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WARREN and the Bee." In 1854 his shorter contribu- tions to " Blackwood's Magazine " were pub- lished in two octavo volumes called u Miscel- lanies, Critical and Imaginative." Mr. "Warren has also published " A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies" (1835; 8d ed., rewritten and enlarged, 1863; Albany, N. Y. 1870) ; " Select Extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries, with a Glossary, Questions, and Notes " (1837) ; " The Opium Question " (1840) ; " Moral, Social, and Professional Duties of Attorneys and Solicitors" (1848); "Manual to the Parliamentary Law of the United King- dom " (1852); "The Intellectual and Moral Improvement of the Present Age " (1853) ; and "Labor, its Rights, Difficulties, Dignity, and Consolations" (1856). His literary works have been published in five volumes (1853-'5). In 1851 Mr. Warren was made queen's coun- sel, and from 1854 to 1874 he was recorder of Hull. In 1856 he was elected to parliament for Midhurst, and was reflected in 1857, but resigned in 1859, being made one of the mas- ters in lunacy. WARREN, William, an American actor, born in Philadelphia, Nov. 17, 1812. He made his first appearance on the stage in the Arch street theatre, Philadelphia, as " Young Norval," Oct. 27, 1832. In 1841 he played in the Park thea- tre, New York, and in 1845 in the Strand thea- tre, London. On the opening of the Howard Athenaeum, Boston, Oct. 5, 1846, he appeared as Sir Lucius O'Trigger in " The Rivals," and won an immediate and immense popularity in that city. On Aug. 23, 1847, he appeared as Billy Lackaday in the Boston museum, with which theatre he has ever since been con- nected. He especially excels in the old Eng- lish comedies. WARREN, William Fairfleld, an American cler- gyman, born in Williamsburg, Mass., March 13, 1833. He graduated at Wesleyan univer- sity in 1853, joined the New England Metho- dist conference in 1855, and afterward studied theology at Andover, Berlin, and Halle. In 1857 he was a delegate to the world's conven- tion of the evangelical alliance at Berlin, after- ward making a tour through the East. In 1861 he was appointed professor of systematic theol- ogy in the Methodist Episcopal mission theologi- cal institute at Bremen, Germany (which after- ward became the Martin institute at Frankfort), and in 1866 in the Boston theological seminary, subsequently a college of the Boston univer- sity, of which institution Dr. Warren has been president since 1873. He has published An- fangsgrunde, der Logik (Bremen, 1864), and Einleitung in die systematische Theologie (part i., Bremen, 1865). WARRICK, a S. W. county of Indiana, sep- arated from Kentucky by the Ohio river ; area, 360 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 17,653. It has a roll- ing surface, and the soil is very fertile. Bitu- minous coal is found. It is intersected by the Wabash and Erie canal, and the Lake Erie, Evansville, and Southwestern railroad termi- 826 VOL. xvi. 30 WARSAW 463 nates at the county seat. The chief produc- tions in 1870 were 150,746 bushels of wheat, 601,054 of Indian corn, 123,143 of oats, 48,799 of Irish and 17,627 of sweet potatoes, 185,408 Ibs. of butter, 30,979 of wool, 3,611,775 of to- bacco, and 11,282 tons of hay. There were 5,008 horses, 3,457 milch cows, 5,328 other cattle, 16,749 sheep, and 21,739 swine ; 8 manu- factories of carriages and wagons, and 4 flour mills. Capital, Boonville. WARR1NGTON, Lewis, an American naval of- ficer, born in Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 3, 1782, died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 12, 1851. He graduated at William and Mary college in 1798, entered the navy as a midshipman in 1800, and served under Commodore Edward Preble in the war with Tripoli. In 1807 he was made a lieutenant, and was attached to the Chesapeake in her rencounter with the British ship of war Leopard on June 22. In July, 1813, he was made master commandant, and in March, 1814, sailed from New York in command of the Peacock, 18. On April 29 he fell in off Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a convoy of British merchantmen under the protection of the Eper- vier sloop of war, and, after a close conflict at yardarm and yardarm for 42 minutes, cap- tured her with 128 men and 118,000 in specie. At the end of October the Peacock arrived at New York, having captured, principally in the bay of Biscay, 14 British merchantmen. In November, 1814, he was made captain, and sailed from New York, still in command of the Peacock, in the squadron of Commodore Ste- phen Decatur, jr. On June 30, 1815, the Pea- cock, in the strait of Sunda, fell in with the East India company's cruiser Nautilus, Capt. Boyce, and, having no knowledge that peace had been concluded, exchanged broadsides with her, when the Nautilus struck, having six killed and eight wounded. The Peacock sustained no in- jury. The Nautilus was immediately given up, and the Peacock returned to the United States. Capt. Warrington subsequently commanded a squadron on the West India station. From 1827 to 1830, and from 1840 to 1842, he served as a member of the board of navy commis- sioners; and in September, 1842, he was ap- pointed chief of the bureau of ordnance. WARSAW (Pol. Warseawa; Ger. Warschau; Fr. Varsovie). I. A government of Russian Poland, bordering on Plock, Lomza, Siedlce, Radom, Piotrkow, Kalisz, and the Prussian province of Posen; area, 5,622 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 925,639. It is a level country, drained by the Vistula and its tributaries, the Pilica and Bzura. The most fertile part is adjacent to the capital. It is traversed by several rail- ways, and there are more then 300 manufac- tories of cloth and other articles. II. A city, capital of the government and of the kingdom of Poland, on the left bank of the Vistula, in lat. 52 13' N., Ion. 21 3' E., 625 m. S. S. W. of St. Petersburg and 320 m. E. of Berlin ; pop. in 1873, 279,502, including 164,000 Catholics, 93,200 Jews, 14,000 German Protestants, and