The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-12
BEREAvED SPAIN.
Marie Christina,
widow of Alfonso XIII, and neGen,.


Immediately after the death of King
Alfonso, on November rs, q cabinet
meeting was held, all the officers of
state and the cabinet ministers, except
the minister of war aud the minister
of the Interior, having been present
at the moment of dissolution. The
result of their deliberations was that
Marie Christina, widow of the de-
ceased sovereign, was appointed re-
gent. As such, she received the resig-
nations of the ministers, which were
rendered in accordance with the law
requiring the members of the cabinet
to resign In the event of the death OF
the sovereign.
Two days subsequent to the kings
death, General Martinez Campos con-
vened the superior officers of the
army near Madrid aud declared him
self ready to obey any ministry or
chief that the queen might appoint.
All present swore to uphold the con-
stitution and maintain the succession.
AT that time a new cabinet had ac-
cepted Office.
Marie Christina, who begins her
regency with professedly loyal army
anu n AihtAN W iiuh
popular acceptance than that ofSenor
Canovas del Castillo, which expired
after appointing her to office, has rs
sumed responsibilities of R most h ir-
assing character. 1t is reported that
the adherents of Don Carlos
are gathering at Bayonne
to await the orders of the man
they regard as their legitimate king,
as to whether or not they shall make
a d sh over the frontier; that Ruiz
Gorilla has left London with the pur.
pose of entering Spain secretly TO
rouse the revolutionary republicans,
and that Sagasta, the president ofthe
council, or premier, as we should call
him. is suspected of intending to de.
pose the new regent In favor of her
mOther-in-law, Isabella II. In appre
hension of trouble, it is further
stated, that soldiers at home on fur
Tough have BEEN ordered to rejoin
their regiments Immediately. More
over, the regent is herself unpop-
ular. She is an Austrian and
objects to speak Spanish, Is re-
ported to be cold aud proud; and
by reason of the tender age of her
elder child, the Princess Msria-de-las
Mercedes, the heiress to the throne,
the term of her regency would be
long if continued to the accession of
the heiress-spparont. That the next
in the line of succession is a princess
is also unfavorable to the mainte-
nance of loyalty to existing arrange
ments in Spain. Many friends of the
succession indulge in the hope that
the regent may become the mother of
a posthumous son of the late king
While this occurrence would prOlong
the period of regency, ii is believed
that IL would strengthen the posi-
bility of the unbrOken succession OF
Alfonso's line.
The queen regent was born July
21, 1858, In Austria, and was known
as the archduchess Marie Christina
when Alfonso won her as his second
bride. She was married to the king.
on November 20, 1879, aud Ia the
mother Of two daughters, Maria.de-
las Mercedes, heiress to the throne,
who was born September II, 1880;
AZ d Maria There's, born November IL,
1882.
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