The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-21

TIE ROMANCE OF RoYALTY.-The young Empress
Of Austria and her husband are first cousins, the
Bavaria being sisters. Never, perhaps, have five
sisters had such brilliant fortunes the family to
which these princesses belong. 1t il more Ike
fairy tale than real history. Daughters Of Maximi
Ian Joseph, King of Bavaria, by his second wife,
Caroline of Baden, every one Of the five has become
either queen or the mother of kings or queens.
And, to crown the marvel, two pair OF them are
twna. Os the elder pair of twins, one is Queen OF
Prussia; the other, mother of the future King Of
Saxony. OF the second pair Of twins, one Is Queen
Of Saxony and the other is the Archduchess Sophie,
mother OF the present Emperor Of Austria. The
second daughter Of the fifth princess Of thisfortunate
house is now Empress of Austria, while her eldest
daughter is said to be betrothed to the hereditary
Grand Duke Of Tuscany The rise OF the Coburgs
themselves pales before the brilliant alliances
achieved by the five daughters, by second marriage,
of third rate German potentate who had q large
family by his first wife. OF the daughters by the first
wife, one was married to Eugene Beauharnois, and
another was the fourth vile of Francis i. of Aus
tria So that every one of the seven daughters has
either had her own brow encircled with diadem, or
may look forward to seeing 1t grace some one of her
immediate descendants. One OF their brothers sons
is King Of Bavaria and another Is King of Greece.
When consider that II is not much above seventy
years since the EectOr Palatine succeeded to the
throne Of Bavara-not seventy since he was con-
firmed it, the family must be confessed to have
pr0spered. The Guelphs, the HolsteinG 0ttOops,
Loraine-l apsburgs, the Coburgs, were scarcely
more the favortes of fortune In our accoun 6 the
!" fairy fortunes OF the Seven Bavartan Princesses
last week. entirely forgot to include the children
Of one Of them, the ViceQueen OF italy, wife OF Eu
gene Beauharnos OF her FIVE children one is the
present Queen of Sweden, another was King (con-
sort) Of Portugal being the first husband of the late
Queen Dona Maria H.; and third is Empress Dowa
ger OF Brazil, having been married to her bro
theirs father.in-aw, the Emperor Don Pedro l.
The diademed descendants OF Macmillan Joseph,
thimse!f made king by .Napoleon's favor in
ls05) therefore stand thus :-Children-ex-KingO Of
Bavaria, exEmperess OF -kustria, exVice-Q Queen of
Italy. Queen Of Prussia, Qeeen Of Saxony. Grand
Collaborating Of Bavaria, King Of Greece, Empe.
ror Of Austria tby one daughter), Empress Of Aus
tra (by another daughter), Queen Of Sweden, King
(consort) of Portugal ex Empress of Brazil, (fa-
ture) King of Saxony, Grand Duchess Of Hesse,
Duchess of Modena, (tuturc) Grand Duchess or
Tuscany. Pretty we'll for one family in two gene
ratons. Bavaria now even aspires to become the
third German power Of the first rank rivalling
Austria and Prussia but it is not easy to see where
she is to acquire sufficient territory. She was
obliged TO restore to Austria most of what Napoleon
gave her. Our readers must not suppose that in
duires Of this kind are trivial or unfhstructive
From the disuse of many Of the more sanguinary
resources Of state policy aud the vastly increased
facilities for constant intercourse between court and
coult, Europe is falling more and more into the
power of half dozen dynasties, all intimately con-
nected, and however they may rival or try t. oust
each other, all playing into each others bands.