THE QUEEN'S TITLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 2531, 4 May 1876, Page 3

THE QUEEN'S TITLE.

Mr Disraoli, says tho Spectator, applied for leave to bring in a Bill enabling her Majesty to add to her titles, tho addition to bo modo

I being one to express sovereignty over India. He did not, however, explain wbat title he should advise ber Mej^ty to take, and his refusal to " impede the prerogative " deprived the debate of much of its interett. Mr Lowe made an amusing speech, deprecating the assumption of an Iv periul title, and advo eating the claim of the 0 Monies to be equally honoured, but lost ground by suggesting that it would be disagreeable to remove the title when we bad lost India. We may lose India some day, as we may lose Ireland, but statesmen cannot guide their action on prophetio politics of that kind. Mr Fenter also pleaded the cause of the colonies, and suggested thatthe title used in the Proclamation of 18^8announoing that th- Queen took over ibeQovcromentuf India, should, with an addition, for India, be the legal style. Iv this title the Colonies in ell parts of the globe are inoluded. He preferred «' Qjeen" to "Ea press," because Empress imoiied a personal rule, and the Qreen would rule India under tbe advice of Parliament Mr Disraeli replied to the colonial argument by saving tbat the colonists are British— which, as' the Qieen is Queen of Britain, and not of the oritish, is not ipropos —and affirmed that the natives of India had signified in many ways tbeir desire for tbe change. A* far as j mrnals | represent opinion, we should say the majority are for letting the matttr a)on«, or for employing the title "" Qu.en of I idia." The dislike to the Imperial title will probably be displayed more strongly in the debate on the second reading.