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Proportions kept according to values exported respectively, foreign trade should have occupied about 3,250,000 tons of British shipping, against the colonial employment of 1,496,000 tons. Nor is this all the difference, large as it is, in favour of colonial over foreign trade, with respect to the employment of shipping.

In 496 the Alemannians, a Germanic confederation like the Franks, who also had been, for some time past, assailing the Roman Empire on the banks of the Rhine or the frontiers of Switzerland, crossed the river and invaded the settlements of the Franks on the left bank. Clovis went to the aid of his confederation and attacked the Alemannians at Tolbiac, near Cologne.

Galileo instantly complied with the wishes of his patrons, who acknowledged the present by a mandate conferring upon him for life his professorship at Padua, and generously raising his salary from 520 to 1000 florins. On the First Invention of Telescopes. Journ. R. Instit., 1831., vol i., p. 496. Viviani Vita del' Galileo, p. 69.

Adulteries of the third and fourth degree are evils of sin, according to the quantity and quality of understanding and will in them, whether they are actually committed or not, n. 494. Adulteries grounded in purpose of the will, and adulteries grounded in confirmation of the understanding, render men natural, sensual, and corporeal, n. 495, 496.

In 1863 he was elected a Senator in Congress from West Virginia, and has since been re-elected for the term commencing in 1865 and ending in 1871. In 1863 he received the degree of LL.D. from Alleghany College of Pennsylvania. 458, 485, 486, 496. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS was born in Columbia County, New York, March 23, 1823. He received an academical education, and studied law.

Subsistence of 1 commissioner, 7 assistant engineers, 1 carpenter, 2 cooks, and 60 men, as above, being in all 71 persons, while in the field, 183 days at 50 cents per day each, including transportation of provisions to Grand Falls of St. John, or first depot 5,496.50 Purchase of barometers and repairs of instruments heretofore used 800.00 Salary of commissioner 3,000.00

These private and independent schools owned property valued at $28,496,946 and had an income of over $3,000,000. State and Federal appropriations at the date of the report reached about $963,000. During the first years after the downfall of the Reconstruction governments the negro received a fair proportion of the pittance devoted to public schools.

A charming brilliant fellow in his cups of which, as of some other more questionable pleasures, report is he was too fond; a man worshiped during his life, and on his death made a hero with semi-divine honors; does that sound like the story of a Messenger of the Gods? He was born at Colonos in Attica, in 496; of his hundred or so of dramas, seven come down to us.

The Sisseton and Wahpeton bands have two reservations, one in the eastern part of the Territory, at Lake Traverse, containing 1,241,600 acres, where are 1,496 Indians; and one in the north-eastern part of the Territory, at Devil's Lake, containing 345,600 acres, where are 720 Indians, including a few from the "Cut-Head" band of Sioux.

The growth and magnitude of the petroleum business of Cleveland can be seen by the reports of receipts and shipments during the past four years: Date. Crude Received Refined Forwarded 1865 220,000 bbls. 145,000 bbls. 1866 613,247 " 402,430 " 1867 693,100 " 496,600 " 1868 956,479 " 776,356 "