TROUBLES OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN. THE Queen of England
can scarcely be supposed to contemplate the perplexities of her royal sister of Spain without thanking her stars that she herself has got quietly married. The whole domestic olitical interest of Spain appears to centre at the present moment in p
the questions—when the Queen ought to marry ? how the Queen ought to marry ? whom the Queen ought to marry ? This delicate matter is the almost exclusive topic of the journals of Madrid ; which take upon them to settle it without any affectation of bash- ful reserve, and without asking what may be her Majesty's inclina- tions. One Ministerial journal maintains that the Queen has attained the age when she may legally contract marriage—an- other, that she has not ; and the Opposition journals discover in this apparently motiveless controversy, a secret and wicked design of putting off the Queen's marriage as long as possible. The Op- position journals, contradicting their own imputations, assert that Ministers have sent off two agents to court two different bride- grooms for the Queen at the same time : M. OLOZAGA has gone to offer her to a son of the King of Holland, (the bare idea is enough to make PHILIP the Second turn in his grave !) and M. Caasizito has gone to offer her to the son of the Archduke Cataxxs of Austria. If there is any truth in the story, Minis- ters would be fairly sped if both Princes were to say " yes ! " Again, the Ministerial journals will have it that Donna CARLOTA is intriguing to have her son made the popular candidate for the crown-matrimonial. With this view, she is said to have been taking the young Prince to bull-fights, and paying serenaders to sing verses under his window o' nights. A hint seems to have been taken here from Master Slender's courtship of" sweet Anne Page," by bragging of his feats in bear-baiting, and asking his servant thr his book of songs and sonnets which he lent to Alice Shortcake afore Martlemass. And all this time, the poor Queen is tantalized by hearing people talk of her marriage, and having the shadowy images of nice young princes paraded in her mind's eye, while the contending factions will not allow her to have any of them. The frank speech of Hoyden in The Relapse—" hod! if they don't get me a husband, rn run off with the butler !" may be taken as expressive of her Majesty's feelings.
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