Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-01-01
Spain-King AIfOnzO.

Another revolution has taken place 10 Spain.
Prince Afonzo, son of Queen Isabella, has
been proclaimed King, and is recognized by all
the forces comprising the armies of the North
and Centre. Prince Alfonzo has been invited
to visit the army of the North, the ships in
the harbor of Sapta0der have hoisted the
Royal flag, and Marshal Serrano has acqui-
esced. The Minister of the Interior has sent
the following dispatch to Governors of Provu-
ces ALFONSO the Twelfth has been unanim-
ously proclaimed King by the nation, army
aud Ministry. A regency has been formed un-
der the Presidency of Conovas del Castillo,
without portfolio. We hope your patriotism
will induce you to firmly maintain the great TO-
terests cou6dcd to you. Ex.Queen Isabella,
who is in Paris. yesterday received the follow
tng dispatches 'All towns have responded
enthusiastically to the proclamation" I'VE
pray your Majesty to transmit the news TO
your 500. We congratulate you on this grand
triumph achieved without bloodshed." Isa-
bella, 10 response. sent the following telegram {:
1.-The King proceeds to Spain Immediately"
AItonzo telegraphed to the Pope asking bis
blessing, and promising that be will, like his
ancestors, defend the rights of the Holy See.
King Alfo;z 20 s ministry is announced as fol-
lows Castro minister Of foreign affairs; Car
denas, minister of justice; Jovellan, minister
of war; Saloveria, minister of finance; Molius,
minister of marine; Rabledo, mioister of inte-
rior; Orrio, minister OF commerce, and Byala,
minister of colonies. AfoDzo did not pass
through Paris, but went to Spain direct He
will disembark either at Cadz or Valencia.
General Martinez Campas has entered Vaeu-
cha at the head of the troops that we're sent to
oppose him when be pronounced for Atouzo.
The CarIist leaders, Dorregarey, Alvarez and
Others have entered Catalonia
AifoDzo, Marquis de Covadongo, Prince of
the Asturas, who will be known as AlfoDzo
Nil, if he should make good bis claim to the
throne, is the son OF the ex Queen Isabella Ii.
and her consort, Don Francis Assists, and
was born at Madrid November %, 1857, being
therefore seventeen years Of age. He followed
his mother on her expulsion from the throne
10 1868, and continued to reside With her,
while receiving his education, until recently, at
Paris and Geneva, having in October last been
granted by the British government the privil-
eye of becoming student in the military col
lege at Sandhurst, England, where he was
when proclaimed King. 10 March, 1870, the
prince went to Rome to receive the sacrament
at the hands Of the Pope, on which occasion
the Queen wrote to the latter, declaring to him
that she did not aspire to preserve to herself
the right to the throne, but to transmit it to
the prince, her SOD. % the 25th of June,
1870, the Queen signed formal abdication 10
favor of Afonzo, at Paris, in the presence of
the royal family and several Spanish grandees
aud generals who adhered to her cause At
the election for King 10 the Spanish Cortes on
the 18th of the following November eight votes
were cast for Alfouz while ten votes were cast
10 blank by other OF his adhereuts The result,
however, being the election of Amadeus, of
Italy, the Queen issued protest against it.
Since that time the scheme for placing Alfonzo
on the throne has never been abandoned, but
his adherents have been so few that their
schemes have never assumed importance until
the present.
On the 22d ult., in response to an address
from some grandees, the young prince said that
monarchy alone could terminate the disorders
aud uncertainty which prevail in Spain, and
further declared that majority of the people
of Spain were agreed 10 the opinion that be is
the only rightful representative of the Spanish
monarchy A day or two ago it was announced
that General Martinez Campas had pronounced
in favor of the Prince, and had carried ovor TWO
battalious from the republican army A por.
ton of the army of the centre was at once with
drawn from pursuit of the Carlists to march
agairst Campas, but now it is indicated that
the main forces of Spain, military and naval,
have followed iu the new movement" and that
regency has been formed under Couoyas del
CASTILLO.
The announcement of the proclamation of
Prince AlfoUzo as King, and his recognition by
the armies 10 the north and centre and by the
naval forces at Santauder, is az unlocked for
piece of intelligence. Up to this time the re-
belIiou against the Spanish republic" has been
chiefly represented by Don Carlos. cousin of the
Dew King, and against him the republican
armies have beer directing all their energies.
That the republican party will now yield is
somewhat singular, but nothing that happens
10 Spain is very astonishing.
FRANCE.-The conferences between the rep
reese ntatve men of the various parties in the
French Assembly with the Government have
made little progress so far tnwards nerfeetinp