The Principality

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRINCIPALITY. observe some caustic remarks, uncicr the head of your Carmarthen news last week, on the postpmwment of an iu- tended confirmation by the Bishop of t. David's. The writer was, -not without reason, surprised that a bishop could regard unything as of more pressing importance" than renouncing the devii, and receiving an enlarged measure of the holy spirit. It does not, however, appear to have occurred to your correspondent, that the devil has already been fully renotUlccd on behalf of the candidates for confirmation, by their godfathers and godmothers, whom the church holds responsible in that behoof, up to the critical moment when confirmation shifts the responsibility on to the shoulders of the catechumens. Those voitii,, Christians" have, therefore, to thank the bishop for a sort of spiritual respite, and may eoagr atlatc themselves all the promises and vows of their proxies being still in force, without anv contract on their own parts to fulfil them. So much for the catechumens; but how the bishop reconciles to his conscience the protraction of such awful liabilities upon tn." sponsors, when the godchildren are ready and waiting to r lie ye them, is a question past my solution. Possibly his IIII exercise his presumed powers of conveying the it Spirit in favour of those sorely bur 1e,led individuals, that thev may be enabled to sustain the labour they have under- taken; which is nothing .ess than securing the absolute sinless p -rfectiou of the human beings they have answered for. A tremendous undertaking truly Hut, sir, is it anything less thin I have st itod r Only look fairly at the baptismal vow. It begins by renouncing" the devil and all his works, the XHKIIDS and vanities of this wiciccd world, and all the sinful lusts "if the, flesh," which is dearly a perfect negative righteousness in (I jpartlng from every evil way. Next comes the promise to '■ken God's holy law and commandment- which cannot *'ia )ly less than perfect praetic 1 righteousness and lastly, tiie o,y iln g engagement to waik in the same all the days of his (q* 'iPi') life," which constitutes unvarying perseverance in hoi I'.it « from baptism till death. Wny, sir, Enoch could not have walked with Goli" more perfectly, than godfathers and I mothers promise ali their l'hilclren saidl do. Happy, indeed, h ihey can do it for them by proxy, and thrice happy if they can he sure they do it for themselves, even with the aid of a bishop's blessing. Alas who can help doubting both the one and the other? It is nearly time for the Church to Qualify extravagant preier»«ions to perforin impossibilities; but whilst thev are uoheld, what more pressing business" can occupy a bishop than kerpiug this soul-saving process in unia- icrruoted activity, I am at a loss to conceive. Yours sincerely, PHILEMON.

THE lHmD CLAUSE. TO THE UNITOK OF TIIH PRINCIPALITY". Iqiie,,it:ol has been raised, I find, as to the wording of the • < Heed" that is to convey the premises about to be erected at Swansea for the Normal Institution-. I hope there has not been anv <i irkening counsel with words without knowledgeand yet 1 confess there seem-t to me something very strange and mys- terious in the matter I always considered that the Institution was to he an establishment on the principle of repudiating Government .•lid and connexion, just as the Bible .Society is an institution formed oi. the express principle of circulating the Scriptures without note or comment. There are many in die country, no doubt, who .would have no. objection to circulating the Bible in connexion With the C: ,rom'->n Prayer and Apocrypha; yea, there are some who would prefer doing 30. But then, in order to proceed on the most catho- lic'pnnciple, and with a view of uniting all Protestant Christians, ce/tain predilections are foregone,- and a badj is adopted in which all can agree 'without the sacrifice of principle on her side. The !->vers of the Common Prayer and Apocrypha may. perhaps, -it the scruples of their brethren who object to the "d of those documents of a former age.; but then, as these seru- j j con tentions, tlvv come forward in a noble, hi-istiaii- manner, and say, "1,¡Ve should be very sorry to insist upon a-ivthhg that would'involve the abuidonment of principle or. the p u-tofou- fellow C! ris iaas.* We all agree in loving the B.ble, and therefore let us zig -ee to circulate the Lifol the waole r»ible, and nothimt but the Bible." The mosal of the tale, I believe, j, apparent"co all. Let u; go and do likewise as regards the Nor- mal Institution. Then as to the perpetuity of the establishment, o; rather, the premises, I fear chey will not be sufficiently durable 1: — -L-. "-ofr'mjtii-'Mtions of iuv fjood friend Air. 1) iv;es, of S ransea. However, lest the old i>ui:u>;ig suouiu- w-si «></ juug, n.n I tl erei'ore b come an incumbrance, our law friends at Swansea, 1 have i,o ii wili put in the usual clause empowering the par- ti.-s 10 sell the premises under certain.circumstances and on cer- This, I conee;ve. will remove all anxiety even iroin the mind of Mr. I)avies.; for he is, I think, a firm believer in the goodness of tile voluntary principle. I, have- no doulJthè e w, u' ,I be one of-the last to rejoice at its failure, He will, I am iWH-e. join with me in saying, E&to perpetual Y ours irtitiiin ily, Brecon. EDW. DAVITS.

BLAENAU GWENT.—COM M EMORATION OF THE YEAR IGJ8. TO T1W. JDlTOR THE VRINCIPALTTY. crn-I h'H' to forward you an extract from the nov. Ed- mund Jones's scarce work on the hisrory of the parish of AberYsmith. which, perhaps, may render some assistance to parties tokuig mi interest in the commemoration, if you emender the ex raet worthy, and will give it a place in your IVl-Xt I'iUSCIl'AUIY. Yours, &e W. P. A. "Among other places the parish of Aberystruth was visited br 'several eminent preachers: by MCSM-S. aiter Cradock,. J .Vkiii Jones, Morgan Lloyd, Vavasor Powell, Ambrose Mos- lem, Henry Maurice, A s^thony Thomas, &c. And the hand of tho'liovd was wifh.tllcm, and they turned many/unto the Lord, jisit. others-made resistance, and would not suffer these worthy men to preach in the parish church; only onecv.I think, -the {' ■■ions rnishtv- preacher, Mr. Vnvosor Powell, was admitted to -or ach in it, and his labour was n.-it in vain.. Yet many of the in ibitauts, if not the majority, stood on the =ide of ignorance an prof iaeness, and would not a lmit thcie men to preach in -the church, and mad:* gre"topposition; for when Mr. Ambrose •M-stya. a gentleman from North \\T,le:> of whom some ac- conut is viveu in Dr. C-alamy's account of the ej ected ministers, h >i\»"ht to pvcach in it, he'was refused 'entrance t it,' and

\V.;ort orincii.h- U involved, wo mn-t not give pia«e by stibjce- fioa. n >- n--»t for au hour. la this, surely, aJI rigJit^winded Christ-. i»Rw will ag. o, therefore stood on the stile of the churchyard, the north side of it; opened the Bible, and took for his text, John Y. 25.- Verily, verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live.' Upon which some of them, one in'- family above the rest, began to be exceeding rude, saying to him, 'We knew that before we saw thee,' and took down some dead hedgehogs, which were hung in the yew trees, which they threw upon him with horrid laughter and sport which caused him, to the sorrow of others of the hearers, to shut the book, and to go together with his company to Gelli'r Grug in the valley of Tilery to preach, where he was heard in quiet and respect.

THE TRUST DEED OF THE NORMAL COLLEGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PUINCIPAUTY. SIR,—"Bless me what an educational storm we are in, be- cause we are attempting to prove our belief in the immortality of the voluntary principle Depend upon it.. we shall have wrecks somewhere before the storm will end. I have great confidence in the tars on board the Normal College boat. The helm is in first-rate hands. Are we not now in the last angry breakers? A few more tossings and we shall float above our anchors in a safe harbour. Courage, lads courage Term Ji/t'nici is at hand. The conduct of our Government-grant neighbours is strange in the extreme. They certainly must love to be in hot water, er else they could not act as they do. I entertain the following views respecting their present movements :— 1. They prove the importance of the voluntary principle. "What! can that weak thing, which is almost breathing its last at Brecon, for want of nulk from Government breasts, be so strong, so dangerous, that gentlemen risk their good names, send tracts about at great trouble and expense, and write very st-rious letters to the public papers to murder this infant, and prevent its immortality in a trust deed? Certainly it was born to be a king, or else Herod and all Jerusalem would not be in such great I I I 2. The voluntaries are doing something, or else why this ferment ? 3. The animus of the grant party is explained. Until now they have professed themselves friendly to the voluntary prin- ciple. They seemed to regret its weakness to educate the peo- ple. It was thought very uncharitable to doubt the sincerity of their professions. They now prove that they have no sorrow over its weakness I mean those who are actors in the present movement. They seem ready to use every means to keep it weak. They prove that they are attracted by the rich olfers of Bala-k that they love Government grants for their own sake and they have a real dislike to the voluntary principle, as a mean, unaristocratic, vulgar thing. I arti sorry to believe these things. Their conduct cannot be explained to my mind all any other principle, for, 4. Should our efforts fail, we can lay the failure at their doors. They tamper with our best subscribers, when they know that all the subscription is not received.. They print circulars (one of which is before me now), informing our sub- scribers that we are "exciting feelings of enmity against the Government," and misinforming" the people as to the de- signs of the Privy Council, and all this without an attempt at any proof of such libels. Should they prevail to cause sub- scriptions to be withdrawn or withheld, they will incur the responsibility of our failure. We shall .-proclaim: it-as such to the world. It is evident by their attempts to weaken our in- fluence that they are afraid to give a fair trial to our principle, lest their assertions about its weakness should become false. 5. Should we fail (though I have no apprehensions, under the blessing of God), and should they come forth to agitate their schemes, and endeavour to get voluntary subscriptions in order to get Government aid, we shall do our utmost to thwart them, from principle—from the very same principle as we now refuse to receive any Government money for education. 6. The secresv of their movements shows their fear that they do not possess the sympathy of the people. Then the people are with us. But in the name of all that is honourable, what makes them to sign themselves anonymously, tfhai a garant eich lies," after they have had by this sufficient experience to prove that" honesty is the best policy"? The handwriting of tlu party who sends the circulars can be easily identified. I have seen one to-day, which was sent to Cardiganshire Can they believe that it is anything to their credit to establish their characters, as the authors of deep plots ? This is unworthy of their position and Christianity. They are afraid to let the trust deed of the Normal College to contain a. clause binding the institution for ever to the volun- tary principle. Upon this I have to rcmark, r 1. What reason have they to interfere,, seeing that they have not taken anv inoans to convince the committee of the correct- ness of their views, except by prejudicing, if possible, our sub- scribers against the principle of the institution } Kave they not scribers against the principle of the institution } Kave they not signified that they could not. act with us ? Have some of them subscribed when the voluntary principle was an open question? I know of nothing more likely to bind the college for ever to the voluntary principle than their present conduct. W hat voluntaryeoulitrust an annual agitation of our principles amid su h men ? 2. There must be a trust deed, at all events. The time de- manded for the education of the pupils, so as to befit them to be schoolmasters, renders it necessary to have a legal protec- tion for the future. A trust deed for three years is the same in principle as a trust deed for three thousand years. Thus futu- rity and a trust deed enter into the very essence of the educa- tion to be given. 3. Such a trust deed must contain something supposed to tion to be given. 3. Such a trust deed must contain something supposed to exist in the future, under all circumstances. I will suppose that something to be education, by some means or other. But what right have we to impose education upon futurity any more than the voluntary principle ? 4. This principle is as final an axiom as that all right angles I o tl are equal to one another." It contains all the immortality of abstract truth. It depends no more upon the proof of rea- son than our own existence. It is inseparable from our indivi- dual being. All parties recognise it. Even our Government- grant friends develope it in their opposition to us. I cannot conceive of the possibility of its extinction to all eternity. Confounding this simple element with what is human and or- ganic—with any sectarian notion or circumstance —has blinded those who regard it wrong to hand it down to posterity in a trust deed. Future generations can never complain at receiv- ing from us what is necessarily immortal. None dare to say that it is a wrong principta naw, though some say it requires help. If at any future time any parties may be disposed to give it any assistance by Government grants, they will have perfect liberty to do so in another building. 5. Whatever may be said of the future, the principle cannot succeed at present without finality. Pure voluntaries would not subscribe to a doubtful future. They would not sacrifice so much now to oppose the reception of Government grants, if by the trust deed all their sacrifices might ultimately become Government property, as a means of education, a resolution passed to put the institution on the vo- luntary principle exclusively," looked to tile IIULUC. Nv deed could be consistent with this, containing a reservation in favour of State grants at any future time. 7. Whatever is done by the present generation capable of existing unto a distant future, of necessity carries the ideas of the present into the future. It is a principle by which we ac- knowledge that our ^Creator has a right to give us liws. that a being who by his power confers upon us a privilege, which otherwise we could riot possess,, has a right to accompany the same by a law. This is a principle implied in the rational sup- position that every action of such a being should have a design. If future generations should take the privileges of the building in question, they should take the laws of it, the same as they must take its style of architecture. Yours truly, Haverfordwest, Sept. 11, 1848.

-• • DEEDS NOT WORDS. TO THE REV. DAVID ltEES, J,LANEI.T.Y. MY- DEAR SLIT,—My only apology for addressing you this public lelte7- is the high and influential position in which you I i' a are placed by Providence, and the mighty influence which you exercise over the minds of no small number of Christian minis- of more than one denomination in Wales, as well as on the public mind in, general. I consider your voice and influence of far more importance to the temporal and immortal destinies of my countrymen, than those of all the subscribers to our Normal School put together. I would not undervalue money, but I most decidedly prefer, mind and high character. You nnd I recollect the time when we differed about the Brecon Normal School.. I maintained then that it was unne- cessary—that it was badly located, and would prove a failure in the hands of the leading; spirit which directed its movements. Y Oil may recollect that not a few hard words were directed against me for my presumption. The course of events since that period-have forced upon me the inevitable conclusion that a Normal College in Wales and for Whiles, is our only alterna- tive. The conduct of the British and Foreign, School Society in pledging itself to accept Government money, at once docides the point of our being, connected with that Society-. We giust now labour for ourselves, and stand or fail by our own. exer- tions. I am therefore thoroughly attached to the Institution in the manner it is proposed to be carried on at Swansea, and have expressed myself to that effect at the examination of the school in June, 1847. How far my other fears have been realised is now a matter of history. I need not refer to it, and a few years more will suffice to convince the most incredulous of the correctness of the opinions which I have ever held of certain parties who have lately given us no small amount of trouble and reproach throughout the length and breadth of the land. I want my ti rou countrymen to regard the deeds and not the words of her governmental well wishers. Let us then trace the history of this Government agitation. It will be in your recollection, that the Educational Confer- ence for South 'Wales was held at in April, 1845. It was then and there resolved to form an Educational Union for South Wales, in order to furnish religious and unsectarian education for that part of the country. The Union was to con- sist of the Evangelical Dissenting denominations. This was the fundamental principle of the movement. This principle, however, was soon forgotten, as Churchmen were admitted to the Normal School as students, whilst others of the same sect became members of the Agency Committee. At a subsequent meeting, I believe, a pledge was given that an Unitarian stu- dent would not be rejected but I have been unaole to discover by what committee this departure from the fundamental prin- ciple of the movement was authorised. The Llandovery Conference decided upon establishing a Normal School. This movement was quite unexpected, and, being so, the country was unprepared for it. The General Committee met twice, and decided to establish the School at Brecon. They never met afterwards, except we consider the annual meetings of the Normal School General Committees. No systematic effort was made to establish schools and raise I re funds except in Pembrokeshire. and a part of Carmarthenshire. The General Committee existed in name only. All the busi- ness was done by the Agency Committee of the school, which was located at Brecon and its immediate neighbourhood. A s so-Ili astheNormal School was opened, an appeal was made to Churchmen and landowners on its behalf. Some of our zealous countrymen in the principal towns of England made very liberal collections for its support. No appeal, however, was made to the Welsh churches. The above-mentioned resources and the support given by the Wesleyan and Congre- gational Boards of Education, were sufficient to carry on the school for the first year. The Welsh Churches, as we have said before, were not can- vassed on the contrary it was intimated they might reserve their subscriptions, and ministers were invited to subscribe only five shillings, that, their names might appear in the report. It was well understood at the Llandovery Conference, and long afterwards, that the institution was to be carried on on the voluntary principle. A rumour, however, was circulated in the beginning of May, 1S-16, that Government was anxious to buy up the Normal School, and if that should not be acceded to, that another would be established in opposition to it. Mr. Henry Griffiths visited London, to consult the Congregational Board of Education, about this most incredible story; the matter was referred to at length in the sittings of the Congre- gational Union, and the discussion appeared in the Noncon- formist and Patriot. These proceedings excited distrust in Wales. Letters were written to Sir James Graham and to some parties who had taken part in the discussions of the union. From these quarters the vague rumour received no confirmation whatever. Indeed, one of the speakers at the Congregational Union, who had spoken of an offer having been made to Wales, frankly acknowledged, that there had been a mistake somewhere, and that the report had come from Wales." i i NN es. I believe so, as it was not very likely it should have emanated from Downing-street. In the following month (June, 1816,) the first annual meet- ing was held and the subject was discussed, but no explana- tions were given as to who had offered Government aid. The feeling of the meeting, however, was so evident, that the dis- cussion was postponed for another twelvemonth. The year rolled on. Everybody knew that most of the Agency Com- mittee were burning for Government aid. It was known, too, that the funds could not be in a flourishing state—yet the Welsh churches were not canvassed. Free educationists under- stood that this was done, that it might be argued at the coming meeting that the churches had done nothing; and, therefore, Government aid must be sought and received. This is the key to the many allusions made at the annual meeting in bc-pten-i ber, 1847, that the "Welsh churches had not been fairly treated. The opposition to the Minutes of Council was so strong in the spring of 1817, as to render it hopeless to carry the point, if the annual meeting was hejd in June. Though deputations from the Wesleyan. and Congregational Boards were present at the examination, no meeting was held. When the 23rd of September arrived, Mr. Henry Griffiths explained why it was postponed. The committee feared they could not have had a deputation from the two boards and they were afraid Parlia- ment might be dissolved about the time, and the general elec- tion happen on the very day They had forgotten, however, that they had the deputations in June, though they had only iWr, Crowther, from the Wesleyan Board, in September. Other and more probable reasons might be suggested for the postpone- ment. In the course of the meeting a resolution was carried unani- mously to conduct the Normal School on the voluntary system exclusively. As Mr. Crowther assented to it for the Wesleyans, all opposition was hopeless. The benches were all well charged with the Slitittlewortli manifestoes, but, alas they had become of "non-effect." Another resolution was carried, appointing a paid agent for the institution. Just as this was put to the vote, some of the Agency Committee who were in favour of Govern- ment aid, arrived, and re-opened the discussion most irregu- larly. In the course of the curious episode, one of the speakers said: "Take the school away to Haverfordwest from here, and we will go to Government and see who will go on best." In my opinion, the secret was then disclosed, but most of our friends thought it to be only an unseemly ebullition of a misgoverned temper. The dispute was at length concluded, and the reso- lution appointing an agent, carried by a large majority. October passed, and there was 110-agent. November rolled on, and there was no movement in the camp, though indivi- duals in different parts of the country strongly urged the com- mittee not to delay, as they were losing ground. The Committee, however, did, and would do, nothing. They Z, met tiie Llandovery meeting in January, 1818, in the same state of inactivity. The history of that meeting, and the subsequent proceedings at Brecon, have been so prominently discussed of late, as to render it unnecessary that I should refer to them at length. I have been IhW; somewhat minute in calling your attention to the deeds of the State aid party, in order to impress your mind and the minds of others that the present solicitude they exhibit in regard to the trust deed of the College is only a farce, and is intended as a convenient and advantageous battle field to make another struggle for Government aid. The question raised is a very simple one, and may be as well raised on any prospective pruvisitm in the deed, as on the volun- tary question. Every trust deed has a regard to the future, audit it is wrong to bind future generations in regard to one principle, it must be equally wrong to bind them in regard to another. If wrong to make future provisions for one matter of detail and management, of course, it is equally wrong to attempt such provision for any such matters. In short we ought to have no trust deed at all. This and this alone is the true solution of the matter. The controverted clause is either a principle or a matter of detail. If it is a matter of principle, it is not the only principle involved in the deed: if a matter of detail and management, it stands not alone. It ought therefore to be settled in accordance with some general principle, because there can be no more reason for leaving the voluntaryism of the institution an open question and an exception than there would for leaving all its principles and details in a similar state. I repeat, therefore, that the propriety of binding pos- terity to the views of the present generation is not the question in dispute. That is only the fulcrum of Governmental aspi- rations j the real question at issue is this and this alone, Will the great-body of Free Educationists who support the Normal College, cease to repudiate State grants r Will they open the door for an annual agitation of the question? Will they put the college in a position in which the caprice, conceit, indolence, or economic scruples of a minority in the committee, or in the country, may endanger its success, efficiency, and vitality, by con- stant doubts and endless disputes ? We are not discussing an abstract question in regard to the formation of trust deeds,"but we have to decide indirectly either in favour or against Govern- ment aid. All the letters that have been written in favour of Mr. Davies' suggestion are not arguments for the rights of posterity, but manifestoes on behalt of Government education, with flit ex- ception of an article in the Swamea Herald. Again I say, deeds lIot -.cords; but here we have the words to explain the deeds, Look again at the declaration in favour of Government aid, written, it is currently reported, by one of our tutors, and which is being now hawked about in order to obtain a few signatures to overawe the Carmarthen meeting.. Is this an appeal for the right of posterity, or is it any other than a snare to commit men to the principles of Government education ? Let deeds and not words i-e p The resolution of September, 1847, was passed in order to set- tle the grant question. If you deUitic following up the principle which it involved, you unsettle the whole matter again. The adoption of that resolution obliged the committee to return SQln8 money then that had been offered on the condition of FMpting the grant. We are not, therefore, going to play the same gt:trt!' over again. Depend upon it, that, the gentleman who offers us £ 50 this year for leaving Government aid an open question, will decline his subscription in a year or two, unless we accept the grant, and at last he will tell us that Government does enough for us, and that we must be content with its help. Besides, if we hesitate in adopting a principle for £50, we ought to do the sama for 5D pence. Dangers thicken on every harlcl when we appeal to mcney and mammon. If the esquire refuses his E50 unless we be- come State pensioners, a host of humble Dissenting ministers, tradesmen, and farmers will refuse their X5, in case we should put on the golden fetters. Let u3 have no more talk of the £ 0 men; let us hear something about the men of principle. Rtcii Churchmen do not understand our principles. Some of them are very liberal and very amiable but we do them and our own prin- ciples grievous injujtice "hen we endeavour to persuade them and persuade ourselves that they are our leaders. They cannot be so. Unless they will subscribe out of respect to our conscientious scruples, they are not likely to subscribe long, if they find us so degraded and so deficient in self-re-speet and reliance upon truth, as to pocket principle after principle for the sake of E.-)O. In re- gard to such weighty matters as are involved in this controvercy, we must care no more for the man of 1,50. than the man of the pence. Let us be anxious only to honour truth, and truth will honour her votaries. We know that there is nothing easier that) to kill voluntaryism. Any indolent committee can do it.thirteen times over in the course of twelve months. Why, it has been dying daily at Brecon for the last eighteen months Times with- out number have the public, the Anti-State aid men, and the Swansea Committee been told that the furniture and the beds of the institution must be sold to pay its debts and if we maka State-aid an open question, we shall be inviting the re-acting of the killing process over and over again. It is time this hypocrisy and mockery of principle were at an end. If we doubt the vitality of our principles, let us, like honest men, irmnedlateIyabandùn them. Or if we doubt not, let us trust them. Deeds not words. In this last war of words let us contrast the conduct of both par- ties. Mr. Davies has written under his proper name, and has been imitated by Mr. Lloyd, of Carmarthen, and there we lose sight of the noble-minded patriots. On the part of the free educationists, Mr. Evans, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Davies, of Haverfordwest, Mr.. Davie3, of Brecon, and yourself, have given the public your names. You stand before your countrymen without concealment; but not so the patriots in the dark. Well and significantly might Mr. Davies bewail their hatred of light! I have addressed these considerations to you in the hope that you will present some ot them tc the notice of the Carmarthen meeting. If the brethren there will but consider the deeds, and not the words, of the State aid party, they will, I am sure, vmabi- mously agree to place the College beyond the disturbing influences of an annual agitation for public money. They will not consti- tute the State educationists a jury to decide as to when the vo- luntary principle fails. If voluntaryism fails, the ordinary provi. sions of every title deed will enable the committee to get out of the difficulty. If it fails not, there will, be no need that it should be left an open question. Either alternative equally demonstrates the hollow groundless of the present uproar for the rights of poste- rity. Posterity is sought to be made the scapegoat of present treachery.—With best wishes, I am. dear Sir, Yours very faithfully, Sept. 15, 1848. EVAN JOXES, Tredegar, ■■■-».■•'

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TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is our invariable rule not to insert any communication without possessing in. confidence' the real name of the writer. T. J. Williiiiis.We beg his pardon. We certainly thought the book was sent us for review, but it seems it was sent for recom- mendation. Mr. Williams denies altogether the accusations" of the reviewer, who has awfully wronged" him. There is not one of them correct; no, not one. He" declares in the sight of God" that he never read Carlyle, and the reviewer never said that he. did. He thanks the reviewer for placing hirn on the same level with Carlyle, which he never thought of doing. No, un, Mr. Wil- liams is not a Byron, a Hamilton, nor a Carlyle just yet, and never will be if he continues to write such letters as he has seat us. Ho also states that the review is a "libel," and the" scrèam of a hawk." Mercy to himself compels us to withhold his letter. Towy" and Cambrian" next week. Mr. David Davies, Llandysil," states that the Llangranog and. Llwymhfyddschools, have applied for a Government grant, through John Parry, Esq., of Ffynon Llefrith, and Hugh Owen, Esq., of Somerset House, London. Llanarth and other schools, it h said, have done the same. D. B."—Go, and put your questions to the Rev. Hugh W, Hughes personally. They are of no interest to the public. E. J.We have dealt with the Swansea handbill last week. It does not state the truth. The minutes require the teaching of religion, which is the very essence of State-Churchisin. A grantx if received, cannot be returned. Glanwysg.We are obliged to you. Write privately to thQ; editor. T. P."—We are obliged for your good intentions, but it would he necessary to re-write your letter, for which we have no time. Asa J. Evans."Too late for this week and we have had ae time to read your letter as yet,

WEEKLY SUMMARY. THE events of the past week do not call for any length- ened: commentary. Our legislators arc busy in bagging grouse. Our beloved Queen enjoys the fine scenery of old Caledonia. Lord John Russell has left Ireland, and has pro- ceeded to join the Court. The last rumour about him is given by the Times of Wednesday, where we find it stated g I that he visited Ireland on account of a difference which has. sprung up between Lord Clarendon and himself in regard to priests whose participation in the rebellion was proved by the carpet-bag of Mr. Smith O'Brien, Lord John, it is said, is in favour of granting an amnesty to the priests, whilst Lord Clarendon is anxious that they, like others, should hI), made amenable to the law. Time alone must decide the ao- curacy of this speculation. It is said that four bishops are deeply implicated, besides a vast number of parochial clergy. Measures have been already adopted to secure an earnest and.powerful opposition to the endowment of the Catholic clergy, which it is generally agreed will be proposed next session. The Nonconformist has a series of able and search- ing articles on the political bearings of the scheme. The r, opposition of the Patriot is earnest and enlightened, though somewhat more ecclesiastical than the Nonconformist. The Christian Times (the successor of the UtmersQ) puts forth. its best efforts to arouse Protestants to action. The British Banner will not be silent, and we expect the Editor will soon hurl some of his most powerful thundcrbolty agaiust tha scheme. The Scottish, Press gives line upon line, and those- lines full of sound reasoning. The English Whig journals advocate the measure on the ground of policy. It is well known, too, that most of our leading statesmen are greatly ■ in its favour. An unmistakeable hurst of public opinion [3, the only power that will roll back this tide of infidel latitu- dinarianism. An election has occurred at Bolton, owing to the death of Mr. Boiling. Two candidates appeared, neither of which were present. Mr. Stephen Blair was shooting in tha moors, and Mr. Joseph Barker had been apprehended for Chartism and confined in prison. This being the C!i, tbfj