New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-03
NOTES ABOUT ROYAL FOLK.
DOM pEpRO-TIIE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
HONORS TO A BABY KING.

have been at the table of a common friend
beside Doctor Charcot who has Just come from
Milan where he has been in attendance on DOM
Pedro. Naturally, he was asked good many
questions about the good Emperor; and he an
swered all TO which he could properly reply lie
says that he never saw e more remarkable IN
stance Of the power Of the moral being over the
material than this tropical sovereign presented III
the course of his illness. Dom Pedro, 1t IS no
secret, has been for some time III OIL diapetes'
with the troubles of the nervous centres TO which
II gives rise He has had at Milan an attack
OF pleurisy which he caught boating on Lake
COMO over which, after warm weather, an icy
wind came down from the Alps. There seemed
no hope left lie was in state OF such hgh
fever Ms 10 be derious, and the only means OF
leeping up vital force was by hypedermc IN
lcctions of caffeine In a moment OF lull the
doctors brought him telegram stating that the
Princess Imperial of Brazil had signed decree
emancipating all his coiored subjects. and that
there was no longer q slave in his domnons rms
news raised him almost from death 20 life, ana
he has steadily improved since he heard OF IL.
When he began to feel weak the dread Of dying be-
fore slavery had been purged out Oh
his Empire depressed him and made him fearnii OF
riskng his life because he thought his daughter
might not be equal to cope with the dl'hcui'ies
involved in the measure. But directly ne Knew
that she had carried 1t through joy took hold OF
him and he wept from pure thankfulness OF heart.
"Imay now" he CRIED "sing my nunc dimittls! !"
The Emperor has been living On coffee and beef
tea, varied now and then with peptonized MIX
with little chopped raw meat. To the astonish-
ment of all around him he asked for the papers
to be read to him. and ON hearing that ME- Glad
stone had answered Colonel Bob" IngersoIs
Irreligious negations in The North American Re
VIEW caused the publication to be sent for IL
appears that Mr.. Gadstone's arguments correspond
70 the train OF thought which Darwin's works ana
Leopardis poems and Schopenhauer's sad philoso-
pbv called up in his own mind. Dom Pedro holds
that the religious sense and the moral sense are
independent faculties and what the Germans mlgho
call the inner essentials of the human beng ana
with consciousness Of identity form the great
trinity in unity of which the individual man or
woman is composed. Both senses no doubt may
be blunted or intensified in strength and keenness.
Init they are Unborn and are because they arc. The
fact that every human race has sought after God
is to him @ moral proof that God exists
The Austrian Imperial family have rather ne
elected the memory Of their great ancestor the
Empress-King Maria Theresa What honCrs were
paid to il the other day at Vienna were due TO the
fear that the Crown Princess, who is the mother OF
bnt one child, the youthful Princess Elizabeth
may have no other postefity. This httic gr' 10
undoubtedly heiress-presumptive to the states
pvcr which Maria Theresa reigned. But Is she
over those which have been since tho time OF thao
sovereign added to the hereditary ones OF Austria
DR. to the Imperial dgnityp There is the hitch.
Maria Theresa was never German Empress IN her
ovn right but in that Of her husband, who on inc
death of her father was, because she was his wiie
elected Emperor. Of Germany. Her son Joseph
ON his fathers DEATH was also raised by eiec-
ton to the Imperial power. But I've was over
shadowed by his mother, who was great by
her hereditary status Of Queen Tor King OF
Hungary and Bohemia, and Sovereign Of the Duchy
Of Austria, of Salzburg, Syria and Croatia, and
greater by her own Unborn greatness. She had
the strongest sense, q capacity for hne emotion
was swayed from ,girlhood to the grave by d
sense Of duty, was patient and perseverng, simple
of manner, humble in the presence OF Co.. pre-
emncntly teacbable, afectionate, and constant IN
her affections. Adversely only brought out the
heroic side Of her nature. Some of her qualities
went down to the women descended from her,
and very few to the men, though, generally, sons
rather resemble their mothers than their fathefS
Dom Pedro is twice or thrice descended from her,
and the Princess Clementine OF Saxe-Coburg Is
her Observation-Disclosures through Marie Amelie,
tine has traits of character clearly derived from
Maria Theresa, in whose footsteps Queen Christina
of Spain seems likely TO tread.
The Queen-Regcnt and the baby King OF Spain
and the two little girls have been to the front
this week as topics of interest in the world OF
journalism They were cha mingly received at
Barcelona because Christina, when put upon her
mettle by Providence surnounted her trials nobly
and hos done all that she should have done
in situation of the greatest difficulty. Strength
has been manifested IN her weakness Although
Barcelona is the most republican city in Spain It's
population could not be insensible to the compl-
ment paid it by the Regent in coming there with
her three children. As family group she and
the baby King in her arms and the two Infantas
beside her were most touching. She is not pretty.
But she has q stately manner on state occasions,
and goes well through all that is required OF her
at great public ceremonial Though generally
of a cold manner, her emotions on this occasion
warmed her up. Her heart overlooked with thank
fitness. IL was the second birthday Of the
baby King How she must have |
felt when she found Joy and festivity |
reigning in Barcelona, and the
fullest recognition from the people and the repre-
sentatyes of the Powers who had come to the |
exhibition, of the virtues she has developed. l
saw her here raw girl, going, not many years |
ago, to Spain TO be married. ana can hardly realize
that the widow of King Alphonso, who has SO
splendidy borne the discipline of sorrow, governed
with so much WISDOM and been firm in not she'd
ding blood in defence of her sons crown, is the
young Princess whom l remember.
There was yesterday a grand dinner party at
the Spanish Embassy in honor of His Majesty
Alfonso KITS birthday. Old Queen Isabella
did not attend. The guests of the evening were
the President of the Republic and Nine, Cafnot,
and NJ. and Mime. Floquet. The Ambassador and
received tie head of the State and
his wife at the hall door Nine. CarnOt was
dressed in black lace frightened with drops of
jet, and wore a wreath Of jet sgheat ears with
diamond crescent in the centre. Her hostess was
simply in black lace without any kind of orna-