Cymro a'r Celt Llundain

IT is expected that tha Welsh Church Commission will resume its sittings after next week. Lord Hugh Cecil is returning from the continent to-morrow, and will probably be able to attend the conferences that will consider the final report. SHOULD the Welsh Commission not issue its report before Whitsuntide, it is possible that the introduction of the Disestablishment Bill will be postponed for some time. A strong feeling exists among the Opposition that the report should be in the hands of every member before the Welsh Bill is considered. THE Right Reverend Rowland Ellis, the Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, is a native of Flintshire, and is a good Welsh scholar. He is a son of Thomas Ellis, Surgeon, Caerwys, and married a daughter of Surgeon-Major William Brydon, C.B., the only survivor in the retreat of the British Army from Cabul through the Khyber Pass in 1842. He has published several works. MR. TIMOTHY DAVIES, M.P., delivered a neat little speech in Parliament last Monday in defence of the Old Age Pensions Act. Mr. Davies, however, was anxious that the claims that had been admitted in Ireland should be carefully scrutinised, as the number of pensions granted were far in excess of the number of persons over 70 years of age according to the last census returns. LORD Justice Vaughan Williams was the principal speaker at the St, David's Banquet, given by the Cardiff Cymmrodorion Society on Saturday evening last. In proposing "The memory of Hywel Dda," Lord Justice Williams gave an interesting account of the life and times of the famous Welsh Law giver. IT is interesting to note that the only Welsh speech delivered at the St. David's celebration at the Hotel Cecil, London, was a short address delivered by Mr. John Hinds on the good work done by Mr. Arthur Griffith in organising these annual dinners. MR. PETE CURRAN, the Labour M.P. who was recently fined 10s. for drunkenness, has promised to abstain from all alcoholic drink in future. THE Welsh National Liberal Council have established a Disestablishment Campaign Committee to arrange a series of meetings throughout Wales in order to formulate a scheme how best to deal with the funds of the Church when Disendowment becomes an accomplished fact. IN acknowledging the receipt of a beauti- ful album from the residents of Skewen the other day, Sir Samuel Evans said that he well remembered the favourite advice of his father, viz. "Always run straight, and remember that if a straight course won't pay, a crooked one won't." THE Emigrants' Information Office desire to warn intending emigrants to view with great caution offers of employment in Venezuela, especially when such offers are coupled with the obligation of giving security by making an investment in the undertaking offering employment. Official information has recently been received of a considerable number of cases in which emigrants, who have gone out in response to similar offers, have found themselves desti- tute and have had to apply to a British Consul for relief. It is necessary to point out that Venezuela does not offer a suitable field for the ordinary emigrant from this country, owing to the great differences of laws, language, climate, and conditions of life and work. OWEN RHOSCOMYL (Captain Vaughan) delivered an inspiring address on The History of the Cvmry" before the members of the Swansea Welsh Society. History, he said, proved that the Oymry were artists, scholars, and fighters. They had been apologising in the past for themselves, whereas it was now found that there was no country which had a history to be so proud of as their own. True and noble words that Welshmen in all parts of the world should thoroughly appreciate. THERE is still fresh in the public memory," remarks a correspondent in a religious weekly, the opprobrium—one is justified in saying personal persecution- suffered by the late Dr. Thomas Charles Edwards for having, as Principal of Aber- ystwyth University College, encouraged the practice of athletics, particularly in the form of football, by the students. How football figured in the conventional Welsh mind may be partially understood when it is remem- bered that, in Welsh, the ball is not called a foot-ball, but a black-ball, and a generation ago indulgence in the game was regarded as the blackest of sins THE correspondent goes on to say that, now the Rev. Thomas Charles Williams, one of the most popular ministers of Dr. Thos. Charles Edwards's denomination, had been preaching a sermon in a Methodist chapel, and to an appreciative audience, in favour of football, almost elevating the practice of athletics to the height of a Christian virtue. A colleague in the same ministry. Rev. Gwynoro Davies, secretary of the General Assembly, and a notable figure in the revival movement, has eloquently advocated militar- ism, at least to the extent of urging the youths of the chapels to join the Territorial Army, both from patriotic motives and for the sake of military training. Had these declarations been made in public, even half- a-dozen years ago, the reverend gentlemen, however influential their position, would have been called to account in some ecclesiastical court. To-day, the sermon and the speech are printed in the Connexional organ, as a matter of course. THE Prime Minister has been to Sir Alfred Thomas's dinner. Whereupon the Llan sarcastically remarks that this is simply done to keep the Welsh party quiet.