New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-13
THROTTLED WALES.

What with the almost fatal wound given by
| the REIMBURSEMENT of the Irish Church, and
the later bills regarding presentation sales, dead
dissenters, and illegal marriages, the English
Church Establishment reminds us OF the sick
lion in EsOp to whom all the beasts came as
| he lay a-dying to give a vengeful kick. Pres
| entity however we are told, came the hare,
and was promptly chewed up. Wales is the
| unfortunate hare in this instance. Now the
proportion of chuTchmen in Wales is compare
lively small and Mr.. Watkins Williams, who
represents one of the boroughs in the northern
part of the principally, the other day in Par
lament submitted mild protest against the
taxation of the people to support an alien
clergy of whose very language they were ut
terly ignorant. But the ancient Cymri through
Mr.. Williams, received prompt quetus. Ire
land had entered her protest on much less
reasonable grounds and accomplished her pur
pose; but Wales was different matter. Mrs.
Britannia dealt with her after the
custom of Mrs. McStinger with her
youngest born, when she stilled his
hunger by a summary drubbing, and seated
him on the stones to cool. There was uni
versal cutlery of Indignation from the Premier
down to every penny paper. After Mr. Will
liams and his Welsh dissenters have been
forced to put on the yoke again, however the
English, according to their habit, began to
justify their action to themselves, and to prove
John Bull the model of justice and i'm
partially he is known to be among nations
sort of pelican father, in short, nOurishing
even these Welsh 1edglings with his life blood.
The arguments must be, no doubt, convincing
to the ancient BrtOns. Mr.. Gladstone con-
fesscs," says The Examiner, the abuse of
Crown patronage, and the want of religious
earnestness of the Cambrians. SO long as
"Welshmen were permitted to fill the Welsh
Sees and Deaneries, the Welsh remained true
to the Thirty-nin Articles; but when men
"were sent among them who knew, as they
asserted, only the inferior language spoken
I" in England, their focks began to wander in
search Of native unanointed shepherds"
That any people should decline to be con-
verted by the English tongue, even when they
did not understand it, is an Obtuseness incom-
prehensible to John Bull. Whether they I'M
derstand it or not, it is officially limited to
them it is worth their while to pay tithes to
be secure of one gentleman in each parish to
serve, we suppose, as dumb model of
department. Whether the Welsh will consent
to pay the present high price for three lay
figures which have no way to civilize them
but, unexpectedly, in a sort of spiritual
carbonic acid gas, remains to BIO seen. The
leading social organ in London takes the bull
by the horns in the matter, manfully. The
only difference, it alleges, between tho cases
of Ireland and Wales and their wrongs is
that Ireland has political influence and Wales
has not 1t was not argument but Fenianism
that gained disestablshment in Ireland. Wales
being powerless, can be wronged with impu-
nifty. 1t is seldom that English policy is SO
frankly stated by an Englshman.
The significant fact in the matter is the adj
mission of the probability of the approaching
separation OF Church and State. Mr.. Osborne
Morgan, another Welsh member, advises his
colleagues to defer the presentation of the
claims of Wales until the question arose of
the disestablishment of the whole Church of
England. We have before now directed the
attention of our readers to the significant facts
which point to the near approach of such an
event. The mass of English voters are more
ready for it than their leaders will admit.
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A month ago the House passed a bill i'm
proving tn, pension laws Tho paaosu,o :,