Year: 1871

The precarious health of Queen Victoria, now
apparently n fact confirmed is suggestive of i'm
mediate trouble among the English people. The
sentiment of loyalty, it is true, is exceedingly
strong among Englishmen, and will bear a
strain, but the attachment to Victoria does not
in full measure extend to the son and heir of the
throne. The English people know that the
Prince of Wales is failure. 1t is evident to
them that he has not single quality fitting him
to rule. The idea permeates all classes of Eng
lish society. Neither in talents morals is he
qualified for the sovereign of a modern enlight-
ened nation. Young in years he is old in ex-
cesses, and presents to-day the picture of man
who has outlived his generation. |: is said that
he has gloomy forebodings already of his future.
The workingmen of England are moving in SOL
id phaanx for political and social elevation.
Republcanism is openly and extensively dis
cussed. The men aud women of the country
who have outgrown the dogma of divine right,
have announced their creed for which they are
laborng and may not have long to wait. The
Irish, as they always are, but little more so
now on account of the possible opportunity, are
turbulent There are great thinkers who have a
powerful hold on the educated classes, the infu-
ence of whose thoughts and pens is to be felt
with effect when the revolutionary crisis shall
come. The Liberals in England have grown TO
be a power in the land, whose might cannot be



are adverse to war. They would temporize be-
fore they would plunge the nation into civil war.
For this reason, they might fall on the side
where the most vigor is manifested in the outset
of a disturbance, and certainly the Prince of
Wales is not the one to exhibit much determina-
tion to hold the crown, nor is there prominent
statesman or warrior known TO be desperately in
love with him, and likely to turn the scales in
favor of his succession by skiful and decisive
action. In the case of the death of Victoria,
whether Albert Edward mounts the throne, will
probably be decided quickly, and without much
bloodshed. Where people has acquiesced so
long in the right of family to rule, it is not TO
be expected that revolution in popular senti-
ment will be general, or that the loyalists will
submit to new order of things without a muir
mur or even without resistance But the con-
test will probably be short and decisive, and as
far as arms are concerned, soon over. 1t may be
possible that we may count too much on the
spread of republican and reform ideas among the
masses, and too little on the loyalty still exist
ing. In which case the Prince Of Wales may be
accepted as q better alternative than fruitess
commoton. We may soon see important events,
the finale of which is not certain 1t is to be APP
pretended that crisis is at hand, as the health
of Victoria is not sound, and the movements OF
the royal family, as well as the excitement in
monetary and commercial circles, are evidences
that some great change is expected or feared.
The Queen has been good liver, is plehoric of
body, full of blood, and comes from stock that
has bred in and in so long as not to represent
the strongest physical development. She has
been hard worker, and her wdowhood has set
heavily upon her all the years since the death OF


Prince Albert, worrying her mind, weakening
! the body and lessening her hold on life. She is
! liable to make sudden exit, or through bodily


suffering become untitled to have charge of the


Government, like some of her race before her


The calling Of her Prime Minister and the Prince
of Wales to her bedside at Balmora is indication
of danger, and the silence of the court Journal
as to the condition of the Queens health is look
ed upon omen of coming events. .-Sacra


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