THE REV. O. Waldo James has resigned the pastorate of the Welsh Baptist Church, Penrhos, having accepted a call to become the pastor of Noddfa Welsh Baptist Church, Blaenclydach, South Wales.

WAGES IN THE NORTH WALES SLATE TRADE.

AT the North Wales slate quarries, matters are very unsettled owing to the refusal of the employers to grant an advance in wages. By a small majority the members of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union have decided that it is inexpedient to turn out at the present juncture; but at some of the quarries-such as that belonging to Lord Penrhyn at Bethesda-there is a strong feeling in favor of a strike.

WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.

The Welsh Liberal Members have lost no time in preparing for action. They met together, and adopted a resolution of rejoicing

that the Liberal Party is now in a position to redeem the pledge given by the "National Liberal Federation, and repeatedly and "solemnly ratified, that Welsh Disestablishment "in the present Parliament a thorough and satisfactory measure of Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Church of England in Wales." Mr. Stuart Rendel was re-elected Chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary party.

THE DEATH OF DR.

DIED.

JOHN THOMAS, LIVERPOOL. Welsh readers all the world over will hear with regret that Dr. John Thomas of Liverpool is dead. Dr. Thomas was one of those sincere and single-minded Welsh divines who, in true apostolic succession, have made Wales what it is, and his name is known, and revered wherever the Welsh language is spoken.

THE DEATH OF PROF. LLYWELYN J. EVANS, D.D., FORMERLY OF LANE SEMINARY, CINCINNATI, 0. We regret to announce that Professor Llewelyn J Evans, D. D., late of Lane

asthma, and early on Monday morning his heart failed, and he passed away peacefully at the comparatively early age of fifty-nine, leaving a widow and one son. The remains have been brought over to America for burial and taken to Cincinnati, O., where they will remain in a vault for a short time, awaiting the return of Mrs. Evans and her son to this country, when the funeral will take place. Mrs. Evans's state of health is such that it is hardly expected that they will be able to come by the Arizona, but most likely by the following steamer, the Wyoming, which sails on August 27th. The funeral will probably take place early in September.

Dr. Evans, whose portrait together with a brief sketch of his life appeared in the CAMBRIAN for June. was born at Caerwys near Mold in 1833 and entered the Calvinistic Methodist College at Bala, at the early age of thirteen years. Soon afterwards his parents emigrated to America. He becam successively a pastor of the Lane Seminary Church in 1860, professor of Church history in 1863, professor of Biblical literature and exegesis in 1867, and of the New Testament, Greek and Exegesis in 1875. He was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature (1857), and was correspondent editor of the Central Christian Herald (1863-67). He translated and edited Lange's "Commentary on Job." and has published sermons and pamphlets.

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day morning, July 25th, from heart failure at the age of fifty-nine. Dr. Evans had accepted the chair of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis at the Bala Theological College, and the reception meeting was held on the 7th of July. Dr. Evans had been in an indifferent state of health for some months before his recent departure from the United States. After arriving in Wales in May he resided for some time at Colwyn Bay, where he had several serious attacks of asthma, and his life was at one time despaired of. Three weeks before he removed to Bala, where he was mostly confined to his house. On Sunday night he had a severe attack of

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THE VOICE OF WALES.

(The Oswestry Advertiser.) Wales has spoken, and spoken with an almost unanimous voice. (We give in another place the Liberal and Conservative majorities in parallel columns, that our readers may see at a glance what Welshmen think of Disestablishment. Welsh Wales is all on one side, with not a single exception. Two members out of thirty are Conservative, but they are not sent up from Welsh Wales. They are returned by constituencies which are partly English-Denbigh and Montgomery Boroughs; and the total vote by which the two Conservatives were elected is less than a third of the Liberal majority in Merthyr Tydfil. The total poll for Mr Kenyon and Sir Pryce Pryce Jones together was 3,070: the Liberal

majority in Merthyr was 9,644, in Swansea District 5,026, in Mid Glamorshire 4,216, in Merionethshire 3,238, in East Carmarthenshire 3,116! The majority for the two Conservatives was 118 and 98,coming at the bottom of the list, lower than the lowest Liberal majority. The voice of Wales was challenged on Disestablishment, and this is the reply. Every Liberal candidate insisted upon the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales as a measure which should be placed immediately after Home Rule on the Liberal programme; Mr Goschen complained that Mr Rendel, the leader of the Welsh party in Parliament, had given precedence to the Welsh question; and as we showed the other day, even Conservative candidates scarcely ventured to mention the subject in their addresses, or mostly mentioned it to declare them. selves neutral. Of the two who were elected, Mr Kenyon, in his address, was silent, and Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones, though he opposed Disestablishment in his address, had undertaken, only last year, to vote with the majority of his countrymen. A constitutional demand, expressed in this unanimous way at the polls, we venture to say, is absolutely unique. Even Ireland, with its remarkable demand for Home Rule, shows nothing like it; and if the voice of Wales fails to bring Disestablishment among the earliest measures of the new Parliament, then it is a farce to talk of representative institutions, at any rate as far as Wales is concerned. That Mr Gladstone will introduce a measure at theearliest moment when there is a possibility of carrying it we have no doubt, and it is the action of the Lords which will be watched with the keenest interest in Wales. Should they flout the Welsh people, it would be unfortunate for the Peers. It would at once create in