The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-08-10
A ROYAL oousTsHlp.
King Alfonso Of Spain, to Marry the Girl Of
His Choice, after All.

From the Whitehall Review.
1t is no longer secret that the King is
engaged to his cousin Dona Mercedes de
Montpensiel Borbon. He is resolved to
carry ont a plan which he had formed
when, leaving his cousins in Paris, he was
| called to the throne by the army of Malti-
nez Compos, at Sagonto. During his visit
| to Seville lie determined that this year
should not elapse without witnessing his
marriage, and he seems only to have de-
| ferred that ceremony out of Difference to
| his mother. The marked GOODNESS which
| has been noticed by every one in Seville
and in Madrid between the es-Queen and
| her son. was caused by nothing else than
the hostility expressed by Isabella to the
choice of the King. Nor is she to be
blamed, because her attendants and the
Court she keeps around her at Seville have
fostered and fomented her rancor against
the Due de Montpensier and his daughter.
Their object was merely to regain a certain
sway over the Kings mind, and thereby
pave the way for return to power and
place of those evil councillors whose mis-
takes had caused the rule Of the dynasty.
Other motives, into which we cannot enter,
dictated the opposition Of the Queens
Secretary and of the Moderado party. It
is even said that if the marriage takes place
this winter Queen Isabella will probably
leave Spain and again take up her residence
in Paris King Alfonso declares that the
Queen may go, but that his sisters, the
infantas, must be- left under the care of
the Princess of Asturias. This arrange
ment would he a very suitable one, as not
few people think that the young Infantas
ought to be placed under their elder sister,
and that Queen Isabella might suit her
own tastes better in Paris at the P.llais
Basilowsky than in Spain. <
King Alfonso's decision is almost uni
versally approved, and his future bride is
sure to be very much liked. She is young
aud very handsome. Her dark and ami
mated features-which are quite Of an An
dalusian cast--are displayed to the greatest
duNhhtit5E uiieI CiAo ludtAtIiId, dS VIC shN
her the other day at that pleasing enter
tainment, Madrid bull-fght. She is not
particularly tall, and her en,6onpoint is uu-
mistakably Spanish but she has that Eve
ly, bright manner which Partisan educa-
tiou gives girl. She dresses very simple
as rule, and her ehtourage say she 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 sternest Intransigente could not
iind it in his revolutionary heart to frown
on the beautiful girl who seemed, as they
say in Spain. a very daughter Of the
G.,adalquivir." 1t required all the. .i"vet-
er..fe sourness of those CONSTITUTIONAL
gr,nlbl-rs of tho Sagasta party to ilnf iault
with the King choice.
King Alfonso will pass seven or eight
weeks in La Granja with the Due de Mont
pensier and his family. The Princess of
Asturias will also be there for several
.A>sashs, and the claiefs of all the foreign
legations rs e.aeffs iuence III - II oooi
retreat, to which many of the nobility
resort. There, amid picnics, balls and
fetes, the King will await the fall of the
leaves in the woods Of La Granja; and
when he revisits his capital it will be to
announce to the Cortes del Reyno his ap-
preaching marriage with Dopa Mercedes
de Montpensier.