XXXII. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The District of Columbia is under the immediate government of Congress. The city of Washington became the seat of the government of the United States, in 1800; and it is the residence of the President, and the other chief executive officers of the national government. By an act of Congress, in 1846, which was subsequently accepted by the people of Alexandria, the city and county of Alexandria were retroceded to the state of Virginia, and the district is now confined to the Maryland side of the Potomac. The present population of most of the above states has not been very recently ascertained with any exactness. The most complete and accurate census of Mexico was taken in 1842. This census returned the whole population as above. Of this number, there were 4,000,000 Indians; 1,000,000 whites; 6,000 negroes; and 2,009,509 of all other castes, as Zambos, Mestizos, &c. Of the Indians and negroes, only 80,120 can read, and of the whites, and all others, 607,628. BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES. LORD ELGIN, Governor-General, Vice-Admiral, and Captain-General of all the British Provinces of North America. 8, 1844 45 Lutheran July 6, 1796 Dec. 1, 1825 29 Greek Ch. Sep. 18, 1786 Dec. 3, 1839 54 Lutheran May 24, 1819 June 20, 1837 18 Pr. Episc. Dec. 6, 1792 Oct. 7, 1840 48 Reformed Dec. 16, 1790 July 21, 1831 40 Lutheran* Oct. 15, 1795 June 7, 1840 45 Evangelical May 18, 1797 June 6, 1836 39 Catholic* June 5, 1771 July 20, 1837 66 Protestant Fred. Francis Gr. Duke Mecklenburg-Schwer. Feb. 28, 1823 Mar. 7, 1842 19 Lutheran do. do. do. Mecklenburg-Strelitz Aug. 12, 1779 Nov. 6, 1816 37 Ch. Frederick Gr. Duke Saxe-Weimar-Eisen Feb. 2, 1783 June 14, 1828 45 Lutheran Victoria Queen William II. King Leopold do. Fred. Wm. IV. do. Prussia Ern. Augustus do. Saxony George V. Augustus do. William Adolphus Duke Oldenburg Nassau Oct. 1, 1794 Aug. 9, 1817 22 Evangelical *The King of Saxony is a Catholic, though the greater part of his subjects are Protestants; the King of Belgium is a Protestant, though his subjects are mostly Catholics; 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, Square Miles, and Population, according to Mc Culloch's Geographical Dictionary, with Corrections. States and Titles. Form of Government. miles. Square Population. Andorre, Pyrenees, Repub. With two syndics and a council, *Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchy, States having limited powers, *Anhalt-Cothen, do. Do. do. 310 40,200 *Anhalt-Dessau, *Austria, Empire, Absolute monarchy,except Hungary, &c. 255,226 36,519,560 do. Belgium, do. *Bremen, Free City, Church,States of, Popedom, do. Republic; senate and convention, *Frankfort, Free City, Republic; senate and common council, do. Holland, with Luxemburg, Limited monarchy; two chambers, *Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du. *Reuss, Principalities of, Tuscany, Grand Duchy, 337 61,480 5,712 1,263,100 28,435 4,315,469 12,569 4,242,600 57,800 67 1,525 269,000 17,048 2,732,436 59,762 2,033,265 202,125 34,194,875 91 64,570 116,700 26,831,105 10,206 926,000 149 153,500 14,600 1,706,280 4,386 704,900 3,198 783,400 432 82,970 142 47,200 410 158,900 4,701 482,652 1,094 87,820 2,073 403,000 1,736 379,262 FRANCE. MINISTRY. Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, Pres. of the Council. The Queen. Alexandrina Victoria, born May 24, 1819; 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. Princess Royal. Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843. A Royal Prince. Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6, 1844. A Royal Princess. Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1846. 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 Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, and widow of Frederic William, Prince of Solms-Braunfels, born March 2, 1778. Issue, George Frederic, born May 27, 1819. Adolphus Frederick, 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. Sophia, born November 3, 1777. |