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 Almanack de Gotha for 1853. States and Titles. Form of Government. Andorra, Pyrenees, Repub. With two syndics and a council, 66 66 *Anhalt-Dessau, Republic; senate and assembly, 66 *Bremen, Free City, 66 (6 66 66 *Reuss, Principalities of, Limited sovereignty; one chamber, "6 66 Switzerland, Republic, Absolute monarchy, Limited sovereignty; two chambers, 66 66 66 Absolute sovereignty, 66 Absolute sovereignty, 66 66 Spain, Sicilies, The Two, Kingdom, Absolute monarchy, Square Population. 190 7,000 339 50,411 1850 318 1851 1849 1850 1849 1849 43,120 1850 360 63,700 1849 255,226 36,514,466 5,712 1,362,774 28,435 4,519,546 11,313 4,359,090 112 79,047 1,525 268,943 1846 17,048 2,908,115 1842 21,856 2,296,597 a 1850 203,736 35,781,628 6 1851 91 70,244 1849 116,700 27,435,325 18,244 998,266 1851 1851 Date of Enum'n. 149 188,054 206 24,203 205 142 790 963 1,403 405 358 1842 1849 28,837 1848 47,742 1851 1851 1848 1850 543,328 96,292 4,701 586,458 1851 1851 1841 107,300 16,346,625 1849 588 112,175 2,120,397 60,362,315 21 7,600 28,830 4,916,087 5,705 1,894,431 1848 1846 1849 1846 1851 1852 1848 1849 491 131,780 1850 149,753 1849 163,323 1849 261,370 1851 69,650 1849 1849 60,002 41,521 8,681,289 176,480 14,216,219 170,715 3,433,803 121,725 1,328,471 15,261 2,390,116 189,920 15,500,000 8,712 1,761,140 455 58,219 7,568 1,802,252 3,768,506 263,517,521 1846 1846 1851 1849 1849 1845 1850 1844 1851 1850 1850 *Member of the Confederation of Germany. † United to Anhalt-Dessau and Bernburg, since November 23, 1847. ! Including Poland and Finland. $ Including Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia, containing respectively 2,600,000, 1,400,000, and 1,000,000 inhabitants. a Exclusive of Iceland, with a population of 60,000, and an area of 32,000 square miles. b Exclusive of Algeria, which contains a population of 246,531, and has an area of 100,000 square miles. GREAT BRITAIN. THE ROYAL FAMILY. 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. Issue, Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, born Nov. 21, 1840; Albert Edward, born Nov. 9, 1841; 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; Arthur William Patrick Albert, born May 1, 1850. George Leopold Duncan, born April 7, 1853. Her Majesty's Mother, Victoria Maria Louisa, Princess Dowager of Leiningen, Duchess of Kent, born August 17, 1786. The King of Hanover. George Frederic Alexander Charles Augustus, King of Hanover (second Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale), only son of Ernest, King of Hanover (who was fifth son of King George III., and uncle to the Queen), born May 27, 1819, married Feb. 18, 1843, the Princess Alexandrina, oldest daughter of Joseph, reigning Duke of Saxe Altenburg, by whom he has issue Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederic, Crown Prince of Hanover, born September 21, 1845, and two princesses. The Duke of Cambridge. Prince George William Frederic Charles, son of Adolphus Frederic, the first Duke (who was youngest surviving son of King George III., and uncle to the Queen), born March 26, 1819. Earl of Aberdeen, Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, Lord Viscount Palmerston, The Duchess of Gloucester. Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, fourth daughter of King George III., and aunt to the Queen, born April 25, 1776, married, July 22, 1816, her cousin, Prince William Frederic, second Duke of Gloucester (who died Nov. 30, 1834). MINISTRY. **The Hon. M. T. Baines, Formed Dec. 28, 1852. Lord President of the Council, President of the Board of Control, Viscount Hardinge, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, President of the Poor Law Board, Salary. £5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 4,500 10,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 3,460 20,000 5,500 2,000 5,500 2,580 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 4,000 the Forces, 2,500 2,000 JUDICIARY. High Court of Chancery.— Lord Cranworth (R. M. Rolfe, b. 1790, ap. 1852), Lord High Chancellor, salary, £10,000; Sir John Romilly (ap. 1851), Master of the Rolls, £7,000; Sir R. T. Kindersley (b. 1792, ap. 1851), Sir John Stuart (ap. 1852), Sir William Page Wood (ap. 1852), Vice-Chancellors, £6,000 each. Court of Appeal in Chancery. — Sir J. L. Knight Bruce (ap. 1851); Sir George James Turner (b. 1798, ap. 1851), Lords Justices, £6,000 each. Court of Queen's Bench. - Lord Campbell (b. 1779, ap. 1850), Lord Chief Justice, £8,000; Sir J. T. Coleridge (b. 1790, ap. 1835), Sir Wm. Wightman (ap. 1841), Sir William Erle (b. 1793, ap. 1845), and Sir Charles Crompton (ap. 1852), Judges, £5,500 each. Court of Common Pleas. - Sir John Jervis (b. 1802, ap. 1850), Lord Chief Justice, £7,000; Sir W. H. Maule (ap. 1840), Sir C. Creswell (ap. 1842), Sir Edw. Vaughan Williams (ap. 1847), and Mr. Crowder (ap. 1854), Judges, £5,500 each. Court of Exchequer. - Sir Frederic Pollock (b. 1783, ap. 1844), Lord Chief Buron, £7,000; Sir James Parke (b. 1782, ap. 1834), Sir E. H. Alderson (b. 1787, ap. 1834), Sir Thomas Joshua Platt (ap. 1845), Sir Samuel Martin (ap. 1850), Barons, £5,500 each. Ecclesiastical Courts. — Vicar-General, Travers Twiss; Principal of Court of Arches, Judge of Prerogative Court, Master of the Faculty Office, Sir John Dodson; Judge of Consistory Court, S. Lushington. Admiralty Court. — Judge, S. Lúshington; Queen's Advocate, Sir J. D. Harding; Admiralty Advocate, J. Phillimore. Scotland. Court of Session: Inner House.—1st Division. Duncan McNeill, Lord Colonsay (b. 1794, ap. 1852), Lord President, £4,800. James Ivory, Lord Ivory; Patrick Robertson, Lord Robertson; Andrew Rutherford, Lord Rutherford, Judges, £3,000 each. Inner House: 2d Division. Rt. Hon. John Hope (b. 1794, ap. 1844), Lord President, £4,500. Sir John Archibald Murray, Lord Murray; Alexander Wood, Lord Wood; George Deas, Lord Deas; Judges, £3,000 each. Outer House: Permanent Lords Ordinary.— John Cowan, Lord Cowan (b. 1798, ap. 1851); John Marshall, Lord Curriehill; Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside; Hercules Robertson, Lord Benholm; C. Neaves, Lord Neaves; £3,000 each. Right Hon. James Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, £2,500 and fees. James Craufurd, Solicitor-General, £1,000. Court of Justiciary. — Lord Justice General, Duncan McNeill; Lord Justice Clerk, Rt. Hon. John Hope; Commissioners, Lords Cowan, Ivory, Wood, and Handyside. There is no division of common law, equity, civil law, or admiralty; but the whole business, civil and criminal, original and appellate, is discharged by the Court of Session. For the transaction of civil business it is divided into two divisions, each discharging precisely the same functions. One consists of the Lord Justice General and three Puisne Judges; the other of the Lord Justice Clerk and three Puisne Judges. The other five Judges sit separately, as Permanent Lords Ordinary. They pronounce judgment in the first instance; and this judgment may be carried for review before either of the inner divisions. The criminal business is discharged by the Lord Justice General, the Lord Justice Clerk, and four other Judges, who are appointed Judges of Justiciary under a separate commission. Ireland. Court of Chancery. — Rt. Hon. Maziere Brady (ap. 1853), Lord Chancellor, £8,000; Rt. Hon. T. B. C. Smith (ap. 1846), Master of the Rolls, £4,300. Court of Queen's Bench. Rt. Hon. Thos. Lefroy, Lord Chief Justice, £5,074; Hon. Philip C. Crampton, £3,725; Rt. Hon. Louis Perrin (ap. 1836), Rt. Hon. Richard Moore (ap. 1847), Judges, £3,688 each. Court of Common Pleas. — Rt. Hon. James Henry Monahan (ap. 1850), Lord Chief Justice, £4,615; Hon. Robert Torrens, Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball (b. 1791, ap. 1839), and Hon. J. D. Jackson (b. 1783, ap. 1842), Judges, £3,688 each. Attorney-General, Rt. Hon. Abraham Brewster; SolicitorGeneral, William Keogh, Esq., £4,612. Court of Exchequer. - Rt. Hon. David R. Pigott (ap. 1846), Lord Chief Baron; Hon. Richard Pennefather, Rt. Hon. John Richards (b. 1790, ap. 1837), Rt. Hon. Richard W. Greene (ap. 1852), Barons, £3,688 each. PARLIAMENT. The Parliament of Great Britain consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons. The present is the 15th Imperial or 5th Reformed Parliament. House of Lords.-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. All the members of the five orders of nobility of England, viz. dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, who are 21 years old, and labor under no disqualification, have a right to sit in the House of Lords; and in addition to these, 16 representative peers from Scotland, 28 representative peers from Ireland, 2 English archbishops, 24 bishops, 1 representative Irish archbishop, and 3 representative Irish bishops. - House of Commons, Elected July, 1852.-The House of Commons consists of the representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and of the three universities of the Established Church in the United Kingdom. The representatives of counties are chosen by the proprietors and occupiers of land; those of the cities and boroughs by the mercantile and trading part of the community; and those of the universities by the doctors and masters of arts. England, . Ireland, Since the union with Ireland (January 1, 1801) the number of members had been 658, this number being retained on the passing of the Reform Acts. They are elected by the following constituencies: Counties. Universities. Total. 471 29 53 2 105 253 399 6 658 But the English members have been reduced to 654 since the year 1844. Boroughs. 14 23 39 144 15 30 64 Cons. or Bishops. ENGLISH COLONIAL BISHOPS. Dioceses. 1843 A.G. Spencer, D.D. Jamaica, Metrop., 1849 T. Dealtry, D. D. Madras, 1839 J. Strachan, D. D. Toronto, 1844 Edward Feild, D. D. Newfoundl., 1845 John Medley, D.D. Fredericton, N. B. Sierra Leone, 1852 O. E. Vidal, 1783 1830 1778 1830 1794 1836 ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF ENGLAND. Archbishops. Born. Cons. Trans. 1780 1828 1848 John B. Sumner, D.D., Primate, Canterbury, 1788 1837 1847 Thomas Musgrave, D.D. York, Bishops. 1786 1824 1828 Chas. James Blomfield, D.D. 1824 1830 Christopher Bethell, D.D. 1780 1839 1797 1840 2,000 2,000 1,200 2,000 £3,000 1850 Ernest Hawkins," Mauritius, 2,000 1,000 1849 D. Anderson, D. D. Rupert's Land. 1842 1841 Ashurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. 1843 John Lonsdale, D.D. 1845 Thomas Turton, D.D. 1805 1845 Samuel Wilberforce, D.D. 1790 1841 1846 Thomas Vowler Short, D.D. 1794 1848 1848 1848 Dioceses. John Graham, D.D. Renn Dickson Hampden,D.D. James Prince Lee, D.D. Not Peers. Dioceses. London, Winchester, Bangor, Rochester, Bath & Wells, Sodor and Man, Allow ance. 1,000 800 800 800 Net Income.* £15,000 10,000 11,700 8,000 10,600 4,000 4,000 3,000 5,000 5,000 3,700 2,700 4,500 5,000 4,500 4,500 5,000 4,200 4,500 5,500 5,000 4,200 4,500 4,200 4,600 4,465 2,000 4,200 1798 1849 The Bishops of London, Durham, and Winchester rank next to the Archbishops; the rest according to priority of consecration. By net income is meant that of the bishopric. Some bishops hold other places of profit in the Church. † The Bishop of Bath and Wells sits in the House of Lords as Baron Auckland. |
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