18 MAY 1889, Page 2

:A. curious incident of the debate was Sir Hussey Vivian's

remark that the Cymry are the most ancient race in this country, and that it is impossible to "stamp out a people of 1,600,000 who had been in existence for 200,000 years." Sir Hussey Vivian's anthropology muE3t evidently be as singularly original as is his idea that any one wants to stamp out the ancient Cymry. It reminds us of the remark of an old Unitarian at the celebration of an anniversary in the ancient chapel in which he worshipped,—" Our fathers have worshipped in this chapel for thousands and thousands of years." Yet even he did not go so far back in his magnificent palmonto- logical retrospect as Sir Hussey 'Vivian.