The Handbook of Sovereigns.
The
Almanac de Guten presents this year some curious discrepancies worthy of note.
It preserves in their places the States of
Italy which have been annexed to the
Pledmonies Monarchy, and yet admits the Kingdom of
Italy, saying, ‘"
Victor Emanuel takes by the law of the 17th of March, 1861. the title of
King in
Italy."’ In addition, full details of the new provinces are given in the statistical plan.
But on the other hand, it admits some new States not before recognized by the
Almanac, such as the republic of Hayll, the Kingdom of the
Sandwich Islands, and the Empires of
Japan and
China.
In the
Sandwich islands, the
King, named
Alexander Giholiho Kamashomeha IV., is declared to be twenty six years old, and married to an American lady,
Miss Ruker, His son has the title of Prices of
Hawaii; his brother is Generalissimo, and his
sister Prime Minister J — He has a Council of State, three Ministers, and a Marshal, a Receiver General, and a Supreme Court.
The majority of the
European States have representatives there.
The kingdom forms four insular provinces, peopled by 70,000 inhabitants.
The oldest sovereign in
Europe is still the
King of Wurtemburg.
80 years of age, and the youngest the
Prince of
Rouse-Greiz, who is 16½ years old. The sovereign who has reigned the longest is the
Duke of
Saxe Mainingon, who came to the throne 59 years age, while the most recent is the Sultan.
The work also gives a list of the different Orders, 134 in number of which six are for women.
The State possessing most is
Bavaria, which has 11; then in and
Austria, which have 10,
Russia 8, and
Fingal and
Sweden 6.
The Italian Revolution addressed six orders in
Naples, one in Modens in
Parma, and five in
Tuscany.
