Balliol

See Baliol. Balliol College. A college of Oxford University, England, reputed to have been founded by Sir John Baliol and his wife Devorguilla, parents of John Baliol, king of Scotland, between 1263 and 1268. The oldest of the existing buildings dates from the 15th century. The south front has recently been rebuilt, in the main in the style of the 13th century. Between the original foundation and the beginning of the sixteenth century, Balliol College had received no le than three codes of statutes, those i ued by the Lady Devorguilla de Balliol in 1282, those i ued by Sir Philip de Somerville in 1340, and those i ued by Simon Sudbury, Bishop of London, in 1364. Two other Bishops of London had moreover intervened in the course of the fifteenth century to redre particular grievances. Inasmuch, how ambiguous, and others inconvenient, the society sought as some of the enactments of the third code and obtained from Pope Julius II. a commi ion empowering the Bishops of Winchester and Car lisle, or either of them, to revise the statutes throughout. The work was accomplished by Bishop Fox, in 1507. Lyte , Oxford, p. 414. Ballivian (bäl-ye-vē-än'), Adolfo. Born at Nov. 17, 1831: died Feb., 1874. A Bolivian statesman, son of General José Bal livian. He was a colonel in the army, but headed the party of opposition to the military rulers who for a long time governed Bolivia, and was kept in exile until his party elected him president (1873). He died soon after his inauguration. Ballivian, José. Born at La Paz, May, 1804: died at Rio de Janeiro in 1852. A Bolivian soldier and statesman. In 1841 he headed the army which defended Bolivia against the invasion of Gamarra, gaining the battle of Yngavi (Nov. 20, 1841), in which Gamarra was killed; and soon after was elected president of Bolivia, holding the office until the end of 1847, when he was deposed by the revolutionist Belzu, and exiled. Ballo in Maschera (bäl'lo en mäs'ke-rä), Un. [It., 'A Masked Ball.'] An opera by Verdi, first produced in Rome, Feb. 17, 1859. originally called Gustavo III., but during its rehearsals Orsini made his attempt to kill Napoleon III., and the title was thought too suggestive. principal summits of the Vosges, near the border of France and Alsace, 25 miles northwest of Mülhausen. Height, 4,080 feet. Ballon de Guebwiller (bä-lôn' de geb-vēl-lar'), or Ballon de Soultz, G. Gebweiler (geb'vilèr) (or Sulzer) Belchen. The highest summit of the Vosges, in Upper Alsace, west of Guebwiller and north of Thann. Height, 4,677 feet. Baltimore Balta (bältä), José. Born at Lima, Peru, 1816: killed at Lima, July 26, 1872. A Peruvian soldier and statesman. He retired from the army with the rank of colonel in 1855; was minister of war for a short time in 1865; was one of the leaders of the insurrection which drove out the unconstitutional president Prado in 1868; was regularly elected president of Peru Aug. 2, 1868, and served for four years; and was murdered in a military mutiny. Ballou (ba-lö'), Hosea. Born at Richmond, Balta. A city in the government of Podolia, N. H., April 30, 1771: died at Boston, Ma ., Ru ia, situated on the Kodyma in lat. 47° 55′ N., long. 29° 35' E. It has a flourishing trade. June 7, 1852. An American Universalist cler- gym an, one of the founders of American Uni- Population, 27,419. versalism, pastor of the Second Universalist Balta-Limani (bältä-le-mä'ni), Convention Society in Boston 1817-52. Ballou, Hosea. Born at Halifax, Vt., Oct. 18, 1796: died at Somerville, Ma ., May 27, 1861. An American Universalist clergyman, first president of Tufts College: a grandnephew of Hosea Ballou (1771-1852). Ballou, Maturin Murray. Born April 14, 1820: died March 27, 1895. An American journalist and writer, son of Hosea Ballou the younger. He has been the editor and proprietor of "Ballou's Month ly," part proprietor and, after 1872, editor for several years of the "Boston Daily Globe" and other journals. Author of "Due West," "Due South," "The New Eldorado," "Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou," etc. Ball's Bluff (balz bluf). A bluff in Virginia, on the Potomac River 33 miles northwest of Washington. Here, Oct. 21, 1861, 1,900 Federals under