The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-11-05
queen Isabella's Marriage.

The account of Queen Isabela's marriage
reads like an old fairy tale-that is, like the
unhappy parts; but unlike The fairy tale II is
to be feared that it will not end happily.
Three pictures are shown 10 Queen Isabella,
of three distant princes in different climates
born, all seeking her hand-the young Span
ish pretender, her cousin, Con de Montemo
lin ;the half-eccles iastcal Prince of Naples,
Con:e di Trapani; and prince from the
oficina coyugium, Leopold oil Coburg Coha-
ry-like all his race handsome specimen
of humanity. The young queen took rather
a fancy TO the handsome stranger; but rea-
sons of state left her no free choice She is
told that she must marry cousin Francisco
de Assls-who is ugly, dull, unpleasing to
her tasle, and worst Of all, Indifferent towards
herself However she is told that she shall
have no other husband; he is urged by his
friends; and the young couple undergo the
sacred ceremony of betrolhal with tears and
sobs on her part, sullen sadness,on his. The
afianced bride fetires 10 pillow of tears
the bridegroom goes home and is i'll
Queen Isabella is not the imprisoned
daughter of fyrani, but is herself reign
ing sovereign; yet practically, her choice was
not much freer. 1t was limited negatively,
by a host of objections to all but the husband
who is forced upon her. Those about her,
the queen-mother included cannot have failed
to study her character, and its weakness es-
pecially, and she has been used against herself
the most insiduous and unscrupulous sub
foring of completely in treason. No doubt,
immunles have been held out in prospect,
TO compensate for this restraint; one TEMPER
having herself been the .racIifce in mari
age with diseased dullard, and having i'm
proved the opportunities of a disordered
household 10 obtain solace for her mortified
tastes. When Queen Isabella recently con
] ferred the royal title of "highness' on the
1 handsome trooper who has fathered Queen
! Christmas eight children, and was married
to her not two years ago, the young sovereign
could not have omitted to draw commenia
ry-applicable fOrtiori, since she is to
A be sovereign wife, not queen consort.
Otherwise, perhaps she would not have con-
j sented TO give her hand to Don Francisco.
How can a union begun so disastrously
produce happy results? The notion that
though bad for her, it is good for the stale
or for the people, is self-evidently absurd a
HdllOH Cdu QCilhG 1O OOI6Hl liOIH UEIEl1g
the chief Of its virgins TO such nuptial
couch.
But it may be said that if no positive good
: is obtained, evil results of Other unions are
aVoided-dangerous political alliances. Nc
E more unsubslaptial dogma rules that world Of
: shadows, diplomacy, than this notion of dan.
= gers from matrimonial alliances. Nations
( are no longer mere estates with the live STOCK
! on them, given and taken as marriage por
: tons; but they have their own substantive
g history, TO which tina, of the reigning house
e is subordinate. As 10 the fear least cleve
. intriguers should obtain high place, it is gra
/ tuious as any. No one is so dangerous il
power as fool. Put gun in the hands o
] william, and he may compass the death o
j his enemy; into the hands of fool. and ter
e TO one he fires 1t off in the midst of crowd
+ Any process by which to improve the breec
s of the royal population of Europe, TO max,
: her princess cleverer and more sagacious