Sweden and Norway July 4, 1799 Mar. 8, 1844 45 Lutheran Holland orNetherlands Feb. 19, 1817 Mar. 17, 1849 32 Reformed Belgium Prussia Dec. 16, 1790 July 21, 1831 40 Lutheran* Fred. Francis Grand Duke Mecklenburg-Schwer. Feb. 23, 1823 Mar. 7, 1842 19 Lutheran Mecklenburg-Strelitz Aug. 12, 1779 Nov. 6, 1816 37 Oldenburg Brunswick 66 July 8, 1827 Feb. 27, 1853 26 Saxe-Weimar-Eisen June 24, 1818 July 8, 1853 35 Lutheran Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Anhalt-Bernburg June 21, 1818 Jan. 29, 1844 26 66 Schwarzburg-Rudolst. Nov. 6, 1793 Apr. 23, 1807 13 Lutheran Schwarz'g-Sonder'n, William III. King Leopold I. Fred. Wm. IV Duke Saxe-Meiningen Saxe-Altenburg Anhalt-Dessau Alexander Lippe Schaumburg Sept. 24, 1801 Sept. 3, 1835 34 Hesse Homburg Frederict PrinceRegent Baden Ghika Grand Duke Hesse-Darmstadt Tuscany Hospodar Moldavia May 26, 1796 Apr. 20, 1836 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. Of the 15.500,000 European subjects of the Sultan of Turkey, 11,370,000 are of the Greek Church, and 260,000 are Catholics Only 3,800.000 are Mahometans. †The Grand Duke of Baden is Louis, born Aug. 15, 1823, who is under guardianship by reason of insanity. 1 Dec. 7, 1849. These two princes abdicated in favor of the King of Prussia. The regent of the kingdom is Ferdinand, husband of the late queen, a prince of Saxe-Coburg. Under the sovereignty of Turkey, and the protection of Russia. 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. Andorra. Pyrenees, Repub. With two syndics and a council, *Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchy, States having limited powers, 66 Absolute monarchy, *Anhalt-Cothen,t *Anhalt-Dessau, *Austria. Empire, *Bulen. Grand Duchy, *Bavaria, Kingdom, Belgium, *Bremen, Free City, 66 66 Limited sovereignty; two chambers, 66 Republic; senate and assembly, Limited monarchy; with prov. states, *Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du. Limited sovereignty; with one chamber, 997 96,292 1848 Absolute sovereignty, Absolute sovereignty, 50 7,000 Limited sovereignty; two chambers, 1851 66 66 Absolute sovereignty, Limited monarchy; two chambers, 66 *Reuss, Principalities of, Limited sovereignty; one chamber, * Member of the Confederation of Germany. United to Anhalt-Dessau and Bernburg, since November 23, 1847. ! Including Poland and Finland. 121,725 1,328,471 1845 15,261 2,390,116 1850 189,920 15,500,000 1844 $ 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, Princess Royal, born Nov. 21, 1840; 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. England. 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.— Rt. Hon. Sir J. L. Knight Bruce (ap. 1851); Rt. Hon. 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. Wight *The list of Archbishops and Bishops of England and Ireland, and English Colonial Bishops, is necessarily omitted, for want of space. The several lists are the same as those of last year, except that in that of the English Colonial Bishops, F. Barker is Bishop of Sydney, J. W. Weeks of Sierra Leone, and V. W. Ryan of Mauritius; and of the new Dioceses, J. W. Colenso is Bishop of Natal, J. Armstrong of Graham's Town, and F. J. McDougall of Labuan. man (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 C. Creswell (ap. 1842), Sir Edw. Vaughan Williams (ap. 1847), Sir R. B. Crowder (ap. 1854), and Sir James Shaw Willes (ap. 1855), Judges, £ 5,500 each. Court of Exchequer. Rt. Hon. Sir Frederic J. Pollock (b. 1783, ap. 1844), Lord Chief Buron, £7,000; Rt. Hon. 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, Rt. Hon. S. Lushington. Admiralty Court. Judge, Rt. Hon. S. Lushington; Queen's Advocate, Sir J. D. Harding. Court of Bankruptcy. Lords Justices of Appeal, Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, Sir George J. Turner; Chief Registrar, Hon. J. Campbell. Insolvent Debtors' Court.- Chief Commissioner, William James Law; Chief Clerk, H. Simpson. Scotland. Court of Session: Inner House. - 1st Division. Duncan McNeill, Lord Colonsay (b. 1794, ap. 1852), Lord President, £4,800. James Ivory, Lord Ivory; (two vacancies;) Judges, £3,000 each. Inner House: 2d Division.-Rt. Hon. John Hope (b. 1794, ap. 1844), Ld. Justice Clerk, £4,500. Sir John Archibald Murray, Lord Murray; Alexander Wood, Lord Wood; John Cowan, Lord Cowan, Judges, £3,000 each. Outer House: Permanent Lords Ordinary. John Marshall, Lord Curriehill; Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside; Hercules J. Robertson, Lord Benholm; Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves; James Craufurd, Lord Ardwillam; £3,000 each. Right Hon. James Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, £2,500 and fees. Edward Francis Maitland, 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, William Keogh, Esq.; Solicitor-General, John David Fitzgerald, £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. Ecclesiastical Courts. Rt. Hon. R. Keatinge, Judge of Prerogative Court. Joseph Radcliffe, Vicar-General. Court of Admiralty. - Joseph Stock, Judge. Joseph Radcliff, Surrogate. 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. The House of Lords has 448 Members. The present House of Commons, Right Hon. Shaw Lefevre, Speaker, was elected July, 1852. It numbers 658 members. AMERICAN OBITUARY. 1854. Sept. 12. In Savannah, Ga., of yellow-fever, Rev. Edward Barron, D. D., Catholic Missionary Bishop of the West Coast of Africa. Dec. 29. In New Orleans, La., Seth Barton, Esq., formerly Solicitor of the Treasury and Chargé d'Affaires to Chili during Mr. Polk's administration. Aug. 29. In Winchester, Va., Hon. John Black, late of Louisiana, from 1834 to 1838 Senator in Congress from Mississippi. Oct. 18. In Bellevue, Nebraska, Hon. Francis Burt, Governor of the Territory, aged about 45. He was a native of Pendleton, S. C., and was appointed Third Auditor of the Treasury by President Pierce, which office he resigned for the Governorship. He lived hardly two weeks after reaching the Territory. Oct. 7. In Groton, Mass., Caleb Butler, Esq., aged 78. He was a native of Pelham, N. H., graduated at Dartmouth College in 1800, and studied law in Groton, Mass. with Judge Dana. At the same time he was the preceptor of the Groton (since better known as the Lawrence) Academy, and he continued its principal instructor for fourteen years. He was for many years Chairman of the County Commissioners of Middlesex Co., and Postmaster of Groton from his earliest residence there until 1847. During the later years of his life he compiled a History of Groton, one of the best town histories that has been published. Oct. 29. In Deerfield, N. H., Hon. Josiah Butler, aged 74, a graduate of Harvard University of the class of 1803. Mr. Butler studied law with Governor Cabot of Virginia, and practised in the courts of his native State. He was repeatedly elected a representative to the State Legislature, was for some time Sheriff of Rockingham County, and afterwards Clerk of the Courts. He was chosen member of Congress in 1817, and by re-elections continued for six years in the House. In 1825 he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court of New Hampshire, and continued in office until that court was abolished. Sept. 14. In Montgomery, Texas, Rev. Thomas Chilton, formerly of Kentucky. In 1819-20 he was a member of the Kentucky Legislature, in 1824-5 was Clerk of the Senate; he was member of Congress from the Hardin District from 1827 to 1831, and from 1833 to 1835. After leaving Congress he became a clergyman, and preached in Kentucky, Alabama, and Texas. Sept 13. - In Newtown, Conn., Hon. Samuel Church, aged 69. He was born at Salisbury, Conn., in 1785, graduated at Yale College in 1803, and after a regular course of legal study established himself in the practice of law in his native town. In 1833 he was chosen a Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and in 1847 he was appointed Chief Justice, which office he held till his death. Sept. 19. In New Bedford, Mass., Timothy G. Coffin. Esq., aged 65. He was a man of remarkable ability, and of considerable professional acquirements, and had few equals as a nisi prins lawyer. His practice was extensive throughout the southern part of the State. Sept 1. In Washington, D. C., Hon. William Cranch, aged near 86 years, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia. He was a native of Massachusetts. He removed to Washington in 1795 or 1796, and was appointed in 1801 a Junior Justice of the Circuit Court, and retained his seat upon the bench until his death. |