Trent (COUNCIL OF the th in order)
COUNCIL OF, the 18th in order and the first in importance of the "Ecumenical" councils recognized by the Roman Catholic Church; was called forth by the Reformation in the 16th century, and demanded by both parties in the contest, for the reform of church discipline and the settlement of the points of controversy. After being repeatedly postponed, it was convened at Trent as an exclusively Roman council by Pope Paul III., Dec. 13, 1545. In
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Trent Affair
an episode of the American Civil War. In 1861 John Slidell and J. M. Mason were sent by the Confederate government as commissioners to France and Great Britain respectively. They ran the blockade successfully to Havana, and took passage for Liverpool on the British merchantman, the Trent. November 8, Captain Wilkes of the United States ship San Jacinta stopped the Trent in the old Bahama channel. He removed Mason and Slidell and took them to Boston as prisoners. The British minister at Washington, though kindly disposed toward the Federal cause, made an immediate and peremptory demand for their release. The Federal government desired to detain these prisoners, but could not afford to risk hostilities with Great Britain. Mason and Slidell were surrendered to the British authorities. Moreover, the removal of the commissioners from the British ship was clearly a violation of international law. Prior to the war of 1812 the British government insisted on searching American ships and in removing British subjects who might be desired for the British navy. The government of the United States protested against the right of search and could not now refuse to live up to a principle of international law on which it had formerly insisted strenuously. The newspapers of the day assailed President Lincoln and his advisors bitterly for yielding to the British demand; but time has shown that the demand was proper, and compliance, however disagreeable, the only thing to do. See Alabama Claims
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Trentino (Ance with Germany and Austria)
THE ance with Germany and Austria, prevented her for this long period from supporting the ambitions of the Italians of the Trentino to become a part of the Italian nation. TRENT, WILLIAM PETERFIELD, an American author; born in Richmond, Va., Nov. 10, 1862; was graduated at the 1888 became Professor of English and of History in the University of the South. In July, 1900, he was appointed Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, New York city. He made a special study of southern men and times, and published: "Life of William Gilmore Simms"; "English Culture in Virginia": Southern " Statesmen of the Old Régime"; "Balzac's Comédie Humaine"; John Milton " "; "Authority of Criticism"; etc. TRENT AFFAIR. In October, 1861, Capt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. N., intercepted at sea the British mail steamer "Trent," bound from Havana to St. Thomas, and took off two Confederate commissioners, accredited to France, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who were among her passengers. They were taken to Boston and imprisoned in Fort Warren, but were released on Jan. 1, 1862, on the demand of the British Government, and permitted to proceed to Europe. The affair created intense excitement at the time, but Secretary Seward accepted England's demand as an adoption of the American doctrine which denied the right ght of search, and on that ground replied that the prisoners would be cheerfully given up.
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Trentino (March it was transferred)
THE March, 1547, it was transferred to Bologna, but was reopened at Trent, by Pope Julius III., May 1, 1551. It was broken up, Jan. 18, 1562, in consequence of the victorious advance of the Elector Moritz, but was recalled by Pope Pius IV., Dec. 4, 1563, and reached its close, at its 25th session, Dec. 4, 1563. Its decrees and canons, which were confirmed by a bull of Pius IV., Jan. 26, 1564, are drawn up with much clearness and precision, though the doctrines of the Protestants are often exaggerated or falsified. They were immediately acknowledged in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, and Catholic Germany, and, in their doctrinal part, in France.
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Trenton (City and county-seat of Grundy)
a city and county-seat of Grundy co., Mo.; o.; on the Crooked Fork of Grand river, and on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad; 102 miles N. E. of Leavenworth, Kan. It contains Avalon College (United Brethren), a court house, churches, National and other banks, and several newspapers. It has flour and woolen mills and an assessed property valuation exceeding $1,200,000. Pop. (1910) 5,656; (1920) 6,951.
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Trepang
the dried body of a species of sea-cucumber. See Sea-Cucumber
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Trepomonas
the type genus of Trepomonadidæ, with a single species, T. agilis, from marsh water with decaying vegetable substances.
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Treron
in ornithology, tree pigeons; a genus of Columbidæ (the Vinago of Cuvier), with 37 species, ranging over the whole Oriental region, and E. to Celebes, Amboyna and Flores, and the whole Ethiopian region to Madagascar. Formerly cly made the type genus of the lapsed family Treronidæ.
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Treronide
in ornithology, a family of Columbacei, approximately equivalent to the genus Treron. Bill large, strong, compressed at sides, tip very hard, hooked; nostrils exposed; tarsi short, partly clothed with feathers below tarsal joint; the whole foot formed for perching and grasping; claws strong, sharp, and semicircular.
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Trescott
WILLIAM HENRY, an American diplomatist; born in Charles- imprisonment. Battery is an active atton, S. C., Nov. Nov. 10, 10, 1822; was graduated at Charleston College in 1840; admitted to the bar in 1843; assistant Secretary of State from June, 1860, till South Carolina seceded; represented that State in Washington after the war till the differences arising from the reconstruction Compelling any one to submit by the exacts were adjusted. He settled permanently in Washington in 1875, and there resumed the practice of law; was counsel for the United States before the Fishery Commission at Halifax in June, 1877; was a commissioner with General Grant to arrange a commercial treaty with Mexico in 1882; and served in other important diplomatic capacities. His publications include: "A Few Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of the United States" State (1849); "Diplomatic System of the United States" (1853); "The Diplomatic-History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams" (1857); etc. He died in Pendleton, S. C., May 4, 1898.
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