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' DAVID'S COLLEGE, LAIIIPETER : its
',gallants and Defenders. Respectfully dedicated to
Bishops of Wales. Pp. 56. Partridge and
Oohey, Paternoster-rot.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
contents of this pamphlet are not likely to
I much satisfaction to the Right Reverend
_':es to whom itis inscribed. Founded, less than
• generation ago, by the lie Bishop Burgess, to
soenceforth the sole theological college in the dio-
se of St. David, this institution has signally failed in
attaininentof its special objects,andcaused the Welsh
s.surch of the principality rather to regret the abro-
• aion of the previously existing licensed schools,
• an to exult in the superior use and excellence of
se institution which supplanted them. The first 17
:ages of this pamphlet trace its origin, progress, and
cline in narratives compiled from the College ca.
sdatys and from other sources. Certain particulars
fs-gas'.ding its endowments are then given, and various
r!sr:troversial statements concerning the correlative
;:si, lutes of its past and present ill success. On
~sist side is alleged utter mismanagement
the departments alike of education and
'fiance, on the other want of funds and non-posses-
ston'of the privilege of conferring degrees. Both
o,lxties appear to consider the college as vitally hiss
Osrtaat to the Welsh Church, but the assailants press
fjudicial inquiry, reformation, and recurrence
,ts) first principles; while the defenders deny all
IZAbnity to blame, extenuate obvious and undeniable
insults, and Would fain resist exposure, and obtain
lialtber pecuniary aid, to enable them to falter on in
ea:efts own old way. The following extract throws
sl;niiideiable light upon, the subject
" In the course of the last session of Parliament notice
of a motion of inquiry into the past and present state of
St David's College was repeatedly given in the House of
Commons. A coPY of that notice is subjoined. The
• xtiivad straight through gives the document as printed
M House, Feb. 24, 1$51; and in this form it is be-
.s,:ted to have been Officially forwarded to the authorities
Ltanbedr College. The letters, words, and passages
sse'distinguished byitalic characters were erased before
its return, and the marginal notes are the literal, verbal
5..0:1 sentential alterations made. It is to be observed
these alterations, thus t 1 u ter y subversive of the
tact of the motion,
were returned to her Majesty's
• cretary of State for the Home Department.
Mr. Jahn Williams—Return of names of all the
''nefie(a, whether sinecures or otherwise, transferred by
; tarter, Act of Parliament, or otherwise, to Saint
'avid's College, Lampeter:
"s The gross and net income of each benefice,
tether derivable from lands, houses, tithes, or otherwise,
owing the items which constitute the difference between
Ns and net income; by whom each benefice has been
td and is now held; the dates of the various appoint-
: eats thereto, whether held by any officers of the Col-
' ;4!) or otherwise; also the date of the appointments of
r s holders of those benefices to any offices in St. David's
'Oleg% and the annual income of such offices, with the
ties attached thereto, with 'the source from which such
:come is derived.
" Also, the amount received in each term from the
odenta as In College charges of tuition, rent of double
ad single rooms, matriculation, detriment fees, interest
• caution money, profits of butt: ry and dinners, and all
:seer sources of lucerne, from the year 1827 [lB-17] to
850, inclusive; also the number of students in each

•
Annual return of all " the means at the disposal of
.‘te David's College, Lampetir, setting forth all the
e -woes from whence derived, and the value iherwif re-
e: tively
; showing in each case the gross and net income,
:.nd the items constituting the difference between gross and
et income, from 1827 [3151 Lac. 1847] to 31st Decem-
eer, 1850, inclusive :
" ' Returns of the various benefactions, donations, and
abscriptions made to the College, with the date thereof,
d by whom made, and how expended or applied, from
.327 to 1850, ineusive:
"4 Of the names of the principal, vice-principals,
retessors, tutors, and assistant tutors, and all other
fficers of Saint David's Coll, ge, from the yf,ir 1827
io 1850, inclusive; stating the date of their appoint-
ments and eontinuanee in their offices, the objects for
which limy were appointed, whether they always resided
ind do reside in the College arid if not, the ususi place of
their residence and its di, tancß from the College, and
the titles of any ecclesiastical benefice; or pieces of pre-
ferment, and value of such preferment, held by each
of such officers, whether ex-officers or otherwise, and the
distance of such preferments from the College.
." Oi the various amounts paid in salaries, or in any
other manner, to the principal, vice-principals, profes-
sors, tutors, and other officers of the College, in each
year respectively; also the amount laid out in each year
in the repairs of the College buildings, and other ex-
penses attendant upon the fabric, from 1827* 11847] to
1850 inclusive :
" And of the number of scholarships, exhibitions,
and prizes, their respective annual values, when and by
-.Thom each was founded, when and upon whom each was
conferred, to whom and when paid, how long held or re-
tuned by each scholar respectively, when relinquished, and
oy whom succeeded, specifying in every case whether the
holder of such scholarship bad any office in the College,
and of what nature, from 1827 to 1850 "
" Hence it may be inferred that the Visit*, Principal,
Lind other members of the corporate body of St. David's
C.,llege, have deliberately refused to furnish the items'
,hich constitute the difference between the gross and net
home of each benefice, and the names of the persons by
whom the respective benefices have been held, with the
-'rtes of their several appointments to office in the College.
--I'ney have likewise refused to give any account of the
-)llegiate receipts and sources of income, of benefactions,
eeeations, subscriptiens, and other means at their dispo-
,l, rum lae year 1827 to Dec. 31, 1847.
.` They nave refused to state the objects for which the
eefessors, tutors, and others were appointed between
.ho
years 1827 and 1850, and the distances of their re-
we,ite residences and ecclesiastical preferments from the
!..:011vge-
" They have refused to give an account of the money
7-,anually paid to collegiate officers, and of the money an-
-,uslly expended upon the buildings between the years
:827 and 1847.
" They have refused to afford information concerning
ae dates, and as to the persons upon whom the several
!holarships, exhibitions, and prizes were conferred, to
--horn and when the respective amosnts were paid, the
eeriods of individual holding, relinquishment, and suc-
ef:sdon!
" Ia cases where many separate interests are io'olved,
is vain for public, bodies to expect for their tlansac-
,.ons the sale repose of perfect secrecy, yet defying all
risks of subsequent exposure and public contempt, the
ehatupions of bt. David's College have thus ventured to
vow that they must and will conceal all that belongs to
:he twenty years of their past history intervening between
1827 and 1847; but, being hard pressed, they reluctantly
eltisent to yield up, under compulsion, some few unim-
e 'rant particulars concerning the last three years of
teeir corporate existence."
A document such as this cannot fail to produce a
',,try strong effect upon the public mind ; no declare-
'--eneof examiners, nu protest of church dignitaries,
mar its force or abate its power. Nothing but
i.ie testimony of Sir George Grey and Mr. Williams
el" Macclesfield to its being an absolute forgery, can
Prevent the overwhelming effect it must produce upon
i:he official and pertizsn defenders of Lampeter Col-
lege. Pp. 31-5 contain a synopsis of anoe her Per•
ii4mentary paper which is scarcely less important,
striking, and conelueve. ladeed the whole of the
:natter embodied in this pamphlet tends fairly, yet
firmly, to make out a case of mismanag-ment and
abuse against the collegiate authorities. We earnestly
iicommend its attentive perusal to our readers, and
more especially to tho4e who are conscientiously de-
voting their time and talents to the discovery and
remedy of political, ecclesiastical, or other institu-
tional abuses.

* The figu-e3 in the text, which are supplied by others
within brackets, were erased like the words in Italic type.

D EATII OF PROFESSOR D UNBAR.
Wo have to announce to-day the death of one whose
-",2, we believe, is familiar to most of the scholars of
1.3 country, Mr. George Dunbar, Professor of Greek
.lerature In the University of Edinburgh. The melan-
event took place on Saturday morning at his_ resi-
dence, Rose-park, Trinity. The natural decay attend-
ing even an otherwise green old age has been for some
years aggravated by a virulent internal malady, which
it the commencement of the present st scion compelled
-him to abandon his academic duties, and the functions of
.1,4 chair have, t.coordiehlY, been since very ably dis-
ir.3-ed by Mr. Kirkpatrick
e,, from Oxford. The serious
ehensioos then entertained for him were, within the
' dsys, fully con hi med bq a aeries of spasmodic
,ttack%the violence of which ultimately proved fatal.
'-tacibirian Mercury.

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scPATI.rSION IN A COAL VESSEL.
',-;-, the baMt orthAT.— This morning, about ten
(1r:
Fortnontus. of Stettin, Captain
• bound to I.lrle
en with a cargo of coals she had
:.z in at Cardiff,
:. motet° wreck. s brought into Ramsgate Harbour
I appears that last evoing, between :47c and seven
,Alock, having passed
low to prick off his po4iutihogenesB, the master went
on the chart; he had
~.^,ted himself on a sofa in t'-no
‘;lveriabin, and the boy
brought him a candle,
arte-r
all heard two slighthad
bissing cracks, immediately
t2-,k Oleo, which drove in all the
cabinbulkheerardibaleofethceplosion
!Ind b:eyv the slcjli,ght off. On deck all the beams
f.!-.e break of the cabin-deck to the windlass torwrdfra°rlne
tr•:l,.n, and the deck torn up into small Pieces; boats,
en.bo ie„ and everything that was on deck Lhattered, and
.;:
,all n,,,,,, Tics in a confused mass down on the coals,
Two men were killed and ono badly wounded cut Of
tour who were en deck at the time. The captain and
r''al%itfcler of the crew, who were below, were not much
hurt. Fortunately for them the weather was very fine,
or with the deck all out and an opening in the topsides
between the fore and ra3in.rigging on the starboard