It appears, from an account of Viennese Society now pub-
lishing in Paris, that there are now no less than seventy Arch- dukes and Archduchesses belonging to the Ilou,e of Hapsburg, who all marry into the Royal caste, form a clan among them- selves, and do not associate on intimate terms even with the highest nobility. Who maintains all these Princes and Prin- cesses? They have, we presume, all claims upon the patrimonial estate of the House of Hapsburg, and the estate is large ; but the subdivision is becoming extreme. If the number of claimants should in fifty years be doubled, as it very well may be, the family will be compelled either to give up its preteusiions to solitude, and mate with millionaires, or to pass a rule like that of some Dutch families, that only a certain number shall marry ; or to imitate the example of the Delhi Princes, who all lived together in the great palace, some of them upon allowances barely suffi- cient to sustain life.
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