BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES.

LORD ELGIN, Governor-General, Vice-Admiral, and Captain-General of all the British Provinces of North America.

date of August 26th.

*Hayti is said to have been made an Empire. See Chronicle of Events for 1849, under

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe Altenburg
Anhalt-Dessau
Anhalt-Bernberg
Anhalt-Cöthen
Schwarzburg-Rudolst. Nov. 6,
Schwarz'g-Sonder'n Sept. 24,

66

1794 Aug. 9, 1817 22 Evangelical
1805 Mar. 24, 1834 29
1794 Nov. 23, 1847 53 Reformed
1793 Apr. 28, 1807 13 Lutheran
1801 Sept. 3, 1835 34

66

Reuss, Elder Line, June 29, 1794 Oct. 31, 1836 42
Reuss, Younger Line, May 31, 1785 Apr. 17, 1818 33
Lippe-Detmold Nov. 6, 1796 Apr. 4, 1802 5 Reformed
Lippe-Schaumburg Dec. 20, 1784 Feb. 13, 1787 2
Waldeck

66

Jan. 14, 1831 May 15, 1845 14 Evangelical Apr. 26, 1783 Sept. 7, 1848 65 Reformed Aug. 29, 1790 Mar. 30, 1830 40 Evangelical Aug. 20, 1802 Nov. 20, 1847 45 Reformed June 9, 1806 June 16, 1848 42 Lutheran Hohenzol'n-Sigmar'n Sept. 7, 1811 Aug., 1848 37 Catholic Hohenzol'n-Hechin'n Feb. 16, 1801 Sept. 13, 1838 37

Bernard

Joseph

Leopold

Alexander

Augusta

Gunther

Duchess
Prince

Hesse-Homburg

Leopold

Grand Duke Baden

Frederic Wm.

Apr. 20, 1808 Dec. 20, 1848 40
Oct. 10, 1830 Sept. 29, 1833 3
Apr. 4, 1819 May 2, 1826 7
Mar. 14, 1820 Mar. 25, 1849 29
Oct. 3, 1797 June 18, 1824 26
Jan. 14, 1823 April, 1849 26
June 1, 1819 Jan. 21, 1846 26
May 13, 1792 June 21, 1846 54
Jan. 12, 1810 Nov. 8, 1830 20
June 1, 1815 May 7, 1832 17 Catholic*
May 6, 1822 July 1, 1839 17 Mahometan
Oct. 10, 1785 Oct. 2, 1841 56 Catholic
Jan. 20, 1782 June 29, 1848 66

*The King of Belgium is a Protestant, though his subjects are mostly Catholics; the King of Saxony is a Catholic, though the greater part of his subjects are Protestants; 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, and Square Miles, according to McCulloch's Geographical Dictionary, with Corrections; and the Population (chiefly) from the Almanach de Gotha for 1849.

Andorre, Pyrenees, Repub. With two syndics and a council, *Anhalt-Bernberg, Duchy, States having limited powers,

*Anhalt-Cöthen,

*Anhalt-Dessau,
*Austria, Empire,

*Baden, Grand Duchy,

*Bavaria, Kingdom,

Belgium,

*Bremen, Free City,
*Brunswick, Duchy,
Church, States of Popedom,
Denmark, with Schleswig-
Holstein, Kingdom,
France,

66

66

Republic; senate and convention,
Limited sovereignty; one chamber,
Unsettled,

Absolute monarchy; with prov. states,
Republic; with one chamber,
Republic; senate and legislative body,
Limited monarchy; lords and commons,
Limited monarchy,

66

*Frankfort, Free City,
Great Britain, Kingdom,
Greece,
*Hamburg, Free City, Republic; senate and common council,
*Hanover, Kingdom, Limited monarchy; two chambers,
*Hesse-Cassel, Electorate, Limited sovereignty; one chamber,
*Hesse-Darmstadt, G. Duch., Limited sovereignty; two chambers,
*Hesse-Homb'g, Landg'v'te, Absolute sovereignty,
*Hohenzol. Hechingen, Pr. Limited; one chamber,
*Hohenzol. Sigmaringen, "
Holland, with Luxemburg,
Ionian Islands, Republic,
*Liechtenstein, Principal.,
*Lippe-Detmold,
*Lippe-Schaumburg,
*Lubec, Free City,
*Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du.
*Mecklenburg Strelitz, "
Modena and Massa, Duchy,
Monaco, Principality,
*Nassau, Duchy,
*Oldenburg, Grand Duchy,
Parma, Duchy,
Portugal, Kingdom,
*Prussia,

Limited monarchy; two chambers,
Under Brit. protec.; council and chamb.,
Limited monarchy; with one chamber,

1846

1845

4,386

754,590

1846

3,198

852,679 1843

154

24,433 1846

136

20,143)

383

45,431 1945

13,890 3,236,741

1348

1344

52

6,351

1342

432

Sicilies, The Two, Kingdom, Limited monarchy; with two chamb.,

176,480 12,386.841 (170,715 3,138,884

1840

121,725 1,167,766 1845

17,208 2,188,009 183,140 9,545,000

1837

8,712 1,786,875 1844

58,753 1843

455
7,569 1,743.827

3,708,871

† Including Poland and Finland.

$ With Lucca, Garfagnana, Massa, and Lunigiana. The cessions made by Tuscany in farm Parma and Modena, viz. Pontremoli and the Tuscan territory in Lunigiana, with the exception Borga, Pietra Santa, and Seravezza, have not been completed.

The Queen. Alexandrina Victoria, born May 24, 1819; succeeded her uncle, William IV., June 20, 1837; married, Feb. 10, 1840, to Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, born Aug. 26, 1819.

Princess Royal. Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, born Nov. 21, 1840. Prince of Wales. Albert Edward, born Nov. 9, 1841.

Princess Royal.

A Royal Prince.

A Royal Princess.

A Royal Princess.

Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843.

Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6, 1844. Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846. Louisa Caroline Alberta, born March 18, 1848. 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 August 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 Alexandrina, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and widow of Frederic William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels, born March 2, 1778. Issue, George Frederic, born May 27, 1819.

Adolphus Frederic, 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, Duchess of Gloucester, born April 25, 1776, married, July 22, 1816, her cousin, Prince William Frederic, second Duke of Gloucester (who died Nov. 30, 1834).

Earl Grey,

Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., Secretary of State, — Home Dep.,

Viscount Palmerston,

Rt. Hon. Sir Chas. Wood, Bart., Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Rt. Hon. Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty,

Sir John C. Hobhouse, Bart.,

Lord Campbell,

Earl of Carlisle,

Marquis of Clanricarde,

5,000

5,000

4,500

Rt. Hon. Henry Labouchere,

President of the Board of Trade.

**The

above form the Cabinet.

Duke of Wellington,

Sir Wm. M. Somerville, Bart., Chief Secretary for Ireland,

5,500

Earl Granville,

Secretary at War,

Paymaster-General and V. Pres. of the Board of Trade.