Interesting European Statistics.
MACMILLIAN & CO., the London publishers, in announcing the “Statesman’s Year Book” for 1867, make an interesting comparison of the state of Europe in 1817 and in 1867:—The half century has extinguished three kingdoms, one grand duchy, eight duchies, four principalities, one electorate, and four republics. Three new kingdoms have arisen, and one kingdom has been transformed into an empire. There are now forty-one states in Europe, against fifty-nine which existed in 1817. It may be remarked that the nineteen grand dukes and dukes and princes of 1867 will be much less ducal and princely (thanks to one Bismark) than the thirty-two who ruled in 1817. Not less remarkable is the territorial extension of the superior states of the world. Russia has annexed 567,364 square miles; the United States, 1,968,009; France, 4,620; Prussia, 29,781. Sardinia, expanding into Italy, has increased by 83,041. The Indian Empire has been augmented by 431,616. The principal states that have lost territory are Turkey, Mexico, Austria, Denmark, and the Netherlands.