BAVARIA. 



115,271 in tliis direction alone. Besides, 25 

 new churches hud been originated during the 

 JMT. 



Tlit> aiiMiiii] meeting of the Baptist Missionary 



Soi'icty was lii-ld in London, on April 'Jiitli. 



Tip- annual report stated that the receipts of 



the vear had boon 27,0 1(5, and the expendi- 



80,113. 



V ! I . NT OF EUROPE. The statistics 



of the l!apti>t churches on the Continent of 

 Europe-, in connection with the -American Bap- 

 tist Foreign Mission Society, were, In 1865, as 

 follows: 



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 Mis- 

 sionary Union. The churches in Sweden con- 

 tinue to make rapid progress, and at the close 

 of the year 1865 there were 176 churches, with 

 6,606 communicants in nine associations. 



VIIF. ASIA. In the Asiatic divisions of the 

 American Baptist Missionary Union, there were, 

 in 1865, fifteen stations where American mis- 

 sionaries reside, and about 400 out-stations. Of 

 American missionaries connected with the Asi- 

 atic 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, suc- 

 ceeded 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 inhabit- 

 ants. The capital, Munich, had, in 1864, 167,- 

 064 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 Govern- 

 ment endeavored to bring about a reconciliation 

 between the two powers. "When these endeav- 

 ors failed, Bavaria, with most of the middle 

 states, took side with Austria. It began to 

 arm on April 2d, and on Juno 14th, plenipo- 

 tentiaries 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- 



BECK, CHARLES. 59 



lations of Austria and Bavaria to each other. 

 (See GERMAN-ITALIAN WAH.) Bavaria con< 

 peace with Prussia on August 22d. Bavaria i 

 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 BONNIERE, Gus- 

 TAVK AUQCSTE DB, a French publicist, born 

 February 6, 1802, in the Department of Sarthe ; 

 died in Paris, February 22, 1866. He was edu- 

 cated for the law, and was made procurator- 

 substitute in the superior tribunal of the Seine, 

 but lost this office after the July revolution. 

 In 1831 ho was commissioned, with Alexis de 

 Tocqueville, to visit the United States, in order 

 to study the penitentiary system established 

 here ; and the result of then 1 investigations was a 

 report, which has become a standard work on 

 the subject, Du Systeme Penitentiaire aux 

 jZtats- Unit. Upon the return of M. Beaumont 

 to Paris, he received a place under Government, 

 but was soon deposed, as ho refused to conduct 

 the prosecution in the scandalous process against 

 the Baroness de Feuchres. In 1840 he was 

 elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the De- 

 partment of Sarthe, and distinguished himself 

 as a member of the so-called dynastic opposi- 

 tion, favoring electoral reform in 1847. Sub- 

 sequently he was appointed by General Cavaig- 

 nac ambassador to England. After the Revo- 

 lution 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 Val6rien, and on regain- 

 ing his liberty, retired to his patrimonial estate, 

 where he afterward resided. Besides his impor- 

 tant work above mentioned, he was the author 

 of Marie, ou V Esclatage aux tat- Unit (2 vols., 

 1835), and L'lrlande, Sociale, Politique, et Be- 

 ligieuse (2 vols., 1839). M. de Beaumont was a 

 grandson of General Lafayette. 



BECK, CHARLES, Ph. D., LL. D., formerly pro- 

 fessor of the Latin language and literature in 

 Harvard University, horn 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 sub- 

 sequently 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 accom- 

 plished classical scholar, and entering upon the 

 study of theology, was ordained in his native 

 city, July, 1822, and the following year re- 

 ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy and 

 master of arts from the University of Tubingen. 

 Alter completing his theological studies he was 

 employed for some time as tutor at the Univer- . 

 sity of Basle, Switzerland ; but his republican 

 sentiments, which in his own country had sub- 

 jected him to false accusations of conspiracy 

 against its monarchical institutions, rendering 

 his liberty even hero in danger, he was com 



