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NEALE, JOHN M. 



1818 ; died atSackville College, East Grinstead, 

 August 6, 1866. He was a son of Rev. Cor- 

 nelius Neale, Fellow of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, and early showed signs of literary 

 tastes and powers, and a remarkable facility for 

 acquiring languages, which he inherited from 

 his maternal grandfather, Dr. John Mason 

 Good. At ten years of age, he attempted the 

 composition of a tragedy, in the preparation of 

 which he read through the tragedies of Seneca. 

 Losing his father early, his mother had the 

 sole direction of his studies, and after a careful 

 course of training he entered Trinity College, 

 Cambridge, in 1836, where he at once took a 

 high stand in scholarship. He won the Mem- 

 bers prize of 1839 ; was appointed fellow and 

 tutor of Downing College, and shortly after- 

 ward commenced his series of victorious strug- 

 gles for the Seatonian prize, which he won 

 eleven times. His Cambridge career, however, 

 is most noteworthy for the foundation of the 

 Ecclesiological, then known as the Cambridge 

 Camden Society, and which, in connection with 

 a few others, he projected. To the Ecclesiolo- 

 gist he was a constant contributor from its first 

 appearance. In May 1842, he was ordained 

 priest, and soon after was presented to the 

 incumbency of Crawley, in Sussex. Alarming 

 symptoms of pulmonary disease manifesting 

 themselves, he was induced to repair to Ma- 

 deira, where he remained some time, studying 

 much in the library of Funchal Cathedral. In 

 18-44 he returned to England, and subsequently 

 was made warden of Sackville College, East 

 Grinstead. In 1856 he removed thith'er the 

 headquarters of a sisterhood which he had the 

 year before established at Eotherfield, making 

 nursing the sick in their own homes one of its 

 characteristics. Often the care of whole vil- 

 lages desolated by epidemics fell upon them. 

 Soon he added an orphanage and schools, and 

 even a reformatory, but was compelled to 

 abandon the latter because of scandal origin- 

 ating in the jealousies and suspicions of the 

 ignorant. These he bore with patience and 

 uncomplaining sweetness, still prosecuting as 

 far as possible his noble work, and accom- 

 plishing results which must have exceeded his 

 most sanguine hopes. His last public act was 

 to lay the foundation of the new convent for 

 the sisters in 1865, a favorite scheme for years. 

 During the twenty years spent in East Grin- 

 stead, Dr. Neale prepared seventy works for 

 the press, among which may be mentioned, 

 "Ayton Priory," "Shepperton Manor," and 

 " Agnes do Tracey," all High Church novels ; 

 for children he wrote, "Church History," 

 "Histories of Greece," and "Portugal," "Sto- 

 ries of the Crusades," and of the " Heathen 

 Mythology," and " Tales of Christian Heroism." 

 His most scholarly work, and the one that has 

 made his name best known in foreign countries, 

 is the " History of the Eastern Church, of the 

 Patriarchate of Alexandria, and of the Jan- 

 senist Church of Holland." Dr. Neale's adap- 

 tations of old English Church music are well 



NETHERLANDS, THE. 



known to all sections of the English Protestant 

 Church ; and for his admirable translations of 

 the old Latin hymns, " Jerusalem the Golden," 

 'Brief Life is Here onr Portion," and many 

 others, he will long be remembered by all in- 

 terested in church music. In 1860 a part of his 

 Commentary on the Psalms was given to the 

 world, and more is now ready for publication. 

 He received his degree of D. D. from Trinity 

 College, Hartford, Conn., U. S., in 1861. 



NETHERLANDS, THE, a Kingdom in Europe. 

 King, William III. ; born February 19, 1817; suc- 

 ceeded his father on March 17, 1819. Heir- 

 apparent, Prince "William ; born September 4, 

 1840. Area, 10,909 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, in 1866, was 3,529,108, or, with that of 

 Luxemburg, 3,735,682 distributed among the 

 provinces as follows: 



North Holland 566,474 



South " 672,367 



Zealand 176,169 



Utrecht 172,787 



Guelderland 427,753 



Overyssel 



Dreuthe 250,358 



Groningen 224,237 



Friesland 288,949 



North Brabant 423,421 



Limburg 222,579 



Total 3,529,108 



Grand-duchy of Luxemburg 206,574 



3,735,682 



The population of the largest cities was as 

 follows: Amsterdam, 262,691; Rotterdam, 

 115,354; Hague, 87,319. The colonial posses- 

 sions of the Netherlands contain the following 

 population : East Indies, (1864), 19,452,207 ; 

 West Indies (1864), 80,703; Guinea (1863), 

 about 120,000. 



The budget for 1866 estimates the expendi- 

 tures at 110,229,003 guilders, and the revenue 

 at 110,249,838 guilders. The public debt 

 amounted, in 1866, to 981,489,581 guilders. 

 The budget for the East Indies showed, in 1864, 

 a surplus of 4,906,130 guilders. 



The army consisted, in 1866, of 1,837 officers 

 and 59,249 men. The East India army num- 

 bered, in 1864, 23,432 infantry, 2,721 artillery, 

 557 cavalry, 907 engineers, 1,246 officers; totd, 

 27,617. The fleet, in 1866, consisted of 146 

 vessels, carrying 2,166 guns. The marine 

 troops numbered 5,743 men, exclusive of 800 

 native East Indians. 



The value of imports amounted, in 1864, to 

 474,337,773 guilders (from the United States, 

 6,711,724) ; the exports, to 433,416,570 guilders 

 (to the United States 4,204,817). The move- 

 ment of shipping was as follows : 



The merchant navy consisted, in December. 



