Show SOME ROYAL PRETENDERS Don Carlos and the Spanish Crw Duo of Orleans and His Claim English illustrated Magazine The Duchess Maria Theresa of Lorraine dEste cvifq of Prince Louis of Bavaria descends in tact direct from CharlEs I to the ninth generation by the female line lne and thus obtains her socaled right at inheritance to the crown of the Starts The duchess does not however attach much importance to the claims made in her behalf for she herself was the first to ask of her fatherinlaw the old prince regent ot Bavaria that her son Prince Rupert might be sent to Lglaut as toe representatIve of his house on the occasion occa-sion of the diamond jubilee celebration But if John Bull hai no serious claimants fur his kingdom Jacques Bonhomm Is not so fortunate He has enough and to spare The chief of these Is of course the Duke of Orleans who is no silent pre sient tender Then there is Don Carlos Duke of Madrid Mad-rid chief of the Bourbons who claiming the crown of Spain by the Salc law could also in virtue of the same rights clam that of France ot The death of the Comte de Chambord left him chief ot the house and there are even now In France old royalists who hate the Orleanstho usurpers as they call themand pry devoutly that Don Carlo may one day sit on the throne or St Louis But hitherto hither-to the don has been considered In I rnce as entirely a Spaniard and one cannot reasonably expect him to succeed even if he should seriously contemplate advancing ad-vancing his claim The only son or Don Carlos Don Jaime is now an officer in the Russian army and we hvO the curious I cu-rious coincidEnce of n Bonac rte and a Bourbon in the same arIY and in the same country The other possible French claimants are somewhat less serious and at to most Frenchmen are merely royalties pour rire The best known is the good Dutchman of Teterlngen who signs Charles Louis de Bourbon Due de Nor mandie and who calls himself the son of Louis XVI the poor child of Louis XVI who die at the temple In 1i95 The partisans ot this laimant whom other cal simply Nauncorf make up In earnestness ear-nestness what they lack In numbers An abolition of the Salle law provoked in Portugal a struggle for the throne 5ev eral years before the first Spanish Carlist war The old king Dom Pedro flt wished to leave the throne of Portugal to his eldest daughter Dons Maria tie Gloria when he left that of Brazil to his only son Dom Pedro the poor entperor who died a few years since at a Paris hotel Dom Miguel had been named regent during dur-ing the minority of Dona Maria but on his brothers death he proclaimed himself king and Portugal was given up to a six years war between the partisns of the uncle and those of the niece At length the uncle wts beaten and chased out of Portugal him and his forever The only son of Dom Miguel who bears his fathers name is at present settled in Austria He is the sole Portugtiese jiro tender a nreteder caring littl ior recon quering the crown from the branch of SaxoCoburg and Gotlm which reigns at Lisbon In founding Italian unity ieariy 40 years ago Victor Emmanuel created for his country a npmber p1 pretenders who have now no longer any chance of recovering their jost thrones Garibaldi swept away from the throneJ of the two Siellies the young King Franeots anti added him the list of those unfortunate sovereigns who drift from hotel to hotel ielated and ignored to settle finally in Paris or some other great metropolis After a lanienta ble existence the dethroned Francois died In poverty two years ace leaviar no chiT dren to take up his hopeless cause His brother time Count of Caserta has so cordingly notified the foreign courts of his succession to the chimerical title of claimant claim-ant to the throne of Naples Another Italian the oxDuke Robert of Parma yO was dispossessed of his estates at the age of 11 after the assassination of his father Charles III lives quietly in his castle of Vartegg in the midst of his 11 children well persuaded that his estates are forever lost The pretenders indeed are always ready but there is many a slip twixt the cup and the lip The country of Rouma ala has no exiled royalties The descendants descend-ants of the old hospodarsthe Sturdza the Ghika and othershave plenty opar tisans but King Charles fears rivalry so little that the members of these ancIent reigning families occupy the first posts in the kingdom In Bulgaria Prince Ferdi nand who dreams of wearing a royal crown is in the happy position of having no important rival to his throne Alexander Alexan-der of Battenherg who died four years ago has certainly left a son Arsene Count of Hartenau but as he Is barely S years ohti and takes after his nother Jeannie Lolsinger he hardly counts as apolitical a-political power Yet It is possible that when he arrives at mans age he may pos as a competitor with the young Prince Boris It only remains to speak of Turkey and the unfortunate sultan Murad V who I under the pretext of madness was dethroned de-throned by his brother Abdul after five months reign and shut up In a sort of palace prison There he has remained for the last 21 years and is likely still to remain re-main for the victories lately non by the Great Assassin have strengthened his shaky throne and there are very few Mussulmans who nos think of Murad Besides Abdul hlamid has a rapid method of replying to those who manifest too much sympathetic curiosity about his brother He makes them diSappear It is practical radical and oriental at the same time |