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Show A SELF SACRIFICISGKIXG. Kim; Louis of Bavaria, has.ifwe are to believe the Munich correspondent of the 1m Xeucn Reich, at last determined deter-mined to marry, though he has not yet fixed upon the Princess he will propose to make his Queen. The reason rea-son of this determination is, according to the correspondent, the fact that the King's brother, Prince Otto, who is the heir presumptive, will probably die childless, and that the succession in that event will fall upon his cousin, Prince Louis. This Prince, who was married to a princess of Modena, is a violent Ul tramontane, and is suspected of intricuing with the clerical party against "the Liberals, whoso opinions are shared by the King. Last year Prince Louis openlv agitated in the upper house acainst the Premier. Prince Hohenlohe, with the object of overthrowing his Cabinet and replacing it by an anit-uniomst one and it is said that he is in constant communication with L .tramontanes .tra-montanes and the Bourbonists by the aid of his confidential adviser, Count Blome. All these circumstances, taken together, have, says the correspondent, overcome the King's hitherto insuperable insuper-able dislike to marriage. His Majesty s choice will fall, he coueludes, either on I the only daughter of the . Emperor ol Russia, or, which is more probable, on the eldest daughter of Prince hred-erick hred-erick Charles of Prussia. The chances of his marrying a member of the Austrian dynasty have entirely disappeared disap-peared since 1SGG, and an alliance with ihe royal house of Prussia would have the advantage of greatly strengthen-inz strengthen-inz the national party at court. The difference of religion would not be a formidable obstacle to such an alliauce, as Protestant marriages are, to a certain extent, traditional in the reigning reign-ing line of the houses of Birkenfeld, which only re-entered the Roman Catholic church a hundred years ago. i |