FONBLANQUE

(fon’blangk), Albany William, English journalist, born in 1793, died 1872. He was edueated for the-Bar, but, devoting himself to journalism, he gained a position on the Times, the Morning Chronicle, and succeeded Leigh Hunt as editor of the Examiner. A reprint of many of his articles, under the title England under Seven Administrations, appeared in 1837. In 1852 he was appointed chief of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade. _ FOND DULAC, a city of the United States, Wisconsin, at the mouth of Fond du Lac River, which opens on Lake Winnebago, 148 miles N.N.w. of Chicago. It is the centre of several railways, and has a large trade. The manufactures include iron founding, carriage and wagon making tanning, and saw-milling. Pop. (1930), 26,449.