There are droves of lads in Wales that would creep up but they cannot.

Poverty has too heavy a hand for them.'" The gentleman whose brief history is thus summarily given by Mr.
Davies, is now well known as a professor of philosophy; and, if his health be spared, he will become still better known.

He is the author of several important works on 'Moral Philosophy,' published by a leading London firm; and more works are announced from his pen.

The victorious struggle for knowledge which we have recounted might possibly be equalled, but it could not possibly be surpassed.

There are, however, as Mr.Davies related to the Parliamentary Committee, many instances of Welsh students--most of them originally quarrymen--who keep themselves at school by means of the savings effected from manual labour, "in frequent cases eked out and helped by the kindness of friends and neighbours," who struggle up through many difficulties, and eventually achieve success in the best sense of the term.