The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Queen Victoria's Addiction.

--The Memorial Diplomatique makes itself responsible for the extraordinary statement that at a recent cabinet council, on the Danish question, Queen Victoria rose from the table declaring that she could come to no decision without consulting with Prince Albert, retired into her closet, and, on emerging, announced that the Prince was hostile to any act of war by England.

This unmistakable proof of mental aberration is said to have determined Lord Palmerston to urge the abdication of the Queen; and the fact that, instead of joining his mother at Osborne, the Prince of Wales has gone with his princess to St. Leonard, is interpreted as an indication that Edward VII. is preparing to mount the throne, and to inaugurate a new foreign policy in the affairs of Great Britain.

It is certain that the present attitude of the English Government cannot long be maintained if England is to keep her place as a power of the first rank, and if the abdication of Victoria is a necessary preliminary to vigorous and honorable action on the part of Great Britain, that abdication is likely to be insisted upon and accomplished with no unnecessary delay-- Com. Advertiser.