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PRADO, M. I. 



PRESBYTERIANS. 



voting. la the Chamber of Peers, an order 

 of the day favorable to the Government was 

 adopted by 36 to 21 votes. The Minister of 

 Marine subsequently read a telegram from St. 

 Vincent announcing an attack by natives on 

 the Portuguese fort at Bolama on the Guinea 

 coast, in which several persons were killed. 

 He added that the Government intended to 

 send reinforcements to the scene of the dis- 

 turbance without delay. In the middle of 

 March the Chamber adopted, by 91 votes to 

 32, an order of the day approving the conduct 

 of the Government in preventing arms and am- 

 munition from reaching the Zooloos by way of 

 the Zambesi. Owing to differences in the Cabi- 

 net, the Ministere resigned in June, and i new 

 Ministry was formed under the presidency of 

 Senhor Braancamp. The last official act of the 

 outgoing Ministry was the signature of a treaty 

 of commerce, navigation, extradition, and sup- 

 pression of the slave-trade, between Portugal 

 and Great Britain, in respect to their domin- 

 ions in South Africa. General elections for the 

 Chamber of Deputies were held on October 

 19th, and resulted in favor of the Govern- 

 ment. 



PRADO, General MARIANO IGNACIO, was 

 born at Hu&nuco, in northern Peru, in 1826. 

 He took a leading part in the revolution of 1854, 

 which overthrew the conservative government 

 of General Echenique. In 1865 he again took 

 the lead in the revolution against President 

 Pezet, accused of cowardice in having made 

 peace with Spain after the capture of the Chin- 

 cha Islands. He entered Lima with an army 

 of 12,000 men, and in November of the same 

 year was proclaimed Dictator (Supreme Chief) 

 of the nation. The war with Spain was re- 

 newed, and an alliance effected with Bolivia, 

 Chili, and Ecuador. Prado repelled the Span- 

 ish squadron from Callao in May, 1866. Chosen 

 constitutional President in the same year for 

 the term of six years, he was overthrown in 

 the following year by a revolution which re- 

 sulted in the election of Balta to the Presi- 

 dency in 1868. Prado was received in Chili 

 with great honor, and appointed a general of 

 division in the Chilian army, and afterward 

 Peruvian Minister in Chili. A revulsion of 

 popular sentiment led to Prado's elevation to 

 the Presidency for a term of four years in 1876. 

 At the outbreak of the present war with Chili 

 he proceeded to Arica as " Supreme Director 

 of the War." The reverses of October and No- 

 vember caused his great unpopularity, which 

 induced him to leave the responsibility of the 

 situation to the popular Nicolas Pierola. and 

 to embark on the 18th of December for Pana- 

 ma and Europe. 



PRESBYTERIANS. I. PRESBYTERIAN 

 CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

 The following is a summary of the statistics of 

 this Church, giving the number of churches, 

 pastors, and church-members in the several 

 synods, according to the official reports in the 

 Minutes of the General Assembly for 1879 : 



A committee which was appointed in 1878 

 to investigate the state of the trust funds held 

 by the various boards of the Church, reported to 

 the General Assembly of 1879 that the amounts 

 of the same were as follows: 



1. Presbyterian Board of Publication $63,000 00 



2. Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian House. 84,058 00 



8. Presbyterian Board of Relief 41,000 00 



4. Trustees of the General Assembly of the Pres- 

 byterian Church 251.868 63 



6. Presbyterian Board of Education 41,950 > 



6. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 60,560 00 



Railroad bonds held as a special trust 12,000 00 



T. Board of Home Missions 149,670 00 



Township railroad bonds held as a special trust, 



no income derived 25,000 00 



8. Presbyterian Board of Church Erection 212,088 69 



Total $941,160 22 



The following is a summary statement of the 

 investments of the eight boards : 



Bonds and mortgages $357,506 53 



Stocks, notes, iron, city, and railroad bonds 890,220 87 



United States Government bonds 198,488 82 



Total $941,160 22 



The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 

 Church in the United States of America/ met 

 at Saratoga, New York, May 15th. The Rev. 

 Henry H. Jessup, D. D., of Syria, was chosen 

 Moderator. Efforts have been made for sev- 

 eral successive years to readjust the basis of 

 representation so as to reduce the number of 

 members of the Assembly, but no measure had 

 been so far devised which could be made satis- 

 factory to the presbyteries, and the overture 

 submitted by the Assembly at its last meeting 



