162 BAOHE, FKANKLIN. 



of Count Kechberg, who, since 1859, had been 

 minister of foreign affairs. His resignation 

 was accepted by the Emperor on the 27th of 

 October, and he was succeeded by Count 

 Mensdorff-Pouilly. According to the pro- 

 gramme of the new minister, Austria is to 

 assume as much as possible a defensive policy. 

 The new session of the Keichsrath com- 

 menced on the 12th of November. It was 

 formally opened on the 14th by a speech, in 

 which the Emperor declared that a good under- 

 standing and friendly relations existed between 

 Austria and the other Great Powers, congratu- 

 lated his people upon the conclusion of war 

 with Denmark, urged legislation for the im- 

 provement of the finances and of railway com- 

 munication, and announced that he was ne- 

 gotiating respecting the politico-economical 

 unity of Germany. Hungary, Venetia, and 

 Croatia were again unrepresented in the Diet. 

 The Czech members of Bohemia, likewise, were 

 absent, and on the 5th of December sent in a 

 declaration to the effect that they resigned the 

 post to which their constituents had elected 

 them. Of the Polish members, only nine made 

 their appearance. The lower house of the 

 fteichsrath,' in reply to the speech from the 



BAPTISTS. 



throne, adopted an address to the Emperor, in 

 which they express a wish that the Croatian 

 and Hungarian Diets may be convened after 

 the close of the session ; that the Government, 

 cooperating with the German Confederation, 

 may assist the duchies of Schleswig and Hoi- 

 stem in fully obtaining their rights in the suc- 

 cession question ; that the Government would 

 oppose any tendency to separation adverse to 

 the interests of the German Confederation, 

 and endeavor to strengthen by federal reform 

 the bond between German States; that the 

 exceptional circumstances necessitating the 

 proclamation of a state of siege in Galicia 

 would shortly disappear; that a reduction 

 may be made in the military and naval ex- 

 penditure. It then declares that a law estab- 

 lishing ministerial responsibility is urgently 

 needed to complete the Austrian constitution. 



In October a band of a few hundred armed 

 Italians broke into Venetia, and made an at- 

 tempt to capture the town of Udine. The 

 attempt was easily suppressed by the Govern- 

 ment. The Government of Italy officially dis- 

 approved this attempt, and disarmed the in- 

 surgents, who were forced into the territory 

 of Lombardy. 



BACHE, FKANKLIK, M. D., an eminent 

 American physician, savant, and author, born in 

 Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1792, died in that city 

 March 19, 1864. He was the oldest great- 

 grandson of Benjamin Franklin. He was edu- 

 cated at the University of Pennsylvania, grad- 

 uating in 1810, and soon after commencing the 

 study of medicine, received his medical diplo- 

 ma from the same university in 1814. In 1813 

 he entered the army as assistant-surgeon, and 

 in 1814 was appointed surgeon. He remained 

 in the army till 1816, when he resigned and 

 commenced the practice of his profession in 

 Philadelphia. From 1824 to 1836 he was 

 physician to the Walnut Street prison; from 

 1826 to 1832, Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Franklin Institute; from 1829 to 1839, physi- 

 cian to the Eastern Penitentiary; from 1831 to 

 1841, Professor of Chemistry in the Philadel- 

 phia College of Pharmacy; and from 1841 to 

 his decease he was Professor of Chemistry in the 

 Jefferson Medical College. He was also for 

 some time President of the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society, and at the time of his death 

 President of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum cor- 

 poration. As an author he was perhaps best 

 known by his share in the preparation of the 

 successive editions of the United States Dis- 

 pensatory, the first of which was published in 

 1833, and the last a year or two since. He 

 ,was also one of the Publishing Committee of 

 the United States Pharmacopoeia, and made 

 many valuable additions to that work and the 



Dispensatory in relation to the Materia Medica. 

 His profound learning, urbane manners, and 

 amiable character won him a large measure of 

 public esteem. 



BAPTISTS. The "Baptist Almanac" for 

 1865 does not contain any later denominational 

 statistics than the almanac for 1864, accordirg 

 to which the Kegular Baptists numbered 1,039,- 

 400 in the United States, 15,285 in Nova Scotia, 

 8,392 in New Brunswick, 13,764 in Canada, and 

 36,500 in the "West India Islands ; total in North 

 America, 1,113,341. Anti-Mission Baptists, 

 63,000; Free-Will Baptists, 57,007; Six-Prin- 

 ciple Baptists, 3,000 ; Seventh-Day Baptists, 

 6,686; Church of God Winebrennarians, 14,- 

 000; Disciples (Campbellites), 300,000; Tun- 

 kers, 20,000." 



The annual meeting of the General Baptist 

 Benevolent Associations was held, in 1864, in 

 Philadelphia. The following is a brief sum- 

 mary of the operations of the societies and their 

 present condition : The receipts of the Amer- 

 ican Baptist Missionary Union, which held its 

 50th annual meeting from May 24th to" May 

 26th, were $135,525.25 ; payments, $135,- 

 014.63 ; balance in treasury, April 1st, 1864, 

 $510.64. The number of missions in connection 

 with the Union, is 19. In the Asiatic Missions 

 there are 15 stations and about 400 out-sta- 

 tions. In the French and German Missions 

 not far from 1,100 stations and out-stations. 

 The number of missionaries, including those in 

 this country, and exclusive of those in Europe, 



