The New York herald., 1871-01-02

WASHINGTON Jan. !, 1871.
An ofncial cable telegram from Madrid, received
this afternoon states that the new King has reached
Madrid and has been received with enthusiast m.
Amadeus Throne Claim by Vote.
The new King or Spain takes possession OF the
crown and sceptre OF Ferdinand and Isabella in
conformity with call OF the spanish nation ratified
by legislative vote.
This resolution was adopted by the Cortes after
very prolonged debates which were continued from
time to time by adjournments during the conclud
ing months of the year 1870, from May to No
vember.
THE FINAL BALLor-DEFEATED CANDIDATES.
The following is the official report of the voting
on the final election OF the Duke d'Aosua by Cortes
to the spanish throne, viz
Three hundred and eleven members took part in
the voting the number OF members entitled TO vote
being 345.
For the Duke d'Aosta. lel, in addition to which
two members who would have voted for him were
detained at home through illness.
For federal republic, go.
For a unitarian republic, 3.
For the Duke de Montpensier 27.
For Espartero,
For the Prince Alphonse, 2.
For the Duchess de MOntpensier, l.
Blank tickets, 49, OF which II were given by the
Carl1st members.
The majority required by the law for the election
The Duke d'Aosta. having received 191 and two
adheslons more, was proclaimed King by the Pre-
sdent of the Cortes. Salvos OF artillery announced
this fact TO Madrid
Political Inferenccs-Prim's Policy.
Al length, says first letter from Madrid, dated
the nth OF November, 1870, General Prim has CON-
peted his abdication and succeeded in getting the
! Duke OF Aosta voted by the Cortes as
| his successor by 19l Deputies, eighteen above
| the legal number required. The majority
| small SIGHT horne
in mind that there was but one voting. The law
provided for second and third in certain eventu-
aities: but as these eventuaties did not arise the
| government contented themselves with the first.
twenty.seven deputies voted Tor the Duke Of Mont.
pensler, for his wife and eight for General Es-
parterO. Many or these had declared to Prim their
intention to vote for AOsa IN the second turn after
preserving their compromises In the FIRST SO
been again employed the ls1 would have
come up TO over 22O 33l deputies were
sentees some three or four sent letters explaining
the causes OF their inability to be present, and
pressve Of their adhesion to the government candi-
date, and five or six more have done so since. II,
therefore, the Cores be the faithful representation
OF the Spanish people The new King is unquestion-
ably the elected or the majority OF his uture sub
Jects. 1t is to be hoped he Will see it IN that light,
and not be deferred from accepting by the embit-
tered efforts the republicans and Carlists making
TO persuade him TO stay at home Two votes cast
for Prince Alionso-quite proof that the Bourbons
have no sympathizers in the House, while nineteen
tmostly Carlists and neoCatholics) were unwilling
to put out the name of their royal aspirant and so
voted In blank. The republicans made a gallant
but to some extent an lnsiscreet stand, and sue.
ceeded in polling sixty-three votes When say in
discreet do not mean in the sense OF the present
hopeessness OF their cause but In the sense OF the
| unnecessarily obstructive policy they, in alliance
with the Carlists adopted at the great session or
Yesterday. Noisy. petulant and even insolent,
they reused the temper OF President Aorrllla and
| caused him TO say sharp things to them Hhich had
better have been left unSaid."
Queen Isabella Protests-Her Ex-Majesty
/ Ssntes Her Reasons.
| The following is translation OF protest OF Tie
ex-Queen OF Spain against the Duke d'Aosta's
election acceptance Of the Spanish crown, re-.
ferred to in the ABOVE history Of events:-
| TO THE sPANIARDs.
Events which 1t Is neither my wish nor my duty
to recall, and by constant determination ana ardent
| desire to constitute your happiness even at the
price OF the greatest sacrifices, made me decide in
1868 upon abandoning my native land. Since then
| have not ceased TO address to Heaven my most
fervent suppcations that you might enjoy the peace
and well-belng which you so much deserve, and OF
which minority greedy OF power had for time de-
Wish ng TO render legal this step, so important
and so painful to me. as well as to avoid its being
attributed to violence and its forming reasonable
pretext ut some future time more or less distant,
Of the present year free and spontaneous abdica-
fion Of all my purely political rights with all those
them to my beloved sow Don Alfonso De Bonr
bon Prince OF Asturlas, and reserving to myself such
rights as had not the aforesaid political character.
| / battered myself that this act of abnegatiOn, as
spontaneous as 1t was sincere, would have calmed
| Over-excited passions; would have inspired conf
! dence in those who, refusing 10 do me justice,
might have considered my person obstacle to the
consolidation OF public liberty, and would have
stored my country to its normal condition, pro-
| foundy disturbed by revolution which Of neces-
sity mas produced innumerable evils.
But it has not pleased God to grant as yet my fer
vent prayers The revolution continues its career,
| and has just disavowed the rights OF my sOn-who
| is today your legitimate King according to all the
Spanish cOnstttutOns-by calling to the thrOuc of ST.
! Ferdinand and OF Charles V. a foreigner whose
merits however great cannot entitle him to your
| sovereign, In despite OF the rights OF q whole
| dynasty the only one which has in its favor that
| legitimacy, c0nseCrated by the lapse OF ages and
by constitutions, which 1t has been signal folly to
| disavow.
should be wanting to my sacred duties as a
| mother and as head OF my family did not publish
and address 1t to you before any else, because
| it Is you who are called upon to repair this great
violation OF right, OF which an innocent boy who
cannot be ana ought not to be held
responsible for the errors unustly attributed to his
ancestors, Is now the victim. There Is nothing more
| distant from my mind and purpose than an appeal
| to violence; enough blood has been shed by the
| my ancestors would not have more to flow in
order TO re-establish my dear son upon IT. Ny sole
desire Ia that public opinion being rectifed, may be
| convinced that only by the establishment OF the
future upon the old and tmehonored basis OF mon
archy can Spain recover the elevated and respected
and that when the revolutionary torrent, which you
surely look upon with horror. shall have spent ITSELF
| the restoration may be brought about pacincally
which, while filing with JOY my maternal heart, will
console the grief which feel, not for my own, but
| Tor your misfortunes, ISABEL.