Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-05
APPLIED ENGAGEMENT.
The Noble Duke Who Is to Marry tn,
 Princess Amelie, of France.

Princess AmeIfe. of France I [Parls Letter to the London Truth.l The engagement of the Duke of Braganza l and the Princess Amelie, daughter of the 1 Comte de Paris, has pleasantly excited the small Mutual Admiration society of titled people whom the Comte and Confess de Par | is is now head. The fance last week men toned is tall and fair. As he is now the prominent social parsonage of the hour I
 shall give more detailed sketch. The first l thing that would suggest itself to French | woman on seeing him would be: 'Dieu! | Comme il a Pair commun ct endormi." A Frenchman would say: "Il Pair mou ct l nsignifant; mais Il doit etre assez bon gar con-" If his father were @ Briggs or Smith he would be thought "catch" by English girls.
 l The hair is blonde with sandy shade. He l has still vestiges of the cherub cheeks of | childhood, and his eyes of Saxon blue ex-
 press candor and Sleepy contentment. What adds to his juvenility of look are the cherry red of his full lips and the pink and white of his com plexion. There seems under l lying bone in the face, whether seen front wise or in profile Maria da Gloria, his grandmother, had this sort of an unmodelled visage-and so have the different members
 of the house of Savoy-from the middle of the nose downward.
 The illustrious aspirent to marriage has that air which comes of never having to face the material difficulties of life. He was, as the Americans say, ''fxed up" from the day of his birth with title, household and an allowance, and never experienced what it is to be only separated by sheet of brown pa- per from miserable poverty. His ideas, be-
 ing second hand, do not fit his intellect. When Halevy and Pailleron were, the other
 day, doing their best to entertain and to
 make points that would suit an Orleanist
 gathering, there was no varying shade of ex-
 pression in the countenance of the Portu-
 guese prince; he was patiently indifferent.
 A part of his education has been to let him
 self be bored with a tolerably good grace
 It bore fruit the other day at the academy
 The history of this Crown Princes life is
 written in his face. He has eaten and drunk
 and learned lessons by rote, and submitted
 to drill-sergeants and fencing masters disci-
 pline and learned to ride and shoot, and
 taken the royal mould as blanc mange takes
 the form of the shape into which it is poured.
 Yet hear that he is destined to play great
 part in Iberian politics, of which more anon.
 The fancee? Well, she is over twenty.
 Her countenance is mild and rather attrac-
 tive. The features regular. There is
 something in her of the late Duchesse d Or
 leans, but it wants the expression of intense
 inner life which rendered the plain face of
 that princess almost beautiful. I was very
 youuS duo utu uOt neu d WlOo range OI OO-
 servation when I saw the Comte de Paris
 mother walking along country road in De-
 vonshire, dressed in very uncoquettish
 mourning She stopped to talk to some per
 sons whom she met. I thought her the most
 ladylike woman had ever seen, and what
 even then struck me in her was distinction
 quite independent of external surroundings
 Her face was plain lamp, illumined by so
 fine a light that one only paid attention to
 it's brightness. It was clear that her life had
 been one of the most cruel moral suffering
 The Princess Amelie has not graduated in
 the school of diversity, and no great latent
 faculty has been brought out. She is ex-
 tremey tall Her appearance gives the idea
 of frail health. Although brought up to
 take part in field sports she is of a pensive
 habit. For many winters she has been or dered by the family doctor to stay at Cannes.