New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-14
THE DUKE or MONTPENSLER.

Tie arrest of the Duke of Montpenser, tho
br0ther-in-law of Queen Isabel, and his ban
shment from Spain, is an event which takes
the world by surprise. Outbreaks of the Car
lists, who regard the Queen as an intruder, and
desire to replace the crown Oh the head of
descendant Of Don Carlos, or of the Radical
party, who are known to plan an insurrection
under the leadership of Gen. Prim, and to adj
vocate the convocation of National COnyen-
ton, chosen by general suffrage, to dispose OF
the throne have repeatedly been spoken of as
probable At other times hints have been
thrown out of an impending Iberian move
ment, aiming at a union of Spain and Portu-
gal under the King of Portugal. All of these
parties are as much opposed to the Duke Of
Montpensier as they are to the Queen, and
neither of them can, therefore, have had any
thing to do with the recent conspiracy.
The only other party which is opposed to
the present regime is that of the Liberal Union.
of which the late Marshal 0'Donnell was for
many years the distinguished leader. This
party has frequently disputed with the ultra
Conservative party, whose chief leader was
Marshal Narvaez, the Premiership of the Min
istry, but it has heretofore refTained from any
plot against the reigning sovereign. The names
of Gems. Serrano and Dulce, who are among
the exiles, indicate that it is this party, or
portion of it, which, disguised with the ad-
ministration of the Queen, has entered into an
alliance with the Duke of Montpensier for the
purpose of transferring the crown from the
Queen to the Duke.
1t is now twenty-five years that the Duke or
MOntpensier has been a brother-in-law of the
Queen, as he was married on the 10th of Oct0-
Der, 1916, to Louisa, the younger and only SIS
ter of the Queen. The Queen was married on
the same day to her cousin, the lnfante Francis.
At the time when these marriages were con-
tIacted, it was generally believed that the
Duke of MOntpensier, or at least his children.
would inherit the Spanish crown, the husband
of the Queen being, it was said, according
to tho best medical authorities of the
kingdom, a cripple, and the marriage
certain to remain chdless. SO general
were these reports that the marriages
formed for some time the subject of an angry
diplomatic controversy. The hopes of Louis
Philippe and the general expectation of the
world with regard to the marriage of Queen
Isabella was, however, doomed to disappoint-
ment The Queen has become the mother of
large number of children, and though, if We
may believe the report of nearly all the Spanish
correspondents of foreign papers, the legti-
macy of her children has been seriously doubted
by public opinion in Spain, their right TO sue
cessiOn has never been disputed. But though
disappointed in the hope which he must have
felt at the time of his marriage the Duke OF
MOntpensier has never been known to take
part in any of the numerous instructions
which have since rent unfortunate Spain.
We know, as yet, nothing of the nature OF
the plot which has just, according TO the Cable
dispatch, led to his arrest and exile. The dis
closures which will reach us in course of time
are likely to be of sensational character. Al
all events, the plot is another proof of the un.
popularity of the present Government of Spain.
Mr.. Romero has addressed a letter to the
Secretary of an association of Mexican bond
holders in London, conveying gratifying a.