The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-22 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LON ON, WEDNESD 87_ EVEN INCA, JANUARY 22, 1851.

The ASSISTANT-JUDGE having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and he was at ()Lee
discharged.

atARLBRO'-STREET—(TIIISDAY.)
'HUMANLY ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUALLEIL—
robert Monekton, a stout young man, was placed before
Alie Hardwick, charged with violently assaulting Mr.
Jetties Taylor, landlord of the Rise and Crown, Hart-
Street, Grosvernor-square. He was also charged with
assaulting the police-oonstables who took him into
custody,
Mr. Taylor stated that about six o'clock on the pre-
vious evening the prisoner, who had formerly lived a ith
for him as potman, but who was discharged some weeks ago
heine drunk, came into his house and asked to see
'`rn• Witness went to the bar and asked him what
he wanted, a hen the prisoner replied that
he had called to ask his (complainant's) forgiveness, and he
he would not think any more of what had
Pissed. Witness said he should riot. Prisoner then forced
'his way into the bar and struck him in the lace with
;great force, and blackened one of his eyes. Corn-
iainant tried to run out of the bar for assistance, when
the prisoner stopped him and struck him again. Some
person thou ran for a constable, and the prisoner ran
out of the house, but was subsequently taken into CDs-
=WY in Oxford-street.
!Wilton, 11 C, said he was called to take the prisoner
!ite custody, and on goirg to cenap'ainant's house saw
the prisoner in the act of running away. Witness ',ur-
n the way
he
him, and took him into custody in Oxford-street.
lhe leg to the station the prisoner kicked him on
came tried to throw him down. Another een-
a'ehle o his aid, who was also severely kicked on
the lower part of his person. After a deal of trouble the
prisoner was eventually lodged in the station.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was drunk at the time,
and knew nothing at all about it.
Was Inspector Whall, who took the charge, said the pri-
soner perfectly sober when brought to the station.
yo,
t.,ll4.lleaDwlcs. fined the prisoner forty shillings or
ealr
re-etY-olle
and days' imprisonment for the assault ou Mr.
sentenced him to six weeks' imprisonment
forpe assault on the constables.
RECENT BURGLARY IN TOTTENHAM-COURT-
,?AI3. ERECENT BURGLARY
alias Shallow Jack, James Cotton,
111:118 Young Dutch Sam, William Johnson, alias the hi 11
Little'6er, Charles Moran, and Charles Gosling, alias
trial, Cha'leY, Were brought up and fully committed for
a., on the charge of bur gloriously entering the house
of v
•„arLey, clothier, &cg, 44, Tottenham-court-road,
" --%nog therefrom property to the amount of 150/.

LLOYD v. WEST-END AND CROYDON
P • RAILWAY.
Feints 1 Dof Ve-Chancellor (nth Januar3)
la that a creditor who haste received orders from the se-
tt,etarY of a provisionally-registered company must
certain who sat at the board of direction each time
that the ytrticular order was given, and then split up
7total of his bill and claim against each member for
cperate portions, instead of the managing committee,
rlablc as conducted the affairs of the company being held
a 4 body, and having to pay their several quotas
an
cesording to the apportionment of the official manager
the secretary
the blaster in Chancery, or general instructions to
raeCretftry to incur certain necessary liabilities in
eiednutc.ting the affairs of the company being held suf
„2. The decision is wholly opposed to the intention of
'ne Legislature, which was to prevent numerous and
veatious actions, decide who concocted and promoted
Scheme, and release those not liable.
The promoters of any abortive scheme, although
Provisional! y and duly registered as a company, have
.1_137 to get the secretary out of the way, and conceal or mestroy the minute b oks to render it impossible for
411 Y creditor to recover, Unless at the ruinous expense of
" bill of discovery," &c.
and 4. An cPpeal to the Lords seems now the only course,
although the Winding-up Act was intended ex-
-5p to bring the concocters of these schemes to
. kt, the Court of Chancery holds that the Act only
meat' and
to companies having obtained a Bill in Parlia-
atat and which rarely or ever require to be wound-up.
5. Ia the present case (which decides all others) pay-
41ents on account were actually made by the managing
committee.

THE SLOANE CASE.
tette"mequence of the rumoured intention of the de-
ant' Mr. Sloane, to apply to the Court of Queen's
4-)ench to
remove the indictment in this case into that
"i)fllthti
~, J)the subject was brought under the consideration
,Le uard of Guardians of the West London Union
e e
sitting of the board last night, when Mr. Pontifex,
clerk to the board, stated that he had taken all the
tir,slry precautionary steps to prevent the issuing of
be_writ without notice of the intended application being
Tun to him, by entering a caveat at the Judge's chem.-
te_ stud also at the Crown-office, and giving the de-
se"_attnt'B attorneys notice of the fact; but up to the pre-
r.l, time he had received no notice of the application.
eeClarkson, who appeared for Mr. Sloane tnroughout
toxatriination and at the Central Criminal Court,
tihas been ascertained, has not received instructions
,lipply for the writ, which can only be done
tlrtngterm by counsel and application to the Court at
Westminster, a Judge at chambers having no power dur-
.lng term to direct the writ to issue. Information has
'eakhcd Mr. Roe, the officer, who holds the warrant
litle..,a:iketi:t Mrs. Sloane, that she is residing at Boulogne,
lAtidLer feigne name, and that such is the fact that
priety Xpresses his conviction; and in con.equence he
.o..arudaidatlsevaenrdal interviews with members of the board of
or Mr. Pontifex on the subject of the pro-
Pr„n
supply ti
to the ...overnment to aid through the
be I auth,,rities her apprehension, in the event of
ta!g i.deatified and found residing there, upon the war-
P"./.l‘ which he holds against her; but as his got g•n over
L.:°„(ll,°,?,nt) would be attended with considerable (A-
ne (Roe) objects to do so unless indemnified by
nth` guardians It - appears, however, that there is a
di tor tg. di,inclinationonte part of the guardians to

6PORTING INTELLIGENCE.
WOLVERLIAMP fON STEEPLECHASE.
Free Handicap Steeplechase.
1,,r• I:6atnplagh's Pugh man (Owner) 1
atr. hts..._
(Thrift) 2
Air. ,1"" d rjusaucky-one
~ laylor's Jesuit (Owner) 3
‘„,'-'leven ran. Won easy. Unlucky-one carried the
-rang' weight, and was daissystinalifit d.
Mr, v, , Sweepstakes of 3 Boys. each.
fir!,Y.!Ly tton s Mind-your-own-business (Walker) 1
6 v -
4u6han's Cowslip
Seven ran.
LIVERPOOLBETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TIIESDAY.
f 0:_ STEEPLECHASE.-10 to 1 agst Vasie.hopee
(t),i 12 to 1 agst Sir John (t), 14 to 1 agst Peter Simple
,ojloo to 6 segst Sir Peter Laurie, 100 to 6 agst The
ettug-tin, 100 (0 6
waufishan (t), 2-2 agst Abd-e'-kader (t).
The P,ST.ER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Rhesus (t), 20 to 1 agst
to 1 agst Cossack (t), 30 to 1 agstl
agst titt"veer, 35 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel (t), 35 to
Nothinglec't (t), 40.t0 1 agst Flying Gout.
done upon the Metropolitan Stakes or Derby.
PER

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ADvER-14414-"
TISER. ENLARGEMENT Or THE " MORNING
! "---We are delighted to perceive, from
an achrerteiern
liberal -
that the ent which appears in another column,
Morning Advertiser, the most consistently
°f all the morning journals, which has,
t111."311 evil report and through good report, always
itiwight the good fight of freedom, is about to add to
The le by permanently enlarging its size.
add. greatl "rning Advertiser will, by this enlargement,
dev yto its circulation its rofits are
°led to the maintenance of some of thep most im-
Portant charitable institutions of the metropolis (a
fille, °f
250,000/. has been so appropriated during the
tyl o
:"leven years of its existence), it is satisfactory to
.
W that while by this extension of circulation the
etialuae of hottest reform will be greatly strengthened,
. cause of charity will be benefited at the same
binle.

410""'7-tFRESRNON OF GLAMORGAIN SIIIRE —A ru-
or TATI
i 3 abroad to the effect that Mr. Henry Thomas, who for
of u 3; Years has been vice-chairman of the quarter sess.o:ls
‘c county of Glamorgan, will
occa •
ber be put forward in the Li-
‘,„2ll interest as a candidate for Glamorganshire, on the
Ilurtdrds. si"ed by Earl Dunraven accepting the Chiltern

Niißho LADY IN DIFFICULTIES.—MISS Laura 841,
itseerantacirn,elllsaos,been much before the public, on the 12th of
'‘)l for jewels
She came to
gave at London a bill of exchange for
Paris) • purchased of Mr. Josh. Joel. .
4,an without paving the bill, and Joel passed it to a French-_
„: When it became due, M. Rognoux, the holder, caused
ivr,i",;eteQngs to be taken on it, and had her arrested. She
orcier;arisen before the President of the Civil Tribunal, who
regul-a'r. the arrest to be maintained, as the debt was perfectly.
cau,,,ed b Miss Bell, instead of being at once taken to prison,
la Toth.
,erself to be conveyed to the residence of M. Guy de
'4 Pin, and that gentleman advanced her 5,3001. to
there `"e debt and costs, but under reserves. '1 he lady was
cooeupon released, and yesterday she appealed to the Court
PPeal to have the judgment of the Civil Tribunal, de-
• the validity of the debts, set aside. But after hear-
11ri'g arguments the Court confirmed the judgment.—Ga-
grac'"i's litessen' ger.
leriM"4l)NESs or THE SEASON.—Air. Dennis, of
Essex, has a gooseberry bush in his garden with
4uhng fruit now upon it. In another garden, in the same
neighbourhood, another bush is in full bloom.
gi MELROSE —An effort was lately made here to close
"le post-office on Sundays, and a memorial to that effect
livue didspatched to the Postmastr-General,i
sgned by aout
CO inividuals. Several of the inhabitsnts inimical tot his
rproceeding, got up a counter-memorial, which, without any
uvaes, obtained nearly 50 signatures. By orderthe
ostrnaster-General a record was kept of the letters received
03' each of the parties, when it was shown that the fifty
Were in receipt of more letters than the hundred ; in conse-
qtlenee of which there will be no alteration in our postal ar-
rangements.—North British Mail.
b- :TATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER.—TUESDAY.—On
hete whole we have had a quiet market, and where sales have
made, a reduction of price has been submitted to.
'y here is scarcely any demand for shirting, but a little more
18 doing in domestics and light T cloths. Printers continue
1° be neglected, and prices
are quite nominal. Yarn, both
'hiPPing and manufacturing purposes, is a shade lower
than last, week. The business to-day is generally in favour
?t- the buyers, and in the few transactions entered into thcy
have the advantage, although no general reduction can be
quoted.
MURDER DY A GIPSY, AND EFCAPE OF THE MOE,
nl'ltElt•—Yesterday information was received that a man
lamed John Clarke was, whilst in a beer-house in the town-
tioivpeorifdgSetrrbridge, killed by a gipsy of the name of Elisha
commonly called the " Slasher or Tasher." After
committing the deed he absconded, and is supposed to have
escaped to London.
IRISH ADVERTISEMENT.--Missing' from Killer-
(lileY, Lane
cow, all O'FoggertY; she had in her arms two babies and a
combs uer black, with red hair, and tortoise-shell
behind her ears, and large black spots all down her
lace, which Aquiato invf4llY'

THE WELSH CHURCH AND THE

" QUARTERLY REVIEW."

TO THE FDITOit OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The Morni'ng Post of Friday, Oct. 4t.1),
180, says ef the Quarterly Review for the precious
month, " We mu,t content ourselves with speekirg
in general terms of the high intellectual gratifithstion
which a perusal of it must afford," &c., and then pro-
ceede to point out the first three articles as censpi-
tuously marked by evidences of learning and ability
rare sae n in the pages of the Quarterly.
One of these three, on the state of the Church and
, of education in Wales, is specially included in this
commendation. " This," triumphantly announces
, -the eulogistic critic, "i 3 not a mere resume of the Blue
; Books, though it extracts from them a picture suffi-
ciently deplorable," &c. "It is also a philosophical
inquiry into the origin and character of the Welsh
language and people, undertaken with the view prise,
cipelly of showing that the religious error which
there prevails is not dependent upon necessity of tem-
perament or distinciien of race ; and most success-
fully is the undertaking eccomplishe(3." After mak-
ing a long quotation, the Morning Post continues,
" The popularity of various forms of Dissent in
Wales is sufficiently explained by the inadequate
means of the Church there to satisfy the
religious tense of the people, which has been ve.
liernently stirred, but ill-informed and partially
vitiated." Stating that public attention ought to be
drawn to the abuse of the funds devoted to free
schools, the Morning Post sums up the wants of
Wales as consisting in clergymen, schoolmasters, and
a " bi-lingual" system of instruction. This encomi-
astic epitome embodies the main points of the article,
and the implicit faith of the Morning Post in the in-
fallibility of the Quarterly indicates but too plainly
the impression which is likely to be made upon minds
unused to independent thought, and predisposed to
reverence all such oracular declarations. The im-
portance attached to its authority is also proved in a
remarkable manner by the fact that at a public meet-
ing, held at Bridgend on the 2d of last October, the
Bishop of Llandaff, referring to the one now in ques-
tion, said,---" An article in the Quarterly Review
also directs the attention of England and the
world at large to the state of the Church in
Wales. That article was written by a native
of the Principality, who has devoted his eminent
talents and profound learning to the service of his
country." Ignorant of this distinguished writer's name,
"I am fortunately safe from all danger of being
seduced by personal veneration into a blind adoption
of his sentiments." The learned Archdeacon of Car-
digan, so often complimented for his patriotism by
the writers upon Wales in the Quarterly Review,
might naturally have been expected ere this to have
privately corrected their errors, or to have publicly
refuted them. Other literary Welshmen, of compe-
tent knowledge and ability, are also mute, therefore
the author of this letter being neither unacquainted
with Wales, nor altogether ignorant of literature,
though wanting the advantage of an authoritative
name, thus ventures to attempt the exhibition of
truth to the British public. Good matter and a good
manner of stating it are universally allowed to be
alike essential to excellence in writing. The high
station, nobly won and respectably maintained by the
Quarterly in critical literature, ought not, how-
ever, to exempt its essays from just animadver-
sion, more especially when any of those essays tend
by example to the corruption of a correct
taste, and by inculcation to the extension of erroneous
views and injurious opinions upon important subjects.
None can assert that an article alleged to be so "con-
spicuously marked by evidences of learning and abi-
lity, rare even in the pages of the Quarterly," has been
unfairly selected for criticism. Yet this much ad-
mired production, even as a mere literary exercise, is
full of faults. It is disfigured by mongrel epithets,
such as "legitimate prestige" " the somewhat
trancliant style of the reports," &c. ; by witless jests,
such as the recommendatisin of General Bern as school-
master for Pwllheli ; by hackneyed allusions to the
tomb oi the Capulets, the oldest inhabitant, a place
rejoicing in the association of the names of Jabez,
&c., and by several coarse similies. It is replete with
affectation, of which the following are instances :
" The old road leading to the masterpiece of Telford's
art ;" " repugnance to breadth of phylactery," Sec.;
the town of Bala is called, " this metropolis of knit-
ting and resort of anglers"; the majestic Berwyn
range is fantastically dwindled down into
"that mountain breast-plate which Nature reared
before the old freedom of Gvvynedh (Gwynedd) into
the softer undulations of Montgomery." Nothing
can be more superficial, disjointed, and flippant than
the narration, descriptions, and remarks given at pp.
333-6. Take a single specimen—"ln some churches
service has not been performed for years. At one
with a long name in Brecknockshire the vicar rides
by," &c. This, but fur the Bishop of Llandatt's dis
tinct information, one could scarcely believe to have
been written by a learned Welshman. Some mincing
trifler from London's eastern suburbs would othenNise
unaoubtedly have been charged with it.
Arguing in support of the proposition that "race is
circumstance," the Reviewer adds, "Though circum-
stance we admit in some cases, so inveterate and en-
grained as to require generations before its effects on
the mass can be altogether obliterated." This incon-
gruous assemblage of words appears to have been
summoned to tell us of a race, which being transmuted
into a circumstance, is admitted in seme circumstances,
to have become so deeply (bed by the long action of
colouring matter, that many generations of the race,
or circumstance, must successively labour at rubbing
it out " before its effects on the mass can be altogether
obliterated."

Ohl " World at large," regard not the recommen-
dation of the Morning Post and the Bishop of Llan-
duff ; judge not of British reasoning, nor of Britain's
language by such a specimen as this unlucky article
in the Quarterly affords ! Trust not to such a
writer, and to such a reasoner, for a clear and true
exposition of the state of the Church in Wales. His
pictures are like those produced by an unskilful artist
with the Talbotype, the objects lean obliquely, the
lines are confusedly intermingled, and the shades are
where the lights should be.
Upwards of forty-two pages of the Quarterly Re-
view for September last (1850) are devoted to the
article on Wales. Six works are enumerated at the
head of it, arranged in chronological order, and begin-
ning with the "Reports of the Commissioners of In-
quiry into the State of Education in Wales, 1847."
After the lapse of three years, and after the decided
sentence of reprobation pronounced on those reports,
in No. CLXX. of the same periodical for Sept. 1849,
p. 341, it seems doubly strange to find them here
made the basis of a fresh series of reproaches against
the Welsh people. In describing the day schools of
the Principality the Reviewer wastes his space in re-
peating many of the grossest errors to which the lead-
ing questions of the Commissioners obtained their
simple catechist's arsent. Surely "England and the
world at large" have had enough of this, and scarcely
n eed the pitiful confession.
" Trace?, indeed, of irreverence, and of leading to
errors, rather strike us in a few of the questions, and
a certain technicality in many of them," &c. Again,
while affecting to disallow the Commissioners' views
of Welsh society, and guarding the offensive quota-
tions as relating to particular instances, or by such
phrases as "we should not infer too much," " due
deductions should be made," Sec., every opportunity
is taken of insinuating charges of infidelity, Chartism,
and awful profanity vgatest the Welsh people. Se-
dition is represented as a prevalent tendency, stupid
ignorance as a common thing ; Antinomienism and
Dissent appear to be used as equivalent terms.
Forgetting that sedition and Chartism, with all
their bitter fruits, are most undoubtedly exotic trees
of English planting; passing by unmarked the cairn
and holy course of industrious, intelligent, and happy
life, full of Goo's fear and of honour to existing
Powers, which is bringing down the blessing of
Heaven upon the cottages of \Vales, this Quarterly
Reviewer gives and sanctions accounts of their inha-
bitants, which are calculated to excite the unmiti-
gated contempt, disgust, and horror of "England and
the world at large. His flimsy qualificstione of ex-
pression rney fitly be compared to the cautious in-
sinuations of an lago, or to the assassin's folded scarf
around the unsheathed dagger.
The second of the works placed at the bead of the
article is the "Report of the National Society,lB47 t't
the third is the " Bishop of
St. David's Charge,
1848." From the latter a passage is quoted en-
forcing the necessity of instructing Welsh children
in and through their native tongue, of which the Re-
viewer owns the tenacious and powerful vitality; justly
asserting the popular interest and value which ought to
be attached to its literature. To one really interested
in the religious improvement of the Principality,
the questionable theology revealed in that charge
might, perchance, have furnished matter for many
pertinent remarks, but here, as elsewhere, a reviewer's
proper and principal office is lost sight of. The fourth
work is the "Archdeacon of Llandaff 'sCharge, 1849,"
from which are cited several useful suggestions for in-
creasing the Church Establishment's parochial useful-
ness. The Reviewer unluckily describes this Arch-
deacon not as a zealous Churchman, but 8s an " able
writer," while, in glaring disproof of his claim to the
epithet, soon follows this incorrect and feeble sen-
tence :

" W e shall gain nothing," observer this able writer,
" even were it lawful, by torrawing from a system
which is not ours." The! Avadeacon's literary merit
might almost as well have been urged by a passage
from his pamphlet on Church Extension, where men-
tal bewilderment is reflected with singular felicity in
the disordered interrog:ition. However, or whence is a
provision to be made ler these things ?" (p. 10.)
The fifth work is "A Visitation Sermon, by
A.M., Canon of St. Asaph ;" and the sixth is
Keltische Studim von Vriedr Korner, •Ralle, 1849.
'On the last the Reviewer founds what the Morning
Dust
ure calla
correctly philosophical inquiry," though it is
n: described by the Quarterly Reviewer
L "a

himself as " a considerable digression." The subject
is fairly open to speculation, but the casuistry used in
this ethnological episode, leaves perfectly unshaken
the historical facts, that Welelamen and Englishmen
generally differ from each other at the present day,
and that they also differed many centuries ago, in the
same points of constitutional temperament.
Some of the variations of this Reviewing Mariner's
compass, and the consequent bias of his course, may
be learned from the following passages. A note at
page 353. on the word " Eistedhood" (Eisteddfod),
says—" Some attacks of unnecessary acrimony have
recently been made upon these herdic meetings.
They are certainly relics of a hearing, rather than
signs of a reading age; and even if they escape the
perils of bickering, tend to give a literature too much
the character of a succession of prize poems." I in-
terrupt the Quarterly Reviewer here for a moment to
remark the very curious nature of these objections.
While public lectures are kept up in our pulpits, our
universities, our local societies, and other places of
inetruction—while public meetings and platform
peaking upon all sorts of subjects are more general
than they ever were in Britain before, the Eistedd-
fodan are reproached as " relics of a hearing, rather
than signs of a reading age ;" as if the present gene-
ration was composed exclusively of meditative
scholars, and the practice of oral instruction was re-
membered only among obsolete customs. But the
latter part of the paragraph announces that " even"
if these Cambrian meetings " escape the perils of
bickering," they " tend to give a literature too much
the character of a succession of prize poems."
Happily the literary adjudicators consider excel.
knee to be the essential quality of successful comp°.
sitions. It is marvellously strange, therefore, that a
Quarterly Reviewer, of such "eminent talents and
profound learning," forgetting that a Euripides, a
Pinder, and other illustrious Greeks of old, gave to
the immortal literature of their country the character
of a succession of prize poems," should mainly object
to the Welsh Esteddfodan es means well fitted to
produce the like effects! " Yet," proceeds the wa-
vering advocate for mediocrity, " they are at least a
graceful form of antiquarianism, and afford a certain
kind of intellectual stimulus, us well as keep alive
sympathy between ranks whose points of contact are
not numerous," &c.

The following extract proves the Reviewer to have
attained no mean proficiency in that oscillating style
of which the Bishop of St. David's is so great a
master :—" Even persons who seldom trouble a
church with their presence feel a pious satisfaction in
requiring that the service should be performed in the
language which they prefer, and have an ostensible
grievance if the contrary should be the practice.
' Formerly it was perhaps too much the custom to con-
sider mainly the wealthy minority who preferred
English ; but at present as from the relative, intelli-
gence of the two parties equity seems to require, the
balance is rather in favour of the other side," (p. 368.)
Again he says, "It is natural that attention should
be daily more directed to the imperfections which
such a state of things involve, and we are not sur-
prised that something like a crusade against the use
of the Welsh language should be occasionally insti-
tuted and asserted to be a mark of superior intelli-
gence. We doubt, however, if more zeal than discre-
tion is not often developed in the cause," &c.
In order that the true state of the case may be fully
understood, it is absolutely necessary here to call the
reader's attention to several important facts. The
nobility and gentry of Wales and the English settlers,
with their immediate retainers, chiefly 'form the
Church party. The commonalty of Wales are in
general attendants upon chapel worship, and a very
large proportion of them are members of Dissenting
congregations. Society in Wales is thus virtually
severed, the only subsisting ligaments which hold its
head and body together being the traditional respect
and affectionate nature of the lower classes, and the
sympathising kindness of some individuals among the
upper ones. -Within the last few years a very
great change has gradually taken place in
the sentiments publicly professed alike by the Eng-
lish prelates of the Principality and by the clerical
and lay adherents of their party. For many genera-
tions it was avowedly their object to substitute the
English language for the mother tongue of Wales.
Tnis mistaken policy, augmenting the power of Dis-
sent, and enervating the strength of the Establish-
ment, has left to our unhappy Church a very
small minority of the native population. The neces-
sity that the Welsh people should be taught by native
pastors, and in the language of their homes, is now
openly and generally acknowledged. The folly of
attempting to give Welsh children the first rudiments
of education in a foreign language is stigmatised by
all, from the erudite Bishop of St. David's down to
the industrious Sir Thomas Phillips. Such notions
not very long ago were virtually proscribed ; although
a few noble-hearted and enlightened Welshmen faith-
ful to their country and to tt.e highest interests of
their Church, have successively stood forth from age
to age, like the Apocalyptic witnesses in sackcloth,
still protesting against their national wrongs, and still
claiming for ►ti ales the legal privilege of religious in-
struction in a language understood by her people.
Enforced by public opinion, and by striking manifes-
tations of the Church's impending ruin, such warnings
have at last succeeded in arousing the hierarchy of
Wales to a sense of their dangerous position. They stand
now avowedly awake to it, but still the predilection
of their hearts is with the old s> stem. " Grudgingly
and of necessity " they are yielding to the force of
circumstances, anxious to do the least possible right
which may consist with expediency, and betraying
their consciousness of merited blame, by sedulous
endeavours to avoid every act and every word which
might possibly be construed to imply compunction
for the past. Unchanged in inclination, every step is
consequently taken in tremulous apprehension of its
exciting attention to the errors of their previous
course. Repentance is the invariable precursor of
thorough reformation, and the acknowledgment of
faults, whether tacit or avowed, must ever be a pre-
requisite of real amendment. A change of conduct
which results from mere constraint must, of course,
be heartless, feeble, and inefficient. Thus it is with
the Anglo-Welsh clergy, thus it is with the Anglo-
Welsh gentry, and thus it is with their partizan and
spokesman in the Quarterly. There is more or less
truth admitted into their statements, but its pure
gold is alloyed to suit a corrupt standard. Double-
mindedness will render even the strongest intellect
unstable ; and though endowed with many advantages
of learning and capacity, a writer, conscious of hav-
ing much to hide, and of being too partial for perfect
sincerity, must often prove like one of the vacillating
rhymers rebuked by Pope, even .

" He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning,
Means not, but blunders round a meaning."

The shameful fact that an English monopoly of
Welsh livings was kept;up for ages to the destruction
of the native clergy, and the durable alienation of
the people, is thus alluded to by the Quarterly
Reviewer :

That infusion of fresh blood which it is sometimes
supposed would he a panacea, has been tried for
several generations without at least removing the
evil, which on the other hand it is by many persons
represented as having contributed to produce, for it
has sown something like jealousy among those who
should have been of one mind, and has given the less
scrupulous opponents of the Church an excuse for re-
presenting her as estron, as an institution alien to the
feeling as to the language of the people. In short the
one cupit2,l and paramount want is a want of men.
Here is the hinge on which every thing must turn,
(p. 351.)
The grievous want thus deplored, the want
of men for pastors and schoulmsters, is obviously a
natural and necessary result of the pernicious eccle-
siastical system with which the rulers of the Welsh
Church are still identified. Like children, the Anglo-
Welsh Churchmen are crying now for what their
own reckless hands have destroyed. They, like their
predecessors, have heretofore despised Welsh school-
masters, neglected and suffered the decay
of Welsh Grammar Schools, discouraged and
debased Welsh clergymen, and now they
find out with surprise amounting to amaze-
ment, that they want men, that they urgently
scant the very men whom they have hitherto cast
contemptuously aside, the men who but for such
fatuity might now be found, not among the leaders of
the Dissenting host (from which the Bishops them -
selves in this emergency are even condescending to
invite them), but standing in noble array, the
strength, the light and glory of their National
Church.

The Reviewer is apparently one of those high
Churchmen who deem Dissent not merely schismatic,
but heretical and scarcely Christian. In the present
condition of the Principality, a.writer possessed with
such opinions can certainly publish themto no good
purpose, and is signally unfitted rightly to apprehend
the position of Welsh affairs, and candidly to inform
the British public. Large indeed, then, should be
the benevolence of strangers who come late in life as
Church dignitaries among the people, for with them
no ancestral traditions, no local associations, no early
remembrances, no claims of kindred and old friend-
ships, no sympathy of feeling, no community of in-
terests, can exist, to soften down the oppositions of
constitutional temperament, and reduce the harsh-
ness Of sectarian judgment even to the level of
this Quarterly Reviewer's. In the Reviewer's fear
that " Wales might, like Ireland, dash itself
in fretting against the rock on which whoever
eumbies is broken," few can share who are acquainted
with the habits of the Welsh people. Those
poor :Dissenting Sunday-schools, so much de-
spised by him, are continually at work, diffusing
among the middle and lower classes that thorough
knowledge of Holy Scripture which forms the true
groundwork of our common Protestant faith, and
pupplies the most effectull safeguard alike against
Romanism and against every form of infidelity. Most
heartily, oevertheiess, can all Welshmen sympathise
with toe lle,viewer's "deep.aud anxious conviction,:that
it depends, under Heaven, upon men now alive whe-

then in a century or less the Church Catholic (i. e.,
the Protestant Church Establistiment),in the Princi-
pality shall exist as a living teacher, or whether poli•
ticians shall be wrangling over the carcase of her re-
venues," (p. 373).
In conclusion, I would earnestly express my hope
that the " eminent talents and profound learniT g"
ascribed to this Reviewer may henceforth he applied
to better effect, and tend not to the disparagement of
his country's character, nor to the superficial con-
cealment of her injuries, but to their thorough inves-
tigation, to their candid acknowledgment, and to
their perfect cure.—l au l, Sir, &c.,
PEREDUR.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 21.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and
Windsor Park.

The Royal Family took their accustomed airings.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel
F. H. Seymour, went to London this morning, at
ten o'clock, for the purpose of presiding at a meeting
of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851,
held at the Building in Hyde Park.
His Royal Highness and suite travelled by a special
train on the Great Western Railway, and returned to
the Castle at two o'clock.

Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in
the Castle after dinner yesterday (Monday) evening,
and performed the lON-riving selections :
Overture, ".13:?rggei,t''
Selection, " Stebat Miter" Rossini.

Overture, " Carline"

Thomas.

Ballet Music, "Masaniallo"

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yes-
terday morning at a meeting of the Royal Commission
for the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of all Nations in 1851.
His Royal Highness arrived at the Building in
Hyde Park at eleven o'clock, attended by Colonel
the Hen. Charles Grey and Lieut.-Colonel F. H.
Say mour.

The Commissioners present were—the Earl Gran-
ville, Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. Henry La-
bouchere, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles
Lyell, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. T. F. Gibson.
Mr. Scott Russell attended as Secretary of the
Royal Commission. Mr. Bowring was also present.
Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee, and Dr. Lyon Playl:ir, Special Commissioner,
were in attendance on the Royal Commissioners.
The meeting broke up at a quarter-past one o'clock,
when Prince Albert left the Exhibition for the Pad-
dington terminus of the Great Western Railway on
his return to Windsor Castle.
Mr. J. A. Jackson had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial office.

Wilkins had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Sir Edward Disbrowe had an interview with the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday at the Office
of the Board of Trade.

The Marquis of Lansdowne was better yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of South Australia and
Malta, and also from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT_
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, JAN. 21.
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.—Lord Godolphin has
taken Sir J. S. Hippesiey's house for two years, from
the Ist of March next. Captain Hamlyn Williams
has taken Cambridge House for the summer ; and
there are so many inquiries for houses, that there is
every appearance of an early and full season.
THE SEASON.—Such is the uncommon mildness of
the season, that the trees are bursting buds and blos-
soms, the banks are covered with primroses, the tur-
nips are running up to seed, and the birds are full of
song—the daisies deck the lawns, and the fields look
as gay as May.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.—The provisional order for
the application of the Public Health Act, 1848, to
the town of West Cowes, was received yesterday,
and a meeting has been called in the Town.hall this
evening, to appoint a person for conducting and com-
pleting the return of the first election of commis-
sioners, and to make a return of what alterations are
required in the present local Act, prior to the Gene-
ral Board of Health going to Parliament to get cer-
tain of the clauses repealed.

MESMERISM, OR ELECTRO-BIOLOGY.
An American physician, named Darling, has been
demonstrating- mesmeric phenomena in Edinburgh,
and bas produced a great sensation. Sir David
Brewster has published a letter in the papers express-
ing his conviction that there was no collusion. In
consequence of the conversion of so many opponents,
the Rev. D. Esdaile, brother ( f Dr. Esdaile of India,
has written the following letter to the Edinburgh
Courant:—

111 URDER NEAR BURY ST. EDMUND'S.
On Monday evening last a murder was committed
, in the parish of Lawshall, under very shocking cir-
cumstances; and, from the information which we were
enabled to obtain on the spot, there can be but little
if any doubt that the perpetrator of it is now in cus-
tody. The following narrative will be found to em-
brace all the facts of the case at present known :
The name of the deceased is Elizabeth Banbridge,
and the prisoner in custody is George Carnt, both of
them natives of Lawshall, the former the daughter of
a small farmer there, obtaining her living as a dress
and straw bonnet-maker; the latter a farm labourer.
The deceased was a married woman, but had, for the
last seven or eight years, been separated from her
husband, who is supposed to be in the Sappers and
Miners. She had one child, a boy about eight years
of age. On the afternoon of Monday last the de-
ceased and the prisoner were together in the village
public-house, called the Harrow, which is kept by
the brother of the deceased. For the last few months
an intimacy was observed to have sprung up between
the prisoner and the deceased ; at any rate, if the
prisoner's addresses were not reciprocated, it was
quite clear that he was very anxious to ingratiate
himself in her favour. About half-past three or four
o'clock on Monday afternoon the deceased left the
Harrow by the front doer, and, almost imme-
diately after, the prisoner went out by the back
door, and they were seen in a few minutes crossing a
field in company. This is the last time the deceased
is known to have been seen alive. She said she was
going home to her father's, a distance of a mile and
a halt. About five o'clock Mr. Payne, the landlord of
the Harrow, returned from his father's, and was asked
by his wife what time Elizabeth (meaning the de-
ceased) bed returned, as she went away with Carnt.
He replied that when he left she had not arrived.
Mrs. Payne, having observed the intimacy apparently
increasing of late between her sister in law and Carnt,
became uncomfortable, and frequently expressed her
hope that all was right. At seven o'clock the prisoner
returned to the Harrow, his clothes literally covered
with dirt and saturated with wet and without his hat
and neckerchief. Although this strengthened Mrs.
Payne's fears, it had not the effect it would under
other circumstances have had, because the prisoner
was known to be subject to fits, when he frequently
fell down in the dirt, and was obliged to have his
neckerchief loosened. One such fit occurred only on
Saturday last. Payne said to him, " You fool, you
ought never to be trusted alone, if you blunder about
in this way," and asked him where his hat and
neckerchief were. Carnt replied, " They are in
the pond ' • the baiter will be my neckerchief ;
the Devil has got me, pray don't touch nie
(It may be proper here to state that our reporter
could not ascertain that the prisoner had ever shown
the least symptom of mental aberration; the fits to
which he was subject were of an epileptic character.)
Payne dispatched a man to his father's to ascertain
whether his sister had arrived, who returned with the
answer that she had not. Upon learning this, police-
constable Keable was sent for, and, on his arrival,
asked the prisoner, who had been changing his clothes
at the inn, "where Betsy was?" Carnt resolutely
refused to make any answer, although the
question was repeated two or three times. Keable
went for her father, and, with one George Farrow,
commenced a search along the route she must have
gone to her father's house. For nearly a mile they
traced the footmarks of a man and woman, when they
suddenly stopped near a pond. On inspecting the
pond with their lanterns, Keable perceived something
dark, and, jumping in, found it was the body of the de-
ceased. On conveying itto a neighbouring house a large
bruise, as if from a blow with a fist, was discovered on
the right cheek, and several severe scratches on her
face, neck, and hands. On looking at the bushes near
the pond, they bore indisputable evidence that a fear-
ful struggle had taken place between the deceased and
another person, and that she had been violently
dragged along the hedge from the spot where the foot-
prints ceased to the pond. Keable at once proceeded
to the Harrow, where Carnt still remained, and
told him that deceased's body had been found, and
that he should take him into custody on a charge
of murdering her. He made no reply, nor
showed any emotion. Superintendent Death, of Clare,
was sent for, and he applied himself to ascertain all
the facts likely to connect the prisoner with the deed.
In the pond, and close by the deceased, were found a
hat and neckerchief, which can be identified as belong-
ing to the prisoner. Round the neck of deceased was
also found a silver watch which belonged to the prisoner.
In the breeches pocket of the prisoner was found a
wedding ring, corresponding to the one which the de-
ceased invariably wore, and which was missing from her
finger. In the pocket of the deceased were found a
guard ring, Is. 6d. in money, and about two ounces
of tobacco. Her dress exhibited other evidence of the
violence of the struggle, being torn from top to bottom ;
her shawl, which lay on the edge of the pond, had
also been torn through the fur, and thus forced ofl
her neck. The prisoner's shoes, which are nailed and
tipped in a very peculiar manner, exactly epee with
the footmarks.
The prisoner's clothes had evidently been a consi-
derable time immersed in water of a foul and muddy
character. The deceased is described to have keen
an industrious and rerg..ctahle person, and to have
been deserted by her husband for no fault of her own.
The prisoner has also borne the character of a hard-
working labourer, and his countenance is peculiarly
mild and prepossessing. He is talkative on other sub-
jects, but does not allude to this event in the remotest
degree. The only allusion he made was in the course
of the night, when one of those who sat up with him
said, on drinking seine brandy and water, that he was
afraid it was the last they should ever drink together,
and the prisoner, throwing himself back on his pillow,
with considerable emotion exclaimed, " I am afraid
so." If the prisoner is the murderer of the deceased,
the only motive conjectured for it is an alleged
jealous feeling as to her receiving the addresses of
another. The age of the deceased is 31, and that of
the prisoner 29. The prisoner will be examined to-
day at the local petty sessions.