The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30

claims to notice AS time passed on the
line between the Republicans and Monarch
lists became more definitely drawn, and the
advocates of the largest liberty we're less dis
posed to yield anything to their opponents.
The regency of Marshal Serrano was looked
upon as a mere makeshift and the difficulty
in finding suitable and acceptable person to
fill the vacant throne served to strengthen the
hands of those who were in favor of doing
away with thrones and kings altogether. The
republican outbreaks in various parts of the
country have been suppressed by force of
arms, but as fast as put down in one place
the enemies of monarchism appeared in an
other, and the Government has had its hands
full to manage them. In addition to this
there is revolution in the wealthiest and
most important of Spain's colonial posses
sions, which has managed to at least hold its
own against the Spanish forces, and which
threaten the mother country by prospect of
the ultimate interference of the United
States
In this muddled state of affairs, Serrano
and his colaborers have apparently come to
the conclusion that it is high time that the
mated. We are consequently informed that
the Council of Ministers has fixed upon the
Duke of Genoa as the future King of Spain,
and that his name will be presented to the
Cortes in few days. The probabilities are
that this young gentleman will be elected,
and he ought certainly to prove good choice
if there is any merit in the length of time it
has taken to make a selection, or the thorough
canvass of the merits of all the available and
unavailable candidates that could possibly be
put up. At any rate, there will be visible
head to the State, but whether that will be
sufficient to reconcile all the disturbing ele-
ments that are now in conflict is yet to be
determined.
Prince Thomas Albert Victor, Duke of
Genoa, and the, at present, prospective King
of Spain, is the nephew of King Victor
Emanuel. He is now between fourteen and
fifteen years of age, and is at present COM
pleting his education in England. Report
speaks well of him, but he is too young yet
to have made much of mark in the world,
and it remains to be seen what kind of a
monarch he will make. In case of the Duke
of Genoa becoming the King of Spain, the
most disappointed CduuludIe Will Do tue Duhe
de Montpensier. This prince has large and
influential party advocating his claims to the
throne and to reconcile them, the project
of marriage between the Duke of Genoa and
the Princess Maria, third daughter of the
Duke de Montpensier, has been started. Such
an arrangement as this is expected to satisfy
all but the extremists of both sides-the
Bourbon partisans and the uncompromising
republicans.
1t would seem that there is more statecraft
and intrigue in this arrangement than sound
political policy; and although the selection of
a youngster like the Duke of Genoa may
have the desired effect of pacifying the coun-
try, and completing in satisfactory manner
the work of the revolution it must be con-
fessed that it is a doubtful experiment, in
which the chances of failure are greater than
those of success. Every friend of liberty will
earnestly desire that Spain shall prosper
under the new order of things, and that one
of the most remarkable revolutions of modern
times shall produce results that will conduce
to the happiness and welfare of the people
and to the spread of liberal ideas; but the
signs of the times are not over promising,
and no one will be disappointed if the new
monarchy fails as the Regency and Provi-
sional Junta failed before it,