United States,
Mexico,

Central America,
Yucatan,
Hayti,

Argentine Repub.
Peru,

New Grenada,
Bolivia,
Chili,
Venezuela,

Equator,

Paraguay,
Uraguay,

Provinces.

1,931,684

1,030,000
1,200,000

900,000

Bogotá,

Chuquisaca,
Santiago,

Caraccas,

600,000

Quito.

300,000

Assumption.

150,000 Monte Video,

Republics of South America.

1,000,000 Buenos Ayres, | Don Juan M. de Rosas.

1,700,000 Lima,

General Gamarra.

General Herran.
General Ballivian.
General Bulnes.
General Paez.

Empire.

| 5,130,418 | Rio Janeiro,

East Canada,
West Canada,
New Brunswick,

Nova Scotia, with C. Breton,

Prince Edward's Island,
Newfoundland,
Honduras,

Area in sq. miles.

Presidents.

James K. Polk.
Gen. Santa Anna.

Brazil,

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.

194,815

147,000

27,700

17,500

BRITISH AMERICAN PROVINCES.

Lord Elgin, Governor-General, Vice-Admiral, and Captain-General of all the British Provinces of North America.

2,134

35,913
62,740

Miguel Barbachano.
Gen.Faustin Soulouque.

Fructuoso Rivera.

Emperor.
Pedro II.

Name.

Ernest
Bernard

Joseph

Leopold
Alexander

REIGNING SOVEREIGNS OF EUROPE.

Title.

Henry XX.
Henry LXII.

Leopold

do. do. Duke

do.

do.

do.

Oscar I. King Sweden and Norway July, 1799 Mar. 8, 1844 45 Lutheran
Nicholas I. Emperor Russia
July 6, 1796 Dec. 1, 1825 29 Greek Ch.
Christ'n VIII. King
Sep. 18, 1786 Dec. 3, 1839 54 Lutheran
Victoria Queen
May 24, 1819 June 20, 1837 18 Pr. Episc.
William II. King
Dec. 6, 1792 Oct. 7, 1840 48 Reformed
Leopold
do.
Dec. 16, 1790 July 21, 1831 40 Lutheran*
Fred. Wm. IV. do.
Oct. 15, 1795 June 7, 1840 45 Evangelical
Frederick
do.
May 18, 1797 June 6, 1836 39 Catholic*
Ern. Augustus do.
June 5, 1771 July 20, 1837 66 Protestant

do.

Fred. Francis Gr. Duke Mecklenburg-Schwer. Feb. 28, 1823 Mar. 7, 1842 19 Lutheran
George V.
Mecklenburg-Strelitz Aug. 12, 1779 Nov. 6, 1816 37
Augustus
Oldenburg
William
Adolphus

July 13, 1783 May 21, 1829 46
Apr. 25, 1806 Apr. 25, 1831 25
July 24, 1817 Aug. 20, 1839 22 Evangelical

do.
do.

Brunswick
Nassau

Ch. Frederick Gr. Duke Saxe-Weimar-Eisen Feb. 2, 1783 June 14, 1828 45 Lutheran
Duke Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

do.

Jan. 2, 1784 Dec. 9, 1806 22
Saxe-Meiningen-Hild Dec. 17, 1800 Dec. 24, 1803 3

do.

do. do.

do. do.

Aug. 27, 1789 Sep. 29, 1834 45
Oct. 1, 1794 Aug. 9, 1817 22 Evangelical
Mar. 2, 1805 Mar. 24, 1834 29 do.
July 30, 1778 Aug. 23, 1830 52 Reformed
Nov. 6, 1793 Apr. 28, 1807 13 Lutheran
Sep. 24, 1801 Sep. 3, 1835 33
June 29, 1794 Oct. 31, 1836 40
May 31, 1785 Apr. 17, 1818 32 do.
Nov. 6, 1796 Apr. 4, 1802 5 Reformed
Dec. 20, 1784 Feb. 13, 1787 2
do.
Sep. 20, 1789 Sep. 9, 1813 24 Evangelical
Mar. 11, 1779 Jan. 19, 1839 60 Reformed
Aug. 29, 1790 Mar. 30, 1830 40 Evangelical
July 28, 1777 Feb. 27, 1821 44 Reformed
Dec. 26, 1777 Apr. 6, 1830 52 Lutheran
Hohenzol'n Sigmar'n Feb 20, 1785 Oct. 17, 1831 46 Catholic
Hohenzol'n Hechin'n Feb. 16, 1801 Sep. 12, 1838 37
Lichtenstein
Wurtemburg
Louis
do. Bavaria
Ferdinand Emperor Austria
Louis Philip King France
Isabella II. Queen Spain
Maria II.
do.
Charles Albert King
Leopold II.
Gr. Duke Tuscany
Maria Louisa Duchess Parma

Louis II.
Chas. Antony Prince
Fred. William do.

do.

Aloys Joseph
William

do.
King

do.
do.

do.
do.

May 26, 1796 Apr. 20, 1836 39 do.
Sep. 27, 1781 Oct. 30, 1816 35 Lutheran
Aug. 25, 1786 Oct. 13, 1825 39 Catholic
Apr. 19, 1793 Mar. 2, 1835 42
Oct. 6, 1773 Aug. 9, 1830 57
Oct. 10, 1830 Sep. 29, 1833 3
Apr. 4, 1819 May 2, 1826 7
Oct. 2, 1798 Apr. 27, 1831 32
Oct. 3, 1797 June 18, 1824 26
Dec. 12, 1791 May 30, 1814 22
Oct. 6, 1779 June 8, 1815 35
Dec. 23, 1799 Mar. 13, 1824 24
1792 June 21, 1846 54
Jan. 12, 1810 Nov. 8, 1830 20 do.
June 1, 1815 May 7, 1832 17
do.*
Apr. 20, 1823 July 1, 1839 16 Mahometan

do
do.

Francis IV. Duke
Charles Louis
do.
Pius IX
Pope
Ferdinand II. King
Otho
do.
Abdul Medjid Sultan

Modena and Massa
Lucca
States of the Church
Two Sicilies

do.
do.
do.

do.

do.

Henry

Fred. Gunther Prince

Gunther II.

do.

State.

Denmark
Great Britain
Holland or Netherl'ds
Belgium
Prussia

Saxony
Hanover

Saxe-Altenburg
Anhalt-Dessau

Anhalt-Bernburg
Anhalt-Cothen
Schwartz'g Rudolst't.
Schwartz'g Sonder'n
Reuss, Elder Line
Reuss, Younger Line
Lippe-Detmold
Lippe-Schauenburg

do. do. do.

do.

do.

Waldeck

Geo. William
George
Philip Aug'tus L'ndg've Hesse-Homburg
Ch.Leopold Fr. Gr. Duke Baden
William II.

Elector Hesse-Cassel

Gr. Duke Hesse-Darmstadt

Greece
Turkey

Portugal
Sardinia

*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.

Andorre, Pyrenees, Repub. *Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchy, *Anhalt-Cothen, do. *Anhalt-Dessau, do. *Austria, Empire, *Baden, Grand Duchy, *Bavaria, Kingdom, Belgium, do. *Bremen, Free City, *Brunswick, Duchy, Church,States of, Popedom, Denmark, Kingdom, France, do. *Frankfort, Free City, Great Britain, Kingdom, Greece,

do. *Hamburg, Free City, Republic; senate and common council, *Hanover, Kingdom, Limited monarchy; two chambers, *Hesse Cassel, Electorate, Limited sovereignty; one chamber, *Hesse Darmstadt, G. Duchy, Limited sovereignty; two chambers, *Hesse Homb'g, Landg'v'te, Absolute sovereignty, *Hohenzol.-Hechingen, Pr. Limited; one chamber, *Hohenzol.-Sigmaring'n,do. Do.

do.

Holland, with Luxemburg, Limited monarchy; two chambers,
Ionian Islands, Republic, Under Brit. protec.; council and chamb.,
*Lichtenstein, Principality, Limited monarchy; with one chamber,
*Lippe-Detmold, do.
Do.
do.
*Lubec, Free City,
Lucca, Duchy,
*Mecklen.-Schwerin, G. Du.
*Mecklenburg-Strelitz, do.
Modena and Massa, Duchy,
Monaco, Principality,
*Nassau, Duchy,
*Oldenburg, Grand Duchy,
Parma, Duchy,

Republic; senate and common council,
Limited sovereignty; with one chamber,
Limited monarchy; with one chamber,
Do.
do.
Absolute sovereignty,

Do.

Portugal, Kingdom, *Prussia, da.

*Reuss, Principalities of, tRussia, Enpire,

San Marino, Republic, Sardinia, Kingdom, *Saxony, do. *Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy, *Saxe-Cob'g and Gotha, do. *Saxe-Mein.-Hildburg., do. *Saxe-Weim.-Eisenach, do. *Schwartzburg, Principal of *Schauenburg-Lippe, Prin. Sicilies, The Two, Kingdom, Spain,

do. Sweden and Norway, do. Switzerland, Republic, +Turkey, Empire,

Tuscany, Grand Duchy, *Waldeck, Principality, *Wurtemburg, Kingdom,

Form of Government.

With two syndics and a council,
States having limited powers,
do.
do.

Do.

Do.

Absolute monarchy,except Hungary,&c.
Limited sovereignty; two chambers,
Limited monarchy;
do.
do.

Do.

Republic; senate and convention,
Limited sovereignty; one chamber,
Absolute elective sovereignty,
Absolute monarchy; with prov. states,
Limited monarchy; two chambers,
Republic; senate and legislative body,
Limited monarchy ; lords and commons,
Limited monarchy,

Limited sovereignty; two chambers,
Absolute sovereignty,

Do.

Limited monarchy; one chamber of rep.,
Absolute monarchy; provincial states,
Limited sovereignty; one chamber,
Absolute monarchy,

Senate and council of ancients,
Absolute monarchy,

Limited monarchy; two chambers,
Limited monarchy; one chamber,
do.

do.

do.

Do.
Do.

Do.

Do

Do.

do.

do.

Limited monarchy; with a council,
Limited monarchy; with a legislature,
Lim. monarchy; with a diet & storthing,
Confederation of republics; a diet,
Absolute monarchy,

Absolute sovereignty,

Limited sovereignty; one chamber,
Limited monarchy; two chambers,
Total,

Square Popu

miles.

lation.

190

336

310

40,200

337 61,480 255,226 36,519,560

5,712 1,263,100 28,435 4,315,469 12,569 4,242,600

+ Including Poland.

7,000

46,920

67 57,800 1,525 269,000 17,048 2,782,436 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

154

23,400 20,200

136

42,990

383 13,890 2,915,396 998 208,100 52 6,520 82,970

432

142

47,200

410

158,900

482,652

87,820

4,701

1,094

2,073 403,000 50 7,000 1,736 379,262 2,470 267,660 2,184 465,673 34,500 3,550,000 106,302 14,330,146

588 103,550 2,041,809 62,500,000 21 7,600 28,830 4,168,797 5,705 1,652,114 491 121,590 790 140,050

148,590

880 1,403

245,820

756

55,810

205 27,600 41,521 7,975,850 176,480 12,286,941 284,530 4,156,900 17,208 2,125,480 183,140 9,545,000 8,302 1,436,785 455 56,480 7,568 1,634,654 3,708,871

FRANCE.

MINISTRY.

Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, Pres. of the Council.

M. Guizot,

M. Martin (du Nord),

Duke de Montebello,

Count Duchatel,
M. Cunin Gridaine,

M. Sayr,

M. Villemain (Peer),

M. Dumont,
Gen. Frezel.

Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Minister of Justice and Public Worship.
Minister of Marine and the Colonies.

Minister of the Interior.

Minister of Commerce and Agriculture.
Minister of Public Works.
Minister of Public Instruction.

Minister of Finance.
Minister of War.

GREAT BRITAIN.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

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.
Prince of Wales. Albert Edward, born Nov. 9, 1841.
Princess Royal. Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843.
Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6, 1844.

A Royal Prince.
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.

MINISTRY.-Formed July, 1846.

The above form the Cabinet.

Salary.

£5,000

14,000

2,000

2,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

4,500

2,500

2,000

2,580

20,000

PARLIAMENT.

The Parliament of Great Britain consists of a House of Lords and a House of Commons.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The House of Lords consists of Lords Temporal, who are Peers of the and realm, and whose honors, immunities, and privileges, are hereditary; Lords Spiritual, consisting of Archbishops and Bishops.

The House of Lords is composed of all the five orders of nobility of England, viz. dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons, who have attained the age of 21 years, and labor under no disqualification; of 16 representative peers from Scotland; 28 representative peers from Ireland; 2 English archbishops and 24 bishops, and 4 representative Irish bishops.