Last year, very praiseworthy exertions were made towards supplying our fellow subjects, who have emigrated to the different British Colonies, with the means of salvation in their native language, in conformity with the rites of our Established Church. But I submit, my Lord, whether the Welsh, who emigrate to the principal towns of England, are not placed in such a situation, as to render their claims upon our benevolence a matter of primary importance? Perhaps I may be told, that the case of the emigrants to our foreign Settlements is very different—the means of religion, with which they are provided, are in the language of the Countries, to which they have removed—to make the cases parallel, the services of religion ought to be established there in the Erse and Gaelic languages. Now, my Lord, if it could be proved that these languages form the only adequate medium of religious instruction, to as large a proportion of the emigrants, as the Welsh language does to the natives of Wales, I contend that the same necessity would exist for furnishing them with the means of instruction in those languages.—Again, it may be objected, that the Welsh would so soon acquire the language of their neighbours—among whom they live—as to render any instruction in their native tongue superfluous. But, my Lord, in a case of such vast importance, involving the eternal interests of so many immortal beings, can the anticipation of a future benefit, however great, justify the sacrificing of so much present good? Especially, when the attainment of the one, is not incompatible with the enjoyment of the other? When a patient is suffering under an alarming disease, is it safe, during the first stages of the disorder, to abandon the only means calculated to check its progress, because, that at some future period, a change of system may be advantageously adopted? Are we sure that life will be preserved, until the sufferer reach that eventful period? And, even, should he live to try the effect of this new system, would not the abandonment of the old one, at the commencement of the disorder, prove highly prejudicial to the success of the new? But suppose, my Lord, that, for the sake of argument, I concede this point to the objectors; and let us even imagine the interval to be short, during which the Welshman is excluded from the benefit of religious ordinances; it is an interval which—in whatever light I view it—I cannot contemplate without trembling. It is like holding out a flag of truce to a cruel and relentless foe, in order to give him more time to re-organise his treacherous plans, and gain fresh strength to execute them. And can we be surprised, if at the next assault of the enemy, we find the Christian combatant ingloriously defeated, hurled back upon the world, with the loss of fame, and a blasted reputation?