736 HINCKLEY HINCMAR persmith in Sana had obtained possession of copies of genuine inscriptions and made others from them by combining portions of several of them. In the case before us we have true Himyaritic characters, but the first five lines are the same as those of a copy furnished by Himyaritic Inscription. Hal6vy. They have been translated as fol- lows : " Halaida with his sons, the sons of Ma- dikarib, the family of laf 'an,. has given hom- ,age to the Athtar of Qabad." The principal notices that have appeared on the subject of the 'Himyaritic characters, or the interpretation of the inscriptions, are by Rodiger, Ewald, Ge- senius, Gildemeister, Fresnel, Osiander, Levy, Halevy, and Praetorius. They are to be found in the Zeitschrift far die Kunde des Morgen- landes, the Journal Asiatique, and similar pe- riodicals. The British museum published in 1863 all the inscriptions in the Himyaritic character then owned by it. HINCKLEY, a town of Leicestershire, Eng- land, 12 m. S. W. of Leicester; pop. in 1871, 6,902. An ancient church, with a very curious oak roof, is the most interesting building. It has manufactories of hosiery, cotton thread, and worsted. Near it are Roman remains, and the neighboring village of High Cross, where two Roman roads intersect (Watling Street and the Fosse Way), is probably the site of the Roman station Benona3 or Venonae. HLVCKS. I. Edward, an Irish archaeologist, born in Cork about 1792, died at Killyleagh, county Down, Dec. 3, 18G6. He studied under his father, "who was professor of Hebrew and head master of the classical school in the Bel- fast academical institution, graduated at Trin- ity college, Dublin, in 1812, took orders, and in 1826 became rector of the parish of Killy- leagh. He contributed many important pa- pers, especially on Egyptian hieroglyphics and Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions, to the trans- actions of various societies. Among the best known of these is a translation of portions of an inscription of Tiglath-pileser the elder, pub- lished by the royal Asiatic society (1857), in parallel columns with three other translations, in order to show by their general agreement that the true principles of interpretation had been discovered. He published a catalogue of the Egyptian manuscripts in the library of Trinity college (1849) ; " A Letter to Profes- sor Renouf on the Polyphony of the Assyrio- Babylonian Cuneiform Writing" (1863); and some religious works, among which is a report of a doctrinal discussion with three Roman Catholic priests (1829). II. Sir Francis, a Ca- nadian statesman, brother of the preceding, born in Cork, Ireland, in 1807. He engaged in commercial pursuits in Canada, and after- ward in journalism and politics, and became proprietor and editor of the " Toronto Exami- ner," and a member of the legislature. He was finance minister in 1842-'3 and from 1848 to 1854, being from 1851 also prime minister. He was governor of the Windward islands from 1855 to 1862, and of British Guiana from 1862 to 1869, when he was knighted, and was again finance minister of Canada until late in 1873. He was among the first to urge a re- sponsible ministry in Canada, and though op- posed by Lord Sydenham, the governor, and by other influential persons, he secured the recognition of this principle by the English government. He has published pamphlets on political and financial subjects. HIM MR, a Gallican prelate, born in Aqui- taine about 806, died in Epernay, Dec. 21, 882. lie was brought up from childhood in the mon- astery of St. Denis, near Paris, where he be- came a monk under the reformed rule which he was himself instrumental in introducing. He was in high favor with Louis le Debon- naire, to whom he remained faithful in his adversity. In 845 he was consecrated arch- bishop of Rheims in place of Ebbonius, who was a partisan of the emperor Lothaire. His elec- tion was contested at Rome by Lothaire, but as Ebbonius did not urge his claim, Hincmar was confirmed. He showed much firmness in resist- ing the abuses of the kingly power and in re- storing discipline in the church; and he was in such favor with Charles the Bald, that con- temporary writers speak of him as ruling both church and state during that prince's reign. In 848 he presided over the council of Quierzy- sur-Oise, in which the Benedictine monk Go- descalchus (Gottschalk) was at his instigation sentenced to be degraded from the priesthood, publicly whipped, and imprisoned for life.
