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UTRECHT, a town of northern Natal, 30 m. by rail E. by N. of Newcastle. Pop. (1904) 1315. It is the chief place in a district of the same name, originally settled in 1848 by emigrant Boers from Natal. They formed an independent community and in 1854 obtained, ...

UTRECHT, a town of northern Natal, 30 m. by rail E. by N. of Newcastle. Pop. (1904) 1315. It is the chief place in a district of the same name, originally settled in 1848 by emigrant Boers from Natal. They formed an independent community and in 1854 obtained, ...

... o I can go and make my report to the emperor Alexander." In 1806 he had married Natalia Khomutova, but they lived apart, and he had no children by her. See Vasily Ratch, Memorials of Count Arakcheev (Rus.) (St Petersburg, 1864); Mikhail Ivanovicn Semevsky, Cou ...

... ius, a priest, who had turned Protestant, adopting Jakob, sent him to school at Utrecht, but died when his charge was in his fifteenth year. Rudolf Snellius (Snel van Roijen, 1546-1613), the mathematician, a native of Oudewater, then a professor at Marburg, ha ...

... lique will be found in Memoires pour serrir a fhistoire de Port-Royal (3 vols., Utrecht, 1742). Three volumes of her correspondence were also published at the same time and place. There are excellent modern lives of her in English by Miss Frances Martin (Attfc ...

... re crossed by a pontoon bridge), and a junction station 35 m. by rail E.S.E. of Utrecht. Pop. (1900) 57,240. It is connected by tramway with Zutphen and Utrecht, and there is a regular service of steamers to Cologne, Amsterdam, Nijmwegen^Tiel, 's Hertogenbosch ...

... ican slave trade for ten years — from September 1702 to 1712. When the peace of Utrecht was signed the British government insisted that the monopoly should be given to its own subjects. By the terms of the Asiento treaty signed on the i6th of March 1713, it wa ...

... nd the Stars." in the University Magazine, 1880 (reprinted in Dobson and Wilde, Natal Astrology, 1893); Abel Haatan, Traite d'astrologie judiciaire (Paris, 1825); Fomalhaut, Manuel d'aslrologie spherique et judiciaire (Paris, 1897). (M. JA.)

... e period, perhaps in an interval of his time at Deventer, he was a chorister at Utrecht under the famous organist of the cathedral, Jacob Obrecht. About 1484 Erasmus' father died, leaving him and an elder brother Peter, both born out of wedlock, to the care of ...

... er's office, he emigrated, in 1859, to the Cape. The following year he moved to Natal, and, after trying other occupations, qualified as an attorney. He became recognized as the ablest pleader in the colony, and, in 1872, was elected for Durban as a member of ...

... s) of the separate states or regions and on the aristocracy (Censorinus, De die natali, iv. 13). Later the office of king was abolished and replaced by annual magistrates (Livy v. i). Below the aristocracy came the free people, who were divided into curiae (Se ...

... lly introduced into the south of Europe, Algeria, Egypt, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Natal and India, and has been extensively planted in California, and, with the object of lessening liability to droughts, along the line of the Central Pacific railway. It would pr ...

... . Athens (1896) . Tula (1897) Briinn (1900) Kishinev (1897) Basel (comm., 1900) Utrecht (1902) . Kiel (1900) Reims (1901) Krefeld (1900) . Derby (1901) . Kassel (1900) . Halifax (1901) . Nice (1901) . Southampton (1901) Nancy (1901) . Szeged (1900) . Toulon (1 ...

... eping he escaped about 1398 and joined his uncle, Archbishop Thomas Arundel, at Utrecht, returning to England with Henry of Lancaster, afterwards King Henry IV., in 1399. After Henry's coronation he was restored to his father's titles and estates, and was empl ...

... annes de Witt, was discovered by Dr Karl Gaedertz in a manuscript volume in the Utrecht University library, consisting of the commonplace book of Arend van Buchell (1565-1641). While undoubtedly authentic, and probably broadly accurate, this copied sketch cann ...

... brother PIETER ANTON TIELE (1834-1888) acted for many years as the librarian of Utrecht University, and distinguished himself by his bibliographical studies, more especially by his several works on the history of colonization in Asia. Among these the most note ...

... colonial wars, which were closed respectively by the treaties of Ryswick(i69y), Utrecht (17 13), Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), and Paris (1763). Between the second and third wars intervened thirty years of peace, the early period of Hanoverian and Whig ascendancy in ...