tion arr lis Zollverein Council are vested the chief functions of the executive, while the Zollverein Parliament has legislative, together with some administrative powers. The Council has three committees, sitting in permanence, the taxes and customs committee, the trade committee, and the finance committee. All the receipt of the Zollverein are paid into a common exchequer, and distributed sata of population, among the members of the The wurces of revenue are import and export y the league. lied duties, and taxes a mirits, wine, sugar manufactured from beatroots, and tobases, har if imports being by far the most important. The gross resea if he mstoms of the Zouverein in the year 1865 amounted 1 21 291, wg thaiers, of which there came from import cues homiona Laera, and from export dues 991,085 thalers. In connacen wis the mear 1961 there was a diminution in the ante fem moc tues of 445,749 thalers, and from export dues of a tam naxing a wai of 541,256 thalers, or 1,1887 The stare & te umount of resista coming to Prussia, hen the men va tase va 10825 271 thalers, or 1,623,9407. he tota the word tax amounted, for 1865, to 9553.57 are of 1799. aut the transit dues upon spirits, the same 1,569 tuarers, or 1.4781. After deducting defera u ration compensations, back payments, &c. there the sum of 9,145.684 thalers, or 1,871,855l., russia and the states and countries in close union tae sum of 7,778.745 thalers, or 1,166,0697. 158. en of sugar from beet-roots, there were, in *2mm 295 factories, of which 252 were in semen of fresh beet-roots were used, and usive of register defects, deduction of administration, amonted e which Prussia received 202059 e levied on wine in the i her ear ia: k ** 30 Hof-und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Bayern. 8. München, 1869. 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Married, Feb. 10, 1840, to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha; widow, Dec. 14, 1861. Issue of the union are:-1. Princess Victoria, born Nov. 21, 1840; married, Jan. 25, 1858, to Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, eldest son of King Wilhelm I. of Prussia. There are offspring three sons and two daughters (see Prussia: Reigning Sovereign-page 104). 2. Prince Albert Edward, heir-apparent, born Nov. 9, 1841; married, March 10, 1863, to Princess Alexandra, eldest daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-SonderburgGlücksburg, present King Christian IX. of Denmark. Issue, two sons and three daughters:-Albert Victor, born Jan. 8, 1864; George, born June 3, 1865; Louise, born Feb. 20, 1867; Alexandra, born July 6, 1868; and Augusta, born Nov. 26, 1869. 3. Princess Alice, born April 25, 1843; married, July 1, 1862, to Prince Ludwig of Hesse. Issue, three daughters and one son (see Hessepage 183). 4. Prince Alfred, born Aug. 6, 1844; entered the royal navy, Aug. 31, 1858; created earl of Kent, earl of Ulster, and duke of Edinburgh, by letters patent of May 24, 1866. 5. Princess Helena, born May 25, 1846; married, July 5, 1866, to Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, born Jan. 22, 1831, formerly captain in the 3rd Regiment of Lancers of the Prussian army. Issue, two sons, Christian, born April 14, 1867, and Albert John, born Feb. 26, 1869. 6. Princess Louise, born March 18, 1848. 7. Prince Arthur, born May 1, 1850. 8. Prince Leopold, born April 7, 1853. 9. Princess Beatrice, born April 14, 1857. Cousins of the Queen.-1. George V., ex-King of Hanover, born at London, May 27, 1819, the son of Duke Ernest Augustus of Cumberland, fifth son of King George III. 2. Prince George, Duke of Cam |