The Red Cloud chief., 1878-02-07

Wales from the Duchies Of Lancaster
and Cornwall respectively. The King
OF Italy receives E57O.OOO a year. On
the whole, il may be doubted whether
the thirty-six sovereigns and their fam
lilies are in receipt Of much under fl2.-
10000 a year. Whether Presidents
elected every four years would cost less
or considerably more is another ques-
non The present age can hardly be
said to have seen a republic and q king
dom fairly pitted against each other,
France having been exhausted by six
weeks OF defeat when, as a republic. she
took up the legacy Of war ~bequeathed
TO her by the second empire. Yet the
disasters of the French in the autumn
and winter Of 1901, did conclusively
prove that a nation may call itself a re-
public without thereby acquiring any
remarkable access of energy or discre-
ton. Republics, too. nave their legends,
and the legend Of 1913 is now finally ex-
ploded. II we compare the progress
made by the English Of the monarchy.
and the English Of the republic during
the past century. We shall not be in
clined to think that any very good ar
guments for the republican form of gov
eminent have been urged Oh the other
side Of the Atlantic.
The succession i'm all the mOnarchies
OF which We are speaking is according
TO the law of primOgeniture; but in
thirty out Of thirty-six a oma is in
capable of reigning. In Russia, Eng
land, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, and
SknEaIn a An ssr md IN
most Of those Kingdoms have reigned
with signal success. Elective king
doms have long since died out. that of
Poland alone surviving till the latter
part of the eighteenth century while
the order of succession which prevails
in Turkey is that the eldest male of the
Imperial House should ascend the va
cant throne. Nine of the reigning SOW
ereigns have, however, beer called more
or less irregularly to the throne. The
EmperOrs of Austria and Brazil W
their crowns to revolutions, so does the |
King Of Greece, and, to a certain ex-
tent, the King of Spain, though he only |
recovered what his house had lost. !
The German Empire and the Kingdom
of Italy are built up upon the ruins of
other mOnarchies. The Grand Duke of
Baden and the Duke of Brunswick have
replaced brothers with prior titles.
The King of Denmark is King by vir- |
tue of the treaty of 1852. The Prince
who has set longest on the throne is |
Dom Pedro III. who was proclaimed
Emperor of Brazil in 1881, when only
six years of age. Her Majesty is fourth
on the list, and completed the fOrtieth
year of her reign on the Goth of June.
II is curious to consider the changes in
the kingdoms of Europe of which her
Majesty has been a witness from the Sc
rene heights of the most solid throne in
the world. 1t is sufficient to say that
most of the existing constitutions in
Europe are of much later date than the
year 1887. Two dynasties have been
hurled from the French throne during
period, and one republic was
founded and disappeared. From Spain,
also, two dynasties have been banished.
though one has been restored, and a
remarkable sort of republic was also
tried and failed. Probably at no time
in European history have claimants to
crowns been more numerous. France
alone boasts three, and what is anus
ing is that two out of three are them
oppressed by pretenders to their
own shadowy rights. Prince Napoleon
(Jerome) is the rival of the Prince I'm
while a young Lieutenant in
the Dutch army disputes the claim of
the Comte de Chambord to be the jure
King of France, alleging that he him
self is the Sol of Louis XVII, and
therefore male heir of the house of
bourbon.