New-York tribune., 1880-01-01

4 DIETURRED UONEYMOON.

The amiablc young couple who arc trying
to govern Spain and enjoy their honeymoon ut
the same time are having trOrbled time OF
if. First they had to deal with Cabinet
crisis, which was bad enough, coming as 1t did
close upon the heels of the wedding festivi-
ties. and involving the dismissal Of q Minis
ter who is the most popular man in the
Kingdom and now comes an attempt at
assassination. The whizz OF tie murder
er's bullet was not new sound to
AlphOnsO. He was fired upon in Septem-
Der. 1878, and bore himself with great cool
ness stopping his carriage and pointing out
himself the man who fired the shot. But to
the Door young Christina mere schoolgirl
in years, fresh from peaceful. happy home
life in Vienna. this rude experience of the
dangers of Spanish royalty must be terrible
shock. 1t is SAID that one Of the two balls
fired at the King almost grazed her check.
It is singular that with ull the attempts
at assassination that have occurred in recent
years not a single sovereign has been badly
hurt. Few rcigning European mOnarchs have
been exempt from murderOus attacks. Their
lives have been assaicd with pistols, shot
guns, daggcrs, bursting bombs. internal ma
chimes aud exploding mines, and vet not one
of them ever got q really serious wound. 1t
used to be said in our civil war that it took
ton of lead to kill n man. The amount of
powder and ball necessary to bring down a
king has not yet been ascertaincd, but it must
be very large.
The wonder is that since regicide has been
shown to be such bad business, men are will
ing to engage in it. The chances of sues
81: nft tba
be king-killer halmostscertain. 10 If the men-
tai machinery Of these men could be OK
amined, doubtless something would be found
out of gear. The desperate character of the
attempts, the entire lack of personal griev-
ance, and the bunglIng manner in which the
crimes are executed. all show want of
sanity, and the escape Of the intended VIC
tins has doubtless been owing to the fact that
the assaults have not been made by cool
headed men. H6del and Nobiling who fred
at Kaiser William in Berlin, the Italian who
tried to poninrd King Iiumbcrt, the Nihilist
who shot at the Emperor of Russia, and the
two assassns who within fifteen months have
attempted the life of King AlphonsO, were all
Young fellows Of enormous egotism and i'll
balanced brains, muddlcd by liquor and COM
to believe by their cO-consplrators that rev.
olutiOn would follow their attempts which
would shield them from punishment.
OF all mOnarchs in Europe 1t would seem
that AlphOnso ought to be most secure from
assassination. His youth, his personal bravery,
his love-marriage, the purity of his personal
character. and his honest attempts to govern
by constitutional methods ought to secure him
so large a measure of popular regard as to
make the formation Of plots against his life Inn
possible. He seems to be not only fair King
but also . hish-minded. conscientious young
gentleman. The Bourbons have usually be-
gun we'll and turned out badly, developing aa
they advance in life iato tyrants and de-
bauchees. II would beVunfair, however, to
Judge tho young King Of Spain by his wicked