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ers of the explorer had to be got out of the 

 country. An offer of 15,000 had been made 

 by Mr. Arthrington, of Leeds, to the society, in 

 conjunction with two other missionary socie- 

 ties, for tlie purpose of carrying the Gospel to 

 the tribes on the banks of the Amazon and its 

 tributaries ; but its acceptance would have in- 

 volved heavy and permanent additional expen- 

 diture, and it had, therefore, been declined. 



The iucome of the Baptist Zenana Mission 

 in India had been 6,586. A deficit of 288 

 was returned. 



The Bible Translation Society had pub- 

 lished, or assisted to publish, new versions of 

 the Bible or parts of the Bible translated by 

 Baptist missionaries in fourteen languages of 

 India, China, Japan, Ceylon, and West Africa. 

 Its receipts for the past year had been 2,817. 

 The chief items reported in the expenditure 

 were grants of 1,600 to the Baptist Mission- 

 ary Society for translations, 300 to the " Mis- 

 sion Press " at Calcutta, and 250 to colport- 

 eurs in India. 



Baptist Union of Wales. The statistics of 

 the Baptist Union of Wales, reported at its 

 meeting in August (held in Cardigan), showed 

 that the number of churches nnd mission-sta- 

 tions had increased from 663 in 1872 to 797, 

 and the Sunday pupils from 61,167 to 100,- 

 330. Five thousand four hundred and forty- 

 eight persons had been baptized during the 

 year. Resolutions were passed concerning 

 Welsh "legislative needs" (of which disestab- 

 lishment was declared to be one), condemning 

 the recommendations of the Royal Commission 

 on Education, and approving the society for 

 the utilization of the Welsh language. 



VI. General Baptist Association. The one hun- 

 dred and nineteenth meeting of the General 

 Baptist Association of the New Connection 

 was held in Derby in April. The Rev. W. H. 

 Tetley presided. The summary of the statis- 

 tics of membership showed that the total num- 

 ber of additions by baptism during the year 

 had been 2,236, and the net gain of members 

 113. The report of the building fund showed 

 that its capital amounted to 6,332 and its 

 receipts for the year had been 1,399, while 

 loans had been made to the amount of 850. 

 Since the fund was instituted more than 18,- 

 000 had been granted in loans to the churches. 

 The receipts for foreign missions were 8,107. 

 The debt of the fund (800) was reduced by 

 700. Action was taken in favor of an Asso- 

 ciation book fund. 



BAZAINE, FRANCOIS ACHILLE, French general, 

 born in Versailles, Feb. 13, 1811 ; died in Mad- 

 rid, Spain, Sept. 23, 1888. He was the son 

 of a French officer, and after leaving the Ecole 

 Polytechnique he joined the Foreign Legion in 

 1831, and served five years in Africa, rising to 

 the grade of first lieutenant, and winning the 

 cross of the Legion of Honor on the field of 

 battle. He went to Spain in 1837, and fought 

 in two hard campaigns against the Carlists, 

 returning to Algeria as captain in 1839. He 



saw much fighting during the next nine years, 

 and when the Foreign Legion, organized as a 

 brigade of infantry, was sent to the East in 

 1854, he was appointed to the command. He 

 greatly distinguished himself before Sebastopol, 

 and after its capture was named military gov- 

 ernor of the place, and promoted to be general 







FRANCOIS ACHILLE BAZAINE. 



of division. In the Italian campaign of 1859, 

 he commanded a division in the attack on 

 Melegn.'ino, where he was wounded, and in 

 the battle of Solferino he took a conspicuous 

 part. He was given a high command in the 

 French expedition against Mexico, distin- 

 guished himself by brilliant and energetic tac- 

 tics, and on the recall of Marshal Forey in 1863 

 succeeded as commander-in-chief. He received 

 the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, hav- 

 ing been made a commander in 1856, and in 

 September, 1864, he was promoted Marshal of 

 Fnmce. His vigorous aggressive strategy drove 

 President Juarez into a corner of the country. 

 The fortress of Oajaca surrendered in Febru- 

 ary, 1865, the garrison of 7,000 men laying 

 down their arms. He also organized a bar- 

 barous but effective system of guerilla war- 

 fare. Bazaine married a wealthy Mexican 

 lady, and soon afterward misunderstandings 

 arose between him and the Emperor Maxi- 

 milian, who suspected the French general of 

 lukewarmness in his cause, when fortune be- 

 gan to turn in favor of Juarez, owing, as Ba- 

 zaine alleged, to the obstinate resistance of the 

 Mexicans and the policy of the United States. 

 Napoleon sent orders for the ultimate with- 

 drawal of the French troops, and when Bazaine 

 was suspected of a design to make himself em- 

 peror instead of Maximilian, he dispatched 

 Gen. Castelnau to arrange the evacuation. 



