time it should be removed. No, not yet, we are told; it (the State Church) must become a great grievance with them-a grievance which visibly affects the prosperity and cententment of the nation," ere they can be entitled to ask for its removal. This strange Starry doctrine will not find many supporters here on earth, I venture to predict. Does the Star indeed mean to tell us that the subjects are not entitled to ask for the removal of a grievance until they are driven to the verge of rebellion by its pressure? Or, that the Government ought not to repeal an unjust and obnoxious law until the people begin to form combinations for overthrowing it, as is the case now in Ireland ? Is it not rather the duty of the Government to remove all grievances, and to repeal all unjust laws, wherever and when ever they may be found to exist, whether the people ask for it or not? Does not He who standeth in the congregation of the mighty, and judgeth among the gods," command them to do it ? And is it not for the purpose of judging the people righteously that that con- gregation of the mighty" (Civil Government) was ordained by Him ? But, I would meet the Star on its own ground —the Established Church in Wales has long become a great grievance, which visibly affects the prosperity and contentment of the )iatio)t,-for instance, many hundreds of Welsh farmers have emigrated to America during the last twenty- five or thirty years. The chief reason which most of those emigrants used to assign for leaving their native country was, that in America there was no Established Church, no tithes, no Ohurch-iatns. A'.rain, in their letters from their adopted country, many of which I have seen from time to time, they urged their relatives and friends to follow after them to the land of perfect freedom, wherein an Established Church, and the screw of landlords and parsons at elec- tions and parish vestries, were unknown. Those who return on a visit to their native country always select this fact as their text, from which to preach the duty of emigrating to their coun- trymen. This is not the dream of "writers and rhetoricians," but the true statement of the case; and shall the Star tell us again that the Established Church in Wales is not a grievance which visibly affects the prosperity and con- tentment of the country 1" It is true, and I am proud of the fact, that the Welsh have never manifested their discon- tent in violent outbreaks and insurrections, but thousands of them have left their native country to seek deliverance in a foreign land from the grievances which oppressed them at home. Then, surely we are entitled to ask for the removal of the grievance." No, not yet," says our Instructor, Ireland's difficulty stops .the way." Ah! there is always a lion in the way. 0, but Wales may be looming in the future, ay, looming in the future It may, or it may not; a poor consolation! "But then, Wales is bettei- able to wait- than her suffering sister." When I penned my letter to Mr Gladstone nothing could have been farther from my mind than the desire to throw an obstruction in the way of settling the Irish Church question. Nothing, I am sure, can be possibly farther from the mind of the Welsh as a nation than the thought of inaugurating any public move- ment just at present, on the subject of their State Church grievance; but surely when our opponents themselves proclaim our grievance in the House of Commons, we may be allowed to shew that we are not insensible to that grievance, without making ourselves justly liable as objects to be sneered at by English "writers and rhe- toricians." Wales is indeed better able to ivait than her suffering sister. But why ? Is it because Wales does not suffer under the same, yea, in some sense, greater grievance than her suffering sister ? No, but because she has been brought under the benign influence of evangelical Christianity; that is the reason, and the only reason, why she is better able to wait. That evangelizing work (as I have stated in my former letters) has been accomplished in the face of a strong and bitter opposition, by the self-denying labours of men whose existence was never recognised by the State, excepting so far as they were com- pelled to pay their share for the maintainance of the State Church—the Church of a small minority of the population, and that small minority being chiefly composed of the aristo- cracy, the squirearchy, and the would-be-gentry of the land. A wado hyn, aed a hi, A gwaded i'r haul godi." After all this patient and loyal submission to authority, poor Wales is coolly told that: she is able to wait-that her turn may come—it may be looming in the future, fyc. Our Irish neighbours are even flattered and praised as very loyal sub- jects of the crown, should they only be dealt justly by—heaps of apologies for past neglect and injustice are offered unto them, and rightly too, by English statesmen and orators; but a word of recognition of Welsh loyalty has been but seldom, if ever, heard in the Senate. I ven- ture to assert, should all the English, Irish, and Scotch residents be removed from the Princi- pality. that our Judges would but very seldom have any business to attend our Assizes, except to receive their pair of white gloves. Wales pooh! she is abla to wait. Yes, Wales would, indeed, wait yet a long time ere she would even think of forming secret combinations and Fenian connspira cles in order to obtain the redress of her grievances. The whole nation would rather undertake to redress itself by removing in a body to America or elsewhere, than attempt to seek it by violent means. We are continually taunted by our English friends, on account of the anomalous state of our Parliamentary representation. I regret to own that it is, indeed, far, very far, from bein"- what it ought to be. But then, it should be remembered that in no part of her Majesty's dominions is the screw put in force with such merciless severity at elections as it is in the Principality. Many poor farmers have been utterly ruined from time to time for daring to, exercise their right of voting according to their concientious convictions, against the behests oC their landlords. Give us the protection of the ballot, and assuredly, no Tory would ever after- wards cross the threshold of St. Stephen's as a. representative of a Welsh constitueracy. But, after all, we are not so far behind as we are generally represented to be. Seven out of the twelve representatives of the Counties and Boroughs of North Wales vo,ted for Mr Glad- stone's resolutions on the I rish. Church, on the recent division, and the cr.,se stands somewhat similar with regard to So.uth Wales. ir, Yours, &c., W. REES.