Excommunicated by Eugenius

they proceeded, in a regular conclave, to elect the Duke A made us of Savoy to the papal chair. E. of Balize. The cluster was proclaimed a British colony in 1852, but in 1859 they were ceded to the Republic of Honduras, Bayle, Pierre, French critic and miscellaneous writer, the son of a Calvin ist preacher, born at Carlat (Lanamet in 1647, died at Rotter dam 1706. His chief work is a Dictionary of History and Criticism, which he first published in 1696. This work, much enlarged, has pa ed through many editions. It is a vast storehouse of facts, discu ions, and opinions, and though it was publicly censured by the Rotter dam consistory for its frequent impurities, its pervading scepticism, and tacit atheism, it long remained a favorite book both with literary men and with men of the world. The articles in his dictionary, in themselves, are generally of little value, and serve only as a pretext for the notes, in which the author displays, at the same time, his learning and the power of his logic.