, 1866-10-17
WARNINGS TO THE THRONES.
MOnarcls4 HRctIrcd from Hnslness,'
and Their New Avocuttons.

fF,om the london ros:, September III
: The representatives Of coutcm-
porary despottsm arc ueither stabbed, nor
nor smothcrcd to death they
Ire simply requested to "rttire from busi-
ness." OF these ''monarchs retired from
business" there nre now at least q dozen
various corners Of Europe, aud it Is worthy
Of remark that either they, or the fathers
whose sins have been yis1.ed on their heads,
were originally the sworn vassals. OF
had become the presumed adhcrents of the
FepfssslEs and reac11onsfy system n i1saEnated 'sa
mon fate has belief in the Old World tradi-
tions Of the Holy Alliance brought its royal
disciples; nor is the gloomy retrospect Of
the retired monarchs compensated BY any
have outlived not only their individual
power and place, but the very existence and |
prestige Of the triple tyranny which OYER \
shadowed Europe, and In which their hope |
Was put. The patriarch Of these "monarch5 /
whose name carrics Us back to The phiioso-
phical oratory Of Macintosh and the bril-
liant flights Of Canning, who has now been
leading for so many years the life Of quiet
country gentleman that his contem- |
her an existence once associated in the i'm
aSinations Of tho more juvenile English Lib
erals, with legends Of hoghobliu horror and
cannital repasts. Next in the roll follows
the Count de Chambord who, at the very
moment when the cannon were roaring in
the streets of Paris, and the tricolnl aas was
unfurled from the tower of Notre Dame. kept
OF plnyiug SO merri1y beneath bis fathers
symrathlzing eye in the inner court oi St.
Cloud, heading, among his young conpan-
while his sister as mertily assumed Tor the
noncc the command Of the Paris rioters. The
now grave and middle uged representative Of
hat elder branch Of the Bourbous trhieh had
ltrdys elung to reaetiondry policy was fol-
lowed into exile, eighteen years later, by the
head of that younger branch whose fortunes
| began to wane from the lay when, unn.iud-
lul ii the pledges given on Iis ascending the
throne, he too linked his interests with the
cutworn craft Of Nctternich. With the first
ganfsh in moment fr.'m the political scene
| three sworn vassals Of the house Of uaps-
burg, three princes bound by secret treaties
70 render their Government at all
times contor1nab1e to the orders from
Duke Of Modena, the puchess of Parma,
arc swept away like saudIbefore the Aurri-
cane. One Of the three, the Grand Duke
Of Tuscany. bears bis fate, It must be owned.
with very edifying resignation lie accepts
he has pitched his tent, aud looks after house
rates ttid sewers with the eame gravity With
which he once ruled at The Pitti palace. The
Austrianizcd ruler of Southern Italy, the
h!ur u Napies+ III INC HcAt 10 6HArf tue IA1e
Of tic Austrian yassals In the centre aud
| north Of the peninsu1a. Greece, then, In tho
person Of King Otho, adds its quota to tho
Iii Of princes whom common subseryiency
to foreign influence, and 4 common system oa
court lasoritism, had rendered Obnoxious
hare just bchcll like fate overtak
irE the princes in Northern Germany
whose policy for many years past has been
20 far rs circumstances would allow, u,,ceas
l $xr.Ss~ Ia.t
whit nj one, the ipcorrixible and brutal Escc
( tor. Of Hesse Casscl. had been allowed t
casicature the worst vices OF the Metteruicl
system. When one calls TO mind the nun
bcr Of excellent and honorable men Ion:
wandering in exile in both Europe ant
} -imeriea. victims Of the spite an.l malice 0
that petty Hessfan tyrant, the 1etributiol
which has at length visited him appear
more, perhaps, than any other conseqlcne
. ofthc late war, invested with 4 c1iaructer o
to thu most recent addition to the cataloguc,t I
, Prince Couza. to class him amongst the ruler
whose deposition must be traced to cor
: firmed prO.Austrinn retrograde and reaction
ary lcaringe; but it is, 10 ray the least,
5 significant circumstance that hts overthrow
, should coincide with tie great blow sustain
: cd by the Austrian monarchy, and that HI
: immediate substitute and successor sholll
= be u Iolcnzollern. Now We arprchcn
!; t!sat, for al practical purposes, the exaMp!
Inns AHorden bT contemporary history are
: their way quite as Instructive Us the luol
terrible and tragic picture which the Flore'
:; tire Secretary. three centuries aud la
+ ngo. presented to Ills readers Of the calam
|. lies that sooner or later overlook the #fcke
l. Roman Emrcrors. The successive contcu
!, pnrary discrowungs, estendin. overa pcric
:, Of six.and thirty years, we'll deserve tn
i, noted as landmarks of the progress Of publ
opinion hut they ore at the same time a
index to the progress of mllder Civilization
2; in the iact that they are simply dtscrow
/; ings, and nothing more. A deposed mo
). arch now takes Ills departure Us tirst-cla
III passenger in q railway traIn, and begs to ha,
his plate, and linen, and private famil
pictures sent after him with the least pos
bic delay nor does the thought ever Gro
his mind that such very natural requc
will be refused by the new Power, 1
in stra!Shtway addicts himself to the cultis
,r tion Of his own personal and peculiar taste
nj but If, from time to time, the recollectio
II and associations Of general European 70
~ tics intrude upon bis leisure, they will c,
In tain'y suggest no more indisputable tru
than this, that through subscrvicncy to,
sympathy with, Austria, and that nlo1
has he become a 'mouarch retired fri
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