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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (DANVILLE BERCHERE.) 



complete separation of church and state. After 

 serving five terms in Congress he became Minister of 

 the Interior in 1882, was subsequently a Senator, and 

 as the most popular politician in Chili he was called 

 into the Cabinet by President Santa Maria in 1885 as 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, as a candidate for the 

 succession to the presidency. As Foreign Minister 

 he added to his reputation, and when nominated for 

 the presidency he was elected by an overwhelming 

 majority, and' on Sept. 18, 1886, was inducted into 

 office. "For the first three of his term of five years 

 his party worked in complete harmony with him, 

 and the country made great strides, political, social, 

 and economical. Railroads were built, harbors im- 

 proved, normal schools established, laws made more 

 liberal, restrictions placed on the Church, and the 

 popular approbation of the President was so un- 

 bounded that the opposition parties disappeared from 

 the scene. When the time approached for choosing 

 a successor to Balmaceda, who under the Constitu- 

 tion was not re-eligible, then the feuds between the 

 rival candidates rent the party into factions; the 

 powerful Conservative and National families and 

 foreign capitalists whose designs he had crossed 

 threw their influence on the side of the President's 

 opponents ; complaints of arbitrary conduct, religious 

 oppression, personal wrongs, malversation and cor- 

 ruption, and interference with elections were raised. 

 A bill was passed placing the electoral machinery 

 under the control of the municipalities. The Presi- 

 dent vetoed this measure, and thus aroused a con- 

 stitutional conflict between the executive and legis- 

 lative powers ending in civil war (for the history of 

 these events, see CHILI). When the Congressional 

 party entered Santiago in triumph Balmaceda at- 

 tempted to escape from the country on the torpedo 

 vessel " Condell," but when he reached San Antonio 

 Bay he found that she had sailed. lie returned to 

 Santiago, took refuge in the house of the Argentine 

 minister, and two weeks later put an end to his own 

 life by a pistol shot in the temple. 



Banville, Theodore Faullain de, a French poet, born 

 in Moulins in 1823; died in Paris, March 12, 1891. 

 He was the son of a sea captain, and began to write 

 poetry at the age of nineteen as a disciple of Victor 

 Hugo and Alfred de Musset, but later preferred Greek 

 models to the Romanticists. He attained a success 

 with his " Odes Funambulesques " in 1857, and 

 awakened expectations that were not realized in his 

 subsequent works, although he succeeded in various 

 styles of poetry and in the drama. 



Baling, Thomas Charles, managing director of the re- 

 constituted firm of Baring & Co., English bankers, 

 born in 1831 ; died in Rome, Italy, April 2, 1891. 

 He was a son of Charles Baring, Bishop of Durham, 

 was educated at Harrow and Oxford, becoming a fel- 

 low of Brasenose College, was made a partner in the 

 firm of Baring Bros. <fc Co., married an American 

 lady, and for some years was the representative of 

 the" Barings in New York. He represented the 

 southern division of Essex County in Parliament 

 from 1874 till 1885, and from 1887 till his death rep- 

 resented the city of London. He acted with the 

 Conservatives, but seldom spoke. He published some 

 books, including " Pindar in English Rhyme " and 

 " The System of Epicurus." 



Bandouin, Prince, heir to the Belgian throne, born in 

 Brussels, ,) une 3, 1869 ; died there'; Jan. 23, 1891. He 

 was the eldest son of Philippe, Count of Flanders, 

 the brother of King Leopold, and was born in the 

 same year in which" the King's only son died. He 

 was well-developed physically, pleasing in appear- 

 ance and manners, attentive to his duties as a captain 

 in the army, and already trained by the Kinyr to 

 some extent in the duties of his future station, and h is 

 sudden death from pneumonia was a blow to the Bel- 

 gian people, with whom he was popular. As the Con- 

 stitution precludes women from succeeding to the 

 throne, the only hope of the dynasty is in the re- 

 niMining son of the Count of Flanders, Prince Albert, 

 who was born on April 8, 1875. 



Bayard, mile, a French painter, born in La Ferte- 

 sous-Jouaire in 1836 ; died in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 9. 

 1891. He was a pupil of Cogniet. He became known 

 as a painter of war scenes, exhibiting a picture of a 

 field hospital and similar works. A sensational 

 group representing a duel between women, exhibited 

 in the Salon, was finally bought to decorate a bar- 

 room in New York. He received the cross of the 

 Legion of Honor in 1870, and a silver medal at the 

 Universal Exposition of 1889. " The Day after 

 Waterloo" was exhibited in 1875, and in 1877 he had 

 in the Salon two admirable panels representing 

 bathers and skaters. As a painter he had a wide 

 reputation, and as an illustrator of books he attained 

 the highest distinction. With De Neuville he drew 

 the wood engravings for the "Tour du Monde," and 

 in 1889 and 1890 he exhibited drawings for illustra- 

 tion in the Salon. 



Bazalgette, Sir Joseph, an English engineer, born in 

 1819; died in London, March 15,1891. He enlrivd 

 the engineering profession in 1840. When the Metro- 

 politan Board of Works was created at the time of 

 the Crimean War he was appointed its chief en- 

 gineer, and he continued in that post during the 

 thirty-two years that it was the controlling public 

 body in London. Before he planned and carried out 

 a uniform drainage system the sewage flowed into 

 the Thames, from which the water supply was drawn. 

 As designed by him, three main sewers one at a 

 high level, running through Ilampstead and High- 

 gate, one at a middle level under Oxford Street, and 

 a low-level sewer along the bank of the Thames and 

 through the city unite below, and are carried to the 

 common outlet at Barking. For the last, the Thames 

 embankment was built. He designed the Batti'rsea 

 bridge, the free Woolwich ferry, and many other 

 works of engineering. 



Behic, Armand, a French politician, born in Paris, 

 Jan. 15, 1809; died there, March 3, 1891. He was a 

 deputy in the time of the July monarchy, a member 

 of the Legislative Assembly in 1849, and one of the 

 Council of State under th'e presidency of Prince 

 Louis Napoleon, who, after the coup <V?tnt, appointed 

 him Secretary of the Finance Department, and after- 

 ward director of the Messageries Marithncs until he 

 was called to replace M. Rouher as Minister of Agri- 

 culture, Commerce, and Public Works in the Cabi- 

 net formed on June 23, 1863. On his recommenda- 

 tion the agricultural inquiry of 1866 was ordered. He 

 gave in his resignation in 1867 and became a Senator. 

 The fall of the empire sent him back to private life 

 until, as an eminent member of the Bonapartist party, 

 he was elected a Senator for the Gironde in 1876. 



Bennett, Sir James Kisdon, an English physician, 

 born in Romsey in 1809; died in London, Dec. 16, 

 1891. He was the son of a clergyman, whs educated 

 by private tutors, and studied medicine in Paris and 

 in Edinburgh, where he was graduated M. D. in 1833. 

 After traveling through Europe he settled in London 

 in 1835, lectured at Charing Cross Hospital, and be- 

 came assistant physician in 1843, and afterward resi- 

 dent physician at St. Thomas's Hospital, where he 

 lectured on the practice of medicine. He was one of 

 the founders of the Sydenharn Society for the publi- 

 cation of medical works ; was lecturer for many years 

 to the College of Physicians, which he represented 

 in the General Medical Council, and from 1876 till 

 1880 was its president. He published a treatise on 

 "Diseases of the Ear "(from the German work of 

 Kramer), an " Essay on Acute Hydrocephalus," 

 " Lumleian Lectures on Cancerous and other Intra- 

 thoracic Growths," and papers in "Transactions" of 

 the Pathological Society and in periodicals. 



Berchere, Narcisse, a French painter, born in Etampes. 

 Sept. 11, 1819; died in Paris, Sept. 21, 1891. He 

 first exhibited in 1844, and attained a high place 

 among the painters of Oriental subjects, which his 

 frequent journeys to Egypt, Turkey, and Palestine en- 

 abled him to handle with exceptional intelligence. 

 He was a writer of ability also, and is best known by 

 his book entitled "Le Desert de Suez." 



