Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Some weeks ago Disraeli asserted in q
publis speech that Queen Victoria is no
tably physically and morally" incapable Of
attending to her duties as the sovereign Of a
great kingdom. This was tortured into
charge that she is insane. Some Of the
leading men of England insist that she is in
this condition, and the London correspond
ent Of the New York World writes on the
28th ult as follows: ...
The royal family has held a council and
asked Queen Victoria to consent to the
marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh to a
Russian princess, and also to the establish
lnent Of a regency under the Prince Of
Wales. The Queen at once and Indignantly
refused to consent to the latter portion of
the arrangement. Her Majesty subsequently
refused to sign the public papers laid before
her bv the Ministers. The Cabinet at its
meeting discussed the question of regency.
A proposal was also made to obyiate the
difficulty which would be caused by the
Queens refusal 10 sign the public documents
by authorizing the Lord Chancellor TO per-
form that duty for the present"
There seems TO be little doubt that the
health of the Queen is good, and all efforts
to get her to re-enter society having failed,
the attempt has been made to get her to
abdicate, or at least consent to a regency
under the Prince of Wales, who will be
King some day, if he lives. That she has
fatty refused to do. And now an effort is
being made 10 bring about a revolution
which will change the nature of the gov
eminent. Mr.. BraGlaugh, who appears to
be the leader Of this movement, made a
speech recently to the workingmen of Lon
don, in which he boldly took the ground
that the Queen is insane, and demanded
mine the fact. In the event the
commission should declare the Queens III
capacity for duty, he declared that it is
the duty and the interest of the people to
put riIy' -E--i,a lanrnnniasiAr, Mr Rroh-
laugh is spoken of as ''the coming Crom-
well" His plans and purposes are set
forth in the following extract from report
of an interview the New York Worlds
correspondent recently had with him:
the Queen is officially declared
incapable, by reason of mental alienation,
of longer exercising the duties Of her Of
fee. You know the truth about the condi-
ton of the Queen, presume, aud that this
announcement may he made ut any mo-
ment. hope it may not come till 1876;
but if it comes now we shall act with
promptneSs."
sRut how ~
''She is the last monarch who shall sit on
EnCland's throne. There must be no re-
gency. The republic must be proclaimed.
Now, this revolution need not be a violent
one. Parliament is all-powerful what one
Parliament has done another nav undo.
The reigning family holds the throne, not
by what is called divine right but by viz
tue OF an act of Parliament We shall
insist that this act shall he repealed and the
republic set up"
But should Parliament refuse a~
'Ihen are must fight Jor t.! [ deprecare
such an issue. deny the rirhf 70 jnauru-
rate revolution by force. But the Monarchy
must end, and the Republic must he set mn
shan MOI @I1hc f"e first jia,r, bft if Il
comes to bLoTS / Stat be rcg'rtl 10 ytl;i,
he last. If the crisis is datr.rJ f,r g.
q DlnltiltS. f...
at its commencement; if it comes nov i
will he a bloody one, and of its outcome
cannot be certain, for, | repeat again. | an
not strong enough, fear, to buld lp am,
maintain government. But We must ney
ar allow the Prince of Wales to be eitbe
regent or king. The crisis may come /
another way. The country may be aske
TO pay his debts, and this demand must b
resisted
ais he in debt?''
"He owes about a million Some year
ago, when was doing business in the city
was engaged in negotiating loan fs
Portugal. was about to obtain the none
at IA per cent, when the lenders infonne
me that they could lend .c2JO.OOO TO IN
Prince Of Wales at Is per cent, and Dire
fsrred that investment"
What is TO be the result of these agits
Eous few weeks will probably determine