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BAUER, CLARA. 



Home or Highland Mission of Scotland were 

 held at Edinburgh, beginning October 25th. 

 Three new churches, at Berwick, Dumbarton, 

 and St. Fergus, Aberdeenshire, were received 

 into the Union. The statistics for the year 

 showed that there were connected with the 

 Union 73 churches, 64 ministers (an increase 

 in the year of fourteen ministers), 34 Bible- 

 classes with 1,470 students, 62 Sunday-schools 

 with 5,390 scholars and 690 teachers, 210 

 preaching-stations, and 7,361 members. Eight 

 hundred and thirty-seven persons had been 

 added to the communion during the year. 



The Baptist Home Missionary Society for 

 Scotland, chiefly for the Highlands and Islands, 

 according to its report for 1875, employed 

 nearly thirty agents, who occupied about 

 150 stations in the Shetland and Orkney Isl- 

 ands, the islands of the west coast, the north- 

 ern and western Highlands, and one or two 

 Lowland counties. 



The annual meeting of the New Connection 

 of General Baptists was held in Derby, be- 

 ginning June 19th. The Rev. Dr. Buckley, of 

 Orissa, India, was chosen president. The re- 

 port of the secretary showed the following facts 

 respecting the condition of the connection: 

 Number of members in the home churches, 

 23,408; total number of members at home and 

 in Orissa, 24,262 ; number of baptisms during 

 the year by the home churches, 1,535 ; num- 

 ber of baptisms by the mission churches, 63. 

 Six new churches were applying for admission, 

 and when these were received, there would be 

 170 independent churches in the association. 

 The condition of the denomination was repre- 

 sented as sound in doctrine and practice. A 

 resolution was adopted against Lord Sanders's 

 educational bill, which gave as reasons for op- 

 posing that measure, that it gives undue advan- 

 tage to national schools (so called) ; that it tends 

 to perpetuate denominational education ; and 

 that any measure which fails to provide for 

 the universal establishment of board schools, 

 while enforcing compulsory attendance either 

 direct or indirect, inflicts an injustice upon all 

 nonconformists. 



VI. BAPTISTS IN GERMANY AND ADJACENT 

 COUNTRIES. The Triennial Conference of the 

 German Baptist Union was held at Hamburg, 

 beginning July 13th. The statistical reports 

 showed that the Union numbered 110 churches, 

 with 22,504 members, and 1,296 preaching- 

 stations. The churches had raised during 1875, 

 for religious purposes, the sum of 188,891 

 marks. During the three years since the last 

 meeting of the Union, 4,874 believers had been 

 baptized. It was decided to give increased at- 

 tention to home missions, particularly in the 

 Russian department. The Russian (Slavonic) 

 Baptists employed seven of their number as 

 missionaries among the people, and the Gov- 

 ernment no longer persecuted them. The meet- 

 ing was attended by 151 deputies, of whom 57 

 were from the northwest, 53 from Prussia, one 

 from Poland, 34 from the south, five from 



Denmark, and one from Russia. Seven new 

 churches were received into the Union five 

 from Germany and two from Russia. 



BARILI, ANTONIO, an Italian composer and 

 Professor of Music, born in Rome in 1824 ; 

 died in Naples, July 12, 1876. From six years 

 of age till thirteen, when he received the 

 diploma of professor at the Congregation of 

 St. Cecilia, being then the youngest member 

 of that body, he was a pupil of his father. 

 About this period his father died, when he 

 entered upon the study of composition with 

 Giuseppe Baini. At eighteen he left Italy for 

 a short time, and, joining his mother in Spain, 

 continued his studies under Carniser. Return- 

 ing to Milan, he studied for a time under Man- 

 danici, and afterward graduated as Maestro 

 Composer in the Philharmonic Academy of 

 that city at the age of twenty-one. The year 

 following he was leader and director of the 

 Italian Opera in Algiers, and the same year 

 was serving in the same capacity in New York 

 City. In 1850 he held a like position in the 

 city of Mexico ; and in 1854, returning to New 

 York, organized the Sontag opera-troupe, with 

 which he returned to Mexico. He remained 

 in that city until 1861, and during that time 

 composed his Spanish opera, " Un Pasio a 

 Santa Anita." In 1856, under the patronage 

 of President Comonfort of Mexico, he organ- 

 ized and established a conservatory, which is 

 now a flourishing national institution. After 

 this he returned to New York and lived there 

 eleven years, devoting himself to the duties of 

 his art, and giving to the stage a number of 

 artists. From the end of that time until 1874 

 he resided and labored in Baltimore and Wash- 

 ington. In August, 1874, he went to Naples, 

 where he opened an " Academy of pure Italian 

 singing," especially for foreign ladies finishing 

 their studies in Italy. Thirty years of unre- 

 mitting toil had much impaired his health, 

 which he hoped to recover in the salubrious 

 climate of that city. But in this he was dis- 

 appointed. Barili came from an eminent 

 musical family. His father was a composer of 

 distinction; his mother, Madame Barili Patti, 

 a famous prima-donna, who once gained re- 

 nown in the United States. His sister, Clo- 

 tilda, was equally successful on the operatic 

 boards ; his brother, Nicolai, achieved popu- 

 larity as a basso ; his second brother, Ettore, 

 was an excellent barytone ; his half-sisters, 

 Adelina, Carlotta, and Amelia Patti, have 

 made a world-wide reputation ; and his half- 

 brother, Carlo Patti, gained many laurels as a 

 violinist and orchestral director. 



BAUER, CLARA, a German authoress, well 

 known under the nom deplume of Karl Detlef, 

 born June 23, 1836; died June 29, 1876. At 

 an early age she lost her father, and being thus 

 forced to provide for herself, she devoted her 

 whole energy to develop her musical talents. 

 She went to St. Petersburg, where she was a 

 frequent visitor at the house of the Prussian 

 ambassador, Herr von Bismarck, who ever 



