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 HONE Ities as in the neighboring states. The rev- me in 1872 amounted to $193,595; and the public debt in the same year was reduced to $112,650. The colony contributes about $25,000 toward defraying an expense of $66,820 incurred annually by the mother country for maintaining a military station here. Education is little attended to, and the few schools have but a small attendance. The government of British Honduras has been administered by a lieutenant governor since May, 1862, when the settlement was raised to the rank of a colony. The governor is appointed by the crown. The legislative power is vested in a council com- posed of seven magistrates elected annually by the people. Little is known of the early set- tlement of this coast. It seems to have been resorted to occasionally by wood cutters in the 16th century. Some British subjects, at- tracted by the abundance and excellence of the mahogany and logwood, came from Jamaica and made the first permanent settlement ; and this throve so rapidly that the immigrants were soon followed by a large number of others, who extended their explorations as far W. as Carnpeachy, in the vicinity of which town they established some colonies. After many un- successful efforts by the Spaniards to drive out the intruders, these were at last compelled to retreat within the present limits of the terri- tory. In 1754 an invading expedition of 1,500 Spaniards was defeated by a small body of English settlers; another attack was made in 1779, and the inhabitants were obliged to flee to Merida and Havana, where many of them died in captivity. By 1783 the settlement was again prospering, and the people, after repeated altercations with their Spanish neighbors, on July 10, 1798, repulsed a formidable attack made by a fleet of vessels and a land force of 2,000 men. Since that time the country has remained in tranquillity as a British possession, having been specially excepted from the treaty between England and the United States, June 29, 1850, by which the two powers mutually agreed "not to occupy, fortify, or colonize any part of Central America." HONE, William, an English author, born in Bath in 1779, died in Tottenham, Nov. 6, 1842. At the age of 10 he was placed with an at- torney in London, but after the expiration of his apprenticeship he abandoned the law, and in 1800 set up as a bookseller, with a circula- ting library, in Lambeth Walk. During the next 16 or 17 years he experienced a succes- sion of vicissitudes. Having no talent for business, he failed in almost every enterprise he undertook, and repeatedly became bankrupt. In 1817 he brought himself into great notoriety by the series of political satires entitled " The Political House that Jack built," "The Man in the Moon," " The Queen's Matrimonial Lad- der," "A Slap at Slop," " The Political Show- man," " Non Mi Ricordo," &c. Among these were several in the nature of parodies on va- rious parts of the " Book of Common Prayer," HONEY 793 for the printing and publishing of which Hone was tried on three separate indictments in De- cember, 1817, but was acquitted in each in- stance. His "Three Trials," describing the proceedings on this occasion, went through 19 editions before the close of 1818. His friends attempted to set him up in business as a book auctioneer, but in a few years be found him- self the inmate of the King's Bench prison, where during a confinement of about three 1829), his most useful works. Upon his re- lease from prison he attempted to establish himself as landlord of the Grasshopper coffee house, but failed. Finally he joined an Inde- pendent church, became a preacher, and offici- ated until disabled by paralysis. Among his other works were: "Ancient Mysteries De- scribed" (8vo, 1823); an edition of Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes of the English;" and " Early Life and Conversion of William Hone." HONESDALE, a borough and the capital of Wayne co., Pennsylvania, in the N. E. part of the state, at the confluence of the Lackawaxen and Dyberry creeks, 113 m. N. of Philadelphia, and 124 m. N. E. of Harrisburg ; pop. in 1870, 2,654. It is situated on a branch of the Erie railway, 135 m. from New York, and the Dela- ware and Hudson canal connects it with the Hudson river at Kingston, N. Y. It is an ac- tive business place, the greater part of the coal mined bv the Delaware and Hudson canal company being brought here from the Lacka- wanna coal fields, 16 m. distant, and transferred to canal boats and cars. It is neatly built, and has water and gas works, founderies, boot and shoe manufactories, tanneries, glass works, flouring mills, a national bank, a savings bank, and two weekly newspapers. HONEY, the saccharine juices of plants, col- lected by bees from flowers, and deposited by them in the waxen cells of the comb. These juices undergo some modification in the honey bag of the bee; but though their chemical character is somewhat changed, they still re- tain the fla.vor and to some extent the peculiar properties of the plants from which they were collected. Under a powerful microscope the pollen that was mixed with the juices may be detected in the honey, and even referred to the particular kind of plant to which it be- longed. The prevalence of certain varieties may determine what sort of localities have been most frequented by the bees. Flowers of sweet perfume impart agreeable odor and flavor to the honey; so that the product of some districts is famed and prized, while the bees of others, drawing upon very different sources, give to the honey they make the dis- agreeable or even dangerous properties of the plants themselves. Thus the honey of Mt. Ida in Crete has been always held in the highest estimation, as also that of Narbonne and Cha- mouni; but the honey of Trebizond causes