Hallage

A toll levied on goods sold in a public hall. Hallam, HENRY, an English historian, B. at Windsor, 1777. His father was dean of Bristol. After studying at Eton he was sent to the university of Oxford, where he distinguished himself by his cla ical attainments. He afterwards settled in London, and entered upon his career of literary labor as one of the first contributors to the "Edinburgh Review." His View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, published in 1818, was the first great result of his studies and researches. His masterly work on the Constitutional History of England was given to the world in 1827. Hallam belonged to the Whig party ir politics, but he preserved a singular calmne and exemption from political pa ions, and wrote with an impartiality which is rarely rivalled. In 1883 a very heavy blow fell on him in the death of his eldest son, a young man of high promise, and the chosen friend of Alfred Tennyson, whose love and sorrow are recorded in those exquisite lyrics which form his "In Memoriam." The next great work of H., published in 1837-39, was his Introduction to the Literature of Eu rope in the 15th, 16th, and lith Centuries. Other family bereavements followed in rapid succe ion, and after losing his daughter, his wife, and his second son, (the last in 1850,) the aged and mourning father himself died in 1859. H.'s works have pa ed through many editions, and have been translated into the French and German languages. Hall am shire, a district of England, in the S.W. riding of co. York. Halle, (hahl'.) [Anc. Hala Saxonum .] A city of Pru ia in Saxony, on the Saale, 9 m. N. of Merseburg. Manuf . Woollens, stockings, silk, leather, buttons, hardware, and starch. The University of H. , founded in 1694, and to which the University of Wittenberg was united in 1815, is of very high literary repute. Pop . 52,620.