THE FROST (Feb. 20, 1895).-Ellesmere Mere was frozen over for six weeks terminating on the 16th of March, 1852. Probably this would be the late frost referred to by " W.O." G.T. SHROPSHIRE DAINTIES (Feb. 13, 27, 1895). I cannot think that the writer in Cham bers's Journal is quite correct in describing "Bubble and Squeak" as a Shropshire dish, or allocating it chiefly to breakfast. My idea of it is that it has a much larger range, and was eaten in many other counties. Its composition is rightly described, but there was more cabbage than potato. It was compounded in a pan over the fire, and served hot for dinner, as far as my experience shows. It is still popular in country districts. We used to get it at school on Fridays, as an alternative to "resurrection pie." Grinnel cakes, or rather "griddle cakes," were such as were hastily concocted by means of a griddle, or gridiron, W. greiddyll. With regard to "Painted glass works," the Rev. W. A. Leighton says in his Guide to Shrewsbury, "It would ill become us to pass, without honourable mention, the talents of our ingenious townsman, Mr David Evans, who by unwearied exertions and consummate skill, has raised the art of glass staining to a degree of perfection unequalled in modern times, and nearly approaching, if not entirely equalling, the rich and mellow tints of the royal glass' of ancient days. The numerous and singularly beautiful specimens of his elaborate labours, visible in the inimitable restorations of the splendid glass of Winchester and Lichfield Cathedrals, the Churches of St. Mary, St. Michael, St. George, the Abbey, and St. Giles in this town, and in the mansions and domestic chapels of the nobility and gentry, in almost every part of the kingdom, speak, however, his merits more forcibly to the correct eye and refined taste than whole volumes of our feeble encomiums." Evans's workshops were on the Wyle, his mantle has not descended to others. Crude colouring and distorted drawing" are the characteristics of modern stained glass. YFED-DWFR. Whilst Dr Griffiths, of Leaton, Prestatyn, was on his rounds last night week, he was seized with a sudden illness, and expired in a few minutes. Dr Griffiths was a well-known practitioner, and practised for many years at Chester. The death is announced as having taken place at his residence, Ynys, Llanerchymedd, Anglesey, of Mr W. H. Richards, who was an extensive property owner in Anglesey and Flintshire. He was à son of the late Mrs Richards, Plasmedd, Anglesey, and a cousin of the Rev R. Leigh Roose of Holt. will of Mr F. Pickop-Dutton, of Plas Newydd, The gross value of the personal estate under the Trefnant, has been entered at £93,311. Amongst the legacies are £20,000 to the Black burn and East Lancashire Infirmary, £5,000 to the Blackburn Free Library, £5,000 to the Blackburn Orphanage, £10,000 to the Blackburn Technical School, and £5,000 to the Blackburn Grammar School for the foundation of two Dutton Scholarships. The remains of Mr Edward Henry Mostyn, who died on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Tower House, Flintshire, aged eighty-two, were interred at Arundel on Thursday. Mr Mostyn was the second son of Sir Edward Mostyn, seventh baronet, of Talacre, and married in 1848 Anastasia Elizabeth, daughter of Sir J. F. F. Boughey, Bart.,of Aqualate, by whom he leaves a son and two daughters. Mr Mostyn was formerly a Captain in the 8th Hussars, and a county of Flint; and for thirty years he acted as justice of the peace and deputy-lieutenant for the agent of the Sussex and Surrey estates of the Duke of Norfolk. Merionethshire in the Unionist interest against Mr Mr Henry Owen, of Ceiswyn, who contested T. E. Ellis, chief Liberal whip, at the last General Election, was found dead in bed at Corris,on Monday, Feb. 25, his death being due to apoplexy. He was forty years of age. Mr Owen, who was wellknown in literary circles as "Amaethon," and was much respected, was a tenant farmer, a Nonconformist, and a county magistrate for Merionethshire. He was a son of Mr Wm. Owen of Mathafarn, Thursday, the remains being interred in Corris Montgomeryshire. The funeral took place on parish churchyard. The personalty under the will of Mr J. C. Burton Borough of Chetwynd Park, Newport, has been entered at £38,114 11s 4d. Numerous lega cies are left to relatives and servants, including an annuity of £100 to his agent. He devises his real estate in Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derby, and York to the use of his son Thomas George, for his life, with remainder to his first and other sons successively, and to the testator's son, Charles Gawen Roberts Gawen, and his first and other sons, Mr Borough bequeaths the residue of his personal estate, together with a sum of £16,000, which he appoints from the settled Chetwynd satisfy his covenants with the trustees of the mar estate in trust to pay certain annuities and to riage settlements of his daughter, Mrs Bowles, and to apply the surplus, if any, as if it were money derived from the sale of real estate under the Settled Lands Act. 6 42 CHARLES DARWIN'S MODESTY.-One of the greatest and most frequent difficulties with which a publisher has to contend is the belief and entertained by inexperienced authors authoresses that he can command success for their work. The reviews have been favourable; friends say pleasant and encouraging things; another book of a character similar to their own (only, of course, of somewhat inferior merit) has This into a tenth edition, and so forth. gone belief is, however, rarely if ever met with amongst authors of distinction, and I will close my remarks with an incident illustrative of the extreme modesty of a very distinguished man. One day he came to see my father, and brought with him a MS. As he laid it on the table, he said: "Mr Murray, here is a book which has the preparacost me many years of hard labour; tion of it has afforded me the greatest interest, but I can hardly hope that it will prove of any interest to the general public. Will you bring it out for me, as you have done my other books?" The author was Charles Darwin, and the book was his famous work on "Earthworms," which in the course of three months reached a fifth edition.-John Murray in "Good Words." THE PLOUGHBOY'S SONG. A writer in Chambers's Journal gives an interesting account of a search for a folk-song. "One evening, four years ago, I was sitting in winter in an inn kitchen on Dartmoor, in the settle, beside a huge fire of heaped-up and glowing peat. Several moormen were present, having their ale, talking over politics, the weather, the condition of the turf harvest, the preceding season, the cattle, the horses that ran wild on the moor, when one old fellow said: 'I reckon there's none o' you here ever seed oxen yoked to None had. He continued: " Ay, a plough.' but I ha' driven them when I were a mite o' a boy With my hump along! jump along! Pretty, Sparkle, Merry, Good-luck, Speedwell, Cherry! We are the lads that can follow the plough!' Prithee, lend your jocund voices, As the ploughboy does in spring, With my hump along! jump along Good luck, Speedwell, Cherry! We are the lads that can follow the plough. For it's, O my little ploughboy, Soon the sun above Brown Willy* With my hump along! &c. In the heat of the daytime With my hump along! &c. We will send into the stall. And the huntsman gives up hunting, IN THE FIELDS AND LANES. St. Winifred's Well, at Holywell, was not frozen at all during the recent severe frost, and the normal summer temperature of the water hardly fell two degrees. A few days before Christmas I found a primI placed a rose in bloom in my gardeu. flower pot over it to preserve it, intending to The snow came and gather it in a day or two. covered the pot over for eight weeks, and when the pot was lifted three primroses in bloom were to be seen. THE WEATHER.-Snow fell again on Saturday, and lay on the ground until Tuesday morning. On Sunday night there was a sharp frost, and the Oswestry Corporation servants continue to supply water to many houses from which it is cut off by the effects of the long frost. RED-BREASTED MERGANSER NEAR LUDLOW.Mr Torrance McMicking of Burway, near Ludlow, writes to The Field as follows:-" On Feb. 23 I shot at Burway, near Ludlow, a female redbreasted merganser. This may be of interest to naturalists, inasmuch as we are so far away from any tidal water, and also on account of its size and weight. It measured 26in. from tip of the bill to end of the tail, and weighed 3lb 2oz." *The highest hill in Cornwall, SINGULAR ACCIDENT TO A KINGFISHER.-Mr W. Godwin of Market Drayton sends the following account of a singular accident which happened to a kingfisher to The Field:-"On one of the late severe frosty mornings Mr T. Simon, of Spoonley Farm, had his attention called to a peculiar twittering and fluttering of a kingfisher resting on the toprail of an iron hurdle, and on going to it found that it was frozen fast to the hurdle by its foot. It had one foot free, but the other leg was broken in two places in its efforts to get away from its perch. Presumably the foot had been wet when the bird alighted, as in intense frost iron will freeze anything wet to it almost immediately. Finding the bird so much injured, and the weather so intense, Mr Simon at once put it out of further misery." RAINFALL IN 1894.-AT OTELEY, ELLESMERE. The Late Godfrey FitzHugh, Esq. The death took place, on Thursday, at his residence, Plaspower, near Wrexham, of Mr Godfrey William FitzHugh, at the age of 74. Mr FitzHugh, who had until a few months ago resided out of the district, was a brother of the late Mr T. Lloyd FitzHugh, and at the time of his death, in January, succeeded to the Plaspower estate. For about a fortnight before the death of his brother, Mr Godfrey FitzHugh had been under the care of Dr Drinkwater of Wrexham, for an attack of pneumonia, and he did not afterwards seem to gain much strength. He rallied a little a fortnight ago, but a relapse followed, which resulted in his death. Public affairs had never engaged his attention, and he always lived a retired life. He leaves a widow and two sons, and the eldest son, who not long since attained his majority, succeeds him in the estate. Mr FitzHugh married Miss Oakley, daughter of the late Capt. Oakley of Oakley, Bishop's Castle. The funeral took place yesterday at Bersham Church, which was built and maintained by the late Mr T. Lloyd FitzHugh, beneath which there is a private vault for the family. The coffin was removed from the house on a small carriage-bier, and was met at the gates by the surpliced choir, and the Rev Canon Fletcher, vicar of Wrexham, W. L. Taylor, deceased's chaplain, J. E. Tompson, vicar of Esclusham, and T. Williams, vicar of Connah's Quay. A large number of the tenwreaths were sent. the funeral, and a number of antry attended The Late Lord Aberdare. In We are sorry to record the death of Lord Aberdare, which took place on Monday afternoon, Feb. 25, at his London residence. Lord Aberdare, who was Poor, was only recently, in recognition of Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Aged his great services to the cause of Welsh education, elected first Chancellor of the University of Wales. He was the son of Mr John Bruce Pryce Bruce of Duffryn, St. Nicholas, and was born at Duffryn on April 16, 1815. In youth he spent six years in France, and returning to England in 1827, he entered Swansea Grammar School. 1837 he was called to the bar, and from 1847 to 1852, he was police magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil. From 1852 to 1868 he represented Merthyr in Parliament, and in January, 1869, he was elected for Renfrewshire. From November, 1862 to April, 1864, he was Under Secretary at the Home Office, and subsequently, until July, 1866, he was Vice-President of the Committee of Council Education. In 1868 he took office under Mr Gladstone as Home Secretary, and in 1873, when he was appointed Lord President of the Council, he was raised to the peerage. In Wales he will always be remembered for the interest he took in the promotion of higher education, and it was he who presided over the Royal Commission, whose the University report led to the foundation of Colleges of North and South Wales. He also took a deep interest in the welfare of the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, and filled the office of President of the Court of Governors. Lord Aberdare, who edited a life of General Napier, on the historian of the Peninsular War, was twice married, and he is succeeded in the titles and estates by the Hon. Henry Campbell Bruce, who was born in 1851. The funeral took place on Friday, the remains being interred in Mountain Ash Cemetery. The Late Mr J. A. S. Jennings. It is with much regret that we have to record the death of Mr John Alfred Share Jennings, which took place early on Friday morning at his residence, London House, Ellesmere. Mr Jennings had not enjoyed good health for some years, and during the past few months had been in a very delicate state, but it was only about a fortnight ago that his illness assumed an alarming form, and that he took to his bed. He remained conscious up to within a few hours of his death, and he passed away apparently without pain. Mr Jennings, who was thirty-seven years of age, was a son of Mr and Mrs Jennings now of Llandudno, and his grandfather, on his mother's side, Mr Share, was some years ago engaged at the Bridgewater offices in Ellesmere. Mr Jennings had been clerk in the office of Mr John Pay of Ellesmere for about sixteen years, and by Mr Pay his services were very highly valued. He was collector to the Urban District Council, an appointment which he had held for some years, and was present at the last meeting, about three weeks ago. The office of deputy registrar of births and deaths was also held by him. Mr Jennings took a great interest in the higher life of the town. For some years he held the post of hon. sec. to the Literary Society, and the continued success of that body was in а large measure due to his zeal in arranging the meetings. He was himself a frequent contributor of papers on various subjects, and took part in the discus sions. Of the Natural History and Field Club he was also the hon.sec. and treasurer. At a meeting some time ago he contributed a paper on Dragon Flies, and on entomological matters he was considered an authority. The services he had rendered those societies had, on several occasions, been borne testimony to by the members, and he has been the recipient of several valuable presents from them. In religion Mr Jennings was a staunch Churchman, and he was an active worker in all matters connected with the Church, and at the time of his death he was one of the sidesmen. He was a member of the English Church Union. He was an honorary member of the local Court of Foresters. Mr Jennings married in August last year Miss S. A. Thompson, daughter of Mr Thos. Thompson of Ellesmere, and much sympathy is felt for her in her sad bereavement. The funeral took place on Monday, the body being laid to rest with that of Mr Jennings's brother, in a vault in the Ellesmere Cemetery. NOTICES OF BOOKS. Amongst the notes we find a Latin couplet, which is Englished thus The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be; But when be got well a wolf as of old was he, of which the variant is familiar to everybodyThe devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well: the devil a monk was he. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland for December, 1894, contains a report of the visit of the Society to North Wales in 1894, at the invitation of the Cambrian Stokes describes a remarkable funeral custom in Archæological Association. Miss Margaret the Baronies of Bargy and Forth, County Wexford. With the wood remaining after a coffin is completed small crosses are made. One of these is placed at the head of the grave; the rest, after being carried by the chief mourners, are fixed in the branches of a hawthorn tree at the cross roads nearest to the cemetery, where the procession halts. In some places the trees have fallen beneath the weight of crosses, and the fresh crosses are added to the heap, until sometimes there is a mound eight or ten feet high. The other papers are "The Crannog of Moylarg," "Churches with Round Towers in Northern Clare," "Irish Flint Saws," and "The Origins of Prehistoric Ornament in Ireland.” Illustrated Archeologist (London: Bemrose and The first number of the united Reliquary and Sons) opens with a description of the Monumental Effigy at Llanarmon-in-Yale, of which an excelArcheologia Cambrensis for January contains a lent coloured engraving is given. The effigy, paper by Professor Rhys on "The Goidels in which is said to have been transferred from Valle Wales," read at Carnarvon last summer, the Crucis Abbey, is one of unusual interest, belongfirst part of an interesting paper on Plas Mawr, ing to the end of the 13th or the beginning of the Conway, and a short account of the proposed that of "Llewelyn ap Ynyr, who distinguished 14th century. The effigy has been described as Ethnographical, Archæological and Photographic Survey of Wales. The Committee of the himself at the battle of Crogen in 1165," but the Cambrian Archæological Association are work-warrior was Ynyr ap Howel, and it was his ing in concert with the Committee of the grandson whose effigy is in Llanarmon Church. Ethnographical Survey of the British Asso- Mr Stephen Williams, who writes the paper, is ciation, and it is suggested that a start of opinion that, although the painting may have should be made with one county, Glamorganshire been restored, it is more than probable that we being the one proposed. A correspondence on have here depicted the dress and equipment, in the alleged birth of Edward II. in Carnarvon their proper colours, of Gruffydd ap Llewelyn, Castle is also republished from the Times and as he appeared in his warlike panoply at the the Antiquary. close of the thirteenth century. Mr Arthur Baker contributes a short description, with an illustration, of a Wrought Iron Crane in the Fireplace of Gwydir House, Overton, and a Sevenfrom Llangynhafal Church, Denbighshire. teenth Century Cupboard Hinge (illustrated) another paper the Exploration of a Hunnish Cemetery, which has been discovered at Cziko, near Buda-Pesth, is described. There lie, and have lain those fourteen or fifteen hundred years, the skeletons of the old warriors, "with their horses, women, and children, their weapons, accoutrements, ornaments, and eating vessels beside them in the deep and narrow graves." An Scots Lore (Glasgow: William Hodge and Co; London: Elliot Stock) is a new competitor for public favour. It "aims to make itself a place of record for every department of national historical inquiry - political, ecclesiastical, literary, and social." "A Medieval Architect" is" the great artist who four centuries ago carved his name on Melrose Abbey ;" Sir James D. Marwick writes of " Glasgow Bridge," there is an account of a "Gipsy Trial of 1714," and another paper is "The Inquest of David," besides which there are queries and notes. In interesting article on the "Burning of the name. It was said of this man that no one he saw Clavie," a ceremony which has come down pro- he would not make laugh with his merry words, bably from the worship of Baal, and is practised even though they were dying. And though a man at Burghead in the north of Scotland, and nowere sad in his thought, yet it is said that he could where else in Great Britain, an account of the not refrain from laughing if he heard the talk of that man. And he fell ill and died, and was then Wall Paintings at Kirkby Hall, a "Survey of buried in the churchyard like other men. He lay the Existing Remains of the Priory Church of the in the earth a long time, so that all the flesh was Holy Trinity, Micklegate, York," Illustrated decayed from his bones, and most bones had Notes, Notices of New Publications, and Anti-decayed with it. Then it happened that some quarian News and Comments, make up the rest of the number. Folk-Lore for December, 1894, contains an interesting account of a game called "Tommy on the Tub's Grave," which is only known to be played in a part of London, and has hitherto escaped notice. It can scarcely be a modern invention, in fact the boys who played it said they had "always done it," and they only did it once a year, in the Spring. A paper on "Ghostly Lights" deals with apparitions of which the Welsh Corpse Candles are a familiar example. There is a very weird belief in Burmah. "There is a tribe of wizards or conjurors, whose heads are believed to leave their bodies during the night and wander in the jungle feeding on carrion, and the ignis fatuus is said to issue from their mouths; if one of these heads be seized it screams and straggles to escape, and if kept away from the body for more than twelve hours both perish. This (says the writer) curiously resembles the shadow and skull. borne corpse candles of Welsh superstition." In Thuringia people travelling by night see a lantern held by a hand only. "Many of the old folks profess to have seen it; one of them related that his grandfather saw it while walking on the road late in the evening. On coming near he uttered a friendly greeting, thinking it was a wayfarer, but saw, to his amazement, that the light came from a lantern held by a hand only He was one of the 'common-sense people,' who scouted the supernatural and would not believe the evidence of his eyes, so he struck with his stick at the light, and was instantly hurled with terrible force to the ground, where he lay for a time senseless; on coming to himself he could not find his way, and only reached his home after midnight. So in Wales, anyone rashly interfering with or attempting to stop a corpse-candle was struck down and stunned. is ill jesting with these appearances." The "Irish Mirabilia" from an old Norse book, "Speculum Regale," written about 1250, are curious. The following story of a skull shows the immortality of Irish humour: It I think we have now mentioned nearly all those things that are most necessary to mention about this land. Yet there is one thing more behind which we may mention, if you like, for the sake of sport and merriment. A certain merry-man there was in that land long ago, and yet he was a Christian. And that man was called Klefsan by bodies were being buried in the same churchyard, and they were digging so near the place where which was whole. And they placed it afterwards Klefsan was buried, that they dug up his skull, up on a high stone in the churchyard, and it has stood there ever since. And whoever comes there and sees and looks at the place where his mouth was and his tongue, then laughs he forthwith, even though he was in a sad mood before he saw the head. And his dead bones now make little fewer people laugh than when he was alive. Legends from the Woodlarks (islands of British New Guinea), Reviews, Correspondence, Miscellanea and Folk-Lore Bibliography, complete the Part. The current part of the Shropshire Archeological Transactions (2nd Ser., Vol. VII., Part I.) opens with an annotated list of the Members of Parliament for Ludlow by Mr Henry T. Weyman, who has collected a good deal of curious and interesting information from the Records of the House of Commons, the Record Office, the British Museum, the Borough Records, and elseThe first name where, from 1472 downwards. recorded is that of Petrus Beaupie, Cofferer to King Edward IV., and probably the first Recorder as well as the first M.P. for Ludlow. He founded a Chantry at the altar of St. Mary and St. Gabriel the Archangel in the nave of Ludlow Church, and was buried there, but all trace deed of settlement of Hosyer's Charity, dated 8 of his tomb has long since disappeared. In the December, 1486, we find a direction inserted that "Six of the best voiced singing children on every Sunday and other Festival day immediately after the Mass of our Lady done shall go in their sur plices unto the tomb of Piers Beaupie Esquire, in the said church, and there say for the souls of the said Piers Beaupie and Agnes his wife certain Psalms and Collects." Churchyard, Ludlow, and was buried in Ludlow Church, calls Yet Beaupy must be named, good reason why, |