Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-02
THE ENGLISH CROWN
Important speech of DlsrasIl.

| The following dispatch is published
| by the HeTu5d this morning:
LONDON, September 26 The Right
| Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, ex
Premier Of England, has succeeded in
/ producing a political and popular agi
tati0n in Great Britain which msy
result in ef1eeting the most serious il
| not startling consequences suddenly
The learned gentleman has placed
himself 10 direct collision with the
/ Crown and its authority. as il is worn
and welded by Queen Victoria. He
has accomplished the act deliberately
| Wilfuily and publicly.
MIR. DisTaeli attended dinner to.
day at HundingdOn, his country resi-
dence and home. In proposing the
toast Of the health OF her majesty the
queen he took occasion TO assure his
friends and neighbors that the SOW
ereign lady has become physically
and is morally, inespacitated from
performing her public duties longer.
This assertion. was accompanied
with sentences of fervent euiOgy Of
hes msjesty personally, concluding
with the words that "her duties are
excessive, and that no EDglishmsn is
under such complete control of the
political traditions OF the country as
its sovereign"
His words have been published.
The utterance has produced the most
tremendous excitement among the
people It is canN assed by the high
est OF the aristOcFacy, and talked OF
among the most humble OF the de-
mOersey.
Disraeli has overshadoWed Glad
stone almost completely in the eyes
OF the people, who have been aceu-
rately iaiormed OF every word of his
remarks, despite very vigorous ef-
fort which has been made by some OF
the metropolitan journals TO suppress
them by non publication.
The subject of the prOpriety of an
abdieation by the Queen Is spoken of
Ia the clubs, and very many Of the
most extreme lGyalists now regret
that her Majesty did not hearken to
the advice which was given her by
the late Lord PaImerston, years since,
when he ccunselled her 70 delegate q
part of her mOnarchial duty-such as
the signing Of acts OF Parliamentary
rOyai warrant to a member OF the
Privy Council, and thus begin of her
own Tree will 70 aceustOm the public
mind TO her gradual and graceful dis
appearance from the throne years be-
fore her death.
The Queen rejected Palmerston's ad.
vice, and has since held on to rigid
assertion OF every essential of the royr
a prerOgative with that spirit Of ten
acity O. obstinacy. which has ever been
characteristic Ct thereigning members
of her family.
DisraeIi is likely to master the pub
lie crisis, Notwithstanding. His bold
diagnosis c4 the state of health Of the
Queen is accepted very generally as
being correct. Thesroyal lady has re-
mained fevered and irritable during
very many months She hss been lately
afflicted with infammatory sore
throat and most painful glandular
tumors, and has only just shaken oti
q severe attack Of general illness.
People speak Of the tendency TO in.
sanity which is hereditary in her
ssmily. and there remains, on the
whole, not the slightest doubt that
Disraeli has expressed sentiment
which is already Observation-Disclosures
abdicstiop, cheaper government, or
complete change in the form OF the
ruling power Of Great Britain.