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lho HaIsburgs, as We all know, held the throne OF
Spain and the Indies for nearly two centuries II
would have required singular bo!dncss to have predict
cd for th>m revival of any part OF that inheritaLce
since dei1tive settlement the hOuse of Bourbon
by the te4Y Of Utrecht, century and hlt ago: To-
decI thu uym sakabe decline and threatening extinc
ton Of all the bsanhs of this Bourbon dynasty would
have made it less improbable ten years Stree that the
Austrian professions might have revived at the Escu-
rial than that the accidents of conquest aud marriage
should have Cred to the lIapsburg line the pros
pect Of two imperial thrones the other side OF the
Atlantic. We now learn that marriage has been ar
ranged between the youngest brother Cf the Emperor
of Austria aId the eldest daughter and heress of the
Emperor OF the Brazis. The Archduke Louis Joseph
Antoine Victor is now just twenyone years OF age,
aid he Donna Isabella Christine is seventeen. In this
union the hope Of the Brazilian succession will rest and
an Austro Brazilian Prince will day, in all prob
ability, ascend the Imperial throne Of Rio Janeiro-
rbas Contingency no doubt is distant enough, for the
Emperor Pedro IL, is net yet forty. The Austrian
Archduke however, when bis Princess asccnds the
THRONE will probably take the title of En- oeror as the
consort Of aria di Gloria in Portugal and of Isabella
ia Spain took that of the King. The Hapsburgs sue
ceasion il Brazii will probably become as established
fact as the Hopsburg succession 10 Mexico Three
Imperial Crowns in succession in remainder fall to
single bra CHI OF family that seemed, only thirteen
years age, to be struggling for existence sven in their
hereditary doninioDs in Europe
+ 1t is impossi BILE not to perceive. also that
10 this marriage consists auxiliary guarantee for the
stability Of the throne OF the Archduke Maximan in
Mexico 4 Prince placad upon imperial throne ne WY
med and though in with the real wants
Yet opposition TO the recent traditions of the nation
will be glad to rep0se upon the moral support and al-
OF his neighbors. Ia vast continent Of republics
with the Anglo Saxon upon the n ORTIZ and mon
gsel, half Latin and half Indian to the South it is
of mutual advantage to Mexico and Brazil that the two
imperial dynastes should be in sucL intimate alliance
with each o.her The Federal Government may not
be hostile to the Mexican empire !; the Conede-
rate States may recognize it from motives of setinter-
est the South American republics may have no more
the will than they have the power to thwar develop
ncn Of the French En- peror's policy yet dynasc al
lance between the two Imperial houses is ons of the
most permanent leagues which each can have for its
support by the other and it is which the for
tunes of the at present mperecy developed Mexican
empire cannot be indifferent.
Ihera seems nothing more vain than @ specu alton
of the future Of any OF the great regning dynasties
Of Europe, even for single generation ahead of
Thirteen years ago the Bou bon family were, to all ap
pearance firmly seated on three European thrones J.
Now they bsnished from two Of them with no sort
Of probability of their returning to either Some
thirty years ago, what regning house seemed nsg
nil ant than the family Of SAKE Coburg Yet we now
them. in the male ne supplying the d7nasties of
England, Portugal and another Prince of their house
oGe OF tue asutest coverings in Europe on the throne
of Belgium. The little branch hca3cd Prince Christian
OF Denmark, which only eleven years ago came into
OF 1851 to the throne OF DHmark have since given or
are alb IL 70 give, brides to the toir apparent OF Eng
lane AID Ra.s }, aud klrg to reeye. The Oil ient
House t" Savoy "'er living tor hundred years in
be- ell ~" Is:gu!f ;uce has, Ia the last four ;Cars
aq4'r,d dominion Gl1re popuous, and not less DOW
erul and important than the kingdom of the Great
Frederic The Bonapartes have revived, and almost in
their former spendor. These and other such striking
dJnastic changes generation has witnessed
aud tie promised extension Of the dynasty of Rudolph
ct HaDaDuTO lmDpriaI in
World presented coincidence of fortune which should
appea5e the shade OF the Emperor Leopold L, for the
transfer by Louis XIV of the dominons of his kins.
man. Charles II of Spain, to Philip V in the rear OF
the Spanish succession To greater extent the elder
branch Of the apsburg likely regain the rule OF
the Indies, which fell to their younger brother on the
abcation of Charles V. What is hardly less remark
aDe than this extension of the Hapsburg dynasty is the
character for moderation and practical Craftsmanship
that marks the present generations of that Imperial
HoDse.