The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-18 00:00:00

THE WELSH CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:

your paper of Thursday last a letterr
signed " Phii•Artegall" appeared. It relates to a
controversy now carrying on between the Bishop of
St. David's and Sir Benjamin Hall, in a correspon-
dence addressed by both parties to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, upon the subject of Brecon College.
In chivalrous days, without previous consent or
some urgent and most honourable incentive, it was
always deemed an unknightly act for one warrior to
atteiept the personification of another, either by as-
suming his archetype's distinctive armour and peculiar
device, or by so disguising his own as to produce
sufficient likeness to confuse identity. Those days,
indeed, are over, but the generous courtesy which
reeulated their useges survives and pervades our own.
Even a fictitious signature, like a tournament device,
after having once been successfully appropriated, is
usually respected as inviolable. Spenser, the poet, well
versed in our national records, and deriving alike the
name and the character of " Artegall" from British
history, assigned them both to the immortal, though
ideal, hero of a legend in his " Faery Queen". The
predominant emotion excited by the It-ports of the
Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Educe.
lion in Wales, was a sense of their great injustice. A
resolution to expose that wrcng stimulated memory
At once to offer freely her store of kindred ideas, and
prompted the choice from among them of " Artegall,"
as the Knight of Justice and also as the Knight of
Cambrian Britomart. This name, thus adopted, had
become well and widely known in association with
the successful disproof of the Commissioners' calum-
nious statements, when the Bishop of St. Davids'
thought fit to make its owner an object of public re-
probation in a Visitation Charge; his Lordship having
apparently been misled by an artfully infused suspi-
cion that " Artegall" might be found among the
clergy of his diocese.

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In the Times of Dec. 26, 1848, appeared the vindi-
cation of " Artegall" from the censures of the Bishop
of St. David's.

Content to have thus repelled the rude assault of
the only champion who had ventured an encounter in
the Commissioners' cause, and honouring the sacred
name and functions of the Knight of Justice, I then
hung up his unsullied arms and shield, to await the
time when Cambria might yet again, perchance, re-
quire their use. _ _ _

- The Bishop of St. David's now appears before the
public again, not indeed as the challenger, but as the
defendant, in this modern ordeal of battle.
The circumstances of his former attack were un-
usual and indecorous, it would therefore be ungene-
rous and ignoble in me now to rush with bold dis-
courtesy between the judicial combatants, offering
trivial annoyance to my old opponent, and petty aid
to his stalwart adversary, and thus insulting both.
The letter signed " Phil-Artegall," whether it
happens to be erroneously attributed to the author of
the remarks on the reports, or falsely considered as
written by his friend, and with the true " Artegall's"
knowledge and sanction, is, therefore injurious to
that good name on which some little benefit to Wales
may possibly yet depend. That letter is obviously a
hasty production, dictatorial in tone, crude in thought,
coarse in expression, and embodying almost as many
vulgarities as sentences. Its style serves effectually
to withdraw the attention of reflective readers from
the matter on which it treats, by suggesting the in-
quiry,—W hat can such a writer intend by the phrase
•• High Education r
Ihe celebrated Tractate of Milton unfolds a
system of education fitted at once to cherish and to
ennoble all the finest qualities of human nature, and
to form the most useful and exalted characters. Lard
Bacon, in his "Advancement of Learning," defines its
true purpose to consist in enabling its possessors to
become "a rich storehouse for the glory of the Crea-
tor, and the relief of man's estate." The prevalent
desire of Dr. Arnold was to send his pupils forth into
the world "rich in the indivisible love of truth and
goodness."
This, in strict terms, is " high education," for the
lofty ambition excited by such training is consistent
with content in the lowliest lot, while it tends with
strong force to habitual self-improvement and moral
excellence. My pseudo friend must certainly use the
phrase in another and a narrower sense, merely intend.
ing thereby to designate a course of thorough instruc-
tion in certain ancient languages, and in the leading
facts of physical science. Education of this sort is
undoubtedly valuable, though scarcely entitled to
pompous encomium. In order to adapt it effectually
to supply the present requirements of Wales, it must
not only receive sound principles for its basis, but it
must also include a thorough knowledge of the past
and present literature, history and condition of the
country ; and most especially, it must bring all these
advantages directly and simply to bear upon the
people's welfare, by a diligent and sedulous cultiva-
tion of Cambria's vernacular tongue. A close ap.
pruxitnation to my literary title has been adopted to
recommend what I could not have written, and to
meddle where courtesy restrained my interference;
in short, my semblance has been borrowed for an un-
worthy purpose : therefore, to disclaim that particular
letter, and to protest against all sirnEar imputations,
past, present. and future, has now become the duty of
TIIE AUTHOR OF ARTEGALL.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 17.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went to Os-
borne this morning at five minutes before eight
o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C. B.
Phipps and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour.
His Royal Highness and suite travelled by a
special train on the Great Western Railway to Bas-
ingstoke, and from thence by the South-Western
Railway to Southampton, crossing from thence to
Cowes.
His Royal Highness is expected to return to the
Castle about six o'clock.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
de Nemours, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess d'Aumale, are expected to arrive at the
Castle to- day on a visit to the Queen and Prince.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de
Nemours, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness
de Spcth, and Sir George Couper.
Her Majesty's private band will attend in the Castle
after dinner.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of
Mink), Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, the Earl of
Carlisle, the Right lion. Henry Labouchere, the
Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox
Maple. The Council sat two hours and a half.

The Rev. T. Boyles Murray, 'M.A., Secretary of
the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at-
tended on Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-
office, with an humble address to her Majesty from
members of the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, on the subject of the late Papal aggres-
sions ; the address bearing the names of 3,600 mem-
bers, including ' thirty-six Prelates, headed by the
signatures of the Archbishops of Canterbury, York,
and Armagb, and the Bishopa of London, Durham,
and Winchester, as well as those of several lay Peers.
Samuel Gurney, George Stacey, and John Hodg-
kin, a deputation from the Society of Friends, on the
receipt stamp duty, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Masterman had an interview with the Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at the office of
the Board of Trade.
The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission
held a meeting yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Present—Eirl Granville (chairman), Hon. William
Cowper, Sir James Gordon' K.C.8., Sir John F.
Burgoyne, K.C.8., Captain Stephenson Ellerby, and
Lord Hobart, Secretary to the Commission.
A deputation from Cork bad an interview with the
Commissioners. The deputation consisted of Mr.
John She, Cork; Mr. John P. Hardy, Cork; Cap-
tain Sir Robert Hagan, R.N., Cork ; Mr. Sergeant
Murphy, London ; Mr. Joseph Anderson, London ;
and Mr. Eugene M‘Swiney, London.
Mr. Quelter had an interview with the Commis-
sioners of Railways yesterday, at their office in the
Board of Trade.

The Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., had an interview
yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir
Alexander Spearman had an interview with the
Right lion. Baronet on Thureday.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office fur the Governors of the North Ame-
rican colonies.

DEATH OF bII3 EXCELLENCY BARON NIEUMANN.
—We regret to learn that intelligence was received in town
yesterday of the demise of his Excellency Baron Nieu-
mann, formerly, for some years, Austrian Minister at this
Court. His Excellency died, after a short illness, at Brus-
sels, having survived his lamented wife (daughter of the
present Duke of Beaufort) little more than three months.
ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—The periodical list
on this subject, published under the authority of the Incor-
porated Law Society, has just appeared, and affords the fol-
lowing results :—Number of persons applying to be admitted
as attorneys in Easter Term, 1851, 169 ; notices of admission
in Hilary Term, 1851, to be added to the list pursuant to
judge's order, 4; notices oradmission in Easter Term, 1851,
for a like purpose, 13;
applications to the Court for taking
out and renewal of certificates on the last day of the present
Term, 3 ; applications to a judge at chambers to take out and
renew certificates, on Feb. 1, 1851, 41. Making the total
number of names in the present list 2'33; whilst in the one
immediately preceding they amounted to 293; showing a de-
crease in the last list of 60 namee.