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 150 GERMANY — BADEN.

V. BADEN.

(Grosshekzogthusi Baden.)

Reigning Sovereign and Family.

Friedrich I., Grand-duke of Baden, born September 9, 1826 ; second son of Grand-duke Leopold I., and of Princess Sophie of Sweden. Ascended the throne of Baden at the death of his father, April 24,1852, under the title of ' Regent' — his elder brother, liudwig, suffering under mental disease, having the nominal honours and title of Grand-duke allowed to him. Assumed the title of 'Grand-duke of Baden,' September 5, 185G. Married, September 20, 1856, to Grand-duchess Louise, born December 3, 1838, the daughter of King Wilhelm I. of Prussia. Offspring of the union are 1. Friedrich Wilhelm, heir-apparent, born July 9, 1857. 2. Victoria, born August 7, 1862. 3. Ludwig, born June 12, 1865.

Brothers and Sisters of the Grand-duke. — 1. Princess A lexandrine, born December 6, 1820 ; married, May 3, 1842, to Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 2. Prince Wilhelm, born December 18, 1829; married, February 11, 18G3, to Princess Maria Romanovska, born October 1 6, 1841, daughter of the late Duke Maximilian of Leuchten- berg, offspring of which union are two children, namely, Marie, bora July 26, 1865", and Maximilian, born July 10, 1867. 3. Prince Karl, born March 9, 1832. 4. Princess Marie, born November 20, 1834; married, September 11, 1858, to Prince Emst of Leiningen. 5. Princess Cecilia, born September 20, 1839 ; married, August 28 r 1857, to Grand-duke Michael of Russia, and, on becoming a convert to the Greek faith, adopted the name of Olga Feodorowna.

The title of Grand-duke was giren by Napoleon I. to Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden in 1806, on the occasion of the alliance of the heir-apparent of Baden with Stephanie Beauharnais.

The verv extensive landed property formerly belonging to the reigning family, and valued at about 50 million florins, or 4, 166,000/.,- lias been made over to the State, and the grand-duke is in the receipt of a civil list of 752,490 florins, or 62,700/. T which includes the allowances made to the princes and princesses.

Constitution and Revenue.

The constitution of Baden vests the executive power in the Grand-duke, and the legislative authority in a House of Parliament