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maintained first, that money ought not to possess
any intrinsic value, opposition to the "modern
idolatry" which prevailed on this part of the sub-
ject. He next argued from historical facts, that
taking the whole duration of this monarchy
we had only had gold as money for a limited pe.
riod, and that in those periods when we bad had
gold as the representative of money, we bad en-
countered most tremendous mercantile disasters,
whereas when we were released from this foolish
superstition we had bad periods of unbounded pros-
perity. He then contended that Mr. Jones Loyd's
theory of trade was altogether illusory, and attributed
the miseries of the panics of past years to the effect of
Peel's measures of 1816, 1819, and 1844.
Mr. TWELVES, in a speech full of historical statis-
tics, argued at great length against the present mo-
netary system, and concluded by declaring that the
country was placed in this position, that they must
annihilate the national debt, and thus affect the in-
terests of nine-tenths of the population, or return to
a paper currency.
The proceedings terminated with an intimation
from the Chairman that they would meet again in a
week or ten days, or a fortnight, when gentlemen
who were then prepared to address the meeting would
attend, fur, as the hour was so late, they thought it
better those gentlemen should reserve their remarks
till the next meeting.

THE WELSH CHURCH,
LETTER X.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE StrlV,
have had many opportunities of observing
that even in districts which are superficially
Anglicized, the spiritual husbandry of EngHa,
clergymen in Wales can only be compared to the
fastidious efforts of a lady with a trowel, where the
ploughshare lies rusting in the fallow field, unless
boldly driven deep into the fertile land by voluntary
native labourers. _ _

In trying to make the English language the basis
of Welsh instruction, our rulers have long been
sedulously endeavouring to make a pyramid stand
upon its apex, and thus endangering, crushing, and
scattering those who ought to be gathered and shel-

tered and preserved.
Most Welsh clergymen, being not only the servants
of the Church, but also the servants of beneficed
Englishmen, have charge of more than one parish,
and perform service in English and Welsh alternately
once a day in each, affording insufficient means of
grace to both places. Often the service, nominally
called Welsh, is a mixed one, which always proves
offensive to both parties. This mischievous course is
usually adopted by clergymen who, having learned
the Welsh language merely to procure institution,
find extreme difficulty in reading the lessons, and are
utterly incapable of preaching in Welsh. The
general comment of their few native hearers upon
such dramatic exhibitions is very expressive :—" We
understand even less of their Welsh than we do of
their English."
A simple fact may appositely illustrate the general
condition of the Welsh Church as regards the insuffi-
cient means of grace with which it is supplying the
people. A Welsh curate having two parishes, lying
several miles apart, under his care, and residing in
one of them, could only perform service in each church
once every Sunday. He officiated on alternate Sun..
days in the native tongue, and was popular among
the people round his home ; nevertheless, the mem-
bers of his congregation regularly attended also at
the Dissenting chapel. A certain old woman among
them took an opportunity of telling him one day
that she hoped he would approve of her motives in
so doing, as really the Church was not enough for her.
This deficiency in the number of public ordinances
does, in fact, send all their devout attendants, except
the gentry and the higher order of shopkeepers, to seek
additional means of grace elsewhere. It acts as an
auxiliary force to Dissent, while undermining the
attachment of some of its own few members, and
obstructing the religious improvement of the rest.
Some letters signed " Giraldus," which have
recently appeared in the Daily News, contain impor-
tant information on this subject, and afford matter
for very serious consideration. It may be inferred
from their statistics of the relative means of grace
offered to the inhabitants of various Welsh localities
by the Establishment and by Dissenters, that the
diocesans, official dignitaries, and parochial ministers
of that Church must all have utterly forgotten the
purport of that solemn exhortation delivered by the
bishop to every priest in the Ordination service :
" Have always, therefore, printed in your re-
membrance how great a treasure is com-
mitted to your charge ; for they are the sheep of
Christ which he bought with his death, and for whom he
shed his blood. The Church and congregation whom
you must serve is his spouse and his body ; and if it
shall happen the same Church, or any member
thereof, to take any hurt or hindrance by reason of
your negligence, ye know the greatness of the fault,
and also the horrible punishment that will ensue.

Wherefore consider with yourselves the end of your
ministry towards the children of God, towards the
spouse and body of Christ, and see that you never
cease your labour, your care, and diligence, until you
have done all that lieth in you, according to your
bounden duty, to bring all such as are, or shall be,
committed to your charge unto that agreement in the
faith and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and
perfectness of age in Christ, that there be no plaoe
left among you either for error in religion or vicious-
ness of life."

having these awful words printed in their remem-
brance, few parochial clergymen would dare to disre-
gard them, and, for the sake of personal ease and
worldly favour with the
,principal families of their
several parishes, to leave the great majority cf their
flock untended and untaught to wander at their will.
Alas! these words, and the sacred vows which as-
sented to their charge, and sealed their obligation, are
now apparently alike forgotten. The minister's at-
tentions are almost exclusively devoted to the local
great ones and their dependents, and the hindrance,
wilfully cast in the way of the poor, by the disuse of
services in their natiYe tongue, the spiritual hurt thus
done to thousands individually, and the aggregate
amount of injury resulting to the community is little
dreamed of. " The greatness of the fault" is aggra-
vated, too, by the previous warning, and such minis-
ters are incurring a tenfold degree of guilt by that
very frequency and familiarity which help to blind
their minds in its commission. They have manifestly
left a wide expanse among them, both for " error in re-

legion" and for " viciousness of life" ; and, had not
sectarian volunteers filled up the gaping breach, the
Principality would probably lie even now at the
mercy of superstition, ignorance, and infamy. is
the most intense darkness precedes the dawn of
morning, and the weariness of the week's last
night ushers in the cheerful Sabbath, so, the
students of Church History have often remarked,
are the periods of the greatest gloom followed
by religion's most glorious revivals. It may,
therefore be hoped that the piety and real of the
Established Church in Wales being now well nigh
extinct, will soon receive, through the true and faith-
ful ministers which yet remain to her, fresh commu-
nications of that celestial fire which can alone restore
her to her proper use and glory as the spiritual Light
of Wales.
The case made out by " Giraldus" to prove the
imperative necessity for re-modelling and reforming
the ecclesiastical administration of the Welsh Church
is incontestably very strong. The shame of such an
exposure may, perchance, awaken some of the guilty
from the slumber of inconsideration to a sense of their
duty, and prompt, at least, the local palliation of
abuses, which can be fully remedied only by that
Government authority which gave their first unhal-
lowed impulse, and sanctions their disastrous con-
tinuance.
Intending to address you again in a few days,
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
GORBUNIAN.

A SHORT WEATHER TABLE FOR THE
BOROUGH OF BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Jan. 15. Showers of sleet or snow, with wind.
16, 17, 18. Dull, with showers of sleet or snows
and intervals of frost.
19, 20, 21, 22. Keen frost.
23, 24. Showers of rain or sleet.
25. Showers of sleet, with intervals of frost.
26, 27. Keen frost, with snow.
28, 29, 30. Dull, with showers of sleet or snow,
and intervals of frost.
31. Dull, with slight frost.
Feb. 1, 2. Frosty, with snow.
3,4, 5, 6. Showers.
7, 8. Misty.
9, 10. Misty, with slight showers.
11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Showers, with wind.
[WEATHER IN LONDON.—Jam 15th, dull and hs.ty•
16th, a slight fill of snow; 17th, dull; 18th, rain and
sleet; 19th, dull and dirty.—ED. Sun.]

A MEETING TO DISCUSS TEE PRINCIPLES OF PRO••
TECTION AND FREE TRADE.—If we are to j.Adge by the
reports of the meetings now being held in different
parts of the country, the kind of protection most needed
at these assemblies is the protection of the police, or
self-protection of a decided character. That the Pro-
tectionists and Free-traders are determined on making a
tight for their respective cause, is quite evident. If
the question is t ) be fought out, the better way would
be for a champion on each side to take up and put on
the gloves, so that, after a fair contest, the combatants
might remain baud and glove in friendly terms for the
future.—Punch.
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