Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-01
FAREWELL BANQUET To JUDAH P. BENJAMI,
THE SPANISH SCANDAL
FURNISHING TALK FOR ALL PARIs-TH
RaIrRPnnrS E,,cII I:I.r

B0URB0Ns IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL.
A Paris dispatch says: "The recent arri-
val OF the Spanish Queen in Paris aud the
resolute and successful effort OF the Spanish
Ambassador to prevent her from spending
her sojoIrn here at the Hotel Meurice, are
what touts Paris is talking about Just now.
AS soon IS E GIobo published its fret intim.
tion OF the demuition WOW at present raging
between Alfonso and his wife, Paris ad go,
hold of snd mastered all the particulars.
The morganatic household which her mo.t
Christian msjesty invaded in the middle of
the night, to the great CONSERVATION of the
Duke of Sesos and the furious anger OF the
King, has been all but photographed. Here
the Spanish royal family mas been regarded
for years with ming ed interest and cynicism.
From the moment Isabella arrived 10 Paris
from Pau, with ali her half -pompous, half
greasy train of fsmiliars, to the setting forth
of Gen. Prim's pert young son to
claim the residue of Charles V's
legacy, every shopkeeper in Paris has
politely chuekled in his sleeve at each
mention of this decadent branch OF Bour.
bons. Apart from her morals and the per
sistence with which Chamberlain Mariori
crowded that royal Mr.. Snsgsby, the king
consori, TO the wall, both on state and pri-
vate occasions, the measureless vulgsrity of
Isabella herself bas always been interesting
to the honest and, for that matter, to the
tricksome burgesses of Psris. II the ex-
Queen had only confessed her bourgeoise quail
iies 1 think the Psrisians would have for-
given her and made fsvorile of her. Bu,
with the appearance and the IA anners OF the
mistress of brasserie she always combined
| the pride and arrogance of an empress
combination of fatal effect in these times Of
| a cynic democracy. The life OF Isabelia in
Paris has been conspicuously loud, and her
| personal entOtLr0ge has conducted itself ""
| a Saturuine indifference TO common pros 2 =
which may be characteristic of the housekOIu
! Of an exiled monarch, but is by no meabs
| coeducIve to popular esteem. The suit
brought against the ex Queen by her psstry
| cook, reduced the ex-royal household 10 The
lowest pitch Of burlesque, sud from that mo
ment the Spanish Bourbons-one Of them
| by the way, openly married to a circus rldeI
have never had any but ridiculous rela
ton to the public curiosity of Psris. InseC
| not tell you what that means. After all,
cannot see that the most profound believer il
the theory of the divine right of kings ough
| TO feel shocked at the almost coarse bsntel
with which the news Of Alfonso's in6delitie
has been received in Paris. II is a laTg,
demand on human faith to exact of thos
familiar with Alfonso's genesis so supreme
reverence for his origin that il should ex
lenuate his feshlier misbehavior on accoun
of the original sanctiiy of his source. B.
tween Christina and Isabella herself inter
venes, pannially, wide gulf of sardoni
doubt and disputation. From the hagran
proh;gacy of the mother it was 4 natura
if illegitimats descent to the still NOR
sudacious pcst.connnbial immoralitie
Of the daughter. Yet even the tain
of hereditary corruption might have bee
/ sd IA ad moi haap for ha condition
which combined, in sinister uoiop, to pus
Isabella into the foul pitfall OF her race U
TO the tip1e Of her marriage, by general cor
sent, there was not purer or simpler girl i
Spain than the Royal Infanta. When Sd
reached the nubile age the pretenders to he
: hand were Francis d'Assise, her cousin an
son Of King Bomba; the Count of Mont,
molin, son of Don Carlos, sustained by Rui
sia, and Prince Leopold Of Cobourg, aftel
ward King of the Belgians, the protege
. Lord Palmerston and England. When sh
married her cousin, all Europe, recolleciin
/ the vices of her mother, perceived the inc,
liable future and shrugged its shoulders. NJ
8 | even the king COMFORT himself hugs the illI
[ | sion that the throne OF Spain owes to hil
! | the perpetuston of a dynasty or its presel
/ | occupant. The proudest nation in Eurol
a | openly sustains the offspring of a reckle
' Queen and her favorite of an hour, lust as
) | the instance of his mother it bore the yoE
0 | imposed upon it by the progeny begotteu of 8
,. sdulterous monarch by an ambitious and IA
g cinating scullion. Measured by the stsndal
i Of your slave States Alfonso is roy
Il quadroon-doubly removed by the viciol
alliances Of his grandmother ard of Il
Queen who bore him from the real successit
10 the crown. The divine right inheres
/, him only rs a oue.fourtb fraction. The gus
l =. i L l. ..il
a pei him TO the coarseness and the efronts
J. which, foreshsdowed in his mother, are b
i ginning TO burst out into full Blossom In h
N own case. That this grandson Of the Dul
h of Narvssz, kitchen hand, aud this son
l. Marshal Prim, Il mere military adveutur,
l. has 80 insulted the proud aud ancient hou
le Of Hapsburg as to neglect his wife for Col
ss mon woman OF Infamous character is
,e gar6ed here by our social philosophers
K Paris as an expression of the indisputaI
Il | logic of human natures. The esgerns
rs the Spanish Ambassador to intercspi Que
Christina was almost ridiculous. Apa
nents had been ordered by telegraph
the Hotel Meurice, and royal cour
i. overlooking with dignity waited
ID the station platform 10 receive
OF mistress and and her suite. But the c
e risges OF the Spanish Embassy were tn,
N | also, and when the train steamed slowly il
r, the station the poor courier was waved asi
- and Don Fslco d'Adds, Duke of Fern
m Nunez, attended By Senior de Aredano, &c
be msndsnt ]. de Alvear, NJ. Dupuy de Lo
and Senors Heredia y Ivermore, Migue
Miguel, Ssgrario and de Montalvo, WELDON
their royal mistress and conveyed her
at state TO the quarters whinh Lad bsen h
10, riediy prepared for her at The Embassy
W Spain. The q ight of Queen Cnristiua.
ee you might have supposed, seemed extre "a
ly droll 10 scandal.loving Paris, but the hs
at OF 4e Spanish legation TO intercept her
n her hegira and save the convention alities
< been even more cordially enjoyed"