Welsh Gazette and West Wales Advertiser

By reading we acquaint ourselves in a very ex- tensive manner with the affairs, actions, and thoughts of the living and the dead, with the most remote nations and in the most distant ages; and that with as much ease as though they lived in our -own age and nation, T. KIRK. Read not books alone, but men, and among them ehiefly thyself; if thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than deceitful Sweetness. F. QUARLES. Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise; more is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. BULWHR. Ken and women who read a great many light and superficial works will have a mere mass of erude and worthless knowledge, unless they also read books filled with stern, strong, hard thoughts. The birds have to pick up pebble-stones to aid the degeation of the softer contents of their craws. G. D. PBBNTICB,

When man has cast off bis ambitious greatness, And sunk into the sweetness of himself; Built his foundation upon honest thought; Not great, but good, desires his daily servants; How quietly he sleeps! How joyfully He wakes again, and looks on his possessions, And from his willing labours feeds with pleasure! BEAUMONT AND FLBTCHBR. Trutli needs no champions; in the Infinite deep Of everlasting soul her strength abides; Trom nature's heart her mighty pulses leap, Through nature's veins her strength undying tides. I watch the circle of the eternal years, And read forever in the storied page One lengthened roll of blood and wrong and tears, One onward step of truth from age to age. No power can die that ever wrought for truth; Thereby a law of nature it became, -And lives unwithered in its sinewy youth, When he who called it forth is bat a name." RUBBJlLL LOWSLl*

Accompaniments of Winter. —————— < A man is infinitely mistaken who thinks there is 'nothing worth seeing in winter time oat of doors, "because the sun is not warm, and the streets are ( Youddy. Let him get, by dint of good exercise, out w -<Jf the streets, and he shall find enough. In the warm neighbourhood of towns he may still watch e fieldfares, thrushes, and blackbirds; the tit- ltftoww, seeking its food through the straw thatoh; -the redwings, fieldfares, skylarks, and titlarks, upon the same errand, over wet meadows; the sparrews au'd -ytllow bammerg, still beautiful though mute, gleaning from the straw and chaff in farm-yards; -and the ring dove, always poetical, coming for her < meal to the ivy berries. About rapid streams i he may see the various habits and movements of t lieroni and woodcocks, wild ducks, and other water tfoit], who are obliged to quit the frozen marshes to < seek their food there. The red-breast comes to ] the windows, and often into the house itself, to be ] mewarded for its song, and its far-famed painful" obsequies to the Children in the Wood. HowB.

» The Evils of Scowling. have a special message for women--one don't —ub%11 as a word, but mighty in influence. It is this: Pont scowl. Scowling spoils faces. Before 70a even know it, your forehead wilt resemble :&-small railroad map. There is a grand trunk line 'from your cowlick to the bridge of your nose. inter- -aected by parallel lines running east and west, with curves arching tyour eyebrows: and, ob. bow -much older you look for it I Scowling is a habit that gteal-i upon us unawares. We frown when 'the light is too strong, and when it is too weak. "We tie our brows into a knot when we are thinking, ,-and knit them even more tightly when we cannot -think. There is no denying there are plenty of ftbings ta "scowl about. The baby in the cradle frowns when something fails to suit. "Constitu- "tional scowls," we say. The little toddler who likes -sugar on his bread and butter tells his trouble in -the same way when youleave the sugar off. "Cross." -we say about the children, and Worked to death about the grown folks, and as for ourselves, we can't help it. But we must. Its reflex influence makes others unhappy; for face answereth unto face in life as well as in water. It belies our 'religion. We should possess our souls in such peace that it will reflect itself in placid counten- ances. If our forehead is rigid with wrinkles before forty, what will it be at seventy? There is one consoling thought about these marks of time -and trouble—the death angel almost always erases them. Even the extremely aged in death often wear a smooth and peaceful brow, thus leaving our last memories of them calm and tranquil. But our business is with life. Scowling is a kind of silent scolding. It shows that our souls need sweetening. Tor pity's sake, let us take a sad-iron, or a glad-iron, or smoothing tool of some sort, and straighten these -e.reases out of our faces before they become indelibly •engraved upon visage. DK WITT TAIMAGE.

Abraham Tibbot. AT OLYGYDD Y Gazette. SYR,—A fydd i rai o ddarllenwyr y Gazette fod mor garedig ag ychwanegu at y cofnodion ag sydd eisoes wedi ymddangos yn nglyn a hanes Abraham Tibbot o Fon." A fu efe yn briod ? A 0:8 rban o'i hiliogaeth ar gael yn bresenol ? Y mae y Tibbot's wedi bod yn genedl gref, deallgar, a ffyddlawn iawn gyda cbrefydd yn Llanbrynmair a manau eraill er's amryw ganrifoedd, ond erbyn hyn y maent yn brysur ddarfod o'r tir. Beth a rydd gyfrif am y difodiant bwn yn banes y teuluoedd hyn ac eraill. A oes rhai o'ch darllenwyr yn alluog i ddyweud o ba genedl y mae y Tibbot's yn hanu. A pha bryd, ac o dan ba amgylcbiadau y daetbant i'r wlad hon. Ily Yr oedd i Abraham Tibbot ewyrtbr or enw John Tibbott yn weinidog Annibynol yn Esgairdawe, Sir Gaerfyrddin. yr hwn a fu farw yn 1785. Pwy oedd ei briod ? Faint o blant gafodd ? Beth ddaeth o'i fab a fu yn weinidog yn Cymmer, Llyncowrg, Sir Forganwg ? Teimlwn yn wir ddiolchgar am unrhyw wybodaetb ar y naill neu'r llall o'r materion crybwylledig. Dymunaf lwyddianty golofn henaf- iaetbol hon yn fawr. Llanbrynmair. DEMETRIUS.

South Cardiganshire Monthly Meeting. The last Monthly Meeting of the century, under the auspices of the South Cardiganshire Calvinistic Methodist Churches, was held at Aberayron on the 5th and 6th inst., when there were present among others:—Mr James James, J.P., Llanrbystyd (chairman); Revs D. A. Jones. Llangeitho (sec- retary); John Evans. Abermeurig; Rhys Morgan, 'Dewibrefl; Evan Evans, Pennant; Bvan Morris and J. Thickens, Aberayron; Joseph Jenkins, New Quay; Moelwyn Hughes, Cardigan; Owen Jones, Idanartb; Evan Jones, William Richards, and Evan Davies, Llanon; Howell Lloyd, Bwlchyllan; T. J. Thomas, Twrgwyn; Edward Hughes, Lampeter; W. H. Davies, Pontsaeson; Maurice J. Griffiths, M.A., Llanelly; John Owen, Penial; Messrs W. Thomas, New Quay; John Hugh Jones, L. Jenkins, J. R. Bvanp, John Jones, and J. M. Howell, Aberayron; ;64pt Jenkins, Aberartb John Evans and H. Evans, Bethania; D. Jones, Bwlchyllan; T. Davies, J.P., and J. Morgan, Llangeitho; D. Davies, county surveyor, Bryahyfryd; T. Morgan. Llwynpiod; D. Jenkins, Penial; D. Thomas, Twrgwyn; J. Evans, Penmorfa; D. Evans, Penial; Thomas Davies, Tan- y-bryn, and others.-The minutes of the Llangranog Monthly Meeting were read and confirmed.-Messrs D. Evans, Penial, and D, Thomas, Twrgwyn, were appointed to- audit the church account* of the- Tabernacle, whose report, given later in the day, was most satisfactory.—Messrs Thomas Davies, J.P., Pantybeudy Hall, and J. Morgan, Llan- geitho, were received members, of the Monthly Meeting, the two signing the pledge.—. The Rev E Morris' motion 'that no person be eligible for the the diaconate, unless his total ab- stinence be known for at least twelve months prev- ious, was rejected, by a small majority.—The Rev D. A. Jones, reported that the Education Committee recommended Emlyn Grammar School and the Intermediate Schools of the County to candidate# for the ministry, as proper schools for study pre-' paratory to entering college.—Mr William Thomas, presented the report of the Temperance Committee. The biennial temperance visitation to the churches was arranged.—Mr Thomas presented the Associa- tion (New Quay) accounts, which showed a balance of about one pound in favour of the monthly meet- ing.—The Rev M. J. Griffiths, M.A„ Llanelly, the Forward Movement deputation, spoke on behalf of the Movement.—The churches were asked to ob- erve the sacred custom of holdiug :prayer meetings in the first week of the year as usual.—Tbe Rev. J. Evans. Abermeurig, and Mr D. Rowlands. Mabwahen4 were elected presidents for next year. The Rev E. L. Hughes, Lampeter, was appointed to open a dicusssion at the next monthly meeting. At 6-30 Wednesday evening, a public meeting was held. Subject under discussion, The Operations of the Holy Spirit as described in the New Testament." The Revs John Evans. D. A. Jones. Moelwyn Hughes, Maurice J. Griffith, M.A., Rhys Morgan and Mr W. Thomas took part. Mr J. M. Howell on behalf of Dr Davies, Buluwayo, and the Sunday School Committee, presented the medals to Mr Thomas Williams, Llangeithio; Miss Sarah M. Davies, Brynhyfryd, Bwlchyllan; and T. H. Jones, Pen- uwch. On Thursday, preaching services were held in the following order:-At 10 a.m., Revs D. A. Jones, and Moelwyn Hughes; at 2 p.m.. Revs John Evans, Abermeurig, and Rhys Morgan, Dewibrefl: at 6 p.m., Revs M. J. Griffiths, M.A., and Joseph Jeukins, New Quay.

T" 'I The Growth of Man. )(aâ after all Is not ripened byMrtue alone, ^ere it so this world were a paradis. of angels. Not Like the growth of the earth, be the fruit of all the seasons; the accident of a thousand accidents; a living mystery, inovint through the seen to the unseen. He is sown in diebononr; be -iI matured under all the varieties of heat and <Soid; in mist and wrath, in snow and vapours, in the melancholy of autumn, in the torpor of winter, well as in the rapture and fragrance of summer, or the balmy affluence of the spring—ile breath, its srmshine, its dews. And at the end he is reaped —the product not of one climate, bnt of all; not <4 good alone, but of evil; not of joy alone, bat of Aomw-perhaps mellowed and ripened, perhaps stricken and withered and soar. LOBD ROSHBMT.

A Dream of Summer. Bland as the morning breath of Jane The soathwest breezes play; And, through its haze, the winter noon Seems warm as summer's day. The snow-plumed Angel of the North Has dropped its icy spear; Again the mossy earth looks forth, Again the streams gush clear. The fox his hillside cell forsakes. The muskrat leaves his work, The bluebird in the meadow brakes Is singing with the brook. -Bear up, 0 Mother Nature I cry Bird, breeze, and streamlet free; 41 Our winter voices phropbesy Of rammer days to thee t" Bo, in those winters of the soul, By bitter blasts and drear Cerswept from Memoryi5 froien pole, I Will sunny days appear. Reviving Hope and Faith, they show The sotal its living powers, j And how beneath the winters snow Lie germs of summer flowers 1 'The Nfcht is Mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling. 'Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God. who loveth all bis works Has left his Hope with ali i WKITTTBS.

Cardiganshire Charities. By PHILIP SIDNEY.' II. I Continued from 6tk December. Last week's article brought TIS so far as Henllan now we come to LAMPETER. The allotments under award of 1858 are:— («) For Recreation Ground, 3 acres. (J) For Labouring Poor, 2 acres. (e) For Obtaining Clay, 2 roods. The J. B. Harford Charity yields annually Z7 8s 4d. proceeds of a capital sum of £270, con- sols held by Official Trustees of Charitable Funds. The will was proved in 1875. This sum is for the maintenance on every Sun- day of an additional service in English, according to the uses of the Church of England. The yearly sum of iEl 2s 8d, interest on P,41 15s, consols held by official trustees, is available for educational purposes by the Calvinistic Methodists. It first arose in 1811 by Indenture. In 1877 a scheme of the Charity Commissioners authorised a sale of the old Welsh C.M. Chapel and School. The proceeds of sale of Chapel Branch of Charity (£380) were applied towards cost of new chapel. The sum of iC41 15s Od represents sale of School Branch and Charity. The Rev Rowland Williams, by will dated 1861 devised the sum of ZSO (consols held by official trustees) the annual interest of which, Zl 7s 4d, is for the head master of the Grammar School. St. David's College has these three endowments: JJ» (lit) The H. Butler Charity, which yields annually C55. being proceeds under will proved 1834, of C2,000, consols. (i) The Harford Scholarship, of the yearly value of £7 15s 4d, of a capital sum of £ 282 14s 5d consols, held by official trustees; will proved 1875. (c) The C. L. Traherne Charity for scholarships has an annual income of P.62 10s 4d, proceeds of the sum of E1563, Midland Railway Co., 4 per cent Debenture Stock; will proved 1880. (d) The Rev J. Mattews, by will proved 1897, devised a bequest of jS300 to the College, to be invested for the benefit of Theological Students (Reversionary Bequest). The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, by Indenture 1809, and scheme of Charity Commissioners (Model Deed) 1879, owns property unproductive of income (such as Almhouses, School Buildings, or Chapels) so far as yet known to the Commissioners. LLANARTH. Here too the Wesleyan Methsdist Chapel has a similar property, under Indenture, 1809. and, Scheme of Charity Commissioners (Model Deed), 1898. LLARBADARN FAWR. Here is Colonel B. L. Pryse's Charity for dill- tribution in money and in kind to the poor, of EV, annual income of £ 900 India 3 percent. Stock held by official Trustees; will proved 1888. Here too Its the David Morgan Charity of fA Od yearly sum under will, proved 1897, of t50..on deposit, for maintenance of ministry in Saroa Chapel; the endowment being now on deposit at National Provincial Bank, Aberystwyth. Then there is also the W. Williams Education Fund of 94 12a 4d, annual income of iCl68 Is Od. Consols, held by official trustees, under will proved 1880. LLANDDBINIOL. Mary Morice's Charity yields B20 10s 4d annually, proceeds of a capital sum of £ 746 go 2d, consols, held by official trustees, this amount being devoted under a Scheme of Charity Commissioners, 11875, for a schoolmaster. The National School, by deed of 1875, owns property unproductive of income, so far as yet known to the Commissioners. LLANDIW1 BREFI. The annual sum of it322 lgs Idia available for education purposes, under will, proved 1895, of Thomas Davies Jones. The capital sums are 91593, L. and N.W. Railway Company 3 per cent. Perpetual Debenture Stock, yielding £47 15a 9d annually; LI.M. G.W.R. Co. 4 per cent. Debenture Stock, yielding £48 17s 4d; and £2,262 9s Id, Bank 8tock, yielding £ 226 SlfOd yearly. This Income is to be divided equally amongst Llandewi Brefl, Tregaron (Caron), Llangybi, and Llanfair Clydogau. This Charity is also possessed of a sum of 92,000, Midland Railway Company 24 perjeent. Consolidated Perpetual Guaranteed Preferential Stock, at present standing in court, and subject to a life Interest. Catherine Matlitto Charity, "for educational purposes, yields £7 17a 4d annually, proceeds of £286 7a 7d consols, held by official trustees, under will proved 1782. David Thomm" Charity also for education, brings in £3 158 Od yearly, being gross rent ;El lU Od, and rent charge EZ of one messuage, under indenture 1780, and will 1781. This and the Ratliff Charity are regulated by a Scheme of Charity Commissioners, 1874. Next week's article will deal with a further' section, beginning with Llwyndafydd.

SOME OLD RECORDS OF CARDIGANSHIRE. A.D. 1714. CARDIGAN WHIPPING POST. The presentment of fthe jury that now stand sworn to enquire for our Sovereign Lord the King and the towns of Cardigan and Aberystwith made this 30th day of September. 1714, is as followeth. Imprirnis.-We present the whipping post to be out of repaire and ought to be repaired by the in- habitants of the ad towne of Cardigan. John Hughes, Evan David, tc. A.D. 1718. MYSTBRY AND OCCUPACON OF A BARBER. The Presentment of the Grand Jury fmpannelled and sworne for the said Townes of Cardigan and Aberystwyth on Monday the 21th day of this instant Aprill Anno Dni'1718. Inprimi.. We present William Asbton of the County Bnrrough of Carmartben. Barber for that he on the 19th. alatand 22nd dayes of this instant Aprill did oae and exercise fltetiade, mystery and occupacOh of a barbef within tbeliberty of the aforesaid towne of Cardigan he haveing not nerved seaven yeares apprenticeship within the ad towne as by law he is required. W. A. Lloyd Tho. Brock Hew. Davies John Rees Abel Griffith David Gambold Rece Gwyn Richd Watkins John Lewes Thomas Noy Cha. Evans John Williams Jo. Evans Owen David James Griffith. A.D. 1718. SOME OF THE COUNTY OFFICIALS. Stephanne Parry, Mayor of Cardigan. Thomas Lloyd, „ Aberyshyth. William Evans, „ Tregaron. Simon Davies, Portreeve of Lampeter. Carolus Lloyd, Coroner of Uwch Ayron. Thomas Phillips, „ Is Ayron. Timothy Jones, Baliff Hundred of Troedyroyr. Daniel Evan, „ lIar. Thomas Parry, „ Moyddin. William Herbert, Penarth. Thomas Lloyd, Generglyn. STmlS"} Connie,of Pe^rth. B™.SSwatd} CoMtab,e, Ge„eT Glyn. A.D. 1721. Walter Lloyd, Mayor of Cardigan. Thomas Pryse, „ Aberyshyth. Evan Jones, „ Tregaron. Simon Davies, Portreeve of Lampeter,

North Cardiganshire Monthly Meeting. The Monthly Meeting of the North Cardiganshire Calvinistic Methodists was held on Wednesday, December 5th, at Penllwyn. The morning meeting was presided over by Mr J. T. Rees, Mus. Bac., the secretary being Mr D. Caron Jones, Borth. A com- munication was read from the Rev William Lewis, Pontypridd, secretary of the Connexional Tem- perance Society, calling the attention of the Monthly Meettng to the advisability of working the societies in connection with all the chapels in the district, and also urging them to adopt the booklets that had recently been issued intended to impress upon the minds of the young people their moral and social duties. There were seven booklets in the series, bearing the title of Y Gyfres Wen." After a lengthy discussion, Mr Wm. Jenkins was instructed to procure 500 copies of each booklet, and to distribute them amongst the chapels.-The Rev T. J. Morgan drew attention to the International Mission Week of the Free Churches. The object of the Free Church Council was to have a mission week throughout the country in order to try and get people to attend places of worship. London and large provincial towns had fixed the week for the second in February. Locally, nothing had been done as yet.—The Revs T. Levi, T. E. Roberts, D. R. Williams, and T. J. Morgan were appointed as a council to carry out local arrangements, the Rev D, R. Williams to be con- venor. The members of Gosen church requested to be excused from receiving the monthly meeting in lieu of accepting the Sunday School annual meeting, The members of Pontrhydfendigaid, through the Rev John Bowen, took the Sunday School annual meeting, however, which arrangement was satisfactory to the meeting. The Rev John Williams, Goginan, applied for a transfer on his removal to Seion and Llanwrin, Montgomeryshire. The Revs D. Morgan, Hugh Roberts, and others spoke of the good services rendered by Mr Williams while in this district, and sincerely* hoped that his removal would be of advantage to the new circle he was entering into. Mr Williams' appliaation was granted.—Mr Barkley Jenkins drew attentien to the connexional publications, and the officers at the various ohapels, were urged to bring the matter before the various ohurches. At the afternoon meeting a report was received of the state of the cause at Penllwyn. Mr Hugh Roberts questioned the newly-elected deacons, who were afterwards^greceived into^membership of the monthly meeting as representative of their district. —The Revs H. Edwards and Mr Bvan' Evans were appointed chairmen of the monthly meeting for the { «nsui&g .year. The Rev T. Levi ,spoke upm, the' Twentieth Csntury Fund, and announced that it was very, probable that £2,000 would be collected in Aberystwyth alone. The promises throughout the whole of Wales amounted to £ 60,000. It was decided to hold the next monthly meeting at Salem, Aberystwyth, on January 22nd and 23rd,

Montgomeryshire Monthly Meeting. '<" The monthly meeting of the Calvinistic Method- ist churches of Upper Montgomeryshire was held at the English Chapel, Machynlleth, on Thursday. December 6th. In the absence of Mr David Owen, Llanidloes, the Rev. T. F. Roberts, Machynlleth, took the chair. The morning meeting was devoted to the consideration of the Standing Orders which had been drafted by a com- mittee appointed by the Monthly Meeting. It was decided to defer further discussion of the same till the March monthly meeting, which is to be held at )Fewtown. The second sitting commenced at 2 p.m. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. It was arranged that the next meeting be held at the Welsh Chapel, Llanidloes, on the 30th and 31st of January, 1901. The subject for the Church Meeting will be The Church Meeting at the opening and close of the century; in what they are alike, and in what they differ." The Rev D. Lloyd Jones, M.A., enquired into the state of the cause of the Welsh and English churches at Mach- ynlleth, and of the churches at Pantperthog, Forge, Penegoes. Derwenlas, and Poplar Square. It was found that much faithfulness was shown in the work. Pantperthog and Derwenlas have cleared the debt of their chapels. The English church at Machynlleth undertakes to build a spacious school- room which, together with certain alterations in tber chapel, is estimated to cost about £600; to- wards this promises amounting to about P.230 have been received. The Rev R. H. Jones, Llangurig, was appointed to enquire into the state of the cause at the next monthly meeting. The Rev W. S. Jones, M.A., and Mr John Rowlands, Machynlleth, were appointed to visit the church at Forge, to assist them in the election of deacons. The Rev John f' Evans, Llanidloes, was appointed secretary of the Forward Movement, and the Rev Elias Joaes, New- town, was appointed representive on the Forward Movement Committee. The Rev Cynhafal Jones, D.D., Colwyn Bay, visited the monthly meeting on behalf of the Forward Movement committee, and delivered an address on the work done, and on the needs of the future. He was followed by the Rev D. Lloyd Jones, M.A., and Mr John Owens, Llan- dinam, who had personally visited some of the centres. The reports of the Forward Movement were distributed. The Rev John Williams, Goginan, having undertaken the charge of the churches at Llanwrin and Seion, was accorded a hearty wel- come, and it was resolved that the Chairman (Rev T. F. Roberts), and Mr Richard Rees, J.P., should represent the monthly meeting at his induction. 1 Permission was given to the English Church at Machynlleth to borrow a sum of money not exceed- ing £ 500, and Messrs John Rowlands, E. Llewelyn Evans, Hugh Davies, Richard Rees, J.P., W. M. Jones, and the Secretary, all of Machynlleth, were appointed to signjthe necessary documents on behalf af the monthly meeting. The Rev Elias Jones. Newtown, and Mr Richard Jones. J.P., Penlinas, were appointed to visit the church at Carno to assist them in the election of officers. Mr Abram Hum- phreys, of Gleiniant, was appointed to represent the Newtown District on the Centenary Fund Com- mittee. A report concerning the Centenary Fund was presented by the secretary (Rev Edward Wil- liams), which showed that much progress had been made since the last monthly meeting. More than half the churches had been visited, and promises amounting to about £2,000 have been obtained from fourteen churches. The total amount of promises received in this Monthly Meeting now reaches the sum of £ 5,112. It was reported by the delegates who visited Bont and Pennant that the two churches were unanimous in the desire to secure the services of a pastor, and that a strong committee (18 in all) had been formed to carry this into effect. A report of the Quarterly Associa- tion held at Llanfair, P.G., -was given by Messrs Thomas Breeze, Aberangell, and Richard Bees, J.P, in which they referred to the necessity of keeping a record of all adherents, and of having it periodi- cally revised. They also referred to the report of the committee on Temperance and Purity. The Rev D. Lloyd Jones, M.A., presented the report of the committee appointed to enquire into the desir- ability of building a schoolroom at Hendreaur. It was reported that they had a site promised them, and Messrs Gwilym Edwards, Wm. Meredith, John Mills, William Ashton, of Llanidloes; Edw. Jones, J.P., Trewythen; and the Rev D. Lloyd Jones, M.A, were appointed a committee with power to act further in the matter. It was remarked that it would be well to know what the neighbourhood itself was prepared to do. The report to be given at the next monthly meeting. Mr John Owens, Llandinam, on behalf of the Building Committee, reported that they approved, with some alteration, the plans of a manse proposad to be erected at Seion, on condition that the whole expenses be not more than £300. The report was confirmed. The Sec- retary said that 19 churches out of 37 had ex- pressed an opinion upon the advisability of having two collections a year towards Missions—13 were in favour of having only one as before, and 6 were in favour of having two collections, provided the Home Mission and the English Causes collections were amalgamated. It was resolved that the Sec- retary write to the other churches to have an ex- pression of their opinion on the matter. The Sec- retary also reportedthat only 8 churches had so far sent in orders for the" Blwyddiadur for 1901. and he expressed a desire that the orders be sent in without delay. The report of the committee ap- pointed to consider the new regulations for the election of pastors was deferred until the next monthly meeting. Mr John Owen, Llandinam, called attention to the insurance of Connexional property. It was found that 12 churches in the Glandovey District, and 4 in the Llanidloee Dis- trict have not yet insured their property. All the chapels in the Newtown District are insured in the Connexional Trust. It was resolved that the sec- retary write to the officers of these churches point- ing out the advisability of insuring the property wiihditi as the trustees are personally re- sponsible in cape of any lois. It was decided that the Secretary should write to the Rev R. Edwards, Cemmes, and Mr Richard Evans. Garth, Newtown, to express the sympathy of the monthly meeting with them in their prolonged illness. The Rev D. Lloyd Jones, M.A., Llandinam, preached a sermon at the English Chapel at 7-30 on Thursday evening. Tbe:R#r Cjnh»fal Jones, D,D, preached in -Welsh at Maengwyn on Wednesday evening, and at Pant- perthog on Thursday evening.

Mr Llewelyn Williams on Welsh Land Reform. CRITICISM OF THE MAJORITY REPORT. Mr Llewelyn Williams, at a meeting of the London Cymru Fydd Society held on Thursday evening at Chelsea, delivered an address on The Land Question in Wales," in which he severely criticised what is know as the Majority Report of the Welsh Land Commission. He ascribed the present indifference of farmers and politicians on this question to various causes-to general apathy induced by the war, to the comparative prosperity of the agricultural industry in Wales (in spite of the Weiwh. LMd Com- mission's prophecy that the agricultaral depression had come to stay), to the healthy moral effect produced by the visitof the Land Com mi seion to every corner of the thirteen coantiee of Wales, to the portentous bulk of tbe Commissioners' report which made its study impossible to the ordinary man, and to the loss caused by the death of Mr T. B. Ellis, the one man in Parliament who understood and sympathised with the grievances of Welsh farmers ind was in a position to give their cause material help. Dealing with the reports of the ioajoritjr and minority of the Land Commission, Mr Williams declared a distinct preference for the Minority -Report; The remedy proposed by the majority would be in his opinion costly, cumb- rous, illogical, and unworkable. After an ex- baustive consideration of the proposals he said that the attempt to avoid the evils of "free sale" was absolutely futile. The remedy proposed was that the landlord on the retirement of a tenant should have the option to resume the holding and let it to some., one else. The commissioners contemplated that the incoming tenant would have to pay a bonus before admission, as he does under the Irish Act. The only difference would be that in Wales the bonus would be paid to the landlord; in Ireland to the outooming tenant. In either case payment of a bono* would render nugatory the provision with regard to the compulsory fixing of a "fair rent. Rent would still be competition rent, but a portion' of it would be paid by the tenant in the farm of a bonus or fine before entry. Another proposal severely condemned by Mr Williams was the setting up a" land court" to settle the disputes between landlord and tenant, which should proceed in accordance with elaborate "directions to the judge" which were proposed to be incorporated in the Land Act. Such an Act would provide a golden harvest for lawyers, expert witnesses, and land valuers. The only effective remedy would be mediation or arbitration out of court by an agri- cultural expert employed by the Government for this purpose. Nor did he believe in a permanent statutory tenure dissoluble only by the mutual con- sent of landlord and tenant or by assignment, or by death. The Scottish Crofters Act provided that the tenant could renounce his tenancy on a year's notice, and if the tenants were not to be atcripti glebes like the serfs of old, such a provision was a necessary corollary to a per- manent statutory tenure. In fact the majority had borrowed the wrong provisions from the Irish and Scottish Acts and had rejected others which were euitable to thejeasefof the Welsh farmer. He could not agree with them that "a peasant proprietary is not suited for a country like Wales." On the contrary, he thought that the passion for owning laLd ran in the Welsh blood, and no act of legisla- ion which ran counter to the natural instinct of the people would ever really solve the land question. He was. of- opinion that a -scheme ofland pur- chase -was an essential adjunct to a Welsh land measure. The minority report, he considered, was framed on the right lines. It was one of the ablest documents he had ever seen dealing with the land question. It was a marvel of clear thinking lucid-expression, searching criticism, and luminous suggestion. So far as it went it was admirable. and it might be that if landlord and tenants could agree on a bill drafted on those lines the experiment would be well worth a trial. For his own part. be thought the minority did not go far enough. They admitted the prevalence of land hunger and high, if not competition, rents, bnt they made a fetish of freedom of contract and would not advocate a compulsory "fixing of rents." That seemed to .9 him to vitiate many of their proposals and to render useless to a great extent their suggestion as to compensation for disturbance. Still the minority report was a sound, honest, and practicable scheme of reform which deserved the most careful study. and, he would add, the loyal snpport of all Welsh- non. A discussion following, in which the chairman (Mr Evan Griffiths), Mr J. T. Lewis, and others took part.

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