THE ZAMBEST INCIDENT.

Evening Star, Issue 8119, 20 January 1890, Page 2

THE ZAMBEST INCIDENT.

(By Eleotbio Telegraph —Copyright!,]: [Per Press Association.]

LISBON, January IS; (Received January 20. 1890, at 1 a.m.)

The Portuguese ars boycotting English' residents, and are cancelling contracts made with them.

Three days since Mr Petre, the Minister, threatened that the British fleet would anchor in the Tagus if the violence of the populace towards the English was not re pressed. The Portuguese Press thereupon urged prudence, and the excitement here is now settling down. The officials at Guillinane, a seaport of Mozambique, and the centre of the territory in dispute between England and Portugal, are much dissatisfied with the manifesto' issued by Senhor Piraental, the Portuguese Premier.

The British East Indian squadron has. again assembled at Zanzibar.

(Special to Press Association.]

PORTUGUESE DOUBLE DEALING,

WHY THE ULTIMATUM WAS ISSUED. LONDON, January 19, (Received January 20,1890, at noon.)'

The Portuguese Government are pressing, their claim to refer the dispute to arbitration.

The diopatohes containing the recent com.' municationa between England and Portugal" have been published. They show that Lord Salisbury’s ultimatum Was due to the discovery that Major Pintor'a successor inAfrica was continuing acts of aggression, despite the assurance of the Portuguese. Government to the contrary. It is considered doubtful whether the' Portuguese officials in Africa will give effect to the demands of the ultimatum, and. it is. believed that Portugal only yielded in order to gain time to appeal to the Powers.

POPULAR INDIGNATION. LISBON, January 19, The merchants in this city aye dismissing; their English employes. Ladies decline to visit the British Embassy. Itls reported that the British residents are appealing to Lord Salisbury to be lenient.

LORILLA’S VIEW OF THE SITUATION.

PARIS, January Iff.

At a meeting of Portugese iu this city,. Senor Lorilla denounced British piracy, and asserted that Spain and Portugal would shortly become united under a republican form of government.