Austrian States amounts to 250,000. Hungary possesses the greatest number, having 163,000, among whom are mentioned four princely families, 84 with the title of count, 76 of baron, and 300 simple nobles. Galicia has 24,900 noblemen; Bohemia only 2,260, which are divided into 14 princely families, 172 counts, and 80 barons.

The great natural wealth of Austria is as yet very indifferently developed, less than one-third of the area of the empire being under cultivation. The arable land, continuously or intermittingly under tillage, comprises 3,582 Austrian square miles, distributed among the several provinces as follows:

It is computed that the average value of the soil throughout the whole empire is approximately as follows:-An acre of arable land is worth 150 florins, or 147. 7s.; an acre of garden-ground, 400 florins, or 381.; an acre of vineyard, 300 florins, or 287. 14s.; an acre of meadow land, 150 florins, or 14l. 7s.; an acre of pasture ground, 50 florins, or 4l. 14s.; and an acre of woodland, 40 florins, or 31. 16s.

Trade and Commerce.

The total value of the imports and exports of Austria was as follows during the twelve years from 1851 to 1862:

1851 158,074.663 136,524,444 1857 292,995,251 242,363,721 1852 209,329,840 195,804,828 1858 308,285,929 275,599,871 1853 207,262,290 228,924,871 1859 268,227,783 1854 219,165,017 228,440,293 1860 231,226,702 1855 248,288,157 244,134,142 1861 235,847,057 307,680,155 1856 301,144,329 263,928,641 1862 214,918,496 333,853,018

292,363,721

305,197,493

The chief commodities imported into the United Kingdom from Austria are corn and flour, hemp, tallow, glass beads, olive oil, quicksilver, currants, cream of tartar, lard, seed, shumac, sponge, wood, and wool. In 1862, the total value of the imports amounted to 1,179,8027.; in 1861, to 1,246,0467.; and in 1860, to 986,3647. The following tabular statement embodies the values in pounds sterling of the different items imported in the years 1860 and 1861 :—

The declared value of British produce and manufactures shipped to the Austrian dominions in 1862 was 787,5617., an amount less by 180,3407. than in 1861, and by 206,1087. than in 1860. Cotton manufactures and cotton yarn alone produced more than a moiety of the yearly transactions. Subjoined are given the values of the most prominent items exported to Austria in the years 1860 and 1861 :

The total imports and exports of Austria, to and from all countries, were divided as follows, in 1861, among the eighteen chief classes of the Imperial custom-tariff:

The subjoined tabular statement gives the number and tonnage of vessels of each nation entered and cleared at ports in Austria, in the year 1861:

The above statement has only regard to actual shipping, and does not include vessels which only called for repairs and supplies at Austrian ports.

The commercial marine of Austria consisted, in June 1862, of 9,703 vessels, of an aggregate burthen of 349,157 tons, and manned by 34,664 sailors. Only 606 of these ships, of 228,800 tons burthen, with 6,742 seamen, were for the 'long course,' and all the rest small coasting vessels. But the list comprised 59 steamers, of 21,338 tonnage, with 1,700 sailors.

BELGIUM.

Reigning Sovereign and Family.

Leopold I., King of the Belgians, born Dec. 16, 1790, the son of Duke Francis of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg; educated for the military career; general in the Russian army, 1808-10, and again, 1813–15. Married, May 2, 1816, to Princess Charlotte, daughter of the late King George IV. of Great Britain, who died Nov. 6, 1817; naturalised by Act of Parliament of May 27, 1816; nominated in the same year Duke of Kendal, field-marshal in the army of Great Britain, a member of the Privy Council, and a Knight of the Order of the Garter. Refused the crown of Greece, February 1830. Elected King of the Belgians by the National Congress of Belgium, June 4, 1831; accepted the offer, July 12, and ascended the throne, July 21, 1831. Married to Princess Louise, daughter of King Louis Philippe of the French, Aug. 9, 1832, and widower, a second time, Oct. 11, 1850. Issue of the second marriage: -1. Leopold, Duke of Brabant, and heirapparent of Belgium, born April 9, 1835; married Aug. 22, 1853, to Archduchess Marie of Austria, born Aug. 23, 1836, the daughter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria. Offspring of the union are two children, Princess Louise, born Feb. 18, 1858, and Prince Leopold, Count of Hainault, born June 12, 1859; 2. Philip, Count of Flanders, born March 24, 1837, major-general in the service of Belgium; 3. Princess Charlotte, born June 7, 1840; married July 27, 1857, to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, brother of the reigning emperor, Francis Joseph I.

King Leopold I., of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg, is the first sovereign of Belgium, the youngest kingdom in Europe. Leopold I. has a civil list of 2,751,000 francs, or 110,0407. An additional

sum of 1,450,390 francs, or 58,0167., is granted for court expenses and dotations to members of the royal house, making the sum total allowed by the country to the sovereign family 4,201,390 francs, or 168,0567. On the marriage of Leopold with the daughter of George IV., the parliament of Great Britain settled 50,000l. upon him for life; but this sum he relinquished on his accession to the throne of Belgium. The king established, not without opposition on the part of the Legislature, the civil and military order of Leopold, on July 11, 1832. King Leopold has remained attached to