GCIGNIAUT, JOSEPH D. 



HANSON, RICHARD D. 375 



A premium of 20 per cent, was granted on 

 tin- second loan, both capital and premium to 

 k-.-u- interest at one per cent, per month, paya- 

 ble every three months. 



Another decree of same date directs that all 

 promissory notes and orders emanating from 

 tliis war ildii shall bo admissible in payment 

 in all the Government offices. After July 1st 

 the interest on this debt and on the promis- 

 sory notes was to be paid at the National Bank. 

 After the same date the 25 per cent, increase 

 on certain import dues decreed on March llth, 

 and the new duties on certain goods, might be 

 paid for by promissory notes given toward ex- 

 tinction of the debt. 



Another decree, of April 27th, provides that 

 on and after May 1st payments might be made 

 in the public offices, one-half in National-Bank 

 notes and the other half in money, and that 

 after June 1st the entire sums might be paid 

 in the notes of the above bank. The object is 

 to enhance the vnlue of these notes. 



From the following extract from an official 

 organ it would appear that Guatemala is de- 

 termined not to In- behind Costa Rica in the 

 matter of railways : 



The need of a railway in our republic is evident, 

 not only to place us on a level with the general 

 movement of progressive ideas, but also to meet the 

 requirements of commerce ana public and private 

 business. Accordingly, the Government has. de- 

 cided, as a first and most important undertaking, to 

 open a line of railway from the port of San Jose to 

 Esquintla, the most difficult part of the road in the 

 rainy season. On October 9th a meeting of capital- 

 ists "and business-men was held, at which it was 

 agreed to support the Government railway scheme. 

 I'n 1 r date or October 10th a commission was ap- 

 pointed to undertake the necessary preparatory 

 studies of the scheme. The gentlemen named were 

 Senors Juan Serigiers, Francisco Comacho, and Gre- 

 gorio Uruela. 



The republic of Guatemala has enjoyed a 

 year of undisturbed peace, although there was 

 some probability in the early months of Presi- 

 dent Barrios taking up arms against General 

 Gonzales, the disturber of San Salvador. 



GUIGNIAUT, JOSEPH I) A KIEL, a French 

 scholar, born May 15, 1704; died March 13, 

 1876. He entered the Noruuil School at an 

 curly age, where he was the fellow-student .f 

 Augustin Thierry, Patin, Dubois, and other*; 

 upon leaving, was appointed professor in the 

 College Charlemagne, and in 1818 became 

 Master of Conferences at the Normal School. 

 Equally well versed in Greek and in German, 

 he conceived the idea of popularizing in France 

 the great German works on ancient mythology. 

 In the execution of this idea he published in 

 1825 the first volume of u Religions de 1'Anti- 

 quite considerees principalement dans lenra 

 Formes symboliques et mythologiques," the 

 fourth and last volume of which appeared in 

 1851, and which was principally a translation 

 of Dr. F. Creuzer's "Symbolik." He also fur- 

 nished to Burnouf for his translation of Taci- 

 tus two treatises, one entitled " Sur la Venus 

 de Paphos et son Temple " (1827), and the other 

 " Sur le Dieu Serapis et son Origine " (1828). 

 He contributed a number of articles to the 

 Qldbe, the Lycee, of which he had been one of 

 the founders in 1828, the Journal de V Instruc- 

 tion publique, and other journals. After the 

 reorganization of the Normal School under the 

 name of preparatory school, he took the place 

 of M. Boissonade in the Sorbonne, was again 

 appointed Master of Conferences, and after- 

 ward Director. In 1835 he exchanged his ti- 

 tle of Director of the Normal School against 

 that of Professor of Geography, in the Faculty 

 of Letters, and was elected a member of the 

 Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in 

 1847. He was called to the Royal Council of 

 Instruction in 1846, of which body he was 

 secretary until 1850. In 1854 he was appoint- 

 ed Professor of History in the College of 

 France, and in 1866 became a member of the 

 Council of Public Instruction. In 1860 he 

 was elected perpetual secretary of the Acad- 

 emy of Inscriptions. He was created an offi- 

 cer of the Legion of Honor in 1847, and com- 

 mander in 1862. 



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HANEBERG, DANIEL VON, a German Cath- 

 olic prelate, born June 17, 1816 ; died June 17, 

 1876. He studied at the University of Munich, 

 and was ordained priest in 1839. He was ap- 

 pointed professor of the University of Munich 

 in 1844, and member of the Bavarian Academy 

 of Sciences in 1848. His lectures were chiefly 

 on the Old Testament. In 1850 he entered the 

 Benedictine order, became Abbot of St. Boni- 

 facius in 1854, and founded the Reform School 

 at Andech. He established missions in Algiers, 

 Constantino, Tunis, and one in Constantinople. 

 In 1871 he sympathized with the Old Catholics, 

 and wax even present at some of their meet- 

 ings, bnt afterward withdrew from the move- 

 ment. In 1864 he refused the bishopric of 



Treves, but in 1871 was elected Bishop of 

 Spires, which he accepted. Among his works 

 are: " Geschichte der biblischenOffenbarung" 

 (1850 ; third edition, 1868), " Die religiosen AI- 

 terthumer der Bibel" (second edition, 1869), 

 "Ueber das Schulwesen der Mohamedaner" 

 (1850), " Erorterungen fiber Bendo-Wakidi's 

 Geschichte der Eroberung von Syrien " (1860), 

 "Ueber die Theologie des Aristoteles" (1863), 

 and "Beleuchtung von Renan's Leben Jesu" 

 (1864). 



HANSON, Sir RIOHABD DA VIES, a British 

 author and jurist, born in 1805 ; died March 

 4, 1876. He was admitted to the bar in 1828, 

 and practised for a short time in London. In 

 1830 he took part in an unsuccessful attempt 



