The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-08
GERMANY.
Tne Royal Families of EurOpe-The Ger.
man North Pole Expedition -AzIrAcu-

A CORES pondeDt writes as follows to the New
York Euentng POST
FRANKFoRr. oN-rHE- MAIN, January As
regularly as New Years day comes round we
are treated to pretty full report OF the present
state of European royalty, giving us accounts
of the number OF deathe, marriages, births,
divorces and engagements that have taken
place among the royal families during the past
year-simple facts, with no word OF comment.
The number Of European sovereigns' since Ine Ie
Spanish Revolution is thrty-eight among whom
are four empeTors tncluding the Emperor Oh
BraziD, the Sultan, the Pope, ten kings, one
queen, six grand dukes, i've dukes ana ten PTlu
ces (inCluding the Prince OF MonacO)' eoIuesN
of these ia the Pope aged 764 years. There are
three others already past threesc0re anu tenT -
namely the King of Prussia; tue Duke OF AnuaIs
tthe Oldest secular prlnce), and the Prince o.
Sohwarz burg Rudolstadt. OF the rematnder
there are five whose ages vary fron 6O 10 ~
wears; seven from 80 to 60; twelve trom 4O 10 oV'
six without the eX Qucen of Spatn) IRON 5O W
40 and four from 20 to 80. The youngest IS inc
Prince Heinrich Reuss xxi (of the older linel,
who Is 222 years old. The average age OF the
Hoypreigns is As years, and twenty-five OF tue
retiring potentates have already passed thaJ
age. The Duke of Anhalt has reigued htty-one
years and We months, the longest OF any Euro,
mean ruler. Ofthe others four have governed
rom 30 TO 40 years: six from 20 TO 80; twelve
from 10 10 20; the others began TO reign within
the last ten years. The average length OF reign
is l65 yeare, and nineteen OF the soVerelgns nave
already passed that PERIOD. .
Daring the past year seven members of the
Ruropean royal families died, five males and
fWn L
bavaria, aged 80; Duke Joseph of Sake Alten.
burg. aged 70; Duke Ernst Of WurtembeTg, aged
6l; Landgrave Karl OF Hesse Phlllppsthal, age
65; Count Hugo of Lippe-Weissenteld, aged %;
PRINCESS Emma of Schaumburg-Lippe aged 3;
and Countess Gustave of Lppe-W Welssenteld X,
widow aged 70. Among the cardinals only one
has been called away-Cardlnal iBishop dan
drea, aged 56. -
in number-twelve princes aud eight prlncesses
sons Of the King OF Greece, Grand Duke oil
Tuscany, Crown Princes of Russia and Prussia,
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, hereditary
Prince of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Prince OF
Teck Princes Friedrich and Ludwig OF hesse,
Alfred of Liechenstein, Wilhelm OF Scnaum-
berg-Lippe and Alexander of Oldenburg; daugn-
ters OF the Emperor of Austria, Prince OF Wales,
hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Duke Wilhelm OF
Necklenburg Sch wern, the infant Prince Don
Carlos of Spain, Prince Adalbert, OF Bavaria,
and Nikolaus Of 0ldenburg, and Count Franz oil
Lippe- -WeissenfeId.
The marriages are neuly three times as many
rs in the previous year, being eleven IN 1865
against four in 1867 The following are the
names:-The titular Grand Duke Ferdinand ~
with Princess Alice of Parma; Crown Prince
Humbert of I'alS with his cousin Margerethe,
granddaughter of the King of Saxony; Grapd
Duke Friedrich Franz IL OF MeCkenburg-
SchWeru, his third marriage, with Princess
Marie OF Sch warsburg- -Rudols'adt; Archduke
Heinrich of Austria with Mis- Leopoldiue Hoit-
mann; Duke kolaus OF Wuttemoerg with his
niece the Ducn 3ss Wllbelmine; Duke of Aiencon
tson of the Duke of Ncmours) aud Princess
Sophie of Bavaria, the former Oetrothed of the
young Ludwig IL of Bavaria; Count Alons of
CaseIta prince OF the Two, sicitiesl with n his
cousin Antonio, daughter of the Conut of Ira
PAM; Count Gaetan Of Girgentl (brother OF the
former) with Princess Isabella OF Spain; Prince
Alexander OF Oidenburg with Princess Eugenie
of LeuChtenburg Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (son
of Prince LuitpOld) with ArChduChess Maria
Theresa of Austria-Es.e; Prince Nikolhas OF
Nassau with Natalie Won Puschkln, Countess OF
Nuremberg Besides these marriages there are
UiOn.-Hhn Prince
Denmark to the Princess Louise of Sweden
daughter OF the King. The marriage of the
Prince Wilhelm OF Hanau (son of the Elector o
Hesse) with the Princess Elizabeth of SGlaum
burg-Lippe, is again dissolved.
There are five severe ignswho have never been
married, name ly:-Basides the Pope, the young
King Ludwig III of Bavaria, the Duke OF Bruins
wick, the Prince of fLiechtenstein aud Reuss told
line). Of the rest six are widowed: The Queer
OF England, the King of Italy, the Grand DukC
of Hesse, the Duke OF Anhalt and Princes o
Schwarzburg. RUdolstadt and Monaco. Tn,
Prince of SChwarZburg-SO -SOnderhausen is di
Vorced, and the Sultan lives in pOlygdmy. Thu!
there yet remain twenty-five Christian soVe
reigns regularly married Tone for the third time
and one the second). ut the lady cOnsorts, tht
oldest is the Queen Of Saxony, aged 81; of thu
rest three are from 90 10 90; eleven, 40 to 80
six, 80 TO 40; two, 20 to 80 years OF age. TIL
Two youngest are the Duchess OF Mecklenourg
Schweriu, aged lS, aud the Queen of Greece
aged II years and four months. The average i
forty years, and the average duration OF marrlag
Twenty-Five sovereigns excepting the eX
Queen of Spain) have sons who will probab
succeed them; one Uhe Emperor of BraZil),
daughter; six (among whom are the Kings o
Bavaria and SWeden), brothers; three lincludn
the Sultan) have collateral relations; while o.
the death of the Pope, the Dukes of Brunswick
and Reuss (old line) the governments will pas
over to another dynasty or line. Of these
hereditary princes and presumptive successors
whose aversge age is twehty-four years eleve
months the eldest are those Of Wnrtember
lsixtll and Hesse-Darmstadt (dfty.nine); fou
are not yet ten years Old-namely the crow
and hereditary princess OF Belgium mine and
half, Portugal, Waldeck, and Greece (born la:
year). Among these iomittinc the Turkish heiI
but including the Brazilian crown prince) tWely
are married, eight Of whom have children, an
another is engaged to be married. The oldees
OF these hereditary princes Is the Prince Karl {
Hesse.Darmstadt, aged hfty-fVe and half; an
the youngest is the Crown Prince HumOert {
Italy aged seventeen years, who was marie
last year.
THE GERMAN NORTH POLE EXPEDITION.
This expedition will doubtless be sent on
early in the summer, as Dr.. Petermann does no
mean TO allow the French TO get ahead. Tn
letter of Prince Napoleon TO NJ. Lambert, of tn
French North Pole Expedition, has served /
reinspire the Germans With spirit towards th
carrying out OF Petermann's plans. The Prince
gift of ten thousand iraucs, and his remark thg
State aid should not be requested, is q 200
example TO the French people; but the German
90 not need such lnGltemeDt, for the whole nj
noh reels very determined pride that sucCes
must crown the efforts OF the bold undertakes
Of the expedition,
Or; Petermann says that Captain KQldeWa
Aot the Germanla) will probably leave Breme
WIN tne whole heet in February in order
gaih 0etter acquaintance with the ice relation
Vi the ROAR seas before proceeding on the rea
eApedlnon. The committee ia whose hand
Ihe carrying out Of the expedition is PLACED