Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-10-17

other eide OF Tue Atlantic. We now learn tha
o marriage has been arranged between th
youngest brother of the Emperor OF Austri
and the eldest daughter and heiress Of the EN-
peroF of the Brazils. The Archduke Loui
Joseph Antoine Victor is now just twenty-on
years of sge, and the Donna Isabella ChrIstiu
is seventeen. Ia this union the hope Of th
Brazilian succession will rest, and On Austro
Brazilian Prince will some day, 10 all proba.
bility, ascend the Imperial throne Of Rio ia
nelIo. That contingency, no doubt, is distan
enough, for the Emperor Pedro II. is not We
forty. The Austrian Arohduke, however
whon bis Princess ascends the throne, will prob
ably take the title of Emperor, as the consorl
Of Marin di.Glo in Portugal, and of Ieabella
in Spain, 'nOk that of Kin. The: :HspshurR suc.
csssol Ia Brazil will probably become ss estab
liAhed fcct as the Hapsburg succession In
Mexico. Three Imperial crowns In succession
or in remainder fall to eiugle branch Of on.
family atscemed, only thirteen years ago, tc
te struggling for existence even iu their here
ditary domlnions In Europe.
. IL 10 Impossible not to perceive sIsc
that in this marriage consists an auxiliary guar.
antee for the stability of the throne Of che
Arohduke Msxlmilisn In Mexico. A Prince
placed upon an Imperial throne, newly formsd.
and though in consonance with the real wants
yet iu opposition to the recent traditions Of the
nation. will be glad to repoee upon the moral
support and alliance Of his neigbbors. In q
vast continent OF re'ubllcs, With the Anglo
Saxon race upon the North, and mougrel, half
Latin and half Indian races to the South, It Ia
OF mutual advantage to Mexico and Brazil sh at
the two Imperial dynasties should be IN such
Intimate alliance with each other. T5e Fed.
eral government may not be hostile to the new
Mexican empire; tho Confederates may recog-
nize it from motives Of self interest; the South
American republics nay have no more the will
tnsn the rover to 'hwart development OF the
French Empercr's policy; yet q dynastic slli.
aIce between the swo Imperial houses 10 ons of
the most permsnsnt leagues which each con
hnvc Tor it's aIp % t by the other; and it IA one
10 which tho oisrnes OF the at present imptr.
teotly developed Mexican empire cannot be in
different. =
There seems nothing more vain than spec.
reignlng dypast,es of Europe, even for a an Bio
generation ahead of US. Thirteen yeara AGO
the Bourbon family, were to all Appearance.
firmly seated on three European thrones. Nov
they ere bsnished from two of them, with no
SOFT OF probability of their ever returning to
either.
some thirty years ago, what reignipg house
seemed mofo insignificant than the family of
SAKE. CoburgY Yet we now see them. In the
male line. supplying the dynasties Of England
Portugal. and another Prince of their house,
one OF the astutest soysFeigns 10 Enrope, on
the throne OF Belgium. The little branch
headed by Prince Christian of Dspmark,
which only eleven years ego cama inlo prom
ilenco ss tho family then next entitled By o
treaty OF 1851 TO she throne of Denmark, have
since given, or ore about to give brides TO the
heirs apparent of England and Ruesip, and O
King OF Greece. The ancient House of Savoy,
after living for seven hundred years in teredit.
ary insignidcsuce, has In the lsat four years
acquired domioion more populous, and not
less roHtrful and important, than the kingdom
OF tho Great Frederic. The Bonapartes have
revived, and almost In their former spleudor.
These and other such striking dynsstIc changes
our own generation has witnessed; and the
promised extension of the dynasty of Rudolph
of Hapsburg over two-fmperial thrones In the
Western World present, q ooiucdence Of for
tune which should sppsase the shade OF the En-
peros Leopold l. for the transfer by Louis
XIV. of she dominions of his ktnsman, Charles
ii. of Spain, to Philip v. In the rear of the
Spsnish succession. To great extent the
elder branch of the Hapsburgs are likely to
tho ruic of the Indies, which fell to their
branch on the sbdicatiou of Charles
V. What is hardly lees remarkabis than this
extension Of the Hapsburg dynasty is tho char
Goler fos moderation and practical statesman,
chip that marks the present generation Cf that
Imperial house. .c'ttf5'