Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

Wanted Wanted: Men! Not systems fit and wise, Not faiths with rigid eyes, Not wealth in mountain piles, Not power with gracious smiles, Not even the potent pen- Wanted: Men! Wanted: Deeds! Not words of winning note, Not thoughts from life remote, Not fond religious airs, Not sweetly languid prayers, Not love of scent and creeds- Wanted: Deeds! Wanted: Deeds! Men that can dare and do, Not longing for the new, Not prating of the old Good life and action bold: These the occasion needs- Men and Deeds! DUNCAN MACGREGOR.

Sonnet. The summer sun bad set the blue mist sailed Along the twilight lake no sounds arose. Save such a shallow Nature's sweet repose, And charm the ear of peace Young zephyr hailed In vain the slumbering echo. In the grove The song of night's lone bard, sweet Philomel, Broke not the holy calm; the soft notes fell Like the low whispered smiles of timid love. I paused in adoration and such dreams As haunt the pensive soul. intensely fraught With silent, incommunicable thought, And sympathy profound, with fitful gleams Caught from the memory of departed years, Flashed on my mind, and woke luxurious tears! BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

Luck and Labour. Luck" and labour" both begin with the same letter, but end with very different results. Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up; labour with keen eye and strong will, bravely turns up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes that the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labour I turns out at six o'clock, and, with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of competence. Luck whines, labour whistles; luck relies on chance, labour on character; luck slips downward to indigence, labour strides upwards to inde- pendence. LAWRENCE GANE.

Life. This life may be truly called a haunted house, built as it is on the very confines of the land of darkness and the shadow of death. A thousand living fibres connect us with the unseen state, and the strongest hearts, which never stand still for any mortal terror, have sometimes hushed their very beating at the breath of a whisper from within the veil. Perhaps the most resolute unbeliever in spiritual things has hours of which he would be ashamed to tell when be, too, yields to the powers of these awful affinities which bind us to that un- known realm. HARRIET B. STOWE.

+ Rectitude is Power. Force of principle gives, as it were, new power to the whole man. With this inward spring how much can he accomplish-how much endure ? .Sustained by a consciousness of rectitude, diffi- culties no longer daunt us, and hindrances sink before us. The minds of men are exceedingly weakened by inconsistent passions-by fear, in- interest, regard to opinion. They effect little, because they want unity. He who is accustomed to ask what is right, and to espouse it with energy, leaving the consequences with God, derives new power from his singleness of purpose. It gives him fearlessness of mind. His faculties, concen- trated on his duties, act freely and strenuously; he perseveres when others would droop, and succeeds when they would fail. Right action, by being in itself simple and harmonious, brings an immediate reward in peace, equanimity, steadiness. Strong moral principle is a spring of honourable impulse, and gives us the highest use of all our faculties. CHANNING.

Moral Character. No loss is more to be deprecated than loss of character we may find compensation for all other misfortunes, but failure in moral strength and delicacy is irreparable. We feel this in regard to the individual. Introduced to one with the great name, a splendid history, brilliant gifts, we feel at once the sense of reverence, and instinctively do homage to greatness but let it be whispered that there is falsity or foulness in the life of our hero, and he forthwith suffers in our eyes a swift and terrible degradation—his greatness is dwarfed, his authority impaired, his eloquence becomes a trick, his purple seems literally threadbare and unclean. And we are conscious of a similar revulsion of feeling in the presence of a rich and intellectual nation signally deficient in righteousness so soon as we discover moral corruption beneath its material splendour, we shrink as from a leper whose gorgeous garments only heighten the horror of the plague. We have writers who would fain persuade us that Our instinct in this matter is somewhat at fault, that our estimate of virtue is exaggerated, partaking of the nature of a super- stition, that our Puritan education has taught us to attach a fictitious value to obedience and righteousness, and that we need to revise and liberalise our moral judgments. But the Christian world persists in its belief in the unparalleled importance and grandeur of moral character; and the atheistic evolutionist who maintains that man is the highest link in the chain of zoological development, and that his moral feelings are the latest and highest development of that highest link, substantially agrees with the Christian world in assigning to moral character an altogether indisputable supremacy. The conviction of the community at large to-day is that virtue is peerless, that practical righteousness is of transcendent and overwhelming importance, and that any material or intellectual loss is light compared with the -catastrophe of sinking the moral standard, of injuring the moral sense. We are persuaded the worst thing that could happen to us and to our children would be any loss of reverence for con- science, character, and conduct. REV. W. L. WATKINSON.

Instinct and Immortality. Men have an instinct of immortality. This can hardly be denied. It has been found in the lowest savages, and in the most intellectual races; it revealed itself in the nations of antiquity, and it prevails in the modern world, not only within the limits of Christendom, but beyond. However men may explain this instinctive sense of immortality, whatever degree of validity they may attach to it, its existence can hardly be denied. If there be one characteristic common to the race, after all exceptions have been fully allowed for, it is to be found in that prophetic sense which suggests to us a life beyond the grave. Very strange, diversified, grotesque even, are the manifestations of this instinct, but that it exists in the human heart is beyond question. And this instinct we are* bound to respect. Mr. Darwin referring to the grand intimations of the human mind, makes this ob- servation But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?" Now, as I have pointed out elsewhere, Mr. Darwin here does his own theory injustice. Are not the instincts of the lower creatures on the whole marvellously correct? The instinct of the bird of passage does not deceive it in its vast strange migrations. The instinct of the bee does not fail it in the elabora- tion of its cell, in the gathering of its honey, and in many other ways altogether wonderful. The instinct of the butterfly and beetle is not at fault when by a strange prescience they prepare the cradle and ftlod of their offspring whom they shall never see. And, may we not ask with confidence, if the instinct of the caterpillar pointing to the butterfly, if the instinct of the swallow discerning far beyond the sea a land of sunshine and flowers, if these instincts prove no mockery, why should the instincts of human nature, pointing to a grand perfection in a world above and beyond, prove un- trustworthy ? If instinct prove reliable within a narrower area and on lower grounds, why should we not trust it on higher grounds and within vaster horizons ? Surely modern science has done nothing to discredit the general trustworthiness of instinct, and we have, in the light of science, no reason to suspect the highest instincts of all which point to God and to immortality. REV. W. L. WATKINSON.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat at a quarter past four o'clock. IMPRISONMENT IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT OF FINES. The Earl of JERSEY, when moving the second reading of the Fine or Imprisonment (Scotland and Ireland) Bill, explained that its object was to assimilate the law of Scotland and of Ireland as to imprisonment in default of the payment of fines to that of England, so that prisoners should be allowed to work out part of their fines by imprisonment. The Bill had passed through the other House. Lord ASHBOURNE expressed approval of the measure as far as Ireland was concerned. The Bill was then read a second time. THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMONS AND OPEN SPACES. Lord BURGHCLERE moved the second reading of the Commons and Open Spaces Bill, which pro- posed to amend the Enclosure Acts from 1845 to 1882, and the law relating to commons and open spaces. At present a common could not be regu- lated or placed under local management without a provisional order, or a scheme confirmed by Act of Parliament, and the main object of the Bill was to provide simple and less expensive machinery, to make some minor aracndments in the Enolosure Acts, and in the enactments relating to open spaces and recreation grounds, and to repeal certain enactments relating to commons which were either obsolete or inconsistent with modern legislation. He proposed that the District Council in the neigh- bourhood of any of these open spaces should have power to draw up a scheme for its regulation,which if after a certain interval it received the approval of the Board of Agriculture, should have the force of law. He should have no objection to referring the measure to a Select Committee. z;1 Lord CROSS sympathised with the object of providing cheaper machinery for the regulation of commons and open spaces, but it must be remem- bered that in dealing with commons they were dealing with the absolute rights of the lords of the manor and the commoners. It would be a new thing to take away those rights without the authority of Parliament, and he was not satisfied that under the Bill proper compensation would be obtainable when those rights were taken away. He was also of opinion that the clause relating to the adjust- ment of rights might lead to injustice. He would, however, assent to the second reading on the under- standing that he proposed to place on the paper amendments which would enable the existing pro- cedure to be simplified and cheapened without interfering with the due rights of the persons in- terested. The Earl of KIMBERLEY thought all were agreed that in the case of the smaller commons and village greens there should be simpler and cheaper means than now existed of providing for their regulation. The Bill was read a second time. The House adjourned at a quarter past six oclock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. L87,000 TO BE GIVEN AWAY! STRONG PROTEST. In moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law with respect to the payment of rates on tithe rent-charge attached to a benefice, Mr. LONG said: If practical similarity of con- clusions resulting from a variety of inquiries extending over a considerable period and virtual unanimity of opinion arrived at by eminent and distinguished and well-known men of our time who have given consideration to the subject under dis- cussion constitute a claim upon the attention of this House for the redress of a grievance, I think I can establish a very good case for the subject to which I now propose to invite the attention of the House (ministerial cheers). In 1843 the Poor-law Commissioners, who were directed to inquire into the incidence of local taxation, a subject which, like the poor, seems to be always with us," and always a subject of dissatisfaction and inquiry, issued a report in which occurred this important passage:—"We recognise the grievance to which the tithe-owner and some other classes of rate- payers are thus subjected in being rated on the full value of their property," and this they only qualified by objecting to the peculiar form of the relief asked for. In 1852 the late Mr. Gladstone, than whom there was no higher authority on ques- tions of rating and taxation, in a speech on the Budget, referred to this question and said, "The clergy have a real grievance at this moment. It is admitted by all authorities that the clergy suffer cruelly by being rated for local taxation upon their gross incomes." Coming down to our own times, a Royal Commission appointed by the present Government has issued an interim report- (ironical Opposition ebeers)-and two minority re- ports, and I venture to say that interim report is of a most remarkable character and, with the evidence, will well repay perusal. Out of fifteen Commissioners twelve signed that interim report, including Sir John Hibbert, formerly a distin- guished member of this House and a high authority on all questions of local taxation, and the town clerks of two of our greatest municipalities. They said pending the issue of the final report this grievance might properly be met (Ministerial cheers). The minority reports were by the right hon. gentleman the member for Clackmannan (Mr. J. B. Balfour), who only deprecates immediate treatment; by the hon. member for Donegal, who suggests inclusion in the Agricultural Rating Act and by the hon. member for Shoreditch (Mr Stuart), who alone told the clergy they might be thankful things were not worse (laughter). How extraordinary the injustice is may be illustrated by three different kinds of sierical endowment. If you take an endowment producing a stipend of iE300 a year proceeding from fixed money pay- ments not liable to rates the net deductions are only £4 10s. Take, secondly, an endowment derived from glebe of which the incumbent is occupier. The annual value is C300 and the out- goings iEZ4 4s. 6d., so that the net income is 1 5 £ 275 15s. If, thirdly, you take an income derived solely from tithe rent charge of the present value of £ 300 a year the outgoings are £ 54, and the income falls to £ 246. I venture to say there is a disparity between these cases in respect to the capacity of the ratepayer to bear his burden which justifies the demand for this bill. I am happy to say the method by which we intend to deal with the question is simple and brief in its character. We propose that owners of tithe rent charge or its equivalent shall pay in future half only of the rates to which they are at present lia- ble. How is the deficit thereby created to be made up ? The first suggestion that will occur to everybody is that the Imperial Exchequer will be the source from which the deficit will be made up. When he had to deal with the question in regard to agricul- ture our poverty and not our will consented to that recourse. But now, turning to the Local Taxation Account, we find that, comparing 1889-90, when it came into existence, with the present time, there is an increase of 9156,419 under the head alone of licenses and probate. Comparing this year with last year there is an increase of E14,197 under the same head. The amount required by the relief to be given under the bill is only £ 87,000. Therefore there is not only sufficient in the surplus of the Local Taxation Account to meet it but to leave a substantial balance. Thus we can give relief to a particular class of ratepayers without casting on others a burden that can honestly be called ap- preciable (Opposition laughter). Let me remind the House that there are precedents for our pro- posal. The Public Health Act of 1875 gave greater exemption to tithe owners. The Baths and Ware- houses Act also gave exemption to tithe owners (hear, hear). The machinery of the bill is simple. The rate collector will forward his demand to the Board of Inland Revenue, who will pay the sum demanded by him, deducting it from the gross total of the Local Taxation Account before trans- farring it to the Local Government Board for distribution among the local authorities. The relief given by the bill will be genuine and will remedy a long-standing injustice (Ministerial cheers). The local authorities who have the snendins: of the monev from which we nrooose to take a small part know that these increased balances are coming, and they are rather tempted to extravagence and bad administration (loud Opposition cheers). I know what these charges mean, but I have not the time to answer them. I am talking only of the growing produce of the Local Taxation Account. If the amounts of the increased balances and the dates when they would come were known the local authories would be in a much better position. If we are ever going to deal with the huge questions of local taxation and remove some of the burdens that press unduly on particular classes of the ratepayers it can only be done by some such system as is embodied in the bill which I now ask leave to introduce. It will give relief to a class who have long suffered sub- stantial injustice, and will throw no burden upon others, or at least no burden they would know of but for the speeches of hon. gentlemen opposite (Ministerial cheers and Opposition counter cheers). Mr. H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, who was received with loud Opposition cheers, said: I feel bound to express my surprise at and enter my pre- test against the procedure adopted by the Govern- ment (Opposition cheers.) The method of introducing bills at this period of the evening, when only a limited discussion is allowed, was designed and adopted, as is shown by reference to Hansard, to facilitate the introduction of what are known as Departmental or non-controversial measures (Opposition cheers.) It is surely time that we had some definite understanding or rule on the subject (hear, hear.) By the present arrange- ment the Government can at their discretion introduce a bill, however contentious, as this one is, either at a time when there can be only a brief discussion or at a time when there may be a full debate. I ask, at all events, that we have a rule which is fair and equal all round. I commend it not only to the leader of the House, but to the House itself, that we shall have a more fixed and regular rule than we have at the present time. The present bill is a bill to relieve certain clergymen of their rates. Last year the Chancellor of the Exchequer dealt with this question, and I wish he had to deal with it on this occasion also. But the Minister of Agriculture is brought in no one knows why. But we have the opinion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed last year. Last year he said: It is very well to say that you ought not to tax the clergymen more than the lawyer or the doctor, but as a matter of fact they have been taxed in this way for centuries past." In a prev- ious sentence he said: They have been taxed since the days of Queen Elizabeth," and although y I the reference to Queen Elizabeth singularly dis- 'appears from Hansard it is authenticated by the fact that in the subsequent debate references were made to it. The right hon gentleman strikes out something which is not perhaps to his mind on second thoughts, but he cannot strike out refer- ences to it in the subsequent debate (laughter.) I do not, however, insist on Queen Elizabeth (laughter.) Centuries past" answers my pur- pose. The right hon. gentleman goes on to say: That being so, to ask the Government to relieve property from taxation which has been so long subject to it, either at the expense of other rate- payers or at the expense of ratepayers generally, is not a practical request." (Loud Opposition cheers.) Sir M. HICKS-BEACH, rising amid cheers and counter cheers That question does not accurately convey the meaning of what I said. I was allud- ing to the demand of some of the clergy that they should be entirely exempted from local taxation (oh, oh and "hear, hear.") n. Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN There will be opportunities of elucidating that point at a subsequent stage. But these words are very explicit, and they are not invalidated by the fact that towards the close of his speech the right hon. gentleman referred to the Royal Commission, and rather invited it to give him and the Government some guidance on the subject. We have been told on the highest political authority-that of one who is both Prime Minister and Forcign- that in his opinion Royal Commissions are for the most part of small account (laughter). They are at all events very convenient to certain Governments. They may either be the means of enshrouding and postponing some subject awkward to deal with, or they may furnish the means of suggesting desired legislation for which it is difficult otherwise to find an excuse (opposition cheers). That is a manoeuvre with which the House is becoming familiar. It is the easiest thing in the world. We desire to reward or con- ciliate some section on community by endowing them with exceptional advantages at the cost of other people. A Royal Commission is sitting on a subject applicable to the whole community. We get the Commission to issue an interim report — (opposition cheers)—in favour of some particular advantage being given to a section of the com- munity, and then you come forward with a demand. It is an ingenious device, but it loses its force when it is repeated so often as to become perfectly transparent (opposition cheers). What is the cause before us, apart from technicalities? Here are certain clergy of the Church of England whose income come from tithe and glebe land, and they find that so heavy are the burdens of local taxa- tion upon them that their incomes, already poor, are reduced so as to be altogetherinadequate. This grievance has been greatly aggravated by the legis- lation of the present Government, who a few years ago gave relief to the landlord through his tenant (ministerial cries of Oh," and opposition cheers). say to the tenant without the landlord if you like. The Government gave relief to a favoured class by relieving them of half their rates, and necessarily imposed those rates upon all other sections of the community, including those clergy who now make complaint. I feel the greatest sympathy with these unfortunate clergymen. In many cases they are hardly in a position to fulfil the duties of their important position. They ought to be relieved, but who is to relieve them ? They ought to be relieved, according to the right hon. gentleman, at the expense of the taxpayer out of moneys which, if they had not been given to this purpose, would have gone to some other purpose beneficial to the community. The landlords had already been helped, and now the clergymen. When is the turn of the householder, the shopkeeper, the tradesman, and the general community at large ? I am not aware that at the present moment there is such an overweening and universal confidence in the clergy of the Church of England as to make a proposal of this kind particularly opportune, but if their incomes are insufficient, as I believe they are, for the proper discharge of their duties, they are the servants of the richest Church, far and away, a Church which has among its members, roughly speaking, almost all the influential classes in society and the most exalted in position. In spite of this they are to come to the ratepayers of the country to make up these little deficiencies in their income (loud Opposition cheers). There is no other independent Church in the kingdom so mean and so poor—(prolonged Opposition cheering —that it would not scorn to do it (renewed cheers). But I will not quote the case of what are called the Nonconformist bodies, who have differ- ent theories and ideals on these matters. I will take the case of an Established Church well known to the leader of the House, the Church of Scotland, which is generally made up of the trade and farming and labouring people of Scotland. That Church discovered a few years ago that many of its ministers were not in receipt of sufficient salaries to maintain their position. What did they do? They instituted a fund and they col- lected subscriptions and they fixed a mini- mum income which every one of their ministers was to receive. And that has been done by the free-will effort and self-sacrifice of the people of the Church (opposition cheers). There is an instance of an Established Church taking the right way of dealing with a difficulty of this sort (hear, hear). That is the way, and not to exact aid from the already over-burdened community, many members of which are as much overwheighed and in need of our generosity as the clergy of the Church of England. These are the general con- siderations which prompt me to declare an open and determined hostility to the object to the bill. I began by saying that I protested against a bill of this importance being introduced by the Government with a full knowledge of the strong feeling that existed upon it in this manner, and to emphasise that opinion I beg to ask you, sir, if you would, in the exercise of your power, put the question that the debate be adjourned (loud opposi- tion cheers). tion cheers). The SPEAKER put the question that the debate be adiourned. The House divided- For the adjournment 162 Against 243 Majorityagainst. 81 The House then divided on the question that leave be given to introduce the bill, and there voted- For the motion 247 Against 169 Maioritv 78 The result was received with Opposition cheers. Mr. LONG, amid faint Ministerial cheers and loud ironical Opposition cheers, formally introduced the bill, which was then read a first time. The reading was fixed for Tuesday next. Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN: I presume the bill will not be put down for so early a day as Tuesday with the view of taking it then. Sir M. HICKS-BEACH: I think so. Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN: We have the strongest objection to take it so soon (hear, hear). Let the right hon. gentleman consider that the country at large have very little knowledge even of the intention of the Government with regard to it (Ministerial laughter and Opposition cheers). Sir M. HICKS-BEACH: Perhaps the right hn- gentleman will put a question on the subjecto to morrow.

DYFFRYN. SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION.—The following have been nominated as candidates for seats in the School Board in the parishes of Llanenddwyn and Llan- ddwywe is-y-graig. Llanenddwyn :-John Davies, Glanymorfa, journalist; Rees Evans, Gwynfa, general dealer; William Matthias Griffith, Bron- eirian, minister; John Humphreys, Vaeldref, farmer; Robert Jones, Ystumgwern, farmer; Daniel Rowland Lewis, The Rectory, Clerk in Holy Orders; William Lewis, Brynteg, farmer; Edward Lloyd, Bronyfoel Isaf, farmer; William Roberts, Hen Shop, bootmaker; David Thomas. Dolgau, farmer; Morris Griffith Williams, Pengwern, Dyffryn, coal merchant; Robert Jones Williams, Post Office, shopkeeper; William ThomasWilliams, Cambrian Villa, coal merchant. Llanddwywe-is-y- graig:—Richard Cadwaladr, Tyuchaf, quarryman; Robert Davies, Frongaled, farmer; Lewis Evans, Coedybachau, farmer; Richard Jones, Islawrffordd, farmer; Griffith Powell, Tyddyngronwy, farmer; David Pugh, Tyddyn Felin, farmer. In the event of more than five candidates remaining after four o'clock a poll will be taken next Wednesday. Mr. Wynford Phillips, M.P., has paired for the rest of the session with Lord Folkestone, M.P., and gone abroad.

Awards of Scholarships. AWARDS OF SCHOLARSHIPS. The following scholarships and exhibitions were continued or awarded for session 1899-1900 by the Senate of the College at its last meeting on the work of the session, 1898-9 :—Gwilym A. T. Davies CZ40, Robert T. Jenkins R40, John S. Davies R40, William S. Davies £ 40, H. J. Fleure 9,30, Richard Williams £30, William Isaac Jones (conditionally) £25, Amy Bodkin E20, Camilla Thomas £20, David Williams Z20, Dorothy Bcresford Wood £20, Joseph Burlington £20, Jane E. Walker £15, Margaret E. Hill P,15, Gwen James P,15, Claudia Morgan C15, Edward Jones E15, Amy V. Burgess 15, Edward Edwards P.15, Edith M. Edmonds £15, Evelyn E. Kempster 9,10, Edith J. Ashwell P,10, David Thomas Davies £10, Benjamin Morgan £ 10, Samuel M. Powell £10, Jessie W. Scott Elo, Basil S. Long £10, Norah M. Jenner £10, Mabel A. Hughes £10, John E. Hughes £10, Gwladys M. Morgan £10, Beatrice Green £10, Isabella Scott £10, Annie Lewis £10, Martha W. Watkin £10, Kenworthy Thompson P,10 (new award), Edward Evans £5, Ella Bramfitt R5. Edith M. Lockyer P,5, Emma D. Backhouse R5, Annie Ritchie R5 (new award), Thomas E. Carpenter R5 (new award). Closed School: William T. Ellis (Clarke) £30, John Edwards (R. H. Edwards) £20, Evan J. Evans (moiety of Elizabeth Davies, Brynteifi) £10, William Harris (ditto) £10. Normal Exhibitions: Annie T. Tucker £10, Edith E. Quick £10, William J. Williams (Swansea) £10, Abel J. Jones £10, Thomas R. Francis £10, Alice Sweeney £10, Hettie Williams £10.

Early College Recollections. II. The purchase in 1867 of the College buildings, in their then unfinished state was a masterly stroke of policy, affording as it did material and visible proof to the subscribers, that the dream of the nation had verily become the substance of things hoped for." The building, originally intended as a first-class hotel, was purchased from the estate of the late Mr. Savin, and occupying as it did, a commanding position overlooking the sea, was admirably adapted for the purposes of a College. The good fortune which had thrown in the path of the promoters a palatial building, at a cost of £ 10,000 after eight times that amount had origin- ally been spent in its erection, was a source of great gratification to all concerned. It was not, however, until October, 1872, that the University College became an accomplished fact, fully equipped for work, with its Principal and staff of Professors appointed. The inauguration of the College was celebrated by a public breakfast in the College Hall on the 15th October, 1872, presided over by Colonel Pryse, and was attended by a large number of Welsh Members of Parliament, and other influential Welshmen. The proceedings in connection with this great national gathering, were of the most enthusiastic character, and the speeches that were there de- livered and subsequently reported in the Times and other London, Liverpool, and Manchester papers, gave an impetus to the movement, which years of silent and plodding work had failed to effect. Among the speakers who took part in the meet- ing were Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd, M.P., Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., Mr. Evan Matthew Richards, M.P., Mr. David Davies, Llandinam; Mr. Charles Edwards, Dolserau Hall, Dolgelley, and Mr. Morgan Lloyd, Q.C. During the proceedings a telegram was received from Mr. Gladstone which ran thus, I have written a letter to say how much honour I think this undertaking does to its promoters." The kindly interest taken by the Premier, coupled with a donation of £ 3,000 given by Mr. David Davies, of Llandinam, endowed the Committee with re- newed vigour. Additional subscriptions to the extent of £2,500 were promised, and Sir Thomas Lloyd gave a scholarship of Z25 per annum as long as he lived. The speech of the day was undoubtedly that of Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., and will be ever-memor- able in the annals of the College. A few of the younger generation have had an opportunity of reading the speech, it will no doubt be appreciated by all who are interested in the history of the College movement, if I reproduce it in the columns of your paper. Mr. Henry Richard, M.P., said it was natural that on such an occasion the minds of Welshmen should revert to the ancient renown of their country in connection with its educational institu- tions. There was a time when Wales stood high among the nations of the earth on account of the number and excellence of her scholastic and col- legiate institutions (hear, hear). Long before Oxford or Cambridge were thought of (laughter and cheers) and, if his Saxon friends who were present would pardon him, he might say before their ancestors had ceased to worship Thor and Woden and other heathen gods, there was, for in- stance, at Caerleon in Usk, an educational estab- lishment in which it was said that 1,000 youths of Gwent and other parts of Wales were trained in sound learning and religion—(cheers)—while at Bangor Iscoed, in Flintshire, there was a still more extensive and illustrious establishment, numbering, as the Venerable Bede informed us, 2,400 students; Meneiva, too, which was the Latinized name of Mynwy or St. David's, was distinguished for cen- turies as a place of learning and distinction. From those places men thoroughly instructed in all the learning of their time went forth, many of them bearing the fame of their country's erudition to the utmost parts of Europe. Ecclesiastical history informs us that at the great Oecumenical Council summoned by Constantine the Great and his son, at Ardes and Nice and Sardica, to decide the great Arian and Pelagian controversies which at that time disturbed the unity of Catholic belief, the British Churches were represented by men who bore an honourable part in the defence of sound doctrine. When Alfred the Great, in the 9th cen- tury, determined to establish or revive the Univer- sity of Oxford, it was to Wales that he had to come for his principal professors (cheers). There were three, at least, who occupied prominent chairs in the new University, who were Welshmen; and one especially, Asa Menevensis, was instrumental in fixing the tone of the University, for he drew up the curriculum and occupied the most import- ant Chair. There came upon Wales, after that, a long period of darkness and dessolation, but he trusted they had at last seen the dawn of a bright and happy day (cheers.) They had a right to con- gratulate those who had so long and laboriously worked in this patriotic movement, on having attained at least a partial consummation of their aims and wishes, after struggling manfully for many years in the face of many obstacles and discouragements which would have balked and cowed less resolute men. The speaker then re- ferred to the Liberal contributions which had been made to the institution by Mr. William Williams, formerly member of Parliament for Lambeth, and other Welshmen-the educational properties be- longing to Wales which had been taken to aggrandize the endowments of Oxford and Cam- bridge, the Government grant of E120,000 to erect new University buildings in Glasgow, the sums, paid annually, of E16,000, to the Scottish Univer- sities of £ 9,577, to the London University, and of £ 28,0Q0 to the Queen's Colleges in Ireland. He said these formed a precedent, which they had a right to urge on behalf of Wales. He did not grudge, in the slightest degree, anything that had been done for Ireland, but he would say there was an obvious unfairness in taxing Welshmen in order to give exceptional educational advantages to young Irishmen, by means of which in all competi- tions of life, they necessarily surpassed the unlettered Welshmen. What had Welshmen done that they should be put upon a worse footing than others ? Was Wales less loyal than Ireland ? (Cries of "No") was Wales more troublesome to the Government ? The fact was this—Wales had been too quiet (laughter). If they could get up a little rebellion here (much laughter) a Fenian conspiracy, or an Orange riot (increased laughter), then, perhaps, some attention would be paid to their claims. It certainly seemed hard that they should be punished for their very loyalty (great laughter and cheers), for their very tranquility and sub- mission to the law. He thought they had a right to go with a firm and respectful attitude to the Government of the country and demand their share of those advantages which would put their young men in a position which would enable them to start fairly with others in the race of life (cheers). If they asked him what were the proba- bilities of their getting such assistance, he would answer that question to the best of his ability. Many of them were aware that some of them bad more than one interview with Mr. Gladstone in reference to that institution. His- friend Mr. Osborne Morgan and himself, in the first instance, waited upon the Prime Minister, and he was bound to say what others, he was sure, would gladly confirm, that not only did Mr. Gladstone not put any peremptory denial upon their request but that he showed every disposition to entertain it favourably. He admitted that Wales had claims for considera- tion as respected the higher education of its sons. He acknowledged, nay, he almost fsuggested to them that the precedent of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland was one which they might fairly and justly urge upon the Government (loud cheers). They bad had another interview in which Mr. Owen, Dr. Charles, himself, and some others waited upon the Prime Minister, but upon that occasion he brought Mr. Lowe with him—(much laughter)-and he evidently intended to put Mr. Lowe forward as a buffer. But he must say that he was not very much imposed upon by Mr. Lowe's presence, because they knew very well that if the Prime Minister made up his mind to assist them Mr. Lowe must conform (cheers and laughter). And besides, he did not despair of Mr. Lowe himself. He held, it was true, a tight grip upon the national purse, and surely they ought to be greatly obliged to him for that, for they should all remember that Mr. Lowe had no means of replenishing the national purse except by dipping his fingers into the purses into every one of them (cheers and laughter). He did 11 not blame the Government for forcing economy in the administration of national affairs. He only wanted economy to be exercised in the right direction. They should be perfectly satisfied in regard to that University College if they gave them only the price of two or three Armstrong guns (cheers and laughter). Mr. Lowe, they should remember, was a very distinguished scholar and a great lover of education, and he thought that perfect justice had not be done to the services which he rendered when he was at the head of the Educa- tion Department (cheers). He did not desnair that even Mr. Lowe would relax his hold upon the public funds when they went to him with a fair case and asked to be treated, not with exceptional favouritism, but simply to be placed upon the same level as the rest of their countrymen as regarded those education advantages which affected mater- ially the conditions of life (cheers), In conclusion Mr. Richard said that the undertaking was not connected with any sect or party. In the afternoon the Committee met, and determined to raise a fund of Z50,000 in three years. A conversazione which was held in the evening brought to a close one the most memorable days in the history of the Principality. The result of the opening of the College, together with the patriotic speeches delivered on the occasion, acted like a call to arms on the nation. It was felt that a responsibility had been created, which the honour and credit of Welshmen demanded should be brought to a successful issue. Never in the history of any nation was there a more wide-spread interest taken, or greater enthusiasm displayed in the cause of education by Welshmen generally than was evinced at this period of the movement. Subcriptions poured in from all sorts and con- ditions of men. The miners and colliers of South Wales vied with the quarrymen of the North; the commercial travellers of North and South Wales assisted in forming a special] fund for the Establishment of Scholarships, and collections were made towards the general fund in the chapels of every Noncon- formist denomination throughout the Principality, as well as in Liverpool, London, and Manchester, (To be continued).

Success of Students. At the recent Degree Examination of the Uni- versity of Wales the following students have been successful Human Anatomy, Joseph William Evans; German (intermediate), Violet Burgess. Isabella, Scott; Ordinary, R. W. Middleton, Jane E. Walker Arabic (ordinary), Edward Edwards; Political Science (ordinary), John Edward Morgan; Physiology (final), Joseph W. Evans; Botany (final), George Thomas Biology, John Davies, (Narberth), John Isaac Jones, Alice Mary Swallow, Kenworthy J. Thompson Geology (final), F. G. C. Salloway, Henry Thomas. The results in the other subjects have not yet come to hand.

CRICKET. ABERYSTWYTH v. DOLGELLEY. On Saturday a match was played between the Aberystwyth Town team and the Dolgelley team at Dolgelley. Aberystwyth went in first, and scored 56, the fielding and bowling by the Dolgelley team being very effective. Dolgelley then sent in J. R. S. Furlong and M. W. Jones and through their steady play made a total of 48 before they were parted- M. Furlong making room for J. Williams, aad soon the necessary 9 to win were made. The score gradually increased until the innings closed with 156 for 8 wickets. Aberystwyth then went in for a second innings and scored 40 for 8 wickets. The result of the match being (the second innings not being reckoned) a crushing defeat to the visitors. DOLGELLEY. 1ST. INNINGS. William Jones. c and b Yearsley 40 J. R S. Furlong, c Hughes, b Gifford 22 J. Williams, c Tudor Jones, b Yearsley 17 R. Williams, c Green, b Goser Jones 15 E. C. Owen, c Gleaver, b Yearsley 8 J. Humphreys, c Tudor Jones, b Gifford 18 J. A. Jones, run out 9 A. Harrison, b O. Green 11 G. E. Williams, b O. Green 7 H. W. Bromley, not out 1 W. S. J. Clarke (retireN hurt) Extras 8 Total (for 8 wickets) 156 ABERYSTWYTH. 1ST INNINGS. J. H. Yearsley, c J. A. Jones, b Clarke 1 Gaer Jones, b R. Williams 1 Tudor Jones, I b w, b R. Williams 11 J. D. Gifford run out 7 F. E. Boycott, c E. E. Owen, b J. Williams 1 J. Cosens, b E. C. Owen 15 T. Gleave, c E. C. Owen, b R. Williams 1 H. A. Hughes not out 5 Oswall Green, b Owen 0 Arthur Green, b R. Williams 5 W. Edwards run out 1 Extras 8 •Total. M* 56 2ND INNINGS. O. Green, c Owen, b Harrison. 5 Gaer Jones c R. Williams b Harrison. 7 T. Cosens b Harrison 0 A. Green, b Owen 6 T. J. Gleaver, c W. Jones, b Harrison 0 H. A. Hughes b Harrison 5 Tudor Jones, b Owen 6 J. H. Yearsley, not out. 6 F. S. Boycott, c and b Harrison 2 Extras 3 40

Welsh University Court. MEETING OF THE THEOLOGICAL BOARD. A meeting of the Theological Board of the Welsh University was held at Shrewsbury on Friday, when there were present Principal Viriamu Jones (vice chancellor), Principal R. H. Reichel, Archdeacon J. Pryse, Professor Silas Morris, Professor Herbert Ryle (president of Queen's College, Cambridge), Principal T. F. Roberts, Principal Owen Prys Rev. William Evans, Professor J. Rendel Harris (Clare College, Cambridge), Mr. D. T. Evans, Professor E. Williams, Professor H. Ettie, Rev. J. M. Jones, Rev. R. J. Rees, Professor E. Anwyl, Professor D. Rowlands, Mr. J. A. Jenkins (Cardiff), Professor W. Rhys Roberts, Professor H. M. Gwatkin, Professor Hugh Williams, and the Rev. Llewellyn Edwards. The following resolution passed by the Union of Theological Colleges of Wales in March Inasmuch as the existing regulations for the degree of B.D. in the University of Wales do not supply the requisite stimulus to the vast majority of students of theology in Wales, the Union considers it desirable that the University Court should proceed to consider theology as a subject in the faculty of arts or letters in accordance with Article XIV. (6) of the charter, and hereby respectfully requests the Theological Board to reconsider its former recom- mendation to the Court on the matter." Eventually the suggestion was put to the members of the Board, with the result that it was lost, fourteen voting against and six for. A report was received from a sub-committee appointed to consider the qualifications of the theological colleges, and after several amendments had been made the report was ordered to be printed and circulated. The theological examiners were re-appointed. Mr. D. T. Evans moved the following motion, of which he had given notice:—" That the second B.D. examina- tion be of two grades, one for a pass and one for honours; that the pass examination may be taken at the termination of a two years' course of study in theology at one of the colleges approved by the University that the four compulsory subjects now comprised in the second B.D. regulations be required for the pass degree, but that the scope and character of the knowledge demanded be modified by the omission of the special texts in Christian doctrine and church history, and a portion of the set books in Hebrew and Greek Testament; that the scheme for the second B.D. now in force, or that modified, from the honours course." Professor Morris seconded the resolution, but it was ultimately withdrawn on the understanding that it be placed on the agenda at the next meeting.

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