a remarkably handsome and well built town of France, on the left bank of the Meuse, department of Ardennes, arrondissement and one mile N. of the town of Mezieres, with which it is connected by an avenue and suspension bridge. Since the end of the seventeenth century, when its fortifications were destroyed, it has become a thriving place, and has manufactures of nails, hardware, firearms, &c., and an active export trade in wine, spirits, coal, iron, and slates. It has tribunals of primary instance and commerce, a commodious port, theatre, public library of 24,000 volumes, and cabinet of natural history. The royal manufactory of arms, formerly established here, has been transferred to Tulle and Chatellerault. Pop. 9000.

a town of Ireland, county of Cork, 34 miles N.N.W. of Cork, and 129½ from Dublin by the Great Southern and Western railway, on which it has a station. It is pleasantly situated, tolerably well built, and has a handsome Roman Catholic chapel, court-house, classical school, bridewell, dispensary, fever hospital, corn-mills, and some manufactures of blankets and leather. Previous to the Union it returned 2 members to the Irish parliament. Pop. (1851) 2685.