The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-01-05

THE NEW KING OF SPAIN.

THE NEW KING OF SPAIN.
The civil war in Spain has taken sudden
though not wholly unexpected, turn. Int
Republican army-of6cers and men-hav'
proclaimed Prince Alfonso, Prince OF the AS
turias and son of Isabella, King OF Spain
A brief history of the events leading to tn
complication Of the Spanish succession may
not be undressing
The Austrian family which assembled the
throne in the person of Charles l. emperor
Charles v. in 1916, ended in the person o.
Charles IL, who died without issue in 17OO.
By his will he bequeathed the crown te
Louis XIV. of France, who had married the
sister of the Spanish King. The crown was
also claimed 5y Leopold !. of Austria, who
had married another sister. Awar ensued, IN
which nearly all Europe took part for thirteen
years. By the peace of Utrecht, In 17l3,
Philip, the grandson of Louis XIV, was con-
frmed as King of Spain, by yielding Naples,
Sardinia, Belgium, and other States to Austria,
and Gibraltar to England. In 1908 his grand
son, Charles w., was compelled by Napoleon
to abdicate, and Prince Ferdinand was also
compelled to renounce all claim to the success
sion. In 1914, after Joseph Bonaparte was
driven out of Spain by the British troops,
Ferdinand VII. was proclaimed King, to the
exclusion of his father. Ferdinand had two
brothers: l. Charles, or Don Carlos. z
Francis De Paula. By the law Of Spain,
females were excluded from the succession.
Ferdinand had buried three wives, and,
having no children, Don Carlos was the heir
presumptive. In 1929 he married Maria
Christina of Naples, by whom, in quick sue
cession, he had two daughters Isabella,
born in 1880, and Maria Louisa, born in 1882.
Ferdinand died in September, 1888, having
Iuov a doorQQ
ing the law excluding females, thus cutting
Don Carlos off from the succession. Ferdi-
nand had been most unmitigated despot, as
his father had been before him, and Don
Carlos was expected to be worse. The whole
nation therefore sustained Isabella, then three
years old, who was proclaimed Queen under
the regency of her mother.
Don Carlos at once begun q war, which
lasted six years, and was remarkable for its
cruelty and atrocity. In 1843, the Queen be-
ing thirteen years old, was declared by the
begun in Europe for the marriage Of the
Queen. Louis Philippe of France, who had
several unmarried sons, and who exercised a
sort of guardianship over the Spanish
family, was forced to make a pledge
tina. he would not marry either OF his sons
to Isabella. In 1916, he was successful in
accomplishing the marriage of the Queen
to her cousin, Francis d'Assisi, son
Of Francis de Paula, thus uniting the elder
and younger lines OF the family to the exclu-
sion of the line of Don Carlos. The other
same time to Anthony, Duke of Montpensier,
son of Louis Philippe. It was supposed,
then, that the French King had practised an
intentional fraud. The husband Of the Queen
was understood to be but little better than an
imbecile, in which case the Spanish crown
would be likely to fall to the descendants of
the French Prince.
Isabella, however, had number of chill |
dren, Of whom five survive. The second of
these is Alphonse, who was born in 1857, and |
is consequently now between II and Is years
of age. Her sister, the Duchess of Mont |
pensier, has ten children, including several
sons.
After his unsuccessful war, Don Carlos, who |
had been living in France, removed to Tri- |
este, in Austria, where he died in 1856. Pre- |
vious to this, however, he had renowned the |
throne in favor of his son, Count Montmolin. |
In 1860, the Count was proclaimed King by
Gen. Ortega, but there was no popular re- |
Spouse. In the same year Montmolin and
his brothers, John and Ferdinand were ar |
rested they renowned all claim to the throne |
and were released, and subsequently repudi- |
ated the remuneration. Montmolin and Fer |
dinand died in 1861. In 1868 John renowned |
in favor of his son Charles, who was born in |
March, 1S4S, and who is the present claimant
to the throne as Don Carlos
In January, 1868, military instruction |
took place in Spain under Gen. Prim. This |
increased during the year, and |
on the Goth of September, 1868, Queen Isa-
bella left Spain for France, where she has
continued to reside ever since. A monarchial
was adopted, and the Cortes
sought diligently for King. In July, 1870,
the Regency offered the crown to Leopold, of
Hohenzollern. This offer was used as pre-
text for the controversy between France and
throned Napoleon III, and founded the Ger
man Empire. In November, 1870, the crown
was offered to Amadeus, second son Of Victor
Emanuel, of Italy, who accepted it and was
King in January, 1871. Early in
1873 he abdicated and left Spain, and the
country has been ruled as sort Of a re-
public.
On the oath of June, 1870, Isabella FORM
lily renounced the throne in favor of her son
Aphonse In 1871, Don Carlos entered
spain, and has since then been engaged in
prosecuting war to recover the throne. The
spanish Republic has never had any SUBJ
lance. The Spanish people have no knowl-
dge of republicanism and the Spanish no.
ility and politicians abhor it. The Govern
aent has been called Republic for the want
+ a monarch. On the question of Fright"
S recognized in royal SUGGESTIONS, Alphonse
) probably entitled to the crown; but what
pain wants is peace, and to have peace there
aust be some head selected, to the support of {
hitch the country will generally unite 1t is
ossible that this boy will unite the best ele-
,ents of Spain, and be the means Of giving
eace to the distracted and miserable king.
Tribune.
COTTON AT GALVESTON. = The Galveston
1ers, of the LIST inst, says:
1t is worthy of notice, as an evidence of
he fact that Galveston is daily growing in
avor as cotton market in sections which
ave heretofore been welded to New Orleans
nd st. Louis, that large consignments have Z
ecently arrived from Marshall, Jefferson, 9
and Othor v,o;,<c La.1c' q