The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

EISTEDDFOD GADEIRIOL Y GORDOFGIOIN.

" Hateful is the man that laveth nat his native country."
THE GORDOVIGION ROYAL B B DDV OD,
OR
GRAND CONGRE F BARDS,
WILL BE HE IN THE
ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, LIVERPOOL,
On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 17th, 18th, and
19th days of June, 1840.
PRESIDENT.
THE HON. EDWARD MOSTYN LLOYD MOSTYN.
PATRONS AND PATRONESSES.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT. •
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.
The Marchioness of Westminster.
Lady Dinorben, Kinmel Park.
Lady Gardner.
Lady Harriet Mostyn, Mostyn.
Lady Mostyn, Talacre. .
Lady Glynne, Hawarden Castle.
Lady Bulkeley, Baron-hill.
Lady Hall (Gwenynen Gwent), Lianover.
Lady Charlotte Guest, Dowlais.
Mrs. T. B. Horsfall, Liverpool.
Miss Angharad Llwyd, Caerwys.
Miss Williams, Aberpergwm.
Miss Jane Williams, Ditto.
Madame Rio, Llanarth Court.
The Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool.
The Most Noble the Marquis of Westminster.
The Right Hon. Lord Dinorben, Kinmel Park.
The Right Hon. Lord Mostyn, Pengwern.
The Right Hon. Lord Dynevor, Dynevor Castle.
The Right Hon. Lord Boston.
The Right Hon. Lord Bagot.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Adare,
Sir S. R. Glynne, Bart., M.P. Hawarden Castle.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart., Wynnstay.
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., Tredegar Park.
Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P., Lianover.
Sir J. J. Guest, Bart., M.P., Dowlais.
Sir Edward Mostyn, Bart., Talacre.
Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams Bulkeley, Bart.
Comte de Ville Marque, Brittany.
Mons. Rio, of Llanarth, and Brittany, France.

VICE PATRONS.
General Sir Love Parry Jones Parry, K.G.H., Madryn.
Sir Henry Browne, Knight, Bronwylfa, St. Asaph.
Cresswell Creswell, Esq., M.P.
Wilson Jones, Esq., M.P., Hartsheath Park.
William Bulkelev Hughes, Esq., M.P., Plas Coch.
William Ewart, Esq., M.P.
Philip Davies Cooke, Esq., Gwysaney, Flintshire, and
Owston, Yorkshire.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Bangor.
John Heaton, Esq., Plas Heaton, Denbigh.
George Griffith, Esq., Garn, Denbigh.
W. Williams, Esq., Aberpergwm, Glamorganshire.
Philip Jones, Esq., Llanarth Court.
Hugh Hornby, Esq., Liverpool.
Hugh Jones, Esq., Banker, Ditto.
Samuel H. Thompson, Esq., Banker, Ditto.
Rice Thomas, Esq., Coed Helen, Carnarvon.
CONDUCTORS.
The Rev. H. Parry, Vicar of Llanasa, Flintshire.
The Rev. D. James, St. Marv's Church, Kirkdale.
Mr. Thomas Hughes, Upper Parliament-street.
PROGRAMME.
FIRST DAY.—WEDNESDAY.
AGRAND PROCESSION will take place at Ten
o'Clock, consisting of the Arch-Bardic Druid, Druids,
Bards, Ovates, (dressed in their respective Robes,) Harpers,
Datgeiniaid from North Wales, Cantorion from South Wales,
Members of the Cymreigyddion Society, and other Friends
of the Eisteddvod, to escort the Honourable President and
tit Patrons from the ADELPIII HOTEL, to Penbryn-y-blodau,
adjoining Brunswick-road, the field wherein the Eisteddvod
was proclaimed, for the purpose of repeating the Proclama-
tion "in the eye of the sun, and in the face of the light."
Afterwards the Procession will return in the same order to
the Royal Amphitheatre.
The proceedings of the Eisteddvod will commence at
Eleven o'Clock, with