The New York herald., 1871-09-27
DISRAELI and VICTORIA.
Herald Special Report from
London.
The EX-Prcmier in Direct Collision
with the Crown.
He PronOunces the Queen Eff
fete and Imbecile.
Intense Excitement in the Brit
ish Metropolis.
IS IT TREASON OR REVOLUTION e?
TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

LONDON, Sept. 26, 1871.
The Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli,
ex-Premier of England, has succeeded in
producing political and popular agitation in
Great Britain which may result in e6ecting
the most serious, if not startling, consequences
suddenly.
The learned gentleman has placed himself
in direct collision with the Crown aud its au-
thority. as it is worn and welded by Queen
Victoria. He has accomplished the act de-
liberately, wilfully and publicly.
." ,,,.~., .-..u.u q dinner to-day at
Hughenden, his country RESIDENCE apd home
y proposing the toast of the health Of Hsr
M.;o.tv -. cuc.n w.. ~" took occasion to assure
his friends and neighbors that the sovereign
lady has become physically, and is morally,
incapacitated from performing her public
duties longer.
tences of fervent eulogy of Her Majesty per-
sonally, concluding with the words that cher
duties are excessive, and that no Englishman
is under such complete control of the political
traditions Of the country as its sovereign"
His words have been published. The utter
ance has produced the most tremendous ex-
element among the people. 1t is canvassed
by the highest of the aristocracy, and talked
of among the most humble of the democracy.
Disraei has overshadowed Gladstone,
almost completely, in the eyes of the people,
who have been accurately informed of every
word of his remarks despite very vigorous
effort which has been made by some of the
metropolitan journals to suppress them by
non-publication.
WHAT Is SAID AND THE REASONS WHY.
The subject of the propriety of an abdica-
tion by the Queen is spoken of in the clubs,
and very many of the most extreme loyalists
now regret that Her Majesty did not hearken
In tho advice which e'-s~ 20 Lo, ny
the late Lord Palmerston years since when he
counselled her to delegate a part of her
monarchical duty-such as the signing of acts
of Parliamentary royal warrant to a member
of the Privy Council and thus begin of her
own free will to accustom the public mind to
her gradual and graceful disappearance from
the throne years before her death.
The Queen rejected Palmerstons advice,
aud has since held on to rigid assertion Of
every essential Of the royal prerogative, with
that spirit of tenacity or obstinacy which has
been ever characteristic of the reigning men,
bers of her family.
Disraeli is likely to master the public crisis,
notwithstanding. His bold diagnosis of the
state of health of the Queen is accepted very
generally as being correct The royal lady
has remained fevered and irritable during
very many months. She has been lately
afflicted with inaammatory sore throat and
most painful glandular tumors, and has only
just shaken off severe attack of general
illuess. People speak of the tendency to
insanity which is hereditary in her family,
and there remains, on the whole, not the
slightest doubt that Disraei has expressed
a sentiment which is already national-Vic-
tora's abdication, cheaper government, or a
complete change in the form Of the ruling
power of Great Britain.