The King has been down at Newmarket for the past three days, but he returned to town last night for a leves held to-day. During the past few days we have had two Royal visitors among us—Prince Kitel Friedrich of Germany, who came over on a visit to his companion in arms, the young Duke of Saxe-Coburg snd Gotha, an Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Norway, who is devoting himeelf to his bride of next month, the Princess Margaret of Connaught. We have also two Indian tentates among us in the persons of the jkwar of Baroda and the Maharajah of Kapurthala, A Roysl personage to whose visit we "re looking with much greater interest is the young King of Spain, who, in celebration of his nineteenth birthday, has just been made a Geld: marshal of the British Army, and who has returned the compliment by making King Edward an admiral of the Spanish fleet. It is to be hoped, however, that King Alfonso does hold quite 80 low an opinion of the British Army as we do of the Spanish navy, or he will not greatly appreciate the honour our King has conferred on him. {There have been all sorts of rumours of a coming marriage between King Alfonso and a British princess; but I believe this is rendered impossible by the law of Spain as well as by our own Act of Settlement. Even if the English princess were willing to embrace the Roman Catholic faith, the fact that she had been brought up as a Protestant would, it is stated, be an insuperable bar "Phot the Spavish King pretty clear. His people urged him to marry and he has replied with a general eulogy of the married state and an assurance of his eagerness to enter into it.
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