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Show DEATH 07 VICTOR. BMANUEL. Victor Emanuel II, king of Italy, died in the royal palace, Quirinal, in Rome, at 2.30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, of miliaria, a malarial fever quit common and fatal in Rome at this season of the year. His sickness was brief, and only assumed a serious phase two days ago, when the eruption on the skin was first observed. ob-served. What effect his death will have upon the aflairs of his kingdom, or of Europe, it is difficult to say. There is a political crisis in Europe at present over the settlement of the Turoo-Russian war, and the re-mapping of European Turkey. Ilaiy'i position gives her prominence in this question, and makes it necessary for her to assume an important part in the final adjustment. The dead king had already made his TOice heard in the preliminary arrangements, and had shown his purpose of taking suoh an advanced position as Italy was entitled en-titled to. But tho effect upon the complicated compli-cated eastern question, of tho king 'a t3etn, has not a tithe of the import ance that the event has upon the Roman Catholio church. Pio Nono is presumed to have reached a point in holiness where he is not influenced or exercised by the baser, wicked passions of ordinary niortals; otherwise other-wise the pope would certainly have derived a grim satisfaction from the king's death. Victor Emanuel was the lifelong enemy of the pope, and pretty nearly destroyed the temporal power of his holiness. While king of Sardinia he seized all the states of the church except Rome and Civita Vecchia, and was proclaimed king of Italy. When the French troops that bad been guarding Romo and the pope were withdrawn to tike part in the Franco -Prussian war, Victor Emanuel entered not only the papal dominions, but sent his soldiers into Rome itself, defeating the pontifical troops, and transferring hid capital to the eternal city, making the Quirinal his royal residence. He almost crushed the sovereign pontiff, who has since lived in seclusion in the Vatican. To further humiliate and enrago the pope and oiergy, the king confiscated much church property, aad took away many clerical privileges. He was everywhere regarded as the archenemy arch-enemy of the pope and the papal power. It remains to be seen whether his son and successor will perpetuate his father's ideas, and imitate his conduct con-duct with reference to the pontiff. Victor Emanual, king of Italy, was born March 14, 1820. He was the Bon of Charles Albert, king of Sardinia, and queon Theresa, daughter daugh-ter of Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany. At his baptism he received the names Vittorio-Emmanuele-Maria Alberto-Eucenio-Ferdinando- Tommaso. He was carefully educated edu-cated in science and military tactics, and married April 12, 1812, thu Arch-Duchess Arch-Duchess Adelaide of Austria, who died January 20, 1855. His family consisted of Princess Clothitde Marie Ihercae Louise, born March 2, 1843, and married January 30, 1859, to Prince Napoleon; Prince Humbert R6nier Charles Emmanuel Jean Marie Ferdinand Eugene proclaimed king of Italy since his father's death born March 14, 1S44; Prince Ama-deuB Ama-deuB Ferdinand Marie (late king of Spain) born May 30, 1845; and Prin-eess Prin-eess Maria Pia, born October 16,1847, and married October 6, 1862, to Louis I, king of Portugal. They are all living we believe. In his early youth as Duke of Savoy, Victor Emanual took an active part with his father in the wars of Sardinia, and on March 24, 1849, became king of Sardinia by his father's abdication. In the following fol-lowing August he succeeded in making a somewhat humiliating peace with Austria and then turned his attention , to internal a flairs. He reorganized the finances, the army and the system sys-tem of publio instruction, concluded treaties of commerce with bo gland, established railroads and promoted free trade, and was generally successful success-ful in bis eflorts for the prosperity of his kingdom. In 1855 he entered a convention with France and England Eng-land to take part in the war against Russia, and dispatched to the Crimea a! gallant army of 17,000 men. The same year he lost bis wife, mother and brother, and waa himself brought to the verge of the grave by fever. His relations with Austria were the reverse re-verse of friendly for a lone time, and despite the eflorts of England to prevent pre-vent war, the Austrian army crossed into Sardinia in 1859, having first been defied by Victor Emanuel. The king himself took the field, and being assisted by a large French army, com manded by the emperor in person, defeated the Austrians in ssveral hard tought battles, notably those at Mon-tebello, Mon-tebello, Palestro, Magenta and Solfe-rino. Solfe-rino. The Austrians were finally expelled from Lombardy, and the war ended with the celebrated treaty of Villa Franca, by which Victor Esaan-'uel Esaan-'uel was establiahel king of Italy. In 1861 his title was recognized by England Eng-land and France. In '64 a treaty was signed for tho removal of the seat of government from Turin to Florence, Flor-ence, and the evacuation of Rome by the French troops within two years. This latter was not fully accom plished, owing to complications in political a flairs and the revolutionary impatience ol Garibaldi, until 1870. In 1866 the king made common cause with Prussia, and declared waragaiu9t Austria. In this war bis kingdom suffered heavily, but the final success of Prussia resulted in Venice and the territory of Venetia being ceded to Italy. The only other important event of Victor Emanuel's career w3 his entry into Rome, September 20th, 1870, a month after the withdrawal of the French troops. Victor Emanuel had a morganatic wife, the Countess Maraffiore, who died at Turin last month. She bore him two children who were well provided pro-vided for by him. The son, Prince Maraffiore, is an officer in the army, receives a good tmlary, and is married to a wealthy lady. The daughter is married into a rich patrician family. After the death of his acknowledged wife be sought to marry into the royal family of England, bat his roue reputation stood in tho way. RoBina was a Turin actress, upon whom he be stowed the title of Countess Maraffiore upon the death of Queen Adelaide, though she had borne him children previous to that event. After the morganatic mor-ganatic marriage he lived openly with her, with the full knowledge of the court, and in 1SG9, when the king was seriously ill, a marriage ceremony cere-mony was performed between them by a priest, but it never received the civil sanction required by law to make it valid. In 1S73 the king was disposed dis-posed to elevate his faithful spouse to the throne by a civil as well as a religious re-ligious marriage, but the project was so stoutly opposed by his ministers and the royal family that it was abandoned, and Roeinadied an unmarried un-married woman. She was a woman without personal attractions, but of marked individuality of character, and exercised almost unbounded influence in-fluence over the king. |