Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-07-14
Al&fall0rla 6axttte
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY IA.
A Royal COurtship.

1t is NO longer secret that the King ls en-.
gagged to his cousin Dona Mercedes de Mont.
pensier Borbop. He is resolved to carry out
plan which he formed when, leaving his cousin
in Paris, he was called to the throne by the
army of Martinez Compos at Ssgonto. During
bis visit to Seville he determined that this year
should not eapse without witnessing his mar
rage, and he seems only to have deferred that
ceremony out of Difference to his mother. The
marked GOODNESS which has been noticed Dy
every one in Seville and 10 Madrid between the
ex Queen aud her 500 was caused by nothing
else than tho hostility expressed by Isabella to
the choice Of the King Nor is she to be blam
cd because her attendants and the court she
keeps around her at Seville have (ostered and
fon1ented her raucor against the Duo de Mont
censier and his daughter. Their object was
merely to gain certain sway over the King s
mind, and thereby pave the way for return TO
power and place of those evil councillors whose
mistakes had caused the ruin of the dynasty.
Other motives, into which We cannot enter,
dictated the opposition OF the Queens Score
tary and ei tho Modorado party. 1t is even
said that ii the marriage takes place this Win.
ter Queen Isabella will probably leave Spain
and again take up her residence in Paris. King
Alfonso declares that The Queen may 80, but
that his sisters the Iufabtas must be left under
the care Of The Princess Of Asturiss This ar
rangement'would be a very suitable one, as rot
few people think that the young lnfantas
ought to be placed under their elder sister, and
that Queen Isabella might suit her own tastes
better in Paris at the Palais Basllowsky than
10 Spain.
King Alfonso's decision is almost universally
approved, and his future bride is sure to be
very much liked. She ia young and very hand
some. Her dark and animated teatures-wblch
are quite of an Andalusian cast, are displayed
10 the greatest advantage under the mants as
we saw her the other day at that pleasing en-
tertaiumen, Madrid bull fight She isEnot
particularly tall, and her embonpoint is uDmis-
takably Spanish but she has that lively, bright
manner which Partisan education gives girl.
She dresses very simply as rule, and her en-
touragc say che is very intelligent. When she
stayed in Seville last winter and during her
short visit to Madrid she pleased every one who
knew her. The sernest lntranslgente could
not Gud it 10 bis revolutionary heart to frown
on the beautiful girl who seemed, as they say
in Spain, very "daughter OF the Guadalquiv'
er. 1t required all the inveterate souruess OF
those constitutional grumbers of the Sagasta
party to iud fault with the Kings choice.
King Alphopso will pass seven or eight weeks
10 La Grapja with the DUO de Montpensier and
his family. The Princess Of Asturias will also
be there for several months, and the chiefs OF
all the foreign legations fix their residence 10
that cool retreat, to which many Of the nobility
resort. There, amid picnics, balls and fetes.
the King will await the iall of the leaves 10 the
woods Of la Granja; and when be revists his
capital it will be to announce to the Cortes del
Reyno his approaching marriage with Dona
Mercedes de Montspensier. - Whitehall Review.