Beach

the sloping accumulation of mud, sand, shingle between high and low water marks along sea margin. In many places similar acc umu known as raised beaches, occur abuve present high-water mark, as at Brighton, etc. As many as four or five occur, like terraces, qne above the other, as in north of Norway, and some of those in South are 1,300 feet above the sea. They are accompanied by inland cliffs and seacaves, and, containing as they do marine similar to those living in the adjoining sea, prove alteration in the relative level of land water to have occurred in times geologically [PARALLEL ROADS, TERRACES. ] Beachy Head, 2 promontory 564 ft. high on coast of Su ex, overlooking the English Below it, on June 30th, 1690, the allied and Dutch fleets, under Herbert, Earl of and Evertsen, consisting of fifty-six met the French fleet under De Tourville, con of seventy-eight sail and twenty-two fire- Torrington, in pursuance of peremptory from the court, but against his better judgaccepted battle, and was worsted, though decisively. The English lost two, and the six ships. Torrington was tried for coward and treachery, and although he was triumph acquitted was deprived of his commi ion the king, who sought thus to appease his Dutch Beacon. The derivation of this word is from Anglo-Saxon deacnian, to beckon or call In the ancient times beacons were set on hills and towers, and pitch, hemp, and other were burnt in an iron pot (which formed of the beacon) whenever it was nece ary to the country or call the inhabitants together the invasion of an enemy. The practice of great antiquity, being referred to by the Jeremiah (vi. 1), and in the Agamemnon Alschylus the news of the fall of Troy is sup to be transmitted by beacon-fires to Argos one night. In medisval England and Scotland system of beacon-signalling was carefully kept especially on the approach of the Spanish and during the long war with Napoleon. for warlike purposes by the electric and the heliograph, the chief recent ) instance in Hill tude are always the LIGHT-HOUSE. Windsor, was it Benjamin DISRAELI, 21, he after the self Wycombe then Duke, Runnymede, stood In and the bury. Sybil. ham tune division sent _gervatives Lord Chance i lor remained not office again Reform franchise to 1868 however. wife, In Mr. held of creasing of the as Berlin he with par last in 1839 G.orge Beacons field. of their uxe was at Queen Victoria's Jubilee 1887, when the flames of a beacon on Malvern gave the signal for the lighting of a muitiof others throughout the kingdom. Beacons frequently to be met with in heraldry, though in one regular conventional i sed form. For use of the word in nautical language, see Beacons field, a town in Bucking hams hire, near was the home of the poet Waller, who also buried here, and Edmund Burke. From was taken the title of the Far) of Beacons field, Disraeli. Pop. (1901), 2,885. Beacons field, THE Ricgut Hon. BENJAMIN first EARL OF, K.G., was born December 1804, in Blooms bury Square, London. In 1827 published Virian Grey, and immediately there went travelling through Eastern Europe and Levant for four years. In 1832 he offered him for election to Parliament, standing for High as a Radical and being defeated. He turned to literature, producing Zhe Young Venetia, Henrietta Temple, The Letters of The Crisis Examined, etc. In 1835 he for Taunton as a Tory and was again defeated, 1837, however, he was returned for Maid stone, delivered his maiden speech December 7th of same year, and in 1841 he represented Shrews- In 1844 he published Coningsby, and in 1846 Meanwhile, in 1839, he had married Wynd- Lewis’s widow, and with the aid of her for purchased Hughenden in Bucking hams hire, a of which county be was returned to reprein 1847. He now became leader of the Conin the House of Commons, and when Derby took office in 1852 he was appointed of the Exchequer. The Government in power only a few months, and it was until 1858 that Mr. Disraeli again a umed under Lord Derby. His tenure of office was short, the Government being wrecked on a Bill for putting the town and county on the same level. In 1866 he returned office, and on the resignation of Lord Derby in he became premier, for only a brief period Lothair appeared in 1870. In 1871 his who had been created Lady Beacons field, died. 1874 at the polls the Liberals were defeated, and Disraeli now took the reins of government, and them for six years. In 1877, finding the work the House of Commons too heavy for his in years, he accepted a poses and as Earl Beacons field retired to the House of Lords. In following year he with the Marquis of Salisbury plenipotentiaries represented England at the Congre , and it was on his return home that made the famous remark, “ We bring you: peace honour.” At the general election of 1880 his was severely defeated, and on April 19th, 1881, e died, a few months after the publication of his work, Endymion. Besides novels, he published 1834 A Vindication of the English Constitution, in Alarcos, a Tragedy, and in 1852 Life uf Lora Bentinck. 408 cere for objects beading. a church n persons of churchwardens preserve English is to colour orange, yellow rocks, [See ments, amber, that cloth ivory beads tombs, over with Since jargely gla which while name a (q.v.), with Middle eat the hare-hunting. vulgar is, or seeds. believed region, an any leafiets, large tened followers as beans Roman their Bead. ( 878 Bead, in Architecture, a small round moulding ornamental purposes. Picture-frames and various carved in wood are often decorated with Beadle (connected with the verb did), properly summoning officer. There are parish besaien, beadles, and the beadles of various comnies. The first and last of these are employed various ways, in announcing meetings, summoning to attend, carrying me ages, etc.; the duties the church beadle commonly are to a ist the in seating the congregation, and to order in church. [BEDELL.