Welsh Journals

Introductory. 483 will pardon me for taking leave of them, (with my best thanks and best wishes,) in February, lest I should forget this painful duty by the first of March, when 0. P.'s Remains will, with Cambrian courtesy, shake hands with St. David, and quit the stage, remarking somewhat drily to the latter, that " every dog has his day." I be¬ lieve I am winding up, without having succeeded in acquainting one-half of my own personal acquaintances with the fact of my auctorial existence. And, as some are pleased to express regret at the cessation of the monthly feuilleton, my intention is to go on (as long as I hold together to work at all) preparing materials for a monthly N° with the ordinary general heads, as regularly as if the publication were going on pari passu. I shall thus, if God permit, be prepared, in case the Public should learn to sympathize with the regret of those favoring few, and call for " more last words," in this or any other form; or else, leave the MSS. not without a hope that my P<?j^humous Remains may prove more acceptable than the /V^humous. " Extinctus—ye ken—amabitur idem," quoth Flaccus. In all such prospective plans, however, I would have my readers, with myself, mindful not only of the shortness of life, but of the far more weighty truth that, " we shall not all die, but we shall all be changed." The coming of the Lord is a great deal nearer than when it was written " Be ye also ready : in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh;" and will surprise the unwise, improvident, as it has, re¬ peatedly, disappointed the overwise fore-seers. ECLAIRCISSEMENT. "What right have you," asked an old friend, " to carry