In Lec. 6th he observes: "No one who has given even a passing attention to the habits and feelings of our people can doubt of the immense effect of a ready and natural elocution; yet how little attention is paid to a right training for its acquirement! Looking at the ministrations of the church. practically, and in detail; following them from the pulpit to the school-room; from the catechetical lecture, to the chamber of sickness; from the instruction and consolation of the dying poor, to the kind but dignified reproof of the careless, and, frequently, half-intoxicated, bystanders; from the abode of squalid misery to the parlour of worldly-minded avarice, fortified by incipient, perhaps confirmed, scepticism; or the drawing-room of piety on the one hand, or vanity on the other: from all these to the platform for the propagation of christian knowledge, or exposure of anti-christian error, by means of bibles, missionaries, schools, prayer-books, homilies, and tracts; -in whatever department of his labours you contemplate the minister of the church, it would be difficult to estimate the advantage that might, under the divine blessing, be derived from elocution classes in our universities; where, under the management of competent professors, our young men might be trained in recitation, both of selections from standard authors, and of their own compositions on set subjects. Conversational debatings, under the same watchful and authoritative control, might be most profitably introduced; and the students might be practised in a ready reply to objections, advanced for the purpose by the professor. Instead of superseding any part of the present process, this might be added to it all; and if candidates for orders were thereby de layed a year, or even two years, there would be more than compensation for the delay in the increased competence for the work. Many of the difficulties, under the unforeseen pressure of which young clergymen too frequently despond, might be anticipated, and completely overcome; and so a set of armed men ready for the christian field amidst our swarm

ing population, might be presented for ordination to all our Bishops. At this moment, in every neighbourhood where funds have been collected, and trustees appointed, and new churches undertaken, the urgent question is, where are we to find competent ministers? The experience of existing churches, with their respective ministers, points out the nature of the required competence."

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But it is pretended that the deficiency of the means of education in Wales, is made up by accommodations in Oxford and Cambridge, which hold out every encouragement to the natives of Cambria. True : but is it not plain, that a large number of the youths of the principality, are obliged to renounce the idea of a collegiate education, in consequence of the enormous expense attending it, who would have rejoiced to see that privilege placed within their reach, by the establishment of similar institutions in their own country, conducted on a judicious plan, and holding out encouragement to talent and attainments. The Scotch Universities afford a sound education, year after year, to some hundreds of the natives of Scotland, who reside in their vicinities, and who are not possessed of sufficient means to procure instruction at a distance. poor man, whose earnings exceed not twenty shillings a week, living in or near one of the four towns in which the Colleges are situated, is able to procure a collegiate education for his child. The scarlet cloak which the students wear has frequently covered a coat all in tatters. And the writer has been credibly informed, that many a youth has attended in his class, without any linen to protect his body; but who was, at the time, laying a foundation for prosperity in after life. Who does not see that such a person might, one day, fill an important station in society, and command the means to maintain his family in a respectable sphere, and promote, in a most important manner, the good of his country. The young men who enter themselves members of one of the Scotch Universities are allowed to live where they please, provided they attend

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the daily lectures of their respective Professors. The expense of instruction, under the care of one teacher, is less than four guineas a year; the instructions of another is obtained for three guineas more, and those of a third for the same amount. The session, as the term is called, continues from the tenth of October to the first of May. Scotland has had, in ancient times, men patriotic enough to originate these noble institutions, which have made their country so important and their descendants so eminent ! And it appears that there are men of kindred spirits, belonging to that country, in the present age. Not many weeks ago, the following information appeared in the newspapers : has left for the establishment of a seminary for education in that town, the sum of £18,000 sterling." When did a native of Wales, noble or plebeian, since the munificent Mrs. Bevan, perform so generous a deed?

"The late J. Neilson Esq. of Paisley,

It is not intended to deny, but on the contrary, the writer thankfully acknowledges, that there are some charitable institutions founded in Wales, and many of the nobility and gentry are benefactors to them; but every one who has travelled through the country, or examined into the subject, must have been struck with the paucity of such institutions, and the confined sphere within which they are obliged to act. A society which has for its object to repair the dilapidations of the churches, belonging to a whole Diocese, and to erect new ones in populous and destitute districts, affords a fair opportunity of testing the spirit which governs the wealthier classes of such a Diocese. A clergyman, whose name is not published, is the principal contributor to a society of this kind in North Wales. He has given £300. Then follow a number of donations of £100, with annual subscriptions of sums that are very creditable to the donors. But what are we to say concerning many of this order of society, who give no assistance whatever for such a purpose? Surely they have lost sight of the important truth that they are stewards for God, and that they are to be

called to account for the manner in which they have executed their trust. They forget the claims which the glory of God, and the good of their fellow-creatures, have upon them. Thinking that all the property with which they are entrusted is theirs, the opinion has possessed them that they have a right to do as they please with their own. The Marquis of Anglesey is a splendid exception to many of the higher classes in North Wales. Sir Richard Bulkeley is a liberal contributor to many charitable objects, a zealous promoter of education, and is very active in encouraging an improved system of agriculture. It is said that Lord Newborough is a good landlord, being considerate with regard to his tenants. But from all I have been able to learn, the late Sir Watkin W. Wynne, was by far the best landlord in the principality. The tale is abroad that no landed proprietor let his farms so much to the advantage of his tenantry, as that noble-minded and genuine patriot. Mrs. Oakeley of Plas Tanybwlch is a very benevolent lady. The following observations, in reference to her, have just appeared in print: "Among the many benevolent acts of individuals to their poor neighbours, at this season of the year, (Christmas), those of Mrs. Oakeley cannot be passed over in silence. Eighty aged people have had clothes given to them, as well as about ten pounds of beef and potatoes each, by the above lady. There have been many others from the six neighbouring parishes, exclusive of the above, who have been most liberally relieved by her. A good substantial dinner was given to the children of Maentwrog and Llwynygell schools, about one hundred and sixty in number, on new year's day and the day after, whom she waited upon herself. But it would not be doing justice to Mrs. Oakeley to say, that her charity is confined to one season of the year, as her hand is held out from one end of it to the other, in relieving the poor and needy; in short her name is only another name for that of benevolence itself." Truth requires that I should state that Mrs. Oakeley is an English lady, though the pro

perty, of which she makes such good use, is situated in Wales. There is another lady in Merionethshire, Miss Lloyd of Corsy-Gedol, of transcendent worth. She is distinguished alike for her devotedness to God, and her attention to the spiritual and temporal wants of her fellow-creatures. Her offices of kindness, in alleviating the distresses and promoting the comfort of the poor, are innumerable; it is therefore no matter of surprise that, in the part of the country where she resides, her name is identified with all that is generous and noble in human nature. In connexion with these, many others of the fair sex might be mentioned; but there are two who are preeminently distinguished for their active and liberal patronage of Welsh literature. The one is Lady Hall of Llanover, and the other is the erudite Lady Charlotte Guest. The honourable houses of the Mostyns, in Flintshire, are great benefactors to the literature of their country, and well deserve the popularity which they enjoy.

The next order of men, whose character claims our consideration, is the Gentry of less property, to whom may be joined the Clergy of the Established Church. Of this class are the greater number of the magistrates whose province it is to adjust the differences of the inhabitants, and suppress those irregularities which make their appearance, at times, in the principality. Most of these reside on their property in the country throughout the year. Being born and bred in the country, and their station in society requiring that they should hold continual intercourse with the middle and lower orders, most of them are acquainted with the language of the principality, and some of them are good Welsh scholars. Their education being of a superior kind, they form, by their number and intelligence, a most important part of the community. They are the connecting link between the higher and the lower orders. They have access to the nobleman, who does not consider his dignity impaired by their society, and their doors are open to the poor, when in the depth of distress they come