Hampden

John, a ceiebrated English statesman; born in London, England, 1594. He entered Parliament in the beginning of Charles I.’s reign. — For several years he uniformly and strongly opposed the‘arbitrafy practices in Church and state, but it was not till 1636 that his resistance to Charles’ demand for ship-money made him the argument of ail tongues. Though the decision in ‘the Court of Exchequer was given against him by seven voices to five, the victory, as far as regarded public opinion, was his. He took a ee part in the brs contest etween the Crown and the Parliament, and was one of the five members whom the king, in 1642, so imprudently attempted, in person, to seize in the House of Commons. When the appeal was made to the sword, Hampden accepted the command of a regiment in the parliamentary army under the Earl of E ex, and was age = on Chal grove Field, June 24, Hampton, a town and county seat of Elizabeth City co., Va., on the James river, and on the —— and Ohio railroad; 15 miles N. W. of Norfolk. It is the seat of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for Indians and Negroes, and a National Soldiers’ Home.