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 STATIUS STAUNTON to be kept and published at intervals. The first international statistical congress met in Brussels in 1853 ; sessions have since been held at Paris, 1855 ; Vienna, 1857 ; London, 1860 ; Berlin, 1863 ; Florence, 1867; the Hague, 1869 ; and St. Petersburg, 1872. (See CENSUS.) STATIUS, Cftcilins. See CJECILIUS STATIUS. STATIUS, Publins Papinins, a Roman poet, born probably in A. D. 61, died probably in 96. His father was a preceptor of the emperor Do- initian, by whom the son was patronized. In the Alban contests he three times gained the victory. It has been said that he was a Chris- ian, and that the emperor stabbed him with a stilus in a moment of anger. Some details >ut his life and character have been com- iled by Occioni (Padua, 1869). His extant works are : Silvarum Libri F., a collection of 32 poems on passing events, divided into five
 * >ks ; Thebaidos Libri XII., an epic founded

ipon the legendary account of the expedition " the seven against Thebes, of which the first )k was translated into English by Pope ; id Achilleidos Libri //., an epic never fin- shed. The best edition is Markland's (1728), Bvised by Queck (1854). A new critical edi- tion has been published by O. Miiller (1870). Five books of the " Thebaid " have been trans- into English by Thomas Stephens (8vo, >ndon, 1 648), and the entire poem by W. L. 3wis (2 vols. 8vo, Oxford, 1767 and 1773). ) " Achilleid " has been translated by How- (8vo, London, 1660). There is a German translation by Bindewald (1868). STATUARY. See SCULPTURE. STATUTE OF FRAUDS. See FBAUDS, STATUTE OF. STATUTES OF LIMITATION. See LIMITATION, STATUTES OF. STAUDENMAIER, Franz Anton, a German the- logian, born at Danzdorf, Wurtemberg, Sept. LI, 1800, died in Freiburg, Baden, Jan. 19, 1856. He studied at Tubingen, was ordained Roman Catholic priest in 1827, became pro- of theology at Giessen in 1830 and at jiburg in 1837, and a canon in 1843, and in 1851 was elected a member of the first cbamber of the legislature of Baden. His chief works are : Geschichte der Bischofswahlen (Tubingen, 1830) ; Encyklopddie der theologischen Wissen- schaften (Mentz, 1834; 2d ed., 1840); Der Geist des Ghristenthums (Mentz, 1835), many times reprinted and translated ; and Die christliche Dogmatik (4 vols., 1844-'52, not complete), in which he attempts to harmonize the results of modern philosophy with the doctrines of the Catholic church. His other works include Sco- tus Erigena und die Wissenschaft seiner Zeit (vol. i., Frankfort, 1840, unfinished); DiePhi- losophiedes Christenthums (vol. i., Mentz, 1840, unfinished); Darstellung und Kritik des He- gel } schen Systems (Mentz, 1844) ; and Der Protestantismus in seinem Wesen und seiner Entimckelung (Freiburg, 1846). STAUDLIN, Karl Friedrich, a German theolo- gian, born in Stuttgart, July 25, 1761, died in 325 Gottingen, July 5, 1826. He studied at Tubin- gen, and in 1790 became professor of theology at Gottingen. At first he was a rationalist, but he gradually inclined to supernaturalism. His works extend over nearly every depart- ment of theology; but those on church his- tory are the most valued, and include Kirch- liche Geographic und StatistiTc (2 vols., Tubin- gen, 1804), the first scientific work on this subject, and Geschichte der theologischen Wis- senschaften (2 vols., Gottingen, 1810-'!!). STAUNTON, a river in the S. part of Virginia, which rises in Montgomery co., among the Al- leghany mountains, flows E. and S. E. through a pass in the Blue Ridge, and with Dan river forms the Roanoke at Clarksville, Mecklen- burg co. It is 200 m. long, and in the first 20 m. of its course has a fall of 1,000 ft. STAUNTON, a city, county seat of Augusta co., Virginia, on Lewis creek, a tributary of the Shenandoah river, and on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad at the junction of a branch of the Baltimore and Ohio line, 100 m. direct and 136 m. by rail W. N. W. of Richmond ; pop. in 1870, 5,120, of whom 1,535 were colored; in 1875, about 7,000. It is surrounded by a highly productive country, abounding in fine scenery. Stages run to Weyer's and Madison's caves, 18 m., and to the Augusta springs, 12 m. distant. It is the seat of the western state lunatic asylum and of the state institution for the education of the deaf and dumb and the blind, each having fine buildings and grounds. The principal man- ufactories are two iron founderies, two tobacco factories, and two flour mills. There are three banks, with a capital of $500,000 ; free public schools, with an attendance of more than 600 white and 300 colored children ; a Roman Cath- olic seminary ; Lutheran, Methodist, and Pres- byterian female seminaries, having more than 600 pupils ; three weekly newspapers ; and nine churches, viz. : 2 Baptist (1 colored), 1 Episcopal, 1 Lutheran, 3 Methodist (2 colored), 1 Presbyterian, and 1 Roman Catholic. STAUNTON, Sir George Thomas, an English au- thor, born in Salisbury, May 26, 1781, died in London, Aug. 10, 1659. He was the son of Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801), confidential secretary of Lord Macartney at Madras, and a member of his embassy to China, of which he wrote an account (2 vols. 4to, 1797). George Thomas accompanied his father to China in 1792, afterward studied at Cam- bridge, and in 1799 went to Canton as secre- tary of the East India company's factory there, of which he afterward became president. In 1816 he was attached to Lord Amherst's em- bassy to China, and from 1818 to 1852, with a few intermissions, was a member of parlia- ment. His principal works are: "The Penal Code of the Chinese Empire" (4to, London, 1810) ; " Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Tartar Khan Tourgouth during the Years 1812-'15 " (1821) ; and " Miscellaneous Notices relative to China and the British Commercial Intercourse with that Country " (1822).