NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Proclamation of the new title of " Empress of India," the issue of which we were just able to announce last week, is not found to satisfy the engagement of the Government to localise it in India, and Sir Henry James is, next Thursday, to move a resolution that it has not done so, which Mr. Disraeli treats, -very justly, as a vote of censure. The Proclamation declares that the Queen, being empowered thereto by the Act passed in the present Session, has thought fit, with the advice of her Privy Council, to make the following addi- tion to the style and titles of the Crown recently in use—viz., in Latin, "Indies Imperatrix," and in the English tongue, "Empress of India;" this addition to be used, " so far as conveniently may 'be, on all occasions, and in all instruments in which our Style and Titles are used, save and except all charters, commissions, letters-patent, grants, writs, appointments, and other like instru- ments not extending in their operation beyond the United King- dom." That is, in all which extend in their operation to any of the Colonies, no less than India, such as the appointments of Colonial Governors, Crown officers, officers in the Army and Navy, and of course, of all the ambassadors and envoys of the Crown, the title of " Empress of India," and consequently, we suppose, the designation of "Her Royal and Imperial Majesty," must be used. In other words, it is the use of the old title without additions which is localised, while that of the new one is extended to all parts of the British dominions except the United Kingdom. The monarch is to be Queen here,—with exceptions,—Empress everywhere else, without exceptions.
