The Madrid Gazette of the 29th August publishes a Royal
decree, by which the Queen makes known to the nation her determination to marry her cousin, the Infante Don Francisco de Assis Maria; and her Majesty convokes the Cortes for the 14th of September.
The Journal des Debats sticks to the report of a second marriage; and opportunely supplies some particulars respecting the young couples- " We are assured that the marriage of the Infanta Donna Louisa, sister to the Queen, with the Duke de rilontpensier, is decided. "Queen Isabella was born at Madrid on the 10th of October 1830. Her Majesty is consequently nearly sixteen years of age. ." His Royal Highness the Infante Don Francisco de Assis was born on the 13th of May 1822. He was twenty-four years of age in the mouth of May last.
"The Duke de Montpensier was born at Neuilly on the 31st of July 1824. His Royal Highness is consequently rather more than twenty-two years of age.
-" Donna Maria Louisa Ferdinanda, Infanta of Spain, was born on the 30th of January 1832. Her Royal Highness is fourteen years and seven months of age."
The Madrid correspondent of the Morning Chronicle explains King Louis Philippe's anxiety for the second marriage--
"Should the Queen have no heirs, (and many believe that the state of her Ma- jesty's health renders a direct succession exceedingly doubtful,) the Infanta Luisa will become heiress to the throne." Moreover, the Princess is a very charming young person, and is one of the richest heiresses in Europe. Under the will of her father, King Ferdinand VII., she is already in possession of a fortune of six- teen millions of francs, (640,000/. sterling,) secured in such way as to make pay- ment certain. " Louis Philippe is not only a wise king, but a prudent father of a family. His eldest surviving son, the Duke de Nemours, as future regent, must, sooner or later, come upon the country for a dotation; aud then he is provided for. The Prince of Joinville has secured a large fortune with his Brazilian Princess; the Duke d'Aumale is in possession of the whole of the fortune of the great Conde.,; and now the Duke de Montpensier, [the only one unprovided for,] is sad- dled for a handsome sum upon Spam.'
The Morning Chronicle publishes in a second edition some further gossip which prevailed in Paris yesterday touching the marriages. These are the points: that the Queen and her sister will both be married on the same day, the 10th October, the Queen's birthday; that the Progresista party have published a declaration protesting against the proposed alliance with the Duke de Montpensier; that Mr. Bulwer. was not invited to the meet- ing of council at which the Queen's intention was announced, and that be has entered a protest against the Montpensier marriage.
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