BLU of human knowledge in which blind persons have not | EATING BLOOD was prohibited to Noah, Gen. ix.; to the Jews, obtained distinction.* Laura Bridgman, born in 1829, Lev. xvii., etc.; and to the Gentile converts by the apostles became dumb and blind two years after. She was so at an assembly at Jerusalem, A.D. 52, Acts xv. well taught by Dr. Howe, of Boston, U.S., as to become BLOOD-DRINKING was anciently tried to give vigor to the system. an able instructor of blind and dumb persons. By the Louis XI., in his last illness, drank the warm blood of infants, in the vain hope of restoring his decayed strength, census of 1851, there were in Great Britain 21,487 blind In the fifteenth century an opinion prevailed that the declin1483.-Hénault. persons; 11,273 males, 10,214 females; about one in 975 blind. ing vigor of the aged might be repaired by TRANSFUSING Royal Normal College and Academy of Music into their veins the blood of young persons. for the Blind, established 1873. By the census of 1870, tenanced in France by the physicians about 1668, and preIt was counthere were in the United States 20,320 blind persons; vailed for many years, till, the most fatal effects having en11,343 males, 8997 females. sued, it was suppressed by an edict. "An English physician (Louver, or Lower) practised in this way; he died in 1691."-Freind. It was attempted again in France in 1797, and more recently there, in a few cases, with success; and in England (but the instances are rare) since 1823. Tried at Philadelphia, U. S., April, 1877; in London, unsuccessful, 10 May, 1877. Blinding, by consuming the eyeballs with lime or scalding vinegar, was a punishment inflicted anciently on adulterers, perjurers, and thieves. In the middle ages the penalty was frequently changed from total blindness to a diminution of sight. A whole army of Bulgarians were deprived of sight by the emperor Basil, 104. Several of the Eastern emperors had their eyes torn from their heads. Blisters, used by Hippocrates (460-357 B.C.), made, it is said, of cantharides (which see). Block Books, see Printing. Blood's Conspiracy. Blood, a discarded officer of Oliver Cromwell's household, with his confederates, seized the duke of Ormond in his coach, intending to hang him, and had got him to Tyburn, when he was rescued by his friends, 6 Dec. 1670. Blood afterwards, in the disguise of a clergyman, attempted to steal the regal crown from the Jewel-office in the Tower, 9 May, 1671; yet, notwithstanding these and other offences, he was not only pardoned, but had a pension of 500%. per annum settled on him by Charles II. 1671. Aug. 1680. He died 24 of England, in Aug. 1685, after the defeat of the duke of "Bloody Assizes,” held by Jeffreys in the west Monmouth in the battle of Sedgmoor. Upwards of 300 persons were executed after short trials; very many were whipped, imprisoned, and fined; and nearly 1000 were sent as slaves to the American plantations. Bloomer Costume, see a note to article Dress. Blockade is the closing an enemy's ports to all commerce; a practice introduced by the Dutch about 1584. The principle recognized by the European powers is that every blockade, in order to be binding, must be effective. The Elbe was blockaded by Great Britain, 1803; the Baltic, by Denmark, 1848-9 and 1864; the gulf of Finland by the Allies, 1854; and the ports of the Southern States of North America by president Lincoln, April 19, 1861. The naval force of the United States then consisted of 90 vessels, of which only 42 were in commission, these latter mounting between 500 and 600 guns. The Home Squadron consisted of 12 vessels. The institution of the blockade was a formal recognition of the belligerent rights of the Confederates. A large number of vessels succeeded in running the blockade during the war; 1143 were captured by blockading squadrons, valued at $24,500,000; and 355 destroyed, valued at $7,000,000; see Orders in Council and Berlin. Blocks employed in the rigging of ships were much improved in their construction by Walter Taylor, about 1781. In 1801, Mark I. Brunel invented a mode of making blocks by machinery, which was put into operation in 1808, and in 1815 was said to have saved the coun-blowing-machines were erected by Mr. Smeaton at the Blowing-machines. The large cylinders used in try 20,0007. a year. fiuential political party in the reign of George III., who Bloomsbury Gang, a cant term applied to an inmet at Bloomsbury House, the residence of the duke of Bedford. The marquess of Stafford, the last survivor, died 26 Oct. 1803. the earl of Salisbury and the Yorkists defeated the LanBloreheath (Staffordshire), where, 23 Sept. 1459, castrians, whose leader, lord Audley, was slain with many Cheshire gentlemen. A cross commemorates this conflict. Carron iron-works, 1760. One equal to the supply of air for forty forge-fires was erected at the king's dockyard, Woolwich. The hot-air blast, a most important improvement, causing great economy of fuel, was invented by Mr. James B. Neilson, of Glasgow, and patented in 1828. He died 18 Jan. 1865. Blois, France, the Roman Blesum. The count Guy II. sold it with his domains to Louis duke of Orleans in 1391, and eventually it accrued to the crown. The states-general were held here 1576 and 1588, on account of the religious wars; and here Henry duke of Guise was assassinated by order of the king, Henry III., 23 Dec. 1588. The empress Maria Louisa retired here in 1814. Blood. The circulation of the blood through the lungs was known to Michael Servetus, a Spanish physician, in 1553. Cæsalpinus published an account of the general circulation, of which he had some confused ideas, improved afterwards by experiments, 1569. Paul of Venice, or Father Paolo (real name Peter Sarpi), discovered the valves which serve for the circulation; but the honor of the positive discovery of the circulation belongs to William Harvey, between 1619 and 1628.Freind. A memorial window in the church at Folke-ers in the seventeenth century. Blue and orange or stone, his birthplace, was uncovered 9 April, 1874. James Holman, the "blind traveller" (born 1786, died 1857), visited almost every place of note in the world. His travels were published in 1825. In April, 1858, a blind clergy. man, rev. J. Sparrow, was elected chaplain to the Mercers' Company, London, and read the service, etc., from embossed books. Viscount Cranborne (blind) was the author of many interesting historical essays. He died in June, 1865. On 13 July, 1865, Henry Fawcett, the blind professor of political economy at Cambridge, was elected M. P. for Brighton; for Hackney, 1874 and 1880; and was appointed postmaster-general, April 1880, Mr. F. J. Campbell (blind) ascended Mont Blanc in 1880. paintings on the tombs at Thebes. It was employed in Blue was the favorite colour of the Scotch covenant yellow became the whig colors after the revolution in odical, the Edinburgh Review, first published in 1802. 1688; and were adopted on the cover of the whig periThe Prussian-blue dye was discovered by Diesbach, at Berlin, in 1710. Fine blues are now obtained from coaltar; see Aniline. BLUE-COAT SCHOOLS, so called in reference to the costume of the children. The Blue-coat school in Newgate Street, London, was instituted by Edward VI. in 1552; see Christ's Hospital. BLUE-STOCKING, a term applied to literary ladies, was originally conferred on a society comprising both sexes (1760 et seq.). Benjamin Stillingfleet, the naturalist, an active member, wore blue worsted stockings; hence the name. The beautiful Mrs. Jerningham is said to have worn blue stockings at the conversaziones of Mrs. Montagu. Blue-books, reports and other papers printed by order of parliament; are so named on account of their wrappers; 70 vols. were printed for the lords, and 76 vols. for the commons in 1871. Blumenau, Lower Austria; on 22 July, 1866, the Austrians in possession of this place were attacked by the Prussians on their march towards Vienna; a severe conflict was interrupted by the news of the armistice agreed to at Nikolsburg; and the same evening Austrians and Prussians bivouacked together. Board of Admiralty, CONTROL, GREEN-CLOTH, HEALTH, TRADE, etc., see under Admiralty, etc. Boats. Flat-bottomed boats, made in England in the reign of William I.; again brought into use by Barker, a Dutchman, about 1690; see Life-boat. A mode of building boats by the help of the steam-engine was invented by Mr. Nathan Thompson of New York in 1860, and premises were erected for its application at Bow, near London, in 1861. Charles Clifford's valuable Boat-lowering apparatus was invented 1856; see Canalbouts. Boat Voyage. Alfred Johnson, a young man, started from America in the Centennial, a boat 20 feet long, on 15 June, and landed at Abercastle, Pembrokeshire, 11 Aug. 1876 Boat-races, see Dogget and University. The London rowing club beat the Atalanta rowing club in a four-oared race on the Thames, 10 June, 1872. Epaminondas gains the victory of Mantinea, but is slain 362 Alexander destroys Thebes, but spares the house of Pin 338 335 170 The Boeotian confederacy dissolved by the Romans. and was conquered by the Turks under Mahomet II.. 1456 Boers (peasants), a name given to the Dutch settlers in South Africa; see Transvaal. Bogotà, SANTA FE DE, capital of New Granada (which see), founded 1538. Bogs, probably the remains of forests, covered with peat and loose soil. An act for the drainage of Irish bogs passed March, 1830. The bog-land of Ireland has been estimated at 3,000,000 acres; that of Scotland at upwards of 2,000,000; and that of England at near 1,000,000 of acres. In Jan. 1849, Mr. Rees Reece took out a patent for certain valuable products from Irish peat. Candles and various other articles produced from peat have been since sold in London. Fuel for railway engines and other purposes was made from peat (April, 1873); and a peat, coal, and charcoal company established. Much destruction has been caused by the motion of bogs. Bohemia, formerly the Hercynian forest (Boiemum, Tacitus), derives its name from the Boii, a Celtic tribe. It was governed by dukes (Borzivoi the first, 891), till Ottocar assumed the title of king, 1198. The kings at Boccaccio's Decamerone, a collection of a hun- first held their territory from the empire: and the crown dred stories or novels (many very immoral), severely was elective till it came to the house of Austria, in satirizing the clergy, feigned to have been related in ten which it is now hereditary. The original Bohemians days, during the plague of Florence in 1348. Boccaccio term themselves Czechs, and, following the example of lived 1313-75. A copy of the first edition (that of Val- Hungary, now call for autonomy. Prague, the capital, darfer in 1471) was knocked down at the duke of Rox- is famous for sieges and battles. Population in 1857, burgh's sale, to the duke of Marlborough, for 22607., 174,705,525; in 1870, 5,140,544; see Prague. June, 1812. This copy was afterwards sold by public auction, for 875 guineas, 5 June, 1819. Bodleian Library, Oxford, founded in 1598, and opened in 1602, by sir Thos. Bodley (died 28 Jan. 1612). It is open to the public, and claims a copy of all works published in this country. In 1868 it contained about 250,000 volumes. For rare works and MSS. it is said to be second only to the Vatican. Mr. Macray's "Annals of the Bodleian Library," published 1868. Bootia, a division of Greece, north of Attica, known previously as Aonia, Messapia, Hyantis, Ogygia, and Cadmeis. Thebes, the capital, was celebrated for the exploits and misfortunes of its kings and heroes. The term Boeotian was used by the Athenians as a synonym for dulness; but unjustly-since Pindar, Hesiod, Plutarch, Democritus, Epaminondas, and Corinna were Boeotians. The early history and dates are mythical; see Thebes. Arrival of Cadmus, founder of Cadmea (Hales, 1494; Reign of Polydore. The Czechs (Slavonians) seize Bohemia about.. 550 795 894 1041 1198 1272 Ottocar II. rules over Austria, and obtains Styria, etc., King John (blind) slain at the battle of Crecy. Jolin Huss and Jerome of Prague, two of the first reformers, burned for heresy; which occasions an insurrection. 1415, 1416 1225 1193 Edict of Toleration promulgated... 1781 1806 Insurrection at Prague, 12 June; submission, state of siege raised. 20 July, 1848 BOM Bohemian deputies absent from the reichsrath.....Dec. 1871 | were made by the Russians, and Samarcand was secured Czech deputies enter reichsrath.. 1198. Premislas Ottocar I. 1230. Wenceslas III. 1253. Premislas Ottocar II. KINGS. 1278. Wenceslas IV., king of Poland. 1305. Wenceslas V. 1305. Rudolph of Austria. 1307. Henry of Carinthia. 1310. John of Luxemburg (killed at Crecy). 1346. Charles I., emperor (1347). 1378. Wenceslas VI., emperor. 1440. Ladislas V. 1419. Sigismund I., emperor. 1438. Albert of Austria, emperor. 1458. George von Podiebrad. 1471. Ladislas VI., king of Hungary (in 1490). 1516. Louis, king of Hungary (killed at Mohatz). Bolivia, a republic in South America, formerly part of Peru, population in 1875 about 2,000,000; in 1880, 2,325,000. The insurrection of the ill-used Indians, headed by Tupac The country declared its independence... Took the name of Bolivia, in honor of gen. General Cordova, president.. Free-trade proclaimed. George Cordova, constitutional president... Acha.... .1780-2 ..6 Aug. 1824 Bolivar, ..9 Dec. 66 11 Aug. 1825 25 May, 1826 .1826-8 1836 1828-39 1853 .1855-7 1860 May, 1861 28 Dec. 1864 Feb. 1865 publishes an March, General Melgarejo defeats the troops of president De 66 1526. Bohemia united to Austria under Ferdinand I., elected Succeeded by the dictator José Maria Linares, 31 March, 1859 king; see Germany, emperors. Bohemian Brethren, a body of Christians in Bohemia, appear to have separated from the Calixtines (which see), a branch of the Hussites, in 1467. Dupin says, "They rejected the sacraments of the church, were governed by simple laics, and held the Scriptures for their only rule of faith. They presented a confession of faith to king Ladislas in 1504 to justify themselves from errors laid to their charge." They appear to have had communication with the Waldenses, but were distinct from them. Luther, in 1533, testifies to their puri-Corral's insurrection suppressed.. ty of doctrine, and Melanchthon commends their discipline. They were dispersed during the religious wars of Germany in the seventeenth century. 24 Jan. 1866 17 Oct. 66 21 Dec. 1867 .1867-70 The president, A. Morales, 1871, said to have been mur- dered... ..Jan. 1873 .14 Feb. 1874 .Sept. .4 May, 1876 66 General Hilarion Daza, president. Bollandists, see Acta Sanctorum. 1 June, 1880 wards Bononia, a city distinguished for its architecture, Bologna (central Italy) the ancient Felsina, aftermade a Roman colony, 189 B.C. 1116 1167 A university said to have been founded by Theodosius, Boiling to Death, made a capital punishment in England, by stat. 22 Hen. VIII. 1531 (repealed in 1547). This act was occasioned by seventeen persons having been poisoned by Richard Rosse, otherwise Coke, the bishop of Rochester's cook, two of whom died. Marga-mander of the Baltic expedition, aided by the French ret Davy, a young woman, suffered in the same manner for a similar crime, 28 March, 1542.-Stow. Bois-le-duc, Dutch Brabant, the site of a battle between the British and the French republican army, in which the British were defeated, and forced to aban don their position and retreat to Schyndel, 14 Sept. 1794, This place was captured by the French, 10 Oct. following; it surrendered to the Prussian army, under Bulow, in Jan. 1814. military contingent under gen. Baraguay d'Hilliers, 15 Bombay, the most westerly and smallest of our Indian presidencies, was visited by the Portuguese in 1509, and acquired by them in 1530. It was given (with Tangier in Africa, and 300,0004, in money) to Charles II. as the marriage portion of the infanta Catherine of PortuBokhara, the ancient Sogdiana, after successively company, who had long desired it, "in free and common gal, 1662. In 1668, it was granted to the East India forming part of the empires of Persia, of Alexander, and socage," as of the manor of East Greenwich, at an anBactriana, was conquered by the Turks in the sixth nual rent of 10. Confirmed by William III., 1689. The century, by the Chinese in the seventh, and by the two principal castes at Bombay are the Parsees (descendArabs about 705. After various changes of masters, itants of the ancient Persian fire-worshippers) and the was subdued by the Uzbek Tartars, its present possess ors, in 1505. The British envoys col. Stoddart and capt. Conolly were murdered at Bokhara, the capital, by the khan, about June, 1843. In the war with Russia, begun in 1866, the emir's army was defeated several times in May et seq. Peace was made 11 July, 1867. The Russians were again victors, 25 May, 1868, and occupied Samarcand the next day. Further conquests The prince of Wales warmly received, 8 Nov. 1875; sailed 24 Sept. 1877 Feb. 1880 46 Würtemberg, 12 Aug. 1807]. Made governor of the Invalides, 1848; and marshal, 1850; died 24 June, 1860; his children Mathilde, born 27 May, 1820; married to prince A. Demi- Napoleon, born 9 Sept. 1822; married princess Clotilde of Bondage, see Villanage. Bones. The art of softening bones was discovered about 1688, and they were used in the cutlery manufacture, etc., immediately afterwards. The declared value of the bones of cattle and of other animals, and of fish (exclusive of whale-fins), imported into the United Kingdom from Russia, Prussia, Holland, Denmark, etc., amounted to 363,6137. in 1851, to 628,535. in 1870, to Bone-dust 741,8997. in 1877, and to 432,6427. in 1879. has been extensively employed in manure since the publication of Liebig's researches in 1840. Bonesetting cannot be said to have been practised scientifically until 1620.-Bell. Bonn, a town on the Rhine (the Roman Bonna), was in the electorate of Cologne. It has been frequently besieged, and was assigned to Prussia in 1814. The academy founded by the elector in 1777; made a university, 1784; abolished by Napoleon; re-established and enlarged, 1818. Here Albert, our late prince-consort, was entered as a student, May, 1837. Bonny River, Guinea, West Africa, a seat of the palm-oil trade; king George visited England in 1878. Bons Hommes, hermits of simple and gentle lives, appeared in France about 1257; in England about 1283. The prior of the order was called le bon homme by Louis VI. Statue of the prince of Wales (given by sir Albert Sassoon), uncovered.. .26 or 27 June, 1879 Sir James Fergusson nominated governor.. A patriotic fund to relieve sufferers by Afghan war lib. erally subscribed to by natives and others.......Aug. Bombs (iron shells filled with gunpowder), said to have been invented at Venlo in 1495, and used by the Turks at the siege of Rhodes in 1522. They came into general use in 1634, having been previously used only by the Dutch and Spaniards. Bomb-vessels were in- Book (Anglo-Saxon, boc; German, buch). Books vented in France in 1681.— Voltaire. The shrapnel shell were originally made of boards, or the inner bark of (invented by col. Henry Shrapnel, who died in 1842) is trees; afterwards of skins and parchment. Papyrus, an a bomb filled with balls, and a lighted fuse to make it indigenous plant, was adopted in Egypt. Books with explode before it reaches the enemy. leaves of vellum were invented by Attalus, king of PerBona, Algeria, an early station of the French Afri-gamus, about 198 B.C., at which time books were in volcan Company till 1789. It was taken by the French umes or rolls. The MSS. in Herculaneum consist of from the Arabs, 6 May, 1832. papyrus, rolled and charred and matted together by the Bonaparte Family. The name appears at Flor-tire, and are about nine inches long, and one, two, or ence and Genoa in the thirteenth century; in the fifteenth a branch settled in Corsica; see Table in Vincent's "Dictionary of Biography." 1. JOSEPH, born 7 Jan. 1768; made king of Two Sicilies, 1805; 2. NAPOLEON I., emperor, born 15 Aug. 1769 (see France). 4. Louis, born 2 Sept. 1778; made king of Holland, 1806; died 3. CHARLES LOUIS NAPOLEON, born 20 April, 1808; educated Repairs to London, 14 Oct. 1838. Lands at Boulogne with fifty followers, 6 Aug. 1840. Elected deputy, 8 June; and takes his sent. 27 Aug. (see France, 1848-71); died at Chislehurst, 9 Jan. 1873. 5. JEROME, born 15 Nov. 1784; king of Westphalia, 1 Dec. 1807– The most ancient books are the Pentateuch of Moses three inches in diameter, each being a separate treatise. and the poems of Homer and Hesiod. The first PRINTED BOOKS (see Printing) were printed on one side only, the leaves being pasted back to back. Books of astronomy and geometry were ordered to be de stroyed in England as being infected with magic, 6 Edw. VI.-Stow... 1552 Anne's act, 1709, relating to the price of books, repealed. 1739 2032 volumes of new works and 773 of new editions were published in London in.. 3359 new works and 1159 new editions, and 908 pam- 3553 volumes were published in. 1839 1852 1864 The production of a Universal Catalogue of books print- In Paris, 6445 volumes were published in 1842, and 7350 PRICES OF BOOKS.-Jerome (who died 420) states that he had ruined himself by buying a copy of the works of Origen. A large estate was given by Alfred for a book on cosmography, about 872. The Roman de la Rose" was sold for about 307., and a homily was exchanged for 200 sheep and five quarters weight in gold. They sold at prices varying from 10 to 40%. of wheat. Books frequently fetched double or treble their each in 1400. A copy of "Macklin's Bible," ornamented by Mr. Tomkins, was declared worth 500 guineas.-Butler. A yet more superb copy was insured in a London office for 30007; see Boccaccio's Decamerone. BOOKBINDING.-The book of St. Cuthbert, a very early ornamental book, is supposed to have been bound about 650 A Latin Psalter was bound in oak boards. ..ninth century 1100 about 1510 Velvet was the covering in the fourteenth century, and Caoutchouc or India-rubber backs to account-books and 1841 with 20,000l. to fit out his polar expedition. Sir Felix died at Brighton in Feb. 1850. Boots, said to have been the invention of the Carians, were mentioned by Homer, 907 B.C., and frequently by the Roman historians. A variety of forms may be seen in Fairholt's "Costume in England." An instrument of torture termed "the boot" was used in Scotland upon the Covenanters about 1666. Borax (Boron), known to the ancients, used in soldering, brazing, and casting gold and other metals, was called chrysocolla. Borax is produced naturally in the mountains of Thibet, and was brought to Europe from India about 1713. Homberg, in 1702, discovered in borax boracic acid, which latter, in 1808, was decomposed by Gay-Lussac, Thénard, and H. Davy into oxygen and the previously unknown element boron. Borax has lately been found in Saxony. It is now largely manufactured from the boracic acid found by Hoefer to exist in Book of Common Prayer, see Common Prayer. the gas arising from certain lagoons in Tuscany; and an Book Society, 28 Paternoster Row, established for the gratuitous distribution of Bibles and good books, 1750. Book-keeping. The system by double-entry, called originally Italian book-keeping, was taken from the course of algebra published by Burgo, in the fifteenth century, at Venice. John Gowgne, a printer, published a treatise "on the kepyng of the famouse reconynge Debitor and Creditor," London, 1543. This is our earliest work on book-keeping. James Peele published his "Book-keeping" in 1569. John Mellis published "A Briefe Instruction and Manner how to Keepe Bookes of Accompts," in 1588. Improved systems were published by Benjamin Booth in 1789 and by Edward Thomas immense fortune has been made by their owner, M. Lardarel, since 1818. Bordeaux (W. France), the Roman Burdigalla, in` Aquitania, was taken by the Goths, 412; by Clovis, 508. It was gained by Henry II. on his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, 1151. Edward the Black Prince brought John, king of France, captive to this city after the battle of Poictiers, 19 Sept. 1356, and here held his court eleven years; his son, our Richard II., was born at Bordeaux, 1366. After several changes Bordeaux finally surrendered to Charles VII. of France, 14 Oct. 1453. The fine equestrian statue of Louis XV. was erected in 1:43. Bordeaux was entered by the victorious British a my after the battle of Orthes, fought 27 Feb. 1814.—T1irteen vessels were burned and others injured in the port, through the ignition and explosion of petroleum spirit, 28 Sept. 1869. The French delegate government and the representatives of foreign powers removed here from Booksellers, at first migratory like hawkers, be-Tours, 11 Dec. 1870. M. Gambetta remained for a time came known as stationarii, from their practice of hav- with the army of the Loire. By the "pacte de Boring booths or stalls at the corners of streets and in mar-deaux," between the different parties of the national askets. They were long subject to vexatious restrictions, from which they were freed in 1758. Jones in 1821 and 1831. sembly, M. Thiers became chief of the executive power, 17 Feb. 1871. The French Association for the Advancement of Science held its first meeting here, 5 Sept. 1872; The earliest bookseller's catalogue is said to be that published by Andrew Maunsell, of Lothbury, dedicated to queen Eliz-M. Quatrefages, president. abeth, 1595. "Booksellers' Provident Institution," founded 1837; "Retreat," Abbot's Langley, Herts, 1843. The Bookseller, a monthly newspaper of British and foreign literature, published in 1858; with it was incorporated Bent's Literary Advertiser, established in 1802. Borneo, an island in the Indian Ocean, the largest in the world except Australia, was discovered by the Portuguese about 1518. The Dutch trade here in 1604; establish factories, 1609; abandon them, 1623; re-establish them... 1776 Booksellers' Association. The chief publishers in London formed themselves into an association and fixed the amount of discount to be allowed, 29 Dec. 1829, and for some years restricted the retail booksellers from selling copies of works under the full publishing price. A dispute arose as to the right of the latter to dispose of books which had become theirs by purchase at such less James Brooke, rajah of Sarawak (1846), governor of Laprofit as they might deem sufficiently remunerative. The dispute was referred to lord chief-justice Campbell, at Stratheden House, 14 April, 1852. His lordship gave judgment against the association, which led to its disso-Labuan made a bishopric; the bishop (F. J. MacDougall) lution, 19 May following. Sarawak settled by sir James Brooke; appointed rajah.. 1841 By a treaty with the sultan, through the instrumentali buan and consul-general of Boruco, visits England and receives many honors.. He destroys many of the Bornean pirates. ..Oct. 1847 1849 consecrated at Calcutta, the first English bishop consecrated out of England.. ..18 Oct. 1855 The Chinese in Sarawak rise in insurrection and massacre a number of Europeans; sir James Brooke escapes by swimming across a creek; he speedily returns with a force of Malays, etc., and chastises the insurgents, of whom 2000 are killed.. .17, 18 Feb. 1857 He comes to England to seek help from the government, without success. His health being broken up, an appeal for a subscription for him made. 1858 Booneville (Mo.), BATTLE OF, fought 17 June, 1861. Gov. Jackson of Missouri, a Confederate sympathizer, had abandoned Jefferson City, which was immediately occupied by gen. Lyon. The Confederate forces in the state were concentrating about Booneville, 50 miles above Jefferson City. Before they could accomplish this, however, Lyon moved upon Booneville, and, with 2000 men, defeated Marmaduke, who offered little resistance. The action only lasted 20 minutes. The result of Lyon's prompt movement compelled the Confed-Sir James Brooke returns to Borneo.. Returned to England; died... erate detachments to concentrate on the southern border The rajah of Sarawak, with an expedition of Malays and of the state. Dyaks, defeats and punishes a marauding decapitating tribe of Dyaks..... ..June, 1870 Boothia Felix, a large peninsula, N.W. point of America, discovered by sir John Ross in 1830, and named after sir Felix Booth, who had presented him Deputation of merchants waits on the earl of Derby, rec- Bornou, an extensive kingdom in central Africa, explored by Denham and Clapperton (sent out by the Brit |