Inauguration of Presidents of the United

States.

George Washington, 2 terms-8 years.. 1789-1793

John Adams, 1 term-4 years..1797 Thomas Jefferson, 2 terms-8 years..18011805

James Madison, 2 terms-8 years..18091813

James Monroe, 2 terms-8 years..18171821

John Quincy Adams, 1 term-4 years.. 1825 Andrew Jackson, 2 terms-8 years.. 18291833

Legislature of United States. The powers of the legislature, being nearly similar in all the states, are not enumerated in the above table. It may be proper to mention here, however, that the senate have no power to originate money bills, excepting in the states of Connecticut, New York, Ohio, North and South Carolina, and Missouri; and that in New Jersey and Maryland, the senate can neither originate nor alter such bills. In Virginia, all laws originate in the house of representatives. The powers of impeachment before the senate is vested in the house of representatives by all the state constitutions, except those of Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Maryland appears to have no court of impeachment, judicial officers being removable by conviction of misbehaviour in a court of law. In Virginia, the house of delegates impeach before the court of appeals. In North Carolina, state officers may be impeached before any state court of supreme jurisdiction, either by the general assembly, or by presentment of the grand jury of the court. No pardoning power any where exists in cases of impeachment

In Alabama a revision and new digest of civil and criminal law is to be made decennially; and the legislature are enjoined, as soon as circumstances will admit, to form a penal code, on principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice

In Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, the legislature are restricted in their power of erecting banks

Rhode Island has no written constitution, being still governed by the original charter granted by King Charles II. of Great Britain

Executive.

The duties of the executives, in addition to those enumerated in the table, are, to superintend the execution of the laws, and to act as commanders-in-chief of the militia. In Louisiana, the governor must visit the different counties at least once in two years, to inform himself of the state of the militia, and the general condition of the country

Massachusetts is the only state whose consti. tution appoints titles to the officers of government. The governor is entitled his excellency, and the lieutenant-governor, his honour

Ministers of the gospel are not eligible as legislators in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tenessee. In South Carolina, Kentucky, and Mississippi, they are not eligible either as governors or as legislators. In Missouri, the only civil office they can hold, is that of justice of the peace; while in New York, Delaware, and Louisiana, they are not eligible to any office whatever

New Hampshire and Massachusetts are the only states whose constitutions make provision for religious establishments. In New Hampshire, the legislature is empowered to authorize, and in Massachusetts the legislature is enjoined to require, the several towns, parishes, &c. in the state, to make adequate provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of protestant ministers of the gospel

Religion.

In the United States, every denomination of religion is equally under the protection of the law. In a few of the states, however, certain modes of belief are required as qualifications for office. In Massachusetts and Maryland, the declaration of a belief in the Christian religion is required to qualify for office. In New Jersey, no protestant can be denied any civil right on account of his religious principles. In Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Tenessee, the belief in a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, is required as a qualification for office. In North Carolina, no person, who denies the truth of the protestant religion, or the Divine authority of the Old or New Testament, is capable of holding any civil office. In Massachusetts the governor must be of the Christian religion. In the other states no religious test is required

Persons, conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, are every where permitted to substitute a solemn affirmation; and this is recognised by all the constitutions except those of Virginia and North Carolina, and the charter of Rhode Island, a hiatus which is supplied in those states by law Those who are conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, are every where allowed to pay an equivalent for personal service; in Tennessee the legislature are enjoined to

AARON, the first high-priest of the Jews, born 1570, died 1453 before Christ Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, killed his park-keeper, Jan. 20, 1621; died Aug. 3, 1633, aged 71

Abdallar, son of Osmar, flourished 625 Abel (John), the musician, died 1600 Abelard, famed for his ill-fated attachment to Heloise, died 1142, aged 62 Abercromby (Sir Ralph), born 1738, killed in Egypt, March 28, 1801, buried at Malta Abernethy (John), the founder of the improved system of surgery, born 1763;

died 1831

Abingdon (Mrs.), comic actress, died March 4, 1815, at the age of 84 years Abraham entertained three angels, 1897 offered up Isaac, 1871

died 1821 before Christ, aged 175 Abu (Bekr) died 624, aged 63 Abulfeda, the geographer, died 1345, aged 72 Achilles, the most heroic of the Grecian generals at the siege of Troy, died 1184 before Christ

Adam, died 3074 before Christ
Adams (John), the American ambassador,
and author of the Principal Republics of
the World, died 1826

Adams (Dr. Alexander), the author of
Roman Antiquities, born 1741
Adamson (Michael), the African traveller
and naturalist, born 1727, died 1808
Addison (Joseph), the author of the Specta-
tor, born 1672, died June 17, 1719
Adelung, the German geologist, died 1806
Ado, the historian, died 875

Adrian, the emperor, visited Britain, and built a strong rampart, died 183, aged 72 Adrian IV. (Pope), who was an Englishman,

by name Nicholas Breakspear, died 1159 Elian, the Greek author of "Varieties," flourished 100 A.C.

Eschylus, the Greek tragic poet, died 456 before Christ, aged 69

Eschines, the Greek orator, died 314 A.C. Esop, the fabulist and Euclid of moral science, for ridiculing the ignorance and superstition of the priesthood, was put to death about 500 years B.C.

Africanus (Julius), the historian, died 232 Agamemnon died about 904 before Christ Agard (Arthur), the antiquarian, died 1615, aged 75

Agathius, a Byzantyne historian, flourished 565

Agnese (Signora), who was professor of

mathematics and natural philosophy in the university of Bologna, born 1718, died 1799

Aglionby (John), one of the translators of our Bible, died 1609

Agricola, the Roman general, died 93, aged 56
Agricola (Rod.), died 1485, aged 43
Agrippa (Cornelius), a learned physician
and reputed magician, died 1534, aged 48
Agrippina, the mother of Nero, whose name,
like that of Messalina, has become a
synonymous expression for a debauched
woman, died A.D. 60

Agrippa, king of Judea, died 94, aged 54
Ahab, died 897 before Christ
Ahaz, died 726 before Christ

Aikin (John), M.D., author of "Biographical Dictionary," born Jan. 1747, died Dec. 4, 1822

Ainsworth (Robert), author of "Latin Dictionary," born 1660, died 1743

Aiton (W.), botanist, author of "Hortus Kewensis," born 1731, died 1793

Ajax, the son of Telamon, flourished 1149 before Christ

Ajax, the son of Teucer, flourished 1154 before Christ

Akenside (Mark), author of the Pleasures of
Imagination, born 1721, died June 23, 1770
Alberoni (Cardinal), died 1752, aged 88
Albertus (Magnus), died 1280
Albinus, the anatomist, died 1767
Albumazer flourished 841

Albuquerque (Duke of), died in a state of
mental derangement, Feb. 18, 1811
Alcæus, Greek lyric poet, flourished 607 be.
fore Christ

Alcæus, the tragic poet, flourished 378 before Christ

Alcibiades, the Athenian, died 404 before Christ, aged 46

Alcwyn, an Englishman, founded the university of Paris, 800

Aldus, the younger, the third and last in the succession of an illustrious family of learned and ingenious printers, 1597 Alexander the Great, born 356 succeeded Philip, 336

founded the Grecian empire, 331

died at Babylon March 21, 323 before Christ, aged 32

Alexander III. (Pope), compelled the kings of England and France to hold his stirrups, died 1181

Alfieri (Vittorio), tragic writer, born 1749, died 1803

Alfred the Great, born 849, died 901
Alleyn (Edward), founder of Dulwich col-
lege, born 1556, died 1626
Alphonsus X. of Castile, died 1284, aged 67
Alva (duke of), died 1582, aged 74
Ambrose (St.), bishop of Milan, 374, died 397
Ambrosius Aurelius, chosen king of the
Britons, and crowned at Stonehenge, 465,
died 508

Amentons, the reputed inventor of the tele-
graph, died 1705
Americus Vespuccius, who, by the publication
of the first voyages to America, and other
artful means, contrived to give his name
to the New World, to the prejudice of its
discoverer, Columbus, died 1497
Americanus Marcellinus, the Roman histo-
torian, flourished in the 3d century
Ames (Joseph), typographical historian, born
at Yarmouth 1683, died 1759
Amhurst (Nicholas), the author of the
"Craftsman," and which materially con-
trolled the power of the existing adminis-
tration, notwithstanding all his popularity
and talent, died in poverty, like Cervantes
and Otway, of a broken heart, and was
buried at the expense of his printer, 1742
Amyot, bishop of Auxerre, born 1514, died
1594

Anacharsis, the Scythian philosopher, lived 554 before Christ

Anacreon, Greek lyric poet, died 474 before Christ, aged 85

Ananias and his wife Sapphira struck dead,

33

Anastasius, died 518, aged 87

Anaxagoras, the philosopher, died 428 A.C. Anaxandrides, the comic poet, flourished 378 before Christ

Anaxarchus, flourished 340 before Christ Anaximander, died 547 before Christ, aged 64 Anaximenes, died about 504 before Christ Anderson (James), commercial writer, died 1764

Anderson (James), LL.D., author of "The Bee," &c. born 1739, died 1808 Anderson (Robert), M.D., editor of "The British Poets," &c., died 1830, aged 79 André (Major), a British officer, hanged by the Americans for a spy, Oct. 2, 1780 Andrew (St.), martyred, Nov. 30, 69 Andrews (Henry), the compiler, for more than forty years, of that far-famed production of mysteries and predictions, Moore's Almanack, published by the Stationers' company, and revised and sanctioned by the archbishops of Canterbury for the time being (!) died 1820, aged 76 Andronicus, the peripatetic, flourished 100 before Christ

Aniello (Thomas), a fisherman of Naples, who rose to great power, and was assassinated 1666, born 1623

Annet (Peter), pilloried and persecuted for his moral writings, died 1679, aged 75 Annibal, Carthaginian general, died 260 before Christ

Anquetil (L.P.), author of Ancient History, born 1723, died 1808

Anselm, died 1109, aged 76
Anson (Admiral), died 1762, aged 62
Anstey (Christopher), author of the Bath
Guide, &c. died Aug. 3, 1805, aged 80
Antony (Marc), died 30 before Christ, aged
53

Antony the Great (St.), died Feb. 14, 356, aged 105

Antiochus, died 164 before Christ
Antipater, died 321 before Christ
Antisthenes, the philosopher, lived 325 be-
fore Christ

Antoninus Pius, emperor of the Romans, died 161

Antonius (M.), the orator, died 87 before Christ, aged 56

Anvari, the Persian poet, died 1201 Apelles, the Greek painter, flourished in the age of Alexander the Great Apellico, an Athenian bibliomaniac, and rescuer from oblivion of Aristotle's works, which had been concealed in a cellar at Ephesus, to save them from the ignorant superstition of the priesthood

Apicius, the Roman gourmand, who having expended near a million of money on his appetite in the course of a few years, poisoned himself when he found he had only £80,000 remaining, lest he should die of

want

Apollodorus, the architect, flourished 104 Apollonius, the geometrican, lived 242 before Christ

Apollonius Rhodus, author of the "Argonautics," flourished 300 A.C.

Apuleius, author of the "Golden Ass," flourished in the first century of the Christian

era

Appian, the historian, flourished in 123 A.C. Aquilian, flourished 128

Aquinas (Thomas), who was called the Angelic Doctor, on account of his skill in solving theological and logical conundrums, died 1274, aged 50

Aram (Eugene), executed for a murder committed 14 years before, 1759, aged 54 Arbuthnot (Dr.), died 1735 Arcesilaus, the academic, flourished 300 before Christ

Archelaus, of Macedon, patron of learning, 440 before Christ Archilocus, inventor of Iambic verse, flourished 686 A.C. Archimedes, the mathematician, inventor of the sphere and cylinder, killed at Syracuse, 208 before Christ Archytas, the inventor of the vice and pulley, shipwrecked 408 before Christ Ardevelt (Jacob), of Ghent, assassinated, 1345 Aretine (Peter), the poet, died 1556 Ariosto, the author of Orlando Furioso, born 1474, died 1534

Aristarchus, the astronomer, died 260 before Christ, aged 81

Aristarchus, the critic, alive 148 B. C. Aristides, an Athenian, eminent for his virtue and justice, lived 488 before Christ Aristobulus, the peripatetic, flourished 184 before Christ