. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. national views,repelling the pretensions of Austria; was transferred to St. Peters-burg in 1859, where he strengthened the friendly relations
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. national views,repelling the pretensions of Austria; was transferred to St. Peters-burg in 1859, where he strengthened the friendly relations betweenPrussia and Russia, remaining nntil 1862; was embassador to Parisand succeeded Prince Hohenzollern as prime minister of Prussia in1862, and became minister of foreign affairs. He advocated strength-ening the army, and succeeded in procuring the co-operation ofAustria in the Schleswig-Holstein war of 1864; concluded a newtreaty with Austria, in 1865; was promoted to Count, and investedwith ministerial authority over newly-conquered countries in 1865:formed an alliance with Italy, and declared war against Austria andher allies in 1866. Military prowess having soon subdued the Austrianalliance, the treaty of Prague, in 1866, extinguished Austria as a Ger-man state, secured Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia, and placecj thelatter at the head of the North-German confederation. He was nowidolized by the Prussian people, and a national endowment was. Henry ThoAuthor of History of MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY. \ VIIiGlXIA, Spylv;inia (<.uii-ty, in 1806, was born Matthew F,Maury, known by his valuable re-searches into marine physical geog-raphy and meteorology. He enteredthe American navy as a midshipman in1825, went to France in the ship thatconveyed Lafayette on his return home,made a voyage to the Pacific in thesame vessel, and circumnavigated theglobe in the United States vessel Vin-cennes. While yet young he publishedhis Treatise on Navigation, whichpassed through several editions
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