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 66 1794 Aug. 9, 1817 22 Evangelical 66 Reuss, Elder Line, June 29, 1794 Oct. 31, 1836 42 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 Hesse-Homburg Leopold Grand Duke Baden Frederic Wm. Apr. 20, 1808 Dec. 20, 1848 40 *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, *Baden, Grand Duchy, *Bavaria, Kingdom, Belgium, *Bremen, Free City, 66 66 Republic; senate and convention, Absolute monarchy; with prov. states, 66 *Frankfort, Free City, Limited monarchy; two chambers, 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 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, 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. |