374 GUEROULT, ADOLPH. 



HADLEY, JAMES. 



Mr. Corbett, the British charge d'affaires 

 was endeavoring to accomplish the negotiation 

 of a treaty of extradition between the republic 

 and England. 



The National Chamber, in its session of De- 

 cember 5th, accepted, by 35 votes against 7, 

 the new constitution. 



The qualifications for a voter require him to 

 be 21 years of age, and to know how to read 

 and write, or, in the absence of the latter 

 accomplishment, to have a capital of $1,000. 



Medals were to be awarded to the officers 

 and soldiers who had served in the action of 

 Santa Barbara, for the liberation of Honduras. 



Commerce continued to increase in the port 

 of San Jose", notwithstanding the opening of 

 Champerico. 



House-rents in the capital have doubled 

 within the last decade. 



GUEROULT, ADOLPH, a distinguished 

 French journalist and politician ; born in Ra- 

 depont (Eure), France, January 29, 1810 ; died 

 in Paris, August 3, 1872. His father was a 

 wealthy thread-manufacturer. He was edu- 

 cated at Paris, and soon after graduation joined 

 the Saint- Sim onians, who at that period at- 

 tracted to them a large number of the 

 intellectual young men of France. After the 

 dispersion of the Saint-Sim onians by the Gov- 

 ernment, Gu6roult travelled in Spain and Italy, 

 corresponding with the Journal dcs Debats. 



In 1842 he was appointed, at the instance of 

 M. Guizot, consul at MazatTan, and five years 

 later was transferred to Jassy. He was re- 

 moved by the Provisional Government, and 

 devoted himself to journalism, giving much 

 attention to industrial questions in his position 

 as editor of the Bepublique and the Crid/t 

 newspapers. In 1852 he became Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Credit Foncier, was editor-in-chief 

 of the Presse from 1857 to 1859, and in 1859 

 founded the Opinion Nationale, a low-priced 

 journal of liberal tendencies. M. Gufiroult 

 was elected in 1863 to the Corps LSgislatif, 

 and therein advocated the separation of church 

 and state, and the abolition of the stamp on 

 newspapers. He also sustained the imperial 

 policy in regard to Germany, and was vigor- 

 ously assailed on that account. He was de- 

 feated at the general elections of 1869, and 

 was subsequently mainly engaged in conduct- 

 ing his journal. His writings for the press 

 were, to a large extent, reprinted in> book- 

 form. The most important of them were : 

 "Letters on Spain," 1838; "The Colonial 

 Question," 1842 ; " The French Colonies and 

 Beet Sugar," 1842; Liberty and Trade, the 

 High Price of Rents, and the Public Works of 

 Paris," 1861 ; " Studies in Politics, and Reli- 

 gious Philosophy," 1862; "The Policy of 

 Prussia," 1866; "Speeches delivered in the 

 Corps L6gislatif," 1869. 



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HADLEY, Prof. JAMES, LL. D., an eminent 

 scholar, philologist, professor, and author, 

 born in New Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. 

 Y., March 30, 1821 ; died in New Haven, 

 Conn., November 14, 1872. His father, James 

 Hadley, M. D., was for many years Professor 

 of Chemistry in the Medical College in New 

 Fairfield, and afterward held the same profess- 

 orship in the Medical College at Geneva, N. 

 Y. James passed his boyhood and youth in 

 diligent and most successful study, entered 

 Yale College as Junior in 1840, and graduated 

 in 1852, with high honors. He began the 

 study of divinity, and became a thorough 

 Hebrew scholar ; but did not complete the 

 studies of that profession. Such had been his 

 attainments in science, that he was appointed 

 Tutor in Mathematics in Middlebury College, 

 but, returning to Yale as Classical and Histori- 

 cal Tutor, was chosen Assistant Professor of 

 Greek in 1848, when Prof. Woolsey was 

 elected president, and in 1851 was made full 

 Professor of Greek, which office he filled down 

 to the time of his death. lie was an almost 

 universal scholar. He had studied the sciences 

 with patience and exactness, and followed 

 their progress with great and unabated inter- 

 est ; but his favorite field was philology. He 

 was a Sanscrit, Arabic, and Armenian scholar, 

 was familiar with German and its great stores 



of learning, and made himself master of Celti 

 Gothic, Welsh, and Anglo-Saxon. He seemed 

 more interested in the Teutonic than in the Ro- 

 manie languages, from the fact, perhaps, that 

 they threw so much light on the origin and 

 structure of his native tongue, which he made 

 a matter of critical study, and of which he 

 wrote the history prefixed to Webster's Diction- 

 ary. Besides his varied linguistic attainments, 

 he was well versed in civil law, and his course 

 of lectures on that subject was concluded in the 

 curriculum of the Yale Law School and was 

 also delivered at Harvard. So great was his 

 diligence and earnestness in the performance 

 of his duties as professor, that he was esteemed 

 one of the main supports of his college ; distin- 

 guished as that institution is for the learning 

 and ability of its instructors, no one was more 

 learned or more able than he ; President Wool- 

 sey's judgment of him was just that he would 

 have been considered as a great scholar even 

 among the great scholars of the world. lie 

 was early elected into the Oriental Society, 

 and was president of it at the time of his 

 death. He was regular in his attendance at 

 all its meetings, and contributed to it very im- 

 portant papers for the society's journal, which 

 has been conspicuous, as well abroad as at 

 home, for its great and varied learning in its 

 appropriate sphere. When the Philological 



