The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-09
ruERsIGNIX0 sovERElGNs.I
Tho Royal Caste.

1hC AOy"t S@0t'
Tier, are at the present moment SO
rspipg sovereigns in Christendom, from
III. Qlssu Of England, to whom 257,ooo,.
O)) Of human being. owe allegiance, 70
As Pfiuco Of Monaco, whom 574l sub
t.u lcknovIedge "a their liege lord. OF
IAss prince, ten arc nominally Roman
Catholics, namely, the Emperors OF Aus
tbs lul Brazil, the Kings OF Italy, Spain,
Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria and saxony,
b. Princes Of Ichtenstein and Monaco.
AiIsut three Of these mOnarcbs, however,
~ very far from being on friendly terms
si.h tbs Pope, the King OF Italy actually
lyluyu1der tenience OF accommodation,
E4isthp King Of SAxOny, himself u Cath.
clio, rules over a population almost ex-
slu,iVtiy Protestant.
TIE old maxim OF German jurists,
ACujqI domino ,jus religio," has long
sIBtel foundation iH fact. OF the re-
mining twenty ak princes, two belong to
lie Greek Church, though the Gear and
lie Hing Of the Helenes belong 10 differ.
htbrAnChes it. The other tWenty.iOur
ne ptoteslanIs, sixteen being Lutherans,
baE Including the German EmpcrOrl
klougiug to tue "EVangelicap confess
loo, Tires to the Reformed" Church, and
Oss being tho "supremC head on earth"
dlbe Church Of England. But the vast
niilrity Of Queen Victoria's subjects
llSsOOO,O OO) are neither Protestants nor
Catholics, but Ilindoos, while the Moham,
usdIH', 40 1000 900 in number, are more
nuuUOu' lhan tue Protestauts Of all de-
aOuiusIicns in the Empire.
The Oldest reigning sovereign Is vii:
liam, German Emperor aud King Of
Prussia, who Completed his eIghtieth year
90 the 2!l Of March, 1877; the youngest
il AlIouD XII, of Spain. who was twenty
last birthday (2slh Of November, 1870.
lsthii lisI wa do not count the Pope,
bttlus bis Holiness can scarcely be con.
iisrel any longer as u sovereign, and in
lnyesed5e1 not belong to the royal caste
teOa,iNhood Of reigning families. The
lVstIss age Of the sovereigns now reign.
log !, iorty.eight and a.half years. II
may be added that Ave out OF the thirty
'Il, to vii, the Kings Of Spain and BAy.
Mis, the Duke Of Brunswick and the
Phrases Of SchwatIburg. RudOlatadt and
Llch'hstein are bachelors, though al hap.
PLY provided with heirs preSunptiye.
Tbs titles borne by the illuslrious per.
ionlgsi are many and various. Five have
10 modern tunes assumed the imperial
nIIs, the olrles! Of existing imperial titles
S.Iug that Of thu Gar, whose predecessor,
Peter the Great, dubbed himself Emperor
10 l7s?, and was soon after generally 40.
tuoHledged ~ such. The Emperors Of
Austria, As such, date from 1905; the title
.! Ealstur Of Brazil from 1922. The
AinS Of Prussia has been styled German
Emperor" since 1871, and the Queen Of
ladia.
The title OF Dom Pedro II, by the way,
NaiCl Il That OF constitutional Emperor
ADD Perpetual Protector OF Brazil" is
worth nothing as one Of the rare instances
"a modern times in which the languages
u herald! has made an effort to DO Ia no.
safdIate with fact. So the two Nopoleons
,lled Themselves Euperors by the will Of
y, People as we'll as by the grace Of God,
W. 'Ge first Napoleon even took at ono
sas The curious designation Of Emperor
y@s Constitution Of the Republic" The
~ AInS' Of France had several centuries
9sI''s dssiVaAted themselves "Kings by
~ gics Of God and the will oil the
lie .OvereiSn' not being emperors are
;t'ea 10 number, seven dating their titles
a0a The present century. Il ls difficult
~! which Of these kingly titles in ex,
aioS: Is the Oldest, Those Of Denmark
' toa Norway seems to run each other
.ao1elI' Oa the other hand, our own sov.
%tlsG', though in diplomatic documents
i Wsy tear title which only dates from
~. ~, re called by the people they gov.
"a And % the rest Of tho world, kings OF
Sr'sa' Of England, title dating iron S2s
n rnea II was fret assumed By Egbsrt,
~, Ss'a 10 the reign Of Henry II, however
w - sovereign seems to have been more
SSaT9nly called the King Of the English
i IESId II WaA king Of the Euglish and
"'u 81 the Island OF BritAin,n
-Four Of the sovcrsisns above mention,
> p.I eas titles originally bestowed by ID,
s.SSr,lhs Emreror Francis Joseph beinJ
A. apostolic" King OF Hungary, Whatever
~ may mean, Alfonso XII, the "Catho
y AinS, and the King OF Portugal ''lh,
s LAY Faithful" King. The Queen's iii,
'. gtIender Of the Faith" was conferred
Y derry VIII for an Indifferent theo.
r Ssll treats against zone Martini,
ssi1Sss y who was officially proclaim
NJ. ma \ The pFtvy council TO have "erreC
N.Y., M. ThO.e princes who are not em
q ~" W and kings are "priueSs," dukes
lin grand dukes" A maiority Of then
~ probably have ceased 70 exist a. Soy,