Dominica, San Domingo, Rep. Em. Cuba, Porto Rico, Spanish, Jamaica, Trinidad, Windward Islands, 135,939 St. Vincent, 131 27,248 Kingston, Tobago, 187 13,208 Scarboro', St. Lucia, 225 Leeward Islands, 24,500 Castries, Antigua, 168 36,178 66 Montserrat, 49 Miles. do. 11,000 800,000 Cape Hayt'n, Fabre Geffrard, Pres't. 66 7,365 Plymouth, 24,508 Basseterre, 10,200 Charlestown, 4,027 Road Town, 22,469 Rosseau, 27,519 Nassau, do. J. D. Valverde, Pres't. do. Martinique, French, 322 121,145 Port Royal, St. Martin's, N.Side, do. St. Martin's, S. Side, - Dutch, Curaçoa, &c., - Dutch, Santa Cruz, &c., St. Thomas, Danish, 37 8,000 of the Danish W. St. John's, St. Bartholomew's,- Swedish, 25 Total, 9,000 La Carenage, J. H. Haasum, 91,910 3,669,817 Gov. Austria Duke Alexander Baden Bavaria Belgium Leopold 66 Brunswick William Duke Hanover George V. 66 Hesse-Cassel Hesse-Darmstadt Louis III. Hesse-Homburg Ferdinand Liechtenstein John Lippe Leopold Lippe-Schaumburg George Mecklenburg-Schwer. Fred. Francis Reuss, Younger Line, Russia Henry XXII. Henry LXVII. 66 Grand Duke 66 Duke Prince 66 Alexander II. Emperor Duke Ernest II. 66 Saxe-Weim. Eisenach Chs. Alexander Grand Duke John Schwarzburg-Rudolst. Gunther Schwarz'g-Sonder'n, Gunther King Saxony 66 Spain Isabella II. Queen States of the Church Pius IX. Pope Sweden and Norway King Turkey Two Sicilies Waldeck Wurtemberg Charles XV. Aug. 18, 1830 Dec. 2, 1848 18 Catholic *The King of Belgium is a Protestant, though his subjects are chiefly 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. Of the 16,440,000 European subjects of the Sultan of Turkey, 10,435,079 are Christians, and 6,004,921 are Mahometans. His father, Ferdinand, husband of the late queen, was regent until Sept. 16, 1855. At the peace of Villafranca (July 11th, 1859), Austria ceded Lombardy to France, (with certain reservations which appear in the American Almanac for 1860, pp. 363 and 364), to be ceded by France to Sardinia. By the Treaty of Zurich (November 10th, 1859), France ceded this territory to Sardinia. Parma, Modena, the Romagna, and Tuscany, by popular vote, on March 11th, 1860, accepted and carried into effect by decrees of Sardinia, on the 18th and 22d of that month, were annexed to the latter kingdom. March 24th, 1860, a treaty for the transfer of Savoy and the arrondissement of Nice from Sardinia to France was signed by those powers, and the cession was made on June 14th, 1860. 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 1861. States and Titles. Andorra, Pyrenees, Repub *Bremen, Free City, Republic; senate and assembly, Limited monarchy; with prov. states, *Lippe, 66 66 Republic; senate and assembly, *Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du. Limited sovereignty; with onechamber, 66 *Lippe-Schaumburg, *Lubec, Free City, *Mecklenburg-Strelitz, " Monaco, Principality, *Nassau, Duchy, *Oldenburg. Grand Duchy, *Reuss, Principalities of, *Schwarzburg-Sondersh., " Sicilies, The Two, Kingdom, Absolute monarchy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, 66 Switzerland, Republic, Turkey (in Europe), Emp. *Waldeck, Principality, *Wurtemberg, Kingdom, 66 7,627 135 222,379 1859 14,600 1,843,976 1859 4,430 726,686 1859 1858 106 25,746 1858 13,890 3,494,161 c 1859 1,006 246,483 1858 61 7,150 1857 12 1,736 443,648 1859 2,470 294,359 1858 34,500 3,568,895 c 1857 107,300 17,739,913 1858 588 121,203 1859 2,120,397 63,932,081 1856 21 8,000 1858 Limited monarchy; with a legislature, 176,480 15,454,514 c 1857 †The enumeration is that of 1857. The population enumerated is that of the Austrian territory as left by the peace of Zurich. Since the separation of the Romagna. $ Including Poland (4,696,919) and Finland (1,632,977). Including Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia, containing respectively 1,800,000, 1,200,000, and 1,100,000 inhabitants. Including Turkey in Asia and African possessions, the population in 1844 was 36,600,000. a Exclusive of Iceland, with a population in 1855 of 64,603, and an area of 40,000 square miles, and other colonies with a population of 55,680, but including the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg. b Exclusive of the colonies (including Algeria), with a population (in 1858) of 3,641,226. c The colonies and dependencies of Great Britain have, besides, a population stated at 192,498,939; those of Holland, 17,692,634; of Portugal, 2,759,412; and of Spain, 4,528,633. GREAT BRITAIN. POPULATION OF THE BRITISH COLONIES, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST Besides 50 aliens and resident strangers, whose sex is not distinguished. † Inclusive of 250,320 Chinese, namely, 147,364 men, 24,374 women, and 33,582 children. Total on the 31st December, 1858, 84,800. $ Besides 26,196 aliens and strangers. Inclusive of 10,584 aliens, and 25,189 various, Malays, heathens, &c. This statement of the population is believed to be underrated, especially for the "Other States." THE ROYAL FAMILY. The Queen. Alexandrina Victoria, born May 24, 1819; succeeded her uncle, William IV., June 20, 1837; was crowned, June 28, 1838; married, Feb. 10, 1840, to Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, (Prince of Coburg and Gotha,) Prince Consort, born Aug. 26, 1819. Issue, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, Princess Royal, born Nov. 21, 1840; married to Prince Frederic William of Prussia, Jan. 25, 1858; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, born Nov. 9, 1841; Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843; Alfred Ernest Albert, born Aug. 6, 1844; Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846; Louisa Caroline Alberta, born March 18, 1848; Arthur William Patrick Albert, born May 1, 1850; Leopold George Duncan Albert, born April 7, 1853; Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, born April 14, 1857. Viscount Palmerston, W. E. Gladstone, MINISTRY. Formed June, 1859. Rt. Hon. Sir G. C. Lewis, Bt., Secretary of State,- Home Dep., Salary. £5,000 5,000 5,000 Lord John Russell, Duke of Newcastle, Rt. Hon. E. Cardwell, Rt. Hon. Charles P. Villiers, President of the Board of Trade, Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, Bt., Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, President of the Poor-Law Board, 2,000 2,000 2,000 5,500 High Court of Chancery.-Lord Campbell (b. 1781, ap. 1859), Lord High Chancellor, salary, £10,000; Rt. Hon. Sir John Romilly (b. 1800, ap. 1851), *Mr. Herbert has been raised to the peerage. |