Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-06-23

nside as sentimental trifies, and sne new political marriage was confirmed III Auonst of 1907. He who had crowned Napoleon in Notre Dame now broke with him-and broke himself against him. In February of 1908 the angry Emperor ordered General Mlollis to oo- oupy Rome He proceeded to punish tne Holy Father by taking away the prov inees of Aneona, Macerata, Fermo and Urbino, and annexing them to tho king dom of Italy. Still the Pope would not recede The dispute became hot, and the Emperor wrested from the supreme pom tiff the remainder of the Roman States, The Pope, in June of 1909, hurled back his defiance ill a bull of excommu- nication. On the 9th of July the French took possession of the Quirinal palace, gently seized the Holy Father, and con- yeved him prisoner, first to Grenoble. and finally to Fontainebleau
 The Spanish people were the hum- bIest of Catholics. The accession of Jo= seph Bonaparto as king was strongly op- posed by a counter revolution, The pa triots who favored the restoration ot Ferdinand VII were headed by the Junta of Seville, and their party was in- famed not little by religious ranoor on account of the indignities to the Pope. Nearly half million soldiers were put into the field, and in support of these came into Spain English armies under Sir John Moore, Sir David Baird and Tieutenant- General Arthur Welles- Icy.
 Critics have regarded the treaty of Bayonne and the rupture with the Pope as the beginning of Waterloo The TO- mancer-looking only at the dramatis persone-m might we'll begin his story of the overthrow of the First French Elm. pire with the pretty face and soft hands of Elizabeth Patterson But History. deeper than marriages and divorcess deeper than emperors and popes. sees rather the lines of eternal oausation stretching through the dust and turmoil, and the nero persons of the play dart ing hither and yon like ephemeral
 Napoleon $ banner still rose and float ed, for while, in the highest sky On tho Continent none could resist him further. He sealed all harbors until the trade between London and Hamburg was carried on bVloay Of GonStanttnoplel The German princes, against all preju- dices of race and tradition, sought eag erly to enter the Confederation of the Rhine. The displacement of the Spanish Bourbons seemed to conclude the career of that race. The old monarchy had be- come spectral
 The years 1808-9 had this complexion for Napoleon-that he might regard tho past as finished As to the future, he saw that shining like sun through the east-windows of the Tuileries. Never theless there was peace nowhere. If the past was finished, the present was chaos and the future merely pregnant His Continental System by which Great Britain was to be left rotting on the sea --roused all the remaining raneor of races and nations. Sweden leagued with England. The Muscovite enthusiasm for France emitted at intervals sulphur instead of incense. Tho Czar was for Napoleon; but the Russians were not for the French. The Congress of Erfurt, in October of 1908, was hollow. Alex ander and Napoleon were there; also the kings of Saxony. Wurtemberg and Westphalia; also the minor princes The state of Europe was confirmed. The Czar should have Finland, Wallaehia and Moldayia.
 While Napoleon was busy with the yO1t Oe |, T been coyertly arming for the renewal of war. The British ministry gave Francis II. four million pounds to break the peaeel The carly spring of 1909 found the Archduke Charlos in Bavaria with tremendous army. Napoleon heard the noise afar Leaving Soult to finish the Spanish business, he hastened to Paris By the l6th of April he was at Stutt- gart On the 18th, his headquarters were at Ingolstadt Out of Wurtemberg and Baden. by the swiftest oouriers, he evoked an army. He threw himself like a tornado on the Austrians, and hurled them back towards Bohemia Vienna was uncovered, and on the 18th of May surrendered to the French.
 Ou Ou6 61SG ana SSuu 0I that month occurred the indecisive battles of Aspern and Essling. In June the progress of the French seemed to be delayed by the very excess of their advances and vio- tories. On the 5th and 9th of July was fought the famous and sanguinary bat. tle of Wagram, in which the Austrians were routed with loss of fully 25, 900 mon. The Hapshurg Empire was as completely prostrated as Prussia had been after Jena The humbled Francis came to a conference with Napoleon at Schonbrunn He was obliged to purchase peace by the cession of the provinces of Dalmatia and Istria Austrian Poland was divided between the Czar and the king of Saxony. Salzburg was given to Bavaria. Francis pledged his honor to renounce his alliance with England, and to uphold the continental system of Napoleon.
 Meanwhile 6oult. in command of the second corps in Spain, had on the 10th of November. 1908, annihilated the Spanish army at Burgos. He had xyrest-