The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1868-11-28

[Corres spoadence Of New York World.
PARIS, Sept. %.
am sure you will read with interest
a pen and lux portrait Of the last Bour-
bon that sits on an European throne. 1t
was contributed above four weeks since
to French newspaper:
Spain requires at this moment a great
King. or great statesman: or lacking
the latter, great people. Bat it has
only GeneralsNwho consp.re, Princes who
are exlled. Queen delivered over to
every contradiction, and to the protection
Of all the saints In heaven
The Queen Of Spain is only thirty
eight years old; she looks older. She
has the common characteristic OF the
whole Bourbon family, caused either By
regimen or excessive appetite, or both
these causes together, namely, all the
family go from early youth to middle age
without any other transition thaa rapii
obesity and premature wrinkles. The
portraits Of Isabella II, Louis, XVI,
Louis XVIII, Ferdinand VII, and of
Louis Phil'ippi, represent all OF tlem
young and brilliant in their youth, or
thickcue by maturity, and almost sud
denly old.
Queen Isabella 5 face is round, her
features arc strongly marked, her nose Is
slightly turned her eyes are small and
blue, her hair chesnut, her complexion
highly colored. Fortunately for her,
nature repudiated from her parental in
heritance the enormous, and unusual nose
of her father, but, unfortunately, she
does not possess the enchanting grace of
her mother, Queen Christine she has
nothing which reminds one of her pa
rents, she has nothing which reminds one
of Spain. The radiation of thought is
lost or belied on that unmed;tative face.
Her voice is strong, slightly hoarse,
slightly masculine. Her manners are
those of shopkeeper's wife. familiar and
without orr iginality. Louis XVI, an ex
cellent locks,nith; Charles ", Il good
furniture maker; Christine, a Jealous
amateur Of painting, and possesses rare
skill in embroidery. Qnecn Isabella has
no taste whatever for letters or the
the fine arts, or for the manual arts
She dresses richly, as becomes a queen, !,
but she looks like queen in Sunday
finerv, and not like a woman who adds
the coiuetry of he: sex to the attraction
of her Office
While her mother rei-ned she gave her
name to color, "Christine Blue" No
cloth, no ornament, no color has ever in
Spain borne Isabella's name. Her way
of life is convenient, but not exactly in
accordance with the laws Of hygiene.
She sleeps longer than is reasonable
She breakfasts gluttonously, as Louis
XVI ate, between one aud two O'Clock
She very often he RS mass at four O'Clock
p. NJ, which makes the post of Court
Almoner very dangerous for the health
According to the doctrine Of the Church
of Rome no priest can celebrate mass ex-
ccpt fasting, no morsel of food shall pass
mis- lips until mass shall have beeI ccle
brated. To fast from the previous mid
night until clock P. NJ, must tell on
the health.
Toward evening the Queen takes a
drive in the retired portion of Retro,
and sometimes in the most frequented
avenues of the favorite Madrid drive.
Saturday she goes to Asocha church TO
pray. Whenever she publicly leaves the
palace she g,'cs out III stage coach with
six horses, escorted by cavalry, and fol-
lowed by four Or six Immense coaches
drawn by males-such coaches as those
cardinals at Rome ride in.
At nlghtfall the Queen returns to the
palace and eats with as much appetite
as in the morning. She is sometimes
seen at the performances of the Theater
Royal and of the Opera and although the
theater is only gunshot from the palace.
she goes there with the inevitable pro
cession of cavalry horses, mules, coaches,
aud lackeys wearing fesh-colored stock
ings aud those immen nse hats worn by the
grooms of the Pontifcial court After
the. performance, the queen presides over
the Council of Ministers, and the secret
can,aril2as, after which she is free and
| disappears.
There is nothing purer than honesty,
nothing sweeter than charity, nothing