, 1879-01-19
FOREIGN.
The French Republicans Decide
Against the Ministerial
Programme.
Socialist Democrats to Be Expelled
from the German Reichstag.
GREAT BRITAIN.

WESTON.
Io1poS, Jan. 1S.-Weston, the professional
nedestriau, started this morning from the Royal
Exchange to walk over the highways 1000 miles
in LOCO hours aud deliver fifty letters.
SUICIDE.
LONDON, Jan. 1S,-Elward Matthew Ward,
the artist, committed suicide.
FAILURE.
LONDON, Jau. 1S.-fhc Alildeboro, Rosedalc
4; Ferryyillc Iron Company has failed. liabl1i-
ties, 4.29S0, 900; assets, 1850. ZOO.
TIE OLD CONSTITUTION.
The United States ship Constitution is max
ing three inches OF water per hour. Divers will
examine her hull Oh Monday.
THE KuMoK OF A REGENCY.
Iaflude'uhia Pfess.
There is rumor, derived from the not al
WAYS correct "cxcluslvc information" Of the
London correspondence OF au English provln-
cial Journal, to the effect that Queen Victoria,
fatieued by the toll Of nominally governing
England and its dependencies, aud much eor-
rowing, at present, over the death OF ner
daughter Alice, has resolved to 'relinqnist the
reins OF power III favor OF the Prince of Wales
as Prince Regcnt.'' ~ There are n,anv and goul
reasons tor not believing this Statement. UMler
the British Constitution, the Sovereign, If Ill
SOUND health OF mind aud body, who desires to
cast uf the trappiGg5 Of royalty and the
trammes Of State, could scarcely appoint
a Regent, not even the next heir to the
throne, to act in her stead. 1t must be
abdication Or nothing. The other day, while
suffering from the effects Of the Communist at
tempt to assassinate him, the German Emperor
made the Grown Prince Regent pro tcnl., but, as
we have seen, withdrew the delegated duty Of
governing on restoration to health. But here is
Victoria, at the age Of 10, in the flush OF rude
health, and likely to 1--we US long as her grand
father, George Ill, who died at the ripe aec OF
So; the average lite OF each OF the GueIphlc
soyereigns, from lila to 1887. being u. II her
Majesty did appoint deputy and desire that he
SHOULD retire after time, to enable her to re-
suue her reign, it is possible that tile Prince
Regency would raise difficulty, aud even that
the people, he being extremely popular with
them, might espousc his cause:
and pressing Victoria las an income Of E4410,
600 year as Queen, 4SSS, 900 for her civil list,
aud QUO from the Duchy Of Lancashire,
part of the Grown Lands which she retains ron-
trary to her promise to surrender all Of them to
the State, whose salarcd official she is. In the
event Of Regency, how much Of this would
she surrender to tho Prince Of Wales! Her
Majesty is believed TO- he fond OF receiving and
accumulating money and property, and it would
90 hard with her, no doubt to hand over por-
mense income to i Regent. The Prince
of Wales has precisely 100000 a year,
,0o0 from the Ducly of Cornwall, and
100000 from a Parliamentary grant. But
during several years, while her Most
Gracious Majesty was iu retirement, nursing her
grief Tor her husbands death, she left many Ut
the duties Ut her ottice-such US holding leyees
and drawing rooms, giving concerts, palls, and
banouets, and so onto be performed by the
Prince Of Wales and his wife; thereby, it mas
been affirmed und is universally believed, in
Yo!ving them in expenses which put them 4t0O, :
600 in debt II the Priuce was expected to re-
peat this, it may be doubted whether he would
consent to become Regent. When Victoria was
granted the immense income size has enjoyed
for nearly forty years as Queen, the implied
condition was not that half Of it should be put
By, year after year, but that it should br cx-
pended, among her own SLOWING and loyal sub
jects,'' to maintain the dignity and splcudor Of
the Crown, which has not been done.
Inasmucf as Queen Victoria is very unlikely
to divide her salary with her heir-apparent, on
his becoming Regent, it may be taken for graft
cd that there is not she slightest intention Of
placing him in such an unpleasant position.
English history, during the last four centuries,
gives the names of ouly four Regents. In liS33,
the Duke of Gloucester afterwards Richard
1II.) was Regent, in consequence Of the youth
OF Edward ", his Nephew, murdered in The
Tower; and from Frcbruary, ISLE, to January,
1920, George, Prince OF Wales, was Regent, with
full regal power, during the last melancholy
years Of his father, George Ill.,, in which insan-
lty and blindness rendered him incapable OF
governing. A Regency III Fictoria's reign is
most Improbable.