The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-03-11

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600 persons. There is also Hospodar o
Montenegro, Nicholas L by name, but hC
has only 10000 subjects The Imaun
of Yemen, of whom we scarcely evel
hear, can claim much more than this, fol-
he rules over no fewer than 100000
The Emir of Morocco is still more power
full, ruling over s,OOO,o 900 subjects.
WHAT'S IN A NAME.
An examination of the list of the rulers
of the Kingdoms of the world show that
they are distinguished by the following
titles: Emperor, Gar, King, Queen,
Grand Duke, Duke, Prince, Shah, Khan,
Imaum, Emir, Lama, Tenno, Sultan, Hos.
podar, Hoang-ti, Taksir-Khan, Khedive
and Bey. Besides all these there are
three Burgomasters (of the three free
cities of Lubbock, Bremen and Hamburg);
a group of seven Captain Regents who
direct the affairs of the tiny republic of
San Marine; a "Domnu," or Prince of
Roumania, who just now is Prince Charles
of the house Of Hohenzollern and a
First-Syndic," to whom is confded by
its ten thousand inhabitants, the custody
of the little republic of Andorre in the
Pyrenees.
There are two Shahs-those of Persia
and Afghanistan; three Khans-of Box
hara, Khokan and Khiva; three Sultans-
of Turkey, Borneo and Zanzibar; two
Imaums-of Muscat and Yemen; one
Khedive-of Egypt; and one Bey-of
Tripoi. OF the twenty Presidents, two
Marshal MacMahon, of France, and Buen-
ventura Baez, of Dominica-are only
provisional.
FALLEN AND RISING STARS.
By the political changes of the last few
years the number of rulers is much re-
duced. The Kings of Naples and Han
over, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the
Dukes of Parma and Modena are all blot
ted out of official existence. The Elector
of Hesse, and several minor German
Dukes, have also retired to private life,
sorely against their will.
Among those who have lately come to
power by the recent death OF their prede-
cessors are Johannes, Emperor of Abys-
sinia, who succeeds Theodorus, killed in
battle; Lerdo de Tejada, President of
Mexico, elected in place of Benito Juarez,
deceased; Marshal MacMahon, President
professionally of France, elected in place
of NJ. Theirs, who offered his resignation
it would not be accepted; Oscar
H., King of Sweden and Norway, who
succeeds in place of his brother, the late
King; Lunalilo, the King of the Sand
witch Islands, who succeeds Kamehameha
v, and Albert, King of Saxony, who has
occupied the throne only few weeks, in
place of his father, the late King John.
Several of these rulers have lately been
specially indebted to good fortune for
their prominence in the eyes of the world,
and for the extent of their power. The
King of Italy, in the last dozen years, has
risen from petty political eminence to
vast power The King of Prussia has be-
come the Emperor of Germany. The
President of the United States has secured
second term and doubled salary
Among the minor rulers are the two
Ienrys of Reuss-Henry XIII of the
.lder line, and Henry XIV of the young
r line. Both together they rule over
bout 10000 subjects. Of course, like
Adolphus of Lippe-Schaumburg, Leopold
# Lippe-Detmold, Louis Ill of Hcsse-
)armstadt, and John H. of Lichtenstein,
hey have no weight in European politics.
THE POPE.
In this brief resume of the governments
f this world no mention has yet been :
made of the Pope of Rome Indeed his s
ule now is almost wholly spiritual, and t
is tenancy of the palace of the Vatican i
$ really only by courtesy of the King of f
tally. A few years ago he held temporal t
way over large part of the italian terri /
Dry. 1t is now said that he expects to {
We until his ninetieth year, and see these t
restored to him once more.
hat his life may be prolonged everybody S
ill hope; but on the question of the res e
'ration of his worldly power there is diff :
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