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himself in the battle of Chickatnauga in Sep- 

 tember, 1863, and was soon after aligned to 

 the command of the Fourth Army Corps. He 

 took a prominent part in the operations around 

 riiiittanooga and in the battle of Missionary 

 KMge, November, 1868. He commanded a di- 

 visii.n at Kurt (iainos, Ala., in August, 1864, 

 and was in command of the Thirteenth Army 

 Corps in the operations which resulted in the 

 fall of Mobile in the spring of 1865. He was 

 now made brevet-major-general in the U. S. 

 Army. Leaving the volunteer service, he be- 

 came Colonel of the Twenty-fifth and subse- 

 quently of the Fifteenth Infantry in the regu- 

 lar army. He was on duty with the latter 

 regiment at the time of his death. 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, a 

 kingdom of Western Europe The Queen, Vic- 

 toria, was born May 24, 1819. She is a daugh- 

 ter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth 

 son of George III. ; succeeded her uncle, Wil- 

 liam IV., as Queen of Great Britain in 1837; 

 married, in 1840, Priuce Albert of Saxe-Co- 

 burg-Gotha. 



Children of the Queen. 1. Princess Victo- 

 ria, born November 21, 1840 ; married to the 

 Crown-Prince of Germany. 2. Prince Albert 

 Edward, heir-apparent, born November 9, 1841 ; 

 married in 1868 to Princess Alexandra, daugh- 

 ter of King Christian IX. of, Denmark. Issue, 

 two sons and three daughters ; eldest son, Al- 

 bert Victor, born January 8, 1864. 3. Princess 

 Alice, born April 25, 1843; married in 1862 

 to Prince Lndwig of Hesse. 4. Prince Alfred, 

 Duke of Edinburgh, born August 6, 1844; 

 married in 1874 to the Grand-duchess Marie 

 of Russia. He is heir-apparent to the Duke 

 of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 5. Princess Helena, 

 born May 25, 1846 ; married in 1866 to Prince 

 Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- 

 Augustenburg. 6. Princess Louise, born March 

 18, 1848; married in 1871 to the Marquis of 

 Lome. 7. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught 

 and Strathearne, born May 1, 1850. 8. Prince 

 Leopold, born April 7, 1853. 9. Princess Be- 

 atrice, born April 14, 1857. 



The cabinet was composed as follows in 

 1876 : First Lord of the Treasury, Right Hon. 

 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield ; Lord 

 High -Chancellor, Right Hon. Lord Cairns; 

 Lord President of the Council, Right Hon. 

 Duke of Richmond and Gordon ; Lord Privy 

 Seal, the first Lord of the Treasury ; Chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer, Right Hon. Sir S. H. 

 Northcote, Bart., M. P. Secretaries of State : 



1. Home Department, Right Hon. R. A. Cross; 



2. Foreign Affairs, Earl of Derby ; 8. Colonies, 

 Earl of Carnarvon ; 4. War, Right Hon. G. 

 Hardy, M. P. ; 5. Colonies, Marquis of Salis- 

 bury. First Lord of the Admiralty, Right Hon. 

 George Ward Hunt, M.P. Postmaster-General, 

 Right Hon. Lord John J. R. Manners, M. P. 



Parliament is composed of two Houses, the 

 House of Lords and the House of Commons. 

 The number of peers in 1876 was 494. Of these, 

 5 were peers of the blood royal, 2 archbishops, 



J 1 dukes, 19 marquesses, 129 earls, 82 vicoonto, 

 24 bishops, and 262 barons. Of the total num- 

 ber, 16 were representative peers of Scot- 

 land, elected for the twenty-first Parliament, 

 and 28 Irish representative peers, elected for 

 life. The Speaker of the House of Lords was 

 Lord Cairns, the Lord High-Chancellor, and 

 the chairman of committees, Lord Redesdale. 

 The members of the House of Commons arc- 

 elected by the people. The number of electors 

 on register in 1876 was 2,340,763 in England 

 and Wales, 295,420 in Scotland, and 230,773 in 

 Ireland. The following table gives the area and 

 population of the British Empire, according to 

 the latest official statements and estimates : 



* That part of Kaffraria which hd been independent up to 

 the present time was united with the C*pe Colony by prod* 

 uiation of June 22, 1876. 



