Arizona weekly miner., 1875-02-19
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 Alfanso tLe Twelfth, son of ex-Queen Isa- bella, who has been proclaimed King of Spain, was born on the 18th of November, in the year 1857. He has consequently passed the seventeenth year Of his age. He was baptized AlphOnse Francois d'Assissee Fer dinand Pie Jean Marie de Ia Conception Gregoire. His Holiness the Pope was one of the sponsors (by proxy) and hOncred Isa- bella and her family by permitting the infant to have his own name, JeaR Marie. The young Prince has been educated in a very careful and liberal manner, in strict accord ance with the discipline of the Catholic Church and the healthfui progressive ideas of the day. He Is robust in person, of ac- tive habits and has enjoyed good training under military instructors, French and Eng fish. The Prince of the Austrias is younger than the Prince Imperial of France by year and eight months, but IL has been al ready intimated by English juveniles in the WOolwich Academy. who have known both of the young men, that if the crowns of France and Spain were set up as the prizes of a fsticuf contest between the two the young Spaniard would come of the victor ID the ''roped arena" and the English boys are keen judges of pluck and muscle. The two Princes are, however, very excellent friends. SKETCH OF THE QUEEN MOTHER, IsABELLA 1T
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 Martha Louisa Isabella de Bourbon, ex- Queen of Spain, the mother Of the youthful King, was born on the 10th of October, in the year 1880. She is consequently If years of age. She is the daughter of Ferdinand VII and of Christina, Lis fourth wife, and owed her throne to the famous Pragnatic Sanction of the 29th of March, 1880, which suppressed the Salic law in Spain and dis possessed her uncle Don Carlos. Hence arose a civil war, which lasted seven wears. Placed, in 1882, under the immediate guar dianship of her mother, who was declared Queen Regent, she was threatened with the loss of her throDe in her very infancy Im- mediately after the death of Ferdinand VII, in September, ls33, formidable insurrec- ton of Zumalacarregsy, and forced the Queen Regent to conclude quadruple de- fensiye alliance with England, France and Portugal, on the 22i of April, ls3i, as well as to make important concessions to the Liberal party. 4 decree accorded consti- tuition and two chambers. The CoEtes con- secrated by vote tine disinheritance of Don Carlos and the rights of Isabella, which, threatened by continual revolts and by the successes of the CarIst generals, were finally iiuPOSCA bu tut fsClDIlts Oi tero, and the decisive exploitation of Der gara on the 31st of August, 1889, in conse- quence of which Don Carlos went into France as an exile. The effects of the civil war ren- 1 dered internal government extremely diff i cult. Already two grand parties began to l be formed, the Moderados or Conservatives, 1 and the Exaltados or Liberals. The Exalta- i dos turned for time to their own profit the l embarrassment of Government. To the Min 1 istry of Martinez de la Rosa had succeeded l the Mendizanal Ministry Alarmed by the | revolts of SaragoSsa and Madrid, Mendizanal I enlarged the electoral law and introduced | other reforms. The insurrectionary jGnta l excited all Europe. The suitors for her hand | were her cousin, Francis of Assist the | Count Trapant, son of the King of Naples Count Montemolin, the son of Don Carlos, I who was supported by Russia and by the | courts of the North; finally, Prince Leopold | ot Coburg, who was brought forward by I England. In consequence of divisions in the | Spanish Government and between France and England, French policy triumphed. The Queen married her cousin Francis, and her sister married the Duke de Montpensier, King Louis Phiiippe's son. The agitation which marriages caused in Spain gave strength for a time to the Spanish Liberals The Qneen seemed to incline in their direc- tion, and to shake off the yoke of her mother by calling to the head of affairs Salamanca and Serrano in September, lS4I, but in the following month Narvaez was again at the head of power. This Minister, to prevent any effect from the February revolution in Spain, redoubled oppression. The Qaeen made advances to Austria and Prussia, which had always refused to recognize her; she en- tered for the first time into diplomatic reIa- tions with those powers; she likewise sent troops to aid in the Te-establishment of the Pope. On the other hand, she broke off her relations with England In Spain itself new instruction in 1ssis and 1879 by Ca brera and Count Montemolin was vigorously put down.