The present population of most of the above States has not been very recently ascertained with any exactness. BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES. LORD ELGIN, Governor-General, Vice-Admiral, and Captain-General of all the British Provinces of North America. 1799 Mar. 8, 1844 45 Lutheran July 6, 1796 Dec. 1, 1825 29 Greek Ch. Sep. 18, 1786 Dec. 3, 1839 54 Lutheran May 24, 1819 June 20, 1837 18 Pr. Episc. Dec. 6, 1792 Oct. 7, 1840 48 Reformed Dec. 16, 1790 July 21, 1831 40 Lutheran* Oct. 15, 1795 June 7, 1840 45 Evangelical May 18, 1797 June 6, 1836 39 Catholic* June 5, 1771 July 20, 1837 66 Protestant Fred. Francis Gr. Duke Mecklenburg-Schwer. Feb. 28, 1823 Mar. 7, 1842 19 Lutheran Mecklenburg-Strelitz Aug. 12, 1779 Nov. 6, 1816 37 Emperor Russia Christ'n VIII. King Victoria Queen William II. King Leopold do. Fred. Wm. IV. do. Prussia Ern. Augustus do. Saxony do. do. do. July 13, 1783 May 21, 1829 46 Anhalt-Dessau Waldeck do. do. do. do. do. do. do. Aug. 27, 1789 Sep. 29, 1834 45 Char's Antony Prince Hohenzol'n Sigmar'n Feb 20, 1785 Oct. 17, 1831 46 Catholic May 26, 1796 Apr. 20, 1836 39 do. do. do do. do. do. do. do. do. do.* *The King of Saxony is a Catholic, though the greater part of his subjects are Protestants; the King of Belgium is a Protestant, though his subjects are mostly Catholics; and the King of Greece is a Catholic, though most of his subjects are of the Greek Church. STATES OF EUROPE, with the form of Government, Square Miles, and Population, according to Mc Culloch's Geographical Dictionary, with corrections. Belgium, do. Do. do. *Bremen, Free City, Church,States of, Popedom, do. *Frankfort, Free City, Great Britain, Kingdom, Greece, do. *Hamburg, Free City, *Hanover, Kingdom, Republic; senate and convention, Republic; senate and common council, *Hesse Cassel, Electorate, do. Holland, with Luxemburg, Limited monarchy; two chambers, *Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du. *Reuss, Principalities of, do. 28,435 4,815,469 12,569 4,242,600 57,800 67 1.525 269,000 17,048 2,732,436 490 131,462 59,762 2,033,265 202,125 34,194,875 91 64.570 116,700 26,831,105 10,206 926,000 149 153,500 14,600 1,706,280 4,386 704,900 Limited sovereignty; one chamber, Total, *Member of the Confederation of Germany Including Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia. 106,302 14,330,146 588 103.550 2,041,809 62,500.000 21 7.600 28,830, 4,168,797, 5,705 1,652.114 491 121,590 790 140.050 880 148.590 1,403 245,820 756 55,810 205 27,600 41,521 7,975,850 176,480 12,286,941 284,530 4,156,900 17,208 2,125,480 183.140 9,545.000 8,302 1,436,785 455 56.480 7,568 1,634,654 3,708,871 + Including Poland. GREAT BRITAIN. THE ROYAL FAMILY. The Queen. Alexandrina Victoria, born May 24, 1819; married Feb. 10, 1840, to Prince Albert Francis Augustus Charles Emanuel, of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, born Aug. 26, 1819. Princess Royal. Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, born Nov. 21, 1840. Princess Royal. Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843. A Royal Prince. Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6, 1844. A Royal Princess. Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846. The Queen Dowager. Adelaide Amelia Louisa Teresa Caroline, widow of King William IV., sister of the reigning Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, born August 13, 1792. Her Majesty's Mother. Victoria Maria Louisa, Princess Dowager of Leiningen, Duchess of Kent, born Aug. 17, 1786. Royal Princes and Princesses. Ernest Augustus, (King of Hanover,) Duke of Cumberland, born June 5, 1771, married May 29, 1815, to Frederica Carolina Sophia, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, and widow of Frederic William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels, born March 2, 1778. Issue, George Frederic, born May 27, 1819. Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, born Feb. 24, 1774, married May 7, 1818, to Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, daughter of the Landgrave of Hesse, born July 25, 1797. Issue, George William, born March 26, 1819; Augusta Caroline, July 19, 1822; Mary Adelaide, Nov. 27, 1833. Mary, Dutchess of Gloucester, born April 25, 1776. Sophia, born Nov. 3, 1777. The Parliament of Great Britain consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons. The House of Lords consists of Lords Temporal, who are Peers of the realm, and whose honors, immunities, and privileges are hereditary; and Lords Spiritual, consisting of Archbishops and Bishops. The House of Lords is composed of all the five orders of nobility of England, viz.: dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, who have attained the age of 21 years, and labor under no disqualification; of 16 representative peers from Scotland; 28 representative peers from Ireland; 2 English archbishops and 24 bishops, and 4 representative Irish bishops. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Elected July, 1841.- Rt. Hon. Charles S. Lefevre, Speaker. The House of Commons consists of knights, citizens, and burgesses, respectively chosen by counties, cities, and boroughs, apportioned as follows: The Union of Ireland was carried into effect January 1st, 1801; and the Parliament which sat the same month, and which included the members from Ireland, is styled the 1st Imperial Parliament; and the Parliament |