The number of Welsh, resident in Chester, has been differently stated, and, I have no doubt, my Lord, greatly exaggerated.—It is not within my province to inquire what may be the exact amount of the whole Welsh population: I wish to confine myself to that portion of it, which comes within the object of the Society, viz. those who prefer the Welsh language, and consider it the only adequate medium of spiritual instruction.—Without making any definite statement, I feel confident, that in rating these under a thousand, I should form but a low estimate of their number. From my own observation, my Lord, I am prepared to state, that to several hundreds, at least, the Welsh language is the only avenue of religious communication. Since accommodation has been provided for the performance of Welsh service, facts have proved, that without a Welsh Church and Pastor, a very considerable number would have been left as sheep gone astray, without a fold, and without a shepherd. And if, to the Divine Shepherd, the restoration of a single wanderer, appeared an object of such vast importance, what shall we say, my Lord, of the importance attached to the restoration of hundreds? When there is so much zeal exhibited in promoting the cause of Missions, and in sending the Gospel to heathen and foreign lands—when so much interest is displayed in providing Bibles and Missionaries for distant nations, with whom we are in no other way connected, than as members of the great family of mankind, shall we not discover equal zeal for “our brethren, our kinsmen, according to the flesh?”