Polynesian., 1851-05-31

QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN The st Louis
Republican has letter from Paris cores
pondent dated November 81, from which we
make the following extract: .. -..
A Paris paper publishes this morning quite
an interesting feuileton from the pen OF the
Countess de Barranvile, from which | ex-
tract the following. Your lady readers will
no doubt find it interesting.
The letters written by the young Queen
Isabella are the most charming things in the
world, so say, not only her courtiers, but her
enemies, and those who have read them de-
clare that if her Catholic Majesty was not
Queen of Spain she would very certainly be
a blue stocking. Besides, although sove-
reign, or rather because she is sovereign,
Isabella II is veritable lioness; not lioness
as understood IN the fashionable world, but in
the true acceptation of the word, lioness,
like the noble partner of the king Of the
forests. If the young Queen ever loses her
crown she will not do it without having de-
Tended it sword in hand. She fences like
Grisier, and it is her favorite amusement
This is the way she employs her time. At
three o'clock, not in the morning, but in the
day, she rises. As soon as dressed, and her
toilette is the least of her occupations, she Or
ders very elegant, light equipage, present
from her royal sister of England, and goes
out alone; but sometimes she Is accompanied
by her husband, to his great dispair and ter
ror, for he believes in a miracle every time
he re-enters the palace safe and sound; for
the young Queen is her own driver, and ge-
nerallv urges on her horses to their full speed.
She dimes at 5 o'clock, eats very little and
very fast and as soon as her repast is finished
she exercises some time with the sword, then
she mounts her horse and takes ride
These exercises ended, she becomes young
and pretty woman: she dances, sings, and in
fact, takes all the possible pleasures of her
sex and age Bnt when one O'Clock strikes
the Queen re-appears, and Isabella assem-
bles her council over which she always pre-
sides in person. This council is prolonged
more or less according to the gravity of the
affairs discussed When She perceives that
without respect for her, sleep has invaded
the brains of her councillors, she sends them
home and remains alone until O'Clock IN
the morning, the hour at which the Prince,
her husband, rises, and then alone she re-
tires to bed
To these details, which are perfectly ex-
act, we give trait which perfectly paints
the character of this young woman.
A few weeks ago, as she was going to at
tend State ceremony, the Queen lett the
palace in the roya! carriage, escorted by all
her suit. A young officer belonging to one
of the first families in CASTLE, rode by the
side of her Majesty's carriage About hall
way, he fell from his horse, and was killed on
the spot. The Queen showed no sign OF
emotion, but ordered the cortege to proceed
without paying any attention to the event.
On her return TO the palace she ordered the
young officers horse to be brought to her.
The courtiers opposed her wishes, telling
her that the horse was old and vicious. She
however, would listen to no opposition, and
the horse was brought. When she saw him
in the court she descended, and in spite Of the
supplications Of the king and her terrified
courtiers, she mounted him, made him gal
Iop. trot, pace. walk, and in fact obey her
will as if she had been the most expert OF
grooms; then when she re-entered the palace
she said with the greatest sang troid, "Yo on
see very well it is only awk~ ard people who
get killed" This was the only notice she
took of the death of the young officer.
could relate many more such stories,
showing Isabella ii to be less woman than
a Queen, and less a Queen than woman.