*Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 66 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. Popu- Date of lation. Enum'n. Andorra, Pyrenees, Repub. With two syndics and a council, *Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchy, *Anhalt-Cöthen,† *Anhalt-Dessau, *Austria, Empire, *Bremen, Free City, States having limited powers, 66 Limited sovereignty; two chambers, 66 Republic; senate and assembly, Limited monarchy; with prov. states, *Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du. Limited sovereignty; with one chamber, 66 66 Square 190 7,000 Monaco, Principality, *Nassau, Duchy, Absolute sovereignty, Limited sovereignty; two chambers, *Oldenburg, Grand Duchy, 66 *Reuss, Principalities of, *Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy, *Saxe-Coburg & Gotha, *Saxe-Weim.-Eisenach, " Sicilies, The Two, Kingdom, Absolute monarchy, Switzerland, Republic, $Turkey, Empire, 278,030 1851 Absolute sovereignty, 66 107,300 16,346,625 1849 2,120,397 60,362,315 1846 66 66 1,403 261,370 1851 Tuscany, Grand Duchy, *Waldeck, Principality, Limited monarchy; with a legislature, 176,480 14,216,219 1849 S170,715 3,433,803 1849 121,725 1,328,471 1845 15,261 2,390,116 1850 *Wurtemberg, Kingdom, Limited sovereignty; one chamber, Total, 3,768,506 263 517.5211 *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; was crowned, June 28, 1838; married, Feb. 10, 1840, to Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, Prince of SaxeCoburg 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 Carolina Alberta, born March 18, 1848; Arthur William Patrick Albert, born May 1, 1850. Leopold George Duncan Albert, born April 7, 1853. MINISTRY. Lord Viscount Palmerston, Formed February, 1855. Sir George C. Lewis, Salary. £5,000 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 5,000 Secretary of State,- Home Dep., 5,000 Secretary of State, Foreign Dep., 5,000 Secretary of State,· Colonial Dep., 5,000 Secretary at War, 5,000 First Lord of the Admiralty, 4,500 Lord High Chancellor, 10,000 Lord President of the Council, 2,000 Lord Privy Seal, 2,000 President of the Board of Control, 2,000 First Commissioner of Public Works, 2,000 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 4,000 (without office). Sir George Grey, Sir Benjamin Hall, Hon. Matthew T. Baines, Duke of Cambridge, 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 James 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 John 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 Alexander J. E. Cockburn (ap. 1856), 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; Sir E. H. Alderson (b. 1787, ap. 1834), Sir Samuel Martin (ap. 1850), Sir George Bramwell (ap. 1856,) and W. H. Watson (ap. 1856), 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; Amiralty Advocate, J. Phillimore, Esq. 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 Clerk, H. Simpson. Chief Commissioner, William James Law; Scotland: Court of Session: Inner House. - 1st Division. Duncan McNeill, Lord Colonsay (b. 1794, ap. 1852), Lord President, £4,800. James Ivory, Lord Ivory; John Mary hall, Lord Curriehill (ap. 1855); George Deas, Lord Deas (ap. 1855), 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. Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside; Hercules J. Robertson, Lord Benholm; Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves; James Craufurd, Lord Ardmillan; Thomas Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (ap. 1855); £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, Deas, 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. 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; Rt. Hon. Nicholas Ball (b. 1791, ap. 1839), Hon. J. D. Jackson (b. 1783, ap. 1842), and Hon. William Keogh, (ap. 1856), Judges, £3,688 each. Attorney-General, John David Fitzgerald; Solicitor-General, Jonathan Christian, 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. Ecclesiastical Courts. - Rt. Hon. R. Keatinge, Judge of Prerogative Court. Joseph Radcliffe, Vicar-General. Court of Admiralty.-T. F. Kelly, Judge. Joseph Radcliff, Surrogate. There was established at the last session of Parliament a Court of Appeal for Ireland, to go into operation January 1, 1857. Francis Blackburne is appointed Chief Justice. 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. Dec. 14. In Hong Kong, China, Commodore Joel Abbott, commanding the United States Squadron in the East Indies. He was a native of Massachusetts, and entered the service in 1812. He was a brave, energetic, and honorable officer, and discharged the responsible duties which the coinmand of that squadron imposed upon him, with signal ability and discretion. Nov. 19. In Utica, N. Y., Theodric Romeyn Beck, M.D., LL. D., aged 64. He was born in Schenectady in 1791, and graduated at Union College in 1807, at the age of 16. He studied medicine in Albany and in New York, and commenced practice in Albany. The subject of his inaugural thesis was "Insanity." In 1815 he was appointed Professor in Fairfield Medical College, N. Y., and in 1817, having withdrawn from the practice of medicine, he became Principal in the Albany Academy, in which he continued till 1848. He was much interested in education, elementary and collegiate, and his efforts accomplished the complete organization of the State Library. In 1842 Dr. Beck was made one of the Board of Managers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, and in 1854 he became President of the Board. He was one of the originators, and of the most ardent supporters, of the Geological Survey of the State. His chief labor was his well-known and excellent work on Medical Jurisprudence, which, first published in 1823, has gone through five editions in America, four in London, and one in Germany. He was a member of many scientific societies at home and abroad, and his whole life was one of uninterrupted and efficient labor. Nov. 12. In Waterville, Me., Timothy Boutelle, LL. D., aged 77, a native of Leominster, Mass., and a graduate at Cambridge in 1800. October. -In Chicago, Ill., Justin Butterfield, Commissioner of the Land-Office under General Taylor, and for many years one of the most prominent lawyers in Illinois. Dec. 21.-In Warren County, Va., Col. William Carson, aged 81. He was an Ensign under General Washington in the expedition against the insurgents, and was at Norfolk as a volunteer in the war of 1812. He was for many years a delegate to the Legislature, was Senator, and for three years a member of the Executive Council of Virginia. He was hospitable, honorable, and of strict integrity through life. Sept. 15. In Portsmouth, Va., Rev. James Chisholm, aged 39. He was born in Salem, Mass., in 1815, there fitted for college, and graduated at Cambridge in 1836. He taught school after graduation, then studied for the ministry, and in 1850 was settled as Rector of St. John's Church, in Portsmouth, where he remained until his death. During the prevalence of the yellow-fever in Norfolk and Portsmouth, he faithfully remained at his post. With a fidelity and courage worthy of his sacred profession, he met the terrible dangers of the scene, and continued ministering consolation and hope to the mourning and the dying, until he fell a victim to the scourge. A memoir of Mr. Chisholm has been published, prepared by the Rev. David H. Conrad, of Martinsburg, Va. Aug. 28.- At Bailey's Springs, Ala., Hon. Henry W. Collier. He was born in Virginia, educated in South Carolina, and removed to Alabama about the time he attained his majority. He was for twelve years, from 1836 to 1848, Chief Justice of his adopted State, and afterwards was for four years, from 1849 to 1853, its Governor. He was highly esteemed both as a magistrate and citizen. Sept. 1.In Washington, D. C., Hon. William Cranch, LL. D., aged 86. He was born in Weymouth, Mass., July 17, 1769; graduated at Cambridge in 1787; studied law in Boston, was admitted to the bar of the Common Pleas in 1790; and to the Supreme Court in July 1793. He commenced practice in Braintree, but in a year went to Haverhill. In October 1794, he removed to Washington as the land agent of a firm in that place. In April, 1795, he married Nancy Greenleaf, who died in 1843. In 1800 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the City of Washington, which office he resigned in 1801, when he was appointed by President Adams, at the personal solicitation of Chief Justice Marshall, Junior Assistant Judge of the Circuit Court of the District. In 1805 he was appointed Chief Justice by Mr. Jefferson, and held the office until his death. He published nine volumes of Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States; a Memoir of the Life, &c. of President John Adams, in 1837; and an Address upon Temperance in 1831, a small pamphlet. In 1829, he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Harvard College. For fifty years and more, he was regarded in the District as its chief citizen. Dec. 22. In New York, Nicholas Dean, Esq., aged 64. He was a prominent and distinguished citizen; had held several offices of honor and trust. He was President of the Croton Water Board from 1849 to 1853, and afterwards was President of the Harlem Railroad. Dec. 23. In Boston, Mass., Peter Paul Francis Degrand, aged about 75. He was a native of Marseilles, France, and came to Boston about 1803. He soon engaged in business. In May, 1819, he issued the first number of a commercial paper called the Weekly Report, which continued some ten years. After 1835, he was a stock-broker. He fought a duel in Rhode Island in 1818, and was wounded. He was an early and warm friend of railroads, and did much to have them built here. Dec. 29. In Utica, N. Y., Nicholas Devereaux, aged 67. He was a prominent citizen, held many offices of trust, and at the time of his death was one of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum. December. Near Ellicott's Mills. Md., Hon. Thomas B. Dorsey, one of the most prominent lawyers in Maryland, and, previous to the formation of the new Constitution, from 1848 to 1852, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals. November. In Wilmington, N. C., Hon. Edward B. Dudley. He was a Representative in Congress from 1829 to 1831, and in 1836 was elected the first Governor of the State, under the amended Constitution, which office he held four years. He was subsequently appointed President of the Wilmington and Raleigh (now Weldon) Railroad Company. He was always distinguished for integrity, liberality, and business capacity. Nov. 8.-In Groton, Mass., George Frederick Farley, aged 62. He was born in Dunstable, Mass., April 5, 1793. Graduated at Cambridge in 1816; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in 1820; practised at New Ipswich, N. H., until near 1831, when he removed to Groton. He was one of the most eminent and successful lawyers in Middlesex County. Nov. 14.--In Charlestown, Mass., Rev. Thaddeus Fiske, D.D., aged 93. He was born in Weston, Mass., in 1762; graduated at Cambridge in 1785; was settled at West Cambridge in 1788, and was minister there for nearly forty years. In 1821 he received the degree of D.D. from Columbia College, N. Y. Oct. 31. In Manchester, N. H., Ralph Hill French, aged 79 He was born in Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 31, 1776, graduated at Cambridge in 1798; practised law in Essex County, and was for twenty years Register of Deeds for that county. Nov. 16.-In Burlington, N. J., Stephen Grellet, aged 83, a native of France, and an eminent minister of the Society of Friends. Sept. 27.-In Boston, Mass., Hon. Benjamin Gorham, aged 80. He was born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 13, 1775. Graduated at Cambridge in 1795, studied law with Theophilus Parsons (afterwards Chief Justice), of Newburyport; com |