ments $189,241.35. Missions reported the preceding year, 20. Two were transferred to the Home Mission Society, and one received from the Publication Society, making present number, 19. In the Asiatic missions are 15 stations where American missionaries reside, and about 400 out-stations; in the European missions, including France, Germany, and Sweden, at the end of 1864, there were reported not far from 1,300 stations and out-stations, and the number is constantly increasing. American missionaries connected with the Asiatic missions, including those at present in this country, in all 83: males, 40; females, 43. Native preachers and assistants, not far from 500; of whom 50 are ordained. In Europe, preachers and assistants, not far from 200. Whole number baptized in 1864, in Europe, 1,911; in Asia, 761; total, 2,672. Members at the close of 1864, not far from 36,000, leaving out about half of the Toungoo churches previously reckoned, and the Rangoon Sgau Karen Association, from which no return had been received. The President of the Society is IIon. Ira Harris, New York. On motion of the committee on finance, it was resolved to raise $200,000 to meet the expenses of the coming year. This was rendered necessary on the assumption by the Union of the Swedish mission. The report of the committee on European missions recommended that the full amount of $8,000 be appropriated for the purpose of building and maintaining chapels in Sweden, Germany, and France. The report was adopted.

2. American Baptist_Publication Society (established in 1824). Total receipts for the year, $173,321.47; expenditures, $169,678.79; balance in treasury, $3,642.68. There have been fifty-two new publications issued during the year. Including the annual report and Almanac, the aggregate number of copies of new publications issued during the year is 69,175. The new editions of former publications are as follows: of books, 227,000 copies; of tracts, 223,000. The total issues for the year have been, of books, tracts, etc., 519,175 copies, equal to 38,764,017 18mo pages; Young Reaper, 1,624,000 copies; National Baptist, 264,950 copies; making a total of 2,408,125 copies. This exceeds the issues of last year by 20,939,167 pages. The Society has printed, of books, tracts, and periodicals, since its organization, 23,112,259 copies, containing matter equal to 651,976,754 pages in 18mo. Fortyeight colporteurs have been in commission during the year.

3. American Baptist Home Mission Society (established in 1832).-Receipts for the year, $137,810.16; expenditures, $135,822.00; balance in treasury, $1,988.40. Two hundred and sixty-five missionaries and sixty-two assistants have been under appointments since the last anniversary. One hundred and eighty-two of this number were new appointments. They have labored in thirty-seven States and Territories. There has been received for the freed

men's fund the sum of $21,386.21, and $40,000 appropriated for the benefit of the class for which the fund is intended. Twenty-five white and ten colored, with sixty-two assistant missionaries, are laboring among the freedmen under the direction of the Society. The Society adopted a resolution instructing the Executive Board to continue their work among the freedmen using every facility in their power, and to give such religious instruction to colored preachers as might be deemed consistent with discretion.

4. American and Foreign Bible Society.The receipts of the treasury from all sources, including small balance on hand at the commencement of the year, amount to $40,896.40. Books printed from their own stereotype plates, by direct purchase, and by donations to the Society from other sources, full and parts of Scriptures, 21,286. Books issued from the depository, 26,379; gratuitously, for the army, navy, for freedmen, to poor churches, Sunday-schools, State prisons, etc., 22,165 copies. The committee to whom was referred the question of union with the American Baptist Publication Society, reported that they found difficulties in the way, and referred the subject back to the Board, with a recommendation for a general conference. After considerable discussion, the subject was indefinitely postponed. The cominittee of five, to whom was referred the question of uniting with the Bible Union, reported that it was both desirable and practicable, and such a union should take place; but on taking a vote, the proposed resolution in favor of a union of the two societies was defeated.

5. American Baptist Free Mission Society (established in 1843).-The twenty-second anniversary of this Society was held at Chicago, Ill., May 30, 31, 1866. Receipts for the year, $26,042.30; expenditures, $25,212.21; balance, $831.09. The Board has flourishing missions in Japan, Rangoon, and Bassein, Burmah. Number of laborers among the freedmen in the Southern States, twenty-nine.

6. The American Baptist Historical Society (established in 1853), had added during the last year 620 volumes; cash receipts, $399.45. The library now comprises 2,590 volumes, and 11,000 pamphlets, besides 100 volumes of portraits, views of Baptist edifices, and historical manuscripts.

7. The French Regular Baptist Missionary Society (established in 1863) labors among the French in Canada and the United States, by means of pastors, evangelists, the press, and the training of young men for the missionary work, and it now sustains two missionaries.

The Southern Baptist Convention met in May, at Russellville, Ky. It was the general opinion of this body that there should be no fasion between the societies of the Northern and the Southern Baptists; but that the Foreign and the Domestic Mission Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention should continue their existence as heretofore. At the beginning of the war the Foreign Board had about thirty-five mis

sionaries in the field. This number was greatly reduced in consequence of the difficulty of transmitting funds during the war, but the work was not abandoned, and it was resolved by the convention to continue it with new zeal. The Domestic Mission Board, located in Marion, Ala., kept in the field through the war more than one hundred missionaries, and now they propose, with new vigor, to prosecute their work.

The colored Baptist churches in the Southern States organized a number of separate associations, which put themselves in communication with the Northern societies. Colored churches of nearly all the States were represented at the annual meeting of the "American Baptist (African) Missionary Convention," which in August met in Richmond. The convention thanked the Northern societies for the aid given them, and earnestly asked the continuance of their cooperation in the future.

A convention of the Baptists and "Disciples" (Campbellites) of Virginia met at Richmond, on April 24th, and continued in session until the 27th, for the purpose of discussing the feasibility of a union. Its meetings were strictly private. At the close of the convention it was resolved, at least for the present, not to publish its minutes; but Dr. W. F. Broaddus and Elder J. W. Goss were requested to prepare and publish, over their own signatures, a brief address to the Baptists and Disciples of Virginia, setting forth the results of the conference. Most of the Baptist papers were decidedly opposed to the holding of the conference, and after the publication of the address by the committee, the opinion generally prevailed that no result could for the present be expected.

II. FREE-WILL BAPTISTS.-This denomination has a Biblical school at New Hampton, N. H.; colleges at Hillsdale, Mich., Lewston, Maine ("Bates College "), and Wasioga, Minnesota ("Northwestern College"). The "Free-will Baptist Printing Establishment," at Dover, N. H., publishes a Quarterly Review, the Morning Star (weekly), and the Myrtle (Sabbath-school paper, semi-monthly). In Nova Scotia, where the Free-will Baptists have been for many years divided into two branches, the two bodies, namely, the "Free Christian Baptist General Conference," and the "Free-will Baptist Quarterly Meeting," met on November 29th, at Barrington in convention, for the purpose of consolidation, and successfully accomplished their object. The united body will be called the "Free-will Baptist Conference of Nova Scotia."

According to the Free- Will Baptist Register for 1867 (Dover, N. H.), the statistics of this denomination were, in 1866, as shown in the following table. It will be seen there was an increase over the preceding year of twelve churches, fourteen licentiates, and two thonsand one hundred and eighty-two communicants:

III. SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS.-This body numbers 7,014 members, 33 pastors, and 68 churches. By the minutes of the General Conference, held in September, at Alfred, N. Y., it appears that the churches are most numerous in New York and Wisconsin. The report of the Missionary Society shows contributions to the amount of $2,302.42 during the past year, and an accumulating fund amounting to $7,268.74 in the treasury. The missionary work is chiefly carried on in our own country, though the report contains a reference to foreign missionary work prosecuted with some degree of success in China, at Shanghai, and neighboring stations. This denomination maintains also a Sabbath Tract Society, and an Educational Society, under whose care the university at Alfred, in New York, is maintained.

IV. TUNKERS (German Baptists). This denomination, which has 200 churches, 150 ministers, and 20,000 members, held its annual meeting from May 18th to May 24th, near Waynesboro, Pa. The meeting was composed of delegates from all their churches scattered throughout the United States. A correspondent in the German Reformed Messenger says of the meeting: "The business transactions consisted in rendering decisions on the practical questions that the times and circumstances constrained them to consider. One

question was, whether it was right to adopt the habit of voting, in order to arrive at the sense of the majority, and thus come to a decision on any subject. The question was answered in the negative, inasmuch as voting was a custom that belongs to the world. The manner in which they come to decisions is something like this: A committee of fifteen is appointed, to whom all questions must be previously handed. This committee then refers each question to a sub-committee, which sub-committee frames a decision to the particular question referred to them; being approved by the committee, both question and answer are then presented to the assembly through the president thereof, who at the same time asks their opinion. Their approval is manifested by nodding, their disapproval by shaking the head. When any signs of disapproval are manifested, discussion ensues; but yet the answer previously given stands, and the president pronounces it passed. Some of the questions thus decided at this meeting are the following: 'Shall we receive colored persons into the church, and shall we salute them with the holy kiss?' It was decided that they should be received into the church, but that all the members were to be left to their own choice and taste in regard to saluting their colored brethren, with the understanding, however, that all who refuse to do so were to be regarded as weak. One of their members out West leased a piece of ground to an agricultural society for a number of years. Was it right for him to do so? The answer was, 'No! as he thereby helps to foster the spirit of pride.""

V. Other denominations that practise immersion are the "Anti-Mission Baptists," "SixPrinciples Baptists" (18 churches, 16 ministers, 3,000 members); "Disciples" (1,500 churches, 1,000 ministers, 30,000 members); Church of God" (Winnebrennarians). (See CHURCH OF GOD.)

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VI. GREAT BRITAIN.-In Great Britain, the annual session of the Baptist Union was held on Monday, April 23d. The report stated that the labors of the Union had been proceeded with during the past year with encouraging, if not entire, satisfaction. By slow degrees a tolerably exact account of the members of the Baptist churches was obtained. Last year 1,893 churches reported 198,295 members in communion. This year 2,023 churches had made returns, and reported in all 209,773 members, being an excess over last year of 11,478. This was not to be considered as so much clear gain, as 130 churches had now reported for the first time; and as these 130 churches returned a membership of 6,505, the actual increase, as near as it could be reached, was 4,973, a number under the mark, as 400 churches, but mostly very small ones, still remain altogether unreported. Between October, 1864, and October, 1865, fiftysix new chapels were erected, supplying sittings for about 25,000 persons, at an aggregate cost of £88,787, making a total expenditure of

The Baptist mission in Sweden, which had hitherto been under the care of the American Baptist Publication Society, was, on March 1, 1866, transferred to the American Baptist Missionary Union. The churches in Sweden continue to make rapid progress, and at the close of the year 1865 there were 176 churches, with 6,606 communicants in nine associations.

VIII. ASIA. In the Asiatic divisions of the American Baptist Missionary Union, there were, in 1865, fifteen stations where American missionaries reside, and about 400 out-stations. Of American missionaries connected with the Asiatic missions, there were 84: 41 males and 43 females. Of native preachers and assistants in these missions there were not far from 500, fifty of them being ordained ministers.

BAVARIA, a kingdom in South Germany. King Ludwig II., born August 25, 1845, succeeded his father, Maximilian II., on March 10, 1864. At the outbreak of the German-Italian war, Bavaria had an area of 28,435 square miles and 4,774,464 inhabitants. By the treaty of peace, concluded with Prussia, Bavaria ceded to Prussia 211 square miles and 32,470 inhabitants. The capital, Munich, had, in 1864, 167,054 inhabitants. The army, in time of peace, numbers 73,158 men; in time of war, 96,515; the reserve consists of 124,721 men. In the complications arising between Austria and Prussia early in 1866, the Bavarian Government endeavored to bring about a reconciliation between the two powers. When these endeavors failed, Bavaria, with most of the middle states, took side with Austria. It began to arin on April 2d, and on June 14th, plenipotentiaries of Bavaria and Austria signed the convention of Olmutz, regulating the force and the movement of the Bavarian troops in the impending war, the chief command of the contingents of South Germany, and the re

lations of Austria and Bavaria to each other. (See GERMAN-ITALIAN WAR.) Bavaria concluded peace with Prussia on August 22d. Bavaria is one of the states of Germany not included in the North-German Confederation, but were left at liberty to form a South-German Confederation. BEAUMONT, DE LA BONNIÈRE, GusTAVE AUGUSTE DE, a French publicist, born February 6, 1802, in the Department of Sarthe; died in Paris, February 22, 1866. He was educated for the law, and was made procuratorsubstitute in the superior tribunal of the Seine, but lost this office after the July revolution. In 1831 he was commissioned, with Alexis de Tocqueville, to visit the United States, in order to study the penitentiary system established here; and the result of their investigations was a report, which has become a standard work on the subject, Du Système Pénitentiaire aux Etats-Unis. Upon the return of M. Beaumont to Paris, he received a place under Government, but was soon deposed, as he refused to conduct the prosecution in the scandalous process against the Baroness de Feuchères. In 1840 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Department of Sarthe, and distinguished himself as a member of the so-called dynastic opposition, favoring electoral reform in 1847. Subsequently he was appointed by General Cavaignac ambassador to England. After the Revolution of 1848 he was returned as a member of the Legislative Assembly, and here maintained the character of a sincere republican. In 1851 he was arrested and imprisoned for some time in the fortress of Mont Valérien, and on regaining his liberty, retired to his patrimonial estate, where he afterward resided. Besides his important work above mentioned, he was the author of Marie, ou l'Esclavage aux Etats-Unis (2 vols., 1835), and L'Irlande, Sociale, Politique, et Réligieuse (2 vols., 1839). M. de Beaumont was a grandson of General Lafayette.

BECK, CHARLES, Ph. D., LL. D., formerly professor of the Latin language and literature in Harvard University, born at Heidelberg, Baden, Germany, August 19, 1798; died at Cambridge, Mass., March 19, 1866. His father, a merchant of Heidelberg, died while the subject of this sketch was still young, and his mother was subsequently married to Dr. De Wette, the eminent theologian, then professor in the University of Heidelberg, and afterward in the University of Berlin. Young Beck was educated at the latter institution, where he became an accomplished classical scholar, and entering upon the study of theology, was ordained in his native city, July, 1822, and the following year received the degree of doctor of philosophy and master of arts from the University of Tübingen. After completing his theological studies he was employed for some time as tutor at the University of Basle, Switzerland; but his republican sentiments, which in his own country had subjected him to false accusations of conspiracy against its monarchical institutions, rendering his liberty even here in danger, he was com

pelled to seek refuge in the United States, and accordingly arrived in New York in December, 1824. Soon after he became connected, as teacher, with the Round Hill School at Northampton, Mass., until in 1830, he, in connection with two other able teachers, established a school at Phillipstown, on the Hudson, opposite West Point. In 1832 Prof. Beck was elected to the chair of Latin language and literature at Cambridge-an office which he held with entire acceptance for eighteen years-discharging its duties with unvarying fidelity, and a zeal and dignity which won the love and respect of all with whom he came in contact. Upon his retirement from the professorship he devoted himself to literary pursuits and classical studies, some of the fruits of which appeared in a work of great research, published three years since, entitled "The Manuscripts of the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, described and collated." In 1843 Dr. Beck was chosen a member of the American Oriental Society; in 1845 of the American Academy of Sciences, and in 1865 received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard University. He was also for two years a Representative of Cambridge in the State Legislature, and did good service in other offices of a more private character in the town and neighborhood. He was a man of large views and high public spirit, and though, more than most men, delighting in the leisure for literary pursuits, he was ready for any sacrifice which might accrue to the benefit of the city, State, or Republic he had adopted as his own. He was specially interested in the charities created by the war, the Soldiers' Fund, the Sanitary Commission, and the agencies for the care and education of the Freedmen, in whom he felt not only the common interest of humanity, but that of an American patriot.

BELGIUM, a kingdom in Europe. King Leopold II., born April 9, 1835, succeeded his father, Leopold I., on December 10, 1865. Heir apparent, Prince Leopold, born February 18, 1858. Area, 11,313 English square miles; population, according to census of 1864, 4,940,570.

272 men.

The budget of 1866 (which has been voted by the Chambers) fixes the receipts at 164,043,290 francs, and the expenditures at 158,579,256 francs. Public debt on May 1, 1866, 676,749,514 francs. The Belgian army, according to the latest statement, consisted of 86,The imports in 1864, amounted to 688,878,000 francs; the exportations to 596,893,000 francs. The movement of shipping during 1863 was as follows: Arrivals, 4,130 vessels, with 794,596 tons, of which there were 863 Belgian vessels, with 87,358 tons; clearances, 4,116 vessels, with 779,223 tons. The merchant navy, on December 31, 1864, consisted of 107 vessels, together of 34,977 tons.

In March an Electoral Reform Bill was adopted by both Houses of the Legislature, which augments the number of representatives by eight, namely, two for Brussels, and one each for Antwerp, Louvain, Charleroy, Phillippeville,

Liege, and Alost; and the number of senators by four, namely, one each for Brussels, Luxem bourg, Mons, and Ghent. The state elections held in June, resulted favorably to the Liberal party, increasing the ministerial majority in the Senate, which was previously eight, to twelve, and in the House of Representatives, where it was before the elections twelve, to eighteen. The new Chambers were opened on November 13th, by the king in person. The king announced that Belgium's relations with foreign powers were of a most friendly character, and said: "In the midst of the great events which have disturbed a great part of Europe, Belgium has remained calm and confident, deeply impressed with the rights and duties of neutrality. This neutrality she will continue to preserve in the future as she has done in the past, with sincerity, loyalty, and strength." The king then announced that sev eral bills would be laid before the Chambers in reference to the abolition of imprisonment for debt, the amendment of the laws on detention of prisoners whilst under accusation, the extradition laws, the removal of the restrictions on the gold and silver manufacture of articles. The king also announced the conclusion of a treaty of amity with Japan. In reference to the recent rifle meeting at Brussels, he said: "The Tir National has furnished the Belgian militia with an opportunity of fraternizing with the militia of neighboring countries. Belgium will be happy to see renewed on her soil those peaceful contests, in which are engendered relations of mutual friendship and esteem, which the future can but extend and fortify." The king concluded his speech as follows: "To ac complish the tasks of Government I need the loyal concurrence of the Chambers. May all

hearts at the commencement of this new reign remain united in love of our country and its institutions!"

On February 25th the Count of Flanders, brother of the king, received from the Legis lature of Roumania (the Danubian Principalities) an offer of the crown of that country. The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs on the same day officially announced to all the Belgian legations and the consulate of Bucharest that the prince definitively refused this offer. In the latter months of the year, a difficulty arose with Holland, with regard to the question of the Scheldt dues. M. Rogier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated in the Senate, on December 22d, that if Holland refused to recog nize the rights of Belgium, the Government would refer the question to the guaranteeing powers.

BLUNT, EDMUND, an eminent hydrographer, assistant surveyor of the U. S. Coast Survey; born in Newburyport, Mass., November, 1799; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 2, 1866. He was a son of Edmund M. Blunt, author of the "American Coast Pilot." In early life he manifested a decided taste for practical mathematics, and, when scarcely seventeen, made the first ac