The subjoined table shows the quantities and value of the principal articles of domestic produce exported from the kingdom of Portugal, distinguishing the principal countries to which exported, in the year 1856: :

The returns of the commercial movement of the port of Lisbon are of later date than those for the whole kingdom. The following table gives the value of merchandise imported and exported at the port of Lisbon, from and to various countries, in the year 1860-61::

Imports and Exports at the Port of Lisbon for 1860–61- continued.

The following is the estimated total value of the imports and exports at the port of Funchal, Madeira, distinguishing the trade in British vessels, in each year from 1857 to 1860 :—

The gradual falling-off of the export trade of Madeira is stated to be owing chiefly to the failure of the wine crop for a number of years.

Colonies.

The once flourishing and vast colonies of the Portuguese in Asia are now reduced to Gao, Salcete, Damao, Macao, and settlements in the islands Sodor, Timor, and Mindoro. Even these possessions are gradually bartered away to other nations; a sale of some of the islands to the King of the Netherlands took place in 1860. In Africa, Portugal retains the governments of Angola and Congo in

South Guinea; Mozambique on the eastern coast, and some establishments in Senegambia, with various islands. The population of these colonial possessions, in the year 1858, amounted to

The colonial budget for the year 1860-61, estimated, for the whole of the possessions, a revenue of 978,537 milreis, and an expenditure of 1,066,157 milreis, leaving a deficit of 86,620 milreis, or 19,4587. The average deficit for the preceding years amounted to above 20,000l.

PRUSSIA.

Reigning Sovereign and Family.

William I., King of Prussia, born March 22, 1797, the second son of King Frederick William III. and of Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; educated for the military career, and took part in the campaigns of 1813 and 1815 against France; appointed Governor of the province of Pomerania, 1840; fled from Prussia to England, March 20, 1848; elected member of the Constituent Assembly for Wiesitz, Posen, May 15, 1848; returned to Berlin and took seat in the Assembly, June 8, 1848; Commander-in-chief of the Prussian troops against the revolutionary army of Baden, June 1849; appointed Military Governor of the Rhine provinces, Oct. 1, 1849; appointed Regent of the kingdom during the mental illness of his brother, Oct. 9, 1858; ascended the throne at the death of his brother, Jan. 2, 1861. Married June 11, 1829, to

Augusta, Queen of Prussia, born Sept. 30, 1811, the daughter of the late Grand-Duke Charles Frederick of Saxe-Weimar. Offspring of the union are a son and a daughter:-1. Prince Frederick William, heir-apparent, born Oct. 18, 1831; married Jan. 25, 1858, to Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, of which marriage there are issue three children, namely, Frederick William, born Jan. 27, 1859; Charlotte, born July 24, 1860; and Henry, born Aug. 14, 1862. 2. Princess Louise, born Dec. 3, 1838, married Sept. 20, 1856, to Grand-Duke Frederick of Baden.

Brothers and Sisters of the King.-1. Prince Charles, born June 29, 1801; Commander-in-chief of the Prussian artillery; married, May 26, 1827, to Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, of which union there are three children, namely, Prince Frederick Charles, born March 20, 1828, and married, Nov. 29, 1854, to Princess Maria of Anhalt-Dessau, by whom he has three daughters; Princess Louise, born March 1, 1829, and married, June 27, 1854, to the Landgrave Alexis of Hesse-Philippsthal, from whom she was divorced March 6, 1861; and Princess Anna, born May 17, 1836, who married, May 26, 1853, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Cassel. 2. Princess Alexandrine, born Feb. 23, 1803; married, May 25, 1822, to Grand-Duke