The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-14

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the ex-Queen in July last appears to have been
to persuade her to abdicate in favor of her son,
but underneath this grand design to make
himself the most important parsonage In Spain
in case the country acquiesced in this settlement
of its difficulties and accepted Prince Alfonso as
King. This project was nothing less than the
marriage of his daughter to the ex-Queen's SON.
in which case he would naturally become the
controlling spirit of the Government with the
possibility of being clothed with the title and
authority of Regent during the minority of
Prince Alfonso. On the 18th of August. 1869.
he again visited Paris, and had an interview
with General Prim, at that time tie head of the
Spanish Cabinet, Several interviews with the
ex-Queen and Prim followed, and after the re-
turn of the latter to Madrid, Isabella on the Sd
of October, as alleged by Don Enrique, con-
sented to abdicate formally; but in half an hour
was prevailed upon by opposite counsel to re-
woke her promise. Dlsheartened at this result,
Don Enrique assured the ex-Queen "that IL
Marfori Cher confessor and evil genius) his
agents. friends, and adulators, continued to be all
in all in the palace he would never return to her
in his life" and at once repaired to Madrid
The refusal of Italy to assent to the candida
ture of the Duke of Genoa revived the hopes
of Montpensier and stimulated the antagonism
of Don Enrique. On the 14th of January last
as already stated he addressed to the Regent the
remarkable letter from which we have already
quoted, appealing to the Government for the
restitution of his dgnities, aud referring in the
following pointed manner to his enemy, the Due
de Montpenser:-
'If the Duke of MoDtpensler should carry out his
menace to be King or Regent to the grave poiut or
secret conspiracy, at the head OF which may be
persons must be excused from naming, viii join
those who combat him, and shed the nAst drop OF NV
blood against such treason. But If Espartero should
be brought to Madrid upon the shoulders OF this
nation, which does not wear the livery OF Monpen-
sler forget that it ts sovereign, will salute him.
for l love what is noble and honorable. When
suborned villains ready to proclaim Montpensier
ny liberal and Spanish heart will cry 'Esparterov
The Government know that am neither dsloyal
prince nor bad Spaniard. II the fact of my having
come into the world receiving the name OF Bourbon
from my truly liberal parents be judged sufficient
cause respect to be paid to the sentence OF Narvaez
against me- and to found the political inquisltou In
Spain upon the ashes OF the religious inquistion,
have nothing more to say, but to depore such sad
an Interpretation only worthy of the barbar0us
priesthood OF past ages who In such Christaulike
manner applied to their unfortunate victims the
designation Of cursed races. shall then accept the
new sanbenlto (penilential garmenD aad tnquisi-
torial castgation, but shall demand equal justice
upon the head OF the pretender, the Duke OF Mont
pens er who as also Bourbon, and endowed with
an ny pOcrisy do not possess must be deprived of
his lOsiton Captaiu-Ceneral in national
army, for, however much money he possesses spain
receives none OF it, it not being she who sells herself
TO him. Thus we shall all remain equally contormed
to equity, and then swear never more to trouble
the Government OF my country"
1t was this bitter onslaught upon the p-eten-
sions and intrigues of Montpcnsier that pro-
voked the fatal encounter of last Saturday.
From every point of view the affair was most
unfortunate for troubled Spain, which loses In
Don Enrique man who as. General Prim has
said, had always been exception to the
Bourbons."
Count do Montalembert.
" WI hp Of
| the death of one of the most distinguished
| Frenchmen of the day, Charles Forbes de Tyron
| Count de Montalembert. This eminent author
| and statesman was born on the Goth of May,
| 1910, in London, where his grandfather and
father had resided since the breaking out of the
| French revolution. After the downfall of Ma
| poleon and the restoration of the Bourbon
| dynasty his father, who had served an officer
| in the English army, returned to France, was
created peer by Louis XVIII, and died in 1880.
| The son was educated at the University, and
| when about nineteen years of age he published a
| work on Sweden, which brought him into notice
as a Htterateur. On the death of his father he
| took his seat in the Chamber of Peers, where he
| advocated ultramontane and legitimist
| principles. Previous to this he had been an
| associate with Lamennais and Lacordaire in the
management of LAuenir, and the influences
| which these distinguished men eXerted on his
mind were perceptible during the whole of his
career. In connection with Lacordaire and De
| Coux, he founded free Catholic school in Paris
| in 1881, which was closed by the police, and the
| directors arraigned before one of the inferior
| courts. Montalembert however, pleaded his
privileges as peer, and had the case transferred
| to the Court of PEERS before which he delivered
! an eloquent speech in defense of himself and his
associates, which, however, did not prevent his
condemnation and sentence to pay fine of 1000
francs. In 1886 he published legendary "Life
of st. Elizabeth" one of the results of his close
study of the history and religious ideas of the
| Middle Ages. In 1842 he offered in the House
of Peers bill for the organization of secondary
schools, on the ground that the Church had a
right 10 perfect freedom in matters of education,
and in 1S43 he published his Manifesto Catho-
| lique" on the occasion of the debate on the re-
lations of the Church and State, which caused
| him to be recognized as the leader of the
Catholic party. In 1S4S he caused memorial
service to be held in the Cathedral of Notre
Dame in honor of Daniel O'Connell; and on the
breaking out of the rebellion in the same year
he announced himself as a republican, and was
elected member of the Constituent Assembly.
Here he sided with the moderates and was bit
terly opposed by such men as Victor Hugo and
Louis Blanc, by whom he was denounced
as an accomplice of Louis Napoleon
This was not the case, however; and
even after the coup detat he was determined
in his opposition to the arbitrary measures Of
the adventurer and having obtained seat In
the legislative body, he was for some time almos
alone in protesting against the despotic acts by
which the empire was inaHgurated, In 1852 hC