The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-19

edition for 1866, published a year or SO ago,
was the hundred and third annual publica-
tion. For more than a century has this
record Of royalty appeared. Every person
who has the sixteenth part Of drop Of inn
peTial, royal, princely, grand-ducal, or arch
ducal blood in his veins, finds his pedigree
and heraldic merits here set FORTH Would
we know what sort of dignity hover round
the husband of our Princess Helena, we can
ascertain exactly the relative position Of
the elder branch and the younger branch Of
the great house of Schleswig- -Holstein-sonder-
urg-Augustenbourg despite the fact that
Count Won Bismark shows the most superb
contempt for any claim that Duke Frederick
or Prince Christian may put forth for govern
ing power in the Elbe duchies. Would we
know who is the Prince de Teck, to whom our
kind-hearted and bright-eyed Princess Mary of
Cambridge is married, we should be able TO
find (thOugh, it is true, at the expense of no
small amount of search) that Prince Francis
Paul Charles Louis Alexander de Teck is the
son of Duke Alexander Paul Louis Constan-
tine, who was an uncle to the late King of
Wurtemberg who was father to the present
King of Wurtemberg; and that as Prince de
Teck's mother, Claudine, Countess of
HOhenstein and Rheday, was not
quite royal in birth (being a Hungarian
lady Of noble but not sovereign blood), Prince
de Teok and his two sisters can only be made
fully royal by the gracious favor of the King
of Wurtemberg, which favor has been awarded.
Would we know what prince or princess in
the whole of Europe is blessed with the great
est number of names, we should be enabled to
pitch upon young gentleman just now year
and half old, who has the honor to be the
second son Of the King of Portugal. He, the
AlnGndch de Gothd tells us Gn French spell
ing, not Portuguese) is Prince Alphonse
Henri Napoleon Marie Louis Pierced 'Alcan-
tara Charles Herbert Amedee Fernando Affenti
Michel Raphael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Fran
cois-d Assise Jean Auguste Jules Valfanno Ig-
-Braganca-Savo Bourbon-Saxe-CO-
bourg ct Gotha. If we had put il in Portu-
guese, the rigmarole would have been still
more sonOrous, with its Carlos and Pedro,
Francisco and Fernando, Alfonso and Antonio;
but even as it is, the small boy has quite
enough to carry, and we only marvel in what
terms the 9utor will by-and-by address him
to birch a boy with thirty names is of
course not to be thought OF. The little
boy Don has got little Donna cou-
sin, too, some four or five years old,
who, it seems, cannot be properly ad-
dressed in a smaller compass than Donna
Marie Anne de Carmel Henrique Th6rese
Adelaide Jeanne Caroline Agnes Sophie Eulalie
Leopoldine Elizabeth Bernardine Michaele
Gabrielle Raphaele Francoise-d Assise ct de
Paul Ignatie Gonzague
This "Almanach'' is the authority to which
royalty looks when a manageable prince or
princess is wanted. AS royal blood must only
wed royal blood, or something like it, it is
matter of great Importance to know where
that blood is to be found, of the right age and
at the right time. Russia, for instance,
unless cousins marry (Which they do not so
much in that country as in Austria), must
seek elsewhere for husbands and wives; and
as q State, however small, will meet the
requisite conditions if the blood is
all right, Russia makes alliances
with her humber neighhors. Thus,
the late czar married Prussian princess, the
present czar Hessian princess; his second
son (the eldest being dead) has just married
| the beautiful Princess Dagmar of Denmark
| the czar's sister Olga married the Prince Royal
| of Wurtemberg; and his brother Constantine
princess of SAKE Altenburg; and his brother
Nicholas a princess of Oldenburg; and his
| brother Michael princess of Baden; and his
| cousin Catherine the Duke Of Mecklenburg-
| Strelitz-and so on. These alliances do not
prevent royalty from making war on royalty;
the Hesses and Saxes have been more or less
| devoured by Prussia, Notwithstanding their
matrimonial connections with Russia; and as to
the recent war in Bohemia, Uncle William has
so terribly thrashed Nephew Frank, that it is
! very problematical whether the latter will
! ever recover.
| Certainly the "Almanach de Gotha" ought
| to put on mourning just now; for it is difficult
to see how the breakup of Germany is to be
|
may be deemed counter balance to the
| political misfortunes of the kings, princes, and
serene dukes; and royal match-makers may
| know where to go, as they have hitherto
known. In so far as our own royal family are
concerned, the choice is less extensive than for
royal families on the Continent, seeing that
our young brides and bridegrooms must all be
| Protestants. Our Alfred is twenty-five, our
| Louisa is nearly nineteen; we must of course
! look out for a bride for the one and husband
| for the other. We must not however, look
to Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, Austria,
| Belgium, or the Catholic States of Germany,
nor to Russia, nor to any State where the
| Greek Church prevails; Prussia, the other
Protestant States of Germany, Holland, Den
mark, and Sweden must supply us; and the
| ar-famed "Almanach' tells us exactly the
names and ages of all the lads and
lasses whose blood is of the right
color and consistency. For, be it
remarked, it is only the "premiere
partie' of the Almanach that must be con-
| suited for such purpose; the second part
relates to "Princes not Sovereign" from
which we are taught to believe that the
families of the Altieris, Arenbergs, Auer-
| spergs, Belgiojoses, Batthyanys, Bentheisas,
Borgheses Chimays, Colonnas, etc., though
possibly very nice people, are not nice enough
for royalty to take to the altar, except in
those mOrganatic or left-handed marriages
which play such curious part on the Cont
nent.
The ambassadors out of work" must get
over their difficulty somehow: if Italy and
| Prussia have swallowed up dozen States to
| which we used to send embassies the young
| diplomatists must learn to make themselves