Welsh Journals

Mar., 1885. BYE-GONES. 181 feet stranger to the place, the animal seemed quite to ap¬ prehend its position as a patient, and quietly submitted to the skilful ministrations of the dispenser, Mr Higgins, who promptly stitched the throat wound and bandaged the head and leg. Next day it took its departure, but on Tuesday returned to the institution, walking soberly into the dispensary with the bandages displaced to a comical extent. Having been again attended to by Mr Higgins, the dog signified its intention of becoming an " in-patient" of the institution by quietly taking up its abode in the dispensary and composing itself to sleep in front of the fire. In consideration of its singular sagacity and amiable qualities it has been allowed to remain there ever since, being now in a hopeful state of convalescence, and exhibit¬ ing no desire to return to its original lord and master, who¬ ever he may be. SCHOOLS OF ART IN WALES. The Science and Art Department have recently issued a statement shewing the results of examinations of Schools of Art throughout the United Kingdom in connection with the Department. The total number are 202 (including fourteen Branch Schools), of which three are in South Wales, viz., Cardiff, Carmarthen, and Swansea; and two in North Wales, Carnarvon and Welshpool; and one in Shropshire, Shrewsbury. The results of the above schools are as follows :— a-* ft ft-i -3 00 T3 CD CO jH 5rt oa .2 IK CO tO m la v to to OS IP '3 ft CM CO ft d-S ©a fc fc fi fc ft Sfi South Wales. Cardiff.......... 1868 192 84 31 19, 119 1367 118 ", Carmarthen .... 1880 105 40 66 573 58 Swansea........ 1853 130 46 16 73 1609 73 North Wales. 1853 49 19 13 12 281 11 Carnarvon...... Welshpool...... 1883 65 28 14 43 295 30 Shropshire. Shrewsbury.. .. 1855 135 45 17 59 291 51 Swansea and Carnarvon also had each two candidates examined for advanced examination, and one was suc¬ cessful, and Shrewsbury had one examined. EDUCATION IN SHROPSHIRE. A return has been issued giving the proportional num ber of persons who signed the marriage register with marks to 100 marriages in registration counties in the years 1852, 1862, 1872, and 1882; and the number of marriages in registration districts which are entirely included in Parliamentary boroughs having populations of 15,000 or upwards. In Shropshire in 1852 the propor¬ tional number was 39 8 men, 502 women ; 1862, 337 men, 357 women; 1872, 274 men, 294 women ; 1882,157 men, 15*4 women. Oswestry district: 1852, 163 marriages, 57 men and 83 women ; 1862, 176 marriages, 62 men and 56 women ; 1872, 188 marriages, 51 men and 51 women ; 1882, 178 marriages, 22 men and 31 women. Wem and Whit¬ church are bracketed together for 1852, when there were 112 marriages, and 51 men and 59 women could not write. Wem, 1862, 69 marriages, 18 men, 20 women; 1872, 63 marriages, 17 men and 15 women; 1882, 45 marriages, 3 men and 5 women. Whitchurch, 1862, 95 marriages, 29 men, 38 women; 1872, 87 marriages, 21 men and 22 women; 1882, 90 marriages, 17 men and 17 women. MARCH 4, 1885. NOTES. BISHOPRIC OF BANGOR.—Bishop Bayly of Bangor to the King, dated at Bangor, April 7th, 1630— replying to accusations of negligence in the government of his see, and especially of having admitted divers persons into the ministry without subscription to the orders of the Church. "Vindicates his general care in reference to ordination and subscription, but finds lately that some three or four ministers who do not reside within his diocese by the neglect of his chaplains escaped without subscribing. Protests that hereafter he will keeo his book of subscrip¬ tions himself. Has expended £600 in the repair of his Cathedral; has planted grave and learned preachers all over his diocese, three or four preaching ministers prone he found ; has taken care that catechising be duly observed; has suffered none to preach but such a3 are conformable, and has preached himself every Sunday until he became impotent. He and his clergy have provided armour for 100 men ready for the Kiug's service. He takes pains in visiting, confirming, and keeping synods, where all his clergy give him an account of every man's life and doctrine, keeps hospitality above his means, and all his actions tend to the well-governing of his diocese. Menai. (State Papers, Domestic, 1629-31, p. 230). DARWINIANA (Jan. 28, 1885.)—In April, 1796, Dr. Darwin married Su3an Wedgwood of Etruria, a lady of a gentle nature and a refined mind, who entered zealously into her husband's pursuits, and helped him to make the gardens at the Mount famous in all the neigh¬ bourhood for the choicest shrubs and flowers. To con¬ tinue my extracts—"They petted and reared birds and animals ; and the beauty, variety, and tamene3S of ' The Mount pigeons' were well known in the town and far beyond. But the wife of the leading physician of an im¬ portant provincial city like Shrewsbury had, in those days more especially, a multitude of other duties, that only a woman of education and tact could effect. There was often to receive, sometimes entertain, high-class patients in her husband's absence; to give dinner and supper parties ; to be on visiting terms with the gentry of a wide neighbourhood ; to take an interest in the town and town folks ; and not omit what was one of the established cus¬ toms of the place, two great yearly feats to the chief medical practitioners of town and country. To this Mrs. Darwin added much assistance to her husband in his large correspondence." And the doctor himself is thus des¬ cribed— " Like his father, he was always on the road. He was literally ubiquitous. His small yellow chaise, within which, so exactly did it fit him, there was not an inch to spare; its two sleek horses, for he rarely used post-horses, and his steady coachman, were to be seen everywhere. Dr. Darwin and his well-known chaise were just as likely to turn up in the wild solitudes of Offa's Dyke and Clun Forest, on the steeps of the Stretton hills, or in the narrow valleys of the Longmynd, as on the highways of Welchpool, Hereford, Birmingham, or in the streets of Shrewsbury. Weather was no hindrance to him. Floods might be out, deep snow cover the country, a fierce