WILLIS A. GORMAN, of St. Paul, Governor and Superintendent of Term ends. Salary. BRIGHAM YOUNG, of Salt Lake City, Governor and Sup't of Indian Affairs, 1857, $2,500 Secretary, 66 1,800 1857. Broughton D. Harris, JUDICIARY. Associate Justice, " Zerubbabel Snow, * A provisional government has been organized in Nebraska Territory. Attorney, Fees and 200 Fees. XXXVII. 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. Russia Sweden and Norway July 4, 1799 Mar. 8, 1844 45 Lutheran Holland orNetherlands Feb. 19, 1817 Mar. 17, 1849 32 Reformed Denmark Victoria I. Queen Great Britain George V. Belgium Hanover George Brunswick Dec. 16, 1790 July 21, 1831 40 Lutheran* Fred. Francis Grand Duke Mecklenburg-Schwer. Feb. 28, 1823 Mar. 7, 1842 19 Lutheran Chs. Alexander "" 66 Ferdinand Landgrave Oldenburg Mecklenburg-Strelitz Aug. 12, 1779 Nov. 6, 1816 37 Oct. 1, 1794 Aug. 9, 1817 22 Evangelical Lippe Schaumburg Hesse Homburg Frederict PrinceRegent Baden Hesse-Cassel Grand Duke Hesse-Darmstadt 66 Ernest II. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Saxe-Meiningen Saxe-Altenburg Anhalt-Dessau Frederic Wm. Elector Louis III. Chas. Antony 1 Prince Frederic 1 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, 1824, who is under guardianship by reason of insanity. 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 Co1 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 Almanach de Gotha for 1853. Andorra, Pyrenees, Repub. With two syndics and a council, *Anhalt-Bernburg, Duchy, States having limited powers, 1850 *Anhalt-Cothen,t 43,120 1850 112 79,047 1849 *Balen, Grand Duchy, *Bavaria, Kingdom, *Bremen, Free City, *Frankfort, Free City, Republic; senate and assembly, Limited monarchy; with prov. states, 21,856 2,296,597 a 1850 203,736 35,781,628 6 1851 91 70,244 1849 116.700 27,435,325 149 188,054 14,600 1,758,847 1851 18,244 998,266 1851 1848 Limited sovereignty; two chambers, 66 Absolute sovereignty, 41,521 8.681.289 1851 66 Limited monarchy; two chambers, Limited sovereignty; one chamber, Senate and council of ancients, *Saxe-Altenburg, Duchy, 2,120,397 60,362,315 Sicilies, The Two, Kingdom, Absolute monarchy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, 66 Switzerland, Republic, Tuscany, Grand Duchy, *Wurtemberg, Kingdom, Limited monarchy; with a legislature, *Member of the Confederation of Germany. United to Anhalt-Dessau and Bernburg, since November 23, 1847. ! Including Poland and Finland. 176,480 14,216,219 1849 1849 S170,715 3,433,803 121,725 1,328,471 1845 15,261 2,390,116 1850 189.920 15,500,000 1844 8,712 1,761,140 1851 455 58,219 1850 7,568 1,802,252 1850 3,768,506 263 517.521 Including Wallachia, Moldavia, and Servia, containing respectively 2,600,000, 1.400,000, and 1,000,000 inhabitants. u 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 are miles. |