The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-27
WELSH JOTrINGS.

Rev. j. Macbreth Rees will conclude his
ministry at Penygroes and Llanllyfni In
May, and begin his ministry in London the
first Sunday in June.
owen Phillips, ship owner, London, has
accepted an invitation to- contest the
Montgomery boroughs as Liberal candi-
date. He is a brother Of Wynford Phil
lips.
A large number of amendments to the
Welsh dsestablshment bill are on the
paper. and the Conservatives have deter
mined to do everything in their power to
obstruct It,.
Sir George Morgan, writing to the Cefn
Mawr Debating society, says he Is OPP
posed to the appointment of secretary
for Wales on the ground that such an APP
pontment would be antagonistic to home
rule for Wales.
Rev. IL. T. Davies died at his residence,
Parkfield, Abergele, recently, at the age
of 73 For forty-siX years he had been en-
gagged in the Congregational ministry, and
since he resigned the pastorate of the
Abergele Welsh church six years ago, he
has been engaged in the training of stu
dents for the ministry.
Welshmen will not regret to learn that
the extradition of Jabez Balfour has at
thorities, and by order of the supreme
court Balfour was Internationally given
over to the British authorities He sailed
from Buenos Ayres for England on board
the Tartar Prince, in the custody of In
spector Froest. In the written state
ment that he has made to the Times of
Argentina Balfour asserts that he is fully
prepared to meet the charges made
against him, which he maintains are all
based on an erroneous assumption.
There is a possibility of a somewhat
novel development in connection with the
Liberal candidature I'm the Denbigh bor-
oughs. Colonel Naylor-Leyland the for
mer Tory member for Colchester, Is Will
ing to contest the seat in the Liberal in
terest. The colonel is connected with Dem
bighshire, and Is well known in the neigh
borhood of Wrexham. The crisis in the
Denbigh boroughs is grave one, and the
Liberals in the constituency are not just
now In position to hesitate long over
their choice of a candidate. Colonel Nay
loy-Leyland may not exactly be member
after the heart of "Cymru Fydd," but If
he is capable of winning Wrexham, which
Is the key of the situation in the boroughs,
the Denbighshire Liberals can scarcely af-
ford at the present juncture to ignore his
claims.
The current number of Franciscan An
nails, which is published at Pantasaph.
Holywell, contains the following note:
Wales and the Welsh are at present an
ecclesiastical problem both to English
politicians and prelates of the church.
Whilst Lord Rosebery is seeking to dis
establish the Anglican hierarchy In the
principality, the holy. father and the Cath
olic bishops of England are anxious to
establish the Catholic church upon a
firmer footing than it Is at present among
the Welsh people, Roman correspondents
speak of q Welsh diocese. or rather mis-
sion, governed by a vicar-apostolic. For
Franciscans the religious fate of Wales
has O peculiar historical interest. In olden
days the sons of st. Francis were most
popular as well with the people as with
the native phinces of Wales. Owen Glen
dover SO revered the friars that he gave
their houses the right of sanctuary, and
made the friary his home whenever he
happened In his progresses to be near one.
The last Catholic bishop of st. Asaph was
q Franciscan. And In these latter days
of Catholic revival the first Franciscan
monastery established in Great Britain
was that of Pantasaph, among the Welsh
hills of Flintshire. May the faith again
flourish In Wales, and the sons of st.
Francis be among It's cherished teachersv'