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Show women companions wnose maeousry nomely faces were tho joke of all the wits for a gon-eration. gon-eration. He never could bo mado to understand under-stand why he was king, or what the English wanted witn hun. His only son, George II, un- OYAL TROUBLES. jieen Victoria Dpsires to Change the Succession. 1 iKLUMENT ALONE CAN D IT. I spotMd Family Becord--Why Itoyal and duble Families Hasten to Decay, aud g0 They Are Renewed Precedents for , Chans' ,n tne Succcslon froua Stephen to Gears I TDe Fted House of Iiruna-lck Iiruna-lck ' ' ' The king is dead 1" "hong live the queen I" , Such re the contrasted cries hoard at findsor castle and Kensington palace on the loming of J8 w ml- i001' cld King raiiam IV, third son of George III, lay a) in the former palace, and in the latter, rji before daylight, Alexandrina Victoria, TOE PRIiSCE OF WALH3, PRINCE ALHIKT VlO TOlt AND FKINCE OKOItOB. derstood English, hated his fat her and showed signs of insanity. His grandson, George III, was nominal king from 17(X)to 1S10, but lived another ten years under mild restraint as a lunatic. ' His oldest 6on, Ooorge, violated nil the laws of morality imd decency and soma of the laws of tho realm; privately married a Catholic lady and then repudiated her, married his cousin Caroline, of Brunswick, aud persecuted her through many years, and dually died in 1S30 without legitimate issua The next brother, uncle of her present majesty, maj-esty, was a little too bud for description, and died without legitimate issue. Tho next sod succeeded his brother George as William IV. He was a riotous lad und a disobedient sailor, but became almost respectable iu middle life, and did no harm while king. The next brother, bro-ther, Edward, duke of Kent, married young, became the father of Victoria, and died soon after. He had some good traits. The fifth son of fieorgo III was tho notorious Ernest, duko of Cumberland, who inherited the elea-torate elea-torate of Hanover because a woman could not hold that office, and took himself off, to the delight of all Englishmen. If ho had been guilty of ordinary sexual immorality like his brothers, the English people might have for1 given him; bis vises vrerof a far darker hue, those of Tiberius and Elagabalus, with brutality addad., The Duke of Cambridge, sixth son of George III, managed to maintain ft happy obscurity. Tho last two had legitimate legiti-mate offspring, but they came in order after Queen Victoria. With uch a family record it is not surprising sur-prising that rumors of hor majesty's insanity have often found believers, and that Prince Victor is a very unpromising heir apparent One set of correspondents announce with confidence con-fidence that the IViuce of Wales has Bright's disease, and cannot possibly live a year; another set say it is something else, and that he will recover. Ho is 48 years old, and the father of two sons and three daughters. Four other children of the queen are parents, so the royal hue seems sea ire for some tuna, MURDER OT 1UCBARD IL v child of the fourth son of George III, her nigbt gown and with a shawl around ," was receiving the homage of the lord nterlaiu and the Archbishop of Canter- :s stalwart sous did old George III see .r to mature manhood, out of his fifteen jlren, aud from the first four but one le-mate le-mate child survived one "fuir haired !;hterof the houseof Brunswick." Prof-cy Prof-cy and insanity, intemierauce and a i'uIous taint, with a strange sequence of Jents and unnatural aversions, had done r work, and the direct lino of tho English lswicks was almost extinct. Princess sao'irina Victoria, born, at Kensington ; e May 24, 1810, was popularly regarded m exception to the innate tendencies of line. It was hoped that she inherited the temper and moral nutureof her mother, bad reared her in seclusion; and so it proved. :tj-two years have passed, and now ths lish people are anxiously asking them's: them-'s: Was not her majesty the sole excep-and excep-and have hot her descendants reverted fold typo! What of the Prince of Wales! , what is more importaut, what of his ; son and heir apparent, Prince Albert ill It i now freely admitted that the ii expects to outlive her heir apparent, that she looks upon his heir apparent would naturally succeed her as almost 1, or something worse. It begins to be ;red about that she desires a "break in accession," such as has several times oc-ii, oc-ii, and that parliament inay soon he to declare Prince (Jeorge, second son of rinceof Wales, the rightful heir, to it all in all, a monarch's life is not a y one. They intermarry so much, and in such close degrees, that a poison like which killed Francis I and practically Mated the best branch of tho Bourbons, fTofulous diathesis, such as the daugh-if daugh-if "Crazy Paul" distributed through so royal families, threatens one aud all. a father should outlive all his sons i strangely sad aud unnatural to the ion man; yet it is almost the rule in royal lines. Louis XVI of France was randson of Louis XV, and Louis XV te great grandson of Louis XIV, while 't, the "Great Louis," was the first : i his parents after they had been mar-' mar-' enty-two years, and so became king In f.incy. " . . Jgland there have been nine monarch ' n Charles I and Victoria, of whom six Lildless, uud the son of another, James u excluded from the throne. Victoria lueca of her two childless predecessors, wge IIlTras the grandson of George rge I was so remote from his Eug-elecessor Eug-elecessor in kin and from his English t in blood that ha never mastered (anpiage, and "wont home to die" to Germany. Before him Queen died childless, though seventeen times low. Before her William of Orangs lfX0 Ot RICHARD HI'S BEDSTEAD. ''aicnarch and vrite Mary both died ' liefore them James II was driven " toone, and, though ho had two last cf Uis descendants died a few f- -forehim his profligate brother, 'I, left no legitimate issue, though "e toases in England boast an irreg-snt irreg-snt from him. 'Zaiag monarch in Europe except -a of Tm k?y is doscended on one side 'tiier from one man, who lived but 'a go and was never a king. This Gaunt, son of Edward III, and ; 'T& was perhaps the most melan-?-o of all tha kings who have oat- sons. X personally, but his-worst his-worst case; ftr it was the ex- bis direct lino which opened the ine "Wars of tfcu Roses" the strug od nearer to Queen Anns, ao-1 ao-1 laws of descent, than the Electres they were all Catholics or mar-. , tbolics, and so tha parliament eiy all asida and decreed that the crown should be "in the Princess j the heirs of her bo.lv, being Prot- was further provided that turn-or turn-or marryins Catholic should '"store of the crown. And after fitig act as that, and acquiescence ;!UsJ I people, sureiy no one could "u 'S principle that parliament l disPose of the crown. They I " ou Gladstone's son if they J, 'J won't w 7 not overly wise son of Sophia, "-I'M to be kins, brinsuss two |