BINGHAM

Joseph, bom at Wake field, shire, in 1668, distinguished himself as a student Oxford, and devoted hia attention particularly ecclesiastical antiquity. He left the university become curate of Headbonm- Worthy, near Winchester, and there, while po e ed of a scanty living which hia numerous family could barely subsist, the merit of composing one of the most learned of which hia church can boast. This work on tian Antiquities was publiahed in eight vols. and is still a standaixi on the subjects of which treats. Bingham died in 1723. Chris- BING HAMPTON, a town. United StatM, capital of Broome county, state of New York, 80 miles from of Syracuse, at the junction of the Chenango and Sus- The quehanna rivers. It is handsomely laid out, and is a prosperous and active place, with eighteen churches, 1596 two banks, numerous schools, and other establishments. The town of Chenango is now included trans- 1603 within it. Pop. in 1870, 12,692. King BINGLEY, the Garrick of the Dutch stage, was in the bom at Eotterdam, in 1775, of English parents in trans good circumstances. He discovered an invincible inclination for the stage, and at the age of eighteen in joined the company under the direction of the celebrated Corver, who was his first instructor. In 1779, in the twenty-fourth year of his age, he made hia 8 dUhid on the stage of Amsterdam. The public odium along was then excited against England on account of its ships having captured veweU under the Dutch fla^ without any previous declaration of war, and Bingley nuwas unfavourably received on account of his English exteniron descent. But he soon conquered this prejudice by his periormance of Achilles, in the trs^^y of the same name, and from that time he continued to be and fine the favourite of the public. He was also so well for acquainted.with the French language as to appear neigh succe fully in the French theatres of Amsterdam and the Ha^e by the side of the great French actors who, while on their tour for the sake of im- B.s.w. proving themselves, used to visit the Netherlands. It In 1796 he was director of a company of actors, who of played principally at Botterdam and the Hi^ue, but also visited other cities of Holland. Meanwhile he is surwas always ready to perform at the tiieatre in Amsterdam, in such parts as could only be acted by the himself. One of his last representations, in which are he was a isted by the great actre Wattier Ziesenis, was the part of Famese, in LsJain's tragedy of Maria, acted in 1818 before the royal family. In the same pro on year he died at the Hague. BINNACLE - BLAIR, ROBEBT 205