CRETINEAU-JOLY, JACQUES. 



DAHIREL, FRANCOIS H. M. 



and cleared at the same port, 91 steamers and 

 43 sailing-vessels, with an aggregate of 186,180 

 tons, and 811 passengers. Entered at Limon, 

 12 steamers and 63 sailing-vessels, with an 

 aggregate of 31,384 tons, and 639 passengers; 

 and cleared, 12 steamers and 60 sailing-vessels, 

 with an aggregate of 38,954 tons, and 497 pas- 

 sengers. 



The completion of the Costa Eica Kailway at 

 an early day was reported as almost beyond 

 doubt, Sefior Lara having concluded a contract 

 for the same with M. Nicolas Lescaine Per- 

 doux, one of the leading railway men in France, 

 the bases of which contract were as follows : 



The road is to be built in the style of European 

 railways, with a gradient not to exceed 2 per cent., 

 and with curves of a maximum radius of 320 feet. 

 The stations are to be constructed after the style of 

 those in Paris, with iron pillars and framework, 

 and the roof of glass. That part of the road already 

 finished is to be altered so as to conform with the 

 specifications of the new contract, and an iron wharf, 

 600 feet long, is to be built at Port Limon. Costa 

 Kica, on its part, agrees to pay $50,000 monthly in 

 gold, and the balance in bonds of from four to seven 

 years' time. 



Seflor Lara returned to Costa Rica late in 

 the year, accompanied by a French engineer 

 of high standing. 



A later report, direct from Central America, 

 is to the effect that 



The offers from Paris are pronounced to be ruin- 

 ous to the country, and have been, it is understood, 

 promptly and unanimously rejected. The revenues 

 of the republic are quite inadequate to meet the cost 

 of building the road, and at the same time provide 

 the interest on the loans already incurred. With 

 the capitalists of England and France the Congress 

 has been unable to come to terms. 



One of the most important subjects of delib- 

 eration in Congress, in the second half of the 

 year, was that of a motion to admit Jesuits to 

 residence in the republic. Sefior Aguilar, after 

 expressing astonishment on learning that three 

 Jesuit fathers had established themselves at 

 Alajuela, delivered a lengthy speech against 

 the society alluded to, whose members he re- 

 garded " as the recognized enemies of all lib- 

 erty, all progress, and all public and private 

 tranquillity." Another significant paragraph 

 of the speech was: 



"When the people of Costa Eica are as truly en- 

 lightened as they are free, when laws extend real 

 and positive protection to all alike, then I would be 

 the first to wish the Jesuits among us, with their 

 absurd doctrines, in order to see them combated by 

 men at least as learned as themselves. But before 

 that is the case, I would, sooner leave my native 

 country, with my wife and children, whose con- 



sciences I am bound to preserve pure and safe from 

 the dangers that are now threatening them ; dangers 

 the more insidious as they pretend to be based on 

 the religion of our forefathers. 



The only disturbance during the year was 

 produced by an attempt made by the exile 

 Don Joaquin Fernandez to organize a revolu- 

 tion at Punta Arenas, by proclaiming himself 

 President of the Republic. 



The rebellion was promptly suppressed. 



The official organ of San Jos6 published a 

 list of charges brought against the British 

 consul Meugens, who was ordered to quit the 

 country. The charges were: 



His (Mr. Meugens' s) assertions that the commerce 

 of the country was diminishing to an alarming ex- 

 tent, owing to want of intelligence and integrity on 

 the part of the Government, in matters relating to 

 the railway and the loans; that the Government 

 makes no effort to pay even a part of its debts ; and 

 that, finally, the country was in a state of bankrupt- 

 cy; enormous sums were spent in maintaining a 

 large military force for the purpose of sustaining the 

 actual Government ; that the country in general was 

 in a state of discontent, as proved by various at- 

 tempts having been made to overturn the Adminis- 

 tration. Further, that an angry correspondence was 

 all the time going on between Costa Eica and Nica- 

 ragua, on the question of limits, without any good 

 result. 



CRfiTINEAU-JOLY, JACQUES, a French 

 writer, born September 23, 1803, at Fontenay ; 

 died January 3, 1875, in Paris. After finish- 

 ing his studies at the seminary of St.-Sulpice, 

 he traveled through Italy and Germany, and 

 made his first appearance in literature as a 

 poet. His poems " Chants remains " (1826), 

 "Les Trappistes" (1823), and "Inspirations 

 poetiques"^ (1829), were less remarkable for 

 their imagination and their poetical inspira- 

 tion than for their orthodox fervor. After 

 the Revolution of 1830, he was very active as 

 editor of Legitimist journals in the provinces. 

 He wrote, in the interest of the Legitimist 

 party, " Episodes des Guerres de la Vende~e " 

 (1834), "Histoire des G6n6raux et des Chefs 

 vend6ens" (1838), "Histoire de la Vende"e mi- 

 litaire" (4 vols., 1840-'41), and "Histoire des 

 Trace's de 1815 et de leur Execution" (1842). 

 His " Histoire religieuse, politique et litte"raire 

 de la Compagnie de Je"sus" (6 vols., 1844-'46) 

 is the principal work on the history of the 

 Jesuits which is written in the interest of the 

 order. From the same standpoint he wrote 

 "Le Pape Clement XIV" (1853), "Scenes 

 d'ltalie et de Vendee " (1853), and " L'Eglise 

 romaine en Face de la Revolution" (2 vols 

 1859). 



DAHIREL, FRANQOIS HYACINTHE MARIE, a 

 French Legitimist, was born October 15, 1804, 

 at Ploermel; died in February, 1875. He 

 practised, since 1830, as a lawyer at Lorient, 

 and was there for several years a member of 

 the Municipal Council. After the Revolution 



of February, 1848, he was elected a member 

 of the Constituent Assembly. With most of 

 the members of his party, he supported the 

 anti-revolutionary policy of the President, 

 Louis Napoleon, in home affairs and his Roman 

 expedition. As member of the Legislative 



