DEATH OE THE PRINCESS CHRISTINA.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1674, 2 July 1879, Page 4

DEATH OE THE PRINCESS CHRISTINA.

The Infanta Christina of Spain, daughter of the Duke Do Monfcpensier, and sister to the recently deceased Queen of Spain, has died after a lingering illness. The condition of the young Princess, though varying considerably from time to time, was during the last twenty-four hours of her life regarded as hopeless. The subtle malady which terminated fatally had nearly run its course, and had so prostrated and weakened the sufferer that the intelligence of her death was momentarily expected throughout the day. The Duko and Duchess do Montpensior wore with her to the last moment, as were the Count and Countess do Paris. Surrounded by the attached members of the household, and in the presence of her parents, the dying Princess received the last sacred offices of the Catholic Church, which were administered by the Archbishop of Seville. The Infanta has succumbed to the insidious malady which deprived Spain of a Queen and the young King Alfonso of his six-months’ bride. She boro tho sufferings entailed upon her by the lengthy and fluctuating malady with the utmost patience, and the announcement of her approaching dissolution evoked only affectionate messages for the King and her relatives, and soothing words for her afflicted parents. Her last conscious moments are said to have been devoted to administering comfort and consolation to the Duko and Duchess de Mont.ponaicr, who have twice •within a brief twelvemonth been called upon to witness the death of a loved and loving daughter. The demise of the Infanta took place at about three o’clock in tho afternoon, and within an hour the sad news was flashed to Madrid. Tho populace at Seville have, by their conduct, evinced the warmest sympathy with tho bereaved mourners. Crowds had assembled around tho palace, within which they know the Princess was dying; but they hod only assembled for the purpose of manifesting their participation in the sorrow which the event has everywhere created. In Madrid generally tho news was nob known until lata in tho evening. Tho King immediately summoned tho Ministers and officers of his household, to make arrangements for his departure for Seville, to join the Duke and Duchess de Montponsier there. The Prime Minister had telegraphed his condolence and sympathy, and it was decided that one of the principal Ministers of State should accompany his Majesty on tho journey. The various journals express tho most profound sorrow at the untimely death of the Princess, who, like the late Queen, was most genial and amiable; all classes seem greatly touched by the untoward bereavements which the young King and his family have unfortunately suffered during the last year. Remark of severe parent to blooming daughter upon discovering the fact that one of the legs of the big chair in tho parlour had been broken tho Sunday evening pre* vious—“ I wish you to understand, Susan, that this chair was constructed with a view to tho accommodation of one person at a time, and has not the strength and scarcely the capacity for two.” Tho “Monetary Gazette ” publishes a correspondence which has passed between Mr John Bright, M.P., and Mr Samuel Peters, tho general secretary of the Allied Branches of the British Sugar Industry. Mr Bright writes : —133, Piccadilly, April Bth—Sir, —l must ask you to excuse mo if I do not enter into any argument on tho question of free trade. That dispute was settled in this country in the year 18-10. As to the sugar imports, I am not at this moment in possession of all the faefs, but I remember that I saw a few months ago a circular or prospectus of a new joint-stock company being then formed in Bristol to carry on the sugar refinery business, in which tho promoters stated that, notwithstanding tho French bounty system and the depressed state of trade, they felt sure that the business of a late Bristol firm might bo carried on with satisfactory results, and I have since heard that tho company has been formed and is now at work. X give no opinion on the main question, but it is greatly to bo lamented that all tho powers of Government in this country seem taken np with what is termed foreign policy—with wars or rumors of wars, and with negotiations in connection with wars past or to come, whilst no real attention is given to questions affecting our foreign trade and the employment of our people. What I moan by tho main question is that of the French bounties, which is that in which, I presume, you are specially interested.—l am, respectfully yours, (Signed) Jontr Height.”