Miscellaneous.

We last week mentioned Prince Albert's application to the Court of Chancery for protection of the Queen and himself against an artistic pi- racy. The application was made during the long vacation; when an injunction was granted enjoining Mr. W. Strange, the publisher of Paternoster Row, to abstain from certain acts in connexion with certain drawings and etchings. On Monday, application was made to Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce to extend the injunction to other parties and acts; and the character of the grievance inflicted on the Royal complainants was made clear. From the affidavit of Mr. J. B. Brown, printer of Windsor, it appeared that he had been engaged from October 1840 to November 1847 in printing by a private press impressions of the etchings done by the Queen and Prince Albert. In the course of this work he employed a Workman whom he regarded as quite trusty/0i tby, but to insure himself against all chance of misconduct, he was accustomed to count the sheets of paper he gave out, and to require the same number of perfect and imper- fect impressions to be returned to him. His man, however, managed to bring into the printing-room some sheets of card-board and foolscap pa- per, with which he took impressions for himself. A fellow workman received from this man some thirteen impressions thus taken; and it was through this workman that the fact got known. A Mr. Law- rence of Windsor heard of these thirteen impressions, and got information too that a Mr. Jasper Tomsett Judge had other impressions. Lawrence went to Judge, and mentioned his knowledge: Judge made no secret of the matter, bat immediately showed Lawrence a portfolio containing about eighty etchings; some were on glazed foolscap, and some on card-board. The affidavits of Prince Albert, Mr. Anson, and others, stated that the im- pressions printed by Mr. Brown were kept under lock and key, in complete private security; copies of some one or other having been given only to particular friends. No person ever received any considerable number, or anything like a complete set of them. On the first inquiries at Mr. Strange's, no information could be extracted whence the impressions came, or precisely what literary course was intended with them; but it was ulti- mately ascertained that Mr. Jasper Tomsett Judge and his son Mr. Jasper A. F. Judge, persons living at Windsor, were the persons possessing the etchings, and that it was designed to make an exhibition of them at a price for admission. A descriptive catalogue was also to be published; and every person who bought the catalogue was to be presented with a fee-simile copy of the Queen's or the Prince's autograph. Prince Albert prayed the Court to grant its injunction directing Mr. Strange to abstain from all acts of publication, and directing the Meagre. Judge to do the like, and also give up all copies of etchings in their peg- session. The Court granted the injunction as prayed. Our readers may have some curiosity to see a list of the etchings— by Prince Albert, and etched by her Mit- jesty and his Royal Highness, Jan. 18,1841.

No. 32. The Apotheosis of Mignon. Drawn and etched by her Mejesty, Jan. 30, 1841.

No. 33. A Vision. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, Jan. 31, 1841.

No. 34. Various Studies : a medley. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Jan. 21, 1841.

No. 35. The Apotheosis of Mignon. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Feb. 2, 841.

No. 36. The Tired Pilgrim and the War- rior Knight. Designed, drawn, and etched by Prince Albert, Feb 8, 1841.

No. 37. The Fisherman's Bride. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Feb. 21, 1841.

No. 38. Portrait of the Princess Royal in the arms of her Nurse. Drawn &OM life by her Majesty, Feb. 22, 1841, and etched by the Queen.

No. 39. Mignon in her Dramatic Attire. Drawn by her Majesty, and etched by Prince Albert, Feb. 24, 184 No. 40. Portrait of a Goat. Etched by her Majesty, after a drawing by E. MAW. field, April I, 1841. No. 41. The Heads of three worsea: Etched by her Majesty, after a drawing hy E. Landseer.

No. 42. Head of an Old Man. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, May 3, 1841.

No. 43. Portrait of an Egyptian Woman. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, June 9, 1841.

No. 44. Pigeons at the Royal Aviary at Windsor. Sketched from life, and etched by Prince Albert, July II, 1841.

No. 45. Portrait of the Princess Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Aug. 15, 1841, and etched by the Queen.

No. 46. Portrait of the Princess Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Aug. 22, 1841, and etched by the Queen.

No. 47. Portrait of the Princess Royal'. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Aug. 23, 1841, and etched by the Queen.

No. 48. Portrait of the Princess Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Aug. 25, 1841, and etched by the Queen No. 49. Heads of Eagles. Etched by Prince Albert, after A. Caraccl, Aug. 214 1841.

No. 50. Masquerade Scene. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, SepL I, 1841. No. 51. Two Homes. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, after a sketch by E. Land- seer, Jan. 1, 1842. No. 52. Market Women. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, after Landseer, Jan. 9, 1842.

No. 53. Portrait of the Princess Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Jaa. 12, 1842, and etched by the Queen. No. 54. Two Frenchwomen. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, after Z. Landseer, Jan. 13, 1842.

No. 55. A Frenchwoman. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, after E. Landseer, Jan. 13, 1842.

No. 56. Portrait of the Princess Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Dec. 27, 1842, and etched by Prince Albert.

No. 57. Five Portraits of the PrInceSS Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty, and etched by the Queen, Jan 7, 1843.

No. 58. Portrait of the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. Designed from life by her Majesty, Jan. 3, 1843. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert. No. 59. Portrait of " CavInach, " a Scotch terrier. Drawn from life by Prince Albert, in 1843, and etched by her Majesty, Jan. 9, 1843.

No. 60, Medley Plate. Portraltsof the Princess Royal, Head of an Arab, Glpsy and Child, Head of an Old Woman. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Jan. I I, 1843.

No. 61. Two Portraits of the Princess Royal. Drawn from life by her Majesty. Feb. 10, 1843, and etched by the Queen, Feb. 26, 1843. No. 62. The Doge of Venice and an Armed Knight. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, Feb. 28, 1843.

No. 63. A Shooting Pony, with Dead Stag and Dog. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, March 2, 1843.

The Count and Countess of Nein ly and their family have within these few days removed from Claremont, and have taken up their residence at the Star and 'Garter in Richmond. It is understood that the ex-King de- termined to remove from Claremont in consequence of an illness from which all the family had suffered, and which was imputed to the unwhole- someness of the water supplied from the Claremont conduits. The Paris No. I. Portrait of a Turk, head of an Old Man, and German Peasant Girl. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Aug. 21,1840.

No. 2. Portrait of a Turk. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, Aug. 28, 1840.

No. 3. Head of Henry VIII., Combat between two Men in Armour, &c. Etched by her Majesty, after original drawings by Prince Albert, Sept. I, 1840.

No. 4. Full-length Portrait of a Young Lady. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, 1840.

No. 5. Fall-length Portrait of a Young Lady sitting on a Rock. Drawn by her Majesty, after nature, and etched by the Queen.

No. 6. Portrait of " Ada," in a German dress. Drawn by her Majesty from nature, and etched by the Queen, Sept. 1840.

No. 7. Portrait of " Ada," and two Fe- male Heads. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Sept. 1840.

No. 8. Head of a German Student. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert.

No. 9. Portrait of Islay," a Scotch terrier. Drawn from life by her Majesty, Sept. 9, 1840, and etched by Prince Albert.

No. 10. The Provocation and Trial of Pressly to Single Combat. Designed, drawn, and etched by Prince Albert, Sept.

16, 1840.

No. II. Head of "Islay," a Scotch terrier (see Nos. 9 and 12) ; Head of "Eon," a Russian greyhound. Drawn from nature by her Majesty, Sept. 19, 1840, and etched by the Queen.

No. 12. Head of " Islay," a Scotch terrier. Drawn from nature by her Ma- jesty, Sept. 22, 1840, and etched by the Queen.

No. 13. Header " Waldman," a Teckel German dog ; Head of " Eos (see Nos.

11 and 26). Drawn from nature by her Majesty, Sept. 24, 1840, and etched by the Queen.

No. 14. The Conferring of the Order of "The Golden Fleece." Designed, drawn, and etched by Prince Albert, Dec. 4, 1840. No. 15. Portrait of " Waldman," a Terkel German dog. Drawn from nature, and etched by her Majesty, Oct. 12, 1840.

No. 16. Portrait of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Copied by her Majesty from Sir George Hayter's Marriage Pic- ture, and etched by the Queen, Oct. 26, 1840.

No. 17. Margaret in Prison. Drawn by her Majesty in 1838, and etched by the Queen. Oct. 31, 1840.

No. 18. A Spanish Soldier. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert. Nov. 1, 1840.

No. 19. Portrait of a Lady. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Nov. 18, 1840.

No. 20. Portrait of Frederick, Elector and Duke of Saxony, the founder of the University of Wittemburg. Copied by Prince Albert from the original picture, by Lucas Cranach the younger, and etched by his Royal Highness, Dec. 1, 1840.

No. 21. Head of an Old Man. Drawn by Prince Albert, and etched by her Ma- jesty, Dec. 20, 1840. No. 22. Portrait of a Female. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Dec. 27, 1840.

No. 23. Portrait of a German Prince. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, Dec.

28,1640.

No. 24. The Discovery of the Miniature. Drawn and etched by her Majesty. No. 25. Portrait of a Female. Drawn and etched by her Majesty, Jan. 3, 1841.

No. 26. Portrait of "Roe," a Russian greyhound. Drawn by her Majesty from nature in 1840, and etched by the Queen, Jan. 6, 1841.

No. 27. Scene from the opera of Norma. Drawn by her Majesty in 1836, and etched by the Queen, Jan. 7. 1841. No 28. The Secret Consultation on the Jury Plate. Drawn and etched by Prince Albert, Jan. 8, 1841.

No. 29. Head of an Old Man. Drawn by Prince Albert, In 1840, and etched by her Majesty, Jan. 9, 1811.

No. 30. Swiss Peasant and Child. Drawn by her Majesty. and etched by Prince Albert, Jan. 16, 1841.

No. 31. Portrait of a Noble. Drawn Assemblie Nationale contains the most circumstantial statement of what is known on the subject- " The members of the ex-Royal Family of France narrowly escaped being poi- soned. All of them were simultaneously attacked after dinner with acute pains; and the ex-Duke de Nemours having drunk nothing but a glass of water, the few drops that remained were analyzed, and found to contain a strong dose of very virulent poison, produced by the decomposition of the copper of the conduit- pipes and reservoirs by which Claremont House is supplied. The medical treat- ment of Dr. Clarke soon neutralized the effects of the poison, and restored the sufferers to health."

[This account, we understand, is correct; except that the poisonous matter was not copper, but lead.]

The Paris Club of Rue de Poitiers lately held a meeting to discuss the question whether it should give its collective adherence to any particular candidate in the approaching election of the National President. M. Thiers made a speech which is considered to have affected General Cavaignac's position unfavourably. He declared himself perfectly disinterested in the question, as he was neither a candidate for the Presidency, nor for a Ministry under either of the two Presidents at present possible. He knew neither General Cavaignac nor Prince Louis Bona- parte, and regarded neither with hatred or with affection. He only sought to dis- cern which would give good or harm to the country in the future. " General Cavaignac appears to me to have an undecided policy, which may lean, in certain eases, to another side than the moderate one; and for this motive I preserve with respect to him a distrust, not of him personally, but of his opinions. No doubt, General Cavaignac is worth more than the Governments which preceded him since the 24th of February; but he is not such a man as could be desired to make a decisive effort in his favour. At this moment the country is attracted towards Prince Louis Bonaparte. To check it, an effort would have to be made which would be without cause; for we have not sufficient confidence in General Cavai- gnac to devote ourselves to his candidateship. Would it, therefore, be right to propose a third candidate to be presented to the country in the name of the Club of the Rue de Poitiers? I do not think it The proposal of a third candidate would only be to secure the election of General Cavaignac by the Assembly; and if it were the nomination of General Cavaignac which was desired, they should say it frankly, openly, and labour for it earnestly. Better leave the country to its penchant. " Have we created the entrainment which is complained of? Assuredly not Those who have created it are those who since the 24th February have governed France in such a manner as to fill it with disquietude and crush it with misery. France, injured, alarmed, impover- ished, seeks the name which appears to her the strongest denial to all that we see; and it is for that reason that she adopts Louis Bonaparte."

The Club was swayed by M. Thiers, and resolved by a large majority in favour of the course he counselled.

Sir Robert Gardiner has been appointed Governor of Gibraltar, in the place of Sir Robert Wilson, whose period of service has expired. The new Governor is an Artillery officer, who served with much distinction through- out the Peninsular war, and at Waterloo. The appointment is the more acceptable, as the Artillery, notwithstanding their brilliant achievements wherever honour was to be gained, have hitherto been almost excluded from this species of reward.—Times.

The Queen has appointed Mr. H. Halford Vaughan; MA., of the Inner Temple, to be the Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.

We called attention a fortnight since to an inconsiderate order of the Ad- miralty, giving permission to two officers of the Swedish Royal Navy to in- spect our dockyards, and to make drawings and notes of what they saw there. We are gratified to hear that this order has since been rescinded.— United Service Gazette.

We have authority for saying that the new Court under the important act introduced in the last session by Lord Campbell for trying appeals from the Circuits and Sessions has appointed Saturday next, [this day,] at two o'clock, for its first sitting; and that the Court will, in pursuance of the provisions of the statute, consist of the Chief Baron, and Justices Patteson, Cresswell, Erle, and Maule.—Times.

Lord Palmerston has just concluded a treaty of peace and alliance with the President of Liberia, who is now in London. The mission of the Pre- sident in Europe is for the purpose of forming treaties of peace with Great Britain and France, and the recognition of the independence of the new Republic of Liberia. The treaty with Great Britain is on the footing of the most favoured nations.

Colonel Abys, the chief War Commissioner of the Swiss Confederation, has presented to the Federal Directory a report upon the expenses oc- casioned by the war of the Sonderbund, which terminated about a year ago in the signald iscomfiture of what are called the Roman Catholic Can- tons. It appears that the expenses amount to the sum of 4,876,582 francs Swiss.

The receipts on the leading lines of railway still continue much higher than in the corresponding period of last year. For the week ending on Saturday the 28th October, the increased receipts on the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, as compared with the corresponding week of 1847, were nearly 8001.; on the London and North-Western, 6001.; on the Great Western, 1,0001.; on the London and South-Western, 1,2501.; on the London and Brighton, 8001.; on the Eastern Counties, 1,5001.; and on the Lancaster and Carlisle, 7501.

Mr. Hudson is carrying out a rigid system of economy on all his lines; en some making dismissals, and on others carrying out reductions to the extent of 10 per cent.

During the week, six hundred labourers have been discharged from that portion of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, which is in coarse of construction near Sheffield. Difficulty in getting in the calls, and of obtaining loans, is assigned as the cause of this reduction. The ex- tensive viaduct across the Wicker is to be proceeded with; and operations are commenced for the reerection of the twenty-two arches of the Bother viaduct, which recently fell.—Leeds Mercury.

The South-eastern Railway Company, who work the Greenwich line, have dismissed, from motives of economy, several of the employes who for many years have managed the traffic of the line. Boys in some instances supply their places; and the police, with one or two exceptions, are discon- tinued at the intermediate stations.

The Great Western have been assessed in the sum of 1,1001., instead of 5001. as previously, for that portion of the railway which passes through the town of Cheltenham; their total contribution to the poor-rate of which place is now 1,9001- per annum. A railway between Barcelona and Mataro was inaugurated on the 29th October, and opened to the public on the succeeding Sunday. The line is nearly eighteen miles long, runs most of the way along the sea-shore, and has seven stations; there is one tunnel, of 500 yards; at present but one line of rails is laid down. The work has been constructed under the di- rection of Mr. William Locke, a nephew of Mr. Joseph Locke, the chief engineer. The inauguration was performed with the ceremonies usual in Catholic countries: altars were erected at three stations, and bishops and clergy blessed the undertaking. The civil authorities were present in force. A train proceeded from Barcelona to Mataro; and there " Te Deum " was performed in the church, followed by an entertainment in a marquee. On the day of the public opening, three thousand persons travelled on the line.

Mr. Robert Thorburn and Mr. Augustus Leopold Egg have been elected Associates of the Royal Academy.

The Earl of Ellesmere has just given instructions to Mr. Barry to de- sign and construct a staircase to the picture-gallery at his new mansion, Bridgewater House, especially for the purpose of admitting the public to the Bridgewater collection, without any other restriction or condition than being decently attired.

The senior and the junior bar practising in the Chancery Courts are at variance on the question where the Chancery Courts shall sit. It has been the usage for the sittings of the Chancery Courts to be held at Westmin- ster during term and at Lincoln's Inn during vacation. This arrangement involves the alternate inconvenience of the juniors, whose chamber business is interrupted by migrations to Westminster, and that of the seniors, whose practice in the Parliamentary Courts is interfered with by the sittings at home in Lincoln's Inn; and by consequence, it involves a greatly increased cost to clients, in the process of litigation. Last summer, a petition signed by nearly the whole of the junior Chancery bar was presented to the Lord Chancellor, praying some new and more permanent arrangement of the sit- tings. The Lord Chancellor considered the petition, and, at the beginning of the present term, announced the following as an experimental regulation-

" That the Court should, during the present and the next term, and also the sittings after them, sit at Lincoln's Inn, provided that Parliament did not, as in all probability it would not, sit during that time; but that during the other two terms and their after sittings, which would be the time Parliament was sitting, the Court should be held at Westminster."

The proposal has created quite a ferment among the juniors, as it would deprive them of more than it would give in return—it would take fourteen weeks which they now have at Lincoln's Inn, and give but seven which it now yielded to Westminster. Bar meetings and conferences have been called to settle the point.

The Lord Chancellor has since intimated, that the arrangement he pro- posed will be experimental only for the present and Hilary terms, and the question as to the sittings after the following terms will be kept open for the present.

The iron pillars forming the colonnade of the Regent's Quadrant (270 in num- ber) were sold by auction on Tuesday, and are in course of removal. They were

originally put up at a cost of about 351. a piece, and sold for about 71. each. It was understood that the greater number were purchased for the Eastern Counties Railway Company.

Captain Hosken endured all the disastrous consequences of the imputed cul- pable navigation of the Great Britain rather than injure the property of his em- ployers by disclosing the true cause of the catastrophe—the derangement of the compasses through the material of the vessel; a cause said to be fully recognized by certain authorities.—Liverpool Albion.

Private Matthew Tooney, of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, has been tried by a Court-martial, at Plymouth, for having disobeyed Captain Fraser, and for at- tempting to strike that officer with his firelock and with his bayonet. The offences were committed in Hyde Park. Captain Fraser ordered the man to carry a spare musket; Tooney refused; Captain Fraser then ordered his arrest: Tooney aimed a blow at him with his gun, but the officer stepped aside, and the weapon struck a soldier; then Tooney charged with his bayonet; but Captan":" Fraser defended himself with his sword, and seized the offender. The case was fully proved; the accused only making matters worse by stupid efforts at cross- examination. Of course he was found guilty.

Recent advice; from Sydney tell of an atrocious murder and mutilation in New South Wales. The victim was an Englishman named Cox, who had property at Kangaroo Point, some distance up the country. He went one night to a tavern; there, he accused William Fife, the storekeeper and waiter, of picking his pocket while asleep; and a quarrel arose. Cox slept at the inn. Next morning he was missed; but Fife said that Cox had knocked him up during the night, and had left the place. Two days after, the lower part of the trunk and the legs of a body were found in the river, and near them the arms and upper portion of the trunk. Not far from the tavern a human head was found concealed in long grass. These mangled remains were those of Cox. Fife had stabbed him to the heart, in the tavern, and had then cut up the corpse; burning the clothes. Fife was tried, convicted, and hanged; he made a fall confession before his death.

The extensive weaving-factory of Mr. Robert Kerr, at Seedhills, Paisley, was utterly destroyed by fire on Monday morning. The flames broke out when the people were all away at breakfast; and, from the combustible nature of the weav- ing materials, in an hour nothing but the four walls remained. Though building and contents were insured for 8,0001., the loss will not be covered. No fewer than four hundred persons are thrown out of employment by the calamity.

Mr. James Watson, a cowkeeper at Limehouse, was found dead in his cow- yard on Wednesday week. An inquest was held over his body, on Saturday, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Found suffocated in some cows' manure." Evi- dence was given that the yard was in a pestilential state from the mass of acca- mulated ordure; and the Coroner undertook to report it to the Board of Health.

The Monmouthshire Merlin reports that the keeper of an inn at Pillgwenlly has lighted on a " golden goose ": while carving one, he found a gold ring, with a diamond set in it, embedded in the flesh on the bird's back.

A young horse out at grass, in a field at Pennington near Ulverston, was dis- covered worrying a sheep, on the 25th October. It seized the sheep and tossed it in the air a considerable height, stamped and kneeled upon it, and tore it with its teeth. Before the sheep could be rescued it was so mangled that it was found necessary to kill it immediately. The same horse is suspected of other murders and mutilations of sheep.

Twenty-two miles below Cincinnati, there is a field of maize covering six thousand acres; the crop of which is valued at 100,0001., the field producing 75,000 quarters! Two storms are reported in Ireland. At Dublin, on Friday sennight, there was a very fierce gale; and the shipping seems to have been in danger. On the preceding Monday, there was a terrific thunderstorm at Bryansford and its neigh- bourhood. The rain fell in torrents, and almost instantaneously gorged the mountain-streams. A boy perished in the Clanawhellan river. He was returning

from school, and had to cross the stream by means of a beam of timber; when mid-way, terrified by the boiling current beneath, he lost his equipoise, fell into the stream, and was swept away. Considerable damage was done by the light-

ning.

Upwards of 230 cases of cholera have occurred since yesterday week, and 136 of these have been fatal. The disease has broken out in Masse!burgh, Dal- keith, Lssswade, and Loanhead, small towns and villages within six miles of Edinburgh. It has been peculiarly virulent in Loanhead, which is an inland village, situated on an eminence, and naturally in a healthy position, but densely inhabi- ted by colliers, and ill drained. The increase of the figures is chiefly due to these eases in Scotland.

Results of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the Week ending on Saturday last—

Zymotle Diseases Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or 'variable seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses .

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration...

Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &e Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, dm.

Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, &c.

Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, &c

Malformations Premature Birth Atrophy 21 19 Age 33 84 Sudden le 12 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 19 39 — — Total (including unspecified causes) 1115 1154

The temperature of the thermometer ranged from 73.0° in the sun to 27.7° in the shade; the mean temperature by day being colder than the mean average temperature by 1.5°. The direction of the wind for the week was variable.

The accounts of the Bank of England for the week ending the 4th November exhibit, when compared with those of the preceding week, the following results-

BANSINO DEPARTMENT. Increase. Dec use.

Rest £27,654

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Public Deposits — £3,813 Other Deposits

125,797 Seven-day and other Bills 7,749 — Government Securities, including Dead-weight — 181,000 Other Securities — 83,523 Notes unissued

24,410 Actual Circulation — 35,905 Isom DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued 188,505 Bullion 134,411

This west Last week.

Total Bullion in both Departments 13,407.535 13,273,142 Actual Circulation 18,554,085 18,589,990

Number of Autumn Deaths. Average.

423 .... 270 44 62 168 184 108 127 42 38 125 222 69 87 6 12 12 14 11 a 2 10 23 23