HESSÉ-HOMBURG is a very small territory of about 106 square miles, belonging to a prince of the family of Darmstadt, with the title of landgrave. It consists of two principal parts, one on the slopes of the Taunus, N.W. of Frankfurt, and the other to the westward of the Rhine, S.E. of Bingen. These form two provinces, of which Homburg, on the N., contained in 1852, 11,166 inhabitants, and Meisenheim in the W., 13,755. Both provinces enjoy a fruitful soil, and a healthful climate, are well cultivated, and yield a surplus of corn, wool, flax, and wood. Meisenheim likewise produces wine and coal, by means of the latter of which the people are enabled to produce some manufactures of glass and ironmongery wares. The majority of the people belong to the Lutheran confession; about 6000 to the Reformed, 3000 Catholics, and 1000 Jews. The public revenue is about L.35,000; and the debt amounted in 1854 to L.115,270 or thereby. The contingent to the federal army is 333 men. Homburg, a small town, with about 3600 inhabitants, 10 miles N. by W. of Frankfurt, is the capital. The landgrave is now 73 years of age (April 1856), unmarried, and without heirs male; so that at his decease, his territory will be annexed to that of Hesse-Darmstadt.