New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-04

more atterwa1d she gave birth to male
child whose advent into the world was
hailed BY the Bourbonists with delirious
Joy. They called him the Gift OF God,
gave him at the baptismal font the title OF
Dieu- Dome, styled him in their addresses
to The throne-since Bouaparte had just
died at St Helena-the "Chlld Of Europe"
and II orded their satisfaction by the pur-
Chase and presentation OF an estate That has
ever since given him the name OF tue Count
de Chambold. Caroline, his mother, when
Charles " in 1890, abdicated the crown III
this boys favor. holding him sby the hand,
left France by stated marches. escorted by
the household troops, fled to La Hendee,
and endeavored to excite the peasantry III
favor of her son. She failed, was impris-
ouei, gave birth to child, and then con-
fessed that she had beeu privately married
to Count Luchessi Palili. This destroyed
every sentiment of chivalroUs compassion
| which tue struggle of a brave wop4an tor
the rights Of Ter son naturally produced,
and size returned to her husband never
afterward to appear IN political anaifs. her
escutcheon W As blotted.
Maria Christina, who married Ferdinand
VII Of Spain, prevailed on her husband, to
whom ste had borne two children, both te-
| males, to aunul the Salic law, which pre-
vailed in Spain as IN France, and to be-
! nueath his sceptre to his eldest daughter,
| Isabella, aod failing her to her sister, Donna
| Luisa, the Infanta, now the wife OF the Ddc
| de Montpensier, Louis Philippe's youngest
| son. This was done. and the ancient Cortes
! of the kingdom were summoned to recog-
| nize and swear fealty TO the bertss OF the
| throne. Bv the same instrument Maria
| Christina WAS appointed governing Queen,
| or Regent, in the event OF Ferdinand dying
! before Isabella bad attained her maj orlty.
| The Cortes, merely ceremonial body, pos
sessing no deliberative functions whatever,
| gave formal assent to the arrangement,
| and on the death of her husband, ii 1888,
| Christina assumed the direction OF the gov
| eminent, which she successfully held-with
| the exception Of the brief interval when
| Espartero's star was in the ascendant
| till 1916, when Isabella was declared of age.
From May, 1871, till August, 1912, Espar-
| tero governed Spain. During this time
| Christina took refuge in Paris and was
| courteously entertained by the King OF the
| French-a distinction by 10 means entirely
| due to her BouI bon blood. Her children,
| over whom she was known to have. and
| naturally, unbounded influence, were the
| Queen and Infanta OF Spain; and Louis
| Philippe was far too shrewd parsonage to
| neglect showing civilities to a lad y with
| whom the choice of husbands FIR those
| interesting young Processes would be sure
| to rest. Christina never considered her
| struggle with Espartero's party to be hope
| less. She published long manifesto to the
| Spanish people whose character at that
| day she seemed to understand perfectly.
| 1t con tanned Just the right words at the ii t
| time She was declared just and clement
| Queen. her foes were branded as traitors to
| Spain, the treatment she had received was
pronounced ~ be scandaiously ungrateful,
and she was at once recalled by acclama-
ton. The power of EsparterO melted away
! like snow before a summers sun, and he
owed it to the speed of his horse that he
| got safe on board a British ship.
Christmas return to Madrid was a tri-
| umph from coast to capital. Bat spot
| on her escutcheon, like that which doomed
| her sister could not be etfaced. Within
! less than three months after the death of
! her husband, Ferdinand VII, she had been
! privately married to Ferdinand MunoZ, a
| common soldier, guardsman at the palace,
recommended for nothing but his youth
| and handsome person. Although this mar
rage was not publicly acknowledged until
ten years a4terward, when, in 1874, the
| guardsm an was created Due de Reanzeres,
| vet it was perfectly understood in court
| circles From the moment that this mis-
! alliance was known Queen Christina s
moral force departed. Immoraiities are
| forgiven in Spain; faint OF blood never.
| NoblcSse obliqe is rule which admits Of no
| excGDIlOuB. luUGSH lut daughter OF Il
monarch, sister Of q king, and mother of a
sovereign, though the widow of Ferdinand
| VII. and Queen Regent of the kingdom, her
claim to be- enrolled in the royal list where
| the great lsabella's name is inscribed was
| gone She might exercise power, but
never command respect. She might die in
the very odor of sanctity, but her re-
| mains could never repose in the solemn
shadows of the Escorial. Queen Isa'Sela ] |.
| * hal %o<
mother were more remarkable for dissimu-
lation, talsehood and epruriency than any
| thing else, and her grandparents on both
| sides, particularly the Neapolitan, were
| even worse. In the sculpture gallery of the
| British Museum, on the right hand as you
enter, are a series OF busts of the Roman
| emperors, which, as aphysiognomical study,
| are without rival. A discOlored one OF
| these, which. when the light falls in a
| proper direction, has wonderful simu-
| lance of life, is remarkable representa-
ton Of Francis l., of Naples, Isabella's
maternal grandfather. 1t is the bust of the
| Emperor Nero, and is one of those marvel
| lous instances of the presence of the same
| face reappearing after hundreds of years.
| More lustful and avaricious than his proto-
| type, he was also more perfect dissem bier.
"Qui leScH diSStmuidrc ueSct reJ'tGre," was
| the motto handed down to the queen of
cpdlu " HCh rhO UcS AiCA ANAou AZ iOfo, dt
the age of thirteen years and one month.
But she inherited from the ancestral stock
worse vices than Gissimulation,o and from
the day of her marriage she has always
had, like her mother and grandfather, her
favOrite.
Spaniards have so much of the Oriental
about them that they are prone to eXaspe-
rate their enemies by assailing the fair fame
| of their wives and daughters; but, alas !.
Queen Isabella for twenty-seven years has
had no fair fame to sullys There was never
a revolution or an outbreak which called
troops into the field during her reign when
from Hill to hill and from fortress to battle
ment So}dddOS de liz 1ntta was not scOrnfully
shouted after her soldiers. That ill-assorted
betrothal into which she was entrapped
during the orgies of q midnight ball on
August 2S, 1916; the indecent haste in which
public announcement of it was made the
next morning; the wicked speed into which
events were spurred on by that cunning old
fox at the Tuileries; the marriage under
personal protests from the enraged and dis
gusted girl on the tenth Of October, and the
utter loathing with which she regarded the
vile transaction that had made merchandise
of her maternal instincts and tratficked
with her nature, have been urged always
| by her friends as her excuse. 1t was in
deed--this marriage-the tlSning point of
lSaDeIaS career, Coe 6auOeSU moment
| of her life. She reigned twenty-five
years after that, but ever falling lower
| in the affection and respect of her
| people. In Spain there are always two
governments, one Ostensible and RESPONSE
BILE, the other hidden and irresponsible; one
in front of the COrtes, the other behind the
throne; one making laws, the other prepar-
ing hIndrances. The former is the Cabinet;
| the latter the Camarilla. They are the
chronic diseases of Spain, these Camarillas
| Their movements are occult, their inter-
course with the crown illicit, their action
on the nation criminal. But they have ex-
! listed ever since the Bourbons first entered