The North Welsh College. 371 less than £508 4s. 4d. "a fact," says Mr. Davies, "without its parallel in the history of the education of any country;" the most striking feature being, that these collections were made in support of an institution from which the quarrymen could only very remotely derive any benefit. While I was at Bangor, on the 24th of August, 1883, the news arrived that the Committee of Selection had determined that Bangor should be the site for the intended North Wales University College. The news rapidly spread, and great rejoicings prevailed throughout the borough, which had just been incorporated. The volunteer band played through the streets, the church bells rang merry peals, and gay flags were displayed from nearly every window. There never was such a triumphant display before in the cause of university education. As Mr. Cadwalladr Davies observed at the banquet, which took place on the following day: "The establishment of the new institution will mark the dawn of a new era in the history of the Welsh people. He looked to it, not only as a means of imparting academical knowledge to the students within its walls, but also as a means of raising the intellectual and moral tone of the whole people. They were fond of quoting the saying of a great English writer, that there was something Grecian in the Celtic race, and that the Celtic was the refining element in the British character; but such remarks, often accompanied as they were with offensive comparisons from Eisteddfod platforms, would in future be put to the test, for they would, with their new educational machinery, be placed on a footing of perfect equality with the Scotch and the Irish people." And here must come to an end the character history of my autumn tour in Ireland, Scotland, Yorkshire, and Wales. I had not the remotest intention when setting out of collecting information and writing down my recollections of the journey. But the persons I met, and the information I received, were of no small interest-at least to myself; and I trust that the reader will derive as much pleasure from perusing my observations as I have had in collecting and writing them down. I do think that the remarkable persons whose bistory and characters I have endeavored, however briefly, to sketch, will be found to afford many valuable and important lessons of Self-Help, and to illustrate how the moral and industrial foundations of a country may be built up and established. INDEX. Aberdeen, fishing round county of, Barclay, Sheriff, 321, 331. 260 (note). Achromatic telescopes, 336, 338, 353. Algerine pirates in English Channel, America, steamers to, 3, 64, 307-312. Bartholomew, Massacre of St., 12, 16. 161, 165, 176-178. Belfast, industry of, 270; activity of Bell and steam navigation, 3, 56. Bensley, printer, and Koenig, 157, Astronomers and students, 319-322, Bianconi, Charles, birth and educa- 331, 342, 355-372. Astronomy, uses of practical, 73. Autobiographies, of Pett, 26; of E. J. Harland, 284; of J. Robertson, 322; Bacon and Donkin's printing-ma- Bainbridge, Yorkshire, 342. Bandon, its former manufactures, 259. tion, 218; leaves Italy for Ireland, Bibby, Messrs., Liverpool, 300-308. Bilingual difficulty in Wales, 363. Boherlahan, Tipperary, 249. 66 Bony" in Ireland, 221, 225. Boulton, M., and steamboats, 57; and Dr. Roebuck, 121; and Murdock, Brahe, Tycho, and astronomical in- Bramah, J., projector of screw, 57. Brunel, I. K., and Great Britain, 68. Christian Brothers, Ireland, 224, 250 Chronometer, marine, and J. Harri Claddagh, Galway, 254, 263, 264. Clyde ship-building, 294, 296, 308. Buckingham Street works, York, 333, Columbus and America, 14. 336, 342. Building societies, Belfast, 282. Cadiz, naval attack on, 21, 30. Carneddi schools, Wales, 364. Cathay, voyage to, 14, 22. Cayley, Sir G., 285. Chinese, and silk manufacture, 106. Combe, Barbour, and Combe, 280. Commerce, beginning of English, 5, Como, Italians from, 218, 219. Composing-machines, 215. Constant Warwick, first frigate, 48. Copeland, Dr., Dunecht, 326, 329. Copley (Lord Lyndhurst) and W. | Deptford dockyard, 7. Clowes, 210. Derby silk-mills, 111, 113, 115, 118. Cornish adventurers, Watt and Mur- Corry and Co., Belfast, 317. Country and town, 343. Dick, Dr., lectures and works on as- Docks and dockyards, 7, 23, 39, 275, Dollond's refractor telescopes, 336. Donkin and Fourdrinier's paper- Doyle, Dr., on Irish strikes, 259. Dry ships, "Jack" on, 304. Crommelin, the Huguenot, in Ire- Duncan, Edward, weaver, 320. land, 271, 272, 276. Crotchet, silk weaver, Derby, 111. Customs, Board of, and Times, 180, Cylinder printing-machine, 161, 162, 197. Dunecht Observatory, 325, 328. Dutch fisheries, 5; and English ship- East India Company, beginning of, Dalswinton Lake, first steamer on, 3, Elder and Co., Glasgow, 308. 55. Danes, the, and Irish fisheries, 262. Davis, Capt. John, 22. Davy, Sir H., on gas-lighting, 139; Dean, engineer, raises Royal George El-Dorado, 15. Electricity, discovery of uses of, 2; throwing, 110, 112, 117 (note). |