22 OCTOBER 1870, Page 3

The Spaniards are again trying to find a King. Prim

has, it -would appear, re-opened negotiations with Victor Emanuel, and the Crown is to be offered, if the Cortes consent, to Prince Amadeus, Duke of Aosta, the candidate formerly selected. The -consent of Germany has, it is said, been obtained, and the re- luctance of the Italian people has been overcome by their wish for the alliance of a Mediterranean power, which, now that Napoleon has disappeared, would in the event of French hos- tility to Italy become most valuable. The personal relation- ship is, it is said, to be cemented by a warm alliance.