UNREST IN SPAIN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14916, 19 August 1910, Page 5

UNREST IN SPAIN

MEETINGS PROHIBITED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, MADEID, August 17. Tlie Government has decided to prohibit all Republican and Qtrlist meetings iii Catalonia. There has always been a largo party in tho northern provinces of the country styled the Carlists, who cdnlond that the rightful claimant to the Spanish Throne is a descendant of a junior branch of the Spanish Bourbons. When King Ferdinand early in tho last century abrogated tho Salic law—which excluded women from tho throne—in the interest of his daughter, Queen Isabella, his nephew, Don Carlos, tool; it very much to heart. On Queen Isabella's accession to the throno there were a number of Ccrlist uprisings, which were repeated- in 1855 and 1860. The first Don Carlos died without children in 1861, and his rights devolved upon his brother, Don Juan, whose sou the present Don Carlos was born in 1848. In 1868 Don Juan abdicatel his rights in favour of Don Carlos, and in 1872 Don Carlos raised tho standard of revolution in Northern Spain. This war lasted for four veal's, until late in 1876. when the hist stronghold of Don Carlos. Tonloso, was ta|;"u. jvnd tho remaining Carlists were obliged to flee into French territory. Don Carlos went to Paris, but in 1881 he was expelled from Franco on account of his sympathy with the Count Do Cliambord. He has five children—four daughters and one son. Don Jaime do Uaurbon, Cbndo do Molina. Don Carlos lives in retirement in one of the handsomest palaces upon the grand canal, Venice, having relinouishod his claim to his son. Don Jaime is a trained soldier, and holds the position of a general in tho Russian army.