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The young King of Spain, Alfonso XIII., son of Alfonso

XII., and grandson of Queen Isabella, was crowned, or rather enthroned, on the 17th inst., and is now, though only sixteen, in full possession of the Royal prerogative, his mother, the Queen-Regent, retiring as Queen-Mother into comparative obscurity. The procession of foreign Princes, Ambassadors, Grandees of Spain, and Generals, all except the soldiers in gorgeous coaches, proceeded in magnificent, though slow, pro- cession from the Palace to the Congress of Deputies, where the King, standing up, pronounced the oath to the Constitu- tion :—" I swear by God upon the Holy Gospels to keep the Constitution and the Laws. If I do this, God reward me; and if I do not, may He call me to account."

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