the same time rendered more compact by the recovery of part of its Polish possessions under the name of the Grand Duchy of _Posen_. In western Germany again Prussia now made great acquisitions. ♦Rhenish and Westfalian territory.♦ Its old outlying Rhenish and Westfalian possessions grew into a large and tolerably compact territory, though lying isolated from the great body of the monarchy. The greater part of the territory west of the Rhine which had been ceded to France now became Prussian, including the cities of _Köln_, no longer a metropolitan see, _Trier_, _Münster_, and _Paderborn_. The main part of the Prussian possessions thus consisted of two detached masses, of very unequal size, but which seemed to crave for a closer geographical union. ♦Neufchâtel.♦ The Principality of _Neufchâtel_, which made the Prussian king a member of the Swiss Confederation, will be mentioned elsewhere. ♦Territory recovered by Austria.♦ Of the other powers which entered the Confederation for the German parts of their dominions, but which also had territories beyond the Confederation, _Austria_ recovered _Salzburg_, _Tyrol_, _Trent_, and _Brixen_, together with the south-eastern lands which had passed to France. Thus the territory of the Confederation, like that of the old Kingdom, again reached to the Hadriatic. ♦Possession of Denmark. | Holstein and Lauenburg.♦ _Denmark_ entered the Confederation for _Holstein_, and for a new possession, that of _Lauenburg_, the duchy which in a manner represented ancient Saxony. ♦Luxemburg.♦ The King of the _Netherlands_ entered the Confederation for the Grand Duchy of _Luxemburg_, part of which however was cut off to be added to the Rhenish possessions of Prussia. ♦Sweden gives up Pomerania.♦ Sweden, by the cession of its last remnant of _Pomerania_, ceased altogether to be a German power.