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from the principality are of greater amount in propor-
tion to the population than those of any other part of
the United Kingdom. The same reports prove also, that
larger numbers of bibles in proportion to the population *,!
are annually purchased by the Welsh than by any other
people under the sun. Hence it appears, according to
the judicious Hooker, "The Word which saveth our
souls is near us. we need for knowl-dge but to read and
live. The man which readeth the Word of God ; the
Word itself doth pronounce blessed, if he also observe
the same."—Eccl. Politie, book 5, sec. 22.
In 1847 Commissioner Lingen thus described the
Welsh inhabitants of his district :

" When not in chapel the people are generally at
their own homes, for they are not to be met with any
where on Sunday excepting on their way to and from
chapel."—Reports 1., 225.
The select "lamentations" culled by the Bishop, bear
witness that the Dissenting Ministers who made them
are earnestly living and diligently working to counterac
all the ill which they perceive and deplore. Hence it
clearly appears that the majority of the Welsh people,
driven as they originally were from the pale of their
National Church by English prelates, branded as they
now are by one of the unsympathising occupants of their
native sees with unmerited infamy, are not "without

the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without
law ;" but that the " covenant of life and peace" is still

among them.
Locke has warned us, that "he that has but ever so
little examined the citations of writers, cannot doubt

how little credit the quotations deserve where the origi-
nals are wanting." The cause of the Pastoral Aid
Society might safely have been allowed to rest upon the•
numerical disproportion of the diocesan clergy, even in
combination with their volunteer auxiliaries, the Dis-
senting ministers, to the "strange multitudes" of people
congregated together from all parts of Great Britain and
Ireland in the mineral districts of Llandaff. "What
are they among so many ?" would have been an un-
answerable argument for conscientious effort, an effectual
incentive to Christian diligence.
Dr. 011ivant, however, preferred a groundwork of
shifting sand for his fabrics to a basis of solid rock..
The microscopic exaggeration exhibited by the Bishop of
Llandaff upon the comparatively insignificant objects
selected and pinned down for this cruel experiment can
only he attributed to a malicious intention. Disliking
the Welsh people to whom he owes alike his former cle-
rical livings and the present revenues of his see, and
wanting due Christian charity towards Dissent, he has
become so unfortunately blinded by prejudice as to lose.
the power of perceiving that he was, in calumniating a,
whole nation, doing flagrant evil under a pretext tha
good might follow.
When the bishop's speech had at last concluded, the
report of the society was read, and several gentlemen
addressed the meeting.
The Rev. W. Leigh Morgan, of St. Mary's, Cardiff,
after having expatiated upon the active labours of a lay
assistant in that crowded parish, ventured to say :
" Inasmuch as his lordship has taken up the field of
Wales in his address to you, and has told you from
various authorities from the Dissenting body what the
state of the country is, I will state to you from another
authority the state of Cardiff."
The Rev. W. L. Morgan proceeded to read a set of
prepared extracts from his English Lay Assistant's
Weekly Reports, describing 8 cases of extreme wretched-
ness and depravity. The tendency of these cases thus
brought forward was to lower the character of the
Welsh people, yet the Teacher, being entirely unac-
quainted with the language of the country, the persons:
alluded to must, of course, have spoken the English
language, and were probably some poor outcasts o C
England, Scotland, or Ireland.
This very remarkable meeting of the Pastoral Aid
Society received a very suitable and emphatic supple-
ment, in a letter published in the Cardiff and Merthyr
Guardian of Oct. 15, 1853.
It eulogises the Bishop's " most noteworthy speech."
It describes the Dissenting writers as confessing con-
victs." It distinctly declares of the Welsh people,
"that practically their present religion is nothing ;" and
it concludes with the following words :—" The Bishop
of Llandaff reads Dissenting publications, and, as we
have recently seen, he turns them to a good and a moral
purpose. If we had no other argument for a Welsh
speaking and a Welsh reading bishop, his lordship's
usefulness in this alone would be quite sufficient."
This libellous epistle merely indicates the mischievous
effects which are closely following upon the bishop's
public avowal of the enmity which he has long cherished
against the Welsh Dissenters, who constitute the ma-
jority of the Welsh people.
Little hope can there be of his lordship's ever recalling
sectarians to the fold of the Church while thus he wields
the episcopal staff as a rod of scorpions.
Inveterate prejudice converts his episcopal activity
into national injury, and renders his slight acquaintance
with the Welsh language an additional means of pro•
yoking the resentment of the people.
Three years have now elapsed since I had the honour
of calling your lordship's attention to Dr. 011ivant's
erroneous view of the real state and condition of his
diocese. Once more submitting to your lordship's con-
sideration the necessity of henceforth providing Welsh
bishops for Wales.—l remain your most obedient humble
servant,

GOLEUFER.

November 11, 1853.

MONEY AID FOR TURKEY.