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hibited features of especial interest. Dr. 

 Wenger, after more than twenty years' labor, 

 had completed the Sanscrit Bible, in five vol- 

 umes. A New Testament in Bengalee had 

 been finished, and the revision of the Old Tes- 

 tament in that language was far advanced. 

 Missionary conferences had been held by the 

 missionaries in Calcutta and Agra, besides the 

 general conference of missionaries of all de- 

 nominations, which was held at Allahabad. 

 An increase of the Christian community in 

 India was mentioned. Twenty-four members 

 had been added to the churches in Ceylon, 

 and the number of schools had increased 

 from 24 to 31. The whole number of Bap- 

 ti-tt churches in Jamaica was given at 107, 

 and of members, communicants, 23,307. Sixty- 

 two members had been added to the churches 

 in Norway. The other European missions 

 of the Society are in Brittany and at Rome. 



VII. GENERAL BAPTISTS OF ENGLAND. The 

 one hundred and fourth annual meeting of 

 the General Baptist Atociation. (New Connec- 

 tion) of Enyland was held at Burnley, Lanca- 

 shire, June 23d to 26th. Of the 162 churches 

 connected with the Association, 139 returned 

 21,231 members, 1,160 baptisms, and a net in- 

 crease in membership of 316. Twelve new 

 chapels had been built, and eight schools es- 

 tablished. The Association passed resolutions 

 in favor of the disestablishment of the Church 

 of England, approving tlie principle of inter- 

 national arbitration, asking that the publio- 

 houses be entirely closed on the Sabbath, con- 

 demning the Educational Act, and the course 

 of the Government on that subject, and ex- 

 pressing preference for non-sectarian educa- 

 tion. 



The New Connection of General Baptists 

 separated from the old body of General Bap- 

 in 1770. They differ from them in that 

 they hold views classed as " Evangelical," on 

 certain articles of faith, in which the old body 

 inclined to Arian and Socinian views. The 

 old body of General Baptists is still in exist- 

 ence ; but it has only a few chnrch.es, some of 

 which, however, are liberally endowed. 



BARING, THOMAS, M.P., an English banker 

 and member of Parliament, born in 1800; died 

 in London, November 19, 1873. He wns the 

 second of the brothers who have made the 

 house of Baring Brothers so famous in finance, 

 Lord Northcote (Sir Francis Baring), who died 

 September 6, 1866, being the eldest. He was 

 educated at Winchester School, and early en- 

 gaged in mercantile and banking pursuits, in 

 i' >rmection with his father and brothers. He 

 was a member of Parliament from Great Yar- 

 mouth from 1835 to 1837; in 1843 was de- 

 feated by 156 votes in a canvass for the rep- 

 resentation of the city of London, and in 

 I s U was elected from the borough of Ilunt- 

 in_"lon, which he continued to represent until 

 his death. In politics he was a Conservative, 

 and it is said was offered by Earl Derby in 

 1852, and again in 1858, the chancellorship of 



the Exchequer, but declined the appointment. 

 He was chairman of Lloyd's, the great cor- 

 poration of marine underwriters, from 1830 to 

 1868, when he resigned. He was one of the 

 Commissioners of the International Exhibition 

 of 1862, and Deputy-Lieutenant of London 

 until his death. Mr. Baring was held in high 

 esteem by all who knew him, for his probity, 

 his high sense of honor, and his wise and saga- 

 cious judgment in all financial questions. 



BARRINGER, DANIEL MOUEAIT, an Ameri- 

 can political leader and diplomatist, born in 

 Cabarras County, N. C., in 1807; died at 

 Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, Va., Sep- 

 tember 1, 1873. He graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina in 1826, studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. He 

 was elected the same year a member of the 

 State Legislature, in which position he con- 

 tinued for a number of years. He was a mem- 

 ber of the convention which met in 1835 to 

 amend the State constitution, and also repre- 

 sented his State in Congress from 1843 to 1849. 

 In the latter year he was appointed minister 

 to Spain by President Taylor. He was con- 

 tinned in that mission by President Fillmore, 

 but resigned after serving four years. He then 

 traveled extensively in Europe, and on his re- 

 turn home was elected to the State Legisla- 

 ture. In 1855 he declined a reelection, retired 

 to private life, and devoted himself to literary 

 studies and pursuits. Mr. Barringer was 

 elected a delegate to the Peace Congress of 

 1861, and also to the Philadelphia National 

 Union Convention in 1866. 



BARSTOW, Rev. ZEDEKIAH SMITH, D. D., 

 a Congregational ist clergyman and educator, 

 born in Canterbury, Conn., October 4, 1790; 

 died in Keene, N. H., March 1, 1873. He was 

 of Revolutionary stock, his father having been 

 one of the soldiers of Gates's army, who was 

 a witness of Burgoyne's surrender. His early 

 years were passed upon his father's farm, but 

 his zenl for learning impelled him to study, 

 and at the age of nineteen he had fitted him- 

 self for college so thoroughly as to enter Yale 

 College in an advanced standing. He grad- 

 uated with high honors in 1813, studied theol- 

 ogy under President Dwight, and was principal 

 of Hopkins's Grammar School in New Haven 

 from 1813 to 1816, when he was chosen tutor 

 and college chaplain of Hamilton College, Clin- 

 ton, N. Y., where he remained two years and 

 was offered a professorship, but declined it. 

 In March, 1818, he preached at Keene, N. H., 

 and in July of that year wns ordained pastor 

 of that church, in which office he remained till 

 his death, fifty-five years later. In every de- 

 partment of intellectual and Christian activity 

 Dr. Barstow was during those fifty-five years 

 one of the foremost men in the State. Ho con- 

 tinned to teach the classics after his settlement 

 at Keeno, and the late Chief-Justice Chase was 

 one of his pupils. He was for thirty-seven years 

 a trustee of Dartmouth College, and always ac- 

 tive in its councils ; secretary for many years 



